AI News

The Intel 8087 chip: floating-point addition and subtraction (www.righto.com)

Trials and Tribulations of Native Lua Compilation (samyeyo.github.io)

Campus deplatformings hit record high (expression.fire.org)

Programming Language Popularity Increases for R, Julia, and Rust (but Not Go) (developers.slashdot.org)

British farmers spooked as summer drought ruins pumpkin crops | Daily Mail Online (www.dailymail.com)

macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL (developer.apple.com)

Will it be a golden age or a dark age for mathematics (and science)? (terrytao.wordpress.com)

Fighting the drought: Hungary's 'Water Guardians' - DW (www.dw.com)

Lenovo’s fast, comfy SteamOS handheld is hundreds off (www.theverge.com)

Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers (github.com)

Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching (neilmadden.blog)

Releasing Palm OS Archive, Developer Rediscovers Working Virus After 25 Years (mobile.slashdot.org)

High performance policy routed IPsec mesh SD-WAN (ranet3.com)

Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages (www.tomshardware.com)

Hackers exploit SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands as SYSTEM, root (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Tesla 'Cannot Guarantee' Roadster Reservation Holders Will Ever Get a Car (www.thedrive.com)

Florida opens $191.8M water plant to protect the Matanzas River and conserve drinking water - inkl (www.inkl.com)

Texas Senate District 3 candidates on water, taxes and education - Beaumont Enterprise (www.beaumontenterprise.com)

Theranos-Style Fraud Has Become the Norm (www.theatlantic.com)

J Mascis has nothing better to do (www.theverge.com)

Inferring the Host: A Bayesian Look at the Monty Hall Problem (towardsdatascience.com)

Triwarden (www.producthunt.com)

Planet-X (www.producthunt.com)

RepRapMicron (github.com)

Gen Z Is the First Generation Dumber Than Their Parents (www.vice.com)

The Electronic Disturbance Theater and Electronic Civil Disobedience (www.thing.net)

Trump says Google kisses his ass (www.theverge.com)

Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake (legendofhyrule.com)

A page looks innocent: the algorithms behind a typeset page (news.speedata.de)

The best gadget I bought this year is a milk frother (www.theverge.com)

How overhead projectors took over your classroom (www.theverge.com)

Data centres: Opposing them and developing them are not the only two choices (theconversation.com)

Germany's 17M Immigrants: Where They Come From (www.visualcapitalist.com)

As communities in the US push back against data centers over their vast power and ... - Facebook (www.facebook.com)

Weball: Play Katamari on Websites (www.funwithcomputervision.com)

How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get? (www.vals.ai)

A new way to think about borrow checking (in reverse) (verdagon.dev)

Cities want to put the boot on robotaxis (www.theverge.com)

Both Charts Are Right. So Why Do They Disagree? (towardsdatascience.com)

FSF Criticizes Raspberry Pi DRM Blocking RAM Upgrades (news.slashdot.org)

Restoration of Retinal Regenerative Potential (www.nature.com)

Open MicroManipulator – A sub-micrometer 3D motion control plattform (github.com)

The Brain Sandwich (terriblesoftware.org)

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The Sequence Radar - Issue #953: Last Week in AI: The Future Has Payment Terms (thesequence.substack.com)

How employment is changing at Anthropic (www.anthropic.com)

OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty (www.wired.com)

Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip (www.wired.com)

Making Solar Panels with a Microwave [video] (www.youtube.com)

Legal experts warn Meta's new terms still grant broad scraping permissions (www.niemanlab.org)