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A Web Toy Draws One Random Life From the 100 Billion Humans Who Ever Lived
Any Human Ever is an interactive site built on a simple premise: more than 100 billion people have ever been born, so it invites you to pick exactly one at rand
AI agent swarms rebuild SF's Union Square as a browser-native Three.js world
PhiloLabs has released fable51-worlds, an open-source project that reconstructs real-world places as explorable 3D scenes running entirely in the browser. Rathe
Antigravity's TOS lets Google ban your entire account for third-party use
Google's Antigravity carries terms of service stating that if Google suspects the tool is being used in ways it deems unauthorized third-party usage — for examp
Audacity 4.0 Rebuilds Its UI on Qt With a Clip-Centric Editing Model
The long-running open-source audio editor ships its biggest overhaul in years, moving the entire interface to the Qt framework with native high-DPI rendering, d
Bridson's One-Page Algorithm for Poisson Disk Sampling, Made Faster
Poisson disk sampling solves a recurring problem in computer graphics and simulation: scattering points randomly while guaranteeing a minimum distance between a
Cerebras Publishes Model Compression Policy: Unpruned Weights, Storage-Only Quantization
Cerebras has documented how it handles model compression across its public inference endpoints, and the short version is a pitch for transparency. Every model o
Cloudflare prototype compresses cache with Zstandard, reclaiming petabytes
Facing steep RAM and disk price hikes, Cloudflare built a prototype called Cache Transcoding that compresses eligible assets with Zstandard (zstd) as they enter
CLUI Posts Scans of a 'Los Alamos Rolodex' of Nuclear-Complex Business Cards
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), an organization that documents how American land is used and perceived, has published a small online gallery titl
Content farms built for AI, not humans, are grounding Perplexity's software picks
Researchers queried Perplexity's Sonar and Sonar-Pro models for the top five products across 380 software categories—760 calls yielding 7,534 citations—and trac
Court Spares Google a Forced Breakup of Its Ad Tech Empire
A federal court has declined to order the structural breakup of Google's advertising technology business, opting for narrower conduct-based fixes rather than fo
ICANN Approves Killing .name Third-Level Domains, Stranding 22,000 Owners
Verisign has convinced ICANN to dismantle the entire third-level structure of the .name top-level domain, a move that will wipe out registrations like neil.fras
IFM ships K2 Horizon: six open models from 0.9B to 375B, full training lifecycle included
IFM has released K2 Horizon, a family of six models sharing one architecture, vocabulary, and training methodology: a 375B-A23B sparse MoE flagship, a dense 32B