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OpenAI announced a partnership to build AI data centers in the UAE, claiming these efforts promote democratic values, but critiques point out that the UAE has a poor record on democracy and human rights.

The UAE is an autocratic nation with significant restrictions on political freedom, media, and human rights, which contradicts the democratic narrative OpenAI is promoting.

OpenAI's partnership could empower the UAE with significant AI capabilities, raising concerns about contributing to the power of autocratic regimes.

Research suggests that administering immunotherapy in the morning significantly improves cancer control and survival rates.

This is linked to the body's circadian rhythm, which influences immune system efficiency at different times of the day.

Morning immunotherapy may leverage higher concentrations of T-cells in the lymphatic system, optimizing the immune response.

Zig has implemented parallel self-hosted code generation, significantly improving compiler performance with 5% to 50% speed increases for some projects.

The self-hosted x86 backend is now the default for Debug mode in Zig, proving more robust and faster than the LLVM backend for some operations.

Incremental compilation in Zig is nearing readiness, promising faster recompilation times for minor changes.

The brain reorganizes its networks in response to sound, not just registers it.

A new imaging method called FREQ-NESS traces how sound affects brainwaves across neural networks.

This method offers more precise brain mapping, potentially advancing neuroscience and clinical diagnostics.

The FBI uses third-party companies like SocialGist to scrape data from various websites, often without the site's consent.

SocialGist's BoardReader was scraping content from different fediverse instances and misattributing it, leading to issues like the FBI wrongly attributing a post to FSE.

There were technical challenges and evasions involved in preventing BoardReader's unauthorized scraping activities.

Cancer death rates have decreased by 33% since 1991, saving over 4 million lives.

New treatments like CAR-T therapy and stem-cell harvesting have significantly improved survival rates.

The decline in smoking has led to a reduction in lung cancer deaths.

The Wuppertal Schwebebahn is the world's oldest suspended railway and an engineering marvel that has been operational for 125 years.

Originally opened in 1901, the railway remains a major attraction in Wuppertal, Germany, with modern carriages replacing the original ones.

The railway was built due to the region's railway demands during its industrial era, as underground options were not feasible due to the landscape.

The change in the US tax code now requires software development expenses to be amortized over several years instead of being immediately deducted. This affects companies' financial planning and can increase the financial burden of hiring software engineers.

Many in the tech community, including YC alumni like Luther Lowe, are organizing efforts to reverse this change, seeking to restore the previous tax deduction for software development expenses.

There is significant community support and discussion around this issue, with some arguing that the current tax treatment unfairly targets software developers compared to other professions.

The post argues that the cost of operating Large Language Models (LLMs) has decreased significantly, contradicting a common belief that they are expensive to run.

Initial AI inference was costly, but costs have significantly dropped, becoming cheaper than search queries in many cases.

LLM prices vary, but even lower-end LLMs are more affordable than traditional search APIs, despite offering substantial capabilities.

Denuvo is a digital rights management system aimed at protecting digital media from piracy and reverse engineering.

The system uses unique methods to authenticate the game's code and the user, involving hardware identification checks that connect to a Denuvo server.

Denuvo employs various hardware and software integrity checks to prevent tampering, including the use of encrypted constants and virtual machine execution.