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Astronomers detect first atmosphere on a rocky, habitable-zone exoplanet
Harvard-led researchers, publishing in Science, report the first atmosphere ever detected around a rocky, Earth-sized planet sitting in its star's habitable zon
Beyond Solving: The Three Ways People Actually Respond to Problems
A consultant argues that solving is only one of four possible responses to a problem — and often not the one that happens. The other three, framed as 'P's, are
EEG study: the brain briefly tracks two speakers at once when switching attention
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin and collaborators recorded EEG from normal-hearing adults in a simulated cocktail-party setup, with two competing speech s
GrapheneOS pitched as a domestic-violence safety tool in vendor advertorial
An Australian privacy-phone seller, PrivacyPros, argues that de-Googled hardware is becoming part of domestic-violence safety planning. The framing rests on sta
Helium detected escaping the atmosphere of a nearby habitable-zone rocky exoplanet
Astronomers report the detection of helium escaping from the atmosphere of a nearby rocky exoplanet that orbits within its star's habitable zone, per a Science
Immersive Math: A Free Linear Algebra Textbook Built Around Interactive Figures
Written by J. Ström, K. Åström, and T. Akenine-Möller, *Immersive Linear Algebra* is a web-based textbook that pairs a standard undergraduate curriculum with fi
Kimi K3 debuts as first open 3T-class model; full weights land July 27
Moonshot's Kimi team unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model it bills as the world's first open model in the 3-trillion-parameter class. The architectu
Live SSH honeypot dashboard streams botnet login attempts as they happen
A new Show HN project, HoneypotLive, exposes an SSH honeypot's telemetry through a real-time web dashboard. Visitors can watch inbound automated attacks as they
LM Studio's new Bionic agent runs open models locally or in its secure cloud
LM Studio has launched Bionic, a standalone agent app aimed at people who want to do real work—coding, research, and document tasks—using open-weight models rat
Moonshot's Kimi K3 hits 2.8T parameters — and Simon Willison's pelican test bows out
Chinese lab Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter model it markets as the first 'open 3T-class' system, with open weights promised by July 27,
New Open-Access Textbook Maps the Math Behind Modern Data Science
Thomas Strohmer has posted a comprehensive textbook on arXiv covering the mathematical foundations that underpin data science and machine learning. The 16 chapt
NOAA's GOES-19 falls into Safe Hold, blinding hurricane forecasters mid-season
GOES-19, NOAA's operational GOES-East satellite, dropped into Safe Hold mode around 3:23 p.m. Central on July 15, 2026, with the agency posting formal notice ea