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Post #232383 2.51K Sep 17, 2026, 09:06 UTC

I didn't sign the Fields medallists' letter
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Gowers's Weblog Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter [This post has been cross-posted to Terence Tao’s blog.] When I was around 11 I heard for the first time about Fermat’s Last Theorem. I was immediately captivated by the problem stateme…

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Post #232382 2.53K Sep 17, 2026, 08:48 UTC

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space
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GitHub GitHub - browser-use/jev-ultrafast: Fastest and cheapest web agent Fastest and cheapest web agent. Contribute to browser-use/jev-ultrafast development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #232381 2.45K Sep 17, 2026, 08:43 UTC

US interest rates raised for first time in three years
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Bbc US interest rates raised for first time in three years Rates were hiked in a unanimous decision despite fierce opposition from President Donald Trump, who had called for a cut.

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Post #232380 2.39K Sep 17, 2026, 08:20 UTC

One Year of Sponsored Servo Development
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Servo Your Donations at Work: One Year of Sponsored Servo Development - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance… Looking back on Servo's first donation-funded role.

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Post #232379 2.42K Sep 17, 2026, 07:50 UTC

Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill
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GitHub GitHub - cloudflare/security-audit-skill: A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine… A coding-agent skill for multi-phase security audits with independently verified, machine-readable findings - cloudflare/security-audit-skill

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Post #232378 2.38K Sep 17, 2026, 06:31 UTC

Monsanto's Cruel, and Dangerous, Monopolization on American Farming (2008)
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Vanity Fair Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear Monsanto dominates America’s food chain with ruthless tactics, waging a debilitating war against small farmers. Even worse, the company has a decades-long history of toxic contamination.

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Post #232377 2.3K Sep 17, 2026, 06:10 UTC

Why Does the Universe Expand?
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cosmiCave.org Why does the universe expand? A story about the main reasons I now think the universe expands because collapsed matter must continue as an expanding cosmology, the expansion is the collapse read from the other side, and the rat…

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Post #232376 2.33K Sep 17, 2026, 05:15 UTC

Berlin-based Langdock moves its parent company from the US to Germany
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euronews German AI start-up spends millions to move parent company from the US In a highly unusual move, fast-growing German AI start-up Langdock has moved its legal headquarters from the US to Germany as it seeks to become a "European hyperscaler".

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Post #232375 2.4K Sep 17, 2026, 04:25 UTC

The Painful Truth: The RAM Crisis Is Only Just the Beginning
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Post #232374 2.33K Sep 17, 2026, 04:09 UTC

ASCII City
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Post #232373 2.39K Sep 17, 2026, 03:25 UTC

Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes
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Ryan Fahey My personal website, portfolio, and blog.

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Post #232372 2.5K Sep 17, 2026, 02:53 UTC

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior
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Nytimes OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.

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Post #232371 2.18K Sep 17, 2026, 02:47 UTC

DeepSeek-v4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression
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zartbot.github.io DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash: Pushing the Limits of KV Cache Compression · zartbot A deep dive into the DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash technical report: CED, CSA2, HSI, Single-Pass mHC, Engram and FP4 KV Cache — how the KV cache was compressed to just 890 bytes per token.

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Post #232370 2.34K Sep 17, 2026, 02:22 UTC

Autism is genetic – and why this information matters now
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Post #232369 2.26K Sep 17, 2026, 02:21 UTC

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind
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gCaptain The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind For more than a century, commercial shipping steadily moved away from sails. Now they are coming back. Across the global fleet, shipowners are installing towering rotor sails, rigid wings and...

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Post #232368 2.14K Sep 17, 2026, 01:21 UTC

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents?
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harnesstax.github.io HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? What does a coding-agent harness actually add, and at what cost? It turns out your Claude models may not need Claude Code… We evaluate 21 model–harness pairs spanning seven models and three harnesses—Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Pi—on SWE-bench Lite and Terminal…

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Post #232367 2.32K Sep 17, 2026, 00:13 UTC

My website charged AI agents a penny per page. I watched Claude pay it
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Suganthan Mohanadasan I made my website charge AI agents a penny per page. Then I watched Claude pay it. — Suganthan Google is testing paying publishers when their pages feed its AI answers, on terms only Google can see. My site runs the other version over x402. It returns HTTP 402 to AI agents and unlocks for a cent in USDC, with a public receipt for every crawl, which…

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Post #232366 2.22K Sep 17, 2026, 00:02 UTC

Reverse-engineered Jev-like model
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GitHub GitHub - vinnylarouge/jevlike Contribute to vinnylarouge/jevlike development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Post #232365 3.35K Sep 16, 2026, 23:54 UTC

Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU
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The Independent Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU Trade minister says Canberra is on the same page as Ottawa and ‘will take great interest in what Mark Carney does’

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Post #232364 2.16K Sep 16, 2026, 23:11 UTC

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework
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OpenSpec OpenSpec | A lightweight and configurable spec framework OpenSpec helps teams and coding agents create, refine, and manage living specifications.

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