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Updated 25 Oct, 14:00
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In ‘Aeolus,’ DRIFT Suspends Illuminated Glass Rods in a Sculpture of the Wind
"Like wind itself, the work only fully exists through interaction," say DRIFT founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing…
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EFF Launches Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
Free Tracker Blocker Used by Millions Will Protect Even More Users' Privacy SAN FRANCISCO—Privacy Badger, the award-winning tracker blocker made by the member-supported digital rights nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), is now…
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AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now?
Unlike other recent AI proofs, this one has been unpacked by human experts. The implications, one mathematician said, are “staggering.” The post AI Proved the Quasi-Riemann Hypothesis. What Happens Now? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger
New videos offer a closer look at a rare and bizarre escape behavior in some Southeast Asian snakes.
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Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations…
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Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On
Early electric laundry appliances promised to make housework easier. But convincing American households to buy them was another matter. The post Why Washing Machines Took Decades to Catch On appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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How to Build and Publish a Native Android App in 2026: From Jetpack Compose to the Google Play Store
Most Android tutorials stop at "it runs on the emulator." But getting an app from a blank project to a listing that real people can install from Google Play involves a second half that's rarely discus
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Japan’s sample return mission to Phobos may also collect some Mars dust
Japan’s MMX mission will be the first to the moons of Mars and it aims to bring back precious rock samples — perhaps even indirectly from Mars.
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SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026: From Serializer to JsonStreamer: the debrief
Looking forward to connecting with the PHP and Symfony community? Join us at SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 on November 26-27. Expect great conversations, 3 talk tracks, and lots of learning together. 🎤 Speaker announcement Get ready to welcome…
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Training AIs to Solve CAPTCHAs
Interesting research: Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can solve visual CAPTCHAs without task-specific training, but the agents built on them approach every challenge from scratch. For such an agent, the hundredth instance of a…
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A vocabulary for the future: nature
For the philosopher Bruno Latour, seeing anything ‘natural’ as good and the ‘artificial’ as bad is perversely human-centric - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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Portraits of another life: Nemo Gould
Driven by childhood curiosity, a sculptor turns discarded objects into kinetic artworks that are the antidote to AI slop - Video by Portraits of Another Life Watch on Psyche
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Horrible, unmanly, indispensable
Renaissance Italians saw the gun as the Devil’s work. But soon they embraced this unchivalrous – and necessary – weapon - by Catherine Fletcher Read on Aeon
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What life in Denmark shows about the power of emotional safety
A deep sense of ease – what the Danes call ‘tryg’ – is a collective responsibility that allows individuals to flourish - by Ruth Aharoni Nielsen Read on Psyche
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Will developing nations be able to handle millions of AI agents?
It may be some time before AI agents can fully navigate the complexities and cultural nuances of developing nations.
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The Dark Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Most Famous Photograph, Taken Four Days After a Laudanum Overdose
In the Halloween season, one American writer comes to mind more often than any other: Edgar Allan Poe. That owes in large part to his famously macabre tales like “The Tell-Tale Heart,” “The Cask of Amontillado,” and “The Masque of the Red…
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The world is crumbling in ‘The History of Concrete’
John Wilson's movie reveals the poetry in one of the world's most common materials — and an environmental catastrophe hiding in plain sight.
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When a Cat Co-Authored a Paper in a Leading Physics Journal (1975)
Back in 1975, Jack H. Hetherington, a physics professor at Michigan State University, wrote a research paper on low–temperature physics for the respected scientific journal Physical Review Letters. Before sending it off, Hetherington asked…
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Volunteers became salmon, deer and earthworms. Then they set out to save their river
An experiment is helping a Somerset community see its landscape through the eyes of wildlife – and plot a 30-year route to change it The post Volunteers became salmon, deer and earthworms. Then they set out to save their river appeared…
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How to Detect Operational Drift Before It Becomes an Incident
In my previous article, I explored operational conformance: how to evaluate whether observed evidence satisfies an operational specification. That gives us a useful point-in-time question: Does the s
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The best sources for Java and JVM news in 2026
Curate digests and check official proposals before upgrading your Java/JVM stack.
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The best sources for .NET news in 2026
Practical guide to the best .NET news sources in 2026: official releases, technical deep dives, package trends, and community reaction.
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When do people experience mental health conditions for the first time?
Knowing when people are most at risk allows us to offer support when it might make the biggest difference.
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llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1
Release: llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 When I switched LLM over to httpx2 in LLM 0.33 I forget that this would break any plugins which used httpx without directly depending on it. llm-tools-datasette was one of those plugins, now fixed. Tags…
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llm-echo 0.5
Release: llm-echo 0.5 I'm working towards a new LLM release, and testing PRs caused me to revisit the llm-echo debug plugin. This plugin provides a "model" which doesn't involve an LLM at all - it just repeats back the prompts that have…
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A new gas line or cash to electrify? California lets households choose.
Before replacing gas service lines, utilities will need to offer customers a financial incentive to electrify instead, thanks to a new law.
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Programa definitivo: El próximo sábado 24 de octubre nos vemos en Naukas Palma 2026
Apúntate la fecha: sábado 24 de octubre, quinta edición de Naukas Palma, 360º de ciencia. Como siempre, será en el Palacio de Congresos de Palma y la entrada será gratuita hasta completar el aforo. Aquí os dejamos el programa definitivo…
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The best sources for Go news in 2026
10–15 minute weekly routine and top 10 sources to follow Go updates, releases, and community insights.
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Inline rendering with document.currentScript
Inline rendering with document.currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a tiny inline <script> element that replaces itself when the page…
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web-edit 0.1a2
Release: web-edit 0.1a2 web-edit (previously) is my tiny web app for browsing and editing files in a folder. I mainly built it for editing files on different machines via Tailscale. I added a "copy to clipboard" option for both text and…
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The fire retardant in the seafood chain
A chemical additive helped stop fishmeal from catching fire on ships, but it carried a downstream carcinogenic risk to modern food systems.
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The best sources for Rust news in 2026
Curated guide to the best places for Rust updates in 2026 — official blog, weekly digest, forums, podcasts, and embedded news.
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Quoting Addy Osmani, Morgan Westlee Lunt, and Qing Wang
We think "did a human read the code?" is an imprecise proxy for "what could go wrong with this change, and which check—automated or human—is the right one to catch it?" Asking that question also changed when review happens. Before, review…
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Before the Chicxulub Meteor Impact
New research shows that squid lived all around the globe even before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog…
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Congress has a plan to stop Trump’s attack on offshore wind. It may not be enough.
Senators made a deal to protect clean energy, but presidential interference continues.
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Horned dinosaurs’ weapons evolved to handle the forces of combat
New simulations reveal which battle moves the skulls of horned dinosaurs could take — and which might have been a very bad idea.
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The Women Breaking the Rules of Balinese Dance
Middle-aged performers are taking on roles once reserved for men, challenging expectations about age and gender in Bali. The post The Women Breaking the Rules of Balinese Dance appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art
Moritz Hardt, author of a new book on benchmarks, believes these “standardized tests” for artificial intelligence are fundamentally broken — but not unfixable. The post He Wants AI Benchmarking To Be a Science, Not a Dark Art first…
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Artemis II results show how much science people can do at the moon
We’ve studied the moon with robotic spacecraft for decades. What do human observers add? Artemis II’s first science results offer some answers.