Senators Launch Effort Ban Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officials-profiting-from-prediction-markets/
https://www.merkley.senate.gov/merkley-klobuchar-launch-new-effort-to-ban-federal-elected-officials-profiting-from-prediction-markets/
Merkley
Merkley, Klobuchar Launch New Effort to Ban Federal Elected Officials Profiting from Prediction Markets - Merkley
Effort comes after reports of individuals suspiciously earning massive payouts before Iran Strikes, Venezuela Military Actions Washington, D.C. – Today, Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley and Minnesota’s U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar launched a new effort to…
Does Apple‘s M5 Max Really “Destroy” a 96-Core Threadripper?
https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper
https://slashdot.org/submission/17345398/does-apples-m5-max-really-destroy-a-96-core-threadripper
slashdot.org
Does Apple's M5 Max Really "Destroy" a 96-Core Threadripper?
Tom's Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper.Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6 multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions…
Why developers using AI are working longer hours
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/
Scientific American
Why developers using AI are working longer hours
Studies find AI helps developers release more software—while logging longer hours and fixing problems after the code goes live
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Iranian Women Graduate in Stem 3× the Rate of U.S. Women and Has 5× More PhDs
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/iranian-women-graduate-in-stem-at
https://hrnews1.substack.com/p/iranian-women-graduate-in-stem-at
Substack
Iranian Women Graduate in STEM at Nearly 3× the Rate of U.S. Women — and Has 5× More PhD Students Per Capita
Iranian women make up 58% of PhD Students. Tuition is Free. So Why is the U.S. Lecturing Iran about Women’s Rights?
New Research Reassesses the Value of Agents.md Files for AI Coding
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/agents-context-file-value-review/
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/03/agents-context-file-value-review/
SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via CI
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823
arXiv.org
SWE-CI: Evaluating Agent Capabilities in Maintaining Codebases via...
Large language model (LLM)-powered agents have demonstrated strong capabilities in automating software engineering tasks such as static bug fixing. However, in the real world, the development of...
Strike on girls' school that killed 150 in Iran 'likely' carried out by US
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1497949/strike-on-girls-school-that-killed-150-in-iran-was-likely-carried-out-by-us-military-nyt-says.html
https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1497949/strike-on-girls-school-that-killed-150-in-iran-was-likely-carried-out-by-us-military-nyt-says.html
L'Orient Today
Strike on girls' school that killed 150 in Iran was 'likely' carried out by US military, NYT says
A U.S. military strike may have caused the deadly bombing of a girls' school in Iran, resulting in 150 deaths during recent airstrikes, says NYT.
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apples-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgement-of-the-ram-shortage/
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/apples-512gb-mac-studio-vanishes-a-quiet-acknowledgement-of-the-ram-shortage/
Ars Technica
Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage
Announcements this week were mostly business as usual, but Apple isn't immune.
I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine
https://xcancel.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841
https://xcancel.com/theflow0/status/2030011206040256841
CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior, synced using Git
https://github.com/kantord/blogtato
https://github.com/kantord/blogtato
GitHub
GitHub - kantord/blogtato: A CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior
A CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior - kantord/blogtato