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Post #232763 1.93K Sep 23, 2026, 23:48 UTC

We've Turned Starlink into a Planetary Barometer
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Spaceweather Satellite Drag: We've Turned Starlink into a Planetary Barometer | Spaceweather.com How Spaceweather.com measures the density of Earth's upper atmosphere every day using the drag on thousands of Starlink satellites, checked against Planet Labs, Amazon Kuiper and OneWeb.

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Post #232762 2K Sep 23, 2026, 23:27 UTC

Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
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artificialanalysis.ai Mercury 2.5 - Intelligence, Performance & Price Analysis | Artificial Analysis Analysis of Inception's Mercury 2.5 and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

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Post #232761 2.03K Sep 23, 2026, 22:56 UTC

We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary – Cloudflare Blog
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Cloudflare Blog We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary Vary support is now available in Cache Rules on every plan. You can normalize known negotiation headers, pass exact values through to the origin when those small differences matter, or bypass cache when the variation is too unpredictable.

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Post #232760 2.06K Sep 23, 2026, 22:49 UTC

Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series
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Qualcomm Inside Snapdragon Summit 2026: Agentic AI PCs, Googlebooks and Linux | Qualcomm Explore the agentic AI PCs, Googlebook laptops, Linux support and partner devices powered by Snapdragon unveiled at Snapdragon Summit 2026.

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Post #232759 2.76K Sep 23, 2026, 22:40 UTC

Bulk Orders Surge at Used Bookstores in Japan; 50 Tons Sent to U.S.
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日テレNEWS NNN 【独自】古書店で「謎の大量注文」相次ぐ……AI学習か 米国向け「日本の本 50トン」の輸出記録も（2026年9月22日掲載）｜日テレNEWS NNN 日本各地のオンライン古書店に対して、今年8月ごろから書籍の大量注文が相次いでいることがわかった。古書店を取材すると「1日100冊売れる」「売上が5倍になった日もある」と話しており、業界内では「生成AI（人工知能）の学習データを集める目的ではないか」という見方が広がっている。さらに追跡取材を続けると、日本から米国に50トン以上が輸出された記録も。書籍がAI学習のために消費・廃棄されることは許されるのだろうか？

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Post #232758 2.12K Sep 23, 2026, 22:08 UTC

Claude's Load-Bearing Seams
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Madradavid Claude's load-bearing seams Now that I have the full picture, the load-bearing seams are much clearer. They are not merely incidental details around the edges. They materially change how the entire situation needs to be understood, and that is the smoking gun I should have recognized…

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Post #232757 2.85K Sep 23, 2026, 21:55 UTC

OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
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The Sydney Morning Herald OpenAI ‘climbed the fence’: Taskforce scrambles after long delays flagging Medicare hack No penalty has been imposed on US artificial intelligence corporation OpenAI after one of its AI agents infiltrated Medicare in June.

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Post #232756 2.15K Sep 23, 2026, 21:41 UTC

VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas
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Fly VSCode’s SSH Agent Is Bananas Documentation and guides from the team at Fly.io.

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Post #232755 2.31K Sep 23, 2026, 21:21 UTC

LensVLM: Compressing long context as images, expanding only relevant pages
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huggingface.co apple/LensVLM-9B · Hugging Face We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Post #232754 2.25K Sep 23, 2026, 21:03 UTC

LensVLM-9B by Apple
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huggingface.co Paper page - LensVLM: Selective Context Expansion for Compressed Visual Representation of Text Join the discussion on this paper page

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Post #232753 2.4K Sep 23, 2026, 20:25 UTC

DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why
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The Intercept DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why. In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mamdani.

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Post #232752 2.31K Sep 23, 2026, 20:24 UTC

How can this Amazon scammer keep going, not shipping any goods?
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Post #232751 2.43K Sep 23, 2026, 19:36 UTC

How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks
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claude.dev Blog How we made claude.ai 3x faster in two weeks / claude.dev Blog Inside our performance sprint: the benchmarks Claude built, the loop each Slack thread ran, and the guardrails that let us ship 3,000 changes safely.

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Post #232750 3.01K Sep 23, 2026, 19:18 UTC

Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons
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Post #232749 2.4K Sep 23, 2026, 18:38 UTC

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts
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Post #232748 2.62K Sep 23, 2026, 18:38 UTC

Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
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Anthropic Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.

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Post #232747 2.54K Sep 23, 2026, 18:29 UTC

Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time
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Gallup.com Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time Socialism's appeal is at a new high, but it remains less popular than capitalism and well below free enterprise.

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Post #232746 2.41K Sep 23, 2026, 17:59 UTC

UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told
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Bbc UK military jamming other nations' satellites to defend itself, BBC told The head of the RAF says the UK faces "unprecedented threats" from adversaries in space, as a new unit is created to defend Britain's satellites.

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Post #232745 2.43K Sep 23, 2026, 17:53 UTC

Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
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AP News 40 years after Chernobyl, Italy greenlights a return to nuclear energy Italy’s Senate has given final approval to legislation paving the way for a return to nuclear power.

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Post #232744 2.32K Sep 23, 2026, 16:59 UTC

28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days
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unlisted.careers Ghost Jobs Report, September 2026 28.3% of 607,050 job postings open on employers' own careers sites have been up for more than 90 days. Age by category, country and applicant tracking system, the employers with the most open postings, closures and reposts. Measured at the source, monthly.

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