There’s One Week Left In The Public Domain Game Jam
Despite all that has happened (and boy does it seem like too much), the fact is we’re still less than one month into 2025 — and that means there’s still…
Justin Baldoni’s Legal Team Decides To Wage A PR War Before Trial
And now this whole thing gets even messier. What started off as something of a Streisand Effect post about Justin Baldoni’s decision to amplify the accusations made against him by…
3D-printed “ghost gun” ring comes to my community—and leaves a man dead
It’s a truism at this point to say that Americans own a lot of guns. Case in point: This week, a fire chief in rural Alabama stopped to help a…
India Spends $715 Million On The Wrong Kind Of Open Access Journals
Numerous articles on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access…
Nvidia starts to wind down support for old GPUs, including the long-lived GTX 1060
Nvidia is launching the first volley of RTX 50-series GPUs based on its new Blackwell architecture, starting with the RTX 5090 and working downward from there. The company also appears…
WHO starts cutting costs as US withdrawal date set for January 2026
The World Health Organization has begun cost-cutting measures in preparation for a US withdrawal next year, according to reporting by Reuters. On his first day in office, President Trump signed…
Couple allegedly tricked AI investors into funding wedding, houses
The founder of an AI startup in San Francisco was indicted this week for allegedly conspiring with his wife for six years to defraud investors out of $60 million. According…
Anthropic builds RAG directly into Claude models with new Citations API
On Thursday, Anthropic announced Citations, a new API feature that helps Claude models avoid confabulations (also called hallucinations) by linking their responses directly to source documents. The feature lets developers…
Cops Are Still Bypassing Facial Recognition Controls To Build Cases Based On Bad Matches
The Detroit PD has made this sort of thing its unofficial brand. It has even shelled out at least $300,000 to ensure people most often think of the Detroit PD…
New York Law Requiring Cheap $15 Broadband Takes Effect
After King Trump’s dutiful Supreme Court recently refused to hear the case, a New York State law has taken effect requiring that ISPs provide low-income, state residents affordable $15 broadband.…