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Free Universal Construction Kit: 3D-Printed Adapters Bridge 10 Toy Systems
F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab released a set of nearly 80 two-way adapter bricks that let ten otherwise incompatible children's construction toys interconnect, includin
Goodhart's Law at Scale: How LLMs Broke the Proxy Measures of Knowledge Work
Knowledge work has always been hard to evaluate directly, so reviewers fall back on proxy signals — clean prose, polished formatting, code that reads cleanly on
Google commits $10B to Anthropic now, $30B more on milestones at $350B valuation
Alphabet is deepening its entanglement with Anthropic through a staged capital injection: $10 billion in cash up front at a $350 billion valuation — flat to Feb
Hokusai's Tessellation Studies: Geometric Patterns from a Master Printmaker
A digitized work from Japan's National Diet Library showcases tessellation studies attributed to Katsushika Hokusai, the Edo-period artist best known for The Gr
Martin Galway open-sources his 1980s Commodore 64 game music source
Legendary SID composer Martin Galway has published the original source files for his Commodore 64 game music on GitHub, covering work from the mid-1980s includi
Microsoft collapses Windows Insider channels to two, kills gradual rollouts in Beta
Microsoft is restructuring the Windows Insider Program into two channels, Experimental and Beta, replacing the current Dev/Canary/Beta split that the company co
OpenAI folds Codex into main GPT-5.5 line, ends separate coding model
Romain Huet confirmed that OpenAI has discontinued the separate Codex model branch as of GPT-5.4, merging coding-specialized capabilities into the unified flags
OpenAI rolls out Privacy Filter to scrub sensitive data from model interactions
OpenAI announced a Privacy Filter feature designed to detect and redact personally identifiable information and other sensitive data before it reaches model tra
OpenAI tells devs: don't port GPT-5.4 prompts to GPT-5.5, rebuild from scratch
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 in the API alongside a prompting guide that explicitly warns against treating it as a drop-in replacement for gpt-5.2 or gpt-5.4. The gui
Overthinking as sabotage: when scope creep kills personal projects
Kevin Lynagh argues that personal projects fall into two camps: ones he just builds and finishes, and ones he sabotages by surveying prior art, expanding scope,
Palantir staff break internal silence over ICE work and Trump-era contracts
Current and former Palantir employees are openly questioning the company's trajectory under the second Trump administration, with internal conversations now fra
Pre-Stuxnet 'fast16' malware surfaces, targeted engineering software years before 2010
Researchers have identified a previously undocumented malware family dubbed 'fast16' that predates Stuxnet and was aimed at engineering software environments. T