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Aug 16, 2026

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·The Verge

Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback

At D23, Matt Groening said he thinks the original The Simpsons: Hit & Run is “coming back in some form,” before showrunner Matt Selman quickly hedged the comment. The 2003 cult cla...

Matt Groening lets slip that Simpsons: Hit & Run might be making a comeback
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·spectrum.ieee.org

Bede Liu, IEEE Life Fellow and foundational digital signal processing pioneer, dies at 91

Bede Liu, an IEEE Life Fellow remembered as one of the founders of digital signal processing, died on May 7 at age The article notes his family and highlights his standing as a pio...

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·acc.org

Study finds waist size and waist-to-hip ratio predict cardiovascular risk more accurately than BMI alone

A study in JACC found that abdominal fat measures such as waist circumference and waist-to-hip ratio can better identify cardiovascular disease risk than BMI alone. Researchers sai...

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·henrikkarlsson.xyz

Essay argues fragile startup ideas need solitude and protected thinking time before exposure to peer feedback

Henrik and Johanna Karlsson argue that early-stage ideas are often too fragile for highly social environments like coworking spaces, where ridicule or premature feedback can push f...

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·The Verge

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot

The Verge highlights Your AI Slop Bores Me, a simple web game where users submit prompts and other humans respond while pretending to be an AI. The site mimics LLM mechanics with c...

Have a laugh at AI’s expense by roleplaying as a chatbot
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·VentureBeat

An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong

The article argues that many teams rely on qualitative reviews of LLM outputs, which catch obvious issues but miss answers that sound plausible while failing against ground truth....

An eval harness found what qualitative review couldn't: AI models are most confident when wrong
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·TechCrunch

Anthropic shares more details about how Claude’s new watermarks will work

Anthropic detailed how Claude will add hidden patterns to AI-generated text so outputs can be identified by those with the right detection key. The company says the watermarking wi...

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