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Quantum computer chip crams more info into less volume – by vibrating:
Quantum computing has always struggled to achieve the necessary division of labor between processing and memory.
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23 September 2026.
Epson’s radical 4K laser projectors make 100-inch TVs look small:
Epson seems to think your 100-inch TV isn’t quite big enough.
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28 September 2026.
Free Speech, Consumer Groups Make Last Ditch Effort To Block Paramount Merger:
Last week California Democrats — including Governor Gavin Newsom, LA Mayor Karen Bass, and AG Rob Bonta buckled under pressure and got 12 states to drop their antitrust lawsuit against Paramount’s $111 billion merger with Warner Brothers.
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28 September 2026.
How I Get Free Traffic from ChatGPT in 2025 (AIO vs SEO):
Three weeks ago, I tested something that completely changed how I think about organic traffic.
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04 December 2025.
Study reveals how echo chambers form and what prevents them:
Study reveals how a few very general constraints can lead to echo chambers – self-reinforcing feedback loops – in biological systems such as birds in a flock, cells in tissue or ants in a swarm.
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23 September 2026.
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AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’:
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history.
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28 September 2026.
‘Starship is in orbit’: cheers go up as huge SpaceX rocket circles Earth for first time:
Mission goes ahead despite some fears an initial engine failure after the Texas launch would scupper the attemptSpaceX has sent its enormous Starship rocket into Earth’s orbit for the first time on a milestone flight intended to pave the way for future missions to the moon and Mars.
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28 September 2026.
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Watch: Starship splashdown ends in fireball:
The mission was supposed to last 10 hours, but SpaceX announced it was ending after 90 minutes.
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28 September 2026.
AI assessors says current science hasn't caught up to the safety measures people want:
Anthropic and OpenAI say they are working with third-party evaluators to make sure their products are safe.
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28 September 2026.
Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Massive Stock Buyback, the Largest Ever:
The increase comes four months after the chip giant added $80 billion to its buyback program, bringing the total remaining authorized amount to $235 billion.
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28 September 2026.
The Drawn World:
A map of every border and coastline people have drawn while playing Borderline, with strokes weighted by accuracy and repeated guesses darkening the map.
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28 September 2026.
SpaceX’s Starship Makes It to Orbit for the First Time, but Returns to Earth Early:
The 14th test flight marks a crucial milestone toward the company’s ambitions of sending people to the moon and Mars, but it was not a complete success.
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28 September 2026.
These 6 charts show how NIH research funding has been reshaped under Trump:
Stories of science funding being cut, labs shutting down and scientists losing jobs have flooded the media under Trump's administration.
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24 September 2026.
The Drawn World:
A map of every border and coastline people have drawn while playing Borderline, with strokes weighted by accuracy and repeated guesses darkening the map.
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28 September 2026.
Nvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog:
wiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia on Monday announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries from testing through deployment.
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28 September 2026.
With viral ‘Lego’ videos, Iran stakes claim as a propaganda power player:
Iran’s viral social media campaign has been slick, savvy, and accessible to a Western audience.
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20 May 2026.
SpaceX's Starship reaches orbit for the first time, then returns early and explodes:
SpaceX got its Starship rocket into orbit, but after a tense few minutes of comms and the loss of an engine, the call was made to end the mission early.
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28 September 2026.
Some of the tech in my workday
Best programming language?
The PYPL PopularitY of Programming Language Index is created by analyzing how often language tutorials are searched on Google.
The TIOBE Programming Community index measures popularity based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses, third party vendors and search engine activity.
w3techs analyses page content to determine the technology used, and also uses publicly available information from sources such as Alexa, Google, Microsoft and ipinfo.io.
While Java and Python top the popularity charts, more than 80% of all websites run on PHP.
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