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Updated 25 Oct, 12:30
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Rule breaking by just a few people can be contagious
People are more likely to mimic — or even surpass — rule breakers than rule followers, a study finds. But real-world consequences may keep people in line.
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Álvaro Urbano Honors the Lost Specimens of Mexico City’s Iconic Casa Cueva
Álvaro Urbano presents an homage to the innovations of Casa Cueva, an icon of modernist Mexican architecture. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as…
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Victory! Court Rules OPM Data Disclosure to DOGE Is Unlawful
In a victory for data privacy, a federal court in New York definitively ruled that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) violated the law when it disclosed millions of federal employee records to DOGE agents. In a summary judgment…
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Battle Drones - a vibe coded RTS with audio-based multiplayer
My latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones (play it here). Unlike my previous experiments, this one is actually fun to play. I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I…
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‘The Department of Objects’ Brings the Charm of Sleep-Away Camp to Chicago
Wyatt Hersey, Melissa Lakey, Esther Pearl Watson, and Anna Valdez joined Joy Machine at Camp Wandawega for five days of arctic magic. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent…
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Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)
Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.
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How Neural Networks Work: Why Straight Lines Aren't Enough
A straight line equation is a good place to start understanding how a neural network works. It's what we explored in my previous article, How Neural Networks Work – Explained Using the Straight Line E
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How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity
Three Java Champions share how they use GitHub Copilot to solve problems, accelerate development, and keep humans responsible for the results. The post How 3 Java Champions are using GitHub Copilot for increased productivity appeared first…
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DHS Said They Searched Man Who Wiped GrapheneOS Phone for Child Abuse Material. They Lied
Officials said they wanted to search the phone of Samuel Tunick, a Stop Cop City activist, for child abuse material. It was actually because he was suspected of “terrorist activities.”
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How Wearables Can Adapt When Pregnancy Changes a User's Regular Baseline
Your smart ring or watch has many useful jobs, including learning your usual physiological patterns and showing you when they change. Resting heart rate, heart rate variability (HRV), temperature, and
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Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years After Its Debut
'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The…
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Q&A: Why a pivotal IPCC meeting in Ethiopia ended in ‘profound disappointment’
Countries have failed – for the sixth time running – to agree on the timeline for publishing the Intergovernmental Panel… The post Q&A: Why a pivotal IPCC meeting in Ethiopia ended in ‘profound disappointment’ appeared first on Carbon…
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Frankenstein, The Vampyre, and the Spirit of the Humanities
How one ghost story competition continues to haunt the humanities—just in time for Halloween. The post <em>Frankenstein</em>, <em>The Vampyre</em>, and the Spirit of the Humanities appeared first on JSTOR Daily.
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People Are Using 'AI Decompiling' to Hack Their Things
A gang of hackers targets Staples, but not to buy things from Staples.
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‘Reverse-Engineer Anything’ Is the New Wild West of AI
Decompiled, cloned, and modified software is going viral and might slopify everything.
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A quantum computing feat brings the ‘megaquops’ era a step closer
Error correction creates qubits that glitch only 5 out of a million times, the first step toward a new phase for quantum computing.
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SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026: Protect Your Data with Queryable Encryption
Mark your calendars! SymfonyCon Warsaw 2026 takes place November 26-27. Come share knowledge, meet fellow devs, and enjoy two days of community-driven talks across 3 parallel tracks. 🎤 Speaker announcement It’s a pleasure to introduce…
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Scientists Discover A Strange Particle Explains the Origin of Reality
Why is the universe the way it is? A long-overlooked particle might have given matter an edge over antimatter in the split-seconds after the Big Bang, which researchers say “could transform our understanding of cosmic evolution and the…
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Possible new Cellebrite iPhone Radio Zero-Day
Justin.sh is reporting on a confidential Cellebrite document that has been leaked to him: Cellebrite calls it Advanced Unlocks (AU from here on), not to be confused with the “advanced unlocking services” they’ve marketed for years. A press…
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AI can give you your voice back
People who have lost the ability to talk are finding new voices with technology. This technological feat is changing what it means to lose a voice.
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How intuitions work
Just as seeing a tree gives you reason to believe it’s there, sensing that a stranger is creepy gives you reason to walk away - by Marc A Moffett Read on Aeon
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How to overcome task paralysis
If you have ADHD or you’re stressed, tired and stuck, goal management training can help you get started and keep going - by Joe Wilner Read on Psyche
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Are you getting enough sun?
The new book ‘In Defense of Sunlight’ argues that our concerns about the sun’s risks lead us to overlook its benefits - by Hannah Seo Read on Psyche
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Embracing Playful Imperfection With The CSS `random()` Function
Design systems thrive on consistency, so where does randomness fit in? Through playful demos of organic typography, bouncing letters, and splayed cards, Brecht De Ruyte shows how the new CSS `random()` function brings a little imperfection…
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How to Build an AI Agent Harness from Scratch in TypeScript
Many AI agent tutorials start with a language model, give it a few tools, and run a loop until it produces an answer. That's enough to demonstrate tool calling, but it leaves the interesting engineeri
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How to Make Your Coding Agent Check Its Work in the Browser
I got tired of coding agents telling me the frontend work was done when nobody had opened the frontend. You've probably seen the routine. The agent changes some code, runs the formatter, the type chec
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Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting Hyperland (1990)
Cast your mind, if you will, back to the year 2020. It now feels like a different time, what with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the heated sociopolitical battles being waged online, and indeed in the (socially distanced) streets…
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Trump vowed to stop an ‘energy emergency.’ Then he created a real one.
The president used executive powers to boost oil and coal, but he can't fix the shortages caused by the Iran war.
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Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song Go from Pretty Good to Downright Great
Smack in the middle of Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon sits a song many listeners may hear as an extended bridge between the two true centerpieces, “Time” and “Money.” But I’ve always thought of “The Great Gig in the Sky” as the…
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New in Symfony 8.2: JsonSchema Component
Contributed by Antoine Bluchet in #66685…
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The new certification scheme helping solar farms become havens for wildlife
A new solar certification scheme encourages developers to create better habitats for wildlife alongside clean electricity generation The post The new certification scheme helping solar farms become havens for wildlife appeared first on…
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The best sources for cloud news in 2026 (AWS, Azure and Google Cloud)
10 curated official feeds, analysis outlets, and communities to track cloud releases, security, and deprecations across major providers.
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My obituary for programming
My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You…
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Require Police to Get a Warrant to Search ALPR Data
This post was co-written by Andi Cao, an EFF legal intern. Automated license plate readers (ALPRs) are mass surveillance. They photograph every passing car and log where and when it was captured, building a searchable record of where…
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Rithika Merchant Summons Ancient Mythology and Mysticism in ‘The Dreaming Realm’
Merchant's fable-like narratives tap into our anxieties around the environment by conjuring instead a kind of utopia. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing…
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How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code
Learn how to move an agent session from the GitHub Copilot app into VS Code without losing the conversation, code changes, or working context. The post How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS Code appeared first on The GitHub…
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Announcing Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
Exciting news for Safari users: Privacy Badger is now available on Safari for macOS! You’ll need Safari version 26.5 or higher to use it. Whether you want to protect yourself from data brokers or just don’t want Big Tech profiting off your…