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ChatGPT Images 2.0 spontaneously captions chaotic stacked-animals prompt
Simon Willison highlights a Twitter exchange where a user extended his well-known pelican-on-a-bicycle benchmark by stacking it further: a horse riding an astro
ChatGPT Pro cracks 60-year-old Erdős problem with novel approach
A 23-year-old amateur named Liam Price prompted GPT-5.4 Pro with an open Erdős problem on a whim and got back what appears to be a genuine solution to a conject
CISA Flags Four Actively Exploited CVEs, Gives Federal Agencies Until May 2026
CISA has added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming active exploitation in the wild. Federal civilian agencies n
Developer cancels Claude subscription over token limits and copy-paste support
A long-time developer who built AI deeply into their workflow documents the reasons for cancelling a Claude Pro subscription after several weeks of use. Initial
Enhanced Geothermal Systems Eye 150 GW US Capacity as Fervo Pushes Toward Cape Station Launch
Conventional US geothermal contributes roughly 0.2% of summer generation capacity at 2.7 GW, concentrated in California and Nevada. Enhanced Geothermal Systems
EU Age Verification: Privacy Theatre Hiding a Digital ID Pipeline
The EU Age Control system is marketed as a zero-knowledge privacy win, but the reference implementation tells a different story. The Digital Services Act lets p
Flickr in 2026: Why the Anti-Algorithm Photo Platform Still Earns Its Pro Fee
A rebuttal to recent criticism of Flickr Pro argues the platform's refusal to chase trends is its core strength. Since SmugMug's 2018 acquisition, Flickr has st
Free Universal Construction Kit: 3D-Printed Adapters Bridge 10 Toy Systems
F.A.T. Lab and Sy-Lab released a set of nearly 80 two-way adapter bricks that let ten otherwise incompatible children's construction toys interconnect, includin
Goodhart's Law at Scale: How LLMs Broke the Proxy Measures of Knowledge Work
Knowledge work has always been hard to evaluate directly, so reviewers fall back on proxy signals — clean prose, polished formatting, code that reads cleanly on
Google commits $10B to Anthropic now, $30B more on milestones at $350B valuation
Alphabet is deepening its entanglement with Anthropic through a staged capital injection: $10 billion in cash up front at a $350 billion valuation — flat to Feb
Hokusai's Tessellation Studies: Geometric Patterns from a Master Printmaker
A digitized work from Japan's National Diet Library showcases tessellation studies attributed to Katsushika Hokusai, the Edo-period artist best known for The Gr
Martin Galway open-sources his 1980s Commodore 64 game music source
Legendary SID composer Martin Galway has published the original source files for his Commodore 64 game music on GitHub, covering work from the mid-1980s includi