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Lichess announces Op1, a partial 8-piece tablebase covering endings with at least one opposing pawn pair (white and black pawns opposing on the same file). In collaboration with Marc Bourzutschky, about 63 TiB of data is publicly accessible: downloadable tables, a tablebase API for developers, and integrated support on the analysis board and mobile app. Op1 adds to the 7-piece Syzygy coverage and accounts for roughly half of 8-piece endgames in practice. Generated by retrograde analysis, it uses Depth to Conversion (DTC) rather than DTZ50. Future work includes 7-piece DTC, op2 (9-piece) tables, and a standalone frontend.
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Techdirt reports that ICE and CBP used NEC's Mobile Fortify facial recognition app to identify migrants and others, but rushed deployment without Privacy Impact Assessments (PIAs) or AI impact assessments as required. DHS claimed the tool could verify identities, but it cannot reliably do so. The app has been used on targeted individuals, protesters, observers, and even U.S. citizens, despite lacking proper oversight. The rollout dismantled centralized privacy reviews; critics warn it enables unlawful surveillance and retribution. The pattern reflects 'deploy first, regulate later' under the Trump era.
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Cities rely on distinctive retail, but value created by shops leaks to landowners, risking vacancies and weaker public goods. The piece outlines fixes: unified ownership with anchor tenants; transit-plus-property models; cross-subsidization via mixed-use developments; zoning reforms to enable larger land assemblies; hyperlocal taxes or bonds via homeowners’ associations or BIDs to fund streets and amenities; localized planning to realize spillovers; and private–public 'commons' spaces as third places. If retail shifts online, these value-capture institutions could sustain vibrant streets and nearby homes.
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Anthropic raised $30B in a Series G, valuing it at $380B post-money. Led by GIC and Coatue, with co-leads D.E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ and MGX; investors include Accel, Temasek, Sequoia, BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and others, plus ongoing Microsoft and NVIDIA commitments. Funds will accelerate enterprise-grade AI products and infrastructure. Run-rate revenue is about $14B, up ~10x annually for three years; >$1M annualized spend customers exceed 500; eight of the Fortune 10 are Claude customers. Claude Code (May 2025) >$2.5B run-rate; Cowork; Opus 4.6; Claude on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure; trained on Trainium, TPUs, GPUs.
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Disc refers to optical media (CD, DVD) that is removable and can be read-only, write-once, or rewritable (CD-R, DVD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM). Disks refer to magnetic media (hard drives, floppy) that are usually sealed inside a case, are rewritable, and can be partitioned; external disks may be removable. Both are pronounced the same.
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Matrix.org welcomed the surge of signups after Discord announced age-verification. Matrix is a decentralised, open standard: anyone can run a server, but admins must verify user ages under local law. UK’s Online Safety Act and similar laws in Australia, NZ, the EU (with US/Canada moving) demand stricter checks than self-declaration. The Safety team is exploring privacy-preserving options; Premium accounts may help fund compliance, with account portability to move between servers. While not a full Discord drop-in yet, Matrix offers end-to-end encryption, openness, and extensibility. The Foundation relies on donations to operate.
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Tom Vanderbilt tours the US metrology world to reveal how time is made and kept. At JILA/NIST, clocks from cesium fountains to masers define UTC via an ensemble, then distributed by GPS and time.gov. The “second” is no longer tied to Earth's rotation but to 9,192,631,770 cycles of cesium-133, with leap seconds sometimes inserted to keep astronomy and atomic time aligned. New optical clocks (based on ytterbium, strontium, aluminum ions) promise even greater precision, fueling debates on how to redefine the second. Time, it seems, is becoming a frequency-based, fundamentally uncertain construct.
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syntux is an open-source React/Next.js library that generates UIs from a value by producing a lightweight JSON-DSL called the React Interface Schema (RIS), which is hydrated to render the UI rather than emitting source code. It supports custom React components, caching, and server actions, and can integrate with AI providers via the Vercel AI SDK (e.g., Anthropic/Claude). Installation is via npx getsyntux; examples show a GeneratedUI component wired to a model. MIT-licensed.
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An employee describes being accused of AI-writing after proposing a simple opening for a colleague’s report. He defends that all words are his own, offers a witty reply, and laments society’s quickness to assume AI authorship, questioning the future of human creativity. The post insists it is entirely human-written (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
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HDRify is a pure-JavaScript library and web demo for reading and writing HDR, EXR, and JPEG-R images and applying tone mapping. It supports Radiance RGBE HDR, OpenEXR, and Ultra HDR/JPEG with gain maps, and can display true HDR on compatible browsers via Direct HDR. It runs in browser and Node.js and is tree-shaking friendly. It supports EXR compression options (no compression, RLE, ZIPS, ZIP, PIZ, PXR24). Tone mapping options include ACES, Reinhard, Khronos Neutral, and AgX. A CLI tool hdrify-cli on npm is available for batch conversion. Built by Ben Houston; sponsored by Land of Assets.
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An analysis of the Feb 10–11, 2026 El Paso disruption caused by a party balloon mistaken for a drone. Using public data, it reconstructs a ~7.4-hour TFR, 8 cancellations, 7 delays, 1 diversion, and ~1,600 disrupted passengers. Dollar impacts are estimated between about $364k and $873k, with real costs likely higher due to unquantified factors. The piece notes it’s unclear whether this was the most expensive party balloon in history and emphasizes the analysis relies on public data, not professional economic methods.
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pgclaw is an open-source PostgreSQL extension that adds a claw data type to attach an AI agent to each row. It supports simple LLMs and stateful OpenClaw agents, with many providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, Gemini, etc.) and, via Claude Code, code-enabled workspaces. Agents can be inline prompts or references to reusable agents; memory and workspace features enable multi-turn interactions. It processes inserts/updates with a background worker, builds prompts from row data, calls the provider, and writes back results, preserving history. Quick-start: Rust toolchain, PostgreSQL 17 dev headers, cargo pgrx, configure shared_preload_libraries, create extension and table. MIT.
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Describes a 1D cellular automata playground with interactive tools: grid view, rule-space map of 256 rules colored by Wolfram class; choose X/Y axis metrics (entropy, density, mean field, symmetry, Lyapunov, compressibility); click a dot for rule details. Phase Transition Explorer sweeps initial density to reveal metric changes and critical points. Light-cone/perturbation tool flips a single cell to visualize information propagation and causal structure. Compare rules (e.g., Rule 30, Rule 110). Project by @paraschopra.
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Gemini 3 Deep Think receives a major upgrade to its specialized reasoning mode, designed to tackle modern science, research and engineering challenges with messy data. The update blends deep scientific knowledge with practical engineering, and is now available in the Gemini app for Google AI Ultra subscribers, with early access to the Gemini API for researchers and enterprises. In early tests, it helped a mathematician spot a subtle flaw in a paper and assisted a lab in designing large-area crystal-growth films. It now excels across math, chemistry and physics and can turn sketches into 3D-printable files.
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V8 uses separate stores for named properties and array elements and tracks object shape with HiddenClasses. HiddenClasses and descriptor arrays let the JIT inline property accesses when objects share the same structure; adding named properties creates new HiddenClasses via a transition tree. Named properties can be in-object (fast), fast properties in the properties store, or slow/dictionary properties with a per-object dictionary. Array indices live in an elements store and can be packed, holey, fast, or dictionary-mode; Smis and doubles have dedicated representations. These designs optimize access and memory for dynamic JS objects.
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Waymo launches fully autonomous operations with its 6th-generation Waymo Driver, designed for scalable expansion across platforms and cities, including extreme winter. Built on seven years and ~200 million autonomous miles, it uses a unified multi-modal sensing suite—17‑megapixel cameras, lidars, radar, and EARs—plus in-house AI and chips to improve perception, weather robustness, and cost. It reduces cameras to lower cost, adds long- and short-range lidars for precise sensing, and enhances radar/fusion. The system is platform-agnostic (Ojai, Hyundai IONIQ 5) and backed by a Phoenix-area high-volume production plan to reach tens of thousands/year. Public access soon; recruitment ongoing.
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