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When insecurity creates a secret tradition

Password rules seemed designed by someone with a personal grudge against human memory.

A universe built on insecurity

Seit hundert Jahren arbeitet die Fraternitas Saturni schon im Verborgenen an ihren Zielen. Zu ihrem hundertjährigen Bestehen öffnet die Loge nun ein wenig ihren Vorhang und legt eine Festschrift vor, ...

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For as long as I can remember, my life’s been filled with books. Crime novels, fantasy epics, philosophy texts, historical narratives and subjects with only a passing interest. Some books I’ve read…

The latest Stuff Your Kindle event is a good one!

<p><em>Neuropsychologist <strong>Mark Solms</strong> — the man entrusted with editing Freud's complete scientific works — argues that a century of neuroscience has been unknowingly proving psychoanaly...

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When you have a good idea but have control issues

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Public backlash to AI is intensifying and spilling into real-world attempts at violence. In response, AI executives are beefing up security.

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Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it.

In an exceptional (if ugly) book, “cult hunter” Be Scofield attacks Jesus as the ultimate “cult leader.” She is not alone.

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The free PDF editor I can’t live without

Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.

"This is a reality-TV-show president... And it sounds to me like they were making a reality TV show," Amanda Crawford said.

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Veteran line-cooks, experts, and die-hard fans tell the story of the fries that birthed an empire, then disappeared—until now.

Browse 368+ free LLM APIs and free AI models from Google AI Studio, Groq, NVIDIA NIM, OpenRouter & more. No credit card required. One-click config for Claude Code (cc), Codex, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw, He...

Chinese authorities have held meetings ​with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI models, including those yet to be released, th...

Gonne and got herself a different reputation

Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no one could explain. New answers to how and why this happens are forcing us to question how electrici...

His grandfather begged a Bavarian prince not to deport him. The prince said no. That rejected asylum plea is the only reason Donald Trump is American. He posted the evidence himself. Colourised.

Groundbreaking Diabetes Cure Developed by Chinese Scientists

Tonga appears to have suspended several domains, including the popular German streaming portals S.to and BS.to.