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Iron Lung’s path to theaters was unique, even if the movie isn’t

As a movie, Iron Lung is occasionally thrilling but mostly forgettable. It's a small-budget horror flick that has some cool ideas and pulls them off in an extremely efficient way, creating a sense of tension that unfortunately never turns into outright scares. But the most important thing about it is what it represents. At a […]

We have a miraculous anti-aging vaccine. Why aren’t more people getting it?

An elixir for keeping our brains and bodies younger may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves across the United States — if only we’d take advantage of it. I’m talking about the shingles vaccine.  It was invented because, well, shingles is a terrible disease. If you ever had chickenpox (like I did), this virus is […]

Trump Appoints Lara Trump To Be Next Dilbert

WASHINGTON—Pledging to provide her with spectacles, a curled-up tie, and whatever else she needed to do a great job, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would be appointing Lara Trump as the next Dilbert. “My daughter-in-law Lara is just fantastic, so we’re gonna make her Dilbert from now on,” the president said unprompted to reporters […]

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The price of Bitcoin drops below $65,000

On Thursday, Bitcoin's value fell over 10 percent in a single day, dropping to around $64,000, the lowest it has been since the 2024 Presidential election, as CNBC reports. After crossing $100,000 in November 2024 and peaking at over $122,000 in October 2025, the cryptocurrency has been in a steady decline for the last several […]

Anthropic details how it used 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents to build a Rust-based 100,000-line C compiler, incurring ~$20K in API costs over 2,000 sessions (Anthropic)

Anthropic:
Anthropic details how it used 16 parallel Claude Opus 4.6 agents to build a Rust-based 100,000-line C compiler, incurring ~$20K in API costs over 2,000 sessions  —  We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler, and then (mostly) walked away.  Here's what it taught us about the future of autonomous software development.