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OpenAI Touts GPT-5.6 Sol Upgrades, Opens GPT-5.6 Luna to Free ChatGPT Users
OpenAI has published an announcement signaling two changes to its ChatGPT model lineup: improvements to the GPT-5.6 'Sol' variant, and wider availability of GPT
OpenJDK bars AI-generated code as Oracle touts AI writing its own software
Oracle, steward of the open-source OpenJDK project, has barred contributors from submitting AI-generated code, pointing to safety, security, and intellectual-pr
Penn's bioengineered chewing gum cuts oral HPV up to 93% in lab tests
A University of Pennsylvania team led by Henry Daniell has engineered a chewing gum, derived from lablab beans, that sharply reduces microbes tied to head and n
pgrust rewrites Postgres in Rust, claims 300x analytics speedup over the original
pgrust, a Rust reimplementation of Postgres, has shipped version 0.2 with a rebuilt query engine that its authors say makes analytical queries up to 300x faster
Phone anti-theft detection mistakes a jog for a grab-and-run
A one-line social post captures a familiar failure mode of modern smartphone security: motion-based anti-theft features that flag the owner's own workout as a t
Quake Turns 30: Free 'Dawn of the Machine' Episode Lands on Every Platform
id Software and MachineGames are marking Quake's 30th anniversary with Dawn of the Machine, a free episode pushed automatically to existing owners across Xbox,
Site owner reports 99% of 1.5M-page site's traffic came from scrapers
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Solo-built agent runtime Herdr joins Y Combinator, relicenses to Apache-2.0
Herdr, a terminal-native runtime for managing CLI coding agents, is joining Y Combinator's F26 batch. Its sole developer, Can, describes the tool as a way to gi
The $15 fix for USB-C's identical-cable problem: test them yourself
USB-C promised one connector for everything, but it created a new headache: cables that look identical can differ wildly on the inside. A freebie that shipped w
US pays RWE $1.2B to walk away from its offshore wind leases
German utility RWE has agreed to abandon its US offshore wind developments in exchange for a $1.2bn payout from the Trump administration's Department of the Int
When Code Is Nearly Free, Taste Becomes the Only Scarce Skill
The essay argues that code-generating AI has erased the old barrier of software: the hours of typing, manual-reading, and API-wrangling that used to stand betwe
A Botanist's Reading List — and a Blunt Endorsement of Sci-Hub and Libgen
This is a self-education guide for aspiring botanists, not a technology story. The author argues that anyone can learn plant identification without formal acade