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Start with a logic gate. End up understanding why GPUs, TPUs, and your brain are shaped the way they are. Reiner Pope builds chip design from scratch on a blackboard.

Seattle police run a semi-secret surveillance network that shares intelligence with private companies. Most residents had no idea it existed.

Researchers GPS-tracked Starbucks cups placed in recycling bins inside Starbucks stores. Zero — literally zero — made it to a recycling facility.

Literary detectives are picking apart a Granta prize-winner's em dashes, metaphors, and sentence patterns. The evidence for AI authorship is uncomfortably strong.

The DOJ quietly prohibited federal investigations that could threaten Trump's finances. Legal experts say it's a de facto permanent self-pardon.