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30-Year Sentence for Hauling Zines Signals New Front in Crackdown on Dissent
A federal court sentenced Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada to 30 years in prison for moving a box of anarchist zines he didn't author — part of a batch of eight def
AI Found the Bug Fast — Then Tried to Fix It With Technical Debt
htmx creator Carson Gross walks through a real maintenance session on hyperscript, his JavaScript-based scripting language, to map where Claude genuinely helped
AI Knocks Down the Cost Barrier That Kept Formal Verification Niche
Formal verification—mathematically proving that a program satisfies its specification—has long been confined to safety-critical niches because the proofs were e
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 Closes the Gap on Opus at a Fraction of the Price
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5, positioning it as its most agentic mid-tier model to date. The pitch is that work which recently demanded larger, pricie
Building Wallace, a 6-inch f/2.8 grab-and-go telescope, and hiking it to a cliff
An amateur optician documents Wallace, a 153mm ultra-wide-field telescope he ground and built himself, and pairs the technical writeup with an unusual photo-and
Claude Code hides reseller-detection markers in its date prompt
A researcher disassembling the Claude Code 2.1.196 binary found a routine that quietly rewrites the date string injected into the system prompt. Depending on th
Claude Science: an AI research agent that runs on your own lab infrastructure
Anthropic has launched Claude Science, a public beta app—not a new model—that wraps its existing Claude models in tooling aimed at computational life-science wo
EU ISPs Push to Make Rightsholders Pay for Piracy-Block Collateral Damage
EuroISPA, the European ISP trade association, has filed fresh comments to the European Commission's review of the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directi
Google ships Nano Banana 2 Lite, betting on speed and low cost for AI images
Google DeepMind has released Nano Banana 2 Lite, officially Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Image, a stripped-down version of its image model tuned for low latency and lo
How Sandia Rad-Hardened the Intel 8085 for Nuclear Warheads and Deep Space
Starting in the late 1970s, Sandia National Laboratories built its own chip fab in Albuquerque to make parts the commercial market wouldn't supply: radiation-ha
LongCat-2.0 Goes Sparse: 1.6T-Parameter MoE, Only 48B Active per Token
LongCat-2.0 is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) language model built at very large scale, carrying 1.6 trillion total parameters but routing only 48 billion of them a
Memory giants Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron hit with US DRAM price-fixing suit
A group of 14 consumers and three small businesses, including PC retailers, filed an antitrust lawsuit in California federal court on June 25 accusing Samsung,