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'Kidney Disappointment': Tortured Phrases Betray Paper-Mill Fraud
A Google Scholar search for the nonsensical term "kidney disappointment" surfaces dozens of published papers that clearly meant "kidney failure." The phrase is
MathCode: a terminal agent that turns English math into machine-checked Lean 4 proofs
MathCode is a command-line AI assistant built specifically for formal mathematics. You state a problem in plain language and the tool translates it into a Lean
Nature: controversial surgery claimed to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms
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NIH to bar its K23 career award from funding trainees' own clinical trials
Starting in July 2027, the NIH will stop letting its K23 award — the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, a longtime on-ramp for early-c
Nvidia halves its OpenAI data-center backstop to under $120B on investor risk fears
Nvidia is sharply cutting the financial guarantee it's willing to extend for OpenAI's planned data center in Ohio, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Th
Open-Source Ceramic Water Filters: DIY Purification That Scaled to 39 Countries
The ceramic pot filter is a decades-old, deliberately low-tech answer to unsafe drinking water, and this Low-Tech Lab tutorial walks through how it works and ho
Postgres Still Can't Pool Its Own Connections — And Every Provider Papers Over It
A decade after Brandur Leach first wrote about wrangling database connections, his advice hasn't aged: Postgres handles large numbers of connections poorly, so
Qwen 3.8 27B impresses on local hardware — but its default reasoning mode wastes minutes
Alibaba's Qwen lab has released Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2-licensed, vision-capable model small enough (a 17GB quantized build) to run on a well-specced laptop o
Reticulum: A Cryptographic Mesh Stack for Sovereign, Censorship-Proof Networks
Reticulum is a networking stack designed to build local and wide-area networks on commodity hardware, and to keep working under conditions that would break conv
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Stripe Nears $7B+ Deal for AI Model-Routing Startup OpenRouter
Stripe has reportedly reached a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloomberg — a striking markup from the roughly $1.3 billion valuat
Stripe to Buy AI Model-Routing Startup OpenRouter in $7B+ Deal
Stripe, the privately held payments-infrastructure giant, has reportedly reached an agreement to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, according to Bloom