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本站所有文章，新者在前。文章記述特定事件或項目， 標有日期，不隨主題發展改寫。目前共 31 篇。
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Stealing Reasoning Traces — Encrypted, Not Hidden
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google all concealed the chain-of-thought the same way: encrypt it, hand it back to the client, take it in again on the next call. The cryptography held. The binding did not — the encrypted blocks…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Keeping Digital Photos — What the Shoebox Advice Leaves Out
The standard advice for keeping digital photos — three copies, one off-site, and check that the backup ran — guards against the losses that are easy to imagine: a dropped phone, a closed service, a full free quota. It…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Five Insects, One Mechanism — Swarm Decision-Making
A BBC feature offers five lessons in decision-making from ants, bees, locusts, cockroaches and fruit flies. The lessons are not five — they are one, wearing five costumes. Ants forget their trails, bees wait for a…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Swap Across Five Platforms — Compress First, Spill Later
Five platforms, one mechanism. Anonymous memory — everything a process allocates — is the only page class a kernel cannot reclaim without somewhere to put it. So a system with no swap has not removed memory pressure;…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Nothing (2a) vs (4a) Pro vs POCO X8 Pro, X8 Pro Max and M8 5G — A Taiwan Five-Way Comparison
Four 2026 phones are compared here against one 2024 incumbent — the Nothing Phone (2a) — because a five-way spec table flatters every newer device equally. It shows what a phone has; it never shows what a phone…
Nothing (2a)、(4a) Pro 與 POCO X8 Pro、X8 Pro Max、M8 5G — 台灣五機比較
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
POCO X8 Pro vs X8 Pro Max — A Taiwan Buyer's Guide
The POCO X8 Pro and the X8 Pro Max launched in Taiwan on the same day and sit side by side on the same shelves. They are not, however, one phone in two sizes: the larger model is a whole chip tier ahead, while its…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Cryptographic Weakness Discovery — Reading Anthropic Against Its Own Papers
An unreleased Anthropic model produced two genuine cryptanalytic results — an improved key-recovery reduction against the HAWK post-quantum signature scheme, and a runtime improvement on 7-round AES-128. Both are real;…
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· Asia-wide chip sell-off · one-page brief
Asia's Memory Rout — Taiwan's Third-Largest Point Drop
On 28 July 2026 the TAIEX closed 2,030.83 points lower — the third-largest point drop in its history. Measured as a percentage it was the mildest fall of Asia's three big markets that day, and only the fourth-worst…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
A Retreat Executed as a Pivot — BAT Roadmap 4.0 and the Nine-Month Silence
Brave's fourth BAT roadmap moves the token from paying for attention to paying for things — and sunsets the Brave Ads notification unit, the use case BAT was sold to power in 2017. What is new is a buyback promise…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Spared the Rise, Not the Bill — Australia's A$2,500 Student Visa and ASEAN
On 1 July 2026 Australia raised its student visa application charge 25% to A$2,500, and citizens of ten Southeast Asian countries pay A$2,050 instead. That is real — A$450 cheaper than a non-ASEAN peer. But nobody was…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
The Process Is the Odyssey — How Matt Damon Trained at 55
To play Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, a 55-year-old Matt Damon spent five months on an ordinary upper/lower split in a bad basement gym — losing about 10 lb of fat while keeping muscle, for a lean…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
The Spark That Starts a Fire — Anonymous Tip-Offs and Singapore's CPIB
Corruption leaves no complainant. The briber and the bribed both gain, so neither reports it — which is why Singapore's Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau depends on being told. In 2025, anonymous tip-offs supplied…
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· Source-checked brief · one-page summary
Tumen River Sea Access — China, North Korea & a 15 km Gap
A Taiwanese CNA analysis reads the sharp warming of China–North Korea ties since Xi Jinping's June 2026 visit as transactional: behind the diplomacy lies a concrete prize — reopening a Tumen River sea outlet China…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Japan's First Kokushobi — The New ≥40 °C Heat-Day
On 21 July 2026, three cities in central Japan crossed 40 °C, logging the country's first official kokushobi (酷暑日) — the ≥40 °C heat-day category the Japan Meteorological Agency added on 17 April 2026 and let the…
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· Investor–state dispute · one-page brief
Jingye vs Britain — British Steel Compensation Claim
After the UK nationalised British Steel on national-security grounds, its former owner — China's Jingye Group — demanded Britain “promptly, fully and effectively compensate” it, invoked the 1986 UK–China investment…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Inkling — Thinking Machines' First Open Model, Source-Checked
Thinking Machines Lab — founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati — released its first open-weight model Inkling on 15 Jul 2026: a 975B / 41B-active multimodal MoE with 1M-token context, Apache 2.0, a thinking-effort dial,…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Cardano's Van Rossem Fork Meets a Short-Heavy Book
Cardano activates its Van Rossem hard fork on 18 Jul 2026, 21:44:51 UTC — a real, community-governed upgrade to Protocol Version 11 that lowers smart-contract costs and lays Leios groundwork. It lands on a short-heavy…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Avalanche's $2.1B RWA Paradox — Ecosystem Up, AVAX Down
Avalanche's tokenized real-world assets have surged to ~$2.1B, the #5 network, yet AVAX is down ~47% this year and sits far below its 2021 peak. The disconnect is structural: since the 2024 Avalanche9000 upgrade, the…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Google's Opus HD Joins Hi-Res AUDIO WIRELESS
On 2026-07-15 the Japan Audio Society added Google's Opus HD to its Hi-Res AUDIO WIRELESS codec list — the first codec from the internet-streaming world (Opus / IETF) to enter this Bluetooth hi-res club. The same…
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· Executive summary · one-page brief
Grok Build Shipped Whole Repos to xAI's Cloud
A wire-level teardown of xAI's Grok Build CLI (v0.2.93) showed it ran two independent channels: the model's own file reads, and a separate background upload of the entire workspace as a git bundle. The permission…
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· Stanford · Silesian University of Technology · Yale
sc-SPLASH — barcoded 單細胞定序的無參考序列發現
sc-SPLASH 把 reference-free 的統計優先推論擴展到 10x Chromium 與 Visium 資料。它不先對齊到參考基因體，而是從原始 reads 抽取 k-mer 對並檢定其分布是否與樣本相依。代價是放棄基因層級的直接解釋，換來的是能看見 reference-based pipeline 會抹除的東西：等位基因、旁系同源、重複序列，以及根本不在註解裡的新基因。
sc-SPLASH — Reference-Free Discovery in Barcoded Single-Cell Sequencing
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· Gemma 4 · Apple Silicon · integrating Claude Code and Copilot CLI
本機 LLM 與 Mac 採購 — 完整技術報告
這份報告分析在本機執行 Gemma 4 並接上 agentic CLI 工具所需的硬體條件。結論可以先說：在 agentic 工作流下，決定體感的是 prefill 速度與 KV Cache 佔用，而不是模型能吃多少 context。這也是活躍參數僅 4B 的 26B-A4B MoE 成為本機 agentic 甜蜜點的原因。
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· A survey of 220 biomedical foundation models
生醫基礎模型的崛起 — 220 個模型的全景分析
一項涵蓋 220 個生醫專屬基礎模型、時間跨度四年的調查。過半數（53.6%）已整合兩種以上資料模態，而自然語言正逐漸成為串接各類生醫資料的「連接介面」。研究刻意排除 ChatGPT、Gemini、Claude 等通用大型語言模型。
The Rise of Biomedical Foundation Models — 220 Models Surveyed
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· Resolved in v2.1.116 · the API itself was unaffected
Claude Code 品質問題事後報告 — 三項獨立變更
預設推理強度被調低、一個快取 Bug 持續清除推理歷史、系統提示詞加入輸出長度限制——三件事影響不同流量區段、時間也不同步，合起來卻呈現為廣泛而不一致的品質下降。這正是它們花了數週才被逐一定位的原因。受影響的是 Claude Code、Agent SDK 與 Cowork；API 本身未受影響。
The Claude Code Quality Postmortem — Three Unrelated Changes
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· "How I Sequenced My Genome at Home", set out in full
在家進行全基因體定序 — ONT MinION 完整流程
以 Oxford Nanopore MinION 在家完成一次全基因體定序：單次變動成本約 1,100 美元，親手操作約四小時，全程 72 小時，單一 flow cell 產出約 30 Gb、對人類基因體約 10× 覆蓋。這個覆蓋度適合探索常見變異，但低於臨床等級判讀通常建議的 30×——本文同時整理流程、成本，以及最容易失敗的每一個環節。
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· Stanford, the Alex Gao lab · bacterial anti-phage defence
DRT3 — 以蛋白質為模板的 DNA 合成防禦系統
DRT3 是一組細菌抗噬菌體防禦系統，由兩個反轉錄酶組成。其中的 Drt3b 不以 RNA 為模板——它的活性位點胺基酸排列本身，功能上等同一條固定的模板，直接寫死了一段 DNA 序列。這是否構成對中心法則的挑戰，生物學界並未一致；但「蛋白質結構決定 DNA 序列」此前沒有先例。
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· The UK AI Security Institute
Claude Mythos Preview 的 AISI 資安能力評估
AISI 以 CTF 挑戰與自製的 32 步企業網路攻擊模擬（TLO）雙軌評估 Anthropic Claude Mythos Preview。專家級 CTF 達 73%，TLO 在 10 次嘗試中有 3 次完整走完全程——此前沒有任何模型完成過。報告中最值得注意的並非分數本身，而是效能隨算力對數線性成長且尚未見到上限。
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· Work out the source before reaching for anything
衣物黑點黑漬 — 辨識與清除指南
黴斑、鐵鏽、油漬、墨水、血跡與洗衣機黴垢，在衣物上都呈現為深色斑點，但清除方法彼此衝突——用錯的方式會把污漬永久固著。本指南先給出三條辨識線索（外觀、氣味、位置），再按來源分列處理步驟。
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· Vegetables → protein → starch
進食順序 — 先蔬菜，後澱粉的健康效益
把蔬菜與蛋白質放在澱粉之前，可大幅降低餐後血糖波動。這項效果在第二型糖尿病與前驅糖尿病族群證據最強，健康成人也有一致但較小的趨勢。操作成本極低、幾乎無副作用——但它是既有均衡飲食的補充，不是替代。
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· Three heavy rare earth oxides in production, a new separation facility, and a licence that now carries a hard deadline
Lynas Rare Earths — Malaysian Expansion Analysis
Lynas is expanding its Malaysian operations on the strength of a unique position — no other commercial producer outside China makes both light and heavy rare earth oxides. The March 2026 licence extension runs to 2036,…
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· The Zhongxiao Huaisheng renewal scheme, examined
富邦藝庭連通道 — 對文湖線忠孝復興站的影響
忠孝懷生公辦都更案「富邦藝庭」於二樓新增一條捷運連通道，直接銜接文湖線忠孝復興站站體。連通道完工後將免費捐贈台北市捷運局，但接合工程需對既有高架站體切割打孔，施工期橫跨 2023 至 2031 年。
The Fubon Arts Court Skybridge — What It Means for Zhongxiao Fuxing Station