New works enter public domain on January 1st each year, with varying copyright laws worldwide. In 2026, works by those who died in 1955 or 1975 will enter public domain in different countries.
STARFlow-V is a normalizing flow-based video generator that achieves high-quality autoregressive video generation with end-to-end training and exact likelihood estimation. It offers native multi-task support and robust causal prediction, outperforming diffusion-based models in visual fidelity and temporal consistency.
A benchmark was created to compare AWS Lambda performance on x86_64 and arm64 architectures using Node.js, Rust, and Python runtimes. The results show arm64 delivering 30-40% lower compute costs with equal or better performance, making it a good default architecture choice for Lambda.
The ping command works without root by creating a UDP socket with a protocol flag, bypassing the need for a raw ICMP socket. Linux and macOS handle IP headers and checksums differently when sending UDP-based pings.
DeepSeek-V3.2 is a highly efficient model that achieves superior reasoning and agent performance, narrowing the performance gap between open and proprietary models while incurring lower costs. It integrates reasoning, agent, and human alignment data, and its variants, such as DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, demonstrate exceptional proficiency in complex tasks and achieve gold-medal performance in ...
Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a landmark album in ambient music, released in 1979, featuring generative music created with tape loops and systems. The album's tracks, such as 1/1 and 2/1, showcase Eno's use of loops, echoes, and piano melodies to create a serene and relaxing sound.
Replicate's mission was to get research models out of labs and into developers' hands, creating tools for running models without machine learning expertise. Replicate is joining Cloudflare to build a full AI stack, combining Replicate's model tools with Cloudflare's network and infrastructure.
Researchers in computational complexity theory are trying to prove that certain problems, like the traveling salesperson problem, are hard to solve. They're using a new approach called reverse mathematics to study these problems and understand why their proofs have been unsuccessful.
Sir Tom Stoppard, a renowned UK playwright, has died at 88. He won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for Shakespeare In Love and was remembered for his brilliant and humane works that explored philosophical and political themes.
Windows Secure Boot certificates will expire in June 2026, affecting device boot security. Users must update certificates in advance to avoid disruption.
The code works because "https://" is treated as a label and "//" starts a comment in C. This is valid since C99, where "//" introduces a comment until the next newline character.
The author visited Bhutan on a guided trip and witnessed the country's unique culture and its efforts to modernize while preserving its traditions. Bhutan is experimenting with a new economic hub, Gelephu Mindfulness City, which will operate as a Special Administrative Region with its own governance framework.
Ghostty for the web provides a real VT100 implementation using xterm.js API compatibility. It starts a local HTTP server with a real shell on http://localhost:8080, working best on Linux and macOS.
Three AI models, Gemini 3 Pro, Codex Max 5.1, and Claude Opus 4.5, were tested to build a basic Counter Strike game. Gemini 3 Pro excelled in backend tasks, while Claude Opus 4.5 performed well in frontend tasks.
Unto Labs: Developing Thru Layer-1 blockchain, seeking engineers for scalability, performance, and usability challenges. REMOTE (US) or ONSITE (Hybrid OK) in San Francisco, CA.
Swiss cartographers secretly insert illustrations into official maps, defying their mandate for accuracy. These drawings, often humorous or whimsical, have been hidden in maps for decades, with some lasting up to 60 years.
Interaction design is an art form that makes experiences fluidly respond to human intent, using metaphors and gestures that tap into our instinctive behaviors. Great interactions are modeled after properties from the real world, like interruptability, and use context as input to feel magical and intuitive.
The author wanted to reduce the size of a 132MB Rust static library to distribute it with a Go package. They used various techniques to shrink the library to 19MB.
Google's dominance in AI is threatened by OpenAI's ChatGPT, which has a strong moat due to its large user base and potential for advertising revenue. However, Google's structural advantages and resources make it a formidable opponent, and OpenAI's refusal to adopt an advertising model may ultimately lead to its downfall.
As a unicyclist, the user has encountered frequently asked questions such as "Where's the other half?" and "How do you stop?" which they address with quick responses. The user provides detailed answers to these questions, including explanations of unicycle mechanics, safety, and riding techniques, as well as tips for learning to ride a unicycle.
Arcee AI is training an open weight model family called Trinity, which will be released in January 2026. Trinity includes a large model, a mini model for reasoning, and a nano model for chat, all trained end-to-end in the US.
The Chromium team has reversed its decision to kill JPEG XL, a promising image format, and will now support it in Blink, the engine behind Chrome/Chromium/Edge. This move is expected to give JPEG XL a significant boost in adoption, thanks to its superior features and support in the most popular browser engine.
A man has become the seventh person to be left HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. Significantly, he is also the second of the seven who received stem cells that were not actually resistant to the virus, strengthening the case that HIV-resistant cells may not be necessary for an HIV cure. “Seeing that a cure is possible without this resistance gives us more ...
The user has been maintaining a blog on Blogger since 2015, sharing thoughts and learnings on writing, and has improved their style over time by editing and refining their thoughts. They believe that writing is essential for personal growth and development, and that human-produced writing still holds value despite the rise of generative AI.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by chance in 1928, but the story may be exaggerated or inaccurate due to inconsistencies in his account. Scientists have attempted to replicate his discovery but failed, leading to speculation about the true events surrounding the discovery of penicillin.