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aitech-culture

Study: Google AI Mode Serves the Same Products 21.6% Pricier Than Classic Search

A 23-day analysis by Productrise tracked more than 2 million product listings across over 100,000 shopping results, running identical queries through Google's A

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open-sourceai

TERMy ditches LLMs for a rule-based NLU pipeline in ~1000 lines

The creator of the PJON networking protocol set out to build a natural-language terminal assistant so he could stop paying a monthly LLM bill for trivial chores

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aidevops

The Irony of AI SREs: Automating Incidents Erodes the Skills Needed for the Hard Ones

AI incident-response tools—so-called "AI SREs"—can now triage alerts, form hypotheses, query telemetry, tie failures to recent deploys, and even ship fixes on t

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cybersecurityvulnerability

Unverifiable: claimed Chromium sandbox RCE has no source or valid CVE record

A submission headlined "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions" arrived with no article body and no supporting details. The cited identifier, C

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policytech-culture

U.S. Perceptions of Government Corruption Hit Record 89%, Now Highest in OECD

Gallup's latest polling finds 89% of American adults believe corruption is widespread in their government — the highest reading in two decades and a 10-point ju

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tech-cultureopen-source

Wikimedia Foundation's U.S. Staff Vote to Unionize Under CWA

U.S.-based employees of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind Wikipedia and its sister projects, have voted decisively to join Communications Workers o

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aidevops

17k agent runs reveal which tools Claude, Codex and Cursor actually pick

A team at Armature ran what it calls the largest study to date on how coding agents select third-party services. Rather than asking agents to merely recommend a

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aitech-culture

An LLM read 72K lines of 68000 assembly to port a 1993 Iraqi Amiga game to Godot

Babylonian Twins was written in 1993 on an Amiga 500 in Baghdad — pure hand-tuned 68000 assembly, bit-banging the hardware directly under sanctions with electri

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aicloud

ChatGPT Outage Marked Resolved — No Details Provided

The source carries no reportable substance beyond a status label indicating a ChatGPT outage that has since been resolved. There is no information about when th

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aiopen-source

Claude autonomously formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean in 11 days

Anthropic says its AI produced the first end-to-end, computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a result unproven for over 350 years and first cracked by

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Fake beaver dams in California lift juvenile coho salmon survival from 8% to 60%

After fur trappers wiped out the beaver population of northern California's Scott River valley in the 1830s, the cold, slow-moving wetland habitat that juvenile

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open-sourceai

From frustrated emails to 1M users: the MIT origins of Julia

Julia began in 2009 as an MIT research effort to fix a persistent pain point in scientific computing: languages like MATLAB and Python were easy to use but slow

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