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Astronauts return from six-month missions feeling like observers of their own lives

Crews returning from standard six-month ISS rotations report a lingering perceptual state that flight surgeons and crew psychologists now recognize as a pattern

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aiopen-source

Bun's $165K Rust Rewrite Looks Far From Done — and Far More Expensive

A skeptical developer dug into the widely-shared claim that Bun's JavaScript runtime was rewritten in Rust by Anthropic's Claude in 11 days for $165,000 in API

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privacypolicy

Casa Grande residents petition for oversight of city's Flock surveillance cameras

Deflockcg.com hosts the petition for Deflock Casa Grande, a nonpartisan civic campaign pushing back against the Arizona city's rollout of Flock Safety surveilla

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policyai

Court Tosses Google's DMCA Claim Against Search Scraper SerpAPI

A federal judge dismissed Google's DMCA Section 1201 lawsuit against SerpAPI, a service that scrapes Google Search results and repackages them as an unofficial

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tech-culturepolicy

Delayed Gratification: The Print Magazine That Waits Three Months to Cover the News

Delayed Gratification is a quarterly print magazine built on a deliberately contrarian premise: rather than chasing breaking news, it revisits events roughly th

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tech-culturepolicy

Engineered HIV vaccine coaxes primate immune systems into rare broadly neutralizing antibodies

Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, Scripps Research, and IAVI report an HIV vaccine that, in rhesus macaques, produced the strongest HIV-figh

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vulnerabilitycybersecurity

Exposed admin APIs handed full control of 676k trucks on Volvo-Eicher fleet platform

A researcher found that My Eicher — the telematics and fleet-tracking platform run by VE Commercial Vehicles, a Volvo Group and Eicher Motors joint venture serv

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open-sourcedevops

Go 1.26 ships Green Tea GC by default — and you can watch it work

Go 1.25 introduced a new garbage collector called Green Tea, and Go 1.26 promoted it to the default. The collector is designed for cache-friendliness, and its b

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privacyopen-source

GrapheneOS Opens the Donation Firehose: Cards, Crypto, and Banks in 8 Countries

GrapheneOS, the privacy-hardened Android-based operating system, funds its development entirely through donations to its non-profit Foundation. The money covers

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aiopen-source

How Linear Attention Evolved from Softmax to Kimi Delta Attention

This technical walkthrough demystifies the DeltaNet family of linear attention mechanisms by deriving them step by step, showing that each variant is a small, m

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open-sourcedevops

Inside Zig's Incremental Compilation: Rebuilds in Milliseconds, Not Seconds

A member of Zig's core team walks through how the language's incremental compilation now works well enough for daily production use. The system detects which in

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aiopen-source

Kimi K3: Moonshot ships 2.8T-param open-weight MoE, trailing only Fable 5 and GPT-5.6

Moonshot AI has released Kimi K3, a Mixture-of-Experts model with 2.8 trillion total parameters but only 104 billion activated per token, native vision, and a o

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