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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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