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Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'

A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting

Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers

<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10955-0" rel="nofollow">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10955-0</a><p><a href="https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00853-0" rel="nofollow">https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(25)00853-0</a>

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Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

tech report: <a href="https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf</a><p>additional paper: <a href="https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri" rel="nofollow">https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri</a>

Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model

tech report: <a href="https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://aleph-alpha.com/downloads/tech-report.pdf</a><p>additional paper: <a href="https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri" rel="nofollow">https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri</a>

Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city

<a href="https://archive.ph/Kv6yS" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/Kv6yS</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_pQ1-5iQg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h_pQ1-5iQg</a><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-city" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/oct/01/mike-tomlin-mi...</a>

Apple Pass Designer

SvelteKit 3

How Singapore's government-run dating service works

DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows

Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel

Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake

A brief history of the Bloomberg terminal

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform

Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform