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AMD unveiled its first Ryzen AI desktop CPUs for AM5: the Ryzen AI 400-series, laptop‑style chips repackaged for desktop use and direct replacements for Ryzen 8000G. They pair Zen 5 CPUs, RDNA 3.5 GPUs, and an NPU (~50 TOPS), and qualify for Microsoft Copilot+ PC features in Windows 11. The six SKUs include three 65W models (Ryzen AI 7 Pro 450G, Ryzen AI 5 Pro 440G, 435G) and three 35W GE variants, all under the Ryzen Pro banner for IT. No boxed consumer versions; targets business desktops with up to 8 cores and 860M iGPU, limited gaming appeal.
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Design CLIs for AI agents from day one, not retrofitted for humans. Provide two interfaces in one binary: human-friendly flags and a machine-ready raw-payload path (MCP/JSON-RPC) via --json/--params, with optional OUTPUT_FORMAT=json. Make the CLI its own documentation through runtime schema introspection (Discovery Documents) so agents learn current capabilities. Enforce context-window discipline with field masks and NDJSON paging. Harden inputs to deter hallucinations: validate paths, IDs, encodings; assume adversarial input. Ship agent skills and expose multi-surface support (MCP, Gemini extensions, env vars). Safety rails: --dry-run, --sanitize. Start incrementally: add --output json, add validation, then schema introspection and skills.
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The post analyzes chardet’s move from LGPL to MIT via an AI-assisted rewrite, arguing it may violate LGPL because the AI was trained on the original code, potentially creating a derivative work. Traditional clean-room methods require independent development from a specification; using the original LGPL material with AI bypasses that wall. The U.S. Supreme Court’s March 2, 2026 decision to not hear AI-generated material appeals reinforces a human-authorship baseline, complicating whether AI output can be copyrighted or licensed. If AI rewrites are allowed, Copyleft could be weakened or endanger GPL/MIT licensing dynamics.
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Poppy is a free iOS app that treats your contacts as a living garden, sending gentle nudges to stay in touch without guilt. Import 5–10 important people, set a custom rhythm (weekly, monthly, etc.), and log how each hangout felt with mood tracking. Features include a color-coded Garden view, Fuzzy Scheduling, Mood & Vibe Logging, and Custom Groups. It’s offline-first with data stored locally on-device (JSON export available), no ads or premium tiers, and privacy at the foundation. Android is coming soon; join the waitlist. Harvard study links close relationships to happiness.
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Dylan Araps recounts receiving an unsolicited Vodafone SMS offering “free unlimited data and 999,999 minutes” for five days. He actually had 7,200 minutes to spend, one minute at a time. He questions whether the gift was a system glitch, a human operator, or something else, and wonders why it was sent to him and whether others experienced it. For five days he was the “minute millionaire.”
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Math, Inc. reports a formal verification of the 8- and 24-dimensional sphere-packing results via Gauss, confirming the E8 and Leech lattices are densest. Started in 2024, Gauss autoformalized 8D in five days and 24D in two weeks, growing the codebase from ~70k to ~200k lines. A milestone for AI-assisted formalization and machine-navigable mathematics, with DARPA expMath and collaborators acknowledged.
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An experimental guide describing how the author uses inline LaTeX math to render colored, fixed-width ASCII diagrams inside GitHub-flavored Markdown. It covers phart’s attempts to output SVGs from ANSI-colored text, the drawbacks of GHFM/MathJax, and a hacky workaround that places each line in a bullet to control spacing. The piece also explains a tilde-space ratio approach to align diagrams, plus extended notes on Mermaid, text rendering challenges, and the author’s broader “phart” project and aesthetic.
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At the Morgan Stanley Tech conference, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia will likely stop investing in OpenAI and Anthropic once they go public, arguing the IPO window ends such opportunities. Nvidia profits from selling chips powering both companies and doesn’t need more equity. The piece notes lingering ambiguities: the OpenAI stake shrank from a promised $100B to $30B; Nvidia–Anthropic ties have been fraught, including Anthropic’s Davos remarks and a US government blacklist. The article suggests Nvidia’s pullback may reflect a messy, evolving ecosystem more than a simple IPO deadline.
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The post analyzes asyncio primitives (Event, Condition) and shows they fail under real concurrency when coordinating shared state like a WebSocket. Polling wastes CPU; Event requires many booleans; Condition suffers a TOCTOU gap where updates can be missed if transitions occur before wakeups. The fix: per-consumer queues via a ValueWatcher. Each consumer registers a queue; on every state change, the setter pushes (old, new) to all queues, so transitions are buffered and not missed. Production-ready features: thread-safety, atomic registration, typing, timeouts, change callbacks. Used in Inngest's Python SDK for reliable shutdown and coordination.
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Britain's Information Commissioner's Office said it would write to Meta after Swedish newspapers reported Nairobi-based contractors employed by Sama could view sensitive footage captured by Meta's AI Ray-Ban smart glasses, including private moments. Meta says contractors may review data to improve the experience and data is filtered to protect privacy, though some instances allegedly showed faces. ICO urged transparency and control under UK data protection law and asked Meta for information on compliance. Sama declined comment.
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At a White House event, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and other AI firms signed the 'Ratepayer Protection Pledge' to cover the cost of new electricity generation and grid upgrades for their datacenters, aiming to prevent higher electricity bills for households and small businesses. The pledge also covers dedicated power supplies and rate agreements with utilities. While pitched as boosting grid resilience, critics warn the measures may be symbolic and too slow to deliver new capacity, with doubts about relying on fossil-fuel generation.
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FUBAR is a daily-updated, curated collection of dystopian content.
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New York Fed’s Liberty Street Economics analyzes rising costs in the New York–Northern New Jersey region in 2025. After a period of moderation, costs surged: about 7% for services and 8.5% for manufacturers (versus 5% in 2024). The largest increases were employee health insurance (roughly 13–14%), utilities (about 8.5%), and business insurance, with goods/materials up ~8% for manufacturers and ~5.5% for services. Tariffs boosted input costs for manufacturers. Wages rose ~3.4% and rents ~2%. Cost growth is expected to slow in 2026 to about 4.8–5.4%, with two follow-up posts on health-insurance costs and pricing/inflation.
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Google Workspace CLI (gws) is a single command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. It dynamically builds its entire command surface at runtime from Google's Discovery Service, so new APIs appear automatically. Includes 100+ AI agent skills and optional extensions (Gemini, OpenClaw) and an MCP server to expose tools as structured APIs. Outputs JSON, supports tab completion, --help, --dry-run, and auto-pagination. Multiple authentication options (interactive, service account, headless) with flexible config via env vars. Quickstart: npm i -g @googleworkspace/cli. Active development; breaking changes possible toward v1.0.
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Jared Six describes “Environmental OCD” and his choice to stop complaining about litter, instead actively picking up as many pieces as it takes to make a difference, documenting a photo series from 1 to a zillion and noting a bonus treasure found during the cleanup.
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Urges users to set a user-agent and respect the robots policy, with links to related policy pages.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said OpenAI’s messaging on its DoD deal is “straight up lies,” accusing Sam Altman of gaslighting while OpenAI framed its contract as allowing “all lawful purposes” and safeguarding against mass surveillance. Anthropic and the DoD failed to reach an agreement on unrestricted use; Anthropic, which had a $200M contract, insisted the DoD affirm it would not enable mass domestic surveillance or autonomous weapons. OpenAI argued its agreement includes protections and that laws may change; public sentiment largely favors Anthropic, with ChatGPT uninstalls spiking after OpenAI’s DoD deal.
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sd-switchdir is a cd-compatible directory navigator for ksh93u+, bash ≥4.2, and zsh ≥4.3 that uses a dynamic, power‑law frecency ranking over a trailing history of directory visits. It provides sd to change directories by path or pattern, ds to inspect/manage the ranked stack, and cd as a drop‑in alias. Ranking scores depend on recent visits within a configurable window (default window 1280, p=9.97) with a log of events (loglim 8192). Repeats cycle deterministically through matches; interactive selection via fzf is available if installed.
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