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In this post, I argue that individual intellectual activity can only be sustained in an intellectual community of other humans. AI dissolves these communities, which in turn makes private intellectual activity rarer. Some years ago, when it became clear that … Read more
Photo cred: my dad I’ve worked with a lot of research assistants over the years, and at some point we inevitably have The Talk: should they get a PhD? I was recently having The Talk with one particularly distraught student, … Read more
About Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared. Look up a carrier‘s APNs, VoLTE, Wi-Fi Calling and 5G on each phone. Pick the features you need and see which carriers have them. Compare any two versions … Read more
TL;DR we raised $$$ and we’re going to make sure it shows up as benefits to y’all 🫶 We’ve raised a really big series A¹ led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Sequoia Capital, existing investor DCVC, and the tech … Read more
A decades-long project to transform Germany’s former coal mines into a massive lake complex will reach completion this April – creating a watery landscape almost as large as Italy’s Lake Como. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT Lake Sedlitz – the final addition to … Read more
In eastern Germany, enormous pits carved into the landscape by decades of lignite mining are being transformed into a vast network of lakes, wetlands and restored land. The Lusatian Lakeland, spread across Brandenburg and Saxony between Berlin and Dresden, is … Read more
Release date: Oct. 9, 2026 This is the stable release of Python 3.15.0 Python 3.15.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimisations compared to Python 3.14, in 5,643 commits … Read more
A drone attack struck a major Yandex data center in Russia’s Kaluga region, knocking several modules completely out of service, according to Russian state media TASS on October 9. We bring you stories from the ground. Your support keeps our team in the field. DONATE NOW “Several … Read more
The family of a road rage victim in Arizona used his likeness to create a posthumous AI video played at his killer’s sentencing last year. Now, an appeals court has vacated the sentence, calling the decision to allow the video … Read more
In the spring, we hit a pretty wild milestone: Oxide paid income tax. And not because of some unusual transaction or one-time event, but because our ordinary operations (selling computers!) generated taxable income after accounting for the costs of components, … Read more