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Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk, Its 20-Year-Old Crowdsourcing Marketplace, Sept. 30
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the microtask marketplace that connected businesses with a distributed, on-demand human workforce, on September 30. Launched
Asahi Linux Cracks Apple Silicon Power Management Without EL3 Firmware
The latest Asahi Linux progress report centers on a stubborn obstacle to good battery life on Apple Silicon: getting CPU idle states to work within Linux's upst
Cheap, fast AI models hit good-enough — and rewrite the economics of consumer apps
The author argues that small, inexpensive language models have quietly crossed a usefulness threshold. Running a model like the fictional gpt-5.6-luna, he clock
Cloudflare Cuts 100TB of RAM From 1.1.1.1's DNS Cache — and Made It Faster
Cloudflare's DNS platform, internally called Big Pineapple, holds more than 250 billion cache entries at any moment across services like 1.1.1.1, Gateway DNS, a
Content Negotiation for Bots: Serving Markdown to AI Agents via Accept Headers
The pitch behind acceptmarkdown.com is that websites should treat AI agents as a distinct client class and hand them a stripped-down Markdown variant instead of
Devs Replaced by AI Answer Back With an Open-Source AI CEO
Open Executive, released by Sente Labs, is a tongue-in-cheek rejoinder to executives who cut engineering headcount in favor of AI: an open-source system that pl
FDA clears Rasonque, first RAS inhibitor for metastatic pancreatic cancer
The FDA has approved Rasonque (daraxonrasib), a once-daily tablet from Revolution Medicines, for adults with metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma who have alrea
Gates Warns There's 'No Plan' for AI's Coming Economic Upheaval
In a roughly 6,000-word essay published August 26, 2026, Bill Gates argues the shift into the AI era will be one of the most turbulent stretches in human histor
Google ships Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash with production-grade video controls
Google has released Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, an update to its generative-video model aimed at developers building creative and media-editing tools, now available
Himalayan Glacial-Lake Floods Could Be 15x Bigger Than Models Assume
Researchers modeling a transboundary basin on the Tibet–Nepal border found that worst-case glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) could be catastrophically larger
IBM's next mainframe chip runs Arm and IBM Z code natively on the same cores
IBM used the Hot Chips conference to unveil a mainframe processor that can execute both Arm and IBM Z (or LinuxONE) instruction sets natively, the first silicon
Mold Linker Hits Up to 112x Faster Than GNU ld by Parallelizing Every Pass
Linking—the build step that stitches compiled object files into a final executable or shared library—remains a stubborn bottleneck in the edit-compile-debug loo