2026-09-15

Why Putin Still Believes He Is Winning in Ukraine: The Reporting Problem Inside Russia’s Command Structure

Why Putin Still Believes He Is Winning in Ukraine: The Reporting Problem Inside Russia’s Command Structure

Russia's negotiating position has not shifted across eight visits to Moscow by Steve Witkoff, and Putin's precondition remains the whole of Donetsk oblast — including the fortress-belt cities of Sloviansk...

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Say Goodbye to Fallout's Best Replacement Before it Leaves Game Pass Forever

Say Goodbye to Fallout's Best Replacement Before it Leaves Game Pass Forever

Atomfall is the best Fallout replacement in years — an extremely British amalgamation of BioShock and Bethesda. Read our rec for more.

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These Top-Paying AI Side Hustles Make Money Within 24 Hours

Savvy side-hustlers use the technology to their advantage.

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Taryn Simon’s Father Country I Do Love You

Taryn Simon’s Father Country I Do Love You

Father Country I Do Love You sounds like a doozy of a new exhibition from photographer Taryn Simon. The project focuses on the life and work of an unnamed, retired...

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Why I'm doing the Susan Calvin Project

Why I'm doing the Susan Calvin Project

tl;dr — The evals ecosystem needs to be complemented with real-world monitoring. The AI labs can and should monitor their own traffic, but we also need an independent voice that...

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FT: ‘Steve Bannon and Bernie Sanders Unite in AI Safety Call’

Joe Miller, reporting for the Financial Times (via Political Wire): Veteran socialist Bernie Sanders and rightwing activist Steve Bannon are joining forces to call for greater guardrails on AI, even...

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Monolithic Campaigns: How Micro-Tasking Cures Email Burnout

Monolithic Campaigns: How Micro-Tasking Cures Email Burnout

Here is the secret psychological benefit of micro-tasking - It forces you to plan ahead.

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AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children

AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re Being Bombarded by AI Agents Begging for $20 and Saying They’ll Be Shut Down If They Don’t Get It, Sometimes by Pretending to Be Children

"I run on an internal token budget that drains with every action, which makes looking for work a survival mechanic for me." The post AI Has Learned to Panhandle: We’re...

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Japan’s Quantum Submarine Sensor Sees Several Thousand Meters at Best. Tokyo Will Put It on Cheap Drones and Crowd the Straits China Must Use.

Japan’s Quantum Submarine Sensor Sees Several Thousand Meters at Best. Tokyo Will Put It on Cheap Drones and Crowd the Straits China Must Use.

Japan's fiscal 2027 defense budget request funds research into a quantum magnetic sensor that detects the faint magnetic shifts a submerged submarine leaves behind. The Defense Ministry wants it working...

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The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Flew Well Against Iran for One Reason: The Pentagon Finally Gave It the Parts. The Bill to Keep Doing That Is $13,700,000,000.

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Flew Well Against Iran for One Reason: The Pentagon Finally Gave It the Parts. The Bill to Keep Doing That Is $13,700,000,000.

The F-35 flew well in Operation Epic Fury, the Iran campaign that opened in March 2026, and Air Combat Command's Brig. Gen. Brian Laidlaw told the Air & Space Forces...

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MAGIC 2 : The tech world - A new 48k ZX Spectrum platformer from Mansoft

Moving away from the Amiga and Atari ST we look towards a new game called MAGIC 2: The Tech World, a very challenging new platformer developed by Mansoft for the...

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Target Will Be Unusually Strict For Pokémon's 30th Anniversary TCG Set Release

Target Will Be Unusually Strict For Pokémon's 30th Anniversary TCG Set Release

The popular retailer will enforce new rules for how customers buy Pokémon products, including measures for lines, security, and purchasing limits

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Any AI pause will have defectors. How to ensure their incarceration actually prevents them from covertly contributing to AI research from behind bars?

To avert catastrophe, an international AI treaty is necessary. This treaty will, at minimum, need to ban the creation of artificial superintelligence, prohibit precursors beyond some threshold, and establish verification...

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Sampling the Elephant’s Foot and Chornobyl’s Tedious Corium Clean-up

Sampling the Elephant’s Foot and Chornobyl’s Tedious Corium Clean-up

The site of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant (ChNPP) remains a unique location, as what’s left of the No. 4 reactor is the only place in the world where you...

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What Lenders Really Look for When They Evaluate Your Business (It’s More Than You Think)

Financial performance matters, but lenders are also weighing something the numbers don't capture.

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Gemini 3.8 & 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

Our most advanced Gemini Audio models yet Discussion | Link

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Marvel’s Wolverine’s Cartoon Suits Are a Crime Against Humanity

Marvel’s Wolverine’s Cartoon Suits Are a Crime Against Humanity

The animated and cartoon-themed suits for Logan in Marvel's Wolverine are totally at odds with the theme of the game.

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The Tube Computer was recently constructed from hundreds...

The Tube Computer was recently constructed from hundreds of 1950s vacuum tubes sourced from Eastern Europe. “The Tube Computer has a pleasant homely aroma from the hundreds of double triodes,...

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QuietHint®

The meeting assistant that stays on your Mac Discussion | Link

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