The alien space of science: Coherent but cognitively unavailable directions

Abstract page for arXiv paper 2603.01092: The Alien Space of Science: Sampling Coherent but Cognitively Unavailable Research Directions

No Need for Retirement When Utopia Is Around the Corner

I’ve mentioned before my interest in the history and development of nuclear weapons . Currently, I’m reading The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War…

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.

Docker is weird

Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude

The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)

Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers

Average home electricity price from 2020 to 2025: investor-owned utilities +34%, public utilities +19%, co-ops +19%, against +24% inflation. Investor-owned prices rose faster in 38 of 48 states. EIA annual data by state and utility since 2015.

Job Loss and Cortisone Mania

Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany's far-right AfD party

Germany's far-right AfD (Alternative für Deutschland) party has confirmed that it has suffered a security breach, after a hacker published what appear to be hundreds of thousands of the controversial political party's internal emails.

Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

We asked 12 AI models for their most controversial opinion of humans, three times each. 29 of 35 answers were the same one: we care more about belonging than about the truth.

Is this the new cyber normal?

A week of cyber incidents one after another – is this what every week is going to look like and what can we do about it?

Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier

Disney+ is conspicuously absent from that list, which is worth highlighting given the streamer’s size and the fact that it has aired shows like Percy Jackson and Daredevil: Born Again.

Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown

Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

OpenSSL 4.1.0

General purpose TLS and crypto library. Contribute to openssl/openssl development by creating an account on GitHub.

Show HN: OnKey – I'm a bad singer, so I built an app to show where I'm off-key

Learn to sing the songs you love. A free, open-source singing trainer for Mac that listens to the music you play. - dsmurrell/onkey

OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents

OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. - NVIDIA/OpenShell

Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

This excerpt is from a book containing outrageous and categorically false allegations. We denied every claim on the record, yet the author provided not a single shred of verifiable evidence to substantiate them. No bank statements, wire transfer records, account numbers, transaction dates, or other…

How does Fable 5.1 hide messages in images?

TL;DR Frontier LLMs are now capable of generating artistic images using SVG. We ask – if these LLMs had to hide a message in an image – how would the…

Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating

ClickBench: a Benchmark For Analytical Databases. Contribute to ClickHouse/ClickBench development by creating an account on GitHub.

Shitter – A Nitter Fork

shitter - Alternative Twitter front-end. Fork of zedeus/nitter on GitHub.