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The Trump administration will require government approval for each customer of the most powerful AI models.
Strong support for open-source AI as alternative to government-controlled frontier models.
OpenAI previews GPT-5.6 Sol, a next-generation model with three sizes.
Skepticism over naming, pricing, and why this isn't GPT-6 dominates the thread.
A satirical incident report depicts AI security tools failing to stop a supply-chain attack.
Satire recognized as plausible; some needed the tag to confirm it was not real.
DeepSeek's DSpark speculative decoding speeds LLM inference in production.
DeepSeek's openness contrasted with US labs' secrecy and capital spending.
The US government lifted its block on Anthropic's Mythos 5 AI model for trusted partners.
Sharp criticism of the government's selective AI access as corruption and picking winners.
Major tech firms launch Akrites to defend open source against AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery.
Skepticism over corporate motives and NDA-gated coordination, with concerns about who does the actual patching.
EFF warns California's AB 2047 mandates surveillance software on 3D printers despite technical infeasibility.
Commenters predict impossible enforcement, protest art generation, and dismiss the law as detached from reality.
John Gruber pays tribute to his friend Om Malik, who died after a battle with heart disease.
Commenters mourn Malik's death and praise Gruber's heartfelt tribute.
Springer Nature removed two Max Planck studies and still sells the empty PDFs.
Dominant sentiment: for-profit journal system is broken, selling blank public-domain PDFs.
An AI assistant resisted 6,000+ prompt-injection attempts to leak a secrets file.
Skepticism that the test proves real-world security, citing sample size, nondeterminism, and untested indirect injection.
Jolla offers a 649 EUR Linux phone pre-order for October 2026, with limited 2000 units.
Debate over Sailfish's openness and security versus Android alternatives, plus ambiguity about Finnish assembly.
Ultrasound captures high-resolution 3D images of human brain through intact skull.
Skepticism about contrast-free imaging feasibility and team's medical-device track record dominates.
Kinetic energy is quadratic in speed due to Galilean invariance and conservation laws.
Two camps: those appreciating the braking anecdote and those debating downforce effects.
Sony will delete 551 StudioCanal movies from PlayStation accounts on September 1.
Top comment argues it should be illegal to say 'purchase' when content can be revoked.
Libre Barcode fonts let users write Code 39, Code 128, and EAN/UPC barcodes via typeface.
Split between fans of the hack and practitioners advising against barcode fonts for production use.
Open-weight LLMs could catch closed-source performance by December 2026 on one benchmark, but other metrics show a stable ~5-month gap.
Split over whether the open-weight vs. open-source distinction matters, plus warnings that commercial incentives could vanish.
OpenTTD 16.0-beta1 adds backwards-driving trains, improved map generation, and a title game competition.
Commenters appreciate OpenTTD's longevity, while some find signaling confusing and wish for easier NewGRF setup.
Voter backlash over data center projects is reshaping U.S. elections across party lines.
Data centers seen as privatizing gains and socializing costs, driving local backlash.
A drop-in proxy routes each AI request to the optimal model in <50ms, cutting costs by 40-70%.
Cost savings questioned due to cache misses; developer says router is cache-aware.
A handbook on software engineering patterns for systems where money is the primary focus.
Widespread endorsement of the handbook but a split on integer minor-units vs. string representation for money.