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NEvo: Evolutionary AI Synthesizes Videos That Maximally Activate a Chosen Brain Region
Researchers at EPFL (Amir Zamir's lab) built NEvo, a framework that generates video clips engineered to drive a specific region of the visual cortex as hard as
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 produced a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture
OpenAI has posted a three-page note claiming a complete proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture, one of graph theory's long-standing open problems, first pos
Rust reimplementation of Postgres clears all 46,000 regression tests — but isn't usable yet
pgrust is a from-scratch reimplementation of PostgreSQL in Rust that now reproduces Postgres 18.3's expected output across more than 46,000 regression queries —
Solo dev's Running Train hailed as the most beautiful train sim ever made
Running Train, an Early Access train simulator built entirely by one-person studio Novatetsu Games, is drawing near-unanimous praise on Steam for its realism. S
Sony's EU terms let it delete your PlayStation account—and games—after 3 years idle
Sony is under fire after gamers highlighted a clause in PlayStation's European terms of service that allows the company to close accounts inactive for 36 months
Study: Parents Distracted by Phones Linked to Insecure Teen Attachment
Researchers set out to measure how a parent's smartphone distraction shapes their teenager's sense of security in the relationship. The behavior has names in th
The 1965 billing rule that makes US ambulance rides cost thousands
Roughly three million privately insured Americans take an emergency ambulance ride each year, and about half get hit with an out-of-network 'surprise' bill afte
The Bronze Age Collapse: How an Interconnected World Came Apart
Around the 12th century BC, the network of powerful states across the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East — Mycenaean Greece, the Hittite Empire, Egypt's New
TypeScript 7 ships: Go rewrite makes the compiler roughly 10x faster
Microsoft has released TypeScript 7, a ground-up native port of the compiler and language service rewritten in Go. Rather than reinventing the type system, the
Valid TLS for internal services: split-horizon DNS plus a VPN-bound WAF
Serving internal web apps over HTTPS usually forces an awkward choice: use a private TLD like .internal with self-signed certificates that every client must be
Why Lisp Is Worth the Steep Climb: Macros, Homoiconicity, and a New Way to Think
Lisp confronts newcomers with a wall of parentheses and inverted syntax, but the author argues the payoff justifies the steep learning curve: the language rewir
A Developer's Case of 'LLM Burnout': Sick of the Same Hallucinations and Emojis
A software developer who leans on Claude Code and Codex for hours daily describes a creeping fatigue with LLM output. His workflow has inverted over the past ye