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OTC has developed 124-layer PCB technology for wafer inspection equipment used with AI semiconductors and HBM, about 15% more layers than the previous 108-layer design. The board is 7.6 mm thick. Mass production targets by October 2025 at Joetsu Plant in Niigata, using ultra-thin materials, specialized tooling, and an automatic transport system for ultra-thin materials. The tech enables high-speed, high-density data transfer between GPUs and memory for AI workloads. It targets AI, aerospace, defense, robotics, and next-gen communications. OTC will showcase at PCB East 2025 in Massachusetts.
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Two new European studies suggest GLP-1 medications (e.g., semaglutide, tirzepatide) may be linked to hair loss and nail problems. In 575 GLP-1 users vs 1,379 controls across France, the US, Brazil and Mexico, about half of users reported unusual hair loss vs one-third of controls, with scalp irritation common. Nail issues were higher among users (66% vs 53%), especially nail detachment (39% vs 9%) and discoloration (46% vs 17%). The studies are cross-sectional, not causal, and have not yet undergone peer review; follow-up studies are planned. Consult doctors rather than stop treatment.
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Abstract: The authors argue that time may be multidimensional, using physics-inspired analogies to frame how epilepsy distorts temporal experience. They propose that subjective time emerges from hierarchical neural timescales and coordinated brain-body rhythms spanning multiple frequency bands; seizures perturb this temporal integration, yielding phenomena such as déjà vu, jamais vu, temporal dilation or compression, looping, and fragmentation. Drawing on Husserlian and other phenomenological concepts, plus cultural perspectives, they view epilepsy as a natural model to study the plasticity of temporal consciousness. The framework links neural dynamics, phenomenology, and culture, and proposes testable predictions for future research.
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Arseny Kapoulkine explains how Zorah uses meshoptimizer and NVIDIA vk_lod_clusters for clustered ray tracing and LOD. Key points: glTF compression via EXT_meshopt_compression (v0/v1) cuts a 70 GB scene to about 32 GB, with lossy options; a fast meshlet codec and index format shrink data; processing improvements include attribute-aware simplification, a DAG-based BVH for fast LOD, and a memory-saving clamp of attribute error to triangle area (inspired by Unreal). Foliage uses optional boundary-area dilation. On an RTX 5070, Zorah loads in under 4 minutes; meshoptimizer 1.3 is feature-complete. Conclusion: clustered LOD is powerful and applicable, though not a final solution.
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Where is the planet? is a web tool that predicts the locations of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarf companions. Users can request new orbits by emailing Jason Wang. Built by Jason Wang, Matas Kulikauskas, and Sarah Blunt; researchers should cite the ASCL record. The page offers a selectable Planet Name from a long list of targets (e.g., HR 8799 b–e, PDS 70 b/c, 51 Eri b, etc.). Date: Predict! Copyright 2021 Matas Kulikauskas and Jason Wang.
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Google Maps Scraper MCP Server lets AI agents access structured Google Maps business data via a single MCP connection. Authenticate with an API key (Bearer) and call /api/mcp over streamable HTTP to retrieve up to 20 businesses per request, with addresses, contacts, ratings, and review counts in JSON. It works with Claude, Cursor, VS Code, and Codex using a simple .mcp.json config. Use cases include prospecting, local market analysis, and listing enrichment. Live use requires an API entitlement and cloud service; test credentials can simulate results.
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Deric Tilson and Adam Stein critique Harvard studies claiming cancer risk from proximity to nuclear power plants, showing their analysis yields positive associations across landmarks like Costco, private colleges, Harvard, NFL/NBA/MLB venues, and NASCAR regardless of actual exposure. They argue proximity is not exposure and ecological studies cannot establish causality; the method uses a broad-radius “proximity score” that produces spurious attributions. They conclude the approach likely yields zero true attributable deaths and several misleading papers.
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Florence Hazrat’s essay traces Philip Sidney’s extraordinary use of parentheses in The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, arguing that brackets drive style, structure, and readerly interpretation. Sidney’s Arcadia, unfinished and paused by a parenthesis—an example of the two 'boomerangs' of interruption—influenced later writers (Gervase Markham, Mary Wroth). The article situates parentheses in the Renaissance rhetoric tradition (Salutati, Quintilian, Puttenham, Mulcaster) as deliberate, morally ambivalent devices: they delay, qualify, and knit together before and after, elevating narrative complexity and expression.
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Debian Inference Portal is a self-service portal for Debian contributors to access LLM inference, manage API keys, and track budget usage. Access is limited to Debian Developers and Maintainers via Salsa login. Recent updates (Sept 25, 2026) add the scaleway/qwen3.8-27b model; documentation now includes a DebGPT configuration section and an expanded sandboxing example (Sept 23, 2026). The service was announced on debian-devel-announce, with Scaleway sponsorship; source and support info are on Salsa.
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Apple Developer News outlines upcoming changes to macOS Full Disk Access. The feature currently bypasses privacy controls, enabling backup and some apps to access files, mail, messages, and browsing history, sometimes without users’ full knowledge and potentially compromising others’ privacy in communications. Apple will add more controls so that granting this extraordinary access requires explicit user action. Given growing capabilities of AI agents, the privacy risks will rise, and Apple emphasizes ensuring users understand these risks before granting access.
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A blogger describes booting Linux on the Apple M4 Mac mini, detailing the challenges posed by SPTM, GXF, RVBAR, and MMU when bringing up Linux via m1n1. After iterative debugging with a minimal device tree and println debugging, they fixed MMIO mappings and disabled a problematic SYS_IMP_APL_VM_TMR_FIQ_ENA_EL2 write. By adding stdout-path and earlycon settings, they got a working serial console. They later bypassed WFI/WFIT-related stalls (replacing with NOPs) and pushed boot-arg-based WFI disable into upstream, enabling Linux to boot with all cores on M4 and related chips, with further peripheral reverse engineering planned and upstream contributions.
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A Vanguard password-reset bug arises from using maxlength='20' on the password input. Password managers generate longer passwords; when pasting during reset, the value is truncated to 20 chars, so the reset succeeds with a shortened password. But the login form's password field doesn't trim, so the full original password fails to authenticate. The lesson: don’t hard-limit password fields with maxlength. Validate length on the client or server using the actual submitted text, not a trimmed version.
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Ai2 open-sources AstaBrief 8B, a fast, open-weights model for generating cited scientific reports in Asta. Built on Qwen3-8B, it uses supervised fine-tuning and direct preference optimization trained on real researcher queries, with data filtered for grounding and citations. It produces full reports in one pass, about 3.5× faster (≈51s vs 178s) than Claude-based thinking mode. Open weights and training data are released; you can run it locally (behind firewalls) via Hugging Face, with an example workflow to generate reports from PDFs.
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Shrivu Shankar argues that every SaaS business is becoming a “harness”—the infra, interfaces, context, and state around a stateless LLM. Progression moves from human-driven work to background agents, with individuals and functions orchestrating harnesses and reviews; ultimately the company itself becomes the harness, with product output driven by agents and human taste needed for oversight. Differentiation shifts to trust, distribution, efficacy, and domain context, not just code. Companies should own the top-level harness and plug in vendor tools; full outer-loop automation would commoditize the business.
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People are leaving major platforms (Reddit, WordPress, Discord, GitHub, etc.) for reasons like pricing, AI-trained data, policy changes, or feeling less built for users. Rather than big replacements, they move to smaller, personal sites or self-hosted apps—less reach, more control. The big platforms aren’t going away, but the creators who made them interesting are quietly exiting and writing about it as they go.
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Zig 0.17.0 bundles five months of work: major Build System overhaul with Build Server Protocol and separation of maker/configurer; incremental compilation gains on x86_64-linux; SPIR-V backend multi-threaded; ELF/COFF linker improvements; broad target support updates (aarch64, loongarch, sparc, etc); language changes including new @backingInt/@fromBackingInt, revised @bitCast semantics, @SpirvType, and removal/renames of several features; stdlib and allocator updates (StackFallbackAllocator, SafeAllocator), formatting/zon parse improvements, and deprecations/renames; Build-system changes move package management to Build System; new cache system and Build Server Protocol aims for IDE support.
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GrapheneOS has fixed the Android 17 QPR1 kernel performance regression that caused stuttering, lag and freezes under memory pressure after the Pixel/Android 17 QPR1 rollout. The bug affected GrapheneOS due to updated firmware/drivers, but a release fix has been issued. The post critiques Google's slow patch cadence for major issues, noting Pixel 11 updates in early September 2026 did not include Android 17 QPR1 or the latest security patches. GrapheneOS provides a fix link (GitLab) and mentions ongoing work to reduce memory use in secure spawning, aiming to ship before November 2026; community responses are supportive.
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Muse Gadgets offers open‑source hardware and software to build Muse devices. Use ESP32 or Raspberry Pi with our SDKs to connect Muse to displays, sensors, and actuators. The device SDKs and firmware are Apache 2.0 open source, provided as‑is. Get started with an SDK token and project ideas, join the community on Discord, and contribute on GitHub. Examples include Muse Home Link and community-made gadgets for Home Assistant and TVs. Share your projects in the Discord #projects; devices from third parties are not endorsed by the platform.
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ldraw-nova is an AI agent toolchain that designs buildable LEGO models in LDraw. It uses Astra, Opus 5.5, and Jev to read prompts, plan parts and submodels, and iteratively render and refine designs. The agent generates generator scripts (generate.py) that output LDraw sources (.mpd) and assets (3D view, VR-ready .glb, images). It uses part discovery, collision checks, and headless rendering, guided by a plan (plan.json) to produce the final model. Run as a web app via Docker; clone ldraw-nova and ldraw-nova-docker at v0.6.0 and docker compose up. Limitations: VR, performance, high-end models.
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