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Physicists Claim First Sighting of a 'Glueball' — a Particle Made of Pure Force
Researchers report evidence for a glueball, a hypothetical particle predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) that would be bound together entirely by the stron
Rust Gets Native, Zero-Overhead GPU Offloading Across Vendors
A new arXiv paper describes a GPU compilation framework wired directly into the Rust compiler (rustc) and its LLVM backends, aiming to end the long-standing tra
Speko launches a benchmark-driven router that picks voice AI models per language
Speko, a Y Combinator S26 startup, is pitching itself as the OpenRouter for voice AI: a single gateway that sits in front of every major speech-to-text and voic
Sun Clock: An Open-Source, Privacy-First Web App That Tracks the Sun and Moon
Sun Clock is a browser-based 24-hour clock that maps the sun's position throughout the day, marking sunrise, solar noon, sunset, golden hour, and twilight for t
The Benchmarkpocalypse: How LLMs Made Faking Performance Gains Trivial
Dan Luu argues that the same forces driving a wave of AI-generated security bugs are producing a quieter analog in performance work: benchmark gaming. Genuine o
There's a Method to IKEA's Madness: The Two Hard Rules Behind Its Product Names
IKEA's famously baffling product names aren't random. The company follows a deliberate naming system built on Swedish words, and it holds itself to two non-nego
Turning trains into a giant flatbed scanner with an industrial line camera
A photographer adapted the slit-scan technique — the same idea behind 1990s digital scanning camera backs — by inverting it: instead of sweeping a single line o
Yale Model: Medicare for All Could Save $1T and 114K Lives Yearly
A Yale School of Public Health study projects that a single-payer 'Medicare for All' system would cut U.S. health spending by more than $1 trillion annually whi
AI 'Autofix' Planted a CI/CD Injection in Snowflake — an AI Agent Found It in 5 Days
Wiz's autonomous "Red Agent" discovered and exploited a script-injection flaw in Snowflake's public snowflake-connector-net repository, then used the stolen cre
AI Labs Are Trading World Knowledge for Reasoning — On Purpose
A striking divergence is showing up across the newest language models: reasoning benchmarks keep climbing even as the compute spent per token falls. GLM-5.2 hit
Amodei: Well-Designed AI Rules Can Decentralize Power, Not Just Entrench Incumbents
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushes back on the Silicon Valley reflex that treats regulation as synonymous with regulatory capture and the concentration of power
Axler's 'Linear Algebra Done Right' 4th edition goes free and Open Access
Sheldon Axler has released the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook Linear Algebra Done Right under an Open Access, Creative Commons BY-NC license. Free