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Nomograms: The Paper Calculators That PyNomo Brings Back to Life
A nomogram is a graphical calculator: a set of numbered scales laid out so that placing a straightedge across two known values reveals the third, solving an equ
OpenAI says U.S. government will vet who can access its latest model, GPT-5.6
OpenAI has said the U.S. government will screen users of its newest AI model, GPT-5.6, effectively giving Washington a say over who gets access. Further details
OpenRA Playtest Adds Random Map Generators for Red Alert, Tiberian Dawn, and Dune 2000
The open-source engine that rebuilds classic Command & Conquer games on modern systems has shipped a new playtest, headlined by procedural map generation across
OpenTTD 16.0 Beta1 Ships With Reversing Trains and Open-Join Multiplayer
The first beta of OpenTTD 16, the open-source remake of Transport Tycoon Deluxe, is out for community testing. Headline additions include trains that can drive
Satire: Seven AI Security Gates Wave Through Malware, Then Sign a Treaty With It
A fictional incident report skewers the rush to put AI in charge of software supply-chain security. A malicious fork of a popular compression library, foxhole-l
Sony to Wipe 551 StudioCanal Films from PlayStation Libraries, No Refunds
Sony has begun notifying PlayStation Store customers that movies and TV shows distributed by StudioCanal — including Terminator 2, Total Recall, From Dusk Till
Springer Nature pulls two Max Planck papers for 'copyright'—then sells the blank PDFs
Springer Nature has withdrawn two papers authored by Max Planck, the Nobel laureate who founded quantum theory, both originally published in the journal Naturwi
Suspicious Discontinuities: How Bright-Line Thresholds Expose Gaming and Fraud
Wherever a sharp threshold carries real consequences, the data around it tends to bend in revealing ways. Dan Luu walks through a series of histograms and scatt
The "Buy" Button Is a Lie: Why Digital Purchases Are Just Revocable Licenses
When a storefront lets you "buy" a movie, game, or book, you're almost never acquiring the file — you're paying for a license that the seller and rights holder
The intuition behind why kinetic energy scales with v², not v
A long-running physics Q&A tackles a question that trips up many learners: why does doubling an object's speed quadruple its kinetic energy, rather than merely
Through-skull ultrasound captures the most detailed image yet of a living brain
A startup called Aleph Neuro says it has produced the first 3D ultrasound localization microscopy image of a living human brain captured through an intact skull
US lifts export block on Anthropic's Mythos AI for 100+ vetted partners
The Commerce Department on Friday cleared Anthropic to distribute its Claude Mythos 5 model to more than 100 approved US institutions, including large companies