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The physics that caps cell size: surface area and diffusion

Two physical limits, not just evolutionary preference, dictate why cells across the human body span five orders of magnitude in volume yet stay broadly tiny. Vo

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aicloud

xAI Pivots to GPU Landlord, Renting Capacity to Anthropic and Google

xAI has signed massive GPU leasing deals with two direct competitors: $1.25bn/month to Anthropic for 300MW (~220k GPUs) at the Colossus 1 site in Memphis, and $

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aiopen-source

Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-Pro UltraSpeed hits 1,000 tokens/sec on a 1T model

Xiaomi, working with the TileRT systems team, claims to be the first to push decode throughput past 1,000 tokens per second on a trillion-parameter model. Unlik

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cybersecurityprivacy

1,000 Breaches In, Disclosure Delays Are Getting Longer, Not Shorter

Troy Hunt marks Have I Been Pwned's 1,000th breach by arguing the service is more necessary than ever, because the gap between an incident and victim notificati

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privacytech-culture

A Curated Public-Domain Library of Cypherpunk Foundational Texts

Cypherpunkbooks.com hosts a personal, public-domain collection of foundational writings from the cypherpunk movement. The shelf gathers manifestos and essays th

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aitech-culture

A senior engineer watches LLMs erase the skills that defined his career

A backend engineer with a decade of experience, much of it specializing in payments and finance, describes watching three pillars of his expertise collapse in s

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aiopen-source

AI-Written OOXML Viewer Renders Office Docs in Browser via Rust+WASM

A new open-source library called @silurus/ooxml renders DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files directly in the browser using HTML Canvas, with parsers written in Rust and c

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aiopen-source

Building a Perceptron from Scratch: Neural Networks Stripped to One Weight and a Bias

A tutorial walks through implementing Frank Rosenblatt's 1958 perceptron in plain Python, framing it as the minimal unit underlying every modern neural network.

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cybersecurityvulnerability

Copper Thief Severs 100kW FM Transmission Line, Knocks Ohio Valley Station Off Air

A 100,000-watt country station in Ashland, Kentucky — WDGG 93.7 "The Dawg" — was knocked off the air last Thursday after a suspect allegedly cut and dragged awa

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aidevops

DeepSeek V4 Pro edges out GPT-5.5 Pro 38-33 in precision benchmark

A head-to-head comparison scored DeepSeek V4 Pro at 38.0 against GPT-5.5 Pro's 33.0, with the gap traced to disciplined adherence to constraints rather than raw

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tech-culture

Deriving the Perfect Pancake from First Principles

After 25 years of dutifully following pancake recipes from Dorie Greenspan and Kenji López-Alt, the author grew suspicious that conventional recipes were arbitr

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policytech-culture

Diabetes researchers ejected from ADA conference for sharing editorial critical of Trump

Five prominent scientists, including Diabetes Care editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz, were physically removed from the America

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