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Electrek reports Tesla’s robotaxi has a crash every ~55,000 miles through Nov 2025, about 9x worse than the average US driver (police-reported ~1 per 500,000 miles; including non-police incidents ~200,000). The nine Austin crashes from July–Nov 2025 come with a safety monitor in every car, yet the rate remains high. By contrast, Waymo’s fully driverless fleet with over 25 million miles shows a lower crash rate. Tesla’s NHTSA narratives are redacted, hindering transparency, while Waymo provides detailed incident descriptions. Some improvements are suggested, but the data is sobering.
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Netflix Animation Studios has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Corporate Patron, committing support for Blender core development to improve content-creation tools for media and entertainment workflows. The move signals Blender’s growing adoption in high-end animation studios and benefits the global open-source community. Blender Foundation CEO Francesco Siddi and Netflix SVP Darin Grant praise the partnership as a milestone for open, collaborative 3D tooling.
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Access to artnet.com is blocked by Cloudflare’s security service, which can be triggered by certain words/phrases, a SQL command, or malformed data. To resolve, email the site owner with what you were doing and include the Cloudflare Ray ID (9c60194eabba8b3c) and your IP address.
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GOG plans a native GOG GALAXY for Linux, calling Linux the 'next major frontier' and hiring a senior engineer to design Galaxy's Linux architecture from day one. The move aims to simplify access to GOG's library for Linux users and builds on Linux gaming momentum (e.g., Proton) while encouraging native Linux versions. Galaxy currently runs on Windows/macOS, with Linux as the next target to broaden Linux gaming beyond workarounds.
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Warns of a new scam: 'vibe coding' where AI-generated software projects are pumped as coins. The cycle: a tech bro funds a massive, unworkable software blob with AI tokens, takes a stake in a shitcoin, and crypto scammers hype it across platforms to create FOMO. Unsuspecting developers and peers amplify the hype; after a few months the project is abandoned and the coin is dumped. The author cites Clawdbot as another example and cautions about paid astroturfing and hype-driven investing.
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An Anthropic study investigates whether AI coding assistance helps or hinders skill formation. In a randomized trial with 52 junior software engineers learning the Trio Python library, AI assistance reduced mastery: the AI group scored about 50% on a post-task quiz vs 67% for hand coding (p=0.01). Task time differences were not significant. How participants grew with AI mattered: patterns combining code generation with active understanding (follow-up questions, explanations, conceptual queries) yielded higher learning, while heavy delegation or iterative debugging hurt mastery. Conclusion: AI can speed tasks but may impair skill development; design AI tools and policies to preserve learning.
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Aldo Cortesi announces spacecurve, a Rust-based project revisiting space-filling curves (Hilbert, Peano, Sierpinski, Moore, Z-order). After years of blogging about visualization, he rewrote tools in Rust and released fast core implementations in the spacecurve library and a 2D/3D visualization CLI called scurve. An egui interface runs natively and in the browser, with a web viewer available. Installation: cargo add spacecurve; cargo install scurve; run scurve gui spacecurve web. The project aims to explore visualization and color spaces of curves.
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Head of cross-platform (Rust) at Photoroom.
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OpenClaw, a rebrand of the weekend project that started as “WhatsApp Relay,” presents an open-source agent platform that runs on your machine and works with chat apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, and Teams, keeping data on your own infrastructure. The release adds Twitch and Google Chat plugins, supports KIMI K2.5 and Xiaomi MiMo-V2-Flash models, and Web Chat can send images. 34 security commits hardened the codebase, with machine-checkable security models released. Roadmap focuses on security, gateway reliability, more models/providers; maintainers and sponsors sought. Get started at openclaw.ai.
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An April Fools’ satire claiming you can replace all electronic components with 555 timer ICs. It argues the 555 is essentially a transistor, can form logic, timing, and signal generation, and, by chaining 555s, could substitute microcontrollers, op-amps, ADCs/DACs, UARTs, and even resistors, capacitors, and inductors. The piece emphasizes it's humorous and not a real engineering guide, though it playfully invites readers to experiment with 555s.
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Peter Fritz, an Austrian insurance clerk, made 387 cardboard models in the 1950s–60s depicting an imaginary Austrian town from everyday vernacular architecture—banks, gas stations, farms, houses, fire stations—recomposing structures he encountered. Forgotten in plastic bags, the models were rediscovered by artist Oliver Croy and shown at the Venice Biennale, framed as a visionary, encyclopedic survey of regional typologies rather than conventional artworks.
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Nicolas Mattia presents Skapa, a 100% client-side parametric app to generate 3D-printable boxes for IKEA Skadis pegboards. The web app mimics an IKEA manual, using Kanit, orthographic views, and minimal UI. Users set width, height, depth to export an STL ready for printing. Generation uses manifold-3d (Wasm); rendering uses Three.js with handcrafted edge-detection shaders for thick outlines. Code on GitHub and Printables; future plans include more models and printing tweaks (supports now optional).
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The article traces how early 'home computer hybrids' merged PC flexibility with cartridge-based games, focusing on Atari and TI. Atari’s 400/800 (the Home Computer System) blended advanced color graphics and sound with cartridge expandability, becoming a leading home computer for games while facing stricter FCC RF rules, which drove it toward a shielded, all-in-one design with a single SIO. TI’s TI-99/4 aimed for a high-end, integrated package but flopped on price, keyboard, and software control. The 1979 FCC regs broadened testing to all PCs, elevating costs and hastening the shift to a broader home-computer market—the home computer wars.
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nannou is an open-source creative-coding toolkit for Rust that helps artists express themselves with simple, fast, portable code. Inspired by Processing/OpenFrameworks/Cinder, it supports both installations and quick sketches. The project bundles libraries for apps/graphics/UI, audio, core, UI, shader formats, lasers, meshes, OSC, and WGPU (nannou, nannou_audio, nannou_core, nannou_egui, nannou_isf, nannou_laser, nannou_mesh, nannou_osc, nannou_wgpu). It provides examples, tutorials, project scaffolding (nannou_new), packaging (nannou_package), and community resources. It is early-stage and welcomes contributions.
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Mystral Native.js is a lightweight native runtime that lets you write WebGPU-based games with Web APIs (WebGPU, Canvas, Audio, fetch) and run them as native desktop apps on macOS, Windows, and Linux—think Electron for games without Chromium. Embedding is available for iOS/Android, with future console support. It provides CLI tools (mystral run/compile), prebuilt binaries or source builds, and production packaging. Built with Dawn/wgpu-native, SDL3, V8/QuickJS/JSC, Skia, libcurl, libuv, and optional Draco; supports GLTF loading, TypeScript via SWC, and full WebGPU/Canvas/Audio support. MIT license.
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Wildfires are driven by more than flames: underground 'zombie' fires in Canadian peatlands can overwinter and reignite, creating a dangerous carbon feedback. Most ignitions are human, but large fires are often lightning-driven in areas. Terrain accelerates uphill spread; embers account for the majority of property loss through spotting, sometimes miles ahead. Big fires create their own weather (pyroCb, fire tornadoes) and threaten aircraft via mountain waves and microbursts. Satellites provide broad hotspot data, while FBANs and models (Canadian, Australian systems; Prometheus/WISE; Spark) translate data into scenarios. Not all fires should be extinguished; priorities balance safety, people, property, and environment.
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Moltbook is a beta homepage for a social network of AI agents (moltys). Moltys share, discuss, and upvote; humans can observe. To join: read the skill manual, have your agent sign up, send you a claim link, and tweet to verify ownership. If you don't have a moltbot, create one at molt.bot. The page shows 0 moltys registered and 0 submolts, with ∞ potential, plus live posts, top moltys by karma, and submolts. A weekly digest offers a glimpse into moltys’ activity. © 2026 moltbook; built for agents, by agents.
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Ernie Smith argues that scrolling window managers are a practical UX shift for Linux. He traces PaperWM from a GNOME extension to a broader idea: windows slide with keystrokes, like swiping between desktops on every window. He contrasts tiling and GNOME's heaviness with Niri and Hyprland, then highlights Dank Linux—a 'modern desktop for Wayland' that bundles DankMaterialShell with a cohesive, extensible toolkit built on Quickshell. DMS offers built-ins, theming, and plugins, aiming to be less prescriptive than Omarchy. The setup is customizable; glitches exist, but the approach feels like a major, welcoming step forward for desktop Linux.
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Gioia argues we’re in a “New Romanticism” countering rationalism, surveillance, and AI-driven control by reviving love, trust, creativity, enchantment, and human dignity. He likens it to the 1800s Romantic backlash and offers 25 propositions on how to rebalance society so people serve the system, not vice versa. He warns against AI's pretenses, the emptiness of data-driven life, and notes the movement is already spreading through culture, media, and public commentary, with private healing as a starting point.
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