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Claude Mythos Explained

This is the biggest AI story this week BY FAR. Anthropic just revealed "Claude Mythos", a model so powerful and so good at hacking that they’ve decided it’s too dangerous...

Ultimate Online Phreak Box . “This is a free...

Ultimate Online Phreak Box. “This is a free online blue box, red box, and silver box.” (With this and a time machine, you could make free phone calls in the...

Biological Computing Underhang

Human cortex can't represent arbitrarily complex abstractions in a single forward pass. It's depth-limited by the number of sequential inferential steps it can execute per corticothalamic cycle. That ceiling determines...

The Query Optimizer’s Mind: Architecting SQL for Distributed Scale

High-performance SQL isn’t about clever queries—it’s about helping the optimizer minimize data movement. Use predicate pushdown, maintain table statistics, avoid Cartesian joins, and choose GROUP BY over heavy window functions...

Stablecoins vs Traditional Banking: The New Financial Infrastructure

Stablecoins are creating a parallel financial system, offering faster payments and global access while challenging traditional banks. Unlike deposits, they’re backed by liquid assets and don’t fund lending, raising concerns...

The best new movies on streaming and Netflix this weekend (April 10-12)

The Yeti rampages on VOD, Outcome lands on Apple TV, Sirât arrives on Hulu, and more

Fortnite maker Epic Games working on a Disney extraction shooter

Disney and Epic Games are reportedly working on 3 games, including an Arc Raiders competitor featuring Disney characters.

Frontend Minimalism: Build Faster, Lighter Apps Without Overengineering

Most frontend apps become slow and complex because developers overengineer them. This guide shows how to build lean apps using simple tools like Vite, Preact, and native APIs. Start with...

A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT . Each...

A tour of the mannequin storage room at FIT. Each era’s mannequins are designed to mimic the “fashionable body” of that time period.

Fine-Tuning vs Prompt Engineering

Start with prompt engineering for speed, flexibility, and lower cost, it solves most problems early on. Only move to fine-tuning when you have clear, repeated failure patterns and enough high-quality...

OpenAI Says Not to Worry About UBI, Because It Has Another Idea

We all hold stock down here. The post OpenAI Says Not to Worry About UBI, Because It Has Another Idea appeared first on Futurism.

Battle Born Explains How Its Battery Thermal Safety Works

After users of Battle Born LFP batteries encountered issues such as a heavily discolored positive terminal and other signs of overheating, multiple autopsies showed that the cause appeared to be...

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Artemis II Is About to Splash Down. There’s a Helium Leak That’s 10 Times Worse Than Expected. NASA Says It’s Fine.

Four astronauts are hours from splashing down after circling the far side of the Moon. There’s a helium leak on board that turned out to be 10 times worse than...

The Intelligence Paradox: Why We're Building LLMs Wrong (And How to Fix It)

LLMs aren’t failing because they’re small—they’re failing because scale is mistaken for intelligence. Benchmarks don’t reflect real-world use, alignment remains unsolved, and energy costs are ignored. The future of AI...

Critical Role's new D&D campaign makes me want to roll a dwarf character so bad

The best way to get people to play a character is to show them how cool that character is. Enter Marisha Ray's Murray Mag'nesson from Critical Role.

Former Bethesda exec thinks the studio should get more respect for the complex, open worlds it creates: 'Go try that s**t in Red Dead Redemption 2'

Despite retiring 3 years ago, Pete Hines remains one of the studio's staunchest defenders.

Buildermark

Measure how much of your code is AI-generated. Open source. Discussion | Link

An interview with Ronald Wayne , Apple’s forgotten...

An interview with Ronald Wayne, Apple’s forgotten third founder. (He was with the company all of 2 weeks.)

Get ready to play Overwatch's most popular maps even more in season 2 as Blizzard tweaks the voting process to prefer the majority

The new random map option could save you, but we all know it's just going to be King's Row.