The 'Missing-Scientist' Story Is Unbelievably Dumb
Longtime Slashdot reader mmarlett writes: The Atlantic has a long article on the story of missing scientists recently featured here on Slashdot. In short, it is an incoherent cons…
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New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production. It's no contest
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Gates Foundation To Cut 20% of Staff, Review Epstein Ties
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The Gates Foundation opened an external review earlier this year into its engagement with the late financier and convicted sex of…
Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics
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Website streamed live directly from a model
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Google Unveils Two New AI Chips For the 'Agentic Era'
Google announced two new tensor processing units (TPUs) for the "agentic era," with separate processors dedicated to training and inference. "With the rise of AI agents, we determ…
Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary
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Workspace Agents in ChatGPT
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Parallel Agents in Zed
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We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities
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Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries
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AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright
A satirical but working tool called Malus uses AI to create "clean room" clones of open-source software, aiming to reproduce the same functionality while shedding attribution and …
Homegrown – An interactive map of every 2025 FBS college football player
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Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price
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Martin Fowler: Technical, Cognitive, and Intent Debt
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Show HN: Broccoli, one shot coding agent on the cloud
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Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline
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China's CATL Reveals 621-Mile EV Battery, Under-7-Minute Charging
CATL unveiled a new wave of EV battery tech, "including a lighter battery pack rated for a 1,000-km (621-mile) driving range and an upgraded fast-charging battery that can go from…
Pentagon Wants $54 Billion For Drones
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The US military's massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described a…
DuckDB 1.5.2 – SQL database that runs on laptop, server, in the browser
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Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns
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Ultraviolet corona discharges on treetops during storms
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Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model
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Columnar Storage Is Normalization
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Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era
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3.4M Solar Panels
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GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry
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Mars Rover Detects Never-Before-Seen Organic Compounds In New Experiment
NASA's Curiosity rover has identified a diverse set of organic molecules on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing compound similar in structure to DNA precursors. The finding strengt…
Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux
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How does GPS work?
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