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Epicure: Skip-gram embeddings map the latent geometry of 1,790 cooking ingredients

Researchers built Epicure, three sibling ingredient embedding models trained from scratch on 4.14 million recipes pulled from 11 sources across nine languages.

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Erin Brockovich Launches Crowdsourced Map of US Data Centers and Their Impacts

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has published an interactive map tracking data center development across the United States, paired with a public reportin

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FBI Arrests Senior CIA Official After Finding $40M in Gold Bars at His Home

Federal agents arrested a CIA official after a search of his residence turned up roughly $40 million worth of gold bars, according to a New York Times report. T

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Getting SimCity 3000 to run at 4K on modern Windows

A walkthrough for coaxing SimCity 3000 Unlimited into a playable state on contemporary hardware, specifically Windows 10 LTSC with a Ryzen 5 3600, Radeon RX 760

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GitHub Outage Disrupts PRs, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests

GitHub's status page logged an incident affecting core developer workflows, including pull requests, issues, git operations, and API requests. The disruption hi

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Go Proposes Generic Methods, Breaking Long-Held Stance Against Them

A new Go language proposal would allow concrete methods to declare their own type parameters, reversing a position the Go team has held since generics landed. T

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Google security engineer charged with $1.2M Polymarket bet using internal search data

Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have charged Michele Spagnuolo, a staff information security engineer at Google, with wire fraud, commo

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Hallucinate: A Browser-Based Massively Multiplayer Online Rave

Hallucinate bills itself as a massively multiplayer online rave, a web-native social experience that swaps the usual game-world framing for a virtual dance floo

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If AI Really 10x's Productivity, Where's Our Four-Day Week?

A pointed satirical argument turns the AI productivity narrative back on the people selling it. If artificial intelligence is genuinely about to revolutionize w

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Last.fm spins out as an independent company after ownership change

Last.fm has separated from its parent and is now operating as an independent company. The music scrobbling service, which was acquired by CBS Interactive in 200

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Mini Micro: A Fantasy Retro Computer Built on MiniScript

Mini Micro is a fantasy computer environment built around the MiniScript language, offering a self-contained virtual machine reminiscent of 1980s home computers

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Power-user patterns for Claude Code: CLAUDE.md, skills, and self-improving agents

The piece argues that getting real leverage from Claude Code requires treating it as a programmable agent rather than a smarter autocomplete. The core disciplin

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