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The Steam Machine

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Sean Hollister, writing for The Verge (gift link): Since the Magnavox Odyssey came out in 1972, game consoles have been built with the same basic goal: to effortlessly play proprietary games on a TV screen. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft have spent decades essentially sel...

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Sean Ono Lennon on his dad’s singular songs. #thebeatles #johnlennon #shorts 

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26.06.2026

An evening sky with the sun illuminating the left half much more.
This evening’s sky

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July 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

July 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for ArtistsDon't miss these July and August deadlines!

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article July 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists appeared first on Colossal.

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The Tower of Baa-Goat

We visit the tower of Baa-Goat, which is inhabited by a flock of goats who speak Swiss French. Along the way we hear about 19th century architectural follies, why goats like to climb, and how sometimes household projects can take on a life of their own…

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720 Ollie

This discovery was key to his demonstration of regular/goofy symmetry violation, which won him gold in the theory portion of the X Games.

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★ Om

Om died two days ago, after a long battle against a bum heart. Om and I often sat next to each other at Apple keynotes. This was not at all surprising or odd, insofar as we’d been friends for 20 years. Folks at Apple PR knew that we were close, and would often pair us...

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Quoting Dean W. Ball

This is a bad state of affairs. Consider, in particular, some industry dynamics: Frontier models are trained at an enormous cost, and a significant fraction of that cost is recouped in the few post-release months that they are broadly available. After that period elapses, ...

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697: The Chart Is Terrifying

Pre-show: Casey has some fantastic news about nugs.net for Marco Marco’s trip report Gucci Osteria Follow-up: John guested on a preview of Designed in California, published as part of Upgrade #624 (also on YouTube) Apple Intelligence 🤝 external boot disks (via D...

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Quoting Timothy B. Lee

This is like saying there's no learning curve to being a manager because your employees will just do whatever you tell them to do.

— Timothy B. Lee, on the idea that LLMs take no skill and have no learning curve

Tags: llms, ai, generative-ai

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Tigran Hamasyan on his musical influences #indianclassicalmusic #shorts 

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What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant

What happened after 2,000 people tried to hack my AI assistant Fernando Irarrázaval ran a challenge on hackmyclaw.com to see if anyone could leak secrets held by his OpenClaw test instance by sending it email. Surprisingly, after 6,000 attempts (and $500 in token spend and a...

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Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

Incident Report: CVE-2026-LGTM

Spectacular hypothetical incident report by Andrew Nesbitt.

Day 2, 16:00 UTC --- Two AI review agents from competing vendors, both attached to a downstream pull request bumping foxhole-lz4, enter a disagreement loop over whether the package is malicious. After 340 comments and $41,255 in inference spend, Finance revokes both API keys; one vendor's marketing team, cc'd on the cost anomaly alert, issues a press release citing "a 430% YoY increase in adversarial multi-agent security reasoning." The stock opens up 6%.

Tags: security, ai, prompt-injection, generative-ai, llms, supply-chain, ai-security-research, andrew-nesbitt

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From last month but relevant as Europe is seeing record...

From last month but relevant as Europe is seeing record heat right now: Heatwaves are becoming the norm. This is what Britain will look like in the year 2052.

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James Turrell’s 100th ‘Skyscape’ Opens in Aarhus

James Turrell’s 100th ‘Skyscape’ Opens in AarhusPermanently on view at ARoS, "As Seen Below" is the latest iteration of the beloved series.

Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article James Turrell’s 100th ‘Skyscape’ Opens in Aarhus appeared first on Colossal.

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Quoting OpenAI

We're beginning a limited preview of the GPT‑5.6 series: Sol, our flagship model; Terra, a balanced model for everyday work; and Luna, a fast and affordable model. Terra has competitive performance to GPT‑5.5 while being 2x cheaper and Luna brings strong capability at our l...

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Tunnel 13

"A botched train robbery in Oregon’s Siskiyou Mountains left four men dead, led to an international manhunt, and helped usher forensic science into the modern age."

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A story about what being neighborly is all about ....

A story about what being neighborly is all about. “I reported back to the neighborhood text thread, and I wasn’t sure what to expect. What came back, from one neighbor after another, was the same question: what can we do to help?”

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Sometimes you have to mess around to find out

@GoDaddy lets you experiment so you can find the layout, colors, and fonts that fit your business. Let’s get messyyyy.
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