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AI TOOL · blog.roboflow.com · SAFETY SCREENED

GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released

GPT-5.6 Sol is OpenAI’s strongest vision model yet. We tested Sol, Terra, and Luna across detection, counting, OCR, and extraction, then compared their results, speed, and cost with leading VLMs.

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AI TOOL · librarian.net · SAFETY SCREENED

How to disable or avoid intrusive AI

One of the biggest questions I get at Drop-In Time at the library (besides "what is taking up all my cloud storage?") is how to disable or avoid intrusive AI that shows up where people don't want it. This is a guide for people who would…

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AI TOOL · wiz.io · SAFETY SCREENED

AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira

Wiz Red Agent finds its way into Snowflake's internal Jira through a flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR.

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AI TOOL · rickmanelius.com · SAFETY SCREENED

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

I'm about as pro-AI as you can be, but this is becoming a pet peeve of mine (and I'm not alone). That's why I love the AI;DR acronym as my new solution for ignoring the walls of slop.

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SCIENCE · Quanta Magazine · SAFETY SCREENED

Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century

From the 1800s to the early 2000s, physicists used the same theory to understand the behavior of fluids. Now, using a modern insight, they have redefined fluids from the bottom up. The post Theory of Fluids Enters the 21st Century first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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STRANGE TECH · Raspberry Pi News · SAFETY SCREENED

Iris colour detection with Raspberry Pi

This computer vision project helps explain the genetic mechanisms underlying the inheritance of eye colour.

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STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

One Man’s Perfect Retro-Style Monitor Takes All Inputs

Perfection is an inherently subjective measure, in that one must choose the criteria against which to measure. A perfect circle is an absolutely rubbish octagon, for example. So when you …

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FUN WEBSITE · Open Culture · SAFETY SCREENED

The Genius of Airplane!: How to Make a Comedy by Playing Everything Completely Straight

Not every 46-year-old comedy still gets laughs, but Airplane! seems only to get funnier with the decades. Some viewers too young to have caught it in its theatrical release even take the Benjaminian view of it as the kind of great work that creates its own genre: the rapid-fire deadpan joke…

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NEW TECH · Google Technology · SAFETY SCREENED

Get closer to the game with Gemini and Pixel

Google Gemini and Pixel partner with five global football clubs to elevate the fan matchday experience through AI and Smartphone Technology.

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STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

OLEDs Have Gained Brightness, Not Burn-In Resistance

OLED displays solve many of the problems suffered by LC displays, including color fidelity, dynamic range and power usage. That said, especially in the early days OLED gained a reputation …

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FUN WEBSITE · Nautilus · SAFETY SCREENED

Everything You Believe About Taking a Full Course of Antibiotics and Bacterial…

But obviously talk to your doctor

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CREATIVE · Colossal · SAFETY SCREENED

Milk Cartons and Bottle Gourds Form Sipho Mabona’s Tribute to His Late Father

Mabona's sculptures highlight how the personal and cultural intersect alongside the distinctly South African sense of resilience. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Milk…

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FUN WEBSITE · Open Culture · SAFETY SCREENED

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam Has Digitized 840,000 Works of Art, Including Great Works…

Art may seem inessential to those who make the big decisions in times of crisis. But it never seemed more necessary to artists working in the time of plague. So it was 366 years ago when Rembrandt painted a portrait of his son, Titus, in a monk’s robe in 1660. Eight years later, Titus was

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USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

Bulbthings

The AI platform to track and manage your physical assets

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STRANGE TECH · Hackaday · SAFETY SCREENED

Using Starlink’s Satellites to Study Earth’s Upper Atmosphere

Aside from global access to cat videos, the presence of thousands of Starlink broadband internet access satellites in LEO has a very pleasant side effect for atmospheric researchers. Starlink publicly …

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FUN WEBSITE · Nautilus · SAFETY SCREENED

These Mammoth Ivory Carvings May Be the “Find of the Year”

They’re 40,000 years old and about the size of your thumbnail

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USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

Hansel by Seedling

Your email, your server, your keys so you're not locked out

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CREATIVE · Colossal · SAFETY SCREENED

In Jewel-Like Paintings, Wiley Wallace Conjures Enchantment in the Desert

Wallace's glowing acrylic paintings feature crystals, enigmatic energy forces, starlight, and specters. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article In Jewel-Like Paintings, Wiley…

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USEFUL TOOL · githubstatus.com · SAFETY SCREENED

Incident with Github.com

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with GitHub.com.

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USEFUL TOOL · duckdb.org · SAFETY SCREENED

A Preview of DuckDB v2.0

DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more.

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VIDEO · YouTube · Veritasium · SAFETY SCREENED

Total Solar Eclipse From Space

What does an eclipse look like from the edge of space? We travelled to Spain for the 2026 total solar eclipse to find out. Sponsored by 80,000 Hours - Head to http://80000hours.org/veritasium to start planning a career that can help…

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VIDEO · YouTube · Kurzgesagt · SAFETY SCREENED

What the Flu Does to Your Body

The flu is often dismissed as just a bad cold, yet it still kills hundreds of thousands of people every year. Here's how influenza damages your body, why it can become deadly, and what it would take to save many more lives. #kurzgesagt…

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FUN WEBSITE · Nautilus · SAFETY SCREENED

Our Ancient Ancestors in the Middle East Loved Dining on Lizards and Snakes

Reptiles made up a big portion of their diet

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AI TOOL · speko.ai · SAFETY SCREENED

Launch HN: Speko (YC S26) – OpenRouter for Voice AI

Every speech model, benchmarked language by language, wired into one API.

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CREATIVE · Colossal · SAFETY SCREENED

Clay Transforms into Vibrant and Funky ‘Habibti’ Sculptures by Maryam Yousif

"Clay, as a medium, has a way of connecting us to the past," Yousif says. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Clay Transforms into Vibrant and Funky ‘Habibti’ Sculptures by…

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USEFUL TOOL · Product Hunt · SAFETY SCREENED

TinyFish

The web operating layer for AI agents

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