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Disney quietly deletes a decade of FiveThirtyEight, redirecting archives to ABC News
Nate Silver reports that ABC News has redirected the entire FiveThirtyEight.com archive to its own homepage, wiping out roughly ten years of work produced under
Firefox 148 Disables Asm.js as Mozilla Sunsets OdinMonkey
Mozilla is retiring asm.js, the statically-typed JavaScript subset it introduced in Firefox 22 back in 2013 to run C/C++ codebases at near-native speed on the w
Forge: guardrails push an 8B local model to near-frontier reliability on agent tasks
Forge is an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling that wraps small local models in composable guardrails — rescue parsing for malformed
GitHub Probes Unauthorized Access to Internal Repositories
GitHub has disclosed it is investigating unauthorized access to some of its internal repositories. The announcement was made via the company's official X accoun
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash with agentic coding focus
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Flash, positioning it as a frontier-level model that matches the intelligence of larger flagship systems while running roughly 4x
Google rebuilds the search box around Gemini 3.5 and background AI agents
Google used I/O to push AI Mode from optional surface to default Search experience, swapping in Gemini 3.5 Flash globally and replacing the keyword-shaped query
Google sunsets Gemini CLI on June 18, folds it into Antigravity platform
Google is retiring Gemini CLI and the Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions for individual and free-tier users on June 18, 2026, redirecting them to Antigravity CLI
Growing Neural Cellular Automata: Differentiable Models That Self-Assemble and Regenerate
Researchers at Distill applied differentiable programming to cellular automata, training tiny per-cell neural networks to grow target images from a single seed
Japan's Postwar Reforestation Bet Now Drives a National Hay Fever Crisis
Postwar Japan stripped its mountains for fuel, then rebuilt them by planting fast-growing sugi (Japanese cedar) and hinoki (Japanese cypress) across roughly 10
Karpathy Reportedly Joins Anthropic, Per Viral X Post
A widely shared X post attributed to Andrej Karpathy announces his move to Anthropic. The linked page itself is inaccessible without JavaScript, so the underlyi
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets, drawing CFTC lawsuit
Governor Tim Walz signed legislation making Minnesota the first state to criminalize hosting or advertising prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket, with
Mistral AI buys Austria's Emmi AI to build industrial engineering stack
Mistral AI is acquiring Linz-based Emmi AI, a startup specializing in Physics AI models that accelerate simulation workflows for energy, automotive, semiconduct