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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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