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Sony to Wipe 551 StudioCanal Films from PlayStation Libraries, No Refunds
Sony has begun notifying PlayStation Store customers that movies and TV shows distributed by StudioCanal — including Terminator 2, Total Recall, From Dusk Till
Springer Nature pulls two Max Planck papers for 'copyright'—then sells the blank PDFs
Springer Nature has withdrawn two papers authored by Max Planck, the Nobel laureate who founded quantum theory, both originally published in the journal Naturwi
Suspicious Discontinuities: How Bright-Line Thresholds Expose Gaming and Fraud
Wherever a sharp threshold carries real consequences, the data around it tends to bend in revealing ways. Dan Luu walks through a series of histograms and scatt
The "Buy" Button Is a Lie: Why Digital Purchases Are Just Revocable Licenses
When a storefront lets you "buy" a movie, game, or book, you're almost never acquiring the file — you're paying for a license that the seller and rights holder
The intuition behind why kinetic energy scales with v², not v
A long-running physics Q&A tackles a question that trips up many learners: why does doubling an object's speed quadruple its kinetic energy, rather than merely
Through-skull ultrasound captures the most detailed image yet of a living brain
A startup called Aleph Neuro says it has produced the first 3D ultrasound localization microscopy image of a living human brain captured through an intact skull
US lifts export block on Anthropic's Mythos AI for 100+ vetted partners
The Commerce Department on Friday cleared Anthropic to distribute its Claude Mythos 5 model to more than 100 approved US institutions, including large companies
Weave's open-source router auto-picks the best LLM per request for Claude, Codex, Cursor
Engineering-intelligence company Weave has released Router, a drop-in proxy that sits between coding tools and the major model providers and chooses which model
When AI Does the Proofs, What's Left for Mathematicians?
Large language models have gone from regurgitating textbook math to producing original results in just a few years. Last summer, systems from Google DeepMind an
Why Sci-Fi Authors Still Swear by WordStar, the 1978 DOS Word Processor
Novelist Robert J. Sawyer makes the case for WordStar for DOS as the best tool ever built for creative writing, a view shared by a striking roster of authors in
Will open-weight LLMs catch closed models by December 2026? Depends how you measure
A viral chart claims to predict the moment open-weight LLMs catch up to proprietary frontier models. The method measures the 'catch-up gap': take the best open
Windows 11 orphaned your 2015 PC — lightweight Linux can revive it
With an estimated 62 million metric tons of e-waste generated annually, a large share is hardware that still works but fell outside Windows 11's TPM 2.0, Secure