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Keeping the Spark Up: A Local AI Hardware Reliability Postmortem

We run a DGX Spark for local AI inference and research, and over five days it failed thirteen documented ways — a frozen box, nine hours of silent CPU fallback, a queue that looked empty when it wasn'...

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We Tested an Open-Source RAG Engine's Anti-Hallucination Claim

RAGFlow, an open-source document-retrieval engine with roughly 90,000 GitHub stars, claims its answers are always traceable to a real source. We built it from source on our own DGX Spark, pointed it a...

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Silver-107: What the Isotope Really Is, and What It Cannot Do

Silver-107 is not a trace ingredient in silver — it is 51.8% of it. The isotope is genuinely extraordinary in one respect: it carries the narrowest known nuclear resonance line in nature, nearly three...

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Is the $4.6M Beni Camera Robot Kickstarter Real? What We Verified

Mondo Robotics closed its Kickstarter for Beni, a self-balancing camera robot that follows you and films in 4K, at $4,599,339 from 7,314 backers against a $50,000 goal. We checked the company's regist...

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House Vote Revives the Court-Packing Question, Without Answering It

A House vote to lock the Supreme Court at nine seats failed 212-206 on September 2, 2026, with all but one Democrat voting no. That's real evidence in a debate driven by the Court's current 6-3 conser...

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Lindsay Clancy Trial Ends in Mistrial After Lone Juror Holds Out

A Plymouth County, Massachusetts jury deadlocked 11-1 in favor of finding Lindsay Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2023 killing of her three children, with one holdout juror blocking a v...

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Danbury Votes to Let Legal Residents, DACA Recipients Join Police

Danbury's city council voted 18-2 to let lawful permanent residents and DACA recipients -- not undocumented immigrants -- apply to become police officers, using a discretionary state allowance in plac...

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We Investigated Bitpost.shop, a Bitcoin-for-Amazon Marketplace

Bitpost.shop lets you post a request to buy something from Amazon, matches you with a stranger (a "Bitworker") who buys it and ships it to an Amazon Locker, and settles payment in Bitcoin through a no...

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Netherlands Pulls 86 Tonnes of Gold Out of the U.S. and Canada

The Dutch central bank spent six months quietly moving 86 tonnes of gold, worth roughly $12 billion, out of vaults in New York and Ottawa and into London, citing "geopolitical unrest" and crisis prepa...

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Would Warren Buffett Buy Tesla? His Own Rules Say No

Tesla fails several of Warren Buffett's own published investment tests: no clearly durable moat, a single-founder dependency he has long argued against, and a valuation that leaves no margin of safety...

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Did Fauci Know Masks and Lockdowns Were Ineffective?

Did Fauci Know Masks and Lockdowns Were Ineffective? The record in these passages does not support a simple yes or no. What it shows is a more specific and documentable set of facts: Fauci acknowledge...