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Trump's Golden Dome Projected to Cost Exponentially More Than the Manhattan Project
https://gizmodo.com/trumps-golden-dome-projected-to-cost-exponentially-more-than-the-manhattan-project-2000661027

Cardinals vs Raiders tickets: Best prices for remaining available seats https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/nfl/cardinals/2025/08/19/arizona-cardinals-tickets-prices-las-vegas-raiders-nfl-preseason/857…

from my link log —
Game math: precise control over numeric springing.
https://allenchou.net/2015/04/game-math-precise-control-over-numeric-springing/
saved 2025-05-21

Game Math: Precise Control over Numeric Springing | Ming-Lun "Allen" Chou | 周明倫
[latexpage] This post is part of my Game Math Series. Source files are on GitHub Check out this post if you want to see more visual examples of numeric springing. Numeric springing is a very powerful tool for procedural animation. You specify the initial value, initial velocity, target value, and some spring-related parameters; the result

I’m looking for fun AI related projects that students with minimal technical skills (mostly humanities students) can handle, as a practical and instructive end of term project given the current situation.
The kinds of projects I have in mind are:
- Fine tuning an LLM for a particular use
- Building custom chatbots
- Doing"psychology" on LLM interactions.
The goal is for the project to be engaging and lead to further reflection. Ideas for such projects and links to resources much appreciated!

"The Red Cross Collection: A Trainee Project" @ Oxford Libraries: https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/oxfordtrainees/the-red-cross-collection-a-trainee-project/

AMD & Intel: Preiskampf in der Prozessormittelklasse
Intels günstiger Arrow-Lake-Prozessor fällt auf beinahe 170 Euro. AMDs Ryzen 5 9600X geht nicht ganz so weit mit.
https://www.heise.de…

Judge Zia Faruqui, a former federal prosecutor,
said leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling their deluge of cases.
He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail for days while they evaluate charges.
“It’s not fair to say they’re losing credibility. We’re past that now,” Faruqui said.
He later added, “There’s no credibility left…

Judge upbraids prosecutors for handling of DC surge cases, saying they have 'no credibility left'
A federal magistrate judge has angrily accused top Justice Department prosecutors of trampling on the civil rights of people arrested during President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement surge in the nation’s capital. Judge Zia Faruqui said Thursday that leaders of U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office have tarnished its reputation with how they are handling the cases. He said Pirro’s office is routinely bringing cases that don’t belong in federal court and needlessly keeping people in jail…

Short blog post on how a small fix I implemented for the ansible-netbox inventory plugin reminded me that often code changes, are just a small part of upstreaming a fix to a mature open source project. It can be a little challenging, or frustrating, but that's okay!
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"Stargate Project": Foxconn und Softbank bauen zusammen KI-Server
In einer früheren Elektroautofabrik im US-Bundesstaat Ohio stellen Foxconn und Softbank künftig gemeinsam Rechenzentrumsausrüstung für das Stargate-Projekt her.