Oracle banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions due to safety, security, and intellectual property risks. This policy contrasts with Oracle's internal use of AI models for coding, despite investing $70 billion in datacentre expansion.
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) released Data Release 20 (DR20), marking a milestone in the study of accreting supermassive black holes. DR20 includes over 3.3 million optical spectra, providing unprecedented insights into black hole masses, growth, and physics across cosmic time.
A New Mexico court ordered Meta to pay $567m into a fund to address mental health impacts from its platforms. The ruling brings the total amount Meta is responsible for to $942m, with $420m going towards treatment services for young people in New Mexico.
The pgrust query engine is 10x faster than the previous version and outperforms Postgres by 30% on OLTP benchmarks and 300x on Clickbench. Optimizations such as batching, operator fusion, and SIMD enabled pgrust to achieve these performance gains, with the goal of further improving performance through JIT compilation.
Wyzer is a statically typed, compiled language with integrated distributed safety via choreographic programming and a perceus memory model. It uses a single ownership rule to manage memory, threads, and networks safely without a garbage collector or complex borrow checker.
Robert Guilbert Sr invented a competitive crossword game called Pago Pago in 1986, but details are unclear. A Möbius-strip crossword puzzle was proposed but proved difficult to create due to letter symmetry constraints.
AMD acquired AI chip company Taalas, which etches model weights into silicon for faster inference performance. The deal aims to boost AI hardware and compete with Nvidia's dominance in the market.
UK Prime Minister Liz Truss and Treasurer Kwasi Kwarteng's unfunded tax cuts for top earners sparked economic turmoil, echoing a discredited theory of trickle-down economics that has persisted for decades. Research by David Hope and Julian Limberg found that cutting taxes on the rich has no meaningful effect on unemployment or economic growth, but instead increases income inequality.
Textlog is a simple social platform for short notes, following people and hashtags, and joining conversations without performance pressure. It's free, public, and easy to use, with a focus on straightforward sharing and community respect.
Cloudflare has developed a new browser called Kitesurf, designed specifically for AI agents and automation tasks, which is more efficient in CPU and memory consumption than Chromium. Kitesurf is built on top of Cloudflare Workers and uses AI to accelerate the development process, with a focus on scalability, performance, and cost-effectiveness.
A music generator called beats.bitwrap.io uses Petri nets, a mathematical model of circles and arrows, to create full tracks with drums, bass, and melodies based on music theory and random numbers. The system is flexible and efficient, allowing for polyrhythms, melodies, and control nets to create complex songs with a single primitive carrying concurrency, state, and scheduling.
The US population is projected to shift, with older adults outnumbering children around 2029 for the first time in US history. This change has been building for decades, with the number of older adults rising five-fold since 1950.
The author argues that the value of human judgement, or "taste," has become more important in software development now that machines can generate code quickly and efficiently. However, this judgement is difficult to measure and is often overlooked in favor of productivity and efficiency, leading to a flood of mediocre software that lacks quality and purpose.
The author updated their blogroll to include personal blogs of acquaintances and strangers, shifting focus from news to people's daily lives. They value the authenticity and connection found in personal blogs, which offer a return to human scale and a sense of community.
Hélio Silva transformed an abandoned lawn in São Paulo's East Zone into the Tiquatira Linear Park, a 320,000 square meter green space with 32,000 trees. His initiative, which began with 200 seedlings in 2003, inspired the city to create São Paulo's first linear park in 2007.
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Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, with unemployment rate falling to 6.4 per cent, its lowest level in two years. Ontario and British Columbia led job gains, with 52,000 and 18,000 new jobs respectively.
Build harmonious type scales on a skeuomorphic analog control panel. Per-element editing, Google Fonts, live previews, and Figma export.
The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.
Scientists using the U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the Sun's surface. This finding could help explain explosive solar activity and other solar phenomena, and may be a key reason why the Sun's outer atmosphere gets hot.
Researchers developed a bioengineered chewing gum that reduced HPV by 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The gum preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy for head and neck cancer.
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The author created a game called Bridgetris for the BBC Bridge Companion, a 1985 game console that teaches bridge on a TV. The game is a Tetris-like puzzle game written in Z80 assembly language.
Nepal's National Cyber Security Centre has joined Have I Been Pwned's free gov service to monitor government domains against data breaches. This will help Nepal identify and respond to exposed government email addresses and compromised credentials.