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Post #231863 2.51K Sep 9, 2026, 08:01 UTC

Sam Altman's statement on the Navier-Stokes dispute
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X (formerly Twitter) Sam Altman (@sama) on X I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work. Seb--and everyone else--acted with integrity and generosity throughout. Initially we believed the other team had also solved t…

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Post #231862 2.49K Sep 9, 2026, 07:36 UTC

How GPT‑5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
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OpenAI How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments See how an MIT researcher uses GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex to autonomously run quantum computing experiments, analyze results, and calibrate qubits.

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Post #231861 2.45K Sep 9, 2026, 07:20 UTC

"Tweet" and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain
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Technology & Marketing Law Blog TWEET and the Bird Logo Apparently Enter the Public Domain, But X Maintains Its Grip on the TWITTER Mark (For Now)-X v. Project… This case involves Project Bluebird, a social media service previously named “twitter.new” and renamed to tweet.app immediately after this ruling (for reasons this post makes obvious). Project Bluebird’s service is designed to reimagine the Twitter service…

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Post #231860 2.36K Sep 9, 2026, 07:10 UTC

Trying
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gwern.net On Really Trying What are the true limits to motivation?

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Post #231859 2.43K Sep 9, 2026, 06:50 UTC

Copyright does more harm than good and should be abolished
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GrapheneOS Mastodon GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social) @ailurocrat@scicomm.xyz @wod0bow@mastodon.social @aphedges@hachyderm.io @paulshryock@phpc.social Copyright does far more harm than good and should be abolished. It doesn't protect the livelihood of individuals and small businesses in practice. Instead, it's…

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Post #231858 2.42K Sep 9, 2026, 06:10 UTC

The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
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Simon Willison’s Weblog Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem introduces an impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of …

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Post #231857 2.38K Sep 9, 2026, 05:59 UTC

The Nonfiction Book Market Is Collapsing
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Substack The Nonfiction Book Market is Collapsing This is not one of those periodic “End of Reading” Atlantic click bait essays.

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Post #231856 2.81K Sep 9, 2026, 05:32 UTC

LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices
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Ars Technica LG TV shown scanning LAN for third-party phones and other devices “It doesn’t cost a lot to store text forever.”...

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Post #231855 2.3K Sep 9, 2026, 05:00 UTC

A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)
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note（ノート） The Vanished Genius CTO: A Biography of Lee Holloway, the Architect of Cloudflare's Technology (Part 1)｜占部雅一　masakazu urabe Cloudflare's rapid growth as a cloud service is due in part to its many unique technologies. Technologies like Anycast and same-IP access are just a few examples, and it was CTO and co-founder Lee Holloway who created these mechanisms. However, he was forced…

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Post #231854 3.29K Sep 9, 2026, 04:28 UTC

US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29
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Post #231853 2.39K Sep 9, 2026, 03:41 UTC

AI Responsibility – OpenAI and Anthropic
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X (formerly Twitter) Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) on X I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-impro…

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Post #231852 2.39K Sep 9, 2026, 03:38 UTC

DOJ Blocked ICE Agent Shooting Charge over Federal Prosecutor's Objections
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ProPublica Trump’s DOJ Blocked Serious ICE Shooting Charge Over Federal Prosecutor’s “Strongest Possible” Objections A prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges — similar to those brought against the officers who killed George Floyd — against an ICE agent. In an email we exclusively obtained, he reveals that Trump officials quashed those plans.

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Post #231851 2.38K Sep 9, 2026, 02:10 UTC

Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance
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current.fas.harvard.edu Harvard study predicts most suicide attempts a week in advance Researcher Matthew Nock pioneered the technique of using smartphone technology to survey high-risk adults and adolescents in real time. In a new study, Nock and his team report using the technology to predict 75 percent of suicide attempts in the week before…

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Post #231850 2.37K Sep 9, 2026, 01:59 UTC

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter
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gpu-lexer.vercel.app 27.6KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter An experimental, language-agnostic syntax highlighter powered by WebGPU.

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Post #231849 2.37K Sep 9, 2026, 01:58 UTC

I Rewrote My Back End in Go in 72 Hours and Cut My AWS Bill by 94%
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Post #231848 2.49K Sep 9, 2026, 01:11 UTC

I Resigned from Anthropic Today
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Nitter Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts…

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Post #231847 2.49K Sep 9, 2026, 00:58 UTC

Real photos of young girls were in nudify-app ads on Facebook, Instagram
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Ars Technica “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens Meta dragged its feet removing ads that nudify young girls' Instagram pics.

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Post #231846 2.52K Sep 8, 2026, 23:17 UTC

Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
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Mathstodon Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz) I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. This may seem unintuitive at first, since the set of possible problems…

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Post #231845 2.44K Sep 8, 2026, 23:11 UTC

A Topological Picture Book, Rendered
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Post #231844 2.55K Sep 8, 2026, 22:44 UTC

How to Build a Printer
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Nishant Joshi How to build a printer · Nishant Joshi If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.

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