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Project Fetch: Phase two \ Anthropic

Project Fetch: Phase two \ Anthropic

🔥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Michael Ilie, C. Daniel Freeman, and Kevin K. TroyIn August 2025, we ran an experiment to see how much Claude could help Anthropic employees—who were not robotics experts—perform sophisticated (and amusing) tasks with an off-the-shelf robotic quadruped (henceforth, a robodog). We called this Project Fetch. We found that access to our state-of-the-art model at the time (Claude Opus 4.1) helped one team substantially outperform the other, who had to rely only on the internet and their own ingenuity. The Claude-enabled team got more done, faster.Before…
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Watch: Vance holds a media briefing at the White House after Trump signed the war agreement with Iran

Watch: Vance holds a media briefing at the White House after Trump signed the war agreement with Iran

🔥 Discover this trending post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Donald Trump news,Iran,iran agreement,iran war,JD Vance ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: The U.S. Navy, as part of an agreement to end the war, has lifted its blockade of Iranian ports by allowing more than a dozen ships to pass, Vice President J.D. Vance said Thursday. Vance provided the update at a White House news conference, where he also said the largest amount of oil since the war began was now flowing through the Strait of Hormuz. Vice President J.D. Vance will hold a news conference at the White…
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epoll vs io_uring in Linux

💥 Check out this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: First, I want to tell you how exactly I got to this point and why I started researching different options for handling asynchronous I/O on Linux… Last year, my students and I built a reverse proxy server called TinyGate. It was super simple, worker-based, and it basically worked well. Of course, I didn’t expect it to be very fast, but it was an educational project, and since we’d made a real, kind of production-ready tool, I was really proud of it. But my students…
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US gas prices fell below $4 for the first time since March. It is still 25% higher than last year

US gas prices fell below $4 for the first time since March. It is still 25% higher than last year

🔥 Read this insightful post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: affordability,Donald Trump news,gas prices,iran agreement,iran war,Strait of Hormuz 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. gas prices fell below $4 a gallon on average Thursday, but just barely. This is the first time since March that the average cost of a gallon of regular has been this low. Prices fell overnight after President Donald Trump signed an agreement with Iran calling on Tehran to reduce its stockpile of highly enriched uranium and waive US-backed sanctions on the country. Read more: Trump's economic popularity hits a…
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Turns Out, There Really Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

Turns Out, There Really Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World

🚀 Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Here’s a little touch of The Twilight Zone, coming from an amazing report in Wired. It’s about Dialog, a secret cabal of elites led by Peter Thiel, who has as many crazy ideas as he has dollar bills and who has enough rich and powerful people who share them to be a genuine concern.A source separately provided Wired with the registration list for Dialog’s 2026 retreat, which names 222 people and records what the list describes as each registrant’s membership status and attendee type, including…
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The United States lifts the blockade on Iran and the Iranian Supreme Leader supports direct talks with American officials

The United States lifts the blockade on Iran and the Iranian Supreme Leader supports direct talks with American officials

💥 Read this awesome post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Iran,JD Vance,US-Iran Deal 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States on Thursday lifted its blockade of Iran, and oil tankers began moving freely through the Strait of Hormuz after months of being unable to use the vital channel, as a tentative agreement to end the war took effect. Meanwhile, Vice President J.D. Vance announced that he may postpone a trip to Switzerland that was scheduled for Friday and included a deal signing ceremony. The visit may have helped start talks on the next, and…
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Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware for breach of contract

💥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Virtualization Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages UK supermarket giant Tesco has sued Broadcom for breach of contracts pertaining to its VMware licenses, named Computacenter as a co-defendant, and warned it may not be able to put food on the shelves if the situation goes pear-shaped. Court documents seen by The Register assert that in January 2021 Tesco acquired perpetual licenses for VMware’s vSphere Foundation and Cloud Foundation products, plus subscriptions to Virtzilla’s Tanzu products, and agreed a contract for support services and…
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Arizona prosecutors dismiss fake voter case but vow to seek new indictments

Arizona prosecutors dismiss fake voter case but vow to seek new indictments

🔥 Discover this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: arizona,fake elector scheme,Mark Meadows,Rudy Giuliani 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Attorney General Chris Mayes is dismissing a sprawling criminal case that alleged former President Donald Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and others tried to overturn Trump's 2020 loss in the state. The decision announced Thursday marks the third bogus election case brought by states to be dismissed, though a Democratic attorney general has pledged to send it back to a grand jury in hopes of getting…
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Home Office launches £75m ‘PoliceAI’ to capitalise on artificial intelligence – PublicTechnology

Home Office launches £75m ‘PoliceAI’ to capitalise on artificial intelligence – PublicTechnology

💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Rebrand ditches dot from “Police.AI” proposal floated in January’s policing white paper as minister espouses the potential for technology to identify stolen goods and track people selling illegally obtained items The Home Office has formally launched a new national centre for scaling up the use of artificial intelligence for policing in England and Wales. Creating Police.AI was one of a range of measures set out in January’s From Local to National: A New Model for Policing white paper. The launch of the centre, which is…
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Janice Lewis George wins the Democratic primary for mayor of Washington, D.C

Janice Lewis George wins the Democratic primary for mayor of Washington, D.C

🔥 Check out this must-read post from PBS NewsHour - Politics 📖 📂 **Category**: Vote 2026,Washington D.C. 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WASHINGTON (AP) — Janice Lewis George, who has vowed to stand strong in the face of federal interference in the affairs of Washington, D.C., won the Democratic primary Tuesday for the city's mayoralty, setting up a potential showdown with the Trump administration over her moves to challenge the city's limited autonomy. In a heavily Democratic city, Lewis George is likely to finish first in the general election scheduled for November, replacing moderate Muriel Bowser, who has decided not to…
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