The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump’s presidency
Five of those six users have placed no more bets since, but one of the account’s recent activity shows it has subsequently made $163,000 by correctly betting on a US-Iran ceasefire by 7 April, which was announced by Washington and Tehran on that day.
The Uncanny Valley and the Rising Power of Anti-AI Sentiment
Recent survey data show a wide gap between public and expert views of AI. In Pew’s 2025 survey, 76% of AI experts said AI would benefit them personally, while only 24% of the U.S. public said the same. The public was much more likely to say AI would harm them than benefit them. Negative public […]
Show HN: TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D running on Mac Silicon – no Nvidia GPU needed
Run TRELLIS.2 image-to-3D generation natively on Mac. This is a port of Microsoft’s TRELLIS.2 — a state-of-the-art image-to-3D model — from CUDA-only to Apple Silicon via PyTorch MPS. No NVIDIA GPU required. Generates 400K+ vertex meshes from single images in ~3.5 minutes on M4 Pro. Output includes vertex-colored OBJ and GLB files ready for use […]
Swiss AI Initiative (2023)
The Swiss AI Initiative was started in December 2023 and seeded with an initial investment of over 10m GPU hours on Alps (by CSCS) and a grant of 20m CHF by the ETH Domain. The initiative is the largest open science/open source effort for AI foundation models worldwide, and the first initiative of the Swiss National […]
2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email
What is this? A map of all ~2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email — grouped by jurisdiction — based on public DNS records and other public network signals. Context Digital sovereignty: US-based providers are subject to the US CLOUD Act, which allows US authorities to request stored data, regardless of where […]
Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft
Compatible with digital sovereignty? A Microsoft logo pictured in London. Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved The Swiss government is aiming to gradually shift away from a dependency on Microsoft products, according to the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper. Listen to the article Listening the article Toggle language selector English (US) English (British) Generated […]
A. J. Ayer – ‘What I Saw When I Was Dead’ (1988)
– Great British atheist philosopher A. J. Ayer (1910 – 1989) recounts his extraordinary near death experience in an article for The Sunday Telegraph (28th August 1988), reflecting upon its possible implications. That Undiscovered Country/What I Saw When I Was Dead A. J. Ayer My first attack of pneumonia occurred in the United States. I was in hospital for […]
Six Levels of Dark Mode
The six levels Barebone Basic Benign Bold Bisectional Ballistic Beyond Beguiling Being reminded of the visually hidden debate hasn’t been the only thing that happened to me on this year’s CSS Naked Day. I’ve observed that on pretty much all the sites I’ve visited, dark mode was rather absent after the styles had been removed. […]
Uber’s AI Push Hits a Wall–CTO Says Budget Struggles Despite $3.4B Spend
Uber Technologies, Inc is learning the hard way that scaling AI isn’t just about speed—it’s about cost. Despite spending $3.4 billion on research and development, the company has already exhausted its planned AI budget just months into 2026. According to The Information, Chief Technology Officer Praveen Neppalli Naga said Uber is now ”back to the […]
The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of World’s Memory Chips
The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, now in an unstable ceasefire, has exposed a structural failure in the global semiconductor memory supply chain, and it is not the one analysts seem to be tracking. The story receiving attention is helium: Qatar’s Ras Laffan facility went offline, a 45-day inventory clock started running, and spot prices doubled […]