Oracle laid off 20,000-30,000 employees, roughly 18% of its workforce, in a single email with no advance notice. The cuts are tied to Oracle's aggressive expansion into AI infrastructure, freeing up $8-10 billion in cash flow.
Google's browser warns of a "Suspicious Download" for yt-dlp, a tool to download files from Google's servers. This is seen as browser monopoly abuse and misleading people, as Chrome also downloads files from various servers.
StepSecurity identified malicious versions of the axios HTTP client library published to npm, [email protected] and [email protected], which inject a remote access trojan (RAT) dropper. Developers who installed these versions should rotate all secrets and credentials, check network logs, and downgrade to safe versions, and StepSecurity provides end-to-end npm supply chain security across three pillars: ...
SolveSpace has a web version that runs in the browser with some speed penalty and bugs. It's experimental and can be hosted locally like static web content.
GitHub and Lettermatic collaborated to create Monaspace, a superfamily of five interchangeable typefaces for code editors. Monaspace offers high personalization and accessibility features, including Texture Healing, which improves legibility in monospace typefaces.
Ollama now runs faster on Apple silicon with MLX framework, leveraging GPU Neural Accelerators for speedup. Ollama 0.19 sees 1851 token/s prefill and 134 token/s decode with improved memory efficiency and model accuracy.
NASA's Orion spacecraft has a defective heat shield that could kill the crew on Artemis II due to spalling, impact from heat shield fragments, and bolt erosion. Despite this, NASA is planning to fly the mission with a crew, citing a change in the re-entry trajectory and a new heat shield design for future missions.
Combinators are functions that refer to their arguments without modifying them. They are often represented by bird names in APL, such as Kestrel and Cardinal.
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Researchers analyzed audio recordings from the Milgram experiment and found that obedient participants broke the rules of the study most of the time, often ignoring the scientific procedure. This suggests that the laboratory environment was one of unauthorized violence, rather than a legitimate scientific study.
Ruby Central's Open Source Committee faced a crisis in September 2025 known as the "RubyGems Fracture" due to a poorly communicated process to offboard two engineers, André Arko and Samuel Giddens, from the RubyGems.org service. The incident led to the removal of paid contributors and highlighted the need for better policies, procedures, and communication in managing access and offboarding in ...
EU countries consider alternatives to Hungary if Orbán wins, while progressive voters abandon center-left parties in Europe. Transatlantic tensions rise as the US rejects a Russian proposal, affecting Italy's leader and other European nations.
Loreline is a narrative language that uses Haxe for transpilation to multiple platforms, allowing it to run everywhere. It has a lexer, parser, and interpreter that transform source text into executable code, with a focus on performance and simplicity.
The author discussed major works published by authors over 85, citing Sophocles' Philoctetes and Goethe's Faust, but found few notable works by authors over 80. A list of notable works by authors over 65 includes V. Hugo's Ninety-three, T. Mann's Doctor Faustus, and J. Saramago's Blindness.
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I grew up playing games that don’t exist anymore. I collected buttercup petals and tailored clothes in the whimsical Pixie Hollow; I roller skated and applied makeup in the glamorous shopathon Bratz: Rock Angelz; I cared for a beautiful mare in the dreamy Bella Sara. These magical little worlds I delighted in prancing through are now lost to time, preserved only by fond memories. In a literal ...
The US government's mobile apps, including the White House app, request excessive permissions and embed trackers, violating users' privacy. These apps, part of a surveillance apparatus, collect sensitive data that feeds into ICE raids and warrantless location tracking.
A CLAUDE.md file reduces Claude output verbosity by ~63% without code changes, targeting sycophancy, verbosity, and formatting noise. It's most beneficial for high-output use cases, and users can customize it to target specific failure modes and compose multiple files for different project types.
I was recently diagnosed with Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis after experiencing numbness and tingling in my arm and torso. I'm starting treatment to manage symptoms and slow disease progression.
TimesFM is a pretrained time-series model by Google Research for forecasting. It can be installed via pip and used for point and quantile forecasting.
LLMs can undermine authenticity and credibility by generating writing that lacks thought and understanding. Effective writing requires human thoughtfulness and effort to establish credibility and increase understanding.
CTEs are now inlined by default in PostgreSQL 12, allowing the planner to apply normal optimisations. Materialization is used when a CTE is referenced multiple times or contains side effects.
GitHub removed Copilot's ability to insert ads into pull requests after backlash from developers. The feature was disabled after users complained of unwanted ads in their pull requests.
Ransomware groups posted 7,655 victim claims to public leak sites from March 2025 to March 2026, with Qilin being the most active group posting 1,179 claims across 74 countries. The top 5 groups accounted for 40% of the claims, and the remaining 124 groups collectively posted 4,628 claims, suggesting that disrupting any single group is unlikely to reduce the overall total significantly.
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RamAIn builds AI agents for enterprise work, automating repetitive tasks 10x faster and more reliably than humans. We're hiring a Founding AI/ML researcher to design and deploy agents that reason, plan, and execute complex workflows autonomously.
A study of 252 adult visitors to the Montreal Insectarium found that 44% of participants were open to eating insects, with men more willing than women to consume various insect-based foods. Demographic differences, especially gender and education, shape openness to entomophagy more strongly than age alone.
User wants to create a homebrew router using a Linux-powered device, such as a mini-PC, to bypass a US policy banning new consumer router imports.
Physicists are struggling to understand the quantum world in an expanding universe, particularly in de Sitter space where space expands exponentially. They are trying to learn from black holes to make sense of quantum mechanics in de Sitter space.
Honda's Prototype 2 (P2) was a humanoid robot developed in 1996 that could walk and climb stairs without falling. It was the first autonomous robot to achieve this feat and paved the way for future humanoid robots.