- newClaude Opus 4.7 identified a writer from 125 words she'd never published
Kelsey Piper, a writer at Vox's Future Perfect, pasted 125 words of an unpublished political column into Claude Opus 4.7 last week and got her own name back. She hadn't logged in; the test was run in Incognito mode, confirmed through the API, and rep…
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- newMichio Kaku calls clustering of dead scientists a national security issue
A string of researchers connected to advanced weapons, space, and nuclear programs have turned up dead or vanished in recent years — and physicist Michio Kaku thinks treating each case in isolation is a mistake the government can't afford to keep m…
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- newDesmond Morris wrote The Naked Ape in four weeks to pay for a house
Desmond Morris, the English zoologist whose 1967 bestseller The Naked Ape argued that modern humans are basically fancy primates still running on Stone Age software, died Sunday near Dublin at 98, according to the New York Times. Twenty million copie…
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- newCatRank turns your favorite felines into an online pageant
On CatRank, users can rank images of their favorite cats. When you use the site, you'll see pairs of cats under the "vote" tab. For each pair, you simply pick your favorite, then move on to rank the next pair, and so on. — Read the rest The post C…
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- newLegal Walls maps out where you can graffiti without getting arrested
Legal Walls is a free global directory of spots where you can spray without getting arrested. The website plots each location on a world map with clickable markers — zoom in on any one to pull up a Google Street View, read community notes, and see…
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- newWoman dug 80 feet under her house — the city tried to stop her
Sometimes a video like this one will make me look around my home and feel like I'm not using my free will to the fullest. Kala, who goes by Engineer Kala on Instagram and TikTok, decided to build an 80-foot-long, 30-foot-deep passage beneath her home…
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- newXbox finally cut Game Pass prices — here's the fine print
For the past while, it's seemed like every time Xbox was in the news, it was the same old story: prices going up, offerings staying exactly the same. Whether it was hardware, software, or Game Pass, you'd be paying more for the same stuff — either…
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- newThis cat brushing game has Flappy Bird vibes but scarier
Brushing a cat is a tricky affair. Cats require consent for any kind of touching, and will attempt to murder you if you violate their bodily autonomy. This is essentially the core idea behind Brush Jjaemu, a free web game on itch.io. — Read the res…
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- newSplatoon Raiders finally gets a release date — July 23
I really, really, like Splatoon's colorful postapocalyptic universe, its unbelievably slick form-shifting gameplay, and, weirdly enough, the awesome ink physics. I do not like getting my ass handed to me by 12-year-olds hopped up on Capri-Sun, though…
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- newThis $80 AI tool brings chat, image, audio, video, and docs together in one place
TL;DR: This $79.97 1min.AI plan (reg. $540) combines a huge list of AI models and tools for writing, images, PDFs, audio, video, and team collaboration.There is now a whole genre of digital life built around opening one AI tool for writing, anoth…
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