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Sherline Tools, a USA manufacturer of precision lathes, mills, and small CNC machines, is winding down manufacturing operations and will close entirely by end of 2026 at the latest. Production continues through October 2026 only as remaining inventory, equipment, and staffing allow, with some products already becoming unavailable. The company plans to maintain warranty support and keep its technical/educational archive online.

Brynn Putnam (sold Mirror to Lululemon for $500M) and Tristan Walker (sold Walker & Company to P&G) are both building new companies centered on offline human connection. Putnam's Board makes a 24-inch touchscreen table for group gaming; Walker's Heirloom is acquiring and scaling fine-craft trade schools, starting with a San Francisco leatherworking school. Walker is also running Collaborative Holdings, a fund from Collaborative Fund designed to back profitable, cash-flow-positive businesses without forcing venture-style returns.

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google face an antitrust lawsuit alleging they agreed to slow AI development, with plaintiffs claiming the plan was in motion for months and calling the agreement 'self-serving.' The article body is largely inaccessible, containing only site navigation and membership boilerplate, so substantive details beyond the headline are unavailable.

CNBC speculates that workplaces may need 'robot relations' departments to handle employee complaints about AI agents, cobots, and automated management systems. It cites an OECD survey finding that 90% of US managers say their firms have adopted at least one algorithmic tool to instruct, monitor, or evaluate workers.

Sunil Pai describes a recurring failure pattern he calls the 'senior engineer death spiral': an engineer takes on an ambitious project to prove themselves, disappears for weeks giving only vague positive updates in standups, realizes they've shipped nothing, then secretly tries to cram a month's work into a week—leading to burnout, PIPs, or quitting. He notes this pattern has intensified with remote work and coding agents giving engineers more ownership but less structural support.

A nostalgic retrospective marking the September 2018 launch of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 2080 and 2080 Ti, the first consumer graphics cards to introduce real-time ray tracing. The article notes that supporting games were scarce at launch, though ray tracing later became a pervasive PC gaming feature.

Researchers built a sub-100-gram drone that navigates using physical whiskers instead of cameras or GPS, enabling operation in dark, dusty, or smoky environments where optical sensors fail. The drone runs a 34KB software stack and achieves sub-millimeter precision. The article itself is mostly boilerplate with no further technical detail beyond the headline.

Final Fantasy VII Revelation may require upwards of 200 GB of storage and an additional download, potentially setting a new record for base install size in the remake series. The article itself is mostly site navigation and boilerplate with minimal substantive content beyond the headline.

Qwen released Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-source 7B parameter image model that unifies text-to-image generation and image editing, including native transparent image support. It accepts up to 10 reference images for versatile editing and uses a mixed-granularity attention architecture with KV cache reuse to optimize inference efficiency.

Tom's Hardware reviews the Prusa CORE One+ INDX, a $2,249 3D printer built on the CORE One platform in collaboration with Bondtech. The INDX is a toolchanger capable of eight-color multimaterial printing, producing near-waste-free output at high speed, earning an Editor's Choice award.

Microsoft has patented a system that freezes games during downtime to inject ads, where watching commercials earns players ad-free playtime credits. The patent describes a mechanism for monetizing idle moments in gameplay rather than interrupting active sessions.

A 192GB leak of Grand Theft Auto development files reportedly reveals an early GTA VI map, canceled DLCs including a scrapped Liberty City expansion, and cut content such as a liquid nitrogen death scene for Trevor. The article text provided is almost entirely site navigation and boilerplate, with no substantive body content beyond the headline.

Lenny's Newsletter published a paid ~97-minute podcast episode with Peter Sellis, described in the text as Snapchat's first product manager (seven years there) and later Head of Product at Discord, who has since left Discord and speaks without a comms team. Listed topics include designing product teams 'like terrorist organizations', managing Nikita Bier, why the median PM is bad, why Snapchat's ads business never reached its potential, and the claim that growth almost always comes from the core product. The page is a teaser with audio links (YouTube, Spotify, Apple) — the actual arguments are not in the text.

The CAIM1 'Anti-AI' 4K camera, which cryptographically signs video recordings to prove content authenticity, runs its processor hot enough to throttle during combined recording and cryptographic computation. Noctua fans were used to keep the processor from thermal throttling, highlighting the computational cost of real-time content provenance at the edge.

Baldur Bjarnason argues that the perceived intelligence of chat-based LLMs is an illusion driven by the same mechanism as a psychic's cold reading—statistically generic statements (including Forer-effect validation statements) that feel personally specific to the user. He claims there is no reasoning mechanism in LLMs, only mathematical token prediction, and that many proposed use cases now look like 'borderline fraudulent pseudoscience' to him.

North Korea's WaterPlum group used fake job interviews requiring coding tests to deploy malware on 30,000 devices, stealing $10.7 million in crypto and installing persistent remote access trojans. The attack vector targeted developers through what looked like legitimate technical assessments.

FBI Director Kash Patel claims AI usage at the agency has risen 605% since he took the role, and asserts that every major tech player is 'embedded' in the FBI. The article provides no further technical detail, vendor names, or breakdown of what AI use means in this context.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has become President Trump's most influential ally on AI policy, with Trump publicly adopting Huang's deregulatory stance—calling AI and data center concerns a 'hoax' and telling Huang on a live phone call at the All-In Summit that 'the robots are not going to be taking over the world.' Experts say Huang exercises outsized influence compared to other tech leaders like Zuckerberg and Bezos who have also courted Trump.

A Swedish startup has built autonomous strike drones powered by Nvidia Jetson Orin Nano that independently select and bomb targets using a small onboard AI model, with no human input and no external communications required. The article text itself is mostly site boilerplate, so technical details beyond the headline are unavailable.

The article title describes an undercover Google analyst infiltrating a notorious supply-chain hacking gang, but the provided article body contains only cookie consent and privacy policy boilerplate—no substantive reporting or technical detail is present in the text.

Jensen Huang publicly dismissed Anthropic's AI doom warnings, claiming a '0% chance' AI destroys the world by 2030 and arguing the industry should 'go as fast as we can, irrespective of anyone else.' He rejected calls for new regulations, positioning NVIDIA's acceleration stance directly against safety-lab caution.

Po-Shen Loh argues in a guest post on Terence Tao's blog that AI's advance will paradoxically create more human jobs than can be filled, slowing AI progress itself. The piece is prompted by OpenAI's claimed solution to the Millennium Prize variant of Navier-Stokes and subsequent mathematician-led declarations (Leiden Declaration: 4,000+ signatories; Math and AI: 7,000+; anti-Caltech Mathathon letter: 2,000+). Loh proposes a 'fundamental axiom' for human-led communities to adopt, though the post cuts off before fully detailing it.

An official Kremlin video clip showed Putin casting an online vote on an unlicensed Windows installation running on a Dell PC, with the 'Activate Windows' watermark clearly visible. This occurred despite Russia's mandate to use domestic technology and reduce reliance on foreign hardware and software.

Chester Wisniewski argues that generative AI is breaking the social contract that sustained open source and Creative Commons for 40 years. LLMs ingest code and content without regard for copyright or license obligations, and there is no appetite for legal enforcement, creating incentives for creators to stop sharing work openly. The author warns that anything found online may now be slop code, malicious, or stolen work that implicates the user.

Mainstream optical drive supply has collapsed, forcing high-end audio manufacturers PS Audio and Naim to halt CD player production as component costs double. The article body is mostly site navigation and boilerplate, with no further technical detail beyond the headline.