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British soldiers take down drone swarm with radio wave weapon

www.gov.uk

UK-made, invisible radio wave weapon knocks out drone swarms for the first time. Weapon has potential...
UK-made, invisible radio wave weapon knocks out drone swarms for the first time. Weapon has potential to help protect against drone threats as nature of warfare changes. The project supports more than 135 highly skilled jobs across the UK. The trial was completed at a weapons range in West Wales and was the largest ...
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WordPress Feature API

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Daily Pill May Work as Well as Ozempic for Weight Loss and Blood Sugar

nytimes.com

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SKIP ADVERTISEMENTYou have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Clinical results of a GLP-1 in pill form showed safety and efficacy data similar to blockbuster injectable drugs.Listen to this article · 5:56 min Learn moreI...

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Miscellaneous Mathematical Symbols

johndcook.com

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Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates

feldera.com
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US Government threatens Harvard with foreign student ban

bbc.com

Getty ImagesHarvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House's sweeping list of demands The...
Getty ImagesHarvard President Alan Garber has flatly rejected the White House's sweeping list of demands The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students - after the institution said it would not bow to demands from President Donald Trump's administration and was hit with a ...
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As 'Bot' Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond

voiceofsandiego.org

When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online...
When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good. Two of her online classes were completely full, boasting 32 students each. Even the classes’ waitlists, which fit 20 students, were maxed out. That had never happened before. “Teachers get excited when there’s a lot of interest...
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The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia

phys.org

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AI as Normal Technology

knightcolumbia.org

We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal...
We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the f...
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Building an AI That Watches Rugby

nickjones.tech

Heads up! This article was written over [[elapsed]]. While it may still be helpful, please verify...
Heads up! This article was written over [[elapsed]]. While it may still be helpful, please verify any information, as my perspectives and practices may have evolved. There’s a gap in rugby data. We’ve got the big moments covered — the tries, conversions, and cards. Structured event feeds do a good job of telling you...
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Development on Apple Silicon with UTM

rkiselenko.dev

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Why Japan's "Weakest Samurai Warlord" Is Still Admired to This Day

tokyoweekender.com

During Japan’s Sengoku (Warring States) period, there was one name that instantly struck fear into the...
During Japan’s Sengoku (Warring States) period, there was one name that instantly struck fear into the hearts of even the most powerful feudal lords: “Oda,” as in the merciless master maneuverer Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582). Interestingly, around the same time, there was a name that elicited the exact opposite reaction,...
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PolyThink: A Multi-Agent AI System to Eliminate Hallucinations

ycombinator.com
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Making Software

makingsoftware.com

A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick.░FIG_001[...
A reference manual for people who design and build software. Written and illustrated by Dan Hollick.░FIG_001[ 3.5" floppy disk ]Have you ever wondered how a touch screen knows you are touching it? Well, it has these layers of transparent metal electrodes embedded in the display. When your finger gets close to the sc...
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The Atari 1200XL Fiasco – By Paul Lefebvre

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The Atari 1200XL was the third Atari 8-bit computer. Announced in late 1982 and available in...
The Atari 1200XL was the third Atari 8-bit computer. Announced in late 1982 and available in early 1983, it was designed as a replacement for the Atari 800, which was becoming increasingly expensive to produce, and to serve as a better competitor to the upstart Commodore 64.The 800 had several motherboards and a hea...
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BitNet b1.58 2B4T Technical Report

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Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf]

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ICE-snitching app is promoting a meme coin

theverge.com

Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of...
Right-wing influencers are shilling an app that purportedly lets people earn crypto for reporting sightings of undocumented immigrants. ICERAID, a “GovFi protocol that delegates intelligence gathering tasks to citizens,” has recently been promoted by the likes of conspiracy theorist and Trump confidante Laura Loomer...
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Show HN: Elfconv – Linux Apps to High-Performance WASM Binary Translator

medium.com

elfconv is a binary translator that converts Linux applications into executable binaries for different platforms. In...
elfconv is a binary translator that converts Linux applications into executable binaries for different platforms. In the current implementation, elfconv primarily supports conversion from ELF/AArch64 to WebAssembly (Wasm) and ELF/x86–64, with a particular focus on conversion to Wasm. In this article, I will introduc...

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The Promise of Rust

fasterthanli.me

fasterthanlime Apr 16, 2025 29 min #rust · #memory-safety exclusive The part that makes Rust scary...
fasterthanlime Apr 16, 2025 29 min #rust · #memory-safety exclusive The part that makes Rust scary is the part that makes it unique. And it’s also what I miss in other programming languages — let me explain! Rust syntax starts simple. This function prints a number: fn show(n: i64) { println!("n = {n}"); } And this p...
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How the Merchants of Ifriqiya Coded Commerce Before Silicon

medium.com

A visual ode to the Sifraniyah: salt, gold, and the cryptic tools of a forgotten mercantile...
A visual ode to the Sifraniyah: salt, gold, and the cryptic tools of a forgotten mercantile code etched into the sands of Ifriqiya.In the annals of mercantile legend, obscured by the noisy clamor of Florentine ledgers and Venetian fleets, there existed a curious enclave on the southern periphery of the Mediterranean...

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'Why would he take such a risk?' My censor and me

theguardian.com

It is 2013. For four full months, Liu Lipeng engages in dereliction of duty. Every hour...
It is 2013. For four full months, Liu Lipeng engages in dereliction of duty. Every hour the system sends him a huge volume of posts, but he hardly ever deletes a single word. After three or four thousand posts accumulate, he lightly clicks his mouse and the whole lot is released. In the jargon of censors, this is a ...
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Bring Back RSS Feeds to Browsers

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Clowning Around: On the Principles of Clowning

substack.com

Comedian Grayson Morris, who sometimes teaches clown, was kind enough to pass along these thoughts about...
Comedian Grayson Morris, who sometimes teaches clown, was kind enough to pass along these thoughts about clowning… ---------- Forwarded message ---------From: Grayson MorrisSubject: Re: is there somewhere someone could learn more about the principles of clowning?This inspired me to want to read about principles of c...
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