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AI firms are shredding books for training data — Anna's Archive races to scan them

Anna's Archive, the largest shadow library on the internet, warns that AI companies are quietly buying used and rare books in bulk, cutting off their spines, an

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policysupply-chain

Canada halts US trade talks, will match $28B in retaliatory tariffs

Prime Minister Mark Carney has suspended trade negotiations with the United States and recalled Canada's negotiators to Ottawa, ending an 18-month effort to rea

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policysupply-chain

Canada vows 'dollar-for-dollar' retaliation as US trade talks collapse

Trade negotiations between the US and Canada broke down minutes before a Friday-night deadline, triggering a new round of 50% US tariffs on roughly 5% of Canadi

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aicloud

DESI team publishes largest 2D sky map: 4 billion objects, 5.6 trillion pixels

The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys team has released the most detailed two-dimensional map of the universe ever assembled, stitching together 263,407 exposures tak

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aitech-culture

Dev builds a Gemini-powered Claude Code skill to strip out the clickbait voice

A developer has published an open-source Claude Code skill called nobuzz (invoked as /debuzz, jokingly branded "Claudette") that rewrites Claude's chattier outp

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aitech-culture

Ditch the TUI: LLMs Make Native GUIs Cheap Enough to Stop Settling

The author walks through a series of native macOS apps he built over a few months without hand-writing meaningful code, instead generating them with frontier LL

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privacyopen-source

GrapheneOS–Motorola partnership to launch first on a standard, non-folding phone

GrapheneOS has confirmed that the opening target of its newly announced collaboration with Motorola will be a conventional non-folding handset rather than one o

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tech-culturecybersecurity

Halvar Flake on three ideas that reshaped his thinking: incentives, determinism, emotion

Security researcher Thomas Dullien (Halvar Flake), prompted by his father's death and joining a company younger than himself, catalogs three realizations that c

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tech-culturepolicy

How the internet turned 'selling out' from career suicide into strategy

In 1992, Pearl Jam reacted to sudden superstardom by refusing to make music videos, declining interviews, and cutting a guaranteed hit single from their second

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tech-culturedevops

HTMLCat: A Sticky-Note Reference for Native HTML, CSS, and JS Tricks

HTMLCat is a browsable collection of "post-it" notes, each pairing a single native web-platform feature with a minimal example and the one caveat that actually

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aidevops

LLMs Collapse the Cost of Performance Engineering

Dan Luu argues that AI coding agents have turned performance optimization from specialized, expensive work into something almost anyone can commission in minute

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aiidentity

MCP roadmap bets on agent identity, unified HTTP transport, long-running tasks

The Model Context Protocol's maintainers have published a refreshed roadmap organizing near-term work into five priority areas, several of which graduate from t

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