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The article argues AI’s rapid solving of prestigious mathematical puzzles threatens the field’s core of idea-generation. It distinguishes puzzle-solving (high-legibility, prestige) from idea-generating (creating new concepts). AI can solve puzzles without new ideas, undercutting progress and the prestige system (Goodhart’s law). Mathematicians may drift into AI and human streams, with AI potentially improving human math as in chess and speedrunning. Software engineering faces similar prestige erosion, prompting a revaluation of valuable human work and possible siloing of AI work.
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Ordewell is an open-source multi-agent task orchestration platform for coding agents. It converts a goal into an ordered plan of tasks, each with its own runner, model, thinking effort, and mode, executes them in parallel with dependency handling, and verifies completion by a unique marker in the runner output. It uses a planning phase that explores the repo read-only, supports multiple planners and runners (Claude, Codex, OpenCode, etc.), and provides CLI, TUI, and VS Code extensions with a local daemon server. No upfront API key required; supports many providers; configurable concurrency; adaptive planning via ADRs.
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JEXXA is a Mac-only dictation app that runs entirely on your Mac. The model stays on disk, so audio and transcripts never leave your device, and it works offline. It offers a live preview, fast dictation, and learns your names and jargon. Memory options: 16 GB+ with a 3.1 GB download (more accurate weights), 8 GB with a 2.0 GB download, or smaller 2 GB options. Price is $8/month with unlimited dictation and no per-minute billing; only optional subscription/update/diagnostics data may leave your device.
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Panel is an early-build research workspace for chatting with an agent (Claude Code) alongside you, with files, PDFs, and notebooks in one dock. It supports custom Panes, literature reviews, long-running tasks, real-time notebooks, and modular workflows with Inputs/Outputs/Intermediates plus a Data Abstraction Layer. Setup requires Node 22+, pnpm, and Python 3.12 via uv; run pnpm install, uv sync, then pnpm start and open http://localhost:4173. Conversations live at ~/Panel/panel.db and workspaces at ~/Panel/workspaces. Current support focuses on Claude Code; OpenAI API optional. MIT license.
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Capsule packs an entire app—UI, data, and assets—into a single portable .capsule file. No cloud or accounts; everything runs locally with offline-first storage and embedded SQLite data. Cross‑platform (macOS, Windows, Linux) and instant to launch on any device; can be shared like documents via WhatsApp, AirDrop, or email. zero vendor lock‑in using standard HTML/CSS; you own your code and data. AI-assisted generation lets you describe ideas and iteratively update apps in real time. Web Preview lets you try before downloading. Free to use.
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An enthusiast describes turning a cheap <$20 4G hotspot into a texting device using an OpenStick MF800/UZ801 base, a Clicks Keyboard, and a Sharp display. They design a compact PCB to manage USB power, host mode, and display signals, trim the MF800 to fit a case, and boot Linux via OpenStick using stock Android device trees. They wire the SPI display, fix CS handling with a kernel driver (sharp-drm-driver), and patch it with dithering for video/stills. They prototype an enclosure, test USB/power, iterate, and publish files on GitHub. Future work: sleep, power button, more inputs.
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Lawfare argues that 25 years after 9/11, mass surveillance supplants targeted surveillance, engulfing domestic policing and private sector data practices. The piece shows how NSA programs, Section 702, Upstream, and data brokers feed government access to Americans’ communications and location data, often with insufficient oversight, misuses, and chilling effects on First Amendment rights. It criticizes the costs versus benefits of mass surveillance, notes abuses (LOVEINT, license-plate readers), and calls for comprehensive reform: require warrants for mass data collection, end Section 702, curb private-data harvesting, and enact strong privacy protections, including encryption rights.
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Explains why many phenomena follow the inverse-square law by noting energy spreads over a sphere of radius r, whose surface area is 4πr^2. A geometric, area-preserving mapping from a cylinder to a sphere shows why the sphere’s area scales with r^2. Marble-drops illustrate dimensional dependence: in 1D intensity is distance-insensitive (d^0), in 2D it falls as 1/r (d^1), and in 3D as 1/r^2 (d^2). Thus intensity drops with the square of distance; lasers differ because they emit into a cone, not a full sphere.
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JDK 27 GA released: Build 35 is the GA release after RC, with no P1 bugs reported. Oracle OpenJDK GPL builds are at jdk.java.net/27; other vendors will follow. Nine JEPs are included, notably making G1 the default GC, Post-Quantum TLS key exchange, Structured Concurrency, the Vector API incubator, Lazy Constants, Primitive Types in patterns/instanceof/switch, JFR data redaction, and PEM encodings. Hundreds of enhancements and thousands of bug fixes accompany the release. Thanks to all contributors. — Mark Reinhold
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Fugleramme is an open-source Raspberry Pi project delivering a real-time, locally-run bird-detection frame. It uses BirdNET-Go to listen to a mic, detects species, and renders each match as hand-cut public-domain bird illustrations on an Inky Impression e-ink panel (or as a web kiosk). The artwork comes from 800+ public-domain plates covering 400+ species; none is AI-generated (some retouched). Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5, Inky Impression 13.3", mic, A4 frame. It supports Docker, a web admin, and local operation; MIT license.
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OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a smartphone camera startup, for over $300 million per The Wall Street Journal. Glass Imaging, founded in 2019 in Los Altos by ex-Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop (formerly of the Portrait Mode team), uses AI to optimize image quality at capture by learning each phone’s camera system. Glass Imaging had raised about $30 million. OpenAI has been linked to hardware plans and previously acquired Jony Ive’s company io for $6.5 billion.
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Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that 25 years after 9/11 the U.S. has shifted from targeted to mass surveillance, with NSA programs (Upstream, 702) and private data brokers feeding government access and private security. Mass surveillance erodes Fourth and First Amendment rights through overcollection, warrantless access, and chilling effects, with numerous abuses and unclear safety gains. They urge comprehensive reform: require warrants for mass data collection and use; allow Section 702 to expire; curb private surveillance; and enact broader privacy protections, encryption, and fiduciary duties for data collectors.
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CSS-Tricks is in limbo again after Digital Ocean’s 2022 acquisition and 2023 staff firings, with a brief revival in mid-2024 by Geoff Graham followed by renewed inactivity and silence from DO. The piece contrasts this with DO’s $3M donation to Omarchy, led by David Heinemeier Hansson, a figure the piece labels as far-right and racist, arranged quickly via CEO Paddy Srinivasan; DO has stopped $50 monthly payments to GNOME and Flathub. The author warns this harms a shrinking web-press ecosystem and stresses the site’s value.
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IBM and NASA released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, an open-source, multi-modal AI system that unifies decades of Moon data into a common representation for adaptable mapping. Built on TerraMind, it fuses observations across scales to assist exploration and science. Initial priorities include mapping small, uncatalogued craters; tracing lunar volcanic history through irregular mare patches; and locating ice in polar craters to support future crews. In tests it reduced ice-detection error by 22% versus a state-of-the-art SwinV2 model and mapped craters at 1 m resolution, speeding site evaluation for Artemis-era missions.
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Parts of the Netherlands faced widespread rail disruption after suspected sabotage of tracks. ProRail said materials placed on the line appear deliberately positioned and is investigating; no suspects or motives identified yet. About 15 disruptions were recorded, with routes to Schiphol and Utrecht affected; cancellations and delays expected and some level crossings closed. Nederlandse Spoorwegen reported disruptions around Zwolle, Deventer and Amersfoort, and a Eurostar Amsterdam–Paris was delayed by Amsterdam Centraal restrictions. Police are examining the located materials; one train in Steenwijk struck an object but no injuries occurred. France cautions on Normandy derailment reports as investigations continue.
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Article evaluates drop-in alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3 demos after MinIO's 2025 abandonment. Criteria: Docker image, S3 compatibility, open-source license, single-node simplicity, active backing, good DX. It reviews S3Proxy, RustFS, SeaweedFS, Zenko CloudServer, Garage, Apache Ozone, Ceph Object Gateway, with a bake-off. Verdict: SeaweedFS and S3Proxy are solid choices; RustFS possible (alpha, security concerns); CloudServer workable; Garage too complex for simple demos; Ozone and Ceph are heavyweight. Addenda note RustFS security issue; MinIO fork by Ruohang Feng. Baseline uses MinIO with DuckDB/Iceberg.
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