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A Frequent Flyer's Case Against Airport Design That Baffles Its Own Users
This is a satirical open letter to airport staff, not a technology or security story — worth flagging for editorial fit. Its argument, though, is essentially a
Agentic Coding Cleared 'Can It Be Done' — The Hard Part Is What's Left
Agent harnesses paired with capable models have crossed the threshold of getting working code out the door, but the author argues that milestone is a small slic
AI Drug Discovery: Plenty of Benchmarks, Little Proof It Reaches the Clinic
Derek Lowe argues that the sheer volume of press releases and papers on AI in drug discovery has outrun anyone's ability to judge it. The marketing flood makes
Anthropic finds coordinating AI agent swarms outfind parallel bots at bug hunting
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team argues that agent-to-agent interaction is about to become common in shared codebases and markets, and that today's institutions—bu
Anthropic Publishes the System Prompts Running Behind Claude's Consumer Apps
Anthropic maintains a public release-notes page cataloging the system prompts that precede every conversation on claude.ai and its mobile apps. These prompts in
Asus Oxiis clips a 500W friction-drive motor onto any conventional bike
Asus is stepping outside its PC-and-router comfort zone with the Oxiis E250G1, a friction-drive motor that converts an ordinary bicycle into an e-bike without s
Cap an LLM's training at fifth grade and its capability ceiling won't budge
Researchers built LittleLearner, a set of language models trained from scratch on an 88B-token corpus deliberately filtered to the U.S. K-5 curriculum. The corp
Comma.ai's Chestnut eGPU Dock Ships With Auditable, Open-Source Bridge Firmware
George Hotz's comma.ai has released Chestnut, a PCIe Gen4 x4-to-USB4 eGPU dock whose controller firmware is published openly on GitHub under the tinygrad organi
DeepSeek ships V4-Pro and adds 50%-off off-peak API pricing
DeepSeek has moved its V4-Pro model to general availability, positioning it primarily as an agent-focused release with what the company describes as significant
DHS 'Operation Puppet Master' surveilled anti-ICE protesters, unions, Signal chats
Roughly 30 internal Homeland Security reports, filed in federal court by a defense attorney, describe a sprawling surveillance operation aimed at leftwing group
DuckDB v2.0 Adds Async I/O to Speed Up Queries Against Remote Storage
DuckDB is moving beyond its local-SSD roots. For most of its history the engine leaned on aggressive filter and projection pushdown to read only the data a quer
Eigendrum: draw a shape, hear it as a drum — the physics solved in your browser
Eigendrum is a browser tool that turns an arbitrary outline into a playable drum by solving the underlying physics on the fly. A clamped drumhead can only vibra