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One of the world's leading communities for tech for good. Founded at @Stanford in 2008. @nytimes featured. Helped launch @joindiaspora, now @WeVoyce.

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A coding agent’s harness can triple its cost without making it more accurate, study finds venturebeat.com/orchestratio… via @VentureBeat

Claude Code vs. a 100-line harness: Same score | VentureBeat

Researchers ran five models through Claude Code, OpenCode and mini-SWE-agent. Swapping harnesses changed scores no more than rerunning the same setup did.

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AI models cost more when you don’t use English restofworld.org/2026/ai-toke…

AI models cost more when you don’t use English

Some languages require far more tokens for AI models to process, raising costs and reducing context for the people who use them.

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Vote young yet govern much later: West African youth’s struggle for power globalvoices.org/2026/10/26/… via @globalvoices

Vote young yet govern much later: West African youth’s struggle for power

Young people are deemed mature enough to elect their leaders, yet not to replace them. They drive political movements forward by voting, advocating, campaigning, and protesting, yet cannot run for...

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Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug theregister.com/security/202…

Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bug

Redmond joins growing list of software maintainers scrambling to patch compression flaw

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Reddit’s r/opensource bans AI projects, and non-English speakers too thenextweb.com/news/reddits-… via @thenextweb

r/opensource bans AI: ‘Tokens are cheap,’ says its moderator

r/opensource now requires projects to be a year old with three contributors and no AI. A fellow moderator says they were not consulted.

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Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…

Musk accuses Ukraine of violating Starlink terms with deadly drone strikes

Ukraine says Starshield back to normal, denies misuse of Starlink commercial service.

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Serbia’s Student List preparing for talks on forming government despite no clear leader theguardian.com/world/2026/o…

Serbia’s Student List preparing for talks on forming government despite no clear leader

Non-hierarchical movement is seeking to ‘rebuild society’ in Balkan country after years of authoritarian rule Europe live – latest updates

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Anthropic officially files for its public debut techcrunch.com/2026/10/26/an… via @techcrunch

Anthropic officially files for its public debut | TechCrunch

Anthropic has officially filed for an IPO, revealing soaring revenue, mounting losses, major enterprise adoption, and an unusual governance structure designed to preserve founder control and its AI...

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Dutch government to cut 16 percent of workforce as part of AI efficiency push engadget.com/2297180/dutch-g…

Dutch government to cut 16 percent of workforce as part of AI efficiency push - Engadget

The cabinet announced that it wants to get rid of 25,000 full-time jobs by 2035.

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Claude Code's top enterprise users outspend other Claude users 20 to 1, Anthropic's IPO filing says thenewstack.io/claude-codes-… via @thenewstack

Claude Code's top enterprise users outspend other Claude users 20 to 1, Anthropic's IPO filing says

The S-1 puts Claude Code at the center of how Anthropic grows inside companies, and says Claude wrote more than 90% of contributions to Anthropic's codebase in September.

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Anthropic's co-founders say they “believe that AI is one of the most consequential technologies in human history”, detail its scientific potential, and more sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/…
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AI bubble update: 79% of companies say their GPUs sit idle at least half the time, yet most plan new AI platforms venturebeat.com/infrastructu… via @VentureBeat

Idle GPUs aren’t stopping AI platform plans | VentureBeat

Across three VB Pulse surveys, 79% of companies running AI say their GPUs sit idle at least half the time, yet 70% of them plan new AI compute platforms.

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Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance restofworld.org/2026/ai-data…

Big Tech’s thirst for water is sparking a global resistance

In his new book “Hyperscale: The Ambition and Excess of Big Tech’s Data Empires,” writer Paris Marx examines how local communities are resisting the growing demand for water to cool data centers.

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OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports thenextweb.com/news/openai-s… via @thenextweb

OpenAI safety researchers reportedly fired after a Signal leak hunt

“False accusations”: Ryan Greenblatt denies leaking, after three OpenAI safety researchers were fired over Signal chats.

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A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature arstechnica.com/science/2026…

A 1,000-mile cloud on Mars may reveal physics never seen in nature

A new model suggests Mars may host ice-forming physics never directly observed before.

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AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…

AI firms say UK has a year to head off datacentre protests before construction is threatened

Exclusive: Nvidia, Microsoft and Cisco taskforce urges ministers to offer areas greater benefits from tech infrastructure amid fears of US-style opposition

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The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn’t make it techcrunch.com/2026/10/24/th… via @techcrunch

The AI graveyard: a running list of projects and startups that didn't make it | TechCrunch

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy "super app" launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

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Why your EV battery still loses charge while it's parked engadget.com/2292646/ev-batt…

Why your EV battery still loses charge while it's parked - Engadget

Electric vehicles constantly need to perform system checks to remain in optimal condition. This, and a number of other factors, can lead to loss of battery.

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AWS says its AI security agent fixes 89% of bugs — but there's a catch thenewstack.io/aws-says-its-… via @thenewstack

AWS says its AI security agent fixes 89% of bugs — but there's a catch

AWS made Continuum generally available after it scored 89% on the CyberGym-E2E code security benchmark. A closer look at what that number really shows.

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Outside of tech there has been no financial payoff to US companies for using AI, now viewed as a margin-hurting cost center, as VC-backed firms burn more tokens apollo.com/wealth/insights-n…

No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector | The Daily Spark

Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Subscribe for daily updates.

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