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Israel-funded fake think tank floods the web to poison AI chatbots
The Hanover Institute for Public Policy presents itself as a neutral think tank studying Israel, Palestine, and antisemitism, complete with footnoted 'data repo
Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
No article body was supplied with this item — only the headline was provided, so there is nothing to summarize without fabricating details. The headline indicat
Librarian's Guide: How to Switch Off the AI Baked Into Your Apps and OS
A librarian who fields tech-support questions at public drop-in sessions has compiled a practical, opt-out guide for people who want to strip generative AI out
Life after Gmail: subdomain sorting and masked addresses make the Fastmail switch stick
A few months after publicly ditching Gmail, the author reports the move to Fastmail has held up well. Rather than forwarding old mail, they started fresh — a de
Linux 7.3 Lands amdgpu Fixes to Keep Games Alive When VRAM Runs Out
A developer's patches to improve VRAM management for the AMD graphics stack have been merged upstream and are queued for Linux 7.3. The work targets what happen
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing in Half to $2.50/$15 per Million Tokens
OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model has dropped 50% in price, now listed at $2.50 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens on OpenRouter. Rele
Physicists Claim First Sighting of a 'Glueball' — a Particle Made of Pure Force
Researchers report evidence for a glueball, a hypothetical particle predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) that would be bound together entirely by the stron
Rust Gets Native, Zero-Overhead GPU Offloading Across Vendors
A new arXiv paper describes a GPU compilation framework wired directly into the Rust compiler (rustc) and its LLVM backends, aiming to end the long-standing tra
Speko launches a benchmark-driven router that picks voice AI models per language
Speko, a Y Combinator S26 startup, is pitching itself as the OpenRouter for voice AI: a single gateway that sits in front of every major speech-to-text and voic
Sun Clock: An Open-Source, Privacy-First Web App That Tracks the Sun and Moon
Sun Clock is a browser-based 24-hour clock that maps the sun's position throughout the day, marking sunrise, solar noon, sunset, golden hour, and twilight for t
The Benchmarkpocalypse: How LLMs Made Faking Performance Gains Trivial
Dan Luu argues that the same forces driving a wave of AI-generated security bugs are producing a quieter analog in performance work: benchmark gaming. Genuine o
There's a Method to IKEA's Madness: The Two Hard Rules Behind Its Product Names
IKEA's famously baffling product names aren't random. The company follows a deliberate naming system built on Swedish words, and it holds itself to two non-nego