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A 22-year-old graduate student in Kazakhstan got so angry at journal paywalls in 2011 that she built a pirate website holding 88 million scientific papers, and last month she turned the whole thing into an AI that lets you ask one question and get the actual research as the answer. Her name is Alexandra Elbakyan, and the website is called Sci-Hub. The AI she just launched is called Sci-Bot. It lives at sci-bot.ru and almost nobody outside academia knows it exists yet. Here is the story, because it is one of the strangest things to happen in science publishing in the last 50 years. Elbakyan was born in Almaty in 1988, the year the Soviet Union started to collapse. She taught herself programming at 12. She read Soviet science books that explained things her family used to call miracles. She got into computer security at university and graduated in 2009 with a degree she barely needed because by then she was already a serious hacker. Alexandra moved to Moscow that fall. Then Germany. Then a research internship in the United States. She was working on brain-computer interfaces, the kind of research that requires you to read hundreds of papers a year just to keep up with the field. And every single one of those papers was locked behind a journal paywall that cost between 30 and 50 dollars to read once. She did the math. A graduate student in Kazakhstan could not afford to read science. The first thing she did was learn how to get around the paywalls one paper at a time. She passed the trick around to other students. They asked her for papers constantly. She got tired of doing it manually. So in September 2011, in three days, she wrote a script that automated the whole thing. A user pastes a DOI. The script logs in through a donated institutional credential. The paper comes back free. The website caches it. The next person who asks for that paper gets it instantly because the previous request already saved a copy. That was Sci-Hub. Three days of code. One graduate student. Done. 15 years later, the cache holds 88 million scientific papers. Almost every piece of scholarly literature published before 2020 is sitting on her servers. Researchers in 190 countries use it. Studies in Nature have shown that roughly half of all academic paper downloads worldwide now go through Sci-Hub, not the publishers who actually own the copyrights. Elsevier sued her in 2015 and won a 15 million dollar judgment. She did not pay. The American Chemical Society sued her and won an injunction. She did not comply. Courts in India, France, Russia, and the UK have tried to block the domain. She just moves it. Sci-hub.se. Sci-hub.ru. Sci-hub.ee. The site has had over 20 domains and is still up. Nature put her on its list of the 10 people who mattered most to science in 2016. The New York Times compared her to Edward Snowden. The Verge called her the pirate queen of science. She has not been to the United States in over a decade because she would be arrested at the airport. The Sci-Bot launch in April 2026 is the part that nobody is talking about. She took the 88 million paper database and put a small language model on top of it. You ask a question in plain English. The model searches the entire shadow library, pulls the relevant papers, synthesizes an answer grounded in real citations, and links you to the full text of every source. Free. No login. No institutional credential. No paywall. Three real scientists tested it for a Chemical and Engineering News article last month. They asked it medical and chemistry questions. The radiologist said the answer he got was usable. The chemist said the gaps in recent literature were obvious but the older science was solid. The publisher community is furious. What she built is what the paid academic AI tools are trying to build. Except the paid ones are limited to what their parent publisher legally owns. Hers is limited to almost nothing. Alexandra still lives somewhere in Russia. She does not give her address. She does not do video interviews. She gives talks over Skype with the camera off. She runs the largest illegal library in human history from a laptop and a donation page. A graduate student who could not afford to read science built the system the entire scientific community now quietly depends on. The publishers have spent a decade trying to shut her down. She just shipped an AI that makes their entire business model outdated.

🦔Microsoft canceled its internal Claude Code licenses this week after token-based billing made the cost untenable, even for a company with effectively infinite cloud resources. Uber's CTO sent an internal memo warning the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in just four months. American AI software prices have jumped 20% to 37%, and GitHub (owned by Microsoft) is dropping flat-rate plans for usage-based billing across its products. My Take The AI subsidy era is ending in real time. The same company that put $13 billion into OpenAI and built the Azure infrastructure powering most of Anthropic's compute just looked at the bill from a competitor's coding tool and decided it was not worth paying. That is not a productivity failure on Anthropic's end. Token-based pricing is forcing every enterprise customer to confront the actual cost of running these models at scale, and the number turns out to be far higher than the flat-rate experiments suggested. This ties directly to my Gemini Flash post yesterday. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all raised effective prices in the last six months. Enterprises that built workflows assuming AI costs would keep falling are now watching annual budgets evaporate in months. Two outcomes look likely from here. Either enterprises scale back AI usage to fit budgets, which slows the revenue ramp the labs need to justify their valuations ahead of IPOs, or the labs cut prices and absorb the losses, which makes the unit economics worse at exactly the wrong moment. Both paths land in the same place, the numbers stop working, and somebody has to take the writedown. Hedgie🤗

Microsoft canceled Claude Code license due to unsustainable costs. If they can't afford it, who can?

I am deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in me and for the opportunity to lead @ODNIgov for the last year and a half. Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026. My husband, Abraham, has recently been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. At this time, I must step away from public service to be by his side and fully support him through this battle.

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Añadir romero al freír reduce significativamente la oxidación de los aceites y puede disminuir hasta un 74% la formación de compuestos dañinos.

Residents of #Phansidewa in #Siliguri welcomed the start of India-Bangladesh border fencing after 27 km land handover to #BSF ,saying years of hardship & insecurity in border area have finally eased. Can now breathe freely & sleep peacefully as fencing begins #SuvenduAdhikari

‼️BREAKING || PUTIN ORDERS REVENGE ON ZELENSKY AFTER UKRAINE DRONE STRIKE ON STAROBILSK COLLEGE KILLS SCORE OF KIDS Starobilsk -- A college hall of residence was turned into a smoking ruin in Lugansk after what Moscow says was a deliberate Ukrainian drone strike on young students -- and Putin has now told his Defence Ministry that words are no longer enough. The horrid footage shows a multi-storey college building ripped open. Upper floors are blown out. Windows are gone. Walls are gone. Smoke pours from the block while flames glow inside a red-brick section of the site. Firefighters climb over broken concrete, twisted metal and shattered slabs. Rescuers work by hand in the wreckage, searching for survivors and dead bodies. Six children are reported dead. Fifteen more are missing. "Mum, they're bombing us," 18-year-old Anastasia Vasilenko told her mother before the line went dead. Another student, 22-year-old Oksana Tereshchenko, studying to become a primary school teacher, was reportedly pulled from under the rubble and taken to hospital. This was not, Putin said, "some stray drone blown off course." Russian officials say 16 drones came at the same college in three waves -- again and again -- until the building was smashed open. There were no military sites nearby Moscow says -- just a college hall of residence, and young people sleeping. Putin called the strike "a mark of neo-Nazism and terrorism by the Kyiv regime." He told the Defence Ministry to bring him proposals for a military response, saying it warrants "more than a [condemning] statement." He also used the moment to speak to Ukrainian soldiers, urging them not to carry out the criminal orders of Zelensky’s "illegitimate corrupt junta". The scene in Starobilsk is not a battlefield. It is a college -- the sort of place Zelensky’s war came for. It walked into the rooms of children in what, only 13 years ago, was still his own pro-Russian Ukraine.

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Muhammad Bin Qasim, following Hajjaj’s orders, massacred around 26,000 Hindus who resisted conversion However mass slaughter was a daunting task against Hindu resistance. Hence he opted for jizya instead of fighting. Ms weren't secular. They just couldn't win against Hindus

These 2 adjustment politics is making BJP weak in Karnataka. No proper opposition for Congress in 3 years !! No domination from BJP yet ! Remove these two waste fellows to save BJP.

@IterIntellectus U mean Winston Churchill"s favourite folks 😀😀,snakes bred in one's backyard to hurt innocent folks has a way of attacking owners

i hate they call these "people" asian as if they were korean or japanese they're pakistani muslims

PUTIN SAYS 6 DEAD, 15 PEOPLE ARE MISSING - THE STRIKE WAS DELIBERATE.

🇮🇳 India’s Data Centers to Consume 358 Billion Liters of Water Just for Cooling by 2030.

Learn paapis @BJP4Karnataka thoo nimma janmakke

Today, for the first time on a Friday in Kolkata, no roads were blocked for Jummah prayers in areas like Khidirpur, Rajabazar, Park Circus, Beckbagan, Mallikbazar, Ekbalpur, Topsia, Tiljala, Beniapukur, or Anwar Shah. Everything was conducted peacefully and in an orderly manner inside the mosques while maintaining public harmony.