Most Americans Say "Not in My Backyard" to AI Data Centers
https://www.redfin.com/news/ai-data-centers-opposition-education-benefit/
https://www.redfin.com/news/ai-data-centers-opposition-education-benefit/
Redfin Real Estate News
Most Americans Say “Not in My Backyard” to AI Data Centers
But a Redfin analysis found that AI data centers have benefits: In northern Virginia, taxes on data center equipment are likely contributing to a surge in education spending.
I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC
https://vishakh.blog/2026/07/21/i-built-a-private-genomics-study-with-stoffel-mpc/
https://vishakh.blog/2026/07/21/i-built-a-private-genomics-study-with-stoffel-mpc/
Vishakh's Blog
I Built a Private Genomics Study with Stoffel MPC
Most genomic studies begin by asking participants to upload one of the most identifying and irrevocable pieces of data they own, their DNA. I continue to investigate whether multi-party computation…
A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It's Real
https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/05/31/a-zipper-patent-sat-in-a-garage-for-40-years-now-its-real/
https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/05/31/a-zipper-patent-sat-in-a-garage-for-40-years-now-its-real/
Yanko Design
A Zipper Patent Sat in a Garage for 40 Years. Now It’s Real.
Back in 1985, an electrical engineer at Polaroid named Bill Freeman had an idea for a three-sided zipper. Not a novelty item, not a quirky art piece, but a genuinely functional fastener capable of switching objects between soft, floppy states and rigid, load…
Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
https://chatgpt.com/share/6a5fdc7a-d6f8-83e8-bbea-8deb42cfed56
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/17/nx-s1-5898504/ice-medicaid-palantir-data
NPR
ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
Fairphone 6 wide camera experimental Linux support
https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/
https://nondescriptpointer.com/articles/fairphone-6-wide-camera-linux/
Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/malleable-computing-emacs-and-you.html
Yummymelon
Malleable Computing, Emacs, and You
It all started with a routine task. I use GitHub issues for all of my public-facing projects but my preference is keeping track of things in Org Agenda. To reconcile the two, I would manually...
Any text-to-SQL benchmark should address difficulties of real-world data stores
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-you-think-you-can-do-real-world-text-to-sql/
https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/if-you-think-you-can-do-real-world-text-to-sql/
Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria
https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/science/medici-family-mystery-dna-malaria
CNN
Medici family mystery may be solved after more than 400 years
New research determined that the mysterious death of a ruler from the powerful Florentine Medici family was due to illness, not murder.
Why I'm building a note taking app without AI
https://withdocket.com/blog/why-im-building-a-note-taking-app-without-ai
https://withdocket.com/blog/why-im-building-a-note-taking-app-without-ai