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System76 boss reckons he can liberate the entire PC stack... just give him another 15 years

Bootstrapped Linux box-botherer flogs new Thelio kit, talks up COSMIC, and politely declines to bolt AI onto everything

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Status symbols

It’s pretty astonishing how far people will go to announce various forms of status: The list has little to do with money spent or money in the bank. Humans care...

“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

The post “Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns appeared first on ProPublica.

'Half-Life 2 RTX has shrunk from 80 GB to 50 GB': RTX Remix 1.5 update shrinks file sizes, and also starts letting in AI agents

I suppose that's one way to bring an old game up to date…

Legend of Vox Machina season 4 just introduced a Critical Role Campaign 3 character

In a surprising twist, The Legend of Vox Machina introduces a character from Critical Role's Campaign 3 way earlier than expected.

A Unified Namespace Determines Your Historian Schema, Not the Other Way Around

Most teams design the historian first and connect it to a Unified Namespace later. This article argues the reverse: the UNS owns identity, so it should dictate the historian schema....

Building an Organic Flow Battery Based on Green Tea

As simple of a concept flow batteries are, the used chemicals can still be somewhat problematic in the context of a school experiment. To this end [Markus Bindhammer] decided to...

New Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3 info reveals game mechanics

The latest issue of V Jump includes new info on Dragon Ball Xenoverse 3's mechanics and battle system.

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Plastic Cake Fallacy

Alice and Bob are hanging out when the following happens:Alice: I'm hungry, can you bring me the cake from the fridge?Bob: Yeah one moment... Damn, I just checked and it...

Inside the Swiss Deep Tech Report 2026: Switzerland Out-Invests China and the US in Deep Tech

The Swiss Deep Tech Report 2026 ranks Switzerland first in the world for the share of venture capital going to deep tech, at 63%, ahead of China (56%) and the...

Tesco is sprinting to quit VMware and Broadcom despite rapid migration risks

Supermarket giant has turned to third-party support as court sets date to hear licensing dispute

Stop tracking hypothetical prompts: how to build a prompt set from real buyer queries

Most teams track AI visibility using made-up prompts. This article shows a 6-step process to build a prompt set from real buyer query data (Search Console, Google Ads, Bing), score...

From Monoliths to Multitudes: Why Agent Swarms Beat Giant Models on the Road to AGI

If general intelligence is on the horizon, simply making one model larger won’t get us there. We need to create networks of specialized models that can communicate, debate, and share...

Why Local SEO Metrics No Longer Explain Customer Acquisition

Higher rankings don't always mean more customers anymore. As Google makes it easier for users to call and hire businesses directly from search results, traditional local SEO metrics are becoming...

Protocol Conversion at the Edge: Modbus, OPC-UA, and What Sits Between Them

Protocol gaps between Modbus and OPC-UA break industrial AI pipelines. Learn what sits between them and how to get the conversion right.

Why Both CEXs and DeFi Keep Failing Active Traders

For years, crypto has framed centralized exchanges (CEXs) and decentralized finance (DeFi) as competing visions of the future. The reality is that both suffer from the same core problem: capital...

The Companies Rewiring the Future of AI

Training a frontier AI model means convincing hundreds of thousands of chips to act like one giant computer. The hard part isn't the chips — it's the wiring.

The Financial Ledger Theory of Apologies

Content note: this is written as part of a daily writing challenge for myself.I have a comrade in rationalist event organizing, who once explained his theory of apologies. He said...