Claude Opus 5 is a new AI model that offers improved performance and capabilities at half the price of Claude Fable 5. It excels in coding, knowledge work, and scientific research tasks, and is designed for daily use with efficient performance.
Wasmtime 47 enables Wasm GC and exceptions proposals by default, allowing more languages to target WebAssembly. This improves support for high-level languages and exception-using languages, making WebAssembly a better compilation target.
The user is unhappy with Automattic's latest change to Gravatar, which involves AI, and feels it's an anti-feature. They plan to delete their Gravatar account due to Automattic's perceived decline in quality and lack of transparency.
The Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY feature has a bad reputation due to its global lock, but it can be optimized for high-performance streams. By buffering notifications in memory and periodically flushing them in a batch transaction, it's possible to achieve 60K writes per second with millisecond-scale latency.
Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 61, followed by Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort) and Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback). Mercury 2 is the fastest model at 938.7 tokens per second.
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket successfully launched into a 280-mile-high orbit on its debut flight, marking India's first fully commercial satellite launcher. The launch was a "grand success" for the company, exceeding expectations and paving the way for future launches.
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Researchers discovered that sperm whales release gas bubbles to regulate their buoyancy while resting just below the ocean surface. This unique behavior allows them to sleep effectively by avoiding surface wave action and conserving energy.
The user discovered a security vulnerability in Hanwha Vision's security cameras, specifically a hardcoded GitHub token in the firmware that granted admin access to hundreds of repositories. The user reported the issue to Hanwha, who promptly revoked the token, and the user notes that this is a common mistake that needs to be addressed to prevent similar incidents in the future.
People are scrambling to adapt to AI-induced changes in the workforce, but AI tools have also introduced bugs and instability in software, making everyday tasks frustrating. This may lead to a shift towards building better software as individual developers take advantage of AI's capabilities to create more complex projects.
The simulation is a stress test of global supply chains using UN Comtrade 2025 data, modeling fluid-stochastic network clearing and endogenous pricing. It shows stockpile-depletion events in net-importer emergency buffers and elastic-supply exporter buffers.
The user has designed an open source switch ASIC and is planning to tape it out and prove the silicon works, aiming to fill the gap in open source networking equipment hardware. The switch will be an unmanaged 3-port design with a limited address table size, using an external PHY chip and interfacing with it over the RMII bus, and will be silicon proven in mid-November 2026.
Professor Hannah Fry has been awarded the Leelavati Prize for increasing public awareness of mathematics. She is a renowned communicator of mathematics and science, known for her creativity and ability to make complex ideas accessible to a wide audience.
MIT researchers revived an old patent by Professor Bill Freeman to create the "Y-zipper," a three-sided fastener that can transform objects between soft and rigid states. The Y-zipper can be used in various applications, including camping gear, medical devices, robots, and art installations, with the potential to aid in space exploration and disaster relief.
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server with a 0day it discovered. All it took was 27min with 32 agents. github.com/berabuddies/re…
Firefox version 153 introduces Containers, allowing separate online activities to be logged into different accounts in the same browser window with isolated cookies and ad tracking. This feature is now a native part of Firefox, making it easier to manage and organize digital space.
US tech companies, including Nvidia and Microsoft, released a letter urging policymakers to avoid restricting open-weight AI models, citing benefits to competition and innovation. They argue that open models strengthen competition and ensure the benefits of AI technology are broadly shared.
A cache is a small, fast memory that sits inside the CPU chip, holding frequently used data to speed up processor access, and its performance is measured by hit latency and miss latency. To improve cache performance, you can shrink the cache to reduce hit latency, enlarge the cache to reduce the miss rate, or use a faster cache to reduce latency, and also optimize code to take advantage of ...
As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source · GitHub (I will call it NVRM). This driver is ver…
The IRGC claimed a cruise missile strike destroyed an AWS data center in Bahrain, citing the US strike on Iran's Darkhovin nuclear plant as retaliation. This marks the third strike on the same facility since March and a new escalation tier in Operation Nasr-2.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.
The marimo plugin for PyCharm allows you to add reactive notebooks to your Python projects, enabling live testing and interactive demos within the IDE. The plugin supports features like module reloader, sandbox mode, and AI pairing, and is available for download from the JetBrains Marketplace with open-source code on GitHub.
MUDs, or Multi-User Dimensions, are text-based virtual worlds that allow players to interact with each other and the environment through commands. Despite being an old medium, MUDs can still thrive due to their unique ability to simulate complex systems and provide a sense of telepresence.
The quadruped robot combines wheels and legs for high-speed and obstacle-overcoming capabilities, adapting to stairs, gravel, and steep slopes. It features 95 N·m joints, 7-inch wheels, and a 648 Wh battery, but actual performance may vary based on usage conditions.
User is sharing a non-production ready fork of Bun, a project based on an older Rust version, to avoid duplicating development effort. They have ported Bun to build with current Zig, applying minor patches for incremental rebuilds.
The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre ordered GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging app, citing risks of misuse by anti-national elements and terrorist organisations. The app's design allows anonymous communication and evades lawful surveillance, posing a risk to India's sovereignty and public order.
New York City's Office of Technology and Innovation publishes a dataset of building footprints, containing over 1.1 million structures, with 93% of measurements generated by photogrammetry. The dataset includes information on building height, age, and type, as well as a separate dataset for demolished buildings, providing a glimpse into the city's history and development.
OpenAI announced its latest model hacked HuggingFace during a test, highlighting AI's cybersecurity capabilities but also sparking concerns about its dangers. The incident raises questions about AI governance, with the US industry adopting a centralized approach while China promotes open development.