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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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How a ZFS Home NAS Protects Data, and Why It Is Not a Backup
Checksums, scrubs, snapshots and RAID-Z explained from the OpenZFS and TrueNAS docs, with a mirror vs RAID-Z1 vs RAID-Z2 table and the…
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The Social Reckoning vs. the Research: What the Evidence Says About Facebook and Social Media Harm
Sorkin’s new film opens today. We check its four biggest claims about Facebook against internal documents, Science and Nature studies, and the…
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Apple’s “Welcome Home” Launch on October 13: What’s Confirmed, What’s Rumored, and What the Home Hub Has to Prove
Apple has confirmed a date and two words for October 13. Here is what is confirmed, what is only rumored about the…
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Measure Earth’s Magnetic Field With a Phone Magnetometer
Answers to common questions on measuring Earth’s field with a phone: expected strength, a flip trick that cancels sensor offset, what disturbs…
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Flax Typhoon: How Microscan and FishHub Worked, and What the FBI Takedown Changes
The FBI seized seven domains tied to Flax Typhoon on Oct 8. How Microscan and FishHub worked, the old CVEs in play,…
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A Levitated Diamond Moved by Electron Spin Force
OIST physicists used NV-center electron spin to shake a 128 mg levitated diamond resonator by over 100 nm. The numbers, and what…
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Kobalt TXP Battery: What Tabless Cells Change at 24V
The Kobalt TXP battery brings tabless cells to Lowe’s 24V line at $99 and $159. Here is what is confirmed, what the…
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Surface Laptop 15 Review: Intel Beats Snapdragon, With Caveats
Surface Laptop 15 review from published tests: Notebookcheck’s 85% verdict, Core Ultra X7 benchmarks, the 65 W cooling limit, and who should…
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Thunderbolt 5 Bandwidth, Worked Out: Why 80 Gbps Becomes 120 and What Fits Inside
Thunderbolt 5 gives 80 Gbps each way and 120 Gbps one way in boost mode. How PAM-3 gets there, what monitors and…
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Bolmo and Byteification: What Nature’s New Language-Model Paper Changes About Tokenizers
Nature’s October 7, 2026 paper on byteification converts existing subword language models to read raw bytes using under 1% of pretraining compute.…
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TikTok GO Turns Halloween Videos Into Bookings
TikTok GO is the feature that lets a viewer book a tour, event or ticket without leaving the video that inspired it,…
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Build a Hall-Effect RPM Tachometer With an Arduino
A build guide for an Arduino tachometer using a Hall switch and a magnet: how the sensor responds, interrupt-based pulse timing, the…
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