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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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