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With the Snip of a Gene, Scientists Hope To Erase High Cholesterol For Life - Slashdot

CNN reports that "A one-time snip of a key gene lowered heart-clogging cholesterol by about 50% over an entire year with no adverse effects, scientists have reported." The overwhelmingly positive results were found in four people who had taken the highest dose of the…

SQLite as a document database

The kill switch for harmful genes - Works in Progress Magazine

What if instead of editing a gene, or blocking the protein it produces, you could simply switch it off?

App Life in China

“It’s really tough doing anything in China right now,” my friend told me. He’s a serial entrepreneur in Shanghai with a locked-in grin. We were waiting for our food in a Taiwanese restaurant in a lovingly-renovated toy factory in Shanghai. China was my home for 20 years, before…

What To Expect When You’re Expecting (A World of Multi-Agent Systems)

How do we model the future of work? It takes an AI village.

The 30,000-mile fish finger

There’s a good chance the cod on your child’s plate has been around the world and back. Not that you’d learn any of that from the label...

The coolest anti-surveillance tools at Defcon

I met with hackers who are building tools to fight the surveillance state.

I'm 19, and I've watched more than 200 brands quietly give up on influencers

UGC Roster founder Gabriele Muratori, 19, explains why the brands growing fastest on his 200+ brand marketplace are shifting from single influencer bets to high-volume, testable creator content fed into paid ads.

Curvature Beziers

Improving on a timeless recipe

Two Brothers Built a Cooler Nobody Asked For. It Became a $2 Billion Status Symbol.

Guy Raz Newsletter – August 27, 2026

Dual-band four-element MIMO antenna array for 5G millimeter-wave communication - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Dual-band four-element MIMO antenna array for 5G millimeter-wave communication

Africa's Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here's Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway

Meet the team that closely monitors the playful canines, which need help to form diverse packs and stop their numbers from dwindling

How the brain learns to read is an evolutionary mystery—a new study offers clues

Reading hasn't been around for long, evolutionary speaking. Instead, the brain recruits systems evolved for other purposes

How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache

Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.

NVIDIA Unveils NVHBM Memory To Turbocharge AI Chip Speeds By 30%

NVIDIA's NVHBM is a new memory technology that partners can license, offering improved efficiency and performance over standard HBM.

Share warrant agreement, Marvell Google

First Benchmarks Revealed for OpenAI's Jalapeño AI Chip - EE Times

OpenAI revealed first benchmarks for its Jalapeño ASIC, showing up to 1.9× perf/W gains over existing hardware for LLM inference.

Ursula Andress on Nudity: The Story Behind the Bikini

Everyone remembers the white bikini. Here's the real story of how Ursula Andress felt about nudity, and the one thing about fame she couldn't shake.

animation-trigger | CSS-Tricks

The CSS animation-trigger property allows you to delay the start of a CSS animation until a specific trigger occurs.

The Egg That Cannot Be Priced

America's biggest egg company can't set the price of a single egg, which is the whole story, in both directions.

Eggs.org is the home of the Egg Clearinghouse,

It is a clearing mechanism for the slack in the system, and it is tiny.

Feature comparison of ack, ag, git-grep, grep and ripgrep

Changing how eyeglass lenses are made

Eyeglass lenses have been cast, shipped, and ground the same way for decades. Azul 3D is betting that UV-curable photopolymers and 3D printing offer something better

Open Printer

Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade

Inside the Product Everyone Loves to Hate

There’s a single product category that is universally despised by nearly every technology-using human on Earth: the printer.

Air Canada Aeroplan Partner Airlines & Sweet Spots

Aeroplan transfers from all major bank programs. See all 50+ Air Canada partner airlines, award chart, and the best sweet spots to book with points.

How AI search has impacted the web traffic of over 50 advertisers

Data spanning one agency’s entire client roster shows the true impact of AI search on web traffic and conversions.

Tracking a Sanctioned Russian Vessel’s West African Odyssey - bellingcat

Cargo vessel reported to have transported weapons destined for Russian mercenaries has been shuttling between West African ports since March.

d-Matrix Claims 20x Bandwidth Density Over NVIDIA Rubin In New Chip

The company's ideas aren't novel, but it has solved long-standing challenges with 3D DRAM technology.

Why Is Moscow So Weird?

Why so far north? So cold? Why not on a big river or a coast? Why the biggest city in Europe? Why the capital of the biggest country on Earth?

This Billion-Dollar Texas Industry Is a Lot Cooler Than You Think

Ice is essential in so many ways. So why does thinking about it give some of us a case of brain freeze?

Small cells, big mess – why Musk's SpaceX telecom plan won't work

widely ridiculed

But it wouldn't be for your exclusive benefit, instead providing coverage for passersby on Starlink plans

How trust funds made the modern world

What Are the Most Difficult Languages to Learn? (For English Speakers) | TheCollector

Some languages are harder to learn than others. Difficulty often depends on your first language, so here are the hardest languages for English speakers.

Why Sal Khan’t: On Learning by Making but Teaching by Telling - Punya Mishra’s Web

Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat…

d-Matrix’s Raptor 3D DRAM Achieves SRAM-Class Bandwidth at 1/10th the HBM Power by Dropping PHY & Fusing DRAM Beneath the Compute

d-Matrix's Raptor 3D DRAM delivers 100 TB/s bandwidth at 0.37 pJ/bit, offering a high-efficiency alternative to SRAM and HBM for AI workloads

AI Chip Architectures

A look at AI Chip Architectures. NVIDIA, AMD, TPUs, Trainium, Groq, Cerebras.

wafer-ai/gpu-perf-engineering-resources: A curriculum for learning about gpu performance engineering, from scratch to what the frontier AI…

A curriculum for learning about gpu performance engineering, from scratch to what the frontier AI labs do - wafer-ai/gpu-perf-engineering-resources

The World's Greatest Machine, the Large Hadron Collider, Just Shut Down. Here's Why That's Good News

The Large Hadron Collider has stopped colliding. It will be four years before it starts again.

The Summer Everything Changed For Audrey Hepburn

In 1952, Audrey Hepburn arrived in Rome as a relative unknown to film 'Roman Holiday,' setting in motion a career that would make her an icon.

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung and HBM Base Die Opportunities

Machine learning applications demand ever more memory capacity and bandwidth. Samsung responded by fabricating their HBM base dies on a logic node, which opens up more opportunities

The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn

Our love for telling tales reveals the workings of the mind

#55: The New Mexico medevac crash is about more than GPS Jamming

Pilots do not get an asterisk saying "GPS only" on their instrument ratings.

Former SpaceX engineers are building a robotic factory for making steel parts - Ars Technica

“We're not necessarily building in a dogmatic fashion towards full autonomy.”...

Are Open Models Catching Up?

Comparing open vs. closed models across the eras of frontier models

The brain doesn’t just experience reality. It edits it into a story

Neuroscience is revealing how our brains are wired for narrative

The primary glue for what remains is cause and effect

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Next generation AI attack vectors will be ideas, say Anthropic researchers

Computer scientists have bred self-propagating "mind viruses" that spread from one AI agent to the next through ordinary conversation — no hacking required

DNS Record Types Explained: A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and More

DNS record types map domains to servers, route email, publish verification data, and control certificate issuance. See zone-file examples and dig queries.

DNS record cards linking a domain to IP addresses, mail servers, and security policies

MX records route email

What Happens When the Cost of Intelligence Drops 100x — CatalystNeuro

A given level of LLM intelligence costs about a thirtieth of what it did a year ago, and the rate of decline is accelerating. Using Artificial Analysis's measured cost per task, this post traces the falling price of each capability level, explains why cheaper intelligence leads…

A great deal of useful work does not require the smartest model available, but a model that is good enough, applied many thousands of times

At today’s prices a full pass over the corpus costs a little over a hundred dollars with a model whose capability was at the frontier in the spring. At the prices of this past March, the same pass with the same level of capability would have cost several thousand dollars, and a year ago that…