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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 the TikTok Fan Transition Hides a Cut
The TikTok fan transition is an outfit-change format in which a large fan blade sweeps across an overhead shot and the person…
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Compressed RAM for Linux: How Meta’s CRAM Differs From ZRAM and Zswap
Meta’s CRAM proposal treats compressed RAM as normal memory, not swap. How it works, what the 452x claim measured, and what is…
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Direct-to-Cell Satellites: What the FCC’s 15,000-Satellite Approval for Starlink Mobile Allows
The FCC approved 15,000 direct-to-cell satellites for SpaceX on Oct 6. The orbit physics, spectrum, deadlines and what remains unproven.
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Mistral Large 4 Preview: What a One-Trillion-Parameter Sparse Model Costs to Run, and What Mistral Has Not Said Yet
Mistral Large 4 is a 1T-parameter mixture-of-experts preview with weights promised by month end. The memory and compute math, the self-reported benchmarks,…
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Why Is My Python Code Slow? cProfile, py-spy and Flame Graphs
Answers to the questions people ask when Python runs slowly: how to read cProfile output, tottime versus cumtime, sampling versus deterministic profiling,…
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Quark Wakes in the Quark-Gluon Plasma: How CMS Used Z Bosons as a Clean Reference
CMS tagged Z bosons in lead-lead collisions to look for the wake a fast quark leaves in quark-gluon plasma. How the measurement…
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Wacom Intuos Small Review: Safe Starter, Dated Specs
The Wacom Intuos Small Bluetooth is a cheap, light and widely compatible first pen tablet, with dated specs. Here is what shoppers…
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The PS5 Jailbreak Is Spreading Fast: What Owners Should Know Before Updating
A new PS5 jailbreak, a viral YouTube Short, and a used-console price spike. Here is what has actually been reported, where the…
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The Ghost Particle Hunter: How a Cute Idea Buried in Antarctic Ice Won the 2026 Physics Nobel
Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for IceCube, a detector buried in Antarctic ice. Here is how a cute…
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BESS Failure Rates Fell 98% Since 2018: What EPRI’s New Report Says and Doesn’t
EPRI says BESS failure rates per deployed GWh fell 98% from 2018 to 2025. Here is how the figure works, what drove…
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How to Install Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi
Which Home Assistant install methods the official docs support on a Raspberry Pi, the Imager steps, first boot, three first integrations, and…
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Laser Distance Measurer Accuracy: What ±1/16 Inch Really Means, From a $34 Husky to a Bosch Blaze
Husky’s $34 HLDMPKT claims ±1/8 inch and Bosch’s GLM100-23 claims ±1/16 inch, but neither page states test conditions. Here is how these…
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