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France's proposed data levy could raise €10 billion annually from major content providers.

The U.S. has charged five perpetrators and seized more than $750,000 in crypto tied to the scheme.

Mac users sharing their compute for AI inference are seeing declining revenues as token prices continue to drop, with Anthropic token falling 77% in under five months.

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Client platforms struggle to get memory anyway, right?

A developer has created a full Intel 486 PC system, using 100% pure-JavaScript, in a browser.

Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model blocking attempts at videogame recreation — users also claim their non-malicious generic reverse-engineering tasks are block

The team had to use Sonnet after Opus 5.5 outright refused to run the experiment, while Opus 5 warned that it could stop working in the midst of the operation.

Expensive memory forces former Microsoft engineer to make his own — Dave Plummer makes PDP-11 RAM from scratch

TrashBench repurposes a trash AC radiator for his test bench to see how well it can cool a PC — RTX 3080 didn't run much above ambient temperature