Kitten TTS aims to make high-quality text-to-speech run on the CPU
The open-source project says its ONNX-based models stay compact while still targeting practical voice synthesis.
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Italy approves €13.5 billion bridge linking Sicily to mainland
The Strait of Messina project cleared a major government hurdle, reviving a decades-old plan for what would become the world's longest suspension bridge.
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uBlock Origin Lite arrives on Safari as early users report rough edges
The App Store listing drew praise for blocking ads, but some reviewers say newer OS versions introduced bugs.
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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s crawlers hid behind changing identities
The company says the answer engine ignored no-crawl signals and shifted user agents, IPs and ASNs to keep crawling.
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Why some remote teams are turning to personal “ramblings” channels
A small Obsidian experiment points to a simple chat habit that keeps distributed teams connected without adding meetings or noise.
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The case for loneliness, and the case against making it disappear
A New Yorker essay argues that artificial empathy may help some people, but also raises a harder question about what human contact means if machines take the pressure off loneliness.
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A live coding failure can be a stress test, not a skill verdict
A developer essay argues that timed, watched interviews measure pressure response as much as programming ability, and points to research that supports the claim.
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Italy and Vatican agree solar farm plan for Rome site to power Holy See
Italy backed a Vatican proposal to develop a large solar installation at Santa Maria di Galeria, a site north of Rome long associated with Vatican Radio transmitters.
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Helsinki records a full year without a traffic death
Officials credit lower speed limits, infrastructure changes and enforcement for the rare milestone.
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Australia adds YouTube to under-16 social media restrictions
Young users will still be able to watch videos without accounts when the country’s new online-safety regime begins in December.
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Copyparty tries to make almost any device a file server
The portable project bundles resumable uploads, multiple transfer protocols and media tools into one package.
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Dumb Pipe wants direct device connections to be simple again
The Iroh-based tool hides NAT traversal, encryption and relay fallback behind a single command.
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Rust Project Shows One Codebase Running Across Major GPUs
A Rust GPU maintainer says a single shared Rust codebase can now run across major GPU platforms, with the same compute logic reused on the CPU and the device side.
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One Writer Makes the Case for Staying on the Web
An essay argues that app prompts are driven less by user convenience than by the data and device access that apps can gather more easily than browsers.
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UK platforms begin stronger age checks under Online Safety Act
Ofcom said about 6,000 pornography sites would start verifying adult status as broader child-safety duties took effect across social media, search and other services.
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Electric vehicles may cut brake dust as well as tailpipe pollution
A report on EIT Urban Mobility findings says battery-electric cars can reduce a major source of urban particulate pollution, not just eliminate exhaust.
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This robot dog uses rope-driven joints to chase precision instead of gears
The CARA quadruped mixes capstan drives, custom printed parts and a compact control stack in a design meant to be quiet, low-backlash and accurate.
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How to Firefox: a case for switching browsers after Chrome’s uBlock shift
A new guide argues that Chrome’s restrictions on uBlock Origin make Firefox the more flexible choice for users who want stronger ad blocking, container support and customization.
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UK may retreat from Apple encryption backdoor demand under U.S. pressure
British officials now expect the government to back down from a demand that Apple weaken encryption after pressure from Washington threatened wider tech and trade ties.
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Valve says payment processors forced Steam to remove some adult games
Valve has confirmed that it removed a wave of adult titles from Steam after payment processors and their card networks raised compliance concerns, underscoring how financial infrastructure can shape what stays on sale in digital stores.
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Mistral adds Deep Research, voice and Projects to Le Chat
Mistral has expanded Le Chat with a preview research mode, a voice interface, multilingual reasoning and organizational tools, positioning the product as a broader AI workspace rather than just a chat app.
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A note on inevitabilism and the politics of AI futures
A new essay argues that talk of AI’s inevitability can narrow debate by making the future sound fixed before the public has agreed on what it should be.
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Amazon launches Kiro, an agentic IDE built around specs and hooks
Amazon has introduced Kiro, an AI IDE that combines prototype-to-production development with spec-driven planning and event-based automation.
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Why MacPaint art still feels fresh decades later
A retrospective on mid-1980s MacPaint work argues that the program’s limited tools produced images with surprising clarity, personality and staying power.
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