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Post #231643 3.43K Sep 5, 2026, 13:24 UTC

Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation
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Ars Technica Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.

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Post #231642 2.9K Sep 5, 2026, 11:00 UTC

Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'
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www.abc.net.au Why the Netherlands pulled 86 tonnes of gold from US central bank The central bank of the Netherlands has moved dozens of tonnes of its gold out of the United States and Canada to boost the country's "crisis preparedness" amid "increasing geopolitical unrest".

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Post #231641 2.85K Sep 5, 2026, 08:24 UTC

AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
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Sylvainkalache AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.

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Post #231640 3.19K Sep 5, 2026, 08:19 UTC

Git hosting that never leaves Europe
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Pushin.eu Pushin.eu — Git hosting that never leaves Europe Sovereign, GDPR-native git hosting — code, issues, and CI, all on European soil.

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Post #231639 2.94K Sep 5, 2026, 06:41 UTC

GPT-6 Astra in code review: Gains, privacy, and cost
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CodeRabbit GPT-6 Astra Review: Code Review, Privacy & Cost | CodeRabbit See CodeRabbit’s GPT-6 Astra evaluation: cross-file bug detection, review findings, customer data protection, and the trade-offs in API cost.

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Post #231638 2.86K Sep 5, 2026, 05:57 UTC

Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
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Bbc Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America? The Netherlands has relocated 86 tonnes of the shiny stuff - what's going on?

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Post #231637 3.08K Sep 5, 2026, 05:09 UTC

Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
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Codeberg.org Instances Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.

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Post #231636 2.85K Sep 5, 2026, 01:47 UTC

Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
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Spotify Engineering Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | Spotify Engineering

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Post #231635 2.79K Sep 5, 2026, 01:26 UTC

Reversing MikroTik's Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn't Explain
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Nick Pratley Reversing MikroTik's Silent Patch: The RouterOS 7.23.4 Fix They Wouldn't Explain | Nick Pratley This was AI driven, and verified in a lab, 6 hours vs what would generally take weeks to months of work – why use your hands when you own a shovel or a post hole digger. On the 3rd of September 2026, MikroTik quietly pushed RouterOS 7.23.4 (long-term), 7.24.2…

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Post #231634 2.82K Sep 5, 2026, 00:34 UTC

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2
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artificialanalysis.ai Announcing Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.2 We are accelerating elements of our upcoming v5 release with interim updates to keep pace with the frontier. Index v4.2 has more complex and realistic tasks, and more private test sets to prevent gaming

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Post #231633 2.62K Sep 5, 2026, 00:28 UTC

Amazon Achieves Enshitification Inception
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Post #231632 2.62K Sep 5, 2026, 00:10 UTC

Can guitar frets perform multiplication?
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Post #231631 2.78K Sep 4, 2026, 23:20 UTC

Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
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Gallup.com Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread Perceptions of government corruption in the U.S. hit a record high in 2026, with broad agreement across partisan lines.

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Post #231630 2.75K Sep 4, 2026, 22:43 UTC

"Next-token predictor" is the wrong mental model for LLMs
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Garrin’s Blog “Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs

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Post #231629 2.78K Sep 4, 2026, 22:14 UTC

GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter
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openrouter.ai GPT-6 Astra - API Pricing & Benchmarks GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's flagship model for demanding end-to-end work. $10 per million input tokens, $50 per million output tokens.

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Post #231628 3.75K Sep 4, 2026, 22:03 UTC

Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
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Post #231627 2.94K Sep 4, 2026, 21:46 UTC

Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean 4
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GitHub GitHub - anthropics/fermats-last-theorem Contribute to anthropics/fermats-last-theorem development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #231626 2.78K Sep 4, 2026, 21:10 UTC

Fermat's Last Theorem: Anthropic has beaten me to it
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Xena FLT: Anthropic has beaten me to it I guess technically it was revealed to the world by a coffee shop in Islington on Insta, but an hour later it was officially announced by Anthropic: one of their internal models, using the prove2.m…

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Post #231625 2.82K Sep 4, 2026, 21:03 UTC

Statichost.eu – 100% European static site hosting
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statichost.eu statichost.eu - 100% European static site hosting Static hosting for frontend developers who care where their sites live. Git push, custom domain, done — on European infrastructure owned by Europeans, all the way down.

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Post #231624 2.68K Sep 4, 2026, 20:32 UTC

An open DNS recursive service for free security and high privacy
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Quad9 Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

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