One-Third of New arXiv Papers Now Read as Machine-Written
A calibrated detector finds ~32% of recent arXiv papers flag as AI-generated, with computer science at 65% and mathematics near zero — but the limitations matter.
Jul 20, 2026· unslop
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The Open-Source AI Race: Why China's Strategy Is Outpacing America's Locked-Down Approach
American AI companies are losing ground to Chinese open-weight models, and the root cause is a strategic mismatch: proprietary lock-in vs. permissionless distribution.
Jul 20, 2026· Ben Werdmuller
Eminent Domain for Data Centers: When 'Public Use' Gets Stretched
Power companies are using eminent domain to seize land for transmission lines serving AI data centers, even as 70% of Americans oppose local data center construction. The legal fight over 'public use' is heating up.
Jul 20, 2026· Fortune
Julia's UnifiedIR: A Decade-Late Overhaul of the Compiler IR
Keno's PR proposes UnifiedIR, a dialect-aware, region-based IR to replace Julia's aging compiler data structures, aiming for extensibility and ecosystem unification.
Jul 19, 2026· GitHub
Cortex DRIVE: A Framework for Engineering Health in the AI Era
Cortex introduces DRIVE, a five-pillar framework to measure and improve engineering organizational health as AI accelerates software delivery.
Jul 19, 2026· Cortex
Hardware Isn't That Hard — A Software Engineer's Take After Shipping 2500 MIDI Recorders
Chip Weinberger's Jamcorder experience shows that hardware's reputation for difficulty is overblown. The real challenge was the software.
Jul 19, 2026
Rebuilding a Home Server After SD Card Failure: A NixOS Survival Story
A Raspberry Pi 4B home server bites the dust when its microSD card dies. The author rebuilds with NixOS, zram, btrfs RAID1 on old HDDs, and declarative subvolume management.
Jul 19, 2026
The Fastest Way to Multiply? Still Unknown, But We Keep Getting Closer
A deep dive into the history and current state of multiplication algorithms, from grade-school stacking to Karatsuba's breakthrough and the galactic Harvey–van der Hoeven method.
Jul 19, 2026· Scientific American
Multivariable Calculus Course: A Structured Curriculum for Engineers
A comprehensive, free online multivariable calculus course covering vectors, partial derivatives, multiple integrals, and vector calculus, organized into 35 lectures with video and chat support.
Jul 19, 2026· Academa
AMD GFX1250: LLVM Commits Reveal MI455X Architecture Details
LLVM commits spill the beans on AMD's upcoming MI455X accelerator: unified LDS/L0 cache, 1024 VGPRs per wave, Wave32-only, and beefed-up tensor ops.
Jul 19, 2026
NYC Mayor Mandates Disclosure of AI-Altered Rental Listings
New York City is cracking down on landlords who use AI-generated or AI-edited images to mislead tenants, requiring clear disclosure of any digital alterations in rental listings.
Jul 19, 2026· PetaPixel
Q3Edit: A Quake 3 Map Editor That Runs Entirely in the Browser
Q3Edit brings the full Quake III Arena map editing pipeline — from brush editing to BSP compilation to gameplay — into the browser using TypeScript, WebGL2, and WebAssembly.
Jul 18, 2026