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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

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policy

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

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aiprivacy

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

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privacytech-culture

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

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open-sourcetech-culture

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

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aidevops

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

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tech-culture

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

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open-sourceai

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

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aidevops

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

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open-sourceprivacy

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

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aitech-culture

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

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tech-culture

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

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