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Nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef imported from Argentina and sold in Texas and Florida are under a USDA recall after missed import re-inspections. The recall is classified as a Class I health hazard, the highest risk category, though no specific contaminant is named. It’s unclear where the beef was sold and the distributor did not respond. The recall comes amid ongoing debate over foreign beef imports.
IndexFlow-core is an open-source SEO and search indexing infrastructure written in Rust. It provides inline SEO quality gates, fair multi-site scheduling, and a rolling quota circuit breaker to improve site visibility. The project comprises open-source libraries: indexflow-sitemap (XML sitemap parsing) and indexflow-seo (technical SEO analysis). Designed Rust-native: memory-safe, high-performance, developer-first, and lightweight, intended to be self-hosted with a reusable component ecosystem. The commercial IndexFlow platform will build additional capabilities atop these components (website management, indexing workflows, sitemap monitoring, Google Search Console and IndexNow integrations, AI SEO intelligence). Licensed under MIT or Apache 2.0.
Bloomberg displays a bot-check page after detecting unusual activity, asking users to prove they are not a robot by enabling JavaScript and cookies. It notes Terms of Service and Cookie Policy, provides a support contact with a block reference ID, and promotes a Bloomberg.com subscription.
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X’s cease‑and‑desist on Nitter exposes the fragility of API‑driven access and the broader ‘walled garden’ problem. The piece echoes Tim Berners‑Lee’s call for an open Web: data should be living and portable, not locked behind fixed interfaces. APIs are fixed menus; they can’t support cross‑service questions or real‑time, interactive apps. atproto’s answer is a network of Personal Data Stores (PDS) where apps write to PDS and data is replicated across services, enabling live feeds, account migration, and open data access. The network is real and growing: millions of accounts, billions of records, with Jetstream. Stop chasing SELECT * FROM internet.
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 is a continuous, open benchmark evaluating AI agents on real scientific workflows across life, physical, Earth, mathematical, and engineering sciences. The first release covers 70 expert tasks. From 920 proposals, 464 were approved and 386 pull requests yielded 70 tasks, with 376 contributors in 22 countries. In three trials, Claude Opus 5 with Claude Code leads at 30.0% resolution; GPT-5.6 Sol with Codex at 22.4%; Claude Fable 5 with Claude Code at 21.4%. 0.2 is planned; it will evolve with frontier models and community input.
Hands-on, framework-free Colab notebooks teaching AI Engineer / Forward Deployed Engineer skills using raw model APIs on the free Groq API. Covers model APIs, structured output, tool calling, RAG, evals-as-the-spine, agents, guardrails, MCP, and Skills; plus fine-tuning vs LoRA, prompt-injection/security, LLMOps, and customer craft. OpenAI-compatible and runnable end-to-end from prompting to serving, with three real case studies and a capstone. Self-contained notebooks, no frameworks, designed for backend/full-stack engineers transitioning into applied AI roles, with a companion plan for learning path.
OpenTIE is an open-source reimplementation of Star Wars: TIE Fighter for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It runs the original game data natively and supports both the 1995 Collector's CD-ROM and the 1998 Windows release, letting you mix their menus/cutscenes with the 1998 flight gameplay. It reimplements the adaptive iMUSE soundtrack and can emulate Roland SC-55 and SB OPL3, with optional SoundFont playback. Graphics include classic and modern modes (high-res, shadows, HDR, FX). Flight runs up to 240 Hz; modern controllers supported. Get the latest package from GitHub Releases; build from source with CMake, SDL3, FFmpeg, etc.
New evidence shows antidepressant withdrawal, especially from SSRIs, is common and often severe, with about 80% reporting withdrawal symptoms and about 15% experiencing withdrawal after stopping; some symptoms last a year or more. Long-term SSRI use may carry risks including increased heart-attack-related mortality and faster cognitive decline in older adults. Historically guidelines offered little on tapering; now psychiatrists advocate slow, individualized tapering (even using liquid formulations) and regular deprescribing reassessment. Alternatives like exercise and psychotherapy can treat depression with fewer risks. SSRIs may remain appropriate for some, but withdrawal management is shifting toward a broader, patient-centered approach.
Opslane automatically finds user-facing bugs by recording real sessions and errors, ranks issues by user impact, and investigates fixes in your repo before opening a pull request. It records sessions, surfaces not just crashes but broken UX (dead buttons, etc.). The architecture comprises a browser SDK (capture and mask), an ingestion service (grouping), a worker (investigate, verify fix in sandbox), and a dashboard. It integrates with Anthropic, E2B, and GitHub; runs locally via Docker Compose; targets JavaScript apps; daily Slack digest; licensed AGPL-3.0 with MIT-licensed SDKs.
Experiential is an open-source gateway/router for agent workflows that unifies hosted, BYOK, and local models under one OpenAI-compatible API. It controls which users/agents can access which models for which tasks and budgets, and can route traffic for quality, speed, and cost. It supports local or hosted deployment, and connects to OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other keys. Setup: install via pip, start the gateway, obtain EXP_GATEWAY_KEY, and call /v1/chat/completions. Telemetry is opt-in; project building and optimization are supported.
The article argues there is a mass backlash against data centers, Flock surveillance cameras, and AI glasses, reflecting widespread distrust of Silicon Valley’s AI expansion. Despite industry denials, polls show strong opposition to data centers and tepid enthusiasm for AI. Protests cite privacy harms, surveillance, and inequality, plus little democratic input or local benefits. The author contends the backlash is rational—a repudiation of tech expansion and data extraction by a few over broader public interests.
Techdirt analyzes Meta’s settlement with 52 state AGs over child safety, totaling up to about $18 billion paid over a decade and a suite of imposed features (teen time limits, night mode, school mode, prompts, non-algorithmic feeds, autoplay off, hidden likes, age assurance, etc.). It notes Meta will encourage Google and TikTok to adopt similar measures, effectively creating an industry-wide standard via settlement. The piece argues this is regulatory capture that suppresses speech and privacy, risks real harms, and could be unconstitutional state action, advantaging giants over startups.
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is Google’s precise speech-to-text model for real-time transcription, handling noise, jargon, and disfluencies with word-level timestamps and speaker attribution across 85+ languages. Available via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, plus a macOS app; supports streaming (sub-second latency via Live API gemini-3.5-transcribe-live) and pre-recorded processing (Interactions API gemini-3.5-transcribe). Features smart transcription (removing fillers, auto-formatting, self-corrections) and function calls to other Gemini models; Rambler on Android and Antigravity context aid accuracy. WER ~4.0% streaming, 2.6% non-streaming; public previews now.
Afterglow is a preservation-focused emulator that lets modern macOS run classic After Dark screen savers as original 68k modules, without ROMs or classic Mac OS. It uses the Musashi 68k CPU and reimplements basic Macintosh APIs; no dependencies. Users import modules by drag-and-drop from disks, archives, or Internet Archive, then run them as a macOS screen saver. It supports full-screen mode, randomizer, multimodule 3D art, CRT shader, and a DrawMorph editor. The project is non-commercial and not affiliated with Berkeley Systems; it preserves favorites like Flying Toasters, Fish, and Starry Skylines.
Y Combinator General Partner Ankit Gupta sparked backlash by saying prioritizing American workers in hiring amounts to DEI within the H-1B debate. Nalin Haley, son of Nikki Haley, criticized the framing and urged merit-based hiring for Americans, calling for an H-1B ban. The exchange reflects a broader clash between global talent recruitment and domestic workforce protection. No YC policy changes have been announced in response.
Anthropic is previewing the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared spec enabling AI agents to safely operate programmable lab and manufacturing devices. MHS provides standardized device discovery, a driver with read/write primitives, and automatic safety limits; agents can control hardware via MCP, CLI, or APIs and coordinate multiple instruments from a single interface. It is model-agnostic and uses protocols like Model Context Protocol. Early pilots (Genentech, CMU, UW, HHMI Janelia, QuEra, Tetsuwan) show faster integration, real-time closed-loop experiments, autonomous fault recovery, and remote monitoring. Safety, broader hardware coverage, and open-source release are planned; waitlist for access is open.
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