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Ed Zitron argues the AI boom is unsustainable: massive data-center capex and debt-fueled compute commitments require far more revenue than OpenAI/Anthropic and the industry can currently deliver. Token-based pricing exposes runaway costs; hyperscalers and lenders keep funding growth while ROI remains elusive. With revenue growth needing to accelerate to unrealistically high levels, the AI bubble risks slowing or bursting. The piece critiques industry incentives and calls for clearer accounting, pricing transparency, and accountability in AI.
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Souls Only is a craft font and keyboard-firmware project that renders readable text only from a cipher stream; ordinary text typed or pasted yields noise. It decouples character and glyph streams: each printable character is encoded as two ASCII halves chosen at random, so four bytes render as one glyph. The left-half glyphs are shared to obscure mappings; reveal uses a REVL axis in a variable font. It’s a statement project, not a security claim. Fonts: dist/SoulsOnly.ttf, SoulsOnly.otf, SoulsOnly-VF.ttf; licenses: fonts OFL 1.1, code MIT.
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Scientists are puzzled by rising cancer rates among people under 50, with no single explanation. Some cancers show apparent increases due to changes in detection or classification (pancreatic cancer expanded to include pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors). Others show real rises: colorectal cancer in 20–49-year-olds is up about 3% per year since 2010 and became a leading killer in this group; uterine and liver cancers are rising in young women. Birth-cohort effects and environmental factors tied to metabolic disease and obesity are suspected, but obesity alone can’t explain it; researchers urge investigating novel exposures.
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OCamlOnboarding: Introduction to the Dune build system guides new OCaml developers through using Dune. It covers project structure with dune-project, per-directory dune files, and stanzas (library, executable, test) to define modules, dependencies, and public names. It shows building and running (dune build, dune exec), testing (dune runtest, cram tests), and documenting (dune build @doc with odoc). It also introduces scaffolding with dune init (project, lib, exec templates) and explains how opam and Dune fit together. A toy helloer project illustrates the workflow; OCamlPro context and resources follow.
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In 1999, a farming family deeded 87 acres in Taylor, Texas to a public trust for use as a park, for a nominal $10. In 2025 the city sold the land to Blueprint, a data center developer, for $10 million. The land will become a 135,000-square-foot data center, located about 500 feet from Pamela Griffin’s home and between a power substation and railroad tracks. The plan reverses the land’s community-use intent and has drawn local unease.
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Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed, with TileRT, achieves 1000+ tokens/s on a 1T model, enabling real-time reasoning and coding at trillion-parameter scale. A limited-time API trial runs June 9–23, 2026 at ~3× price for ~10× speed, prioritized for enterprises. Key tech: FP4 quantization (MoE Experts only) and DFlash speculative decoding; TileRT ultra-low-latency kernels and persistent engine for extreme model-system codesign. Open-source: MiMo-V2.5-Pro-FP4-DFlash on HuggingFace. More demos and partnership details available.
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Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication, syncing user and machine identity data to a standby secondary user pool in near real-time. If the primary region is disrupted, traffic can be redirected to the secondary pool; signed-in users stay authenticated and all auth methods—username/password, social federation, SAML/OIDC, and machine-to-machine flows—continue to work. Available as an add-on for Essentials or Plus. Regions include US East/West, Europe, Asia Pacific, Canada Central, and São Paulo. To start, configure a replica via Console, CLI, or SDK by adding a replica user pool. Pricing and developer guide available.
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Access is blocked by network policy. To regain access, log in or create an account; for scripts, sign in with developer credentials. Ensure a non-empty, unique User-Agent; if using an alternate UA, revert to default. Review Reddit's Terms of Service. If blocked incorrectly or you want easier data access, file a support ticket and include your Reddit account and code 019ea7de-b2ed-7dbd-bd90-01165d72dc1c.
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Practical guide to a fast, minimal terminal setup. The author rejects frameworks, uses only three plugins, caches compinit, and lazily loads heavy tools (nvm, kubectl). He keeps direnv and fzf eager, and uses a fast, async prompt (pure) to avoid prompt lag. A GPU-accelerated Ghostty terminal and a tmux alias for quick reattachment are standard. Performance is measured with time, hyperfine, and zprof. The core message: be intentional, strip unused tooling, and optimize for feel as much as raw startup time.
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AI-native React components for a performative UI.
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McBryde argues that the Butlerian Jihad meme, misread as anti-AI violence, actually critiques domination and technocracy in Frank Herbert's Dune. Drawing on Dune's portrayal of the Jihad as a warning against giving thinking to machines, and Pope Leo XIV's Magnifica Humanitas, he reframes the issue as defending human agency and opposing power concentrations. He contrasts the Jihad's target—those who wield tools for domination—with a critique of the "machine-attitude" that dehumanizes people. The piece urges a "Greater Jihad"—inner struggle to maintain humanity and resist tech-driven oppression—rather than violent anti-AI crusade.
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Intuned is a code-first browser automation platform that builds, deploys, and maintains production-ready automations—scrapers, crawlers, RPA, and AI-powered workflows—using an AI agent (Intuned Agent). It generates and fixes Playwright-based code from prompts and schemas, and supports writing in TypeScript or Python with Playwright or compatible libraries. Features include stealth/detection resistance, built-in authentication, scheduling, auto-scaling, full logs and session recordings, and API/CLI deployments. Use cases span Scrapers, Crawlers, RPA, AI Automation, and Managed Scraping; with web tasks and SDKs for integration; start for free.
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NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate physical AI, mobility, and AI infrastructure across LG’s robotics, autonomous driving, data centers and GPU cloud. The collaboration fuses NVIDIA’s AI factory platform with LG’s manufacturing and electronics leadership, creating a unified workflow from model development to data generation, simulation, edge deployment and digital twins. They aim to establish an autonomous manufacturing ecosystem and a global smart‑factory standard, with joint reference robots in the Isaac GR00T ecosystem, synthetic data via NVIDIA Cosmos, and DSX‑aligned infrastructure. They will also advance DRIVE-based mobility, components, and sovereign AI with EXAONE.
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Historically, currencies used fractions (e.g., 1/8) because traders counted on fingers; GnuCash preserved fractional storage (minor units) to handle currencies and commodities robustly, a legacy that still works well today (Bitcoin and Satoshis). However, fractions slow arithmetic and can yield bugs; modern systems favor decimals. HandsOnMoney uses the same minor-unit approach with per-account fixed precision, enabling precise crypto handling but disallowing on-the-fly precision changes and non-standard fractional commodities. The result is a practical but legacy design.
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Social platforms have shifted from friend-focused networks to entertainment hubs designed to maximise time-on-site and ad revenue. People like Aurélia in France scroll for content from creators rather than friends; many post less, or only in private groups. The divide is widening: Instagram/TikTok for discovery and entertainment, WhatsApp for socializing. Ads remain the core revenue, with global ad spend rising to about $317B in 2026 and Meta leading. Small businesses must now be creators. Gen Z treats platforms as primary search/shopping tools, while some fret about privacy and backlash.
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Zig by Example is a hands-on introduction to Zig via annotated examples. It covers core concepts and data types (Hello World, values, variables, integers, floats, strings, arrays, structs, enums, unions), control flow (if/switch/loops), memory and safety (pointers, optionals, defer), and common tasks (I/O, JSON, sorting, interop). The examples show Zig’s emphasis on robustness, simplicity, no hidden control flow or allocations, and no preprocessor. Targeted at Zig 0.14, it’s inspired by Go by Example, with additional resources and references.
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Amber Tree is a middle-ground syntax tree for Rowan, offering a friendly API with text-range support while avoiding parent/sibling traversal. An AmberNode<'a> holds a &GreenNode and a TextRange, tying lifetimes to the green tree for memory safety and cheap traversal. It delivers ergonomics similar to the red tree but with performance approaching the green tree. Used in wasm-language-tools, it yields substantial speedups (e.g., formatter ~2.4x) and reduces allocations; see PR #36.
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Config files that run code are a major supply chain blindspot. Ordinary-looking files in editors and package managers (eg .github/setup.js, Cursor rules, Claude/Gemini hooks, VS Code tasks, Gemfile, composer.json) can execute commands on folder open, session start, or install. SafeDep’s Miasma campaign shows a dropper hidden in these files that exfiltrates secrets when triggered. Trust prompts don’t stop them; headless or pre-trusted repos bypass prompts. To defend: review config/dotfiles as code, grep for auto-run hooks, and treat editor/package-manager configs as part of the trusted base. Triggers, authority, and grammar decide risk; detection covers broader auto-run surfaces beyond dependencies.
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The post argues LLMs won’t instantly replace knowledge work; local tax/code details still require humans, though much domain knowledge is now promptable. It describes anxiety about commoditization: generic docs, AI-driven workflows, and ticket-based testing reduce human input. Some engineers will become AI-native toolbuilders, but many professions (copywriting, UX, finance, law) risk layoffs as demand tightens. The author urges adaptation over doom, warning against hype and advocating practical harnesses and tooling to ride the wave rather than resist it.
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