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Terpstra Keyboard: A Browser-Based Microtonal Isomorphic Keyboard

Note: the source provided no article text—only a headline and a link to terpstrakeyboard.com—so there is no reporting to condense. The link points to an interac

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aitech-culture

The reader revolt: audiences are tuning out LLM-written prose — and detecting it

Bryan Cantrill argues that readers can reliably spot LLM-authored writing and increasingly resent it. He points to a survey by Cynthia Dunlop of 668 developers:

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UN concedes 1.5°C climate limit will be breached, banks on risky 'overshoot' plan

The UN Environment Programme has issued its first report formally admitting that Earth will cross the 1.5°C warming threshold set by the 2015 Paris accord — lik

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Wisconsin deputies ran 100+ Flock searches on man who filmed a traffic stop

A federal lawsuit alleges that the Waukesha County Sheriff's Office in Wisconsin weaponized Flock Safety's automated license plate reader network against Navy v

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aiprivacy

Adult studio ties Meta exec's home torrents to $446M AI piracy suit

Strike 3 Holdings, an adult film producer known for filing thousands of anonymous "John Doe" BitTorrent lawsuits each year, is trying to fold one of those routi

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aiopen-source

AI Agents Machine-Check a Full Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4

Anthropic has released a complete, machine-verified formalization of Fermat's Last Theorem in the Lean 4 proof assistant, built on the Mathlib library. The proo

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aitech-culture

AI benchmark leaderboard adds private tests to curb gaming; Claude Fable 5.1 leads

Artificial Analysis has pushed out v4.2 of its Intelligence Index, an interim refresh meant to keep the benchmark relevant while the frontier moves faster than

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tech-culture

Brad Feld on Labor Day, Turning 61, and Rethinking What Matters

This is a short personal essay by venture capitalist Brad Feld, not a technology or security story. Feld frames Labor Day weekend as his lifelong "back to schoo

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cybersecurityopen-source

deSEC Offers Free, Open-Source DNS Hosting Built Around Security

deSEC is a free DNS hosting service that pitches security as its core design goal. It runs entirely on open-source software and is backed by SSE, and the operat

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Dutch central bank shifts 86 tonnes of gold out of US and Canada, citing 'geopolitical unrest'

De Nederlandsche Bank has relocated 86 of the 313 tonnes of gold it held in New York and Ottawa, moving the bullion to the Bank of England between March and Aug

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aitech-culture

EEBench puts AI circuit design to the test with real SPICE simulations

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra demo of a KiCad session put electronics design in front of a mainstream model launch, but the team behind EEBench argues the harder questio

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Engineer Cracks RSA-260 After 35 Years; 2048-Bit Keys Still Safe

Eric Lu, an engineer at Cognition, says he has factored RSA-260, the 260-digit (862-bit) semiprime from RSA Security's 1991 factoring challenge that had stood u

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