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iPhone 18 Pro adds cryptographic photo provenance, variable-aperture camera, 2nm A20

Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, leading with a 48MP main camera that gains true variable aperture — six laser-cut blades that shift across four

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aitech-culture

'Make the Button Blue': An Interactive Jab at AI Assistants and Scope Creep

Opusfived is a satirical, interactive comedy piece that skewers agentic AI coding assistants and their habit of doing far more than they were asked. The whole t

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aiprivacy

Mathematician demands OpenAI prove it didn't train on his private ChatGPT math

Andreas Thom, a group theorist at TU Dresden, has gone public with a pointed challenge to OpenAI: prove that his private ChatGPT conversations never fed the com

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aitech-culture

Mathematicians accuse OpenAI's Astra of passing off stolen proofs as breakthroughs

Mathematician Andreas Thom has publicly alleged that OpenAI trained its Astra model on private conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working through Grom

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Microsoft makes Rust a Tier-1 language, wires it into the MSVC backend

Rust has reached Tier-1 engineering status at Microsoft, putting it alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript as a first-class language for internal development. In pra

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NASA's Mars Imaging Algorithm Is Now Decoding Ancient Rock Art

A color-enhancement algorithm built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to sharpen satellite and planetary imagery has found a second life in archaeology. The m

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No Man's Sky 'Cosmos' Rebuilds Deep Space, Adds DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3

Hello Games has shipped Cosmos, a major update to No Man's Sky timed to the game's 10th anniversary. The headline change reworks star systems into persistent, e

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Planet Labs Publishes an Open Ephemeris Feed for Its 97 Orbiting Satellites

Planet Labs, the San Francisco Earth-imaging company that photographs the planet's landmasses daily, maintains a publicly accessible ephemerides service listing

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aiopen-source

Reasoning-prefill test hints Qwen was distilled from GPT, not Claude

A v1.1 rerun of an earlier 'reasoning prefill' experiment swaps in GPT-5.5 Pro as the teacher model to probe where open-weight models may have learned their rea

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Saint-Exupéry Quote Tops Hacker News: No Article, Just a Mastodon Post

There is no substantive article here to summarize. The link points to a single-line Mathstodon (Mastodon) post reproducing the well-known epigraph from Antoine

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open-sourcetech-culture

Shopify acquires Tailwind CSS; framework stays MIT-licensed

Tailwind CSS, the utility-first styling framework now pulling more than 110 million weekly installs and used behind interfaces like ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, and

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The Data Piles Up: Robotaxis and Driver-Assist Tech Are Crashing Far Less Than Humans

A growing body of research is undercutting public skepticism about self-driving cars. Even the mandated building blocks of autonomy are already paying off: the

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