2026-07-08

5 Common Alt Text Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Alt text helps screen reader users understand images, so it should be clear, relevant, and purposeful. Avoid starting with "image of," include any text that appears inside the image, be...

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Wild Video Shows Quadcopter Drone Plucking Man From Raging Floodwaters, Whisking Him to Safety

Wild Video Shows Quadcopter Drone Plucking Man From Raging Floodwaters, Whisking Him to Safety

Just in time. The post Wild Video Shows Quadcopter Drone Plucking Man From Raging Floodwaters, Whisking Him to Safety appeared first on Futurism.

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Optimum number of items to inspect before buying one

Simple mathematical models are almost always too simple to model complex phenomena in the real world, and the one I want to discuss in this post is not an exception....

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Free will as a model parameter

The most popular take on the standard free will debate is that you are the algorithm. Your preferences and reasoning that determine your actions IS free will. But this resolution...

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Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is 'nuking the team into the dirt' and is now the size of a 'support studio'

Laid-off id Software artist says Microsoft is 'nuking the team into the dirt' and is now the size of a 'support studio'

"This is what insanity and despicable corporate greed looks like," said another artist.

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Find funding, fast

Find funding, fast

Some AI safety funders can take months to decide; others confirm in days. I’ve been on both sides of the grant application and know how crucial an early “yes” can...

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Mac Apps Can Escape From Squircle Jail If They’re Not in the Mac App Store

Tyler Hall: We all know about macOS Tahoe’s terrible app icons and how 3rd party developers have been confined to squircle jail. If you’re lucky enough to distribute an app...

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Human-in-the-Loop Doesn't Scale - Human-on-the-Loop Does

Stop measuring your agent governance by how many actions a human approves. That number going up is the problem, not the proof. The question that matters: when the action that...

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Dune Part 3 FULL TRAILER ANALYSIS | Quinn's Ideas

Dune Part 3 FULL TRAILER ANALYSIS | Quinn's Ideas

The full trailer is here!! Get 50% off Nebula (get access, early videos, exclusives): https://go.nebula.tv/quinnsideas 👽 Please consider supporting this channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ideasoficeandfire or PAYPAL - https://paypal.me/QuinnsIdeas?locale.x=en_US 🎨 Art:...

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Building an AI Dream Analysis Engine, Part 2: Designing a Production-Ready LLM Pipeline

Part 2 expands the AI dream analysis engine by integrating GPT with Retrieval-Augmented Generation, embeddings, vector search, and structured prompts. The article shows how grounding LLMs in retrieved knowledge and...

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Stop chasing life goals and start trying tiny...

Stop chasing life goals and start trying tiny experiments to learn from instead. “Chasing goals doesn’t work for life’s most important questions — career, relationships, health. It’s like locking in...

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World of Warcraft's divisive change to combat addons is here to stay

World of Warcraft's divisive change to combat addons is here to stay

The director of Blizzard's MMO doubles down on WoW: Midnight's most controversial feature

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Decent Colors for pi.dev on a Bare Linux VT

Decent Colors for pi.dev on a Bare Linux VT

pi.dev is a terminal-based coding agent, similar in spirit to Claude Code but minimal by design: a handful of tools, an editable system prompt, and a theme system with 51...

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30+ Killer VFX Shortcuts Anyone Can Steal

30+ Killer VFX Shortcuts Anyone Can Steal

How to add AI visual effects to your videos without making everything look AI-generated. Every Friday, my news videos start with some wild AI intro and it's the thing I...

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Dune 3's new trailer teases big changes from the books

Dune 3's new trailer teases big changes from the books

Denis Villeneuve's third Dune movie may be the biggest departure from its source material yet.

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Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks

Intel-backed AI chip startup SambaNova breathes new life into aging Nvidia GPUs in latest benchmarks

Third-party testing shows heterogeneous compute platform combining H200s and SN50 RDUs churning out 763 tok/s in MiniMax M2.7

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Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues

Bethesda union says company HR forced staff to remove a display honoring their laid-off colleagues

The BGS Union says employees were "almost immediately" instructed to dismantle their memorial.

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If You Thought SpaceX Stock Was Doing Badly Before, Now It’s Really Tanking

If You Thought SpaceX Stock Was Doing Badly Before, Now It’s Really Tanking

It just hit a record low. The post If You Thought SpaceX Stock Was Doing Badly Before, Now It’s Really Tanking appeared first on Futurism.

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Quoting Kenton Varda

I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to...

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‘Searching for SmarterChild’ Kickstarter

After reading my posts earlier today about Eliza, the first “hit” chatbot from the 1960s, DF reader AP sent me a link to the Kickstarter page for Searching for SmarterChild,...

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