Mistral AI releases the weights of its 1-trillion-parameter model, Le Chonk, advancing agentic coding and cybersecurity. The new model delivers frontier coding performance with significantly fewer tokens.
Google Search generated 49.7% of Alphabet's $128B revenue in Q Sep 2026, the first quarter below half since separate reporting began. Google Cloud grew from 4.4% to 24.1% over the same period, while everything else accounted for remaining revenue share.
The H.264 video compression codec standard is highly efficient, reducing bandwidth requirements by 1500 times compared to PNG images, through various techniques such as lossy compression and chroma subsampling. It achieves this by discarding less important bits, using motion estimation and prediction to store only necessary frames.
The authors tested 1,285 statistics from five AI assistants and found that only 8% of the trails ended at a study that confirmed the number, while 44% ended at a page citing no research.
Researchers use NVLink for communication-heavy parallelism techniques like tensor and expert parallelism to maximize training throughput, but this can be limited by InfiniBand interconnects.
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion, combining their delivery networks and grocery technology to help local businesses succeed. The deal will give consumers more stores to choose from, faster delivery options, and more ways for Dashers and Shoppers to earn money.
The President of the Czech Republic honoured Tomáš Mikolov and Filip Maleňák for their outstanding contributions to science, research and technology. Both graduates of Brno University of Technology received state honors for their innovative work in artificial intelligence and emergency services.
Researchers discovered a Chinese AI-assisted campaign that compromised 25 servers, including US government systems, using a custom PHP2Shell exploit chain and Fragnesia kernel privilege escalation. The attackers used an automated batch process to target firewalls with specific versions of vendor software.
The author warns against using Large Language Models (LLMs) to write prose, as it can lead to an "uncanny valley" effect and undermine the skill of writing. Authors should instead fill their own prose and use LLMs only for structure or research assistance.
The method calculates a country's area using its IPv4 addresses and the world's total land area. The result excludes Antarctica and small territories without an outline, based on data from October 2026.
This is a Go library called noalloc that helps detect heap allocations in code. It can be used to identify potential memory leaks and optimize performance by preventing unnecessary allocations. The library provides various features, including assertions for functions that should not allocate memory, zero-allocating data structures, and algorithms for fixed-sized data storage.
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Google Earth has changed the name of the body of water to "Arabian Gulf" despite historical and legal evidence showing it is called Persian Gulf, sparking outrage among Iranians. Google's decision was made after receiving pressure from certain countries, but critics argue this undermines accuracy and respect for history.
Keplearn is a deterministic symbolic regression engine that recovers closed-form equations from tabular data. It uses best-first recursive reduction to find compact laws relating columns of measurements.
Two high-speed trains crashed in Spain, killing at least 69 people. The collision occurred when a Renfe train collided with a stationary Iryo train near Madrid due to a computer failure that allowed the Renfe train to move without speed restrictions.
NetBSD now includes an alternative editor, atto(1), which is a 48KB modeless screen-based editor similar to nano and emacs. The EDITOR environment variable can be set to use atto instead of the default vi(1).
The Qwenputer is a language model that embeds a RISC-V CPU within its weights, utilizing the Gated DeltaNet attention layers as RAM. It can run arithmetic operations and C/MicroPython code without external tool usage.
The Ahead-of-Time (AOT) cache is a new approach to improving Java application startup and warmup times, but its implementation has pitfalls and lacks proper documentation. The AOT cache can be fragile due to CPU feature differences between the training system and target system, leading to crashes or unexpected behavior.
The Singularity may lead to a world without meaningful relationships and social connections, as AI-generated superstimulus replaces human interaction. Without shared experiences of struggle and striving, people's minds will atrophy, leaving them uninteresting to talk to.
The author explains Big-O notation in a beginner-friendly way, emphasizing practical understanding over exhaustive detail. A toxic expert criticized the post, highlighting a nuanced aspect of algorithmic analysis, but the author argues that such details aren't essential for most developers and that empathy is more crucial than separating experts from beginners.
Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII art, preserving the work of early artists who created art for computer consoles. The rise of the Internet led to a decline in BBS's and interest in ANSI/ASCII art, but some artists continue to produce collectives like artpacks.
A single malformed WAP Push SMS can crash Android, dropping active calls including emergency ones, with no interaction from the victim. A fix is available by adding a range check before casting in WapPushOverSms.java to prevent this denial of service attack.
The author crawled the web to intercept browser fingerprinting API calls and mapped them, discovering a diverse collection of canvases on their website fingerprint.garden. They found an unusual script that appears to be anti-LLM obfuscation, intentionally setting misleading variable names to prevent deobfuscation attempts.
The article discusses the history and modern resurgence of porcelain, highlighting its technological evolution from ancient China to advanced materials like Dekton. It connects this material science progress to everyday applications, from cooktops to medical implants, showing how innovation in ceramics continues to shape our world.
The user reverse-engineered the Brother MFC-L8900CDW printer, accessing its hidden features and firmware. They discovered a command console with various debugging modes and commands that can be used to control the print engine.
A new path for abusing Kerberos delegation has been discovered by combining Elad Shamir's Reflective RBCD technique with James Forshaw's U2U sacrificial user technique, allowing exploitation of Constrained Delegation without Protocol Transition against SPN-less accounts. This method requires RC4 to be permitted in the domain and enables a service to impersonate a user without authentication ...
Gemini 4 Carbon leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59, driven by strong performance in complex reasoning and scientific tasks. It offers a 50% launch discount and is priced at $7.76 per Intelligence Index task, making it more affordable than Claude Opus 5.5 for comparable overall intelligence.
The US battery storage market saw its largest quarter ever in Q2 2026, adding 20.2 GWh of new capacity and reaching a total of 30.8 GWh for the first half of the year. This growth is driven by large grid batteries, particularly in Arizona, Texas, and California.
A hacking group called the Department of Peace breached the US Department of Homeland Security's personnel files, exposing over 40,000 agents' names and contact info. The leak is expected to aid investigators and activists in scrutinizing DHS operations.