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Prediction markets (Kalshi, Polymarket) are becoming a news beat, with deals and branding from major outlets (CNBC, CNN, Fox News, AP; Substack, Dow Jones). Journalists like Kate Knibbs (Wired) and Dustin Gouker cover their intersection with politics, finance, and culture, noting both reporting value and risks. Markets could forecast events, but raise concerns about insider trading, information asymmetry, and editorial influence. ProPublica banned journalist betting. The piece frames journalism and prediction markets as increasingly intertwined, for better and worse.
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OpenClaw gives Anthropic Claude access via API and Claude CLI; API-key use is recommended. Onboard with --anthropic-api-key and set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY. Claude 4.6 is default; thinking level can be overridden per message or model. /fast selects service_tier auto (default) or standard_only. Prompt caching is supported; set cacheRetention (none/short/long) per model or agent (short by default for API keys). 1M context window is beta and must be enabled per model with context1m: true; not allowed with legacy tokens. Claude CLI backend is supported.
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Air carries DNA from us, other animals, plants and microbes. Scientists are turning airborne DNA (eDNA) into a tool for ecosystem health, invasive-species monitoring, and conservation assessment. DNA travels from metres to kilometres and lingers for days, collected by filters or samplers. Early work found tiger DNA 200 m from a zoo; UK national survey picked up 1,100 taxa, including exotic and invasive species, outperforming some citizen-science datasets. Potential benefits include rapid biodiversity read-outs and pathogen tracking; however, privacy concerns and data interpretation challenges remain. Research is expanding networks and methods.
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Mediator.ai is an AI-powered platform for cooperative negotiation that helps conflicting parties reach mutually acceptable agreements. It privately collects each side's position, drafts candidate settlements, and iteratively scores and refines options based on both sides' needs, using Nash bargaining theory. In a bakery case, Maya and Daniel surface a 60/40 split with a path back, plus a management salary, a waiver of claims for 18 months, and a shotgun buy-sell if the deal falls apart. The system translates natural-language talks into math to guide fair settlements.
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A Vercel Security Checkpoint page claims the browser is being verified, offering a 'Website owner? Click here to fix' link and prompting users to enable JavaScript to continue.
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FreeBSD CVE-2026-4747 is a 17-year-old stack-overflow in RPCSEC_GSS; publicly patched and exploited by Calif.io before Mythos launch. The FreeBSD advisory credits Nicholas Carlini using Claude Anthropic; Mythos Preview post claims autonomous discovery and exploitation. The timeline shows the advisory on March 26, Mythos claim on April 7. AISLE tests show 8 open-weight models detect the bug, including a 3.6B model at $0.11/M. The article argues Mythos did not demonstrate frontier-only capability; the credit line is disputed; claims either rediscovery or misattribution. Concludes Mythos marketing overreaches.
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Subsea cables include data (fiber) and power lines, with protection and voltage varying by route. Damage mainly from anchoring or trawling. Locating faults: data cables use light pulses; power cables use ROVs; deep-water breaks may require grapnels to surface ends. Repairs involve retrieving cable, splicing in a lab, and laying back the repaired section with extra slack (omega or hairpin). Data-cable repairs can take up to 16 hours. Vessels use dynamic positioning; protection includes metal sheathing and maps for fishermen. Cables carry about 95% of civilian/government traffic, with speeds up to 25 Tbps; data protection is vital.
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Real-time cine MRI of ten MCP joints in one participant shows cracking arises from rapid cavity inception within synovial fluid at the moment of rapid joint separation (tribonucleation), not from collapse of a pre-existing bubble. A transient intra-articular gas/void forms, coincides with the audible crack, and remains visible after cracking before fading once distraction stops. Joint-space increases from about 0.93 mm pre-crack to 1.89 mm post-crack. No immediate cavity collapse is observed. This supports tribonucleation as the mechanism and offers a new framework for study.
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From a slow, recursive AST-walking Zef interpreter using 64-bit tagged values, the post chronicles 21 optimizations—direct operator/RMW dispatch, symbol interning, value inlining, a new object model with storage and inline caches, watchpoints, and leaner allocations via specialized Arguments and getters/setters. Result: ~16.6x overall speed-up (67x with Yolo-C++), bringing Zef into the ballpark of Lua, CPython, and QuickJS. Validated with ScriptBench (Richards, DeltaBlue, N-Body, Splay) on Ubuntu 22.04; CPython 3.10, Lua 5.4.7, QuickJS-ng 0.14.0 comparisons. In Yolo-C++, Zef beats CPython by ~1.9x.
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Nebula 1.10 adds IPv6 overlay support, multiple IPs per host, and a new v2 certificate format (ASN.1) while remaining compatible with v1 during transition. Upgrade by moving to v1.10, creating a v2 CA, minting v2 certs with IPv4/IPv6, enabling mixed overlays. New features include PKCS#11 support for P256 keys, ECMP for unsafe_routes, Linux SO_MARK support, and configurable logger/version for embedded use. Breaking changes: firewall.default_local_cidr_any deprecated; explicitly declare local_cidr for unsafe_routes and update rules. Highlights IPv6 benefits and future-proofing.
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PrismML introduces Ternary Bonsai, a 1.58-bit family of LLMs with ternary weights (-1,0,+1) and a shared FP16 scale, delivering ~9x memory savings over 16-bit models. Available in 8B, 4B, and 1.7B sizes, all components—embeddings, attention, MLPs, and the LM head—use the same 1.58-bit representation via group-wise quantization (128 weights). On benchmarks, Ternary Bonsai 8B scores ~75.5 vs 70.5 for 1-bit Bonsai 8B, with ~1.75 GB memory versus 1.15 GB, and is competitive with Qwen3 8B while far smaller. Extends the Pareto frontier; strong throughput/energy on Apple devices. Apache 2.0; whitepaper available.
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Flinch is the gap between a model’s fluent probability for a charged word and the probability it actually outputs it. The study probes 4,442 contexts across seven checkpoints from five labs, including open-data (The Pile, Dolma), commercial pretrains (Qwen, Gemma, GPT-OSS), and OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b. Open-data baselines already show flinch; commercial models show larger flinch, suggesting word-level biases from pretraining. Ablating the 'I can’t help' refusal direction increases flinch rather than reducing it. Conclusion: 'uncensored' labels mislead—flinch persists and scales with training norms, quietly shaping what users read.
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Zaid Humayun argues that zero-copy data paths are essential for high-throughput databases. Start at OS/disk copies and show how using O_DIRECT bypasses the kernel page cache, and how a buffer pool with fixed page frames reduces unnecessary copies. In Rust, instead of owned PageBytes, the design borrows bytes via lifetimes, building read/write views (HeapPageView, HeapPageMut) atop a pinned PageBytes inside a BufferFrame guarded by RwLock. The read path uses borrowed views; writes require separate mutable guards. This yields safety and fewer copies, at the cost of ergonomic complexity.
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Monero's Community Crowdfunding System (CCS) is a collaborative platform to submit ideas, track funding stages, work in progress, and completed tasks, with donations to the General Fund or specific proposals. The page lists ongoing proposals and contributors (dates in 2025–2026) such as ProbeLab P2P metrics, monero.eco compensation, Grease payment channels, SyntheticBird CCS UI/UX, CCS frontend/backend upgrades, and 39C3 support. It provides repository links (CCS Front End/Back End/Proposals) and a donation address.
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The Work Runs on Different Maps argues that projects stall due to misaligned organizational maps, not lack of skill. It identifies five maps governing execution: Constraint (org chart), Expertise (who to ask), Decision (who actually approves), Memory (why rules exist), and Spanning (boundary-spanners). The distance between maps creates friction and fragility, with “human routers” carrying context. To route effectively, start with the formal map, observe buy-in signals, and surface the why behind rules. Making maps visible exposes the true organization—who decides and who benefits from the blur.
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holos is a Docker Compose‑like tool for running VM stacks on a single host using KVM/QEMU. It replaces containers with VMs, each with its own image, resources, cloud-init seed, and qcow2 data; stacks are defined in holos.yaml. No libvirt or distributed control plane. VMs can talk by name, with two NICs and DNS via /etc/hosts on a 10.10.0.0/24 network. Features include GPU passthrough, prebuilt cloud images, Dockerfile provisioning, persistent volumes, SSH‑based healthchecks, per‑project SSH keys, and a rich CLI (up/down/ps/exec/logs/install). Not Kubernetes; designed for single-host usage.
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StackAdapt is pitching advertisers to test ads inside ChatGPT, offering CPMs as low as $15 and a $50,000 minimum for a pilot. The initiative markets itself as early access to a new “discovery layer” reaching users in mid-research on ChatGPT. The pitch deck, titled “OpenAI x StackAdapt Limited Pilot Program,” describes a partnership with OpenAI to enable advertising within ChatGPT as an early-stage test of a still-developing ad system.
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