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.…
Complexity physics finds crucial tipping points in chess games
The game of chess has long been central to computer science and AI-related research, most notably in IBM’s Deep Blue in the 1990s and, more recently, AlphaZero. But the game…
Brendan Carr, Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Warrior, Wastes No Time Violating Trump’s New Free Speech Executive Order
Back in November, I explained in great detail how Trump’s new FCC chair Brendan Carr was signaling loud and clear that he intended to be Trump’s top censor. This was…