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Post #232483 2.44K Sep 18, 2026, 23:17 UTC

How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
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IEEE Spectrum How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip AI drastically shortened its design time; it will only get faster

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Post #232482 2.41K Sep 18, 2026, 22:52 UTC

US troop deaths during Iran war exceed Pentagon count by at least four
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Post #232481 2.51K Sep 18, 2026, 22:16 UTC

Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country
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sf.gazetteer.co Y Combinator’s PAC is throwing money at a bunch of Republicans across the country Garry Tan and other leaders at the San Francisco-based tech incubator are trying to build a tech-forward future one donation at a time

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Post #232480 3.28K Sep 18, 2026, 22:05 UTC

War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready?
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Bbc War may be coming. Are we psychologically ready? The military and government say the risk of conflict is growing, but we may not be mentally ready for it

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Post #232479 2.63K Sep 18, 2026, 21:15 UTC

Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
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Claude Code Docs Claude Code changelog - Claude Code Docs Release notes for Claude Code, including new features, improvements, and bug fixes by version.

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Post #232478 2.6K Sep 18, 2026, 20:24 UTC

Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged: Study
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New Scientist Our brain evolved from two primitive nervous systems that merged | New Scientist The front and back parts of our brain come from different progenitor cells in embryos, which suggests they evolved as separate entities

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Post #232477 2.53K Sep 18, 2026, 20:23 UTC

Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue
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koreajoongangdaily Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue Companies behind major negligent data leaks can now face fines of up to 10 percent of annual revenue under revised privacy rules.

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Post #232476 2.35K Sep 18, 2026, 19:43 UTC

Apple releases iPhone Duo simulator and Xcode 27.1 beta
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Apple Developer Documentation Xcode 27.1 Beta Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.

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Post #232475 3.17K Sep 18, 2026, 19:41 UTC

Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion
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Law & Crime Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion: 2nd Circuit A federal court of appeals ruled that a traveler's cellphone may be searched by government agents at the border without a warrant or suspicion.

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Post #232474 2.3K Sep 18, 2026, 19:36 UTC

Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
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GrapheneOS Mastodon GrapheneOS (@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social) Android 17 QPR1 is the first release since Android Honeycomb (3.x) adding new APIs for app developers without a release to the Android Open Source Project. The new APIs are currently exclusive to the Pixel OS and aren't available to other Android OEMs. …

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Post #232473 2.24K Sep 18, 2026, 19:29 UTC

Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models
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arXiv.org Cache-to-Cache: Direct Semantic Communication Between Large Language Models Multi-LLM systems harness the complementary strengths of diverse Large Language Models, achieving performance and efficiency gains that are not attainable by a single model. In existing designs,...

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Post #232472 2.37K Sep 18, 2026, 19:29 UTC

Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust)
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Cloudflare Blog Saving another 100TB of RAM with math (and Rust) Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.

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Post #232471 2.26K Sep 18, 2026, 19:08 UTC

The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security
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arXiv.org The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security LLMs are trained to generate natural language. However, various strands of evidence indicate that an LLM's externalized linguistic outputs and mechanistically-extracted linguistic features can be...

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Post #232470 2.63K Sep 18, 2026, 18:25 UTC

Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0
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x.ai Introducing Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 Announcing SpaceXAI's newest speech-to-text model, with unparalleled accuracy and cost effectiveness.

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Post #232469 2.36K Sep 18, 2026, 18:25 UTC

Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks
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brand.systemd.io systemd logo Logo and Brand Assets for systemd

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Post #232468 2.71K Sep 18, 2026, 18:10 UTC

US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
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CNN Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war

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Post #232467 2.43K Sep 18, 2026, 17:15 UTC

There's no point at which turning your brain off will work
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Post #232466 2.44K Sep 18, 2026, 17:09 UTC

Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug
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Ledger Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug | Ledger Donjon Differential photon-emission microscopy localized debug enable register activity and narrowed the laser search before SWD-guided injection set the two bits required to restore Secure debug on an RP2350 A4.

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Post #232465 2.31K Sep 18, 2026, 16:43 UTC

AI is an elite crime spree
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Thebignewsletter AI Is an Elite Crime Spree Documents show a Microsoft exec called AI the "largest theft of labor in human history.” New AI regulations are besides the point, the problem is we don’t apply existing laws to the powerful.

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Post #232464 2.43K Sep 18, 2026, 16:30 UTC

Second Circuit Allows Government to Search Electronic Devices at the Border
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Knight First Amendment Institute Second Circuit Allows Government to Search Electronic Devices at the Border Without Any Suspicion NEW YORK—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today held that border agents may search travelers’ electronic devices without suspicion. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the…

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