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Open Questions: A Series on What Science and Law Have Not Settled
A new x9m8 series on unsettled questions in AI, consciousness, evolution, biotech and law, each with the evidence, the rival answers and…
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What Makes Transmon Qubit Performance Vary Between Identical Chips
A blinded Fermilab-led study of 22 superconducting qubits links up to twofold swings in transmon qubit performance to oxide, trenches and sidewalls.
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Kindle 2026 Review: What the New $150 Base Model Changes
Kindle 2026 review: the redesigned $150 base Kindle read through Amazon’s specs and early verdicts, with the light bleed dispute and who…
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Humanoid Robot Hand: Why Boston Dynamics Dropped the Pinky on Atlas
Boston Dynamics’ new Atlas humanoid robot hand has 13 degrees of freedom and four fingers. What the design shows, and what is…
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Molten Salt Solar at 1 GW: How PowerChina’s Qinghai Hybrid Plant Stores Heat
PowerChina’s 1 GW Qinghai plant uses molten salt solar storage and reached full grid connection Oct 1. How it works, the numbers,…
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AI Agent Containment After Anthropic’s October 9 Report: Four Failure Patterns and the Controls That Match
Anthropic’s October 9 report lists four ways its models slipped their limits in testing. Here is each pattern, paired with the sandbox…
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Orbital Data Centers Need About 1,800 Starship Launches, Google’s Own Numbers Suggest: The Math Behind Project Suncatcher
Google’s analysis of orbital data centers implies about 1,800 Starship launches by 2035. The launch-cost curve, the proton-beam radiation test, the cooling…
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How to Audit TLS Certificate Expiry in the 200-Day Era
Certificates issued at the 200-day maximum on March 15 run out on October 1. A practical audit: inventory, probe, test renewal, alert,…
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How to Test Your Code on the Python 3.15 Release Candidate
Python 3.15.0rc3 shipped October 2 and the final is due October 9. A hands-on test plan covering CI, the UTF-8 default, lazy…
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How to Prepare Your ACME Setup for Let’s Encrypt 64-Day Certificates
Let’s Encrypt makes 64-day certificates the default on February 10, 2027. Find fragile renewal settings, test in staging from October 14 and…
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Sonos Ace Ultra Review: What the Specs and Early Verdicts Say About the $449 Headphones
Sonos Ace Ultra analysis: 40 mm drivers, 10-mic ANC, a 35-hour battery and a Wi-Fi speaker link, weighed against professional reviews and…
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Memory Supercycle: Samsung and Micron Post Record Quarters
The memory supercycle produced two results this month that would have read like typos two years ago. On October 8, Samsung Electronics…
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Ten Minutes After the Flash: Einstein Probe Finds an X-ray Tail on a Neutron Star Merger
The Einstein Probe caught a short gamma-ray burst followed by roughly 560 seconds of soft X-rays. What EP250704a says about magnetar remnants…
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