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Ubuntu 26.10 finishes its coreutils rewrite in Rust, ships cp/mv/rm memory-safe
Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' completes Canonical's swap from GNU coreutils to the Rust-based uutils reimplementation. The last holdouts—cp, mv, and rm—had s
Valve's Steam Frame headset priced from $1059
The linked Steam store page lists Valve's Steam Frame hardware starting at $1059, but the scraped content contains only Steam's site navigation and language sel
Why ML Research Agents Don't Overfit: Winning Strategies Compress
Textbook machine learning warns that reusing a held-out set will burn you. Check your model against it, tweak, recheck, and repeat, and that set stops being uns
XCancel goes dark, citing a 'new development' in ongoing legal proceedings
XCancel, one of the more prominent surviving public instances of Nitter — the open-source, privacy-preserving frontend that lets people read X/Twitter posts wit
XCancel Suspends Service Indefinitely, Offering No Explanation
XCancel — a privacy-focused front-end for X/Twitter in the Nitter lineage that let users read posts without accounts, ads, or tracking — has taken itself offlin
AI cracks Urquhart's 370-year-old cipher — the key was the book itself
Claude Fable 5.1, handed only an open-ended prompt to break an unsolved cipher, appears to have cracked Sir Thomas Urquhart's Cyphral Distich — a 64-number cryp
Alignment Has No Universal Answer — And Your Agent's Blind Spots Prove It
The essay argues that anyone building AI agents is dangerously overconfident about the domains outside their own expertise. You can validate the model's output
Cantrill: AI extinction panic is fear sown by experts who should know better
Bryan Cantrill opens with a decades-old confession: as an arrogant first-year CS student, he and friends barged into a lab of humanities students and falsely an
Carmack: AI Is Turning Hand-Written Code Into a Martial Art, Not a Job Skill
John Carmack draws a parallel between the history of Japanese swordsmanship and the trajectory of programming. Reading a translation of Musashi's Book of Five R
Costco Rations Motor Oil as Kirkland Synthetic Jumps to $58 a Case
Costco has repriced its Kirkland Signature full-synthetic motor oil to $57.99 for a 10-quart case, a steep jump from the mid-$30s it held for years, and layered
Did the young Sun eat a super-Earth? Study hunts for the chemical scars
A new paper in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society argues that our Sun may have swallowed a super-Earth-sized planet early in its life — and that
Flock Employees Summon Police Over People Filming Its Public Cameras
Flock Safety, the surveillance vendor behind roughly 120,000 automated license plate readers nationwide, is facing mounting backlash over its ALPR network — can