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Stanford study: law professors prefer AI tutor answers to peer responses 75% of the time
A Stanford-led study had 16 law professors from U.S. institutions write answers to 40 contracts law questions, then blindly evaluate roughly 3,000 head-to-head
Trump's Slimmed-Down AI Order Lands After Weeks of Policy Whiplash
President Trump has signed a significantly pared-back executive order on artificial intelligence following weeks of internal reversals and revisions. The final
Turning idle GPU VRAM into Linux swap via NBD instead of kernel hacks
A new MIT-licensed project, nbd-vram, lets Linux users press unused NVIDIA GPU memory into service as swap space. The trick is avoiding the usual dead end: NVID
VSCode Webview Flaw Let a Single Click Steal GitHub Tokens via github.dev
Researcher Ammar Askar found that github.dev — the browser-based VSCode that GitHub launches when you swap .com for .dev — receives a broadly-scoped OAuth token
What's Left When You Stop Ruining It
Seth Godin riffs on an observation from stereo maker Paul McGowan: musicality in an amplifier isn't an additive feature engineers bolt on, but the natural quali
Why folding more protein sequences won't keep scaling AI drug design
Generative deep-learning models like AlphaFold3, Chai-2, and Latent-X2 have moved biomolecular design from prediction into actual drug creation, with antibody a
Why Janet? A Lisp dialect worth a weekend
Janet is a small imperative Lisp with only eight core instructions, a single namespace, lexical scoping, and a standard library that fits on a page. Its runtime
Why Kapa describes images at index time instead of sending them to LLMs per query
Kapa, which builds RAG assistants over technical documentation, ran the obvious experiment first: retrieve relevant chunks at query time, gather their images, a
Why systemd Timers Beat Cron for Scheduled Tasks in 2026
Systemd timers are a superior modern replacement for cron jobs, offering predictable execution environments, native logging via the journal, and clearer syntax
Alphabet to raise $80B in equity to scale AI infrastructure and compute
Alphabet has announced a proposed $80 billion equity capital raise aimed squarely at expanding its AI infrastructure and compute capacity. The move, disclosed i
An engineer's case for canceling his AI subscription
A developer catalogs roughly twenty projects he built with Claude and Codex — speech recognition in Rust, a Jellyfin clone, a Windows 95 Notepad port, a regiona
Chipotlai Max: OpenCode fork that hijacks Chipotle's support bot for free LLM inference
A meme project called Chipotlai Max forks the popular OpenCode CLI and wires it to Pepper, Chipotle's customer-support chatbot, as its default model. The bot we