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Why They Fight – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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🔥 Explore this must-read post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems tend to map on to societies, both because such general historical frameworks are handy for thinking about the past, but also because they make useful rules of thumb for imagining fantastical societies. So essentially here we are asking: how do societies end up with the sort of armies they have?…

The United States has a plan to combat screwworm. It involves a lot of flies

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🔥 Check out this insightful post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Science,Science / Environment,AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Flesh-eating parasite The fly that poses a major threat to livestock has returned to the United States after 60 years. This week, the USDA confirmed the presence of New World screwworm in a calf in South Texas.It was eradicated in the United States in 1966, then as far south as Panama by 2006, and recently resurfaced in Mexico, making it likely that the screwworm will eventually re-enter the country, with models showing it could arrive as soon as the summer of 2025.…

Stop Using Conventional Commits – Sumner Evans

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. A lot of people swear by it. I swear at it.Even though it is used by a large number of popular open source projects, Conventional Commits is an actively bad standard which encourages focus on the wrong things and fails to deliver on its promises.Focus…

GroWell Hat Review: I have hair for the first time in 15 years

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💥 Check out this awesome post from WIRED 📖 📂 **Category**: Gear,Gear / Products / Beauty,Hair Apparent 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: There are dozens of LED hair growth tools on the market, from a $50 product on AliExpress marketed on a model to comically bad effect to the $2,500 Capillus Spectrum, which features a powerful array of laser diodes. Contrary to what I expected, women are actually the current dominant consumer group for LED hair regrowth treatments. As she explained to me, women are used to spending money on their appearance, and hair loss is often viewed as a crisis.…

Classic 100: 2001 to 2021

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💥 Read this insightful post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Classic 100: 2001 to 2021 ABC Classic 100 Rankings: 2001 to 2021 Every year since 2001, ABC Classic FM has run a Classic 100 event, where listeners vote on their favourite pieces. This page visualises the rankings for three different years: Each dot represents a piece of music. The lines track how the rankings for that piece have changed between 2001 and 2021. …

The NSA is reportedly preparing Anthropic’s Mythos for use in cyber operations

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💥 Check out this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,Anthropic,cyberattacks,cybersecurity,In Brief,Mythos,National Security Agency 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Anthropic has deployed about a half-dozen NSA engineers to help its spies use the company's cybersecurity AI model, Mythos, the Financial Times reported, citing anonymous sources. The engineers are tasked with helping the intelligence agency use Mythos for specific applications, the report said. However, it is not clear whether the Engineers or Mythos are being actively used in the agency's hacking operations. The NSA is charged with collecting intelligence from wiretaps, undersea cables, corporate partnerships, and other covert means, as well…

Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Sigma 45mm f/2.8 Lens Repair & Analysis[05.12.24] I have a camera gear collection problem and as part of my personal 12 step plan, I restrict myself from purchasing functioning lenses. This sounds illogical, and it frankly is, but it's very hard for me to resist heavily discounted lenses. To keep my hat, I tend to only bid on lenses that are less than 1/4 of the going used sale prices and have little to no mechanical damage. In this case I've…

Google and the FBI are warning about a ransomware group that sends fake IT workers to personally hack victims

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✨ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: Security,cybercrime,cybersecurity,FBI,Google,Google Threat Intelligence Group,hackers,hacking,Mandiant,ransomware 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The ransomware gang has escalated its attacks on law firms by sometimes personally sending fake IT workers to victims' offices, with fraudsters stealing data directly from victims' computers using USB drives or helping other gang members connect to computers remotely, according to Google and the FBI. On Friday, Google's cybersecurity teams Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group published a new report accusing the cybercrime gang known as Silent Ransom Group of trying to steal victims' information "using physical and personal access" in…

Gemma 4 with quantization-aware training

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💥 Explore this awesome post from Hacker News 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Since releasing Gemma 4 two months ago, we've been continuously working to expand its capabilities. First, we introduced Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) to accelerate inference, and just a couple of days ago, we released a 12B model to bridge the gap between our E4B and 26B MOE models.Today, we are releasing new checkpoints optimized with Quantization-Aware Training (QAT) to make Gemma 4 even more efficient, so you can run models locally on everyday edge devices and consumer GPUs.By simulating quantization during training, QAT minimizes quality loss…

Battlefield 200 launch orders will officially close in 3 days

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✨ Discover this awesome post from TechCrunch 📖 📂 **Category**: AI,Biotech & Health,Climate,Fintech,Fundraising,Media & Entertainment,Robotics,Startups,TC,Startup Battlefield,TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Founders, your window to enter Startup Battlefield 200 It closes in just three short days. Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 will officially close on June 8 at 11:59 PM PT. Don't wait any longer. Secure your chance to compete on the Disrupt Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 this October at Moscone West in San Francisco. Thousands of startups have already stepped forward. If you are building a company that has the potential to reshape the industry, now is…