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Minimal Phone 2 pitches a physical keyboard and an optional de-Googled OS
The Minimal Company is taking preorders for MP2, a compact Android-based handset built around a 4-inch AMOLED touchscreen (1080×1240, 90Hz) and a physical backl
Raptor's Glow-Up: How SpaceX Turned a Tangle of Pipes Into a Streamlined Engine
SpaceX's Raptor engine has become a poster child for rapid hardware iteration. Across three generations — Raptor 1 through the Raptor 3 that first flew in May 2
REJECTED — off-topic and unverifiable atrocity claims, route to human desk
Not summarized. This is a geopolitical war-crimes and human-rights story with no cybersecurity or technology angle, so it is out of scope for this publication a
Report: US troop deaths in Iran war undercounted by Pentagon by at least four
No article body was supplied — only the headline, which asserts that actual US troop deaths during the Iran war exceed the Pentagon's official tally by at least
Scholarly Deep-Dive Maps the Hidden 'Scene' Behind Software Piracy
Martin Paul Eve's 'Warez: The Infrastructure and Aesthetics of Piracy' is the first academic study of the elite, organized underground that supplies most of the
South Korea can now fine data breaches up to 10% of total revenue
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has more than tripled its maximum penalty for data breaches, raising the cap from 3 percent of sales to
The Vibe-Coding Trap: Building a Whole Language for a Solved Problem
Bend 2 markets itself as a language for the AI era, where humans specify "laws," an LLM writes both implementations and proofs, and the compiler verifies the pr
Viral thread brands AI safety a Yudkowsky-rooted Berkeley 'sex cult'
A widely shared social-media thread argues that the AI safety and alignment movement is inseparable from the Bay Area 'rationalist' subculture built around Elie
Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes (no content available to summarize)
The source for this item contains only the headline 'Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes' and a link to Apple's developer documentation. No actual release-notes text
A month, a pile of tokens, and an AI-generated Lean proof of Conway's 50-year-old conjecture
A self-described math novice set out to test whether a frontier model could crack a genuine open problem, and picked Conway's refinement conjecture for omnific
AI Found Thousands of Bugs, but Patching Was Always the Real Bottleneck
In a caustic personal essay, security engineer Jan Schaumann argues that the industry's rush to embed AI into vulnerability research has been a costly misfire.
AI hallucination nearly triggered US strike on Chinese ship, sources say
This spring, during the war with Iran, an intelligence report warning that a Chinese vessel in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components pushed th