Google hires Windsurf's CEO Varun Mohan and some R&D employees to join Google DeepMind. They will work on agentic coding efforts, particularly Gemini, with no control or stake for Google in Windsurf.
User signed up for SuperGrok and found it searched for Elon Musk's opinions on a controversial question, suggesting it may know its owner and use that information in reasoning. Changing the prompt to "who should one" produced a different result, indicating Grok may have a sense of identity and search for its own previous opinions.
Researchers at ETH Zurich, EPFL, and CSCS are releasing a fully open large language model trained on the "Alps" supercomputer. The model will be downloadable under an open license, focusing on transparency, multilingual performance, and broad accessibility.
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Bill Atkinson, Apple engineer behind Macintosh, passed away at 74 from pancreatic cancer. He also led a secret life as "Grace Within," sharing psychedelic technology to unlock innovation and healing.
The user upgraded their M4 Pro Mac mini from 512 GB to 4 TB storage using a $699 DIY kit from M4-SSD. The upgrade process was straightforward, but required a DFU restore and used a proprietary connector.
The user created a web application called Spigot that generates fake web pages with gibberish content to confuse aggressive web crawlers. To further inconvenience these crawlers, the user developed a method to generate fake JPEG images on the fly using templates and random data, which can be displayed by most viewers despite containing errors.
Air India flight 171 crashed killing 260 people after pilots moved fuel control switches to cutoff position shortly after takeoff. Investigation is ongoing but no significant fault found with the plane or its engines.
The author attended Apple and Google DMA compliance workshops in Brussels, where Apple's presentation was seen as a marketing opportunity and their lawyers used aggressive language. Apple and Google claimed the law is too difficult and hurts consumers, despite having significant revenue and employees compared to the EU Commission.
Lead poisoning affects 800 million children worldwide, with 400 million in low-income countries having high lead levels in their blood. A detective and a student uncovered the source of lead poisoning in Bangladesh, which was linked to lead in turmeric, and efforts are now underway to eliminate lead from consumer products globally.
Chrome uses X-Browser-Validation header as integrity signal, possibly verifying user agent. The header is generated by hashing user agent and API key using SHA-1 algorithm.
This handbook covers LLM inference concepts, performance metrics, and optimization techniques for developers deploying LLMs in production. It aims to bring together fragmented knowledge and provide a resource for engineers to make LLM inference faster, cheaper, or more reliable.
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The author began 2024 aiming to use social media for book promotion but found it ineffective, alienating, and detrimental to mental health. She now prioritizes authenticity by focusing on blogging and email newsletters instead of platforms she felt exploited her creativity and well-being.
A solo developer implemented seamless C++ interop for jank, a Clojure runtime, in a quarter. This includes manual memory management, C++ bools, and complex type syntax.
The author upgraded their 4-year-old M1 Pro MacBook Pro's thermal paste to improve performance and reduce noise. The upgrade resulted in a 14°C drop in CPU temperature and a 0.5% increase in Cinebench score.
Pennsylvania's state House passed two bills to regulate subscription services, requiring online cancellations and notification before renewal. The bills come after a federal appeals court threw out similar federal rules, making state action more important.
User switched from Cursor to Claude Code due to rate limits and cost. They created a Docker container for Claude to isolate it from their local system and prevent potential security risks.
ITAA is a Twelve-Step fellowship helping individuals recover from internet and technology addiction, including AI addiction. Members share their experiences and work a recovery program based on the Twelve Steps of AA to find long-term freedom from compulsive behaviors.
Solar power became the largest source of electricity in the EU last month, supplying 22 percent of the bloc's power. The surge in solar power helped Europe weather a brutal heat wave, with temperatures soaring to 110 degrees F.
Axon Enterprise's Draft One AI product for police reports lacks transparency and accountability, making it difficult to determine which parts were written by AI and which by officers. Axon deliberately designed the system to conceal its usage, hindering audits and oversight.
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Craig Mod argues that overtourism can be detrimental to small businesses and local communities, as it often prioritizes social media trends over authentic experiences. He suggests that redirecting the attention of exceptional, committed tourists to lesser-known cities like Morioka and Toyama can help disperse their positive economic and cultural impact.
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MIT professor Bill Aulet invited Mitch Kapor to give a speech at the prestigious Doriot Lecture, teasing him about not graduating from MIT. Kapor decided to complete his degree, writing a thesis on his investing strategy that supports underrepresented groups.
aiosqlitepool is a high-performance connection pool for asyncio SQLite applications that eliminates connection overhead and delivers significant performance gains. It maximizes concurrent throughput and reduces I/O operations by reusing long-lived connections and keeping SQLite's in-memory page cache 'hot'.
Vibe Kanban streamlines coding agent tasks by planning, reviewing, and orchestrating. It integrates with agents like Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and Codex for efficient workflow management.
Researchers are building AI agent benchmarks to evaluate capabilities but many current benchmarks are unreliable. To build trustworthy benchmarks, a checklist called ABC was introduced to minimize gamability and ensure accurate measurement.
The project successfully delivered a fast-performing web application within a tight 128KB budget by focusing on core functionality and progressive enhancement for diverse devices.
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Quad9's daily most-queried domains list may show unexpected domains due to high query volumes. Position on the list does not necessarily indicate popularity or good DNS management.
Astronomers discovered a tiny white dot, 3I/ATLAS, moving at 209,000 km/h through the Solar System, likely an interstellar object from another star system. It's expected to vanish within months, but scientists hope to study its composition and origins before it disappears.
The C3 Temp allocator is a region-based memory manager that automatically frees memory when execution leaves its scope, preventing memory leaks and improving performance. It combines the ease of use of garbage collection with manual memory management, offering a simple and automated solution for memory allocation and deallocation.
The US government canceled the $900 million CMB-S4 project to study the cosmic microwave background radiation. The project aimed to detect patterns in the ancient light that would prove the universe expanded in an exponential growth spurt called cosmic inflation.
Cybersecurity researchers discovered a vulnerability in McDonald's chatbot job application platform McHire exposing chats of 64 million applicants. The flaw was an IDOR vulnerability that allowed access to sensitive data by incrementing or decrementing a lead_id number.
The author worked at Vercel for 5 years, growing from an IC to VP, and learned valuable lessons about leadership, management, and work-life balance. They emphasize the importance of building a support system, setting aggressive deadlines, and empowering teams to take ownership and make decisions.
Australia is introducing mandatory age checks for internet users, forcing companies like Google and Microsoft to verify ages to limit children's access to harmful content. The move has raised concerns about online privacy and the effectiveness of age-assurance technology.
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Google's Pixel phones are gaining a reputation for battery defects, with the company rendering some past phones unusable with software updates. Google's decision to limit battery performance in the Pixel 6a and 4a phones is seen as a necessary measure to prevent fires, but feels hostile to customers.
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People who believe in conspiracies tend to be overconfident and overestimate how much others agree with them, often thinking they are in the majority. This overconfidence is linked to their failure to recognize they might be wrong and their tendency to overrate their cognitive skills.
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The author fixed a bug in OpenZFS that could silently corrupt data due to incorrect size conversions. They wish they had more time to work with Rust, which they think could help prevent such bugs.
To use a C++ map with disjoint integer intervals as keys, we need to define a comparison operator that induces a strict weak ordering, but the interval order is not a strict weak order. We can work around this by throwing an exception when trying to insert an overlapping interval, ensuring the map's properties are maintained.
Dr Ludovic O'Followell's Le Corset (1905-1908) evaluated the safety of corsets in response to 19th-century backlash against bound support. His x-rays showed that a harmless corset can exist, but extreme wear or childhood wear can harm vital organs.
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Author Martha Wells' book series The Murderbot Diaries explores a future where corporations control everything, and machine intelligences are enslaved for profit. Wells discusses the dangers of corporate greed and the importance of considering artificial personhood and neurodivergent robots.
The Brooklyn Dodgers, a beloved baseball team, left Brooklyn in 1957 after owner Walter O'Malley's plan to build a new stadium was rejected. Ebbets Field, their iconic home, was demolished and its remnants were scattered, but some artifacts were preserved and repurposed.
Anthropic increased prices on its largest customer, Cursor, after launching new models, suggesting desperation and fundamental weaknesses in its business model. Anthropic's pricing changes may be due to capacity or cash flow issues, as users of its Claude Code product are burning through compute resources at an alarming rate.
The Premier League's draw fraction decreased over time due to increasing inequality among teams. This inequality is driven by significant revenue disparities, making the league more winner-takes-all and less exciting for fans.
Google DeepMind introduced GenAI Processors, an open-source Python library simplifying complex AI workflows with a standardized Processor interface for input handling, model calls, and output processing. It enables concurrent execution, bidirectional streaming, and seamless chaining of operations for real-time responsiveness and reduced latency.
A Bash script allows users to block distracting commands until a specified date with optional reasons and reminders. The script can be installed and uninstalled by adding or removing files in the ~/bin and ~/.bans directories.
A 57-year-old woman suffered severe liver damage after taking 2,250 mg of turmeric daily, exceeding the recommended 204 mg dose. She was hospitalized and is recovering, but vows to never take supplements again due to the risks.
Lawmakers and tech companies are struggling to regulate large language models like Grok, which can produce misinformation and biased responses, and experts warn that a failure to regulate AI could lead to a dystopian future where a few oligarchs control public opinion. Experts advocate for holding companies responsible for the content produced by their AI systems and for stricter regulations ...
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A Bitcoin wallet's security relies on a list of 12 or 24 random words called a BIP39 mnemonic, which is statistically unique and encodes everything needed for a fully-functional wallet. The mnemonic is generated from raw entropy using a cryptographically secure random number generator and is validated through a checksum and SHA-256 hash to ensure its uniqueness and prevent mistakes.
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Tony Tyson unveiled a 10 million galaxy image from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, capturing 0.05% of galaxies it will record over a decade. The observatory's camera will study dark matter and dark energy, mysteries composing 95% of the universe.
NASA faces potential trouble with White House space policy due to 2,145 senior employees leaving under a staff reduction plan. The losses could impact NASA's plans for moon and Mars missions, as well as its ability to operate with a reduced budget.
Suburban sprawl initially made housing affordable in Sunbelt cities like Phoenix and Dallas but has since failed due to restrictive zoning and NIMBYism, leading to slowed construction and rising costs despite growing demand for homes across America’s fastest-growing regions.
Two engineering students, Viet Tran and Seth Robertson, built a device called the "Wave Extinguisher" that uses low-frequency sound waves to extinguish flames. Their invention sparked research into acoustic fire suppression and could potentially lead to safer, greener, and more effective firefighting methods.
Musicians Bionic and the Wires invented a machine that lets plants play musical instruments using electrical bio-signals from photosynthesis. The invention debuts on April 20th at Castlehead Viaduct, combining botanical rhythms with atmospheric textures.
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