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xAI Pivots to GPU Landlord, Renting Capacity to Anthropic and Google
xAI has signed massive GPU leasing deals with two direct competitors: $1.25bn/month to Anthropic for 300MW (~220k GPUs) at the Colossus 1 site in Memphis, and $
Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5-Pro UltraSpeed hits 1,000 tokens/sec on a 1T model
Xiaomi, working with the TileRT systems team, claims to be the first to push decode throughput past 1,000 tokens per second on a trillion-parameter model. Unlik
1,000 Breaches In, Disclosure Delays Are Getting Longer, Not Shorter
Troy Hunt marks Have I Been Pwned's 1,000th breach by arguing the service is more necessary than ever, because the gap between an incident and victim notificati
A Curated Public-Domain Library of Cypherpunk Foundational Texts
Cypherpunkbooks.com hosts a personal, public-domain collection of foundational writings from the cypherpunk movement. The shelf gathers manifestos and essays th
A senior engineer watches LLMs erase the skills that defined his career
A backend engineer with a decade of experience, much of it specializing in payments and finance, describes watching three pillars of his expertise collapse in s
AI-Written OOXML Viewer Renders Office Docs in Browser via Rust+WASM
A new open-source library called @silurus/ooxml renders DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files directly in the browser using HTML Canvas, with parsers written in Rust and c
Building a Perceptron from Scratch: Neural Networks Stripped to One Weight and a Bias
A tutorial walks through implementing Frank Rosenblatt's 1958 perceptron in plain Python, framing it as the minimal unit underlying every modern neural network.
Copper Thief Severs 100kW FM Transmission Line, Knocks Ohio Valley Station Off Air
A 100,000-watt country station in Ashland, Kentucky — WDGG 93.7 "The Dawg" — was knocked off the air last Thursday after a suspect allegedly cut and dragged awa
DeepSeek V4 Pro edges out GPT-5.5 Pro 38-33 in precision benchmark
A head-to-head comparison scored DeepSeek V4 Pro at 38.0 against GPT-5.5 Pro's 33.0, with the gap traced to disciplined adherence to constraints rather than raw
Deriving the Perfect Pancake from First Principles
After 25 years of dutifully following pancake recipes from Dorie Greenspan and Kenji López-Alt, the author grew suspicious that conventional recipes were arbitr
Diabetes researchers ejected from ADA conference for sharing editorial critical of Trump
Five prominent scientists, including Diabetes Care editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz, were physically removed from the America
DIY clone of Sennheiser's overpriced BA2015 battery pack reveals a $0.02 trick
A hardware tinkerer reverse-engineered Sennheiser's BA2015 battery pack, used across much of the company's wireless microphone lineup, and found the proprietary