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A new NBC News survey finds that nearly half of Americans aged eighteen to twenty-nine — forty-seven percent — say they would rather be living in the past. Subscription fatigue, invasive algorithms, and devices that feel more like surveillance tools than conveniences are driving that sentiment. It's a striking signal that the tech industry may be losing the generation it most wanted to win over.
Shifting to the frontier of artificial intelligence, a new benchmark called Lambench is making the rounds in developer circles. It tests AI models on lambda calculus — a formal system of logic that sits at the very foundation of computer science. Early results suggest that even leading models struggle with this kind of abstract, symbolic reasoning, raising real questions about how deep that intelligence actually runs.
And on a warmer note, legendary Commodore sixty-four composer Martin Galway has released the original music source files from his nineteen-eighties game soundtracks to GitHub. For anyone who grew up with those iconic chiptune melodies, it's a rare and generous window into how one musician shaped the emotional texture of an entire era of gaming.
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