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Kaiser call-center nurses say AI monitoring and call-time quotas erode patient care
Kaiser Permanente advice and triage nurses tell CalMatters that algorithmic management is pushing them to cut patient calls short at the expense of care. Seven
LG and Dell monitors auto-install bloatware via Windows Update, no consent asked
Plugging certain LG monitors into a Windows PC can trigger Windows Update to silently pull down LG's Monitor App Installer and related components — with no cons
Project Orion: The Nuclear Pulse Rocket Nobody Was Brave Enough to Fly
Nuclear pulse propulsion — most famously Project Orion — proposed powering a spacecraft by detonating a stream of small nuclear bombs behind a heavily shock-abs
Rebuilding search: an S+ tree that beats binary search by 40x
Ragnar Groot Koerkamp takes the static B-tree (S+ tree) design from Algorithmica and pushes it to the limit for one narrow but common problem: given a sorted ar
Running SQLite in Production: ANALYZE, Single-Writer Pain, and Backups
Julia Evans documents lessons from running a Django site on SQLite, her fourth SQLite-backed project but the first where the Django ORM pushes the database hard
SpaceX briefly dips below its $135 IPO price as Musk hype cools
SpaceX shares touched their $135 IPO price for the first time on Wednesday, wiping out the 50%-plus surge the stock posted in its opening days last month. The s
The 'Butthole Era' of Design: Why Every AI Logo Looks the Same
A tongue-in-cheek but pointed critique argues that AI company branding has converged on a single visual template: a circular or snowflake-like mark with a soft
The Zilog Z80 Turns 50: How an 8-Bit Workhorse Shaped Computing
Zilog's Z80, launched in July 1976, is marking half a century since it became one of the most influential processors ever built. Binary-compatible with Intel's
TP-Link Kasa cameras broadcast owners' home GPS unauthenticated for six years
Researcher Christopher Childress physically extracted firmware from a TP-Link Kasa Spot EC71 indoor camera and confirmed three vulnerability chains, all now pat
Union Pacific paints rail sides white to cut heat-driven derailments
Union Pacific has started spraying white paint on both sides of its steel rails in high-heat regions to counter a hazard called thermal misalignment — when rail
Unverified Reddit claim: 'GPT-5.6' closed a 30-year convex-optimization gap
There is no article here to summarize. The submission is a link to an r/math Reddit thread, and the only text supplied is the headline itself — no body, no proo
Vāgdhenu: Meter-Aware TTS That Chants Sanskrit at Expert-Level Fidelity
Prof. Prathosh A P of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru has built Vāgdhenu, a text-to-speech system that renders Sanskrit verse as traditional pārāyaṇa