Are the Enhanced Games an existential threat to fairness or a cure for death? Zach Helfand reports.
The next morning, I caught a training session at the pool. It was difficult to discern the outward effects of enhancement on the athletes. The swimmers looked like swimmers—sinewy and long, with huge hands and feet. An exception was James Magnussen, an Australian who’d been the first person to sign…
Fraudsters have long told stories of imprisoned nobles and hidden fortunes, with desperate pleas for help. Email simply gave their messages a perfect medium.
Degenerate stupid idea.
Short correction note for the random seed in Listing 6.5 on page 198 of Build a Reasoning Model From Scratch.
Find the Linux process listening on a TCP or UDP port with ss, lsof, fuser, or netstat, then inspect and stop it safely.
Claude Opus 5 is trying to be the best of both worlds. On many practical tasks, Opus 5 is pitched as straight up as good or better than Fable 5, whil…
Models are improving quickly, but the cheaper options are often good enough.
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with 1M token context, unchanged $5/$25 pricing, and state-of-the-art agentic coding benchmarks
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half the token price. The model is the fourth Anthropic has shipped in under two months, following Fable 5 in early June, Sonnet 5…
Behavioral differences and prompting patterns for Claude Opus 5, covering response verbosity, agentic narration, task scoping, subagent delegation, self-correction, and output artifacts when thinking is disabled.
A liquefaction plant at 71°N, built on 60,000 piles in permafrost, producing around 4% of the world's traded LNG.
Ascend West Virginia is one of dozens of relocation initiatives across the country offering cash and other incentives to move to states needing an economic boost. Here's how they're working out.
Quick reference for the mount command: mount and unmount filesystems, mount options, UUID and label mounts, network shares, and /etc/fstab entries
During the mid-'90s to the early 2000s, all my friends knew that you couldn't disturb me on Thursday nights because I was glued to my television set, watching The X-Files. I was so absorbed in the series' mythology, the strange cases of the week, and all things alien during…
let's talk more technical details about AMD's Helios! Anthropic just signed a $5B deal with AMD. and AMD's own version of GTC, Advancing AI, is happening today and tomorrow. the high level details are: 72 MI455X GPUs, 432GB of HBM4 each, and 2.9 exaflops of FP4. but the most…
Language model tokenization at GB/s
Docugami, the Kirkland, Wash., startup led by XML co-creator Jean Paoli, is open-sourcing DGML, a format that turns business documents into structured, verifiable data for AI. The company is releasing it under an open-source license and partnering with Inveniam and Mantra to…
Inveniam will record a kind of digital fingerprint of each piece of DGML data on NVNM Chain, its blockchain built with Mantra, a crypto firm that Inveniam is acquiring.
That means, for example, that a single fact buried in a 200-page lease — such as the rental rate, a renewal option, or a default clause — can be verified on its own, without exposing the whole document. An investor, auditor, or AI agent can trace it to the page it came from.
For more than a decade, there's been something fishy going on in a lake that straddles Vermont and the province of Quebec. It involves cancer, a kind of catfish, and — possibly — clues about how tumors metastasize.
CEA-Leti’s François Andrieu said it is pushing FeRAM because it could offer a useful combination of density, high endurance, and high speed.
Hamming Codes ECC RAM corrects errors that occur in memory before it gets to the CPU. The most common form of ECC is the Hamming Code [1] which when it has R redundant bits can correct single bit e…
A primer on New Orleans seafood, tracing the Gulf’s oysters, shrimp, fish, crab, crawfish and alligator from old oyster bars and neighborhood fish frys to markets, po’boy shops and white-tablecloth restaurants.
The Socratic method isn't about being nice. It's about making someone hear themselves.
It invented the offshore oil platform, drowned twice on dry land... and now does ten billion dollars of revenue on the Expert Market.
Identify the hardware in a Linux machine: list USB devices with lsusb, find PCI cards and their drivers with lspci, and get a full inventory with lshw.
Why fracking is the most steampunk thing ever.
Unconventional AI has unveiled an experimental image-generation model that replaces conventional calculation-heavy computing with a simulated network of physical oscillators.
To generate an image, the system assigns different oscillator phase patterns to categories such as shoes or trains. A smaller group configured with the desired pattern acts as the prompt and gradually pulls the wider network of randomly positioned oscillators toward the same arrangement.
The system then records the oscillators’ final phases as a numerical grid. A separate decoder converts that grid into pixel values to produce the image.
Spies, war, industrial subterfuge and secret recipes. And it all really happened. Honestly, what more could you ask for?
NVIDIA's dark fiber gambit across the United States appears to be its ultimate insurance policy against the rise of ASICs.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, wastewater testing became a virus warning system. Now, scientists are using the approach to understand how communities eat.
Aldi is disrupting the U.S. grocery business
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Who owns downtown buildings? The answer has remarkable implications for our city's future
In the analog world, it takes great effort to make a copy.
Building a moat is the difference between having fun with business, vs eating glass all day, every day, for years. This is how moats are actually built.
It’s also true that Power is much easier to identify than it is to build.
Bandag
AI adoption is being hindered by token costs and there being no up-front pricing for AI requests lea ...
The landscape of NYC changes so much that the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation updates a dataset of building footprint shapes weekly.
YouTube is poised to unify the streaming championship belts...
On the heels of WWII, a team of psychologists set out to solve global conflict. Their lab? Boys summer camps. Their goal? Set the 11- and 12-year-old boys against one another to discover what, if anything, could restore peace. The result? One of psychology’s most enduring and…
intergroup conflict
manufacture conflict
Everyone is worried about Chinese models, but the frontier labs will be fine; we need to enable open U.S. alternatives.
At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking
Compare the best local LLMs that fit a single 24GB GPU in 2026 — Qwen, Gemma, Mistral, and DeepSeek and more analysis in detail
An inode stores Linux file metadata, not its name or data. See how inode numbers and hard links work, then check inode usage with ls, stat, and df.
The trip-hop star doesn’t believe in getting jiggy to songs and would choose Cyndi Lauper at karaoke. But which classic reminds him of his mum?
Kelefa Sanneh on the song “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” by Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett, which was a diversion from a genre that extolls the virtue of staying close to your home town.
Cheesemongering is a calling, requiring deep expertise and longstanding relationships, but today’s retail environment is making it more and more difficult.
What a Picture of a Dog Has to Do with Reason and Logic: People who can’t see images in their minds challenge an old philosophical standby
If your lower back is constantly tight, the problem might actually live in your hips. A deep massage there can release the tension and help your whole back relax. Worth a try.
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC help prevent domain spoofing. See how each check works, what DMARC alignment requires, and how to verify the DNS records with dig.
Author of the new novel Sourland remembers a kingpin.