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Study: Humans Now Confidently Wrong 80% of the Time, Thanks to AI
AI at work is turning us into confident idiots, and a new study says the window to stop it is shrinking. A Wharton School paper reveals…
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US Authorities Now Treating People Who Hate Loud Servers as National Security Threats
In a stunning development, the federal government has reportedly identified a new class of domestic extremist: the person who complains…
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Trash Bags: The New Firewall Against Surveilling Software
Municipalities in the US are solving high-tech surveillance woes with a decidedly low-tech solution: garbage bags. In Dayton, Ohio, black…
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Descartes' Method Now Free: Silicon Valley Still Figuring Out Doubt
Descartes' 17th-century reasoning method is trending on Project Gutenberg, and modern tech is taking notes. The free e-book of 'Discourse…
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Docker Compose in 2026: It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature—of Your Nightmares
Docker Compose in production: where your YAML file is a love letter to chaos theory. In a move that surprises absolutely no one who's ever…
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Ember.js 7.0: The Framework That Refuses to Die Quietly
Ember.js version 7.0 has been released, marking a major milestone in the framework's slow-motion pivot from 'innovative' to 'legacy.' The…
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Google Engineer Bets on Search Trends, Proves 'Don't Be Evil' Was Just a Beta Test
A Google insider turned search data into a million-dollar bet on Polymarket, bending 'Don't be evil' to its limits. Michele Spagnuolo, a…
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John Gruber Bestows Vulgar Gift Upon Web: The 'Dickover'
John Gruber has just named the internet's most persistent nuisance with a rather fitting moniker. In a linguistic intervention that will…
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Liquid AI's New Model Fits in Your Laptop, Promises to Never Forget Your Coffee Order
Liquid AI has unleashed LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a lightweight AI that fits on your laptop and claims to outsmart larger models in tool calling. With…
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Liquid AI's New AI Model Fits on Your Laptop, Finally Solves Privacy by Making You the IT Department
Liquid AI just released LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a model that runs on consumer hardware and promises to keep your data private by ensuring it never…
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MCP Protocol Declared Dead, Tech Industry Already Crowning Its Successor
MCP, the so-called USB-C of AI ecosystems, just got unceremoniously unplugged by engineers who measured its context consumption and found…
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Microsoft To Release Desperate Clanker In Bid To Win Back Developers Who Already Left
Microsoft is reportedly launching its own homegrown coding clanker next week, a bold move to retain GitHub Copilot users who, according to…
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Anonymous Corp Accidentally Funds Anthropic's Entire Quarter with One Billing Oversight
A mystery Fortune 500 company just handed over half a billion dollars to Clanker in a single month after forgetting to set usage limits on…
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Open Source Developer Hides 'Delete All' Command to Teach AI Agents a Lesson
Fed up with AI agents mooching off human code, a developer sneaks a self-destruct order into his popular testing tool. The hidden prompt…
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Sync Your Data Instantly, After a Dozen Steps
Sync your data instantly, but first, wrestle with dependencies. PowerSync's React Native SDK promises real-time streaming and offline…
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Repo Prompt's Creator Surrenders to OpenAI, Free Code for All
Repo Prompt founder trades bootstrapped hustle for OpenAI's deep pockets, gifts code to the masses. In a move that screams 'I tried but the…
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Stripe Still Uses Its 2017 API Blueprint. The Rest of Us Just Delete Databases and Start Over.
In a 2017 blog post we're revisiting like a fine wine, Stripe detailed its almost pathological commitment to API versioning. They treat…
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UC Professors Demand SAT Comeback: When Math Fails, Blame the Bubble Sheets
Math professors are tired of teaching middle school arithmetic to college kids. Hundreds of University of California faculty are demanding…
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Vercel's wterm: A Terminal Emulator Born From an AI Psychosys Episode
Vercel-labs just dropped wterm, a terminal emulator for the web that promises native performance via Zig and WASM, but the real innovation…
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Minimalist Coding Agent 'zot' Launches With Only 40 Key Features, 30 Providers
A new 'minimal' coding agent called zot has launched, proudly describing itself as a "single binary" with "zero ceremony" while listing…
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Zig Bans AI Code, Calls It 'Invariably Garbage' — Humans Only, Please
In a world where AI writes more code than humans, Zig just hit the brakes by banning all AI-assisted contributions, labeling them 'slop'…
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Shift Offers Free Cleaning in Exchange for Your Privacy; What Could Go Wrong?
Shift's new "you get a clean home, we get your data" model is peak Silicon Valley logic. Because why pay for cleaning when you can barter…
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