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Open-source is a strategic architectural decision, not a distribution hack. It pays off only if it clearly helps the product win—faster adoption, stronger defensibility, lower risk, or better monetization. Start with users: technical users want inspectable code and self-hosting; buyers want reduced risk and auditability. Test federation: user=contributor vs stadium where a core team guides. Federation yields network effects and winner-takes-most; stadium allows multiple winners. OSS fits well-understood problems, but demands governance, explicit extension points, and a defined OSS wedge and paid boundary. Hosting is not revenue. Decide before coding.
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A CAD search interface enables finding 3D models with natural-language queries; currently shows 0 models, powered by the ABC Dataset.
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Martino Comelli argues that welfare states shape financial markets through policy design, not the level of spending. Funded pensions and housing subsidies create investable assets, while generous pay-as-you-go pensions crowd out institutional finance. The Swedish puzzle and Netherlands show reforms can spur deep markets; elsewhere Germany, France, Japan, and Korea rely on insurance. He identifies three clusters: pension-led liberal economies; insurance-driven systems; high public-pension states with shallow finance. Across clusters, welfare design, not spending, explains finance depth. It was never just finance. It was always your pensions.
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A Vercel Security Checkpoint page indicates the browser is under verification, with prompts to enable JavaScript to continue and a “Website owner? Click here to fix” option, plus a sfo1::… token. Access is blocked until the verification is completed.
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Revised federal data show virtually no hiring in 2025: the BLS says 181,000 jobs were added that year, far less than 2024’s 1.46 million. In January 2026, payrolls rose by 130,000, unemployment at 4.3%. Health care led gains (137,000); manufacturing +5,000; leisure/hospitality +1,000. Revisions erase 862,000 jobs from 2024-25 and show four contraction months in 2025. Powell said last year’s figures overstated hiring by about 60,000 per month. Markets priced in a rate cut not before July.
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Fluorite is a console-grade 3D game engine fully integrated with Flutter, enabling Dart-written game logic and multiple 3D views via FluoriteView, with shared state between game Entities and Flutter UI. It uses a data-oriented ECS core in C++ for performance on embedded hardware while exposing Dart APIs for familiar development. It supports Blender-defined touch trigger zones to emit onClick events for spatial UI, uses Google's Filament renderer with Vulkan for high-quality rendering, lighting, post-processing, and custom shaders. Hot Reload enables rapid iteration; more features planned.
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Machiel Reyneke argues the modern longevity movement is a “vampire disclosure program.” Tracing parabiosis from 1864 to Stanford 2005 and Berkeley/Harvard work, he shows blood-based rejuvenation was framed as science, not myth. He profiles Peter Thiel and Bryan Johnson as contemporary vampires: Thiel’s Ambrosia funding and Palantir ties; Johnson’s plasma exchanges with his son and public self-tracking. The key twist: new research suggests benefits come from diluting old blood factors rather than adding young blood, reframing vampirism as dialysis. The piece warns about poor operational security among these figures and a staged disclosure timeline.
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Railway reports a partial outage affecting deployments. The incident was identified Feb 11, 2026 at 3:24 PM and is under investigation since 3:07 PM as teams work on a fix. The status page shows most services (Dashboard, Central Station, DNS, storage, login, etc.) at 99.95–100% uptime, with deployments (Railway Metal) at about 99.86% and some legacy groups near 100%, indicating a targeted disruption while overall uptime remains largely healthy during recovery.
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The article surveys a wave of CEO memos declaring AI usage a baseline, tracing Shopify’s Tobi Lutke, Box’s Aaron Levie, Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn, Fiverr’s Micha Kaufman and others across 2025–26. It identifies three framings: AI as gate (prove AI can’t do it before hiring), AI as ladder (AI boosts productivity and justifies more resources), and AI as fait accompli (reporting rapid progress). The memos function as strategy—shaping internal behavior, signaling to investors and hires, and creating accountability—yet they often omit a precise definition of “AI-first.” Klarna’s reversal offers a cautionary counterpoint.
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Renovate-operator is a Kubernetes-native operator that lets you run Renovate on your own infrastructure with CRD-based scheduling, parallel execution, and auto-discovery plus a built-in UI. It provides declarative cron schedules, per-project in-cluster status, Prometheus metrics, leader election, and TTL/retries for jobs. How it works: a discovery job runs at schedule, discovered projects appear in the UI, then Renovate jobs are queued and executed up to a configured parallelism. Install via OCI registry or Helm. Fully open source MIT.
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GLM-OCR is a multimodal OCR model built on GLM-V encoder–decoder, with Multi-Token Prediction loss and stable full-task RL to improve training efficiency and accuracy. It fuses a CogViT visual encoder, a light cross-modal connector, and a GLM-0.5B decoder, plus a two-stage PP-DocLayout-V3 layout detector for robust layout-aware recognition. It achieves state-of-the-art performance (OmniDocBench 94.62; top-ranked across benchmarks for formulas, tables, and info extraction) with ~0.9B params and fast inference via vLLM, SGLang, or Ollama. Open source with an SDK; deployment options include MaaS API or self-hosted pipelines; outputs JSON/Markdown.
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Alex Wellerstein analyzes an FBI file on Richard Feynman, focusing on a striking 1958 letter to J. Edgar Hoover that attacks Feynman’s character as a potential security risk. The letter is unusually vehement, personal, and written by someone who knew Feynman well. By tracing the file, the Boise, Idaho interview date, and internal clues, Wellerstein argues the author was a woman with ties to Feynman, likely his second wife, Mary Louise Bell, whose bitter divorce and conservative politics fit the profile. The piece discusses implications for how such smear letters affect security clearances and PSAC considerations.
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Rome is dotted with preserved cannon balls from wars. Highlights include the 14 cm ‘miracle cannon ball’ at San Bartolomeo all’Isola Tiberina (1849); a ball in the Salone d’Onore of Palazzo Colonna; a ball at Villa Medici on the Pincio, linked to Queen Christina; and a ball in the Aurelian Walls from the 1870 Breach of Porta Pia. Essence of Rome invites tours to explore these stories.
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