Collaborate Disseminate
Late Friday news broke that U.S. President Trump’s new tariffs included exemptions for smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and other electronics. But Sunday morning America’s commerce secretary insisted “a special-focus type of tariff” was … Continue reading Trump Denies Tariff ‘Exception’ for Electronics, Promises New Electronics Tariffs Soon
Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 “to encourage students to not stick around … Continue reading Palantir’s ‘Meritocracy Fellowship’ Urges High School Grads to Skip College’s ‘Indoctrination’ and Debt
Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its “Maverick” AI model (in the newly-released Llama-4 series) beat GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 “on all benchmarks… This thing is a beast.”
And then how within a day several AI researchers pointed out that even M… Continue reading After Meta Cheating Allegations, ‘Unmodified’ Llama 4 Maverick Model Tested – Ranks #32
“More than three million children around the world are thought to have died in 2022 as a result of infections that are resistant to antibiotics,” reports the BBC, citing a study by two leading experts in child health that used data from sources includi… Continue reading Three Million Child Deaths Linked To Drug Resistance, Study Shows
There are no shortage of CNC machines in the DIY space these days, but sometimes you just need to do things your own way. That’s what [Chris Borges] decided when …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Milling Machine is Solid as a Rock
“It is somewhat remarkable that work on AmigaOS 3.X continues in 2025,” notes Tom’s Hardware, “given that Commodore International released AmigaOS 3.0 in 1992…”
AmigaOS 3.1 came in 1993. And now…
Work continues on AmigaOS 3.2 with the stewards … Continue reading 33-year-old AmigaOS for Commodore Computers Gets an Unexpected Update
“Can you help me take down the Texas lottery?”
That’s what a London banker-turned-bookmaker asked “acquaintances” in 2023, reports the Wall Street Journal. The plan was to buy “nearly every possible number in a coming drawing” — purchasing $1 ti… Continue reading How a Secretive Gambler Called ‘The Joker’ Beat the Texas Lottery
Somewhere in Montana sits the only coal-fired power plant in America that hasn’t installed modern pollution controls to limit particulate matter, according to the Environmental Protecction Agency. Mining.com notes that it has the highest emission rate … Continue reading America’s Dirtiest Coal Power Plants Given Exemptions from Pollution Rules to Help Power AI
Spade is an open-source hardware description language (HDL) developed at Linköping University, Sweden. Other HDLs you might have heard of include Verilog and VHDL. Hardware engineers use HDLs to define …read more Continue reading The Spade Hardware Description Language
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 “will come with full support for OEM installations,” according to their monthly newsletter, so Linux Mint “can be pre-installed on computers which are sold throughout the World. It’s a very important feature and it’s one of … Continue reading ‘Linux Mint Debian Edition 7’ Gets OEM Support