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EU fined Google €890 million for Digital Markets Act violations, accusing the company of self-preferencing and restricting access to alternatives on Google Search and Google Play. The post notes the EU will again earn more from fines on US tech firms than from tax income of Europe’s public tech companies, with varied reactions in the thread.
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Aida's team developed Cyclic FP-fmoc, a small-molecule glue that bonds strongly to nonstick PTFE (≈1.3 MPa) via F–F interactions, hydrogen bonding, and π-π stacking. It can be fully removed with ethanol, leaving clean surfaces and reusable adhesions (~1.2 MPa) over cycles. This could aid recyclability of bonded parts, with potential PFAS environmental concerns to be studied; ethanol hand sanitizer could enable de-bonding in practice.
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Ed Zitron argues the AI boom is a bubble: LLM costs are token-based while software is sold as subscriptions, causing users to burn far more tokens than they pay for. Many AI startups are unprofitable; data centers require massive debt and capex with weak enterprise demand, risking systemic contagion. Hyperscalers have spent trillions on AI, memory prices have risen, and OpenAI/Anthropic dominate revenues. Apple’s AI push is modest and controversial. If the bubble bursts, Apple will largely sit on the sidelines, possibly pursuing selective acquisitions.
A GitHub repository page for MoonshotAI’s Kimi-K3 project, showing a file named k3_tech_report.pdf in the main branch (2.38 MB) and standard repository UI elements (fork/star counts, file tree, history, etc.).
RTINGS.com’s nonstick cookware testing shows coatings can shed particles even if they don’t look worn. The piece profiles top air fryers, comparing numerous models (Ninja, COSORI, Philips, Instant Pot, Chefman, Our Place, etc.) across sizes and capacities. It includes reviews, results, and a results table, and notes that full product reviews and prices are behind a membership, with affiliate links for purchases.
Colossus, built by Tommy Flowers at Bletchley Park, was the world’s first large-scale programmable electronic digital computer, designed to decrypt Germany’s Tunny (Lorenz) cipher. With help from codebreakers including Tutte and Turing, it revolutionized wartime cryptanalysis: the machine read ciphertext and produced wheel settings, enabling Allies to read high‑level German messages. Colossus I and II (the latter with about 2,400 tubes and 25,000 characters per second) sped up decryption, contributing to shortening WWII by months and saving millions. Ten machines operated; secrecy persisted until after the war; two were preserved as IEEE Milestones.
James Stanley tests whether washing dusty solar panels pays. With 16 panels (about 3.7 kW) in two banks, he compared outputs by bank before/after cleaning one bank. Cleaning produced about 2-5% higher output, worth roughly £60-£150/year, fading over time. Results fluctuated with weather and drying effects. He reports a minor tingling anecdote but attributes it to capacitive leakage and dismisses risk. He then considers upgrades: modern panels could boost output about 60% for about £5,000 with ~3-year payback, but the feed-in tariff structure may make upgrades unattractive since newer capacity would receive a worse tariff.
Adam Taylor has recreated the F-14 Tomcat’s CADC in FPGA, using an open-source MP944 implementation. The MP944 is a 20-bit, pipelined microprocessor that ran at 375 kHz, delivering about 9,375 instructions per second, and powered a six-chip CADC that computes flight data and drives the swing-wing. The project includes synthesizable VHDL, documentation, and test benches, and a Spartan-7 SoM FPGA used in a 3D-printed F-14 model for testing. Some enthusiasts say the MP944 was 8x faster than the Intel 4004, though the 4004’s fame came later.
The Incredible Proof Machine is a visual proof tool for propositional and predicate logic that lets users build proofs by dragging and connecting blocks; a green conclusion indicates a complete proof. It includes UI tips, shortcuts, and error cues (red blocks/connections, cycles). Custom blocks and tasks can be created by selecting blocks and wrapping them; formulas can be entered with ASCII abbreviations for common symbols. Proofs are saved locally in the browser; server-side save is planned. The project, by Joachim Breitner and collaborators, is Free Software with academic publications and community contribution encouraged.
An access-block page titled “Vercel Security Checkpoint” prompting browser verification. It instructs to enable JavaScript to continue and includes a “Website owner? Click here to fix” link with an internal session identifier, implying the site is blocked until verification is completed.
AI companies are bulk-buying rare pre-2022 books, shredding originals to train AI, with ISBNdb processing up to a million-book orders and keeping buyers anonymous; pre-2022 titles fetch premiums because they allegedly lack AI-generated text. A federal judge deemed this fair use since destroying the original leaves only a single copy. Anthropic reportedly hired the ex-Google Books head to amass "all the books in the world." The thread's take condemns the irreversible erasure of rare sources, calling the NDAs and framing as "digital preservation" a troubling business model and warning of a future where history is destroyed for AI.
Google Chrome for Arm64 Linux is now available, including Raspberry Pi. Arm64 builds are in Google’s official Debian/RPM repos; installing the Arm64 .deb on Ubuntu works and will update via apt. Chrome offers Google account sync and Widevine DRM. DRM is software-based, typically limiting streaming to 720p/1080p, so no 4K. Official announcement hasn’t been made on Chrome’s site yet, but Arm64 builds can be downloaded via the direct link and may become officially supported soon. Works on various Arm64 devices.
Misago currently renders HTML with Django, embeds a JSON blob, then React hydrates and replaces much of the page. This duplication causes maintenance, performance, and translation issues and requires dual templates and code. The author advocates HTMX: return small server-rendered HTML islands on interaction, avoiding JSON and React and no extra build steps. Migration would be incremental (navbar, threads list, thread page, profiles) while leaving admin in Django. Some pages already use HTMX; JS sizes have fallen as React is phased out. A transition may yield a temporary multi-page experience.
Incident: Elevated errors on Claude Opus 5; investigators looking into the issue. Affects claude.ai, Claude API (api.anthropic.com), Claude Code, and Claude Cowork. Reported July 27, 2026 at 11:27 UTC.
Argues the debate over whether digital minds are conscious misses the point: focus on phenomenal consciousness and whether systems’ experiences can be reliably mapped to qualia. As a physicalist-panpsychist, the author endorses an electromagnetic-field theory of consciousness (Pockett) and proposes a universal translation from field configurations to qualia. They claim digital hardware prevents true phenomenal introspection, though software may show functional consciousness. The piece outlines translation, simplicity, and introspection problems and calls for empirical research (Harvard meditation program, Hodak, etc.) to ground theory.
Tom Lockwood questions the claim that Bun’s Rust rewrite was completed for $165k using Anthropic’s AI. He notes no release tag since May and slow progress, while Buildkite CI costs and a flood of Claude-driven PRs from Anthropic employees imply ongoing, hidden expenses. The piece argues the rewrite isn’t proven finished and critiques AI hype behind high valuations. If costs continue around $10k/day, total spend could near $800k, casting doubt on the certainty and value of the project.
TurnTrout recounts leaving Google DeepMind after Google signed a classified Pentagon/DHS-era AI deal with no binding ethics guarantees. He details efforts to pressure leadership—contacting Jeff Dean, lobbying Sundar Pichai, and proposing a two-standards framework (human control over targeting; transparent oversight by a Defense AI Review Body) to constrain government use. He organized a petition signed by ~250 GDM researchers and engaged AI luminaries (Stuart Russell, Bengio, Hinton). Despite mixed actions from Anthropic/OpenAI, Google signed the deal. He argues ethics require enforceable red lines, not seats at the table, and resigns.
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