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As AI Cracks Open Problems, a Mathematician Rethinks What the PhD Is For

Daniel Litt argues that AI's leap from failing at basic arithmetic to autonomously resolving open mathematical problems in just a few years forces an institutio

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open-sourceai

Chasing phantom stripes on a $tiny e-reader, with two AI assistants in tow

A hobbyist reader picked up an Xteink X3 — a pocket-sized e-ink device — and flashed it with the open-source CrossPoint firmware. Tinkering with the sleep-scree

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open-sourceai

dbt Labs open-sources dbt Charts, moving dashboards into agent-friendly YAML

dbt Labs has open-sourced dbt Charts, a declarative YAML language for building interactive dashboards, and launched a hosted platform, dbtCharts.com, in public

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Design Docs That Earn Their Keep: When to Write One and What to Leave Out

Drawing on stints at Google, Microsoft, and his own startups, Michael Lynch argues that a design doc's real value is forcing hard decisions before code gets wri

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open-sourcetech-culture

EuroBirdPortal turns citizen bird sightings into animated maps of European migration

EuroBirdPortal is a collaborative platform that pools observation data from national bird-recording schemes across Europe and renders it as animated maps showin

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tech-culturepolicy

First Contact: The 1930 Discovery of a Million People Hidden in New Guinea

In 1930, an Australian gold prospector named Mick Leahy pushed inland through the malaria-ridden jungles of New Guinea and into mountains that outsiders assumed

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Lina Khan: no AI exemption from existing law — prosecute the executives

Former FTC chair Lina Khan argued on X that the debate over new AI-specific regulation is a distraction from a simpler point: AI companies and their leaders are

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open-sourcetech-culture

Linux From Scratch: Build Your Own Distro from Source, One Package at a Time

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a long-running educational project that walks builders through assembling a complete, custom Linux system directly from source code

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vulnerabilitycybersecurity

Microsoft's September patches break RDP, USB audio, and Excel paste

Microsoft's September 2026 update cycle fixed security holes but introduced a cluster of functional regressions across Windows and Office. Remote Desktop Servic

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tech-cultureopen-source

Mullenweg Reclaims Automattic CEO Seat 33 Hours After Board Vote to Oust Him

Automattic's board briefly removed founder Matt Mullenweg as CEO this week, placing him on paid leave without stating a reason and installing CFO Mark Davies as

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tech-culturecloud

Nike drops out of the S&P 100 as IT and data-infrastructure names move in

Nike will leave the S&P 100 on September 21 after nearly 18 years, a casualty of a multiyear slide that erased more than $200 billion in market value. The stock

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Ninth Circuit: Perplexity's Shopping Agent Didn't 'Hack' Amazon Under the CFAA

The Ninth Circuit on August 4, 2026 vacated an injunction that had barred Perplexity's Comet AI assistant from shopping on Amazon.com, holding that an AI agent

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