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AI has torched the market for junior programmers
The entry-level software engineering job market has collapsed, with AI coding tools allowing senior developers to handle work that previously required entire junior teams. This isn't a temporary dip — it represents a structural shift in how companies staff engineering departments, squeezing out the traditional apprenticeship pipeline that once trained the next generation of developers. The long-term consequences for the industry's talent supply are only beginning to come into focus.
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Midjourney wants Hollywood studios to reveal the details of their AI usage
Midjourney is turning the tables on Hollywood, demanding that three studios disclose their internal AI practices as part of an ongoing legal battle. The move is a classic legal counterpunch — if studios are suing over AI-generated content, their own AI usage becomes fair game. The discovery push could expose uncomfortable contradictions between the industry's public skepticism of AI and its private adoption of the technology.
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GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance
A growing number of developers are reporting that GPT-5.5 Codex is producing degraded outputs, with evidence pointing to an issue in how the model clusters reasoning tokens during inference. The problem suggests a potential flaw in how extended thinking is being processed or compressed under the hood. If confirmed, it raises broader questions about reliability in OpenAI's latest generation of coding-focused models.
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Solar rail could become common in Europe after successful trial in Switzerland
Switzerland's pilot program embedding solar panels between railway tracks has proven viable, paving the way for broader European adoption. Italy is now eyeing the technology as a potential next adopter, drawn by the prospect of generating clean energy from existing rail infrastructure without consuming additional land. If scaled across Europe's extensive rail network, the approach could represent a significant and largely overlooked source of renewable capacity.
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NASA launched an emergency mission to stop the Swift Observatory from crashing to Earth
NASA is racing to save the Swift Observatory, a 20-year-old space telescope whose orbit has been dangerously degraded by recent solar storms. The agency has contracted Katalyst Space Technologies to launch its Link spacecraft and physically intercept Swift — which has no onboard propulsion — to boost it back to a safe altitude. Without intervention, the observatory could reenter Earth's atmosphere and burn up as early as this year.
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