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17k agent runs reveal which tools Claude, Codex and Cursor actually pick

A team at Armature ran what it calls the largest study to date on how coding agents select third-party services. Rather than asking agents to merely recommend a

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aitech-culture

An LLM read 72K lines of 68000 assembly to port a 1993 Iraqi Amiga game to Godot

Babylonian Twins was written in 1993 on an Amiga 500 in Baghdad — pure hand-tuned 68000 assembly, bit-banging the hardware directly under sanctions with electri

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aicloud

ChatGPT Outage Marked Resolved — No Details Provided

The source carries no reportable substance beyond a status label indicating a ChatGPT outage that has since been resolved. There is no information about when th

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aiopen-source

Claude autonomously formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean in 11 days

Anthropic says its AI produced the first end-to-end, computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a result unproven for over 350 years and first cracked by

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Fake beaver dams in California lift juvenile coho salmon survival from 8% to 60%

After fur trappers wiped out the beaver population of northern California's Scott River valley in the 1830s, the cold, slow-moving wetland habitat that juvenile

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open-sourceai

From frustrated emails to 1M users: the MIT origins of Julia

Julia began in 2009 as an MIT research effort to fix a persistent pain point in scientific computing: languages like MATLAB and Python were easy to use but slow

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tech-culturepolicy

Gloria Steinem, feminist writer and organizer, dies at 92

Editor's note: This is an obituary of a political and cultural figure, not a technology or security story — it surfaced here because it trended on Hacker News.

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aitech-culture

GPT-6 Astra tops ARC-AGI-3, beating human action efficiency on 96% of levels

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra posted state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3, the ARC Prize benchmark for agentic intelligence that drops models into novel, turn-based env

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tech-culturepolicy

How Mega-Funds Turned Venture Capital Into 'Cancer Capital'

Anil Dash, a former startup CEO and board member who has raised tens of millions in venture funding, argues that the industry no longer resembles the check-writ

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aitech-culture

Human Go champion beats KataGo AI in first official win under two-stone handicap

Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, took a 2-1 series against KataGo, the strongest Go engine currently available — the first time a human has won a

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privacyidentity

ID Verification Firm IDScan.net Leaked 153M Driver's Licenses in Real Time for a Year

A dark-web identity-theft service called Nexus is selling scanned driver's licenses belonging to more than 153 million people across the US and Canada, and the

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tech-cultureopen-source

Math finally cracks fair 'Go First' dice for five players after 15 years

A puzzle first floated at a 2012 gaming convention has finally been resolved: how to build dice that let each player roll once and settle who goes first with ze

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