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Caltech to Host First Hackathon Aimed at Solving Open Math Problems with AI

Caltech is convening what organizers bill as the first hackathon built around research-level mathematics. From October 30 to November 1, roughly 100 teams of to

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privacyopen-source

GrapheneOS Rebuilds Default Apps, Tightens Secure Clipboard Handling

GrapheneOS, the security- and privacy-hardened Android distribution, has announced an overhaul of its bundled default applications alongside changes to its secu

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tech-cultureprivacy

Internet Archive Launches 3x Match to Fund Its 210-Petabyte Infrastructure

The Internet Archive is running a September fundraising drive in which recurring donations are tripled through matching support—a $25 monthly pledge becomes $75

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tech-cultureopen-source

Joke Fediverse post anthropomorphizes qBittorrent — no actual story behind it

There is no article here to summarize. The "source" is a single-line post on the beige.party Mastodon instance, and the supplied body is just the headline repea

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tech-cultureopen-source

Live map tracks Belgium's public transport in real time

A submission on Hacker News points to a web-based map that visualizes Belgium's public transport network in real time, showing the live positions of buses, tram

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tech-culturepolicy

M-DISC's 1,000-Year Promise Meets a Bankrupt Vendor and a Quieter Reality

M-DISC is a write-once optical format launched in 2009 to solve archival storage's core problem: organic-dye DVDs and Blu-rays degrade within years to decades.

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tech-culturepolicy

Nathan Fielder's 174-Minute Theranos Doc Probes What Made Elizabeth Holmes Tick

Comedian Nathan Fielder and documentarian Lance Oppenheim surprised the Telluride Film Festival with 'You Can See Everything,' a nearly three-hour A24 documenta

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open-sourcecybersecurity

NetBSD 9.5 ships as the final 9.x release, ending support for the branch

The NetBSD Project has released NetBSD 9.5, the last update to the aging NetBSD 9 stable branch. Rather than a feature release, it bundles a curated set of secu

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aitech-culture

OpenAI publishes internal look at how it accelerates research — full text not provided

No summary can be generated: the source payload for this item contained only the headline 'Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI' and a URL (openai.com/

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tech-culture

Physics of the Splash: Nautilus-Shaped Urinal Cuts Splashback by ~99%

Researchers tackled urinal splashback as a fluid-dynamics problem and found a governing threshold: a stream hitting a surface at or below a critical impinging a

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privacycybersecurity

Researchers: LG OLED TVs scan your network and record mic audio in standby

Security researchers working with Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs say retail LG OLED sets, including the G5, behave less like appliances and more like surveillance

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tech-cultureopen-source

Small Isn't Simple: Why Unix Pipelines Hide Their Complexity

Drawing on Rich Hickey's definition of 'simple' as having a single braid rather than many things twisted together, this essay argues that the software world rou

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