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OpenAI's Codex/ChatGPT desktop app quietly ships 1.7GB of LibreOffice, Python and Node
Simon Willison, digging through his macOS cache with OmniDiskSweeper, discovered that OpenAI's Codex desktop app — recently rebranded as just ChatGPT — stashes
Safari extension scrubs YouTube's 'Made with AI' videos from your feed
Weedout is a $1.99 Safari extension for macOS 13+ that removes YouTube videos carrying the platform's own 'Made with AI' disclosure badge. Rather than throwing
Sonic Pi: Free Live-Coding Environment Turns Code Into Music
Sonic Pi is a free tool that lets people compose and perform music by writing code, aiming to sit comfortably between two audiences: working musicians and DJs w
Swift binary streams a 104GB Qwen MoE off SSD to run it on a 48GB Mac at ~12 tok/s
slotstream is a single Swift binary (no Python) that runs Qwen3.8-Flash-Next — a 125B-parameter mixture-of-experts model weighing 104GB on disk at 4-bit — on Ap
The Cave Is Comfortable: Why Private Grinding Is a Trap
A personal essay argues that the modern glorification of "grinding" in isolation—training in private, disappearing to reemerge transformed—is a form of self-dec
The Commodore 64 at 40: cheap memory, a killer sound chip, and staying power
Commodore launched the Commodore 64 on September 1, 1982, pricing a 64KB machine under $600 for the first time and undercutting rivals like the Atari 800XL. Man
'True' Unemployment Pegged at 24.9%, Six Times the Official 4.1% Rate
LISEP's True Rate of Unemployment (TRU) puts functional joblessness in the U.S. at 24.9% for July 2026 — more than six times the government's headline rate of 4
Two Kinds of LLM Inference Optimization: Trading Off vs. Pushing the Frontier
Inference engineers borrow the economist's "efficient frontier" to reason about serving tradeoffs — chiefly latency versus throughput (and therefore cost), but
World Labs unveils Atlas, a multimodal world model that generates and reconstructs 3D scenes
World Labs, the spatial-intelligence startup, has introduced Atlas, an 'omni' world model pretrained from scratch to work natively across text, images, video, a
World's biggest dark matter detector records a single anomalous particle event
No article body was supplied for this item — only the headline was passed through, so a faithful summary can't be written without fabricating details. The headl
44% on ARC-AGI for 67 cents: a from-scratch transformer that rivals LLMs
An independent researcher has trained a small transformer from scratch that scores 44% on the ARC-AGI-1 reasoning benchmark, using roughly 90 minutes on a singl
AI turns a phone's LED into a hidden-camera detector
A reported technique pairs a smartphone's built-in LED with an AI model to spot concealed cameras. The premise rests on a well-established physics quirk: camera