Technology
An argument for writing in your own voice instead of handing it to a model
A long essay by a teacher says LLM prose has become easy to spot, hard to defend, and poor at saying anything memorable.
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Essay on intellectual richness ties ideas, uncertainty and epistemic anxiety together
A long Substack essay drew Hacker News attention by arguing that people can live a more intellectually rich life by reducing epistemic anxiety and seeking diverse ideas.
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YouTube’s homepage gets wider, emptier, and more ad-shaped
A post on jayd.ml describes a YouTube homepage redesign that leaves only a handful of videos visible on a large desktop display, intensifying criticism that the platform is trading usability for monetization.
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Spain and Portugal restore power after sweeping Iberian blackout
Electricity returned across both countries after an outage disrupted transport, schools, hospitals and businesses, while national and European inquiries began examining the cause.
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A single Darwin notification exposed an iPhone denial-of-service path
A security researcher says a legacy Apple notification API could be abused from inside a sandboxed app to force an iPhone into a reboot loop until the user manually restarts it.
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A fringe prostate theory gets another hearing
An essay on yarchive.net revisits a mechanical theory that links varicocele, benign prostatic hyperplasia, prostate cancer, and infertility through impaired venous drainage, arguing that a simple vascular fix might prevent several common male health problems.
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Slate’s stripped-down electric pickup bets on simplicity
Slate Auto is preparing a $20,000 class electric pickup with a single trim, a single color, and no paint shop, aiming to cut manufacturing complexity while offering buyers a highly customizable base vehicle.
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Inside the memoir that pushed Meta’s old power centers back into view
A review of Sarah Wynn-Williams’s memoir says Meta’s attempt to suppress the book only helped turn it into a sharper portrait of Facebook’s internal culture.
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China launches Shenzhou-20 crew for six-month Tiangong mission
Three astronauts headed to China’s space station for maintenance, debris-protection work and experiments spanning physics and medical science.
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Whistleblower Says DOGE Accessed NLRB Case Data in Early March
A security architect alleges that new DOGE accounts were granted high-level access to NLRB systems and that unusual data transfers and login attempts followed.
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Spegel Maintainer Says Microsoft Fork Reused His Code Without Proper Credit
The creator of Spegel says Microsoft’s Peerd project closely resembled his own P2P image-sharing code and left users confused about the relationship.
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Google brings Gemma 3 QAT models to consumer GPUs
Google has released int4 quantized Gemma 3 variants tuned with Quantization Aware Training, positioning the models as a way to run stronger AI on consumer graphics cards.
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Synology’s drive-locking move risks alienating NAS buyers
A report cited by ServeTheHome says Synology plans to restrict features in upcoming 2025 Plus NAS models to its own branded hard drives, a move critics say deepens lock-in.
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A Doom-like game now fits inside a QR code
An open-source project called Backdooms compresses a browser game into a QR code, using decompression in the browser to turn a scan into a playable game.
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Google previews Gemini 2.5 Flash for faster, lower-cost reasoning
Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash is in preview and designed to improve reasoning while keeping speed and cost efficiency at the center for developers.
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CISA rescues the CVE program with an 11-month extension
After a contract lapse threatened MITRE’s CVE program, CISA executed an option period that keeps critical vulnerability-tracking services running for another 11 months.
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Webb telescope finds tentative chemical hints on exoplanet K2-18b
A Cambridge team reported possible DMS or DMDS in the planet's atmosphere, but the signal falls short of discovery standards and does not prove life.
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Rare Colossal Squid Filmed in South Atlantic
Scientists have captured the first-ever footage of a juvenile colossal squid in its natural deep-sea habitat near the South Sandwich Islands.
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Blue Origin’s NS-31 carries six women on suborbital flight from West Texas
Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, Aisha Bowe, Amanda Nguyen and Kerianne Flynn completed an approximately 11-minute New Shepard mission beyond the Kármán Line.
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A Reddit bot drove one writer to the edge of sanity
The post is a personal account of a bot experiment gone wrong, told as a tale of automation, irritation and eventual breakdown.
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A faster horse was not the point
The post uses a familiar innovation lesson to argue that people often ask for improvements inside old frames instead of rethinking the product itself.
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Why the best programmers stand out
The post is a short reflection on what separates top engineers from the rest, focusing on habits, judgment and execution.
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Sister’s Donated Womb Enables Landmark UK Birth
Baby Amy’s arrival completed a years-long clinical pathway for Grace Davidson, from transplant surgery and immunosuppression to IVF and a Caesarean delivery.
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