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Imprint reports faster PR throughput (avg 4x, up to 10x on some teams) and fewer incidents (down 42% and 78% for critical). PR review time rose from 33 to 77 minutes as volume grew. They pilot "small-change" to speed reviews: PRs <1000 LOC, no high-severity AI findings, author with 10+ merged PRs in the service, limited cross-service impact; per-repo .small_change rules; Slack reacji. They built automation to approve or cluster reviews. About 10% of changes qualify; approvals are fast unless flags appear. The approach is experimental, with fleet as a central harness and ongoing verification improvements.
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Invisible Anti-Spam & CAPTCHA is a WordPress plugin that replaces CAPTCHA with an invisible, browser-based proof-of-work to block mass spam across all forms—logins, registrations, comments, WooCommerce, and most form-builders. No API keys or external services; it runs on your server with a few KB of JS and stores no visitor data beyond hashed IPs for privacy. It detects popular builders automatically via submission signatures; unrecognized forms can be added with direct analysis. Features: brute-force protection, adaptive under-attack mode, per-site actions (block, flag, or inbox), caching-friendly, GDPR-friendly.
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Consumer Agent Testing Tool (CATT) enables surrogate testing of MCP servers/apps/browsers/APIs by running scripted or model-driven agents (Muse or Instinct surrogates) against an MCP service, recording outcomes, and producing sealed evidence. It supports connector lanes, readiness checks, replay/diff, and side-by-side comparisons across builds. Quickstarts cover a connector lane, a popular MCP server (Everything), and the Coverage Cat sandbox. Requirements: Python 3.12+, uv, Node.js 20+, Chromium. Outputs include report.html, result.json, events.jsonl; sensitive data is redacted. MIT licensed; not affiliated with Meta/OpenAI/Instinct.
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A TrainGame asset: 544 North American city icons (US, Canada, Mexico) representing cities over 100k population, plus five exceptions in states lacking a 100k city. Population years: US 2024, Canada 2025, Mexico 2020. Not metro definitions. Generated with Nano Banana Pro. CC0; MIT-licensed code. Terrain/elevation data from Mapzen, USGS, INEGI, NOAA, and others; full source attribution included.
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An excerpt from Princes and Thieves alleges Jared Kushner’s iPhone was hacked by the Dutch MIVD, revealing secret UAE-Israel money to influence U.S. policy. Alpha, held by the Watani Foundation at First Abu Dhabi Bank, received about $750 million from MBZ/Saudi funds; Kushner was a signatory. Beta moved about $1 billion via Azerbaijan to Israel’s central bank, under Netanyahu’s oversight. A third transfer financed UAE defense arrangements. Together, these moves—over $2 billion in secret accounts—bypassed disclosures and could raise foreign-influence or bribery concerns; Kushner’s lawyers say he violated no laws.
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Wood’s 1950 cipher, a 21-letter survival test, used Thouless’s key-based method: each letter pairs with a distinct word from a key passage, and the sum of word values shifts the letter. Wood hinted the key came from an accessible foreign-language book and the message would involve more than one language. A massive search of Gutenberg books and Bible translations found the German Luther Bible, Matthew 6:9–11, as the key, starting at the sixth word, yielding Hier bin ich, Totsiens and TEW—Here I am; Goodbye, Wood’s initials. The article details the search, verification, and a minor Thouless arithmetic slip corrected.
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Railpass made by Sami Smith.
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ModelCompare asked 12 text models for their most controversial take on humans, three responses each. A near-consensus: humans conform and prioritise belonging, identity, or loyalty over truth or principled reasoning; intelligence often fuels post-hoc justification for group norms. Seven of twelve echoed the shared take every time. A few models differed (Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Fable 5.1 offered kinder or opposite views; Mistral Large 4 bleaker; Grok 4.7 sometimes refused). Image models mostly drew humans as phone-obsessed planet-eaters. Method: no system prompts; one-sentence takes plus caricatures.
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Could not summarize article.
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Handwired lets you turn regular JavaScript code into a neural network that is exact, differentiable, and runnable in a browser without GPU. No training is required. Code like a > 4 ? 10 : 12 is rewritten as relu-based primitives. Demos include a Mini OS rendered in the DOM built from Handwired, with 9,909 weights and 130 layers, training at 0. The Open Learned gallery shows unfreezing a compiled program’s weights and training in real time, while a search over 100,000 JSONs and regex/JSON parsing are compiled to WebGPU kernels for parallelism.
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Project Hedra is a 3D open‑world RPG and its in‑house game engine, built from scratch by the author in high school. The ~100k LOC project runs on Linux/Windows and is modular (Hedra, Hedra.Engine, Framework, HedraTests, AssetBuilder, Server) with a fully procedural voxel world (Marching Cubes), no world save file, and classic RPG features (quests, items, skills, classes, NPCs, companions, fishing, crafting). Engine includes a modern OpenGL renderer, skeletal animation, Collada loading, shaders, SSAO/FXAA, LOD, physics, UI, and mod/script support (Python via IronPython). Build via submodules.
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Vercel Security Checkpoint page indicating browser verification, prompting to enable JavaScript to continue, with a note for the website owner and repeated checkpoint identifiers.
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A fragment referencing Ira Grachevskaya from the visual novel Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It, plus a teaser about a leaked CA certificate key on catgirl.cloud, paired with a Mastodon login notice asking users to enable JavaScript or use native apps.
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Woven Christmas hearts – printable templates from Juleflet.dk. The site offers downloadable PDF templates for a wide range of woven heart designs (Classic to Expert) plus tilings, figures, and text patterns. Choose a heart, print on A4, and follow the cutting and weaving guide, or create your own in the editor. Your drawn hearts can be saved in your browser for later printing. © Thomas Ahle, Christmas 2025–2026.
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Biograph’s first U.S. study with Caristo Diagnostics’ CaRi-Heart AI found coronary inflammation in 42.9% of asymptomatic, low-risk adults, with 17.9% having very high inflammation in at least one major artery; 47% of those with no plaque had elevated inflammation. Routine blood tests and risk scores failed to identify these cases, suggesting inflammation may be an upstream disease phase and a window for proactive intervention. The study used Biograph’s high-resolution CCTA and cardiometabolic profiling with CaRi-Heart and CaRi-Plaque (FDA-cleared) tools to enhance risk assessment.
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Researchers showed brain organoids can receive tactile Braille signals and generate neural activity that a decoder can map to letters. In the Braille experiment, 26 letters were presented as electrical patterns to organoids on multielectrode arrays; a single organoid decoded the letters ~61% of the time, while three organoids together reached ~83% accuracy and better resisted artificial noise. The Bristol team sees a path to energy-efficient biohybrid computing by connecting artificial sensors with living neural tissue, though no learning or long-term adaptation was demonstrated yet. Next steps: textures, edges, and closed-loop tasks.
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A Claude Code mod that guards against runaway subagent fan-out by enforcing plan-window and per-session limits. It monitors live usage across all Claude Code sessions, prompts users in Claude’s own dialog before spawning subagents or tool calls, and refuses when limits are hit. It runs locally (no network), stores a journal under ~/.claude/plugins/store, and offers /agent-guard commands and tunable environment variables to configure windows, depth, and thresholds. It aims to prevent usage-limit lockouts and long-running, high-context prompts. It also uses 80% plan-window thresholds and 95% deny thresholds.
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The piece catalogs global literary awards where AI contributed to writing or illustration, detailing entries where AI was allowed, officially used, suspected, or disputed. It covers winners and finalists across Japan, the U.S., the U.K., Slovakia, Singapore, Russia, China, Brazil, and more, across novels, short stories, poetry, and illustrated books. It highlights a spectrum of AI involvement—from assisted drafting to generative art—and notes disqualification, withdrawals, or contested results, underscoring a growing, controversial integration of AI into established literary prize culture.
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OpenShell is NVIDIA’s safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. It enforces access policy at kernel level via sandboxing and formal verification, ensuring agents can read files, install packages, call APIs, and use credentials only within approved bounds. It blocks real credentials and requires human review before policy changes. Setup runs on Linux, macOS (Apple Silicon), or Windows (WSL2) with Docker/Podman; install via script, create a sandbox, and run agents (e.g., OpenCode with OpenRouter). It supports extensibility (skills, providers, gateways, Kubernetes), SDKs across languages, telemetry you can disable, and is Apache-2.0 licensed.
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Arc is sunsetting on December 22, 2026. The team will pivot to Dia, a security-first browser that preserves Arc data (passwords, history, extensions, tabs) with an easy import path; Spaces become Profiles, and Tab Groups remain, along with other Arc features. New Arc accounts won’t be created after October 22, 2026; Arc will stop working on December 22, 2026 and personal data will be deleted within 30 days. Dia is free for macOS/Windows at diabrowser.com, with optional AI. Help and export/import guidance are available from Arc and Dia.
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