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Linux 7.3 Lands amdgpu Fixes to Keep Games Alive When VRAM Runs Out
A developer's patches to improve VRAM management for the AMD graphics stack have been merged upstream and are queued for Linux 7.3. The work targets what happen
OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing in Half to $2.50/$15 per Million Tokens
OpenAI's flagship GPT-5.6 Sol model has dropped 50% in price, now listed at $2.50 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens on OpenRouter. Rele
Physicists Claim First Sighting of a 'Glueball' — a Particle Made of Pure Force
Researchers report evidence for a glueball, a hypothetical particle predicted by quantum chromodynamics (QCD) that would be bound together entirely by the stron
Rust Gets Native, Zero-Overhead GPU Offloading Across Vendors
A new arXiv paper describes a GPU compilation framework wired directly into the Rust compiler (rustc) and its LLVM backends, aiming to end the long-standing tra
Speko launches a benchmark-driven router that picks voice AI models per language
Speko, a Y Combinator S26 startup, is pitching itself as the OpenRouter for voice AI: a single gateway that sits in front of every major speech-to-text and voic
Sun Clock: An Open-Source, Privacy-First Web App That Tracks the Sun and Moon
Sun Clock is a browser-based 24-hour clock that maps the sun's position throughout the day, marking sunrise, solar noon, sunset, golden hour, and twilight for t
The Benchmarkpocalypse: How LLMs Made Faking Performance Gains Trivial
Dan Luu argues that the same forces driving a wave of AI-generated security bugs are producing a quieter analog in performance work: benchmark gaming. Genuine o
There's a Method to IKEA's Madness: The Two Hard Rules Behind Its Product Names
IKEA's famously baffling product names aren't random. The company follows a deliberate naming system built on Swedish words, and it holds itself to two non-nego
Turning trains into a giant flatbed scanner with an industrial line camera
A photographer adapted the slit-scan technique — the same idea behind 1990s digital scanning camera backs — by inverting it: instead of sweeping a single line o
Yale Model: Medicare for All Could Save $1T and 114K Lives Yearly
A Yale School of Public Health study projects that a single-payer 'Medicare for All' system would cut U.S. health spending by more than $1 trillion annually whi
AI 'Autofix' Planted a CI/CD Injection in Snowflake — an AI Agent Found It in 5 Days
Wiz's autonomous "Red Agent" discovered and exploited a script-injection flaw in Snowflake's public snowflake-connector-net repository, then used the stolen cre
AI Labs Are Trading World Knowledge for Reasoning — On Purpose
A striking divergence is showing up across the newest language models: reasoning benchmarks keep climbing even as the compute spent per token falls. GLM-5.2 hit