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Dutch consumer group launches class action over PlayStation Store game prices
A Dutch mass-claim organization (massaschadeconsument.nl) is recruiting PlayStation owners for a collective lawsuit against Sony, arguing the company abuses a c
Encrypted LLM Reasoning Traces Can Be Decoded, Leaking Secrets and Enabling Distillation
Researchers have shown that the encrypted chain-of-thought blocks major providers return to API clients aren't as private as they look. Anthropic, OpenAI, and G
France Bans Cold-Calling, Flips to Opt-In Consent With Fines Up to €375K Per Call
Starting August 11, 2026, France prohibits unsolicited telemarketing outright, replacing its long-standing opt-out model with a strict opt-in regime. Outbound s
Humanizing AI output is the wrong layer — render at the boundary, not mid-task
A wave of viral prompt tricks — agent instructions like "talk to me like I have ADHD" or "respond only in Simplified Technical English" — tries to tame the verb
Japan's 1954 Parametron: the ferrite-core logic that skipped tubes and transistors
In 1954, University of Tokyo graduate student Eiichi Goto invented the parametron, a logic element built from ferrite cores that stored a bit in the phase of a
Mining AIS Vessel Data Turns Up 50,000 Boat Names Full of Puns and Pop Culture
A data journalist pulled roughly 50,000 named vessels from NOAA's Marine Cadastre broadcast-point dataset, which captures Automatic Identification System (AIS)
Mojo Hits 1.0, Locking In a Stable Foundation for Modular's AI Stack
Modular has shipped Mojo 1.0, roughly two years after the language's 2023 debut. The headline commitment is stability: after a fast-moving development cycle tha
Needle 2: a 14MB, 45M-parameter model that runs tool-calling on a microcontroller
Cactus Compute has released Needle 2, an Apache-2.0 model aimed squarely at cheap edge hardware rather than the Macs and PCs that dominate on-device AI. At 45M
Probing Claude and GPT to Reverse-Engineer Their Training Timelines
A researcher shows that frontier models leak clues about how they were built simply by answering questions over their public APIs. The core method: build quizze
Stowaway: a browser globe that puts you in the window seat of any plane or satellite overhead
Stowaway is a WebGL-based web app that renders a live view of the sky above your actual location, populated with the real aircraft and satellites currently pass
The 'dynamic languages are cheaper for LLMs' claim falls apart on real tasks
A popular and frequently-cited argument holds that dynamically-typed and terse languages cost LLM coding agents far fewer tokens than static languages like Rust
Three Years Alone at Sea: A Solo Sailor's Memoir, Given Away as CareWare
This is a promotional page for "Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor," a first-person book recounting a 3½-year solo circumnavigation that began in 1988 aboard