A Split Keyboard Designed for Human Hands
A surprising number of things we use in everyday life retain most of their design cues from their 19th century ancestors. The bicycle retains the same...
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Forking Cal.com to closed source
This week I'm joined by Peer Richelsen, co-founder of Cal.com. What if the majority of open source repositories are already compromised and we just don't know...
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Shopify Introduces Gisting: Compressing LLM System Prompts into Learned Tokens
Shopify's engineering introduced gisting, a novel technique for compressing long LLM prompts into a smaller set of learned "gist" tokens, improving throughput and reducing inference cost....
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Microsoft announces cap on Xbox Cloud Gaming hours for Game Pass subscribers, admits most aren't using it much anyway
Gotta find revenue wherever you can, I guess.
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Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
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Push A Button And More At Maker Faire Tokyo 2026
INSTAGRAM I WEBSITE I FACEBOOK No Push, No Life “If there’s a button, you want to push it.” This is the premise of the OSEBA exhibit...
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Supreme Court urged to let states regulate sports bets on prediction markets
Circuit split raised the odds that SCOTUS will rule on Kalshi fight against states.
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Penultimate Lunar Occultations Inbound for Jupiter, Venus and More in September
The Moon is busy in September. Coming off of eclipse season in August, the Moon visits no less than two planets, two bright stars and one...
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Nvidia acquires Hugging Face for $12.93 billion — company gains control of major AI model distribution platform
Nvidia expands beyond AI hardware with its $12.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face, gains control of a major open AI model platform, vows to preserve its...
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GPT-6 Astra aced the hardest AI benchmark. The asterisk matters more than the score.
There was no mistaking the divide in March with the release of ARC-AGI-3. While frontier AI models could do little The post GPT-6 Astra aced the...
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