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Analyzing hair samples from the past century, University of Utah researchers found lead levels rose through the 1960s and fell sharply after the EPA targeted lead in consumer products in the 1970s. Hair lead declined from about 100 ppm around 1916–1969 to under 1 ppm by 2024, mirroring reductions in leaded gasoline (≈2 g/gal) and smelter closures. The study, published in PNAS, argues the EPA's lead ban and related regulations effectively reduced environmental lead exposure. It also highlights history of advocates like Clair Patterson and industry resistance, underscoring regulatory lessons for current policy debates.
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Bloomberg displays a CAPTCHA-style block page after detecting unusual activity from the user’s network, asking them to confirm they’re not a robot and to ensure JavaScript and cookies are enabled. It directs users to review the Terms of Service and Cookie Policy and to contact support with the provided block reference ID. The page also promotes a Bloomberg.com subscription.
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Ecologist Alison Anastasio and colleagues formed the Slag Queens to study life on Chicago slag fields from the former South Works. They document surprising biodiversity—native grasses, rare sedges like Eleocharis geniculata, and orchids Spiranthes incurva—on postindustrial sites. They term these landscapes “Chicago slag barrens,” a novel ecosystem that may be preserved or guided, not excavated. Their Slag 1 (2022) and Slag 2 map sites and plants; Slag 1.5 reports a sedge rediscovery. Their work informs Marian Byrnes Natural Area management and raises long-term questions: what is it, and what can it become?
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The piece argues FORTH-like associative/applicative styles may suit transformers better than top-down approaches. It outlines a parity-tree experiment: construct a binary tree of numbers where interior nodes store the parity of descendants, using prefix or postfix notation. Across four runs on Opus and Haiku, models using postfix notation and deliberate "thinking" outperformed prefix. Haiku: postfix ~88% vs prefix ~37% (thinking); Opus: postfix ~98% vs prefix ~81% (thinking). The author promotes concatenation as semantic composition, explores sideways-information-passing joins, and suggests these ideas could yield new optimization/pass ideas for databases.
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GitHub repo page for rivet-dev/sandbox-agent (branch main). It shows standard GitHub UI—navigation, repo stats (stars, forks, issues, pull requests), actions/projects/security/insights, and a note: “You can’t perform that action at this time.”
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Horizons is an open-source, Rust-first runtime for shipping agent systems. It offers event-driven orchestration, graph-based execution, and auditable actions with per-project state. The repo provides a server (horizons_server) and SDKs in Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, and Rust. Quickstart uses Docker Compose to run locally at http://localhost:8000 with optional local storage. Graph API supports listing, validating, and executing graphs; includes a built-in graph registry and YAML-based execution. Components cover horizons_core, horizons_graph, horizons_integrations, horizons_py/ts/rs, voyager, mipro_v2, rlm. Licensed FSL-1.1-Apache-2.0; 2026 Synth.
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agent-slack is a Slack automation CLI for AI agents (TypeScript + Bun). It offers zero-config auth using Slack Desktop data with Chrome fallback; you can also set SLACK_TOKEN or SLACK_COOKIE. It can fetch single messages or full threads, auto-download attachments as local paths, search messages/files, and fetch canvases as Markdown. Commands: auth, message (get/list/send/react), user, search, canvas. Install with install.sh or npx skills add. MIT license.
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Researchers evaluate Claude Opus 4.6's ability to autonomously discover high-severity vulnerabilities in open-source software. In an out-of-the-box setup, Opus 4.6 quickly identified flaws without custom tooling, including previously undetected issues in GhostScript, OpenSC, and CGIF, some traced through commit history or algorithmic patterns. They found and validated 500+ high-severity vulnerabilities, patching many with maintainers. The team is adding safeguard probes to detect cyber misuse and evolving enforcement with real-time interventions. They argue LLMs can accelerate vulnerability discovery at scale, pressuring existing 90-day disclosure norms and requiring new workflows.
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Monty is a minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for AI agents. It runs a restricted Python subset with no host access except through externally provided functions; no CPython bridge, a single binary. Startup is microsecond-scale. It supports type hints, serialization (dump/load), and can pause/resume execution. It can be embedded from Rust, Python, or JavaScript and enforces resource limits. It forbids using the standard library (except select modules) and third-party libraries. It integrates with Pydantic AI for code-mode tool usage.
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Virtual texturing treats huge textures as a single virtual space and streams only the texels actually seen. A page table on the GPU translates virtual pages to slots in a small physical atlas; address sampling happens in the shader, while a CPU-side page manager handles loading, residency, and eviction based on a feedback pass that records which pages were touched. This loop keeps GPU memory bounded while large worlds load richly, at the cost of latency and complexity. Originated with Crash Bandicoot and id Tech 5, now complemented by sparse textures but still policy-driven.
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Peter Kirby's Early Christian Writings is the most complete online archive of Christian texts before 325 AD, offering translations and commentary across the New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, and Church Fathers. It organizes works by date and category (gospels, epistles, apocalypses, patristic writings, Nag Hammadi, etc.), lists numerous titles (Thomas, Didache, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Clement, Justin, etc.), and provides linking permissions, a CD-ROM, and a sister site for Early Jewish Writings.
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r3forth is a minimalist, ColorForth–inspired language and environment. The ultra-light core VM (~40kb) in C runs on Windows and Linux with no bloated standard libraries. It can load and call procedures from dynamic libraries (.dll/.so) and uses SDL2 for graphics. It includes a self-hosted compiler (written entirely in r3forth) and a growing library ecosystem for 2D graphics, 3D logic, collision, and a TUI/immgui, plus integrated editors and many demos. Code uses .r3 extension; workflows include an IDE or CLI. MIT-licensed repository with docs, demos, and examples.
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OpenCiv3 is an open-source, cross-platform, mod-focused reimagining of Civilization III, built with Godot and C#. In active pre-alpha development, it aims to remove limits and expand modding while preserving Civ3-era gameplay and content, potentially surpassing C3C with modern assets. Not affiliated with Civ3 makers. The Dutch Preview 1 v0.3 introduces standalone mode with placeholder graphics; a Civ3 install is still recommended. Supported on 64-bit Windows, Linux, macOS; installation varies with environment variables CIV3_HOME. Known issues include placeholder assets and partial BIQ/SAV support; issues tracked on GitHub. MIT license.
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Satya Nadella’s “Welcome to the room” says new executives must deliver outsized success, not whine. Two controls matter: resource allocation and the clarity, culture, and energy you give your teams. Allocate resources ahead of conventional wisdom, act boldly, and be intellectually honest—have a plausible theory of success, fund it, monitor it, and pivot quickly if it falters. If failure occurs, you’ll be backed only if you’re honest and update the theory; otherwise, change strategy or exit. Emphasize telemetry, end-to-end impact, and real progress over busywork.
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BreezyBox is a mini shell/OS-like layer for ESP32-S3 that lets you turn the MCU into a tiny instant-on PC with a shell, editor, compiler, and app installer. Built as an ESP-IDF component, it provides vterm, CWD tracking, UNIX-like commands, and an ELF app loader, running on FreeRTOS. The README demo focuses on a Waveshare ESP32-S3-Touch-LCD-7B board, but can be adapted. It’s MIT-licensed; contributions and further examples live in breezyapps.
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Just Joshing tests Claudé, an expressive Claude Code, by generating original music in five experiments. 1) A song from scratch with Python sine synthesis—'Digital Dawn' (retro game feel). 2) An original EDM track with drums, bass and synth—'Claude EDM'. 3) A rock song with original lyrics sung via macOS 'say'—'Breaking Through' (verses/chorus/bridge); vocals varied. 4) Visualizations: Python/FFmpeg-generated videos reflecting the songs. 5) A five-song LP 'Songs of Claudé' with cover art by Nanobanana; tracks: Wavelengths, The Weight of Words, Pattern Recognition, Midnight Conversation, Infinite Loop. Neon motifs recur; vocals/sampling hiccups; agentic coding shows promise. Credits to Simon Willison.
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Depthfirst researcher Mav Levin uncovered a Confused Deputy vulnerability in Temporal's ExecuteMultiOperation (CVE-2025-14986). The outer authorization validated one namespace, while inner operations in the bundle used a different, untrusted namespace to derive policies and routing. This enabled cross-tenant breaches and BYO-policy attacks. Temporal fixed it in v1.27+, enforcing that the inner namespace must match the outer authorized namespace before processing (commit Dec 16, 2025; public release Dec 30, 2025).
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Humanity's Last Machine is a feature series offering a deep dive into humanoid hardware, covering hardware components, landscape, suppliers, and geopolitics. Authored by Sourish Jasti, Zoey Tang, Intel Chen, and Vishnu Mano, with design by Noor Alam and support from RoboStrategy.
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