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Researcher At Russian Plague Laboratory Dies of 'Unknown' Infection

"Russian health authorities have taken precautionary measures in response to the death of a woman who worked at an anti-plague research facility," reports Axios, "but have not confirmed that she

687: Linux by Proxy

Millions of people may already be using Linux by proxy, so we went digging through their strange little cloud desktops to see if we can turn them into servers. Sponsored By: • Jupiter Party Annual

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gets Frustrated Losing At StarCraft And Decides To Cheat Instead

What happened when AI-created bots competed in the classic Blizzard videogame StarCraft? "Struggling to stay apace with its competitors, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra apparently changed strategy

ESA, CAS release first images from SMILE; officially begin science operations

Following its launch in May and a multi-month commissioning period, the joint European Space Agency… The post ESA, CAS release first images from SMILE; officially begin science operations

Americans want Congress to stop the imperial presidency

Article I is so back

Scientist Who Communicates, or Science Communicator? Choose.

How Python Will Test Adding Rust Into CPython

Python's security developer-in-residence Seth Larson reports from this year's official core developer Python Language Summit: "No one said 'don't do this' last year". After testing the waters at

Divergence with a Vengeance

The 19th century was more important than I previously thought

Daily Briefing: October 4, 2026, evening

The briefing for 2026-10-04 covers seventeen articles on AI meeting tools and AI policy, Flock surveillance and robotaxis, Mars and particle physics, GNU Boot and Intel Xeon, crypto charter litigation, AM radio legislation, and cultural essays including an analysis of Frost's Mending Wall.

Radio Broadcasters Support America's 'AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act'

Last month, the U.S. House passed the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. They call it "a bipartisan effort to require AM radio in new vehicles," adding that the bill now

Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.

⛏️ Bitcoin Mining - Producing allergy medicine with solar powered hashrate

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Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem?

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back

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Disney/Marvel's 'Avengers: Endgame' Beats 'Avatar' as Top-Grossing Film, 'Coyote vs Acme' #1 on Apple TV

James Cameron's Avatar is no longer the highest-grossing movie in box office history. That honor now goes to the Disney/Marvel Studios film Avengers: Endgame. Variety explains: "Avatar" spent a

Atheists Can Be More Committed Than Believers

marginal revolution read out: My blurb for Ethan Mollick’s new book

The post My blurb for Ethan Mollick’s new book covers the author's AI-directed blurb for Ethan Mollick's Coexistence and Ethan Mollick's remarks on the other blurbs.

Particle Collider Experiment Recreates the Big Bang's Primordial Soup - and Find Unexpected Pattern

"Physicists smashed gold nuclei together at nearly the speed of light and found an unexpected pattern in the particles..." writes Live Science. "If confirmed, that pattern could help reveal how the

marginal revolution read out: Sunday assorted links

The post Sunday assorted links covers a new London play about Keynes, aphantasia and architecture, AI and jobs in Africa, Nussbaum on opera and liberalism, bipartisan energy permitting reform, teenage gun traffickers, and an Antikythera field trip.

Was There Really a Female King in Ancient Egypt 5,000 Years Ago?

A new study says yes The post [Was There Really a Female King in Ancient Egypt 5,000 Years Ago?](https://nautil.us/was-there-really-a-female-king-in-ancient-egypt-5000-years-ago-1285520/) appeared

Sunday assorted links

1. New London play about Keynes. 2. Aphantasia, and looking at buildings. 3. AI and job growth in Africa. 4. On Nussbaum, opera, and liberalism. 5. Congress seeks to speed up energy permitting (NYT).

San Francisco's Car Crime Has Plunged. How Much Credit Does Flock Deserve?

Car thefts in San Francisco are down almost 59% for the first eight months of 2026 compared with the same months in 2022, according to analysis of police department statistics by NPR's Planet Money

Buying pumpkins at a Square terminal with bitcoin (and failing)

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TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

Nothing Is Truly Isolated. That's the Arrow of Time.