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Fecal Transplant Therapy Cuts Autism Symptoms 45% Two Years Out, Heads to Phase 3

Arizona State University researchers tracking children who received Microbiota Transplant Therapy (MTT) found benefits not only persisted but deepened over time

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tech-cultureopen-source

Five Kinds of HTML Lists You Probably Forgot Existed

A deep dive into HTML's list elements argues that most developers only reach for `<ul>` and `<ol>` while ignoring three other valid collection patterns: descrip

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open-sourcetech-culture

Futhark by Example: A Hands-On Tour of the Parallel Array Language

Futhark's documentation team has assembled a graduated collection of commented example programs designed to introduce the parallel functional array language thr

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aitech-culture

Gruber: AI Is Infrastructure, Not Apple's Next Killer Product

John Gruber pushes back on Steven Levy's Wired piece arguing that Apple's incoming CEO must ship a defining AI product or watch agents obviate the iPhone. Grube

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open-sourcetech-culture

Hosting a website on an 8-bit AVR microcontroller over SLIP

A hobbyist project gets an AVR64DD32 microcontroller serving a webpage over the open internet. Ethernet was ruled out because even 10BASE-T's 20 Mbit/s Manchest

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aitech-culture

Local LLM inference on M5 MacBook Pro costs 3x more than OpenRouter

A cost breakdown of running Gemma 4 31B locally on a maxed-out M5 Max MacBook Pro shows hardware depreciation, not electricity, drives the economics. At $0.18/k

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aipolicy

Malta becomes first nation to offer ChatGPT Plus to every citizen via OpenAI deal

OpenAI has struck a partnership with the Government of Malta to provide ChatGPT Plus access to the country's entire citizenry, marking the first national-scale

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policytech-culture

Meta pulls 1M-follower account after Kuwaiti government request

Meta reportedly removed a popular account with roughly one million followers following a takedown request from the Kuwaiti government, according to a post by jo

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privacypolicy

Mozilla pushes back on UK proposal to age-gate VPNs under Online Safety Act

Mozilla has formally objected to a UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology consultation that floats restricting young people's access to VPNs, a me

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aiopen-source

NVIDIA's SANA-WM: 2.6B open-source world model generates minute-long 720p video

NVIDIA Labs has released SANA-WM, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-source world model capable of generating coherent 720p video sequences up to a minute long. The c

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cybersecurityvulnerability

Researcher claims Microsoft baked a BitLocker backdoor, ships PoC exploit

A security researcher is alleging that Microsoft quietly engineered a backdoor into BitLocker, the full-disk encryption feature shipped with Windows Pro and Ent

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aitech-culture

Stross's Accelerando: a free novel charting humanity's slide into the Singularity

Charles Stross's 2005 novel Accelerando, freely hosted on the author's site, traces three generations of the Macx family as accelerating technological change re

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