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Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis, topping open-weight peers

Alibaba has released Qwen3.8 27B, a 27-billion-parameter open-weights model that lands a 52 on Artificial Analysis's composite Intelligence Index — a benchmark

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tech-culturepolicy

At the End of the World, Patagonia's Aging Solitary Ranch Hands

In Chilean Patagonia, near the southern edge of the continent, a dwindling group of men called puesteros live alone in remote cabins, hired by landowners to ten

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Berkeley Researchers Laser-Target Cone Cells to Show 5 People a Color Called 'Olo'

UC Berkeley scientists reported on April 18, 2025 that they induced perception of a color no human can normally see. Dubbed 'olo' — after its (0, 1, 0) LMS colo

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Bluesky hijacks an iOS privacy API to stamp its logo on your screenshots

A user noticed that screenshots of Bluesky posts carry the app's butterfly logo in the corner — even though the live app shows a "Follow" button in that exact s

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Bricked by a BIOS update, a Framework owner reflashes the chip for $20

A Framework Laptop 13 owner's AMD Ryzen 7040-series machine was bricked by the company's BIOS 3.20 update, which shipped security patches for several CVEs along

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Data center waste heat warms Phoenix neighborhoods by up to 4 degrees

A study in ASME's Journal of Engineering for Sustainable Buildings measures a side effect of data center growth that usually gets overlooked in favor of power a

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Fairphone 6 main camera now works on postmarketOS as Linux phone effort matures

An independent developer has written a working driver for the Fairphone 6's main camera under postmarketOS, building on earlier community work on the wide-angle

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GitHub Outage Spikes Error Rates, Cripples SSO and Lingers in Copilot Auth

GitHub suffered a broad platform outage that degraded most of its core services at once, including Git operations, the REST/GraphQL API, Actions, Pages, Issues,

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Google wins Spirit Airlines' data trove at bankruptcy auction to feed its AI

When Spirit Airlines shut down for good in May 2026 and went into liquidation, its data became just another asset to be sold off. Google won it at auction for $

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GPT-5.6 Sol closes OpenAI's vision gap, but Gemini stays cheaper and better

OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 family — Sol, Terra, and Luna — marks the company's first serious leap in visual understanding, according to benchmarks run by Roboflow ahe

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How id Software's 1996 Quake Unlock Scheme Fell to Security-by-Obscurity

In 1996, id Software packed its Quake shareware CD with encrypted copies of its entire back catalog — DOOM, Hexen, Heretic and more — betting that gamers would

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India moves to charge merchants fees on UPI, ending free-payments era

India is preparing to let banks and payment firms charge merchants a fee on UPI transactions, a shift that could close a decade-long run of free digital payment

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