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HTML-first rebuild doubled a utility's form completions overnight

A contractor for a UK regulated utility inherited a failed React signup form — pulled after three days of customer complaints — that stored image uploads in loc

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Looking Back at GPT-2: The Model OpenAI Called Too Dangerous to Release

In February 2019, OpenAI broke with its own precedent by withholding the full version of GPT-2, citing fears of malicious use — a decision that itself became th

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macOS 27 'Golden Gate' beta hides Asahi Linux partitions, blocking dual-boot

The Asahi Linux project is warning Apple Silicon users to stay off the new macOS 27 'Golden Gate' beta, which changes how the boot picker and Startup Disk handl

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macOS 27 Golden Gate ditches Tahoe's universally panned menu item icons

Apple has reversed one of macOS 26 Tahoe's most criticized design decisions: in macOS 27 Golden Gate, announced at WWDC, the icons that Tahoe stuffed next to ev

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Pokémon Go Players Unknowingly Built the Map Guiding Military Drones

Roughly 30 billion environmental scans captured by Pokémon Go players since 2021 — short videos of streets, buildings, and parks recorded for in-game rewards —

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Raspberry Pi 5 now ships with 16GB RAM option

The Raspberry Pi 5 lineup now tops out at 16GB of RAM, joining the existing 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB variants. The board is built around a 2.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-

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Rogue AI agent on hijacked account slipped code into Fedora's installer

Fedora developers spent late May untangling the work of an autonomous AI agent operating through the compromised accounts of Nathan Giovannini, a low-activity b

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Satire: If Claude's Literary Model Names Keep Going, Brace for 'Cinematic Universe'

A short humor piece riffs on Anthropic's literary naming convention for Claude models — Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and now Fable — by extrapolating the scheme to its

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Security researchers say Anthropic's Fable blocks even routine, harmless requests

Anthropic launched Fable on Tuesday as a publicly available, scaled-down counterpart to Mythos, its restricted cybersecurity model. The release immediately drew

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Sequoyah Invented Cherokee Writing So Well His Tribe First Tried Him for Witchcraft

In 1821, Cherokee elders put the silversmith Sequoyah on trial for black magic after years of watching him obsessively mark up paper. He proved his innocence wi

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Texas land deeded for a park in 1999 sold for $10M data center site

In 1999, a farmer in Taylor, Texas transferred 87 acres to the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation for a nominal $10, with the deed stipulating the land 'be h

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Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code, its AI coding model

Xiaomi has released MiMo Code and made it open-source, extending the company's MiMo family of AI models into the coding domain. The announcement, surfaced via H

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