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VLDB Paper Maps Out How Databases Should Actually Write to SSDs
A research paper presented at VLDB digs into the gap between how database systems issue writes and how modern SSDs actually handle them. The authors argue that
Why 'all exponentials become sigmoids' is a weak argument against AI scaling
Scott Alexander pushes back on the popular rebuttal that AI capability curves must inevitably flatten into S-shapes. The claim is technically true since no proc
Zulip founder departs for Anthropic, donates company to new nonprofit foundation
Tim Abbott, founder of the open-source team chat platform Zulip, is stepping back from full-time leadership at Kandra Labs to join Anthropic, bringing three sen
3D Movie Maker Comes to Linux After 30-Year Journey via 3DMMEx Fork
Ben Stone's 3DMMEx project has achieved the first native Linux build of Microsoft's 1995 multimedia app 3D Movie Maker, 18 months after he forked the stalled 3D
Amazon staff invent busywork to hit AI usage quotas
Amazon employees are reportedly fabricating tasks to feed into AI tools in order to meet internal pressure to demonstrate higher AI adoption. Rather than reflec
Antirez on DS4: why local AI just crossed the usability threshold
Antirez reflects on the unexpectedly fast traction of DwarfStar 4 (DS4), his single-model local AI integration project built around DeepSeek v4 Flash. He credit
arXiv imposes 1-year submission ban for AI-hallucinated citations
arXiv has rolled out a new enforcement policy targeting one of the most visible failure modes of LLM-assisted writing: fabricated references. Authors caught sub
Atypical La Niña drives worst U.S. drought in decades across 60% of country
Virginia Tech climatologist Andrew Ellis says the combined intensity and geographic spread of the current U.S. drought is rare, with over 60 percent of the coun
Bun's Rust rewrite lands: smaller binaries, fewer memory bugs, no async Rust
The Bun JavaScript runtime has merged a full rewrite from Zig to Rust, passing the existing test suite across all platforms while fixing several memory leaks an
Bun's Rust rewrite ships undefined behavior, fails basic Miri checks
A bug report against Bun's in-progress Rust rewrite shows the codebase fails fundamental Miri checks, exposing undefined behavior reachable from safe Rust. The
DOJ subpoenas Apple and Google for identities of 100k+ car-tuning app users
The Justice Department has issued subpoenas to Apple, Google, Amazon, and Walmart seeking names, addresses, phone numbers, and purchase histories tied to EZ Lyn
Frontier AI access is shrinking, not expanding, as security and compute pressures mount
The popular assumption that frontier AI tokens will become cheap and universally available is breaking down. Anthropic's recent Mythos rollout — a top-tier cybe