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Amodei: Well-Designed AI Rules Can Decentralize Power, Not Just Entrench Incumbents
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushes back on the Silicon Valley reflex that treats regulation as synonymous with regulatory capture and the concentration of power
Axler's 'Linear Algebra Done Right' 4th edition goes free and Open Access
Sheldon Axler has released the fourth edition of his best-selling textbook Linear Algebra Done Right under an Open Access, Creative Commons BY-NC license. Free
Buf ships a production Protobuf language server, bringing modern IDE support at last
Buf has released what it calls the first production-grade Language Server Protocol implementation for Protobuf, closing a long-standing gap between the schema l
Claude's Text Watermark Skews Word Choice — Gruber Calls It a Corruption of Writing
John Gruber dissects how Anthropic will comply with EU rules requiring AI-generated content to be marked: not by hiding invisible Unicode characters, as he firs
DuckDB 2.0 'Cyanoptera' Adds Client/Server Mode, Triggers, and a First-Class VARIANT
DuckDB is preparing a rare major-version bump this fall, and the headline shift is philosophical: the long-standing in-process database is becoming something yo
GIMP 3.3.2 Preview: New Project Format, PSD Overhaul, and Native File Dialogs
GIMP's team has published a progress report ahead of the first 3.3.2 development release, and the headline change is a new project file format meant to replace
How Federal Keyword Screening Killed Billions in Research Grants
After President Trump returned to office in 2025, four federal agencies built keyword-screening systems to hunt down and terminate research grants tied to disfa
How Programmers Wrangled SIMD on Intel's 1997 Pentium MMX
Long before AVX-512, NEON, and GPU compute, Intel's 1997 Pentium MMX brought SIMD — one instruction operating on multiple data elements at once — to mainstream
'Kidney Disappointment': Tortured Phrases Betray Paper-Mill Fraud
A Google Scholar search for the nonsensical term "kidney disappointment" surfaces dozens of published papers that clearly meant "kidney failure." The phrase is
MathCode: a terminal agent that turns English math into machine-checked Lean 4 proofs
MathCode is a command-line AI assistant built specifically for formal mathematics. You state a problem in plain language and the tool translates it into a Lean
Nature: controversial surgery claimed to reverse Alzheimer's symptoms
No summary can be written for this item: the source body was not supplied. The input contains only the headline — 'A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said t
NIH to bar its K23 career award from funding trainees' own clinical trials
Starting in July 2027, the NIH will stop letting its K23 award — the Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, a longtime on-ramp for early-c