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Vision Pro's killer app: walking through your unbuilt house in VR
Reddit-app developer Christian Selig describes a genuinely useful role for his mostly-idle Vision Pro: previewing a house he and his partner are building at ful
Why an Empty List Is 'True': The Logic Behind Python's all()
A short teaching excerpt from the 'Logic for Programmers' project uses Python's all() to illustrate a foundational idea in formal reasoning: identity elements.
1,178 frontier AI staff urge U.S. to build tools to slow the AI race
A July 2026 open statement signed by 1,178 employees of the leading AI labs — including chief scientists from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Meta AI, and T
A Four-Year Hey Customer Quits Over DHH's Anti-Roma Blog Post
Blogger Chad Nauseam explains why he canceled his $99/year subscription to Hey, the email service from 37signals, after four years as a customer. The trigger wa
ACM Leaders Argue It's Time to License the Digital Library for LLM Training
In a Communications of the ACM opinion piece, ACM leadership makes the case that the organization should stop holding the line and start letting large language
AI Labs Outspend the Old Guard in Washington as Lobbying Hits Records
Fresh second-quarter disclosures show AI developers pouring unprecedented money into federal lobbying. OpenAI and Anthropic together reported roughly $3.2M for
Andrew Ng launches LearnVector to build one-to-one AI tutors, backed by $100M from Coursera
Andrew Ng — co-founder of Coursera and Google Brain, and founder of DeepLearning.AI — has started a new AI company called LearnVector, funded by a $100 million
Anthropic's Claude cracks new attacks on post-quantum HAWK and reduced AES
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team used a research build called Claude Mythos Preview to find genuine mathematical flaws in cryptographic algorithms, not just implem
Apple Kills the iPhone Upgrade Program, Swaps It for a Lease Model
Apple is winding down its iPhone Upgrade Program, the annual-upgrade financing plan that bundled a device installment loan with AppleCare+. Existing members kee
Ed Zitron: Apple Rides Out the AI Bubble While Everyone Else Burns
Critic Ed Zitron argues the generative-AI buildout is economically unsound and headed for a costly unwind. His core claim: large language models break the softw
EU Citizens' Initiative Launches to Block Mandatory Digital ID and Age Checks
A registered European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) titled "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification" is collecting signatures to oppose EU
Half-Life Runs Again on Mac OS 9 via Xash3D PowerPC Port
A developer known as doctashay has brought Half-Life to Mac OS 9 by building on a fork of Xash3D FWGS, the open-source reimplementation of Valve's GoldSrc engin