Chrome now supports JPEG XL image format for better compression and safety. The new feature was developed using Rust to ensure memory safety, resulting in a fast and secure implementation.
A font recreated from Commodore 64 keycaps is available for download, featuring cleaned-up shapes and consistent proportions. The font includes PETSCII symbols and can be used with compatible applications.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discovering a solution to the mystery of homochirality, which is how living organisms can have only one mirror image of molecules despite two variants existing naturally. Their discoveries have enabled chemists to drive chemical reactions that lead to homochirality, crucial ...
We are releasing new mathematical results from an internal frontier model, sharing them in a GitHub repository with protocols for revisions and citations. The goal is to promote scientific transparency and openness while empowering scientists with state-of-the-art capabilities.
Strands Labs has released Strands Decider 2B, a small decision model optimized for fast experimentation and innovation in agentic AI. The model is designed to pick between sets of options and assign simple numerical scores, making it suitable for tasks such as model routing and policy classification.
AstroHelm is a smartphone app that guides users to celestial objects without needing a GoTo mount or proprietary hardware. It continuously plate-solves the sky and provides precise guidance for telescopes, even under heavy light pollution.
The Decisions API evaluates text, images, or both to return typed answers about 10x faster than the Responses API. It provides probability-based answers for conditions, choices, and scores to classify content and prioritize work in applications.
The ESP32-C3 AdBlock project stores domain hashes in flash memory for efficient lookup, reducing RAM usage and increasing performance. The device can be updated over WiFi or OTA, with a dashboard that requires HTTP Basic Auth to prevent unauthorized access.
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EmbeddingGemma 2 is a multimodal model that unifies code, images, video, and audio in a shared embedding space. It achieves leading scores among sub-1B multimodal embedders for its size across benchmarks like MTEB and MAEB while matching or outperforming larger models.
The author discusses the addition of MCP support via Codemode in Pi 1.0, which allows for more complex operations on the harness side without executing tools directly. This enables agents to use internal model APIs and express concurrent operations and basic workflows.
Shaders is a declarative WebGPU API for creating 200+ effects as components, with a design editor that exports the component tree to any framework. It supports React, Vue, Svelte, Solid and JavaScript entries with production-ready TypeScript and optimized performance.
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This article explains how caches work in modern computers, including their impact on program performance. It uses code samples to illustrate various aspects of cache behavior and demonstrates the importance of understanding cache design for optimizing program performance.
Penguin Mail is a fast app that syncs multiple email accounts, including Gmail and Microsoft, with calendar and contact data on your computer. It offers various features like encryption, filters, and scheduling without holding any keys or tracking user data.
Robert Cringely, a well-known computer columnist and author, destroyed his reputation by lying about his failed Kickstarter project Mineserver. He repeatedly made false claims to cover up the project's failure and eventually fabricated a story about launching satellites on F-104 aircraft.
Software engineer in Waterloo, ON. I started with Android apps and now work mostly on full-stack systems and AI agents. I care about making products that make life easier, feel fast, and stay fun to use.
Arcadeia is an open-source, self-hosted media library for managing photos and videos with dynamic video thumbnails. It requires Docker and Docker Compose, with precautions needed for public deployments.
In Rust, one of the most common ways to implement core traits (like Debug, Display, and Clone) is to #[derive(...)] them, e.g.: What I didn't know until recently is that Rust currently emits #[inline] as part of these derivations. This is seemingly not guaranteed, but is implied by example in the reference and can also be seen if one expands the macros. Using the example above, this is ...
openTPU is a learning project that brings auto-arch-tournament lessons to AI accelerators, testing how far agents can design hardware and build chips. It measures performance on various models with real weights on an Inspur YPCB-00338 card.
The paper crane is a symbol of longevity and fortune in Japan, believed to grant wishes when folded 1,000 times. Origami has been practiced for centuries, with its origins unknown, but it remains a popular art form that teaches math and language skills.
Hackers have successfully jailbroken the PS5, allowing users to install emulators and run various games on older firmware versions. This development has led to a surge in console sales and may prompt Sony to accelerate its transition to the PS6.
Software engineers are adapting to an AI revolution, with some fearing job extinction and others seeing it as a change. Engineers must learn new skills to work effectively with AI agents while maintaining their own expertise.
nanoMuse is an open-source personal agent that runs on various devices, remembering users and keeping working while the app is closed. It offers a free allowance of model use on the community relay, with options for self-hosting or using existing providers like ChatGPT.
The author reminisces about their 1993 homebrew computer with a Z280 processor, which they used to write a serial terminal program and interface with a Hayes modem. They also share details about the BBS systems they interacted with, including La Cueva BBS and Catarsys.
A 250kg German bomb was discovered floating on a dredger in Exmouth Marina, Devon, and two teams worked to defuse it. The bomb had been hidden for 80 years after being dropped during WWII, and its location made it difficult to access.
Treg is an open-source tool registry that allows users to discover, register, and use various tools and services without holding provider keys or credentials. It provides a curated catalog of thousands of endpoints across many providers for tasks such as SEO, backlinks, social media enrichment, ads management, and more.
Most developers face job insecurity, burnout, and discrimination due to AI and personal factors. The industry is uncertain, but change also brings possibility for growth and excitement among developers.
Attackers hijacked top-level domains .gh, .sl, and .as to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other organizations. Google updated Chrome to block unauthorized certificates and worked with certificate authorities to revoke them.
The author suggests a more general API for random choices, allowing users to specify the probability distribution directly, rather than relying on low-level functions like random_u64(). This approach can help avoid common pitfalls and make code easier to reason about.