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Sixteen years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, Gulf deep-sea life shows little recovery. A PNAS study finds ≥60% declines in octopus, squid, krill, shrimp, and lanternfish in the spill’s early years, based on acoustic surveys and thousands of nets. The losses are the fastest, most severe in the deep-sea zone from about 600 feet to over two miles deep; while not proving causation, oil pollution is the most parsimonious explanation. Contaminants persist in squid and octopus flesh and in fish eggs, potentially harming reproduction; genetic diversity has declined, risking adaptability.
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October 2026 SlopCodeBench update evaluates frontier models on 36 problems with 196 checkpoints; strict pass rates are 12–16% and core passes 66–74%. Astra XHigh leads strict passes (32/196), but gains over others are modest; higher effort costs 2–4x with little reliability in improving strict passes. The report emphasizes code cleanliness, reveals Opus Medium leaves more code and that cleaner code doesn't always yield more strict passes, and notes Part I of a two-part series.
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Facing AI, the author asks what to teach his son and revisits Neil Postman’s End of Education. He argues schools have endured because they fulfill evolving purposes: forming character, citizenship, livelihood, and basic knowledge. Resourcefulness—using tools like Google—has become a key educational aim, though AI unsettles traditional paths. Postman’s suggested aims—Spaceship Earth, The American Experiment, The World Makers—offer hopeful directions. The piece emphasizes that how we teach matters as much as what we teach, and proposes co‑creating education with children rather than prescribing it alone.
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An interactive 3D recreation of IKEA’s BILLY and LACK manuals, showing page‑by‑page assembly. The BILLY build uses 80×28×202 cm panels and 82 hardware pieces (dowels, cam screws/locks, nails, shelf pins, wall brackets). The cam-lock mechanism clamps panels; the back panel + nails keep the case square. The LACK table is shown with four legs and four double‑ended screws. The app emphasizes two-person lifting and that wall screws are not included. Reproduces the manual unaltered and is not endorsed by IKEA.
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TorchTPU provides a PyTorch backend for Google's TPUs, enabling PyTorch models and ops on TPU devices. It includes custom ATen kernels, a compilation cache for optimized XLA, and support for distributed training. It ships with examples (Llama, Qwen, ResNet, DLRM, minGPT, UNet) and integrates with torch.compile() for graph mode. Documentation is at torchtpu.readthedocs.io; notebooks are Marimo-based. Installation via pip (torch_tpu 0.2.0) or building from source with Bazel. Python 3.11+; Bazelisk-based builds; TPU VM required for notebooks. Open-source under Apache 2.0.
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Lukas Werner documents building a VGA driver in SystemVerilog for an FPGA (DE10-lite). It covers VGA basics (CRT revival, HSync/VSync, frame timing), using a 50 MHz clock to generate ~25 MHz pixel rate. A parameterized counter drives horizontal (0–799) and vertical (0–524) counts to yield a 640×480 visible area. Color data is mapped via a small mux to 12-bit RGB. The first lab displays color; the second loads an image from ROM, converting a Python image to a Go-generated ROM, and adds optional alpha transparency with several blending approaches. The post emphasizes debugging and interactive visuals.
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Voxtral 3 is Mistral’s voice-agent SDK and multilingual speech suite (50+ languages) for real-time listening, reasoning, tool use, and speaking in one streaming pipeline. It includes Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (multilingual with diarization and context biasing), Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (fast), and Voxtral Speech 3 TTS (expressive voices across 35+ languages and 50+ dialects) plus Pro Voice and 30-minute voice cloning. Supports sovereign deployment (EU API or self-hosted) with sub-500 ms latency. Pricing: transcription per minute; TTS per million chars. Available via Mistral API or self-deploy; Studio playgrounds.
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Rohan Protocol’s sdk is an open-source MCP stack including the MCP Server (mcp), core engine (sdk), and browser hooks (webmcp). It enables secure autonomous agents with in-memory RAM isolation, a V-01 semantic firewall to strip prompt injections, and V-02 deterministic memory zeroize to prevent context leaks. Exposes JSON-RPC MCP endpoints; runs from source or via npx. Features a Midnight blockchain ledger and gasless sponsorship, plus a security threat register and academic research. Public beta (v0.6.0).
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penmentor is an AI math tutor that reads handwritten work in xournal++, offering hints, marking mistakes, and showing concept animations (3Blue1Brown-style Manim). It supports Claude, Codex, or Antigravity Gemini agents, runs from a command-line tool with a keybind, and includes a xournal++ plugin to share the page. It’s MIT-licensed, Linux/X11-focused, with setup and settings documented.
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OpenDE is an open-source reimplementation of the Deus Ex engine. It runs UnrealScript bytecode and, on the web, is compiled to WebAssembly via Emscripten using WebGL 2 to run the shareware Deus Ex demo. Issue reports are welcome on GitHub: github.com/jarmitage99/OpenDE. Controls: WASD to move, left mouse to fire, right mouse to use; F1 opens the inventory, Esc opens the main menu. Settings and saved games are stored in browser storage.
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CDN-based, HTTP-only streaming cannot deliver real-time interactivity for live video. The article promotes Red5 Pro’s Experience Delivery Network (XDN), which streams source content in any direction with sub-400ms end-to-end latency using RTP/WebRTC/RTSP, plus RTMP/SRT/TS ingest and ABR through intelligent edge nodes. XDN also supports HTTP fallback (HLS). For VOD, it integrates with cloud storage (AWS S3, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces) to copy livestreams and enable VOD via CDNs, reducing origin load and cost. Time-shift features (pause, replay, start-over) and multi-cloud deployment via Terraform are planned.
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SIwithin runs an agent CLI unattended inside a macOS sandbox (fence) with a per-run budget and a ledger. It feeds Claude Code or OpenAI Codex CLIs through a loopback proxy, never exposing your home dir, and enforces read/write and network restrictions. Each run ends with a ledger entry and a receipt hash; a per-run token and pricing are tracked, with a reconcile feature to compare provider usage. It supports dry-run, budgeting, and multiple adapters, with per-run config directories. Install: siwithin.py (Python 3.10+).
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Three diffuse galaxies—DF2, DF4, and DF9—seem to have little dark matter, with stellar motions implying far less mass than expected. A proposed origin: an ancient collision stripped away their dark matter, leaving ordinary matter to form stars. The finding bolsters the case that dark matter is a real substance and challenges modified-gravity theories such as MOND, though the exact formation scenario remains debated. Some argue tidal interactions; others seek more data. Overall, the trio offers striking evidence against gravity-only explanations of galactic structure.
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