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Deriving Music Theory From Scratch With a Web Audio Oscillator
A programmer who never grasped music theory through conventional lessons rebuilds it from physics and arithmetic instead of convention, using JavaScript and the
Fifth Circuit Rules There's No Constitutional Right to Safe Drinking Water
A federal appeals court has upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against Jackson, Mississippi, brought by residents who say the city knowingly let them drink lead-
Free OCaml Programming Book Gets English Translation Under CC BY-SA
An introductory book on programming with OCaml is now available in English, translated by Urmila Nair from the original French edition. The translation was fund
GPT-6 Astra dominates block-in-bowl robotics test, but stalls on the puzzle like Fable
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra took control of the same YAM robot arms used in an earlier Claude Fable comparison, running under the Inspect Robots agent policy on two ma
Isar Aerospace becomes first European firm to reach orbit on just its second flight
German launch startup Isar Aerospace put satellites into orbit on 5 September 2026, becoming the first commercial European company to do so — and pulling it off
Isar Aerospace's Spectrum becomes first rocket to reach orbit from Western Europe
German startup Isar Aerospace put its two-stage Spectrum rocket into orbit on September 5, 2025, launching from Andøya Space Center in northern Norway. It's the
LTT Labs CT-Scans a Delidded Core i9-14900KS to Map Its Silicon Layout
LTT Labs put a delidded Intel Core i9-14900KS through a Lumafield Neptune industrial CT scanner, following up on a similar scan of the i9-13900K two years earli
Nitter Lives: Project Defies X Corp Takedown Demand, Repo Restored
The privacy-focused Twitter/X front-end Nitter is back from the brink. After X Corp. sent cease-and-desist letters on 24 August 2026 demanding a permanent shutd
Nitter Vows to Continue After X Corp Cease-and-Desist Demands Shutdown
X Corp. sent cease-and-desist letters on 24 August 2026 demanding the permanent takedown of Nitter instances and the project's source repository. Days later, th
NYT: Corporate America is warming to open-source AI models
NOTE: Only the headline was provided to the summarizer; the article body could not be retrieved (NYT paywall), so this cannot be a substantive summary of the re
OpenAI Chief Scientist Warns AI Is Racing Toward Recursive Self-Improvement
In an essay titled "An Alien Mind," OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki argues that today's frontier systems are the product of compute scaling far more than
Physicists Model LLM Adoption Like an Epidemic — With Tipping Points Into Dependence
A new arXiv preprint from physicist Luis Seoane borrows the mathematics of viral spread to describe how large language models are working their way into everyda