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Databricks tested AI coding harnesses on its own codebase. The most minimal one, Pi, had the highest pass rate at a fraction of the cost of rivals.

Why hex37 is not running a piece on OpenAI's public post about Apple: the primary source could not be retrieved and nothing else here is publishable.

Why organisations keep choosing speed over understanding, even after being burned: the people who order rushed work rarely pay for the cleanup.

Norway invented global demand for farmed salmon. Now its fjords are losing oxygen — and the industry is too valuable to slow down.

Crews in St. Mary's, Newfoundland are removing 900,000 litres of fish sauce abandoned in 2001 — and with it, an accidental chemistry experiment.

How Cloudflare stores AI models and their KV caches in fewer bits to double concurrent requests per GPU, and what it does to guard the shared memory.

The 1925 bulb cartel is the classic planned-obsolescence story. The tungsten physics underneath it says a longer-lived bulb is a dimmer, costlier one.

Wikimedia Foundation rejected fast-track union recognition for Wikipedia's staff, demanding an NLRB election and hiring law firm Littler Mendelson.

eBay staff stalked a newsletter couple with live insects, a funeral wreath and threats. Seven were sentenced; the civil case settled for a reported $56m.

Video rental stores lasted about 25 years. What replaced them changed not just how we watch films, but who is allowed to keep a copy.

Macy's covered a neighbour's facade with ads for a century. With the billboards down, the Herald Square holdout building is visible again.

Google ran the most-used RSS reader and the biggest feed service, then closed or froze both. A look at what that did to open web subscriptions.

An investigation counted 239 court challenges to food labels, soda taxes and ad rules since 2010 — 595 years of litigation, most of it in Mexico.

Gambling firms are off the front of all 20 Premier League shirts for 2026-27. Banks and airlines moved in — and betting brands moved to the sleeve.

Why CATL, BYD, Samsung and $4bn of startups are chasing solid-state batteries — and why the technology keeps failing to arrive.

An MIT Sloan study simulated lifetimes of following chatbot money advice. It works — but pays out less for women and less financially literate users.

UEFA and its 55 national associations say their teams will skip FIFA competitions unless a plan to open them to private ownership is dropped entirely.

Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 controls walking humanoids, five-fingered hands and robot teams. What it can actually do, and what it still can't.

A study of AI's billion-dollar startups found only about half publish research. Why the rest stay quiet, and what the secrecy costs everyone else.

A lab gave an AI agent a real app, a bank account and 24 hours to grow it. The agent spammed users, cut prices to zero and bought fake growth.