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Summarizes the epic, often tragic history of Magellan's circumnavigation, including the hardships faced by crew members like Espinosa and Elcano, the significance of Pigafetta’s journal in shaping Magellan’s legacy, and the lasting global impact of the expedition. Despite heroization, the voyage involved mutinies, treachery, and suffering, and Magellan’s reputation was more complex than legendary portrayals suggest. The expedition shrank the world’s perception, fostering globalization, with Magellan's name now honored worldwide.
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Let's Encrypt has issued its first certificate for an IP address, allowing future issuance for IPs, mainly with short-lived certificates (around six days). This expands options for hosting, securing infrastructure, and IoT devices but is less common due to IP address volatility and user preferences for domain names. IP certificates are initially available in staging and will be generally available in 2025. Only certain ACME challenge methods are supported, and client software may need updates. This move aims to enhance security and accessibility for specific use cases.
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A collector set up and configured over 40 ancient Sun Ray thin clients on OpenIndiana, installing and customizing Sun Ray Server Software on illumos. He adapted firmware, configured kiosk and RDP sessions, and experimented with browser kiosks and smart card access. The process involved significant troubleshooting, patching, and scripting. Future plans include testing multi-head support and firmware upgrades, avoiding Oracle's support costs.
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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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