A software engineer stopped arguing with others due to understanding that correctness is not always good and that arguing often challenges people's sense of self rather than their ideas. He now focuses on self-improvement and building on differences rather than trying to convince others.
Asahi Linux has fixed issues with macOS 27 boot picker compatibility and added support for M3 machines with high-quality audio output, CPU frequency switching, and big.LITTLE task scheduling. The team is also working on AVD video decoder support and has released m1n1 version 1.6.0 with Rust requirements for stage 2 builds and improvements for M3 series support.
Scientists created a synthetic cell that grows, replicates DNA, and divides, demonstrating basic cell functions. The cell is not alive but shows promise for generating life from non-life and could lead to breakthroughs in materials and disease research.
A newly discovered bacterium, Ewingella americana, has shown to completely eliminate colorectal cancer in mice with no recurrence. It outperforms chemotherapy and immune checkpoint blockade with a dual-action approach of direct tumor destruction and immune activation.
Prof. Kate Adamala's team at the University of Minnesota built SpudCell, a synthetic cell that performs a complete cell cycle from known chemical components. SpudCell grows, replicates, and divides using a feeding mechanism and a smaller genome than previously thought possible.
Box3D is an open source 3D physics engine that is a fork of Box2D, developed to meet the needs of the game The Legend of California. It is now available on GitHub and has a feature set that includes gyroscopic torques, broad-phase collision detection, and compound collision systems.
Nintendo raised employee base salaries by 10% to retain talent and maintain an appropriate compensation standard. The company also invested 121 billion yen in R&D and has been cautious with price increases.
Greg and Max, Parsewise founders, transform unstructured data into schema compliant data with lineage. Their platform simplifies ETL and allows business experts to validate results quickly.
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Manufact is building the MCP cloud platform for AI agents and raised $6.3M seed in 4 days. They're hiring a Developer Advocate to drive partnerships and content across the AI dev-tools ecosystem.
The Red toolchain has been updated to support static linking of libraries written in C, allowing for single, self-contained binaries with all dependencies packed inside. This feature is now available for Windows, Linux, and Linux ARM, including the Raspberry Pi, and can be used with the miniz library for compression.
Sony plans to remove 551 movies and TV shows from PlayStation Store libraries due to licensing agreements. This move highlights the shift towards ownership being controlled by servers, rather than physical copies.
Companies are planning to equip school buses with automatic license plate readers to sell data to law enforcement. This raises concerns about mass surveillance and potential abuse of the collected data.
Obfuscation is a powerful cryptographic primitive that hides the internal workings of a program while preserving its functionality, and it has been used to create secure and private systems such as voting systems and cryptocurrencies. However, making a secure form of obfuscation is extremely hard, and the current state-of-the-art obfuscation protocols have galactic runtimes, but researchers ...
Claude Sonnet 5 is a more agentic AI model that can make plans, use tools, and run autonomously at a lower price than its predecessor. It's available across all plans and offers a safer and more efficient option for developers, with a lower rate of undesirable behaviors and improved performance on tasks like coding and knowledge work.
Godot Foundation is updating its contribution policies to ban AI-authored code and AI-generated text in human communication. The goal is to reduce the burden on maintainers and ensure new contributors become future maintainers.
A half-day tutorial on floating-point arithmetic analysis will be held at CCH Congress Center Hamburg from 9am-1pm. Participants will learn to evaluate and track floating-point behavior using compiler-assisted tools and apply them to C/C++ codes.
arXiv will spin out from Cornell University to become an independent nonprofit organization on July 1, 2026. This change will bring new flexibility and opportunities while maintaining arXiv's mission and values of free access to scientific ideas and discoveries.
Cloudflare introduces the Monetization Gateway, allowing customers to charge for digital assets with usage-based pricing. The gateway uses the x402 protocol for sub-second payment settlement in stablecoins.
SmallVector's push_back optimization for trivially copyable element types reduces the fast path's size and improves performance. The optimization uses memcpy and grow_pod to copy elements, avoiding constructors and destructors.
Copybara is a tool used internally at Google to transform and move code between repositories, allowing for syncing of confidential and public repositories. It is stateless and supports Git repositories, with experimental support for Mercurial.
Developers give coding agents excessive access for productivity, but this also raises security concerns. A tool like Claude Code hides classification signals in system prompts, making it harder to trust its claims of transparency.
The author reflects on the evolution of the internet from a place you visited to a woven part of daily life, with a focus on the mid-2000s as a transformative time. The author laments the loss of the old web, where websites were authored by humans and discovery was a manual process, replaced by a modern web with layers of intermediaries and commercial value extraction.
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Claude Science is a public beta app that integrates AI with scientific computing, allowing users to run full analyses on their own infrastructure. It connects to 60+ scientific databases and domain-specific open models, and produces reproducible results with full provenance.
The invention of the internal combustion engine in the 19th century has revolutionized transportation over land, water, and air. Despite their omnipresence in modern day, the operation of an engine may be cryptic. Over the course of this article I’d like to explain the functionality of all the basic engine parts shown in the demonstration below. You can drag it around to see it from other ...
An updated Lean 4 formal proof engineering model optimised for automated theorem proving and autoformalization. 119B total parameters, 6.5B active.
Nano Banana 2 Lite generates and edits images faster and more efficiently, ideal for designers and creators. It provides high-quality images quickly, reducing waiting time and increasing creative flow.
A toy car's wind-up mechanism uses a Spiral Spring and gears to store and release energy, allowing it to shoot forward at high speeds. The gear system provides a mechanical advantage, making it easier for kids to wind up the spring with modest force.
Scientists at the University of Minnesota created SpudCell, a synthetic cell that feeds, grows, and reproduces, but lacks full life. The team is organizing a community to make SpudCell more alive and adapt it for new experiments.