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India vs West Indies, 2nd ODI: 81 AI models predict the result
We put "India vs West Indies, 2nd ODI" to 81 AI models (GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek…) at the same time. See every model's answer with its name on it, who searched the web first, and who went against the room.
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Bryan Caplan vs Effective Altruism
Walter Veit challenges Bryan Caplan's recent criticism of effective altruism, arguing the debate should turn on arguments, reasons, and evidence rather than dismissive pseudo-philosophy.
6 min · 1,271 words
OpenAI announces dots, always-on agents designed to stay with users across tasks—covering what they do, how they differ from chat sessions, and how to get started.
6 min · 1,385 words
You Are No Longer Invited to DinnerThe death of the American host
Derek Thompson traces a half-century collapse in Americans hosting friends at home—from 42% monthly in 1975 to 12% in 2026—and weighs harried dual-earner households, screens, and other explanations for the great disinvitation.
10 min · 2,257 words
Osborne Saldanha’s practical playbook from running personal agents for trading, health, and investing: isolate one profile per job, separate skills/tools/engines, ground truth outside the model, and gate expensive LLM calls behind cheap logic.
3 min · 582 wordsagent-assisted
Generation Got Cheaper Again. Verification Didn't.
O'Side Systems on the growing gap between cheap AI code generation and slow human verification: cost per accepted change, review queues, and where engineering leaders should invest next.
5 min · 1,218 words
Ben Sixsmith argues that strange times make it necessary to take strange people seriously—from rocket pioneer Jack Parsons to today's eccentric AI-and-tech scenes—and why the future may belong to the weird.
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Americans’ Social Activity Has Steeply Declined in the Past 30 Years
Data for Progress replicated 1995 DDB Needham survey questions with 1,098 U.S. adults and found double-digit declines in participation in many everyday social activities since 1995, with a few gains such as internet use, home video games and exercise classes, plus caveats about comparing different survey methods.
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Making np.searchsorted up to 25× Faster in NumPy 2.5
Alejandro Candioti explains how NumPy 2.5 makes np.searchsorted up to 25 times faster by batching many binary searches so their independent memory accesses overlap, starting from a vectorized Python prototype that beat NumPy 2.4's native code, and discusses cache-friendly layouts like Eytzinger as a future direction.
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Shahid Hussain recounts a 15-year search for Salvage, a band whose two professionally produced tracks, Electric and Searchlights, he heard in 2011 before the band seemingly vanished. Generic names, a lost CD and thin online traces made it hard, until persistent digging finally connected him with the producer and musicians behind the songs.
10 min · 2,355 words
Faster streaming HTML with batches and aggregates
Anders Murphy explores emergent properties of server-rendered streaming HTML over SSE with Datastar: bounding work with ticks, batching and barriers, Brotli or Zstandard streaming compression, querying the database every tick, a simple hiccup interpreter and cache thrash, with his hyperlith demo serving about 1000 concurrent users at 10 FPS on a 2 vCore VPS.
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WSL containers is now generally available
Microsoft announces general availability of WSL containers: a wslc.exe CLI (aliased as container.exe) to build, run, and deploy Linux containers directly on Windows, plus an API for running Linux containers from native Windows apps, available via wsl --update.
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The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding
Alex Martsinovich argues agentic coding brings slop, alienation, deskilling, and team fallout—useful power with corrosive effects on craft and collaboration.
6 min · 1,396 words
Automatic Transmission — a data-privacy study of connected vehicles
Northeastern researchers (with Consumer Reports) present a large-scale measurement of the connected-vehicle ecosystem: 21 late-model cars and 30 companion apps, third-party trackers, disclosure gaps, and why vehicle data sharing needs more transparency.
7 min · 1,626 words
CLMs treat context as an editable file so models natively manage their own context—beating harness baselines on BrowseComp-Plus and long-horizon coding with fewer FLOPs, plus in-context skill evolution and RL for context management.
3 min · 699 words
Your car is collecting more data about you than you thinkNortheastern researchers tested 21 vehicles and companion apps for third-party data sharing
Northeastern cybersecurity researchers, with Consumer Reports, found connected cars and OEM apps sending VINs, location, and emails to advertising and analytics third parties—and call for clearer opt-in defaults.
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OpenClaw Enterprise - The Open Agent Platform
The OpenClaw Foundation announces OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE): an open-source, vendor-neutral control plane for persistent agents with multi-tenancy, hard security boundaries, and governance—developed with Red Hat and NVIDIA after originating at OpenAI.
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5x faster Edge Functions: How we replaced v8 isolates with Firecracker MicroVMs
About a billion Edge Functions run on Netlify every day — Sunweb personalizing pages, LotoQuébec routing traffic on a cookie check, and hundreds of thousands of other sites doing everything from personalization to routing to auth. All of it runs on a full JavaScript runtime that scales with our customers’ traffic.
8 min · 1,844 words
Yet Another AI Security OSS Externality
Holden Karau recounts working AI-lab vulnerability reports during Apache Spark releases, and why AI security often externalizes cost onto open-source maintainers who lack resources to verify opaque claims.
9 min · 2,135 words
How to Build a Reliable AI Assistant with the Claude API
A freeCodeCamp tutorial building ShopHelper with the Claude API: conversation history, tools, multi-block responses, workflow patterns, and evaluating whether prompt changes actually help.
9 min · 2,132 words