Remove AI Watermarks
Remove visible and invisible AI watermarks from images generated by Google Gemini (Nano Banana), ChatGPT / DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, Adobe Firefly, Midjourney, and other AI models. Strips SynthID, C2PA Content Credentials, EXIF/XMP ”Made with AI” labels, and visible sparkle overlays — all in one command. Visible watermark removal — Gemini / Nano Banana sparkle logo […]
Tesla’s lithium refinery discharges 231,000 gallons of polluted wastewater a day
KeysQuestions4Explore4 Tesla’s ”acid-free clean process” lithium refinery has been quietly discharging 231,000 gallons of black wastewater per day into a Texas ditch — and the people who own that ditch found out by walking it, not from Tesla or state regulators. When inspectors finally tested the discharge, they came back clean on every metric — […]
Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die
Weekend at Bernie’s showed that a good chunk of the most-depended-on open source packages are dead, and there are a lot of different ways for a project to end up that way. The maintainer left Ghost maintainer. The simplest and most common case: last human commit some years back, issues accumulating unanswered, the repo not […]
Mistral AI Acquires Emmi AI to Create the Leading AI Stack
European AI leader Mistral AI is acquiring Emmi AI in one of Europe’s most important and strategic AI acquisitions to date. Founded in Linz, Emmi AI has quickly emerged as one of Europe’s leading Engineering AI companies, developing Physics AI models for industrial engineering that dramatically accelerate industrial simulation and engineering workflows across sectors like […]
Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets
Minnesota has enacted the most far-reaching crackdown on massively popular services like Kalshi and Polymarket. Steve Karnowski/Associated Press Steve Karnowski/Associated Press Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has signed the nation’s first law banning prediction market sites from operating in the state, and in response, the Trump administration has sued, teeing up a legal battle over the […]
Disney erased FiveThirtyEight
Fivey Fox by Joey Mills — Silver Bulletin illustration Last Thursday night, I was working late, trying to put some of the finishing touches on our forthcoming World Cup model — and actually looking up an article I’d written for FiveThirtyEight in 2014 about my previous soccer model, SPI. Although the quality of the archive […]
Google changes its search box
Search agents We’re entering the era of Search agents, where you can easily create, customize and manage multiple AI agents for your many tasks, right in Search. We’re starting with information agents. Operating in the background, 24/7, these agents intelligently reason across information to find exactly what you need at exactly the right moment. With […]
Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action
3.5 Flash: agentic tasks at scale This balance of speed and performance makes 3.5 Flash ideal for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks. What used to take a developer days or an auditor weeks, 3.5 Flash can now help complete in a fraction of the time, often at less than half the cost of other frontier models. […]
I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of
This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. A custom emulator-independent launcher is provided, and all OSes and emulators are pre-installed and pre-configured. The launcher includes a snapshot feature to quickly revert broken installations back to a working state. […]
Gentoo News: Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia Kernel Vulnerabilities
The Linux kernel has recently been facing a series of discovered privilege escalation vulnerabilities, starting with the Copy Fail vulnerability and followed by subsequent vulnerabilities in the same spirit (Dirty Frag, Fragnesia). This development is part of a general trend where vulnerabilities are being found – and disclosed – faster than before. We expect it […]