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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

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tech-culturepolicy

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

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aisupply-chain

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

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policytech-culture

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

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policyidentity

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

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aiopen-source

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

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aitech-culture

LLM Writing Assistants Flatten How We Write — and Blur Who Wrote It

A study by Sourati and colleagues in Nature Human Behaviour tracks what happens to prose once large language models become the default writing aid. Across three

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tech-cultureopen-source

LWN raises subscription prices ~20% to track inflation, first hike since 2022

LWN, the independent Linux and free-software publication, is increasing subscription prices by roughly 20% — its first change in nearly five years and only the

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aiprivacy

Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 targets agentic coding, with a pay-with-your-data tier

Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, an AI model pitched squarely at agentic workflows rather than one-shot chat. Meta's framing emphasizes higher first-attempt ac

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No summarizable content — source is a headline only

The provided source has no article body; it consists solely of the headline 'Wendell Berry has died.' There is nothing substantive to summarize, and producing a

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open-sourcedevops

Polars 2.0 Makes the Streaming Engine the Default, Bets on Stricter, Fail-Fast Behavior

Polars is shipping its first 2.0 release candidate, and the headline change is that LazyFrame queries now run on the streaming engine by default when you call c

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open-sourcecybersecurity

Reverse-Engineering a Game Save File with ImHex's Pattern Language

The creator of ImHex, a free cross-platform open-source hex editor, walks through how to decode an unknown binary format by reverse-engineering the save file fr

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