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Researchers Flag 450+ Manipulated Antibody Images in Thermo Fisher's Catalog
Independent researchers Reese Richardson and Sholto David have catalogued more than 450 apparently manipulated images in the verification data Thermo Fisher Sci
Signal: UK's Renewed Push to Break Encryption Trades Real Security for Surveillance
Signal has published a sharp rebuke of the UK government's latest attempt to weaken end-to-end encryption, framing the proposal as a false trade between safety
Social media's pivot from friends to algorithmic feeds reshapes the ad economy
Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and Snapchat have quietly stopped being places where users see what their friends are doing. Surveys from France, the UK and the US
Swiss voters to decide on constitutional 10M population cap
Switzerland is heading to a referendum on the Sustainability Initiative, which would amend the constitution to cap the country's population at 10 million. The m
Texas City Sells Donated Parkland to Data Center Developer for $10M
In 1999, a farming family deeded 87 acres to Taylor, Texas for $10, with a stipulation the land serve as a public park. The city has now sold that land to Bluep
The AI Bubble's Math Problem: $2T+ Annual Revenue Needed by 2030
Ed Zitron lays out the financial impossibility underlying the current generative AI boom. Roughly 190GW of planned data center capacity, at Jensen Huang's state
The physics that caps cell size: surface area and diffusion
Two physical limits, not just evolutionary preference, dictate why cells across the human body span five orders of magnitude in volume yet stay broadly tiny. Vo
xAI Pivots to GPU Landlord, Renting Capacity to Anthropic and Google
xAI has signed massive GPU leasing deals with two direct competitors: $1.25bn/month to Anthropic for 300MW (~220k GPUs) at the Colossus 1 site in Memphis, and $
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-Pro UltraSpeed hits 1,000 tokens/sec on a 1T model
Xiaomi, working with the TileRT systems team, claims to be the first to push decode throughput past 1,000 tokens per second on a trillion-parameter model. Unlik
1,000 Breaches In, Disclosure Delays Are Getting Longer, Not Shorter
Troy Hunt marks Have I Been Pwned's 1,000th breach by arguing the service is more necessary than ever, because the gap between an incident and victim notificati
A Curated Public-Domain Library of Cypherpunk Foundational Texts
Cypherpunkbooks.com hosts a personal, public-domain collection of foundational writings from the cypherpunk movement. The shelf gathers manifestos and essays th
A senior engineer watches LLMs erase the skills that defined his career
A backend engineer with a decade of experience, much of it specializing in payments and finance, describes watching three pillars of his expertise collapse in s