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Mathematicians accuse OpenAI's Astra of passing off stolen proofs as breakthroughs

Mathematician Andreas Thom has publicly alleged that OpenAI trained its Astra model on private conversations in which he and Gábor Kun were working through Grom

via Hacker News ·
open-sourcedevops

Microsoft makes Rust a Tier-1 language, wires it into the MSVC backend

Rust has reached Tier-1 engineering status at Microsoft, putting it alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript as a first-class language for internal development. In pra

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tech-cultureopen-source

NASA's Mars Imaging Algorithm Is Now Decoding Ancient Rock Art

A color-enhancement algorithm built at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to sharpen satellite and planetary imagery has found a second life in archaeology. The m

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tech-cultureai

No Man's Sky 'Cosmos' Rebuilds Deep Space, Adds DLSS 4.5 and XeSS 3

Hello Games has shipped Cosmos, a major update to No Man's Sky timed to the game's 10th anniversary. The headline change reworks star systems into persistent, e

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open-sourcedevops

Planet Labs Publishes an Open Ephemeris Feed for Its 97 Orbiting Satellites

Planet Labs, the San Francisco Earth-imaging company that photographs the planet's landmasses daily, maintains a publicly accessible ephemerides service listing

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aiopen-source

Reasoning-prefill test hints Qwen was distilled from GPT, not Claude

A v1.1 rerun of an earlier 'reasoning prefill' experiment swaps in GPT-5.5 Pro as the teacher model to probe where open-weight models may have learned their rea

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tech-cultureopen-source

Saint-Exupéry Quote Tops Hacker News: No Article, Just a Mastodon Post

There is no substantive article here to summarize. The link points to a single-line Mathstodon (Mastodon) post reproducing the well-known epigraph from Antoine

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open-sourcetech-culture

Shopify acquires Tailwind CSS; framework stays MIT-licensed

Tailwind CSS, the utility-first styling framework now pulling more than 110 million weekly installs and used behind interfaces like ChatGPT, X, Cloudflare, and

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aipolicy

The Data Piles Up: Robotaxis and Driver-Assist Tech Are Crashing Far Less Than Humans

A growing body of research is undercutting public skepticism about self-driving cars. Even the mandated building blocks of autonomy are already paying off: the

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tech-culturepolicy

Visa and Mastercard Explained: The Networks That Route Every Card Swipe

Despite being the most visible brands in payments, Visa and Mastercard don't issue cards, hold your money, print plastic, or run the point-of-sale terminals — a

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tech-culturedevops

Why software work turns level-headed people into b-tier Bond villains

Most software is mundane underneath the branding — forms, endpoints, permissions, a database, maybe a queue. Yet the act of building it reliably pushes sane adu

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tech-cultureopen-source

A browser engine that draws topological surfaces as hand-inked pen-and-ink art

This is an interactive web project that renders mathematical surfaces — Boy's surface, Morin's surface, torus knots, and other immersions of the real projective

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