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Ithaca's king defies the gods in final The Odyssey trailer

"You gods don't speak in ways we understand."

Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freight

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Autonomous vehicle hype is back, and Humble Robotics is bringing it to freight

The autonomous vehicle space is starting to feel like a repeat of the 2016 hype cycle. Travis Kalanick is back building a robotics company, and the talent wars and capital are heating up the same way they did the first time around. The money’s flowing back, and it’s the people who lived through that first […]

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After spooking Trump into safety testing, Anthropic AI models get global release

US lifts curbs on Anthropic’s advanced Fable and Mythos models.

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Penalty Shootouts: Is the Team That Kicks First More Likely to Win?

Penalty kicks are already proving critical to big wins at this year’s World Cup. But the advantage in penalty kicks has more to do with psychological effects than who kicks first.

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I Found 4 Bugs in an AI Student Platform — Here's What Was Actually Wrong

A GET endpoint inserting rows into a production database. { doubts, pagination } from an API that returned a plain array. Four separate bugs. One codebase. All found in the same sitting. This is a writeup of everything I found and fixed in DoubtDesk — an anonymous, AI-powered doubt-solving platform built for students to ask questions without fear and get instant answers. TypeScript, Next.js, Clerk auth, and a Postgres database on the backend. I'm writing this because every one of these bugs is s

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NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late

Starliner's certification may be delayed to 2027, 10 years later than Boeing's original schedule.

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Anthropic Added a New Security Measure to Get Back Into the Trump Administration’s Good Graces

The government has removed restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models—but there were strings attached.

The AI Imperative: A Pragmatic Framework for Getting Started

As Heather McLean of Forrester aptly notes, this question is the modern rallying cry of the small business owner. It signals a crucial awareness: AI is not a futuristic novelty, but a present-day competitive lever. However, this recognition often collides with the paralyzing fear of misstep, especially when resources are scarce and the margin for error is thin. The answer, counterintuitively, is not to dive headfirst into strategy. Strategic planning, while vital, can become a trap, a quagmire o

I finally understood cron expressions by building an explainer for them

For years I copied cron expressions off Stack Overflow, pasted them into a config file, crossed my fingers, and moved on. 0 9 * * 1-5? Sure, that "looks like weekday morning." */15 * * * *? "Every 15 minutes, probably." I never actually read them. So I did the thing that always cures this for me: I built a tool that parses a cron expression, explains it in plain English, and shows the next five times it will fire. No library. About 50 lines of real logic. Here's everything I learned. A standard

Add a working contact form to your static site in 30 seconds (no backend, no serverless)

Static sites are having a moment again. Astro, plain HTML, Next.js static exports, Hugo - fast, cheap to host, nothing to patch at 2 AM. There's exactly one feature that keeps dragging people back to servers: the contact form. The usual escalation goes like this. You ship a beautiful static site, the client asks "where do the enquiries go?", and suddenly you're evaluating serverless functions, SMTP credentials, and spam filtering for what should be three input fields. Here's the entire integrati

How I Render 100,000 Rows With Only ~20 DOM Nodes

Scroll a list of a hundred thousand items the naive way — list.appendChild(row) a hundred thousand times — and your tab freezes for seconds, eats hundreds of megabytes, and stutters forever after. Yet Slack scrolls years of messages, spreadsheets hold a million cells, and infinite feeds never slow down. They all use the same trick, and it's about 80 lines of vanilla JavaScript. It's called virtual scrolling (or windowing). Here's the whole idea, built from scratch. Try it live: https://dev48v.in