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Archaeologists discovered a fragment of a soldier’s wrist purse at a Roman camp in South Moravia, Czech Republic, dating to AD 172-180 during the Marcomannic Wars. The bronze purse, worn on the left arm, likely held private funds or service cash, possibly up to 50 silver denarii. No coins were found inside, but Roman coinage was nearby. This find offers insights into Roman soldiers’ logistics and daily life on the empire’s frontier. The fragment is on display at the Mušov Visitor Centre.
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Fakespot, a fake review detection tool acquired by Mozilla in 2023, shut down on July 1, 2025, due to sustainability challenges. It helped users identify unreliable reviews across Amazon and other retailers for nearly a decade. Mozilla discontinued it to focus resources on core Firefox features and AI innovations. The platform's closure leaves a gap in trustworthy review analysis, prompting the development of new tools like TrueStar to address fake reviews in the future.
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The article describes building a self-improving AI factory using multiple agents (Claude, Sonnet, o3) that plan, execute, verify, and improve code iteratively. Emphasizing fixing inputs over outputs, it creates a scalable, multi-agent workflow for program development, testing, and integration. The factory continuously refines itself by feeding issues back into the input prompts, enabling automation and complex task orchestration. Future plans include better agent coordination, higher-level abstraction, more complex workflows, and optimizing token usage. The core principle remains: fix inputs, not outputs.
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Fastly shut down Glitch.com, a popular creative community site, citing financial reasons. The article criticizes Fastly for destroying a beloved platform that fostered creativity and community. It condemns the company's decision as callous, motivated by profit, and expresses regret for the loss of Glitch's innovative environment. The author calls for reflection on values amid cost-cutting and dismisses concerns over the site's disappearance as insignificant in larger world issues.
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We are in a transitional moment with AI and large language models (LLMs), disrupting traditional institutions of knowledge—fact-gathering, analysis, and cultural transmission. LLMs are akin to improvising musicians, generating meaning based on learned patterns, but they carry implicit biases and a pervasive “ambient ideology.” They unbundle and democratize information processing, risking erosion of verification and collective sensemaking. To adapt, we need new architectures that enhance human judgment, foster disagreement, and make uncertainty visible. The challenge is philosophical: redefining understanding and knowledge in this rapidly evolving landscape, ensuring new systems serve human values in this uncertain birth of a new human epistemology.
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C.O.R.E is a private, portable memory layer for LLMs that tracks dynamic, historical facts with full transparency. It enables personalized, contextual AI interactions by storing and searching user data locally or via cloud, supporting integration with tools like Cursor. Designed for ownership, auditability, and improved relevance, it is customizable with APIs and setup options for local or cloud use.
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Figma has filed a registration statement with the SEC for a proposed IPO, intending to list on the NYSE under "FIG." Details such as share count and price range are TBD. The offering is subject to market conditions. Figma, founded in 2012, is a collaborative, AI-enhanced design platform supporting teams from ideation to product launch.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman criticized Meta's AI talent-poaching, claiming it risks cultural problems and emphasizing OpenAI's mission-oriented focus. Altman highlighted that OpenAI's culture and long-term vision for developing safe AGI are superior, encouraging staff to stay. Meta's new superintelligence team, including former OpenAI members, has intensified competition for top AI talent. Altman reaffirmed confidence in OpenAI's research and culture, contrasting it with Meta’s approach.
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Repetitive swearing increases pain threshold and tolerance, with conventional swear words like "fuck" being effective, while invented "swear" words like "fouch" and "twizpipe" do not reduce pain despite eliciting emotional and humorous responses. The hypoalgesic effect of swearing may involve emotional arousal rather than distraction, but mediation analyses found no definitive pathway. The study extended findings on swearing and pain, emphasizing learned associations over surface properties of words.
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A developer created a proof-of-concept for real-time bidirectional editing between a code editor and a GUI using an LSP server and WebSockets. This system synchronizes code and graphical UI edits, allowing seamless updates both ways. It aims to improve code-based CAD tools, combining the flexibility of text editors like Emacs with interactive graphical editing. Challenges include handling conflict resolution and preserving code structure. The demo demonstrates potential for more integrated code-GUI workflows, inspired by existing CAD systems, but requires significant development for full functionality.
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PlanetScale for Postgres is launching a private preview, offering the world's fastest Postgres hosting with high availability, automatic failover, query buffering, and support for Postgres v17 and online imports. Built on proprietary technology and locally-attached SSDs, it outperforms existing solutions significantly. PlanetScale is also developing a new sharding system for Postgres, leveraging its experience with Vitess at scale. Customer demand and commitment to reliability drove this development. Interested companies can request early access.
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