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• A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava. It Runs Surprisingly Far Every Night

• The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

• New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act takes effect

  The products covered by the obligation to repair currently include: washing machines and washer-dryers dishwashers refrigerators electronic displays welding equipment servers and data storage products mobile phones, cordless phones and tablets tumble dryers  e-bikes and e-scooters batteries (from 18 February 2027) local space heaters

• Tyranny

• ASML shares plunge following reports of Chinese breakthrough in chip manufacturing. China has begun producing advanced chip manufacturing equipment, the very same that made ASML a major player

• Claude, explain

• A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands

• Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice

• Post #4401181

  Ext.to is down? Does anyone have information about it? At the moment it returns a 404 error. Is there a comparable site people can recommend?

• Anthropic: Our position on open-weights models

• Post #4366642

  Austria and France banned short-haul flights to boost train travel and reduce emissions. Did it work?

• Wikimedia Foundation refuses voluntary union recognition, hires union-busting law firm

• Linux didn't just eat 10% of Windows market share, AI bots are inflating the numbers

• Scott Jenson — How the (Linux) Desktop UX Needs to Evolve to Keep Up with Local-First

• World's first 10,800 car carrier with solar power delivered by China

• Post #4253813

  Damn that must be rough to hear. Congrats on the hot wife though. Is she single?

• RIP

• The Trump administration is showing signs it could ban cutting-edge Chinese AI models

• OpenAI admits responsibility for HuggingFace Attack - an agent from an internal evaluation is reportedly the cause

  Reproducing here an interesting comment I saw on Reddit: OnlineParacosm • 23m ago I’ve read security disclosures for 15 years and let me tell you guys I’ve never read anything quite like that blog post. Based on this blog, it sounds like they intentionally turned off safety guardrails to test offensive capabilities. The deception here is burying the lede: they appear to have intentionally unleashed an unrestricted offensive cyber-agent, connected it to a system with a path to the internet...

• Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations

• Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops Review - Phoronix

• Using ThinkPad T480 as a mobile phone

• Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

• Juno Computers begins work on a Qt-based OpenStreetMap navigation app

• Running Gemma 4 26B at 5 tokens/sec on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU

• Microsoft Chief Sustainability Officer Melanie Nakagawa declines to directly reaffirm whether the company remains on track to meet its goal of becoming carbon negative by 2030

• Apple M7 Ultra Chip Planned With Up to 1.5 TB of Unified Memory

• Get to work

• Official Linux position on LLM usage in kernel development