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Sherline Tools Winds Down US Micro-Machining After Nearly 50 Years

Sherline Products, the American maker of precision tabletop lathes, mills, micro-machining accessories, and small CNC machines, is shutting down manufacturing.

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policytech-culture

Singapore pays citizens fractions of a cent to read, testing gamified civic nudges

Singapore's National Library Board launched ReadSG on 6 September 2026, a five-year campaign that turns logged reading time into virtual coins redeemable for ca

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The 1996 Design Doc Behind Grim Fandango's Puzzle Logic

This is an internal LucasArts design document from 1996, written during development of the adventure game Grim Fandango (released 1998). It lays out the game's

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tech-cultureprivacy

The case for reclaiming your attention from recommendation algorithms

The piece opens with the "Tetris effect"—play the game enough and its shapes start intruding on your perception—to make a simple point: sustained attention resh

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tech-culturepolicy

The forgotten Mac keyboard glyphs: Canada's CSA icons and Japan's Kotoeri pencil

A design retrospective traces obscure Apple keyboard variants shaped by national standards and internal engineering choices. National regulation drove real hard

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aitech-culture

The LLMentalist Effect: Why Chatbots Feel Smart Is a Cold-Reading Con

Baldur Bjarnason argues that the widespread conviction that chat-based language models are intelligent is a perceptual illusion, not a property of the models th

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privacypolicy

The Snowden Archive Went Dark in 2019 — and No One Will Say Why

The trove of NSA and GCHQ documents Edward Snowden leaked in 2013 has effectively gone silent. After a staggered wind-down—the Guardian stopped publishing in Fe

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aiopen-source

Turning a decision model into a chatbot, one next-symbol vote at a time

jevchat is a for-fun experiment that coerces a classification/decision API (referred to as "Jev") into generating text, even though it was never meant to produc

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policy

Warren Bill Would Bar Private Equity and Insurers from Owning Medical Practices

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, joined by 12 other Democratic lawmakers, has introduced bicameral legislation that would prohibit for-profit corporations—private equity

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tech-cultureopen-source

Why CRT Fuzziness Is Only Half the Story Behind Great Retro Pixel Art

A popular claim—amplified by TikTok explainers—holds that old pixel art looked better because Cathode Ray Tube displays blurred the hard edges of low-resolution

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aidevops

Why MCP Has Outlived Its Purpose as Agents Learn to Call APIs Directly

The Model Context Protocol, which Anthropic shipped in November 2024 and handed off to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation a year later, solved a real

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aicybersecurity

xAI Ships Grok 4.7, Leaning on Coding Muscle and a Rebuilt Safety Stack

xAI has released Grok 4.7, positioning it as its strongest model yet for coding and knowledge work. Built on a larger base model than Grok 4.6 and trained with

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