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Tonedear: Free Browser-Based Ear Training for Musicians
Tonedear is a free, browser-based ear training site aimed at musicians who want to sharpen their listening skills through repetition. It offers interactive dril
Translator to ChatGPT Evangelists: It's a Tool, Not a Magic Button
A freelance translator in Ottawa recounts a locker-room exchange that captures a widening gap in how people perceive AI. After explaining she had to skip a gym
WASI 0.3 ratified: async becomes native to WebAssembly Components
The WASI Subgroup has ratified WASI 0.3.0, a stable release that rebuilds the WebAssembly System Interface on top of the Component Model's new native async prim
When the Library Becomes a Lounge: What Dies When Universities Dumpster Books
An English professor recounts watching a construction loader dump thousands of 'deaccessioned' volumes into a dumpster behind her university's library in 2018 —
Why stripping 'um' from audio is hard — and how a local CLI cracked it
A developer built erm, a command-line tool that automatically removes filler sounds (um, uh, er) from voice recordings, and the writeup is a case study in why t
AMD's auto-updater fetched code over HTTP — and took 124 days to add an 's'
A researcher decompiling AMD's AutoUpdate tool — initially just to silence a recurring console popup — found that while the updater fetches its manifest over HT
Anthropic ends zero data retention for its most capable models, citing misuse detection
Anthropic will retain prompts and outputs from its new Mythos-class models (including Claude Fable 5, which shares the same underlying model as Claude Mythos 5
Apache Burr pitches state machines as the fix for unreliable AI agents
Apache Burr, an incubating Apache project, is a Python framework for building AI applications as explicit state machines. Developers define actions — plain Pyth
Apple withholds AI-powered Siri from EU after Commission rejects exemption bid
Apple has opted not to launch its upgraded, AI-driven Siri in the European Union after the European Commission rejected the company's request for an exemption f
Canadians Petition Parliament to Withdraw Bill C-22
An e-petition (e-7416) hosted on the House of Commons website is gathering signatures calling on the government to withdraw Bill C-22. The petition's circulatio
Curiosity at 13: How JPL keeps a Mars rover alive on remote software fixes alone
Thirteen years after its skycrane landing, NASA's Curiosity rover is still doing science on Mars — nearly 37 km driven, 42 rocks drilled, and roughly 763,000 ph
Emacs sightings on screen: a fan catalogs the editor's pop culture cameos
A blogger has compiled a running catalog of every known appearance of Emacs in movies, TV, comics, anime, and manga. The list spans an unexpectedly wide range: