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NASA Confirms Five-Foot Meteor Exploded over Massachusetts, Fell into Cape Cod Bay

A meteor roughly five feet wide and weighing 5.6 metric tons entered the atmosphere over New England at 42,000 mph on Saturday afternoon, breaking apart 31 mile

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policytech-culture

NSF to Pull 900+ Ocean Sensors Tracking Atlantic Current Near Collapse

The National Science Foundation is shutting down the Ocean Observatories Initiative, recovering more than 900 instruments deployed off Oregon, Washington, Alask

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open-sourcetech-culture

Reverse-engineering a Yamaha THR10c guitar amp via JTAG and UART headers

A hobbyist hardware hacker documents the process of accessing the firmware on a Yamaha THR10c guitar amp after spotting UART and JTAG headers in the service man

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open-sourcetech-culture

Ripgrep author BurntSushi recounts brush with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

Andrew Gallant, the open-source developer behind ripgrep and other widely depended-on Rust tooling, has disclosed that the gap in his recent activity was caused

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tech-culturedevops

SQL's Staying Power: Why a 50-Year-Old Query Language Still Pays Off

SQL has outlasted nearly every framework, ORM, and database trend that promised to replace it. Relational concepts codified in the 1970s remain the lingua franc

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aitech-culture

Ted Chiang: Treating LLMs as Conscious Is a Category Error With Real Costs

Ted Chiang dismantles the growing tendency, exemplified by Anthropic's 84-page Claude 'constitution' and statements from CEO Dario Amodei and in-house philosoph

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aicybersecurity

Testing 14 LLMs on a Firebase exploit: GPT-5.5 leads, Gemini refuses outright

A security researcher built a deliberately vulnerable React Native and FastAPI book-review app, then spent $1,500 across roughly a dozen frontier LLMs to see wh

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tech-culture

The Freelance Reader Who Decides Which Books Become Movies

Clarke Speicher works a niche job that few outside the industry know exists: a professional book reader who writes coverage for Hollywood. Agents, executives, a

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aitech-culture

"They're Made Out of Weights": A Bisson Pastiche on LLM Sentience

Max Leiter rewrites Terry Bisson's 1991 short story "They're Made Out of Meat" with large language models in the role of the baffling life form. Two unnamed off

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aitech-culture

Uber's $1,500 Per-Tool AI Coding Cap Reveals What Engineering Time Is Worth

Uber has imposed a $1,500 monthly token budget on each agentic coding tool its engineers use, applied separately per product so Cursor spending doesn't eat into

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tech-culturepolicy

UK media hides defence-industry ties of 'expert' commentators 60% of the time

An Action on Armed Violence study finds that UK news outlets routinely platform commentators with undisclosed financial or advisory ties to the defence industry

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devopsopen-source

Why Struct Size and Memory Layout Can Make Loops 30x Faster

Algorithmic complexity tells only part of the performance story. A simple O(N) loop can vary dramatically in real-world speed depending on how data is laid out

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