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Nike drops out of the S&P 100 as IT and data-infrastructure names move in
Nike will leave the S&P 100 on September 21 after nearly 18 years, a casualty of a multiyear slide that erased more than $200 billion in market value. The stock
Ninth Circuit: Perplexity's Shopping Agent Didn't 'Hack' Amazon Under the CFAA
The Ninth Circuit on August 4, 2026 vacated an injunction that had barred Perplexity's Comet AI assistant from shopping on Amazon.com, holding that an AI agent
Rebuttal: Amodei's 'Pace the Frontier' Is Regulatory Capture Dressed as Safety
This is a pointed rebuttal to a blog post by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei titled 'We Must Pace the Frontier.' The author argues that Amodei pairs utopian promises
Squeezing Every Country's Flag Into ~11 Bits With Huffman Trees
Inspired by a math video that used flags to illustrate matrix operations, a developer set out to see how compactly a country's flag could be encoded. The premis
The privacy case for self-hosted LLMs — and why huge prompts thrash locally
The author makes a distrust-driven argument for moving AI agent workloads off frontier providers like Anthropic and OpenAI and onto local hardware. The real ass
Tuning Tokio: Yield for Latency, Batch for Throughput, Fear the Mutex
Writing async Rust that performs well on Tokio comes down to trade-offs rather than fixed rules, and the first discipline is skepticism. Long polls—stretches wh
Ubuntu 26.10 finishes its coreutils rewrite in Rust, ships cp/mv/rm memory-safe
Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' completes Canonical's swap from GNU coreutils to the Rust-based uutils reimplementation. The last holdouts—cp, mv, and rm—had s
Valve's Steam Frame headset priced from $1059
The linked Steam store page lists Valve's Steam Frame hardware starting at $1059, but the scraped content contains only Steam's site navigation and language sel
Why ML Research Agents Don't Overfit: Winning Strategies Compress
Textbook machine learning warns that reusing a held-out set will burn you. Check your model against it, tweak, recheck, and repeat, and that set stops being uns
XCancel goes dark, citing a 'new development' in ongoing legal proceedings
XCancel, one of the more prominent surviving public instances of Nitter — the open-source, privacy-preserving frontend that lets people read X/Twitter posts wit
XCancel Suspends Service Indefinitely, Offering No Explanation
XCancel — a privacy-focused front-end for X/Twitter in the Nitter lineage that let users read posts without accounts, ads, or tracking — has taken itself offlin
AI cracks Urquhart's 370-year-old cipher — the key was the book itself
Claude Fable 5.1, handed only an open-ended prompt to break an unsolved cipher, appears to have cracked Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich — a 64-number cryp