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SpaceX briefly dips below its $135 IPO price as Musk hype cools
SpaceX shares touched their $135 IPO price for the first time on Wednesday, wiping out the 50%-plus surge the stock posted in its opening days last month. The s
The 'Butthole Era' of Design: Why Every AI Logo Looks the Same
A tongue-in-cheek but pointed critique argues that AI company branding has converged on a single visual template: a circular or snowflake-like mark with a soft
The Zilog Z80 Turns 50: How an 8-Bit Workhorse Shaped Computing
Zilog's Z80, launched in July 1976, is marking half a century since it became one of the most influential processors ever built. Binary-compatible with Intel's
TP-Link Kasa cameras broadcast owners' home GPS unauthenticated for six years
Researcher Christopher Childress physically extracted firmware from a TP-Link Kasa Spot EC71 indoor camera and confirmed three vulnerability chains, all now pat
Union Pacific paints rail sides white to cut heat-driven derailments
Union Pacific has started spraying white paint on both sides of its steel rails in high-heat regions to counter a hazard called thermal misalignment — when rail
Unverified Reddit claim: 'GPT-5.6' closed a 30-year convex-optimization gap
There is no article here to summarize. The submission is a link to an r/math Reddit thread, and the only text supplied is the headline itself — no body, no proo
Vāgdhenu: Meter-Aware TTS That Chants Sanskrit at Expert-Level Fidelity
Prof. Prathosh A P of the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru has built Vāgdhenu, a text-to-speech system that renders Sanskrit verse as traditional pārāyaṇa
A Free, Short Book on Reinforcement Learning — From Monte Carlo to PPO
Developer alxndrTL has released The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning, a compact introduction that takes readers from RL fundamentals through to applied alg
A Weekend TF-IDF + SVM Classifier Spots LLM Text at 85% Per Sentence
A developer set out to build an AI-text detector after growing frustrated with low-quality, obviously machine-written fanfiction flooding online tags. Perplexit
Astronomers detect first atmosphere on a rocky, habitable-zone exoplanet
Harvard-led researchers, publishing in Science, report the first atmosphere ever detected around a rocky, Earth-sized planet sitting in its star's habitable zon
Beyond Solving: The Three Ways People Actually Respond to Problems
A consultant argues that solving is only one of four possible responses to a problem — and often not the one that happens. The other three, framed as 'P's, are
EEG study: the brain briefly tracks two speakers at once when switching attention
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and collaborators recorded EEG from normal-hearing adults in a simulated cocktail-party setup, with two competing speech s