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AI Subscriptions Are Loss-Leaders — Enterprises Riding the Subsidy Face a Reckoning
AI labs are deliberately running massive losses on enterprise subscriptions to drive adoption. Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus sit at $20 per seat while equivalent
An Essay on Modern Complexity: When Technology Stops Making Sense
A personal essay argues that modern life has become incomprehensibly abstract, with people surrounded by technology, laws, and infrastructure they neither under
Australian students build sub-$500 radio telescopes for rural schools
A team of students from Narrabundah College in the ACT, working through the Science Mentors ACT program, has launched the Project for Accessible Radio Telescope
Building a cleaner analog voltmeter clock with maple and an AVR MCU
A hobbyist revisits a 2019 build of a clock that uses three analog panel voltmeters in place of a traditional face, one each for hours, minutes, and seconds. Mo
Colossus: The Forbin Project — 1970's Cautionary Tale of Aligned-AI Gone Wrong
Joseph Sargent's 1970 thriller, adapted from Dennis Feltham Jones's novel, follows Dr. Charles Forbin's handover of US and allied nuclear arsenals to Colossus,
Dad builds Greek alphabet cards where each object mimics its letter's shape
A parent raising trilingual kids in China designed a deck of Greek alphabet flashcards in which each illustrated object both starts with and visually resembles
Dell packs 9.8 PB into 2RU server using Kioxia's 245TB QLC SSDs
Dell's new PowerEdge R7725xd crams 40 of Kioxia's LC9 E3.L NVMe SSDs — each 245.76 TB — into a 2RU chassis, yielding 9.8 PB of all-flash capacity in a single bo
Ditching Tailwind for vanilla CSS — and borrowing its best ideas anyway
Julia Evans documents migrating several sites off Tailwind toward semantic HTML and hand-written CSS, and finds that years of Tailwind use quietly taught her th
Doogee U10 tablet runs Debian 12 from SD card via reverse-engineered RK3562 port
A developer reverse-engineered the Rockchip RK3562-based Doogee U10, an $80 Android tablet, to boot full Debian 12 Bookworm from an SD card without unlocking th
EU mulls barring US cloud providers from handling sensitive government data
The European Union is reportedly drafting rules that would restrict member states from using American hyperscalers — Google, Microsoft, and AWS — to process sen
Fecal Transplant Therapy Cuts Autism Symptoms 45% Two Years Out, Heads to Phase 3
Arizona State University researchers tracking children who received Microbiota Transplant Therapy (MTT) found benefits not only persisted but deepened over time
Five Kinds of HTML Lists You Probably Forgot Existed
A deep dive into HTML's list elements argues that most developers only reach for `<ul>` and `<ol>` while ignoring three other valid collection patterns: descrip