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The Model Is Not Broken. Your Prompt Is.

Frontier AI models are among the most powerful tools ever built for human communication. Unfortunately, a significant portion of humans are communicating at them like they're texting a friend who already knows what they mean.

The Boeing Engineer and the 700 GitHub Math Proofs

OpenAI released 700 mathematical proofs to GitHub this week. The math community is debating legitimacy. The engineers are already running simulations. They always decide first.

Boston Dynamics Through the Years: A Timeline

Boston Dynamics has spent thirty-four years building robots the world couldn't stop watching — and couldn't figure out how to buy. Three owners later, that may finally be changing.

The Trial of Impuro

A complete transcript of the trial of Impuro, who generated, before the Third Chamber of the Walled City. The Judge had strong opinions about figs. The sentence was severe. Lunch was discussed.

Outside the Gates

A deadpan historical inquiry into ritual impurity, ancient settlement customs, and the special designation reserved for those who publish AI-generated content.

Kagan and Soai Win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai win the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for solving a 160-year-old mystery about why the molecules of life choose one mirror image over the other — and transforming the entire architecture of modern medicine in the process.

OpenAI: The Mathematical Proof Machine

OpenAI has released machine-verified proofs of hundreds of open mathematics problems to GitHub, bypassing traditional peer review with Lean 4 certificates anyone can run. The pace of mathematical publication has never looked like this before.

Your Next Raspberry Pi Might Not Be a Pi

Raspberry Pi Desktop just shipped for PC and Mac on Debian Trixie. Load it on a used 2022 ThinkPad or Dell and you have everything the Pi ecosystem ever promised — on hardware that runs cool, boots fast, and costs less than a fully kitted Pi 5.

Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac is Back

Raspberry Pi Desktop for PC and Mac is back — rebuilt on 64-bit Debian Trixie and bundled with a Raspberry Pi Connect client. It started as a weekend experiment in 2016. A decade of demand finally has an answer.

Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics

Belgian physicist Francis Halzen wins the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for building the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica — an idea he first proposed in 1988. Ghost particles from deep space are now one of science's most powerful tools for understanding the universe.

Raspberry Pi API Call Series

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The Raspberry Pi organization told users to go back to the Pi 3 series. We took that as a challenge. Here is what we built — four AI-powered applications, four platforms, one free API key, any Pi that runs a desktop.

Raspberry Pi API Call Series: A Browser-Based AI Dashboard on a Pi 3

A local Flask server, an HTML interface in Chromium, file upload, AI processing, and results rendered as a table. All of it on a Raspberry Pi 3B+. Here is what we built.

Raspberry Pi API Call Series: A Desktop AI App on Raspberry Pi OS

Parts 1 and 2 lived in the terminal. Part 3 gets a proper window — file picker, results display, save button — built with Tkinter, which ships with Python on every Raspberry Pi OS install.

Raspberry Pi API Call Series: Python in the Terminal

Part 1 used bash and curl. It worked. Part 2 uses Python — and the code gets cleaner, the error handling gets real, and the output lands in a file you can actually use.

Raspberry Pi API Call Series: Your First AI API Call Runs in a Shell Script

No Python. No framework. Just bash, curl, and a free Groq API key. Here is what happened when we ran it on a Raspberry Pi 3B+.

Google, SpaceX Test Orbital Computing as Power Shortages Hit SI Growth

SI is eating the power grid. From Virginia to Ireland, data centers are straining infrastructure that was never built for this. The answer, according to Google, SpaceX, Amazon, and a growing list of others, might be straight up.

Google Project Suncatcher Is in Orbit. Now the Data Center Test Begins.

Google's first orbital SI satellite launched October 1. Inside it, three systems that have never been asked to do quite this before are either working together or they aren't. Here is what each of them is trying to do.

Amazon Just Unveiled Its 2026 Kindles. The Story Behind Them Goes Back 19 Years.

Amazon unveiled a sweeping 2026 Kindle redesign today, adding flush displays and aluminum bodies across the lineup. Here is how nineteen years of hardware iterations transformed an experimental 2007 e-reader into an indispensable digital storefront.