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He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/design/charles-ross-star-axis-land-art.html

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis.” Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty,” 1970, in Utah’s Great Salt Lake; De Maria’s “The Lightning Field,” 1977, in New Mexico. Heizer’s “City,” in Nevada. Only James Turrell’s “Roden Crater,” a bigger, slicker…

Kimi AI – Think Bigger. Search Smarter. Write Better.

https://www.kimi.com/

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? – Dylan Castillo

https://dylancastillo.co/posts/pelicanmaxxing.html

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

I generated 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.

Learn OpenGL, extensive tutorial resource for learning Modern OpenGL

https://learnopengl.com/

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

Il debito nascosto dietro la corsa ai data center per l’AI

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-hide-debt-off-balance-sheet

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

Un’inchiesta di Nikkei Asia stima che Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta e Oracle abbiano 1.650 miliardi di dollari di debiti fuori bilancio legati agli investimenti in AI e data center. L’uso di veicoli societari speciali richiama i rischi del caso Enron e…

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-proxies-from-smart-tv-apps/

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

"The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42…

Written statements - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statements/detail/2026-07-21/hlws298

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

the Prime Minister is establishing No.10 North as the engine room of devolution and good growth in every postcode, across government and the wider economy. This will include targeted transfers of overarching strategic functions: moving local economic…

marcelroed/gigatoken: Language model tokenization at GB/s

https://github.com/marcelroed/gigatoken/

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

High-performance Rust tokenizer providing GB/s throughput for LLMs. Use it as a drop-in replacement to speed up data processing by up to 1000x.

NoSignups - Open Source Tools. Zero nonsense.

https://nosignups.net/

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

Open Source Tools. No Signups. Right in your browser Ever tried to use a simple tool, and it had the audacity to ask for a signup? Ever rolled your eyes at signup screens? If yes, this should help you out! An reviewed-list of no-signup tools that work…

Miliband has been relentlessly attacked for net zero; what will happen now? | Ed Miliband | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/21/labour-briefed-against-ed-miliband-success-popularity

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

Businesses, led by the CBI, pointed out that the UK’s high energy prices – about 45% above the G7 median – were damaging businesses and dampening growth, as well as raising the cost of living. But as the CBI has made clear, net zero is not the culprit. In…

OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation | Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48997548

Published: July 24, 2026 05:47

> Reflecting on this for some reason reminds me of this passage from Kurt Vonnegut's "Sirens of Titans". I hope we use these tools to unlock something within ourselves rather than mindlessly expanding outwards. "Mankind, ignorant of the truths that lie…

Bento/Suite — the office suite that fits in a file

https://bento.page/

Published: July 23, 2026 05:47

Davit — a native macOS UI for Apple containers

https://davit.app/

Published: July 23, 2026 05:47

ScreenWall | Reuse Old Phones As Synced Widgets And Displays

https://screenwall.app/

Published: July 23, 2026 05:47

late.sh - a cozy terminal clubhouse for developers

https://late.sh/

Published: July 23, 2026 05:47

https://github.com/mpiorowski/late-sh https://old.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/1sf4j1s/ssh_latesh_the_clubhouse_is_officially_open_take/ https://old.reddit.com/r/tui/comments/1sasqb3/the_clubhouse_is_officially_open_jump_in_chill/…

QuintessentialShip - Recovery Trajectory (emotions, yay) - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/88184856

Published: July 23, 2026 05:47

I had installed the mental health module but hadn’t toggled it on yet. Which is why I was now in my cabin arguing with a bossy machine super-intelligence over how many emotions I might be capable of having. I had completed a total of one part of one step…

DeepSQL - 24/7 DBA: Cut Database Costs, Optimize Queries, MCP + Slack

https://deepsql.ai/

Published: July 23, 2026 05:47

DeepSQL is a 24/7 DBA that cuts database cost: rewrites slow queries, recommends indexes and materialized views, and ships context-aware SQL through Claude MCP, Codex, CLI, and Slack.

koala73/worldmonitor: Real-time global intelligence dashboard — AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface

https://github.com/koala73/worldmonitor

Published: July 23, 2026 05:47

Real-time global intelligence dashboard — AI-powered news aggregation, geopolitical monitoring, and infrastructure tracking in a unified situational awareness interface

nativ

https://github.com/Blaizzy/nativ

Published: July 23, 2026 05:47

Local AI, native to your Mac. Chat, serve, monitor, and connect MLX models from one macOS app.

PCjs - the original IBM PC simulation that runs in your web browser

https://www.pcjs.org/

Published: July 22, 2026 05:47

https://github.com/jeffpar/pcjs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11134571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19299755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48992323

The Brand Ledger — Worse on Purpose

https://ledger.worseonpurpose.com/

Published: July 22, 2026 05:47

Tracking brands across tools, bags, apparel, eyewear, and footwear. Who owns them, what they used to be, whether they're still worth buying.

Nativ — Run AI locally on your Mac

https://blaizzy.github.io/nativ/

Published: July 22, 2026 05:47

Nativ runs open language, vision, video, code, and embedding models locally on Apple Silicon. Free, private, and open source.

Qwen Image Generation

https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen-image-3.0

Published: July 22, 2026 05:47

Qwen Studio offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.

The night France saved the British grid • Dispatches Kilowatts

https://dispatches.kilowatts.io/p/a-midsummer-nights-near-miss

Published: July 22, 2026 05:47

Ben: For forty-eight minutes on the evening of Monday 23 June — a 33°C midsummer Monday — the frequency of Great Britain's electricity grid sat below 49.8 Hz, the boundary of normal operation. At 17 seconds past eight o'clock it touched 49.657 Hz, its…

American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.

https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/

Published: July 22, 2026 05:47

It makes sense for China to release its AI models openly. It turns a US-created compute disadvantage into a distribution advantage; it commoditizes the layer where American companies make money; and it creates a far more effective global ecosystem than…

Biggest Probabilistic Computer Turns Noise Into Answers - IEEE Spectrum

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biggest-probabilistic-computer

Published: July 22, 2026 05:47

Explore how 1 million p-bits bridge the gap between classical and quantum tech to solve complex optimization problems with scalable, noisy logic.

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