OpenAI models are supported by the Apache 2.0 license, allowing free use and customization without copyleft restrictions. They undergo thorough safety training and evaluation to keep users safe.
Google DeepMind developed Genie 3, a world model that generates dynamic worlds in real-time at 24 frames per second. Genie 3 allows users to interact with the world and achieve complex goals, but has limitations such as a limited action space and inaccurate real-world location simulation.
uBOL is a reliable content blocker based on uBlock Origin's default filterset, using browser resources for filtering. It's declarative, consuming no CPU/memory while blocking content, only requiring a service worker for popup interactions.
The author experienced anxiety about being left behind in the field of software engineering due to claims of AI's 10-100x productivity gains. However, after trying AI coding tools, they found that AI's best use case is writing one-off scripts and that productivity gains are often exaggerated.
Claude Opus 4.1 is released with improved agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning, available to paid users and on various platforms. It advances state-of-the-art coding performance to 74.5% and improves research and data analysis skills.
Frigate is an open source NVR using local AI object detection for real-time analysis. It integrates with Home Assistant and other systems for precise location-based notifications.
US President Trump has proposed two conditions for Taiwan to reduce tariffs: TSMC must invest $400 billion in the US and buy a stake in Intel. TSMC is unlikely to agree due to Intel's financial struggles and the proposal's high financial burden.
PHP 8.5 will introduce the pipe operator (|>) allowing for chained function calls in a single expression. This feature has huge potential and is similar to Unix/Linux command line pipes.
Ollama Turbo offloads large model processing from local computers to datacenter-grade hardware for faster performance. It includes hourly and daily limits with upcoming usage-based pricing for metered model consumption.
Researchers found that Ozempic, a diabetes drug, made participants 3.1 years biologically younger after 32 weeks. The anti-aging effects were seen in several organs and systems, with the most dramatic improvements in the inflammatory system and brain.
Researchers found evidence of a complex system involving paper mills, publishers, and brokers that churns out fake scientific publications. The number of fake papers is increasing at a rate far greater than the scientific literature, posing risks to fields like medical science.
OpenAI's gpt-oss model requires the harmony response format for correct usage. The format enables output to multiple channels and tool calling, and is supported by the openai_harmony library in Python.
The author is unhappy with Google's new AI-driven search results and has switched to Kagi, a paid search engine that offers a user-friendly experience and customizable results. Kagi's features include prioritizing or excluding specific websites, adjusting search settings globally, and a Privacy Pass option for secure searches.
Quickshell is a toolkit for building status bars, widgets, lockscreens, and other desktop components using QtQuick. It can be used alongside your wayland compositor or window manager to build a complete desktop environment. More information
A colleague helped identify a base64 encoded JSON file by noticing patterns like "ey" for curly brackets and "LS" for TLS certificates. This trick can be used to spot base64 encoded files without decoding them.
Microsoft reached a $4 trillion valuation, largely driven by AI investment, but experts warn of a potential bubble. Professors and students are organizing against AI's encroachment in higher education, citing concerns over surveillance, job loss, and academic freedom.
Apache ECharts 6.0 is released with 12 major upgrades, including a new default theme, dynamic theme switching, and expanded data expression capabilities. It offers improved performance, flexibility, and customization options for data visualization, empowering developers to create stunning data stories.
This book teaches C programming and building a custom language in a few lines of code. It's free online or available for purchase in print or e-book formats.
Anthropic's credits expire after a year, creating accounting and legal issues. Providers should clearly disclose expiration dates to avoid confusion and potential financial trouble.
The FCC has failed to enforce Section 706 of the Telecom Act, allowing telecom monopolies to dominate the market and neglect affordable and reliable broadband access. This has resulted in a highly consolidated and uncompetitive US telecom sector, with the FCC's inaction exacerbating the problem under the Trump administration.
TSMC fired employees who tried to steal trade secrets about its 2-nanometer chip process. The company is taking legal action and may prosecute the former employees for potential national security implications.
User is experiencing slow GitHub UI, particularly with tab switching and diff view. They suspect performance issues are related to client-side routing and rendering thousands of DOM nodes.
Eleven Music is a platform generating studio-grade music from natural language prompts for businesses, creators, and users. It offers cleared commercial use for various media and is available on the website with public API access coming soon.
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Gemini app generates personalized storybooks with custom art and audio in over 45 languages. Users can describe any story, use personal photos and files, and choose from various styles to bring their ideas to life.
PNG read/write times are slow, new lossless codecs like Zstandard and LZ4 offer significant speedups. Adding Zstandard as an option to PNG could improve data processing pipeline efficiency.
The author dislikes LLM-generated text because it lacks human intent and care, making it difficult to understand and trust. This lack of intent is what makes reading AI-generated text "revolting" and exhausting.
Proxmox VE 9.0 is released with a modernized core built on Debian 13, offering improved storage and networking capabilities. It includes features like snapshot support for thick-provisioned LVM shared storage and enhanced SDN capabilities.
OpenAI released two state-of-the-art open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, which deliver strong real-world performance at low cost and are optimized for efficient deployment on consumer hardware. The models were trained using a mix of reinforcement learning and techniques informed by OpenAI's most advanced internal models, and they demonstrate exceptional capabilities in ...
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A new database in California makes 1.5 million pages of police records searchable by the public for the first time. The database, funded by the State of California, contains records from nearly 12,000 cases, including police shootings, and will aid in holding law enforcement accountable.
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Los Alamos scientists use dynamic imaging to study materials and explosive events without detonating actual weapons, informing computational models and analyses. Three key facilities, pRad, DARHT, and Scorpius, enable scientists to capture detailed images and data about materials under extreme conditions.
We initiated a database migration to drop a column, causing 4% error rate in web and API traffic, which was mitigated by ignoring the removed column. A secondary incident occurred in some environments due to delayed update, affecting 0.1% of pull request traffic, prompting additional automation and safeguards.
The arc agi prize winners used diffusion to improve task accuracy. diffusion uses a per-pixel token encoding to unmask tokens it was less sure about - but it still worked well on the task despite the lack of confidence in the model. if you want to get more correct solutions, you need to combine the base model with test-time training, candidate generation, and clever re-ranking. thanks to ...
To find a startup idea, focus on people with unavoidable priorities where current options are insufficient or unworkable, and design your product to fit their needs. Serious founders get firsthand experience by becoming their potential customers, not just relying on discovery interviews or whiteboarding.
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Itch.io is seeking new payment processing partners to handle NSFW games after delisting many due to content restrictions. They're also refining their content classification and age-gating policies.
Marimo is a new open-source Python notebook that represents notebooks as dataflow graphs, blending interactive computing with reproducibility and reusability. It's designed for data work and AI, offering reactive execution, data querying, and composition.
The sparcstation 1+ was unable to stop returning "illegal instruction" errors. a fuse was found near the keyboard port, and the computer booted up ok - but no hard drives were in it yet. this is the first time i’ve used e-waste to make linux work on spartan x86 pcs despite the faulty hard drive! if only termination power had
Sea stars have a kaleidoscopic array of shapes and colors. their collapse is reshaping coastal waters in severe and disturbing ways - cnn's john defterios looks at the causes and cures for the disease causing their death if not detected early enough. scientists have been sequencing rna from each microbial community and exposed healthy stars to see how they survive and grow. the results ...
A Kyoto University team developed Adriana, a pain-reliever comparable to morphine but without serious side effects. The drug works on a different mechanism and may help resolve the opioid epidemic by providing a safer alternative for pain control.
Backblaze reports on hard drive failure rates, with 321,201 drives under management as of June 30, 2025, and a lower annual failure rate this quarter. The 20TB+ drives show variable failure rates, with the 22TB WDC model performing well, while the 24TB Seagate model has higher failure rates.
The author avoids comments on their site due to negativity in online technical discussions, preferring to focus on sharing experiences and learning from others. They find the photo-sharing site Flickr to be a positive community where people share and appreciate photos without negativity.
Can You Block is a website testing ad-blocker effectiveness with various ad formats. It helps identify blocked or unblocked ads for popular ad networks and blockers like AdBlock and uBlock Origin.
OpenAI released two open-source models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, under Apache 2.0 licenses, achieving near-parity with proprietary models on core reasoning benchmarks.
The author of the JSON gem is deprecating several APIs due to their global behavior and potential security risks, aiming to improve the gem's design and safety. The author recommends using the JSON::Coder API for local JSON generation configuration and provides alternatives for users who need to set options globally.
SimpleW is Web server Library in .NET Core. Powerfully Simple and Blazingly Fast. - stratdev3/SimpleW
Microsoft's MS-DOS versions older than 5.0 had a bug that caused them to hang when booting with more than two hard disks due to a limitation in the INT 13h interface. This bug was fixed by IBM in Summer 1989 with Corrective Service Diskette (CSD) UR27164, which was later included in MS-DOS 5.0.
curl is celebrating its 10,000th day with stories of users' experiences and memories. Users are sharing their favorite curl moments, memories, and how curl has impacted their work, life, or business.
Google will pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids during heat waves. The company will use demand response techniques to reduce power use and avoid brownouts or outages.
SAML Shield secures stacks from vulnerabilities and assertion exploits. It validates assertions in real time and stops malicious ones before hitting application code.
The author explains how their open source SaaS startup, Lago, balances shipping updates quickly while also offering a self-hosted version for customers who need more control. To achieve this, they use a "bridge version" approach, keeping both old and new data schema alive for a version, allowing customers to migrate data correctly before upgrading to the latest version.
The author transformed daily meetings into collaborative sessions by focusing on team goals, supporting each other, and uncovering blockers. They achieved this by keeping updates brief, using Jira filters, and reviewing open pull requests and bugs.
To use stagewise, start your app in dev mode and follow the CLI setup guide for your account. For non-AGPLv3 use cases or contributions, contact or check the CONTRIBUTING.md guide.
The user highly recommends Birthdays.app, a simple app that sends weekly reminders for friends' birthdays. It's a useful single-purpose app that has helped the user stay in touch with friends and family.
The user is attempting to run Doom on a CDTV, an Amiga 500 in a CD player, by bypassing the 68000 CPU and directly accessing the Amiga hardware from a Linux-running Raspberry Pi. They have successfully displayed a recognisable copy of Doom, but still experience graphical glitches due to lack of synchronisation between the Linux code and the Amiga hardware.
Wisconsin's county roads are labeled with letters instead of numbers to keep state and county highways separate for maintenance and repairs. This system has been in place since 1917 and allows counties to designate new highways.
The user investigated various methods for implementing rate limiting using Redis, including fixed windows, sliding log windows, and token buckets, but found that all of these methods have significant drawbacks and are not effective. The user ultimately concluded that the only acceptable solution is to write a Lua script to implement a token bucket, which defeats the purpose of using Redis for ...
The user wants a plain text editor that also allows doodling. They created lines.love, a simple, open-source app that lets users draw lines and shapes using keyboard shortcuts while writing in plain text.
Poltergeist is a universal file watcher that auto-detects projects and rebuilds them on file changes. It supports various languages and build systems, and offers features like smart build prioritization and real-time build output.
Josh Firth, a 9-year-old boy from Australia, suffers from Alice in Wonderland syndrome, a rare disorder that distorts his perception of the world. The condition causes visual distortions, including changes in size and shape of objects and people, and can be triggered by various underlying causes, including infections and migraines.
Researchers used high-resolution photography to revive ancient Siberian tattoos, dating back over 2,000 years, and worked with modern tattoo artists to study the tools and techniques used. The tattoos, including a detailed scene of leopards and tigers hunting deer, are considered a masterpiece and provide a unique window into the past.
A "contrarian friend" is someone who constantly disagrees and corrects you, often in a way that feels dismissive and exhausting. To spot one, look for signs like interrupting your happy moments, fixating on irrelevant details, and a tone that sounds smug rather than supportive.
Nibris is a new approach to drug development that aims to transform the pharmaceutical industry. the company created the largest corporate research organization in the industry in 2001, says daniel saunders, edward mcguire jr. he says this approach may be too clever by half, because it requires funding ten programs to achieve one success - if it's done right, it will fail
GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke warns developers to adapt to AI or risk career obsolescence. His research shows developers who integrate AI into their workflows have higher ambition and shift from code production to management.
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The author predicts Rust, Python, and TypeScript will dominate programming due to AI coding's shift from tribal to fundamentals-based decisions. They favor these languages for their strong fundamentals and ease of use with dependencies.
Mintlify's HTTP response streaming stopped working due to a Cloudflare compression issue that was triggered silently without explicit configuration updates. The problem was solved by disabling compression in Cloudflare, highlighting the need for infrastructure-as-code environments to maintain visibility and control over configuration changes.
A single namespace is problematic because it does not easily lend itself to mixing compiled and interpreted code. some programs may function correctly but suffer an efficiency loss that is greater than the theoretical speed of the compatibility code, says john mccartney jr. he says the status quo for common lisp is not the best choice for many developers today. the future of programming ...
Researchers propose a quantum-classical pipeline combining class-balanced k-means distillation with Vision Transformer embeddings to achieve up to 8.02% accuracy improvements over classical SVMs. This pipeline leverages transformer attention and quantum feature spaces for scalable quantum machine learning.