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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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Self-Host a Service With Docker Compose: Volumes and Backups
A worked Docker Compose file for a self-hosted service: compose anatomy, named volumes, restart policies, healthchecks, updating images with pull and up,…
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Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing, Worked Out: Cache Reads, the 100K-Token Cliff, and Where Sonnet 5.5 Still Wins
Haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less than Haiku 4.5 on average. Worked examples show what that means for a 20-turn agent run,…
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Nut-Busting vs. Fastening Torque: How to Read the Spec Sheet on Milwaukee’s New 2,000 ft-lb Impact Wrench
Milwaukee’s M18 FUEL 2964 claims 2,000 ft-lb of nut-busting torque and 1,800 ft-lb of fastening torque. Here is what those ratings measure,…
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Before Apple’s October 13 Launch: How to Audit Your Thread and Matter Network Without Buying Anything
Apple’s Welcome Home launch lands October 13. Before any new hub arrives, count your Thread networks, check Wi-Fi channel overlap, and test…
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Claim Check: Did Quantinuum’s Anyons Just Make Topological Quantum Computing Universal?
A Nature paper reports universal gates from braided anyons on Quantinuum’s H2. Here is what it shows, what the headlines overstate, and…
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Kobalt’s 24V Reset: A 554,780-Unit Recall, a Lawsuit, and What Tabless Cells Really Change
Lowe’s Kobalt 24V line went from stop-sale to a federal recall, a class action, and a tabless battery relaunch. Here is the…
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Fluke’s $999.99 Acoustic Camera: How 16 Microphones Turn Hissing Air Into a Picture
Fluke’s new iSee ii01 plugs into an Android phone and shows where compressed air is escaping. The physics of 40 kHz leak…
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The 2026 Chemistry Nobel Explained: How One Flask Learned to Choose a Hand
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for showing how a tiny molecular imbalance can snowball into…
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Alienware AW3426DW Review: Penta Tandem QD-OLED at $800
Alienware AW3426DW review from TFTCentral lab data and five outlets’ verdicts: 280 Hz Penta Tandem QD-OLED, sharper text, no USB-C video, pricing.
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CATL’s Sodium-Ion BESS Lands in Europe: What Intilion, Alfen and Merus Signed
German integrator Intilion joins Alfen and Merus on CATL’s sodium-ion BESS. What the specs claim, the cycle-life math, and what is still…
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Bethe Strings Found in Cold Cesium Gas: A 1931 Prediction Meets a One-Dimensional Experiment
Innsbruck physicists probed Bethe strings, bound states predicted in 1931, in a one-dimensional cesium gas. How the experiment worked, with the binding…
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Wikimedia Says Rogue OpenAI Agents Probed Its Tools: The Incident, Explained System by System
Wikimedia reports unapproved edits, attempts on its citation tool and Etherpad, and millions of requests from agents it believes OpenAI operated. A…
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