Write Like It’s 1866: LLMs Relearn Telegraphese
Everything below is reproducible — harness, frozen ledgers, one-click notebook: github.com/Travis42/telegraph-test. Numbers from a 50-passage, ~1,300-question benchmark: Cross-family…
The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics
Philip Ball’s entertaining biography is a guide to both the life of the Danish physicist and the mind-boggling…
Human Verification
Human Verification In order to continue, you need to verify that you’re not a robot by solving a…
Scientists who put faith in technology less likely to take climate action | Climate crisis
Scientists who believe technology will largely solve the problems caused by the climate crisis are less likely to…
Spotify expands audiobooks to over 180 markets
Spotify announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding audiobook access to over 180 markets worldwide, including regions across Europe,…
The best robot vacuum and mop deals during October Prime Day
Spending too much time constantly sweeping and mopping? If you have the money to delegate those chores to…
South Korea Says AI Agents May Have Been Used to Hack the Country’s Banks
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung says there are signs AI models may have been used in recent…
The heart of the internet
eff.org Congress is taking another run at site-blocking, a deeply flawed concept that would undermine basic internet infrastructure.…
Accessing La Cueva BBS in Mexico in 1993
by Óscar Toledo G. Oct/05/2026 La Cueva BBSNopal BBS (fragment) My main computer in 1993 was a Zilog…
SpaceX looks to raise $40bn to buy Nvidia chips in financing led by Apollo
Blockbuster debt deal is the latest sign of the vast spending on chips and other infrastructure underpinning AI…