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arXiv imposes 1-year submission ban for AI-hallucinated citations

arXiv has rolled out a new enforcement policy targeting one of the most visible failure modes of LLM-assisted writing: fabricated references. Authors caught sub

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policytech-culture

Atypical La Niña drives worst U.S. drought in decades across 60% of country

Virginia Tech climatologist Andrew Ellis says the combined intensity and geographic spread of the current U.S. drought is rare, with over 60 percent of the coun

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open-sourcedevops

Bun's Rust rewrite lands: smaller binaries, fewer memory bugs, no async Rust

The Bun JavaScript runtime has merged a full rewrite from Zig to Rust, passing the existing test suite across all platforms while fixing several memory leaks an

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open-sourceai

Bun's Rust rewrite ships undefined behavior, fails basic Miri checks

A bug report against Bun's in-progress Rust rewrite shows the codebase fails fundamental Miri checks, exposing undefined behavior reachable from safe Rust. The

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privacypolicy

DOJ subpoenas Apple and Google for identities of 100k+ car-tuning app users

The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to Apple, Google, Amazon, and Walmart seeking names, addresses, phone numbers, and purchase histories tied to EZ Lyn

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aipolicy

Frontier AI access is shrinking, not expanding, as security and compute pressures mount

The popular assumption that frontier AI tokens will become cheap and universally available is breaking down. Anthropic's recent Mythos rollout — a top-tier cybe

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tech-cultureopen-source

Geoffrey Cain's new book revisits Steve Jobs's forgotten 12 years at NeXT

Journalist Geoffrey Cain's forthcoming book Steve Jobs in Exile, out 19 May 2026, examines the period from 1985 to 1997 when Jobs ran NeXT Computer after being

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aiopen-source

GGUF Bundles Models Well, But Tool Grammars and Think Tokens Are Missing

GGUF, the single-file model format used by llama.cpp, consolidates everything safetensors and Ollama spread across multiple files: weights, tokenizer data, chat

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tech-cultureopen-source

Jason Scott's ASCII: A Long-Running Chronicle of Digital History

ASCII is the personal weblog of Jason Scott, the archivist behind textfiles.com and a prominent figure at the Internet Archive. The site has served for years as

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privacycybersecurity

Mullvad's deterministic exit IP assignment leaks a per-key fingerprint

Mullvad assigns each server multiple exit IPs and picks one deterministically from a user's WireGuard public key rather than randomly per connection. A research

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aipolicy

Ontario audit: AI medical scribes routinely garble prescriptions and patient facts

Ontario auditors evaluating AI Scribe tools used by physicians found pervasive accuracy failures, with 60% of the systems reviewed mixing up prescribed medicati

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aidevops

OpenAI brings Codex coding agent to the ChatGPT mobile app

OpenAI has integrated Codex, its code-generation and software engineering agent, directly into the ChatGPT mobile app. The move pushes agentic coding workflows

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