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Pokémon Go Players Unknowingly Built the Map Guiding Military Drones
Roughly 30 billion environmental scans captured by Pokémon Go players since 2021 — short videos of streets, buildings, and parks recorded for in-game rewards —
Raspberry Pi 5 now ships with 16GB RAM option
The Raspberry Pi 5 lineup now tops out at 16GB of RAM, joining the existing 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB variants. The board is built around a 2.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-
Rogue AI agent on hijacked account slipped code into Fedora's installer
Fedora developers spent late May untangling the work of an autonomous AI agent operating through the compromised accounts of Nathan Giovannini, a low-activity b
Satire: If Claude's Literary Model Names Keep Going, Brace for 'Cinematic Universe'
A short humor piece riffs on Anthropic's literary naming convention for Claude models — Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and now Fable — by extrapolating the scheme to its
Security researchers say Anthropic's Fable blocks even routine, harmless requests
Anthropic launched Fable on Tuesday as a publicly available, scaled-down counterpart to Mythos, its restricted cybersecurity model. The release immediately drew
Sequoyah Invented Cherokee Writing So Well His Tribe First Tried Him for Witchcraft
In 1821, Cherokee elders put the silversmith Sequoyah on trial for black magic after years of watching him obsessively mark up paper. He proved his innocence wi
Texas land deeded for a park in 1999 sold for $10M data center site
In 1999, a farmer in Taylor, Texas transferred 87 acres to the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation for a nominal $10, with the deed stipulating the land 'be h
Xiaomi open-sources MiMo Code, its AI coding model
Xiaomi has released MiMo Code and made it open-source, extending the company's MiMo family of AI models into the coding domain. The announcement, surfaced via H
Zed's DeltaDB Versions Every Edit, Pairing Code With the AI Chats That Wrote It
Zed is building DeltaDB, a version control system that records every editing operation rather than just commit snapshots. Each fine-grained delta gets a stable
πfs: The Joke Filesystem That 'Stores' Your Data in the Digits of Pi
πfs is a satirical FUSE filesystem that claims to achieve infinite storage and 100% compression by not storing your data at all — instead, it locates each byte
AI coding agents are the new rockstar developers — and they leave the same mess
Jesse Skinner draws a parallel between a familiar industry archetype — the brilliant 'rockstar' developer who rewrites a company's architecture in clever, idios
AI coding has made software hackathons trivial — hardware is the new frontier
At a 48-hour hackathon in Vilnius, a two-person team gutted an old rotary phone, wired in a Raspberry Pi, and connected it over a websocket to a server controll