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Turning trains into a giant flatbed scanner with an industrial line camera
A photographer adapted the slit-scan technique — the same idea behind 1990s digital scanning camera backs — by inverting it: instead of sweeping a single line o
Yale Model: Medicare for All Could Save $1T and 114K Lives Yearly
A Yale School of Public Health study projects that a single-payer 'Medicare for All' system would cut U.S. health spending by more than $1 trillion annually whi
AI 'Autofix' Planted a CI/CD Injection in Snowflake — an AI Agent Found It in 5 Days
Wiz's autonomous "Red Agent" discovered and exploited a script-injection flaw in Snowflake's public snowflake-connector-net repository, then used the stolen cre
AI Labs Are Trading World Knowledge for Reasoning — On Purpose
A striking divergence is showing up across the newest language models: reasoning benchmarks keep climbing even as the compute spent per token falls. GLM-5.2 hit
Amodei: Well-Designed AI Rules Can Decentralize Power, Not Just Entrench Incumbents
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushes back on the Silicon Valley reflex that treats regulation as synonymous with regulatory capture and the concentration of power
Axler's 'Linear Algebra Done Right' 4th edition goes free and Open Access
Sheldon Axler has released the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook Linear Algebra Done Right under an Open Access, Creative Commons BY-NC license. Free
Buf ships a production Protobuf language server, bringing modern IDE support at last
Buf has released what it calls the first production-grade Language Server Protocol implementation for Protobuf, closing a long-standing gap between the schema l
Claude's Text Watermark Skews Word Choice — Gruber Calls It a Corruption of Writing
John Gruber dissects how Anthropic will comply with EU rules requiring AI-generated content to be marked: not by hiding invisible Unicode characters, as he firs
DuckDB 2.0 'Cyanoptera' Adds Client/Server Mode, Triggers, and a First-Class VARIANT
DuckDB is preparing a rare major-version bump this fall, and the headline shift is philosophical: the long-standing in-process database is becoming something yo
GIMP 3.3.2 Preview: New Project Format, PSD Overhaul, and Native File Dialogs
GIMP's team has published a progress report ahead of the first 3.3.2 development release, and the headline change is a new project file format meant to replace
How Federal Keyword Screening Killed Billions in Research Grants
After President Trump returned to office in 2025, four federal agencies built keyword-screening systems to hunt down and terminate research grants tied to disfa
How Programmers Wrangled SIMD on Intel's 1997 Pentium MMX
Long before AVX-512, NEON, and GPU compute, Intel's 1997 Pentium MMX brought SIMD — one instruction operating on multiple data elements at once — to mainstream