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Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school

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GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks

Egyptian Fractions (2006)

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

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A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

A labor dispute that created a multiverse

Can you see three trees?

There's a simple three-part test for whether your city has enough nature. Most fall short.

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

UC Irvine neuroscientist Oswald Steward received the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discoveries that helped explain how the brain forms and stores memories.

Data Compression Explained (2012)

Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics

Hyundai Motor Group is acquiring SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, completing its full ownership of the robotics

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

Mental causation is not load-bearing

In philosophy of mind, “mental causation” means mental entities have causal effects, especially physical ones. If physicalism is true, then physical effects are explainable in terms of physical causes (or at least, fundamental physical laws), needing no recourse to causation by anything that is not in fundamental physics. This is the “causal exclusion principle” explicated…

Bobby Prince, composer for Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, and Duke Nukem 3D, has died

Robert Caskin "Bobby" Prince III, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, veteran, attorney, musician, composer, and friend, passed peacefully into Heaven's Musica...

Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28

The new JVM Weekly is here... and Ragnarok seems to come, as we finally have Valhalla in the JDK. However, situation is a bit... nuanced.

Soccer Arcade Games Through the Years

In this 100% human-made post, we take a look back at the history of soccer arcade & pinball games, just in time for World Cup 2026.

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Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

For the first time, an experimental satellite has mapped the scale of GPS jamming across Europe and the Middle East from space.