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OpenAI publishes internal look at how it accelerates research — full text not provided
No summary can be generated: the source payload for this item contained only the headline 'Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI' and a URL (openai.com/
Physics of the Splash: Nautilus-Shaped Urinal Cuts Splashback by ~99%
Researchers tackled urinal splashback as a fluid-dynamics problem and found a governing threshold: a stream hitting a surface at or below a critical impinging a
Researchers: LG OLED TVs scan your network and record mic audio in standby
Security researchers working with Gamers Nexus and Level1Techs say retail LG OLED sets, including the G5, behave less like appliances and more like surveillance
Small Isn't Simple: Why Unix Pipelines Hide Their Complexity
Drawing on Rich Hickey's definition of 'simple' as having a single braid rather than many things twisted together, this essay argues that the software world rou
Switzerland pilots open-source swap for Microsoft 365 on 3,000 workstations
Switzerland's Federal Chancellery is spending CHF 9 million to move 3,000 federal employees — roughly 7% of the workforce — off Microsoft 365 and onto openDesk,
The New Dark Ages: How Screens Broke Our Reading Brains
A review of James Marriott's new book The New Dark Ages, framed by a parent's mounting dread over children who no longer read—teenage boys in particular, whose
TiVo to paywall one-button ad-skipping on DVRs starting November 2026
TiVo is turning its most distinctive DVR feature into a paid upgrade. As of November 2, 2026, the version of SkipMode that jumps past commercial breaks with a s
vLLM Tests Speculative Decoding on AMD MI300X/MI355X GPUs
vLLM has benchmarked speculative decoding across AMD Instinct MI300X and MI355X GPUs running the ROCm software stack. The technique attacks a core bottleneck in
Why LLM assistants still can't debug robots by sight
A robotics developer recounts trying to offload one of the field's most tedious tasks—visual debugging—to an LLM coding assistant. Robot code is validated by wa
Yale Publishes Cookable Babylonian Recipes Decoded from 3,700-Year-Old Tablets
Yale's Babylonian Collection has turned cuneiform tablets from roughly 1750–1730 BCE into recipes anyone can cook today. The centerpiece is a lamb-and-beet stew
A Map That Keeps Only the Borders: One Reddit User's Topological World
In 2020, a Reddit user (xilefakamot) built a "topologist's map of the world" that throws away every geographic property cartographers usually preserve — country
Autistici/Inventati shuts down after 25 years, citing 'terrorist' designation
Autistici/Inventati (A/I), an Italian collective that spent 25 years running non-commercial email, blog, and website hosting built around privacy and political