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AI's Buzzy 'Jev' Is Just 25 Lines Reading Logits From a Local LLM
A tongue-in-cheek post from the team behind NobodyWho deflates the hype around 'Jev,' a supposedly revolutionary LLM paradigm, by reimplementing it in 25 lines
AMD Ryzen's 50% Speedup in Two Years Came From Wider Cores, Not Faster Clocks
Daniel Lemire pushes back on the common claim that CPU progress has stalled, using AMD's 3D V-Cache Ryzen line as a counterexample. Comparing Geekbench 6 scores
Anthropic's Claude autonomously flags a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in bacteriophages
Anthropic has stood up a life-sciences research group and a wet lab in the Bay Area, and its first notable result is a genomics find made largely by AI. Given o
Apple slips undismissable ads for its own services into the iOS Settings app
iPhone owners are increasingly annoyed by promotional banners that Apple has begun surfacing near the top of the iOS Settings app. The prompts push Apple's own
Bloomberg: some vapers reportedly turning to cigarettes to quit nicotine
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California's solar canals cut evaporation and add power — but don't scale everywhere
California's Project Nexus is testing whether covering irrigation canals with solar panels can solve two problems at once: shading water to slow evaporation whi
Claude Code Silently Skips AGENTS.md When Telemetry Is Disabled
Claude Code 2.1.277 shipped support for AGENTS.md, a shared instruction file meant to replace the tool-specific CLAUDE.md. But the feature never activates for u
FoxDev Studio revives Visual FoxPro with a 64-bit Rust runtime
Nearly two decades after Microsoft retired Visual FoxPro at version 9, an independent project called FoxDev Studio rebuilds the dead language from the ground up
Google's Gemini 3.8 TTS adds prompt-built voices and 30-second voice cloning
Google has released two new text-to-speech models under the Gemini 3.8 line. Flash TTS targets creative work — designing original character voices from natural-
Grammarly reportedly messages every end user when an admin cancels the account
A sysadmin PSA circulating on Reddit warns that cancelling an organization's Grammarly subscription doesn't stay between the vendor and the account owner. Accor
Inside Kai: Stripe's In-House AI Agent Platform for Knowledge Work
Stripe has rolled out Kai, an internal AI agent platform aimed at non-engineering staff—sales reps, finance analysts, and technical account managers—who were si
Italy's Parliament Backs Return to Nuclear Power, Decades After Post-Chernobyl Ban
Italy's parliament has voted to reopen the door to nuclear energy, marking a significant reversal of the policy the country adopted after the 1986 Chernobyl dis