Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

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Kagi Small Web Discover the small web - personal blogs, independent YouTube channels, and webcomics from genuine humans on the internet.

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Speed at the Cost of Quality: How Cursor AI Increases Short-Term Velocity and Long-Term Complexity in Open-Source Projects Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated the promise to revolutionize the field of software engineering. Among other things, LLM agents are rapidly gaining momentum in software development, with practitioners reporting a multifold increase in productivity after adoption. Yet, empirical evidence is lacking around these claims. In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of adopting a widely popular LLM agent assistant, namely Cursor, on development velocity and software quality. The estimation is enabled by a state-of-the-art difference-in-differences design comparing Cursor-adopting GitHub projects with a matched control group of similar GitHub projects that do not use Cursor. We find that the adoption of Cursor leads to a statistically significant, large, but transient increase in project-level development velocity, along with a substantial and persistent increase in static analysis warnings and code complexity. Further panel generalized-method-of-moments estimation reveals that increases in static analysis warnings and code complexity are major factors driving long-term velocity slowdown. Our study identifies quality assurance as a major bottleneck for early Cursor adopters and calls for it to be a first-class citizen in the design of agentic AI coding tools and AI-driven workflows.

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Sci-Fi Short Film "There Is No Antimemetics Division" | DUST | Starring Jasika Nicole Subscribe to DUST on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2aqc5vh🪐 You are entering a fictional zone: reality has been suspended. When knowledge itself becomes the enemy,...

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Kagi Translate Kagi Translate uses powerful AI models to instantly and accurately translate any content in any language.

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Pixeldust AB - Monkey Island Project Joachim Ljunggren/Pixeldust is a Designer, Title Sequence and Motion Graphics Producer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Over the past 15 years Joachim has designed, directed and produced title sequences and motion graphics for a variety of clients including TV4, SVT, TV3, Kanal5, TV6, TV7, MTV, Meter Television, Mastiff, Eyeworks, Edithouse Film Works, STARK Corporate Communication and many others. Joachim works in Cinema 4D, After Effects and Photoshop.

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The Bureaucracy Blocking the Chance at a Cure How early-stage clinical trials became unnecessarily expensive and inefficient—and how we can fix them, inspired by a recent story about a dog treated for cancer.

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Beyond Meat CEO Says 'It's Just Not The Moment For Plant-Based Meat' After Rebrand Ethan Brown has said, “It’s just not the moment for plant-based meat," following Beyond Meat's rebrand to Beyond The Plant Protein Company

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AirPods Max 2 The ultimate over-ear listening experience — in five vibrant colors and with up to 1.5x more Active Noise Cancellation than the previous generation.

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GitHub - rexrodeo/american-healthcare-conundrum: Investigative data journalism: quantifying fixable waste in US healthcare, one issue at a time. Open-source analysis of CMS, OECD, and federal datasets. $98.6B in savings identified so far. Investigative data journalism: quantifying fixable waste in US healthcare, one issue at a time. Open-source analysis of CMS, OECD, and federal datasets. $98.6B in savings identified so far. - rexro...

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GitHub - htdt/godogen: Claude Code skills that build complete Godot 4 projects from a game description Claude Code skills that build complete Godot 4 projects from a game description - htdt/godogen

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Leanstral: Open-Source foundation for trustworthy vibe-coding | Mistral AI First open-source code agent for Lean 4.

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Language Model Teams as Distributed Systems Large language models (LLMs) are growing increasingly capable, prompting recent interest in LLM teams. Yet, despite increased deployment of LLM teams at scale, we lack a principled framework for addressing key questions such as when a team is helpful, how many agents to use, how structure impacts performance -- and whether a team is better than a single agent. Rather than designing and testing these possibilities through trial-and-error, we propose using distributed systems as a principled foundation for creating and evaluating LLM teams. We find that many of the fundamental advantages and challenges studied in distributed computing also arise in LLM teams, highlighting the rich practical insights that can come from the cross-talk of these two fields of study.

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Investing in Infrastructure: Meta’s Renewed Commitment to jemalloc Meta recognizes the long-term benefits of jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, in its software infrastructure. We are renewing focus on jemalloc, aiming to reduce maintenance needs and mo…

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My Journey to a reliable and enjoyable locally hosted voice assistant I have been watching HomeAssistant’s progress with assist for some time. We previously used Google Home via Nest Minis, and have switched to using fully local assist backed by local first + llama.cpp (previously Ollama). In this post I will share the steps I took to get to where I am today, the decisions I made and why they were the best for my use case specifically. Links to Additional Improvements Here are links to additional improvements posted about in this thread. New Features Security C...

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The Accidental Room - 99% Invisible In downtown Providence, Rhode Island there is a large and prominent plot of land that sits on the bank of the Woonasquatucket River. In 1838, it was the home of the the Rhode Island State Prison. Later, the land housed the Continuing Education campus for the University of Rhode Island. After that came the dirt

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Scientists discover a surprising way to quiet the anxious mind Generalized anxiety disorder affects millions, often trapping sufferers in cycles of fear and isolation that conventional medications barely relieve. At UCSF, neuroscientist Jennifer Mitchell is testing a pharmaceutical form of LSD called MM120, which has shown striking results in reducing symptoms by promoting neuroplasticity and easing rigid thought patterns. In clinical trials, a single dose significantly outperformed standard treatments, offering hope to those who have found little relief elsewhere.

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