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'True' Unemployment Pegged at 24.9%, Six Times the Official 4.1% Rate

LISEP's True Rate of Unemployment (TRU) puts functional joblessness in the U.S. at 24.9% for July 2026 — more than six times the government's headline rate of 4

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aidevops

Two Kinds of LLM Inference Optimization: Trading Off vs. Pushing the Frontier

Inference engineers borrow the economist's "efficient frontier" to reason about serving tradeoffs — chiefly latency versus throughput (and therefore cost), but

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aitech-culture

World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates and reconstructs 3D scenes

World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup, has introduced Atlas, an 'omni' world model pretrained from scratch to work natively across text, images, video, a

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World's biggest dark matter detector records a single anomalous particle event

No article body was supplied for this item — only the headline was passed through, so a faithful summary can't be written without fabricating details. The headl

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aiopen-source

44% on ARC-AGI for 67 cents: a from-scratch transformer that rivals LLMs

An independent researcher has trained a small transformer from scratch that scores 44% on the ARC-AGI-1 reasoning benchmark, using roughly 90 minutes on a singl

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privacyai

AI turns a phone's LED into a hidden-camera detector

A reported technique pairs a smartphone's built-in LED with an AI model to spot concealed cameras. The premise rests on a well-established physics quirk: camera

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tech-culturedevops

Ambient CSS v3 pitches “Blender meets CSS,” but ships only a demo page

Ambient CSS v3 surfaced on Hacker News under the tagline “Blender meets CSS,” positioning itself as a project that brings 3D/lighting-tool sensibilities — the k

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aicybersecurity

Anthropic ships Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1: cheaper tokens, vuln discovery, science gains

Anthropic released two versions of the same underlying model: Fable 5.1, which is generally available, and Mythos 5.1, a gated release offered only through trus

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cybersecuritypolicy

Cheap GPS Jammers Are Punching Navigation Dead Zones Across the Globe

Low-cost, widely available GPS jamming devices are proliferating fast enough to create expanding pockets where satellite navigation simply stops working. Becaus

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privacytech-culture

Chrome Web Store Drops All Manifest V2 Extensions, uBlock Origin Included

Google has completed its long-running Manifest V2 phase-out by pulling every remaining MV2 extension from the Chrome Web Store, uBlock Origin among them. Copies

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aidevops

Claude Code silently stamps session URLs into commits — users want it opt-in

A GitHub issue filed against Claude Code takes aim at a default behavior: every commit message and PR description the tool generates ends with a link back to th

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open-sourcetech-culture

Darling: A Wine-Style Compatibility Layer for Running macOS Apps on Linux

Darling is an open-source compatibility layer that runs macOS software on Linux without hardware emulation, mirroring what Wine does for Windows programs. Rathe

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