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A Practical Guide To Naming Things
A practical guide to naming UI components, with useful resources, naming conventions, and structures. You’ll find more [useful guides](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/category/guides/) and [online…
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Not just AI. China is building technologies that challenge U.S. dominance
From batteries and solar panels to drones and satellites, China is building tech capabilities that extend well beyond AI, writes Steve Feldstein in his new book, "Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Big Tech, and the New Shape of Modern…
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All-around junior male
A ball suspended in mid-air meets an athlete’s determination: in the one-foot high kick, competitors must defy gravity - by Aeon Video Watch on Aeon
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The AI boom is making the world’s cheapest smartphones disappear
AI data centers are driving demand for memory chips, pushing phone makers to raise prices and abandon some of their most affordable models.
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Este sábado 10 de octubre nos vemos en el Teatro Central para el evento Naukas Sevilla FUSIÓN Ciencia y Arte
Desde hace muchos años nos habéis estado pidiendo un evento en el sur… y ahora lo tenemos. Os presentamos NAUKAS SEVILLA FUSIÓN 2026, un espectáculo científico artístico que reunirá a divulgadores, investigadores, músicos y artistas el…
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Fragments: October 4
In response to my last fragments (probably the bit about us worrying if LLMs have consciousness when we when we should be wondering why they don’t have a conscience) “Metalanguage” replied: we shipped the id and forgot the superego…
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What impact will climate change have on malaria?
More than 600,000 people die from malaria every year. Will climate change make this worse?
- The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Disagreed.
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Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say
African companies race to adopt American and Chinese AI, with little attention paid to safety.
- AutoSynthData: Generating Training Data for Enterprise Agents
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Awkward: Saudi Arabia’s new EV brand takes on the U.S. rival it already controls
The Saudi wealth fund’s new EV will compete with Chinese rivals and with Lucid, the U.S. carmaker the fund controls.
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Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis
Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thick”). For Philip Sidney, they were simply indispensable. Florence Hazrat introduces us to the…
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“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)
Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.
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Principles for effective slides
Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that idea — control…
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Analysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis
The UK has avoided the need for gas imports worth £5.9bn since the start of the Hormuz crisis as a… The post Analysis: Wind and solar save UK from gas imports worth £5.9bn during Hormuz crisis appeared first on Carbon Brief.
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Under Autumn’s Spell (October 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
October is just around the corner, which means it’s time for some new desktop wallpapers! Designed by the community for the community, they’re here to brighten your screens, and maybe spark some creativity along the way.
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Programa definitivo de charlas Naukas Navarra «Más Planeta Next-Gen» este sábado 03 de octubre
Pamplona ha sido una ciudad que nos ha recibido siempre con los brazos abiertos. Hemos celebrado cuatro ediciones de Naukas allí y por fin ha llegado la hora de regresar por todo lo alto con el próximo NAUKAS NAVARRA 2026 «Más Planeta…
- Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning
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Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)
Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.
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Bliki: Sensible Default
A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate UI…
- Getting the Source Right, Not Just the Fact: Source-Aware Verification for MCP Agents
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Fragments: September 29
Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary…
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Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect's arrest…
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Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022
An area of Amazon forest roughly the size of the US state of New Jersey has remained standing due to… The post Analysis: Lula presidency saved at least 20,000km2 of Brazilian Amazon since 2022 appeared first on Carbon Brief.
- Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
- Welcome RL Environments to the hub
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U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and…
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Fragments: September 24
Rob Bowley is “flipping tables in his head” with anger at the current media coverage of the danger of AI killing us all The risk I’m worried about isn’t a future machine deciding to wipe us out. It’s today’s AI, being wired into…
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Healthy Feedback
Human collaboration, like most things, improves with feedback. But it's not obvious how to make feedback effective. Anuja Karnik and Sumeet Gayathri Moghe pass on a bevy of tips for healthy feedback, based on the principle that both praise…
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Ya tenemos fecha y programa provisional de 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 provisional…
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In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)
An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.
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Pronto estaremos en el Passion for Knowledge de San Sebastián y en Naukas Navarra
Passion for Knowledge, el gran evento de divulgación organizado por el Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), se ha convertido ya en una cita ineludible para los amantes de la ciencia. El festival Passion for Knowledge promueve la…
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How high is current immigration to the United States in historical perspective?
We use long-run census data to understand the scale of recent US migration trends, and how these compare to previous centuries.
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Sigue en directo Naukas Bilbao 2026
Para quien no pueda estar en Bilbao estos días, aquí están los enlaces a las diversas sesiones que se emiten en directo vía streaming.
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I don't like LLMs
I have a lot of mixed feelings about AI and LLM technology. I’m fascinated by its effect on our profession, excited by the potential gains in productivity - and thus the products we could rapidly build. On the other hand, I’m fearful of…
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Fragments: September 16
Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible. Simon Willison sees two options: After the Hugging Face and Wiki attacks OpenAI were still unable to…
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Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight
The consumer data broker Radaris.com has long had a reputation for ignoring requests to remove personal information from its vast empire of people-search services online. That reputation caught up with the company recently in a lawsuit…
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Veronese's Dogs
“Oh, if I could only pray”, Luther once said of his dog Tölpel, “the way this dog watches the meat”. Attending to attentive canine figures in half a dozen paintings by Paolo Veronese, Thomas W. Laqueur explores the work of an artist whose…
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Stop Treating CSS Container Queries Like Traditional Media Queries
Despite broad browser support, container queries remain surprisingly underused and frequently misunderstood. Let’s look at how they differ from media queries, when to reach for each, and how container queries help reusable components…
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It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919)
“A Cat-astrophe” came on the tail end of an odd 1918 boom in cat-themed music.