The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.

Video and photos show work underway in Big Bend National Park, the location of a border project which has sparked bipartisan fury.

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

Trickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial.

Randall Rothenberg in the New York Times (1988-08-10) writes that although “Puzzle Makers Exchange Cross Words”
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From nonsense slogans like “Own your inference” to deep community alienation: Why San Francisco’s AI billboards aren’t just annoying—and how locals are fighting back.

Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated…

For the first time in U.S. history, adults 65 and older are projected to outnumber children under 18 around 2029. Interactive chart and full Census dataset.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 reasoning variants across ARC-AGI-1, ARC-AGI-2, and ARC-AGI-3.

Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.

Writing custom software used to be expensive. Coding agents changed the math.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is moving to equip officers with body cameras in the next two months but the public should not expect to quickly see footage of every critical incident.

Read the Greek and Latin classics in the original — 1,060 works with every word parsed, every form defined, and full dictionary entries from Lewis & Short and LSJ.

The fortunes of a remote tungsten pit have risen and fallen through more than a century of conflicts. The critical mineral could now be a deterrent.

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Psychological warfare in reverse engineering. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/REpsych development by creating an account on GitHub.

The tree of life may split at the roots.

A complete line-for-line English translation of Homer's Odyssey, with annotations and a name index. Free EPUB, Kindle, PDF, and a complete narrated audiobook.

AI invoice chasing, free document templates, and document certification — the automation layer for small business.