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Researchers have produced a new form of superionic ice under extreme pressures up to 230 GPa and temperatures up to 2,630 K. They observed hexagonal close-packed (hcp) ice, a phase predicted but not previously seen, showing a transition from fcc to hcp as conditions intensify. In superionic ice, oxygen forms a fixed lattice while hydrogen moves. This phase could exist inside Uranus and Neptune and influence their magnetic fields; more work is needed to pin down stability ranges and properties.
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Vintage-latex is a GitHub repo with twenty self-contained LuaLaTeX/MetaPost examples that evoke historic scientific papers: engraved plates, star charts, tables, knots, telescopes. They fall into three groups: pure LaTeX pages (01–14), standalone fiziko MetaPost figures (03,07–09), and LuaLaTeX pages that embed fiziko figures (15–20). Build scripts for Windows and POSIX compile all examples into build/, with dependencies on LuaLaTeX, EB Garamond, TikZ, pgfplots, and the external fiziko library (GPL-3.0). Source is CC BY-SA 4.0; fiziko not included.
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Skynet Godot is a Godot 4 port of Bethesda's 1996 XnGine titles SkyNET and Future Shock. The port rewrites the engine in Godot and uses the user's original game data (BSA/WLD/texture, maps, sounds, HMI music); it does not include any original content. It recreates the DOS-era campaign (eight missions) with authentic rules, AI, weapons, destructibles, and LAN deathmatch, plus an Android export. Enhanced visuals: dynamic lighting, filtering, HUD, render scale. It includes build/export guidance, headless test suites, and is GPLv3 licensed as a fan project.
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Satirical piece by Xe Iaso arguing for a global pause on frontier AI research to let Techaro's Lygma AGI catch up and dominate, while lampooning corporate greed, advertising, and profit obsession. It jokingly proposes using AGI to grant “cat ears,” touts bank-account-driven motives and FelonyBench scores, and hints at avoiding an XK-class disaster. The text remains self-promotional and tongue-in-cheek, with caveats about accuracy and authorship.
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The piece agrees with 25 Fields medalists that AI’s goals clash with mathematics’ culture of understanding, but argues alignment should not mimic the profession’s incentives. Instead, AI and mathematics should align to understanding, attribution, intellectual generosity, and nurturing students and ideas. Using historical anecdotes—Schauder’s persecution, Ladyzhenskaya’s 1958 work, Uhlenbeck’s sexism, Morawetz, Zhang, and Berkeley’s mentorship failures—the author shows the field often fails to nurture talent. Fields politics and gender bias illustrate why ‘nurture with great care’ has not been universal.
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Apple unveils AFM3, its third-gen Apple Foundation Models, with five models: on-device AFM 3 Core and AFM 3 Core Advanced (20B sparse, IFP; flash-based) and server-based AFM 3 Cloud, ADM 3 Cloud (image), and AFM 3 Cloud Pro (NVIDIA GPUs in Google Cloud via Private Cloud Compute). AFM Core/Core Advanced and Cloud models integrate into Apple OS. Training uses cloud TPU pretraining, supervised fine-tuning, and RL with quantization-aware training; privacy-first: no user data used for training unless opt-in; Private Cloud Compute safeguards data. Evaluations show gains in text, image understanding, and TTS/dictation; new Siri and image tools.
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Since the 1920s, U.S. policy has shifted from speed limits to financial-responsibility requirements for crash damages. California’s minimum began in 1967 at $15,000 per person, $30,000 per crash and rose only to $30k/$50k by 2035. The average fatal crash costs about $1.6 million (2019 dollars); total crashes cost about $340 billion (2019). Most costs are borne by others through higher premiums, taxes, and congestion. With high uninsured/underinsured rates, victims often get little beyond the policy. Inflation indexing was debated; California fixed a $50k per-person increase in 2035, risking future erosion.
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Soundmap is a sound camera UI guiding setup: start the camera and connect your phone, then configure INPUT & ALIGNMENT and localization (Tracked iPhone + webcam; motion + microphone estimate). Supports stereo and ambisonic formats (AmbiX W,Y,Z,X; FuMa W,X,Y,Z). Tips: keep the camera still; clap, tap or speak with visible movement, as unrelated moving objects can confuse estimates. Adjust microphone spacing, camera horizontal view, and mic rotation; you can reverse left/right and mirror the overlay. Quiet threshold -55 dBFS. B-format is required for ambisonics; raw capsules are not B-format.
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Blizzard announced StarCraft will return in 2030 as an open‑world shooter, departing from RTS. After more than a decade of dormancy since StarCraft II’s final expansion and the canceled StarCraft: Ghost, the new game centers on the United Earth Directorate vs. the Zerg, with the Protoss only lightly referenced in a cinematic trailer. Fans are excited for a revival, though many still hope for a proper RTS sequel.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says an IPO in 2026 would be ill-advised and the company won’t go public this year. OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, but Altman says they’ll go public when the business and societal conditions are right. Earlier reports had targeted a 2026 window (late 2026) with potential shift to 2027 due to tech-stock volatility and financial challenges.
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An Apple M3 ANE RTL bug throttles DRAM weight streaming to 17–19 GB/s when total weight size is a multiple of 1 MiB, affecting models. Profiling kernel DMA speculative prefetch revealed a 1 MiB per-core transfer hitting a notch at D=2048, indicating a 14-bit prefetch ring wrap. Scrambling addresses offered little relief; core/address contention not sole cause. Likely culprit: speculative prefetch wraparound in kernel DMA (no epoch bit). Fixes: split 1 MiB transfers into non‑multiples (or pad) to avoid the notch, restoring ~60 GB/s and boosting LLM throughput (Llama 3.2 1B: 10→24 tok/s; Qwen3-8B: 1.36→2.97 tok/s).
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Simon Tatham notes an update to the Linux Zoo project, posted on Hachyderm.io.
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From 2004–2006, a UI engineer at Apple prototyped the 'Personalize your iPod' page for the online store. Customers could enter two lines to be engraved on the iPod’s back. The project added a rotatable iPod, a live engraving preview, and a shipping-time highlight. The iPod animation cycled JPEGs via JavaScript; the engraving was produced with ImageMagick and overlaid on the device image. Shipping changes used CSS class swaps for a yellow fade. An old demo remains.
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ModelRift compared CadQuery and OpenSCAD for AI-generated parts via six agents and three tasks (shelf bracket, two-part enclosure, and an M24x2 thread). Both produced printable STL, but failure modes differed: CadQuery fails loudly with explicit errors and can interrogate geometry via assertions; OpenSCAD fails silently and can pass exports with subtle issues. T1 favored OpenSCAD, T2 favored CadQuery, T3 favored OpenSCAD. No tool wins on output; verification and numerical checks matter more. They’ll stay with OpenSCAD but add numeric checks and a feature-edge/outline renderer to improve feedback.
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Real-SWE Benchmark tests frontier AI agents on private, real-world enterprise codebases, focusing on billing, taxes, and other business-critical tasks. Each task comes from a production system and requires understanding company-specific conventions. Eight models were evaluated with eight rollouts per task; resolution rate (pass@1) was reported with 95% CIs. Results show modest real-world readiness: best model Fable 5.1 Claude Code ~38.8%; GPT-6 Astra ~33.8%; Gemini 3.8 Flash ~31.2%; others lower. Analyses cover failure modes (unverified assumptions, integration errors, wrong files) and cost per rollout ($2.50–$6.96).
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Cubacadabra is a cross-platform Rust engine that centralizes game logic for iOS, Android, web, macOS, Windows, and Linux, with native hosts providing only surface code. By moving portable logic—account screens, game session, rendering decisions, and rules—into shared Rust crates (cubacadabra-client, cubacadabra-app, engine), and keeping Swift/Kotlin/JS as thin bindings, developers avoid duplicating behavior across platforms. The architecture supports single-source rules, deterministic state, and shared HTTP effects, while platform-specific parts handle UI, surfaces, and input. Studio and morph tooling validate assets; future platforms require only a shell, not re-implementations.
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An open letter to Dario Amodei argues for a law requiring every AI model released to the public to publish its weights, slowing frontier AI development without regulators. Internal/research models would stay private; governments could still access unreleased work. The author contends regulation risks regulatory capture and advantages incumbents, and that open weights would reduce funding incentives for new models across labs. He praises Dario's principled stance and urges him to champion open-weights legislation, beyond existing evaluator or compute-rule ideas.
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