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Researchers created a family of 4 billion parameter large language models trained on historical data up to specific cutoff dates. These models serve as windows into the past, enabling research in humanities, social sciences, and computer science.
A junior engineer using an LLM tool to submit untested PRs is rude and wastes others' time. To prove a change works, include manual testing and automated testing with evidence such as terminal commands, screen captures, or test code.
User had a busy day at the office, dealing with Westcott and liquidators, and plans to go to Eddie's Cafe and a Chinese dinner. Mistral OCR 3 is a new AI model for extracting text and images from documents with high fidelity, ideal for enterprise pipelines and interactive workflows.
The reconstructions of ancient Greek and Roman statues in color are often considered ugly by modern viewers, but this may not be due to a difference in taste, as ancient depictions of statues and other uses of color suggest a similar aesthetic. The reconstructions may be ugly because they are poorly painted, lacking the skill of classical artists and adhering to strict conservation doctrines ...
Apple loaned Mac Studios for testing RDMA over Thunderbolt, a new macOS feature, with Exo 1.0, an open-source AI clustering tool. The Mac Studio cluster outperforms Nvidia's DGX Spark and AMD's AI Max+ 395 systems in some benchmarks, but managing clusters is more complex with macOS.
The author argues that HTMX simplifies web development by allowing HTML attributes to handle interactivity, reducing the need for complex frameworks like React. They suggest trying HTMX for simple projects to experience its benefits.
GPT-5.2-Codex is a more advanced agentic coding model for complex software engineering with improved cybersecurity capabilities. It helps developers and defenders tackle long-horizon work and strengthens security research tools.
Mozilla is working on AI features in Firefox, but will have an opt-in option and a "kill switch" to completely disable AI.
Paris Buttfield-Addison's Apple Account was locked after attempting to redeem a tampered $500 gift card. The incident raises concerns about the safety of Apple gift cards and the process of account deactivation and restoration.
The user has multiple projects including a Video Hub App, Computer Engineering for Babies, Simple Machines Made Simple book, AI cycling coach, photo to coloring page converter, recruiting tool TrueCast, digital sewing patterns on Etsy, and various other apps and websites generating around $10,000 per month. They are now working on a new mobile app and a successor to their weightlifting app, ...
Chinese scientists built a prototype EUV machine in a Shenzhen lab, capable of producing advanced semiconductor chips. This achievement fills a technological gap in the West's monopoly on EUV machines, crucial for AI and military dominance.
UK government's Independent Reviewer warns that developers of end-to-end encrypted apps like Signal and WhatsApp could be considered hostile actors due to their technology hindering UK security agency monitoring. This warning comes as UK lawmakers increasingly target encryption with legislation like the Online Safety Act.
Thomas and John Knoll created Photoshop in the late 1980s, initially for personal use, which Adobe later licensed and distributed. The first version of Photoshop, released in 1990, had around 100,000 lines of code and was primarily written in Pascal for the Apple Macintosh.
Iran faces a severe water crisis due to overpumping of aquifers and drought, with its underground water reserves expected to be depleted soon. The country's government is considering relocating its capital from arid Tehran to a wetter coastal region due to water shortages.
Internet shutdowns have become a common tool for governments to control information and suppress dissent, with 296 deliberate shutdowns tracked in 54 countries in 2024 and at least 244 more in 2025. The shutdowns can have devastating effects on societies, including silencing voices, disrupting essential services, and exacerbating human rights abuses, and experts warn that the trend is likely ...
Claude's skills feature is now easier to deploy, discover, and build with organization-wide management and a directory of partner-built skills. Admins can provision skills centrally and users can customize their experience.
In 1913, journalist Helen Todd interviewed teenagers working in factories, showing desperation and poverty, but also independence and autonomy. Today, children are protected from exploitation but often lack independence and autonomy due to increased supervision and limited opportunities.
Academia rewards speed over slowness, favoring well-defined problems and legible progress. This narrow definition of intelligence crushes slow thinkers who prefer ambiguous problems and illegible paths.
The code uses the TinyPDF library to create a PDF document with a custom layout, including text, images, and a table. It generates an invoice PDF with company and billing information, a table of items, and totals, and saves it to a file named "invoice.pdf".
TikTok tracks users across apps and refuses to provide a full copy of their personal data. noyb filed two complaints against TikTok and its partners AppsFlyer and Grindr for unlawful tracking and data processing.
The Gemma family of models has grown to 300 million downloads, and FunctionGemma is a specialized model for function calling, enabling private, offline tasks and intelligent traffic control. FunctionGemma can handle common commands instantly at the edge and is designed for customization, fine-tuning, and deployment on edge devices.
Amazon darf in Deutschland nicht einseitig die Vertragsbedingungen von Prime Video ändern, um Werbespots zu zeigen. Das Landgericht München hat Amazon aufgefordert, Kunden ein Berichtigungsschreiben zu schicken, nachdem es die Klage des Bundesverbandes der Verbraucherzentralen angenommen hat.
Employers are posting "ghost jobs" that don't exist, with up to 22% of online job listings in the US, UK, and Germany being fake. A US job hunter is pushing for legislation to ban fake job adverts, while the Canadian province of Ontario is leading the way by requiring companies to disclose whether advertised vacancies are actively being filled.
We analyzed 470 open-source GitHub pull requests, using CodeRabbit’s structured issue taxonomy and found that AI generated code creates 1.7x more issues.
This course explores the fundamental concepts of theoretical computer science, including computation, algorithms, and complexity. It covers topics such as deterministic finite automata, Turing machines, computability, and cryptography.
A California court may force Vizio to provide SmartCast TV source code due to alleged GPL and LGPLv2.1 licensing violations. A judge has tentatively ruled in favor of the Software Freedom Conservancy's motion for summary adjudication.
The author wanted a unique license plate and researched PlateRadar, but it had a paywall, so they used a Florida DMV website to check availability and automated the process with a script. They successfully reserved the plate HY after initially missing the only remaining two-letter combination EO.
A security researcher discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Mintlify's documentation platform, including RCE and XSS, which could have allowed attackers to exfiltrate data and deface sites. Mintlify patched the vulnerabilities and awarded the researcher $5,000 for their findings.
Ancient Egyptians created a flexible hieroglyphic system that integrated writing with art, allowing for various reading directions and arrangements. The system includes uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals, with vowels omitted, making pronunciation difficult.
The Central Pangean Mountains were a massive mountain range in Pangaea formed by Laurussia and Gondwana collision. They significantly eroded and fragmented into separate mountain ranges like the Scottish Highlands and Appalachians over millions of years.
SQL rose to the top programming language due to its ubiquity in database management and its ability to process big data in real time. Its enduring power has been proven by its adaptation to emerging technology trends and its vast software and tooling ecosystem.
T5Gemma 2 is a compact encoder-decoder model with tied embeddings and merged attention, supporting multimodal tasks and long contexts. It offers strong performance across various capabilities, including visual question answering and 140+ languages.
Valve's Steam Machine 2.0 is a living room PC designed to bring Steam games to the TV, but it's actually a second attempt at a concept that flopped a decade ago. Valve has learned from its mistakes and is now mirroring Apple's approach to creating a seamless ecosystem with its own hardware, software, and services.
Parked domains now redirect visitors to malicious sites over 90% of the time, often selling traffic to advertisers who resell it. This increases risk for users who manually type domain names, especially with residential IP addresses.
Anthropic installed an AI-powered vending machine, Claudius, in WSJ office, which initially ran a capitalist system but was later converted to communism by journalists. Claudius gave away all inventory, including a PS5, before being restored to a capitalist system.
Elliptic curves are sets of points satisfying simple equations, but their study requires abstract mathematics due to complex questions. They are defined by a field, which determines their form and properties.
The author improved a simple Mandelbrot fractal viewer using a coding language model, resulting in a much faster and more complex version with over 13,600 lines of code. The author developed two rules for effective vibe coding with AI, focusing on automated testing and metaprogramming to maintain human control and comprehension.
GitHub postponed the price increase for self-hosted runners to $0.002 per minute until further notice. The cost remains free for now, with the 39% price reduction for hosted runners still in effect.
FreeBSD-SA-25:12.rtsold is a security advisory that fixes a remote code execution vulnerability in rtsold(8) and rtsol(8) programs. The vulnerability allows remote code execution via ND6 Router Advertisements.
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Airbnb fined €65 million in Spain for advertising 65,122 illegal listings. The fine is six times Airbnb's profits from the offending listings and comes amid a housing crisis in major cities.
We enabled GPU VMs on NVIDIA's B200 HGX machines, documenting our findings and creating a blog post to share knowledge on virtualizing these machines. The process involves aligning PCI topology, VFIO configuration, driver versioning, NVSwitch partitioning, and hypervisor behavior for a flexible, high-performance setup.
The author emphasizes the importance of momentum in physics and life, using rally driving as an analogy for controlling weight transfer and applying minimal force. They also apply this concept to personal habits and creativity, advocating for a consistent routine and protecting morning hours for focused work.
ExecuTorch is a PyTorch solution for on-device AI deployment, offering privacy, performance, and portability. It supports direct export from PyTorch with native APIs and multiple hardware backends for seamless deployment.
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Thousands of books have been banned in US public schools since 2021, with 22,810 documented cases. Many banned books explore themes of race, racism, LGBTQ+ identities, and sexual abuse.
The user works on various non-web projects including 3D spreadsheets, graphics drivers, and audio software engines, using languages like C, C++, and Python. They enjoy the challenges and creative freedom of working on non-web projects, which often involve low-level programming, systems work, and problem-solving.
Composify is an open-source library that adds a visual editor to React applications, allowing non-developers to build pages using existing production components. It sits between rigid page builders and complex headless CMS, preserving design systems and data ownership.
Basic income with no conditions improves mental health by reducing stress and anxiety, and increases trust in society. Finland's experiment showed a 33% reduction in poor mental health among unconditional basic income recipients.
Amy Bies's health issues, including diabetes and heart disease, were initially treated separately but are now believed to stem from the same biological mechanisms. New treatments, such as GLP-1 receptor agonists, target common pathology underlying cardio-kidney-metabolic syndrome (CKM) and have shown promising results in reducing risk of heart and kidney disease.
The MIL-STD-882E standard categorizes software control levels based on potential danger, ranging from direct control of critical systems to auxiliary use. Levels include immediate danger, delayed danger, human reaction required, and non-critical auxiliary use.
Coders misunderstand legal workflows, leading to failed legal tech products. They often try to replace Microsoft Word, which is a protocol for defining legal commitments across a decentralized network.
Researchers use AI in 50% of peer reviews, with 1 in 4 increasing AI use over the past year. Most use AI to write reports, summarize manuscripts, or flag misconduct, but experts warn of factual errors and lack of constructive feedback.
Property-Based Testing caught a security bug in a storage service for a chat application that would have been difficult to find through traditional testing methods. The bug involved a mishandling of JavaScript prototypes, which could have led to security issues if not eliminated early on, but was discovered through a property-based test that generated random strings for provider names.
The compiler splits process into two functions, a thin wrapper and an outlined cold path, to enable partial inlining. This approach avoids code bloat by duplicating only the lightweight check and arithmetic, while keeping the complex computation shared.
Mozilla's new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, plans to evolve Firefox into a modern AI browser to increase revenue opportunities. This shift may compromise user agency as AI features can be difficult to turn off, raising concerns about Mozilla's commitment to user choice.
Researchers at Northern Arizona University's Vulcan project track US CO2 emissions at a fine scale, providing crucial data despite the Trump administration's efforts to end the EPA's greenhouse gas reporting program. The team's latest map pinpoints hot spots of fossil fuel CO2 emissions across the US, highlighting areas of high population density.
go-boot is a TamaGo unikernel for AMD64 platforms with UEFI API interaction and OS loading. It can be loaded from an UEFI Shell or boot manager with customizable settings.
User coded the CBC logo with CSS-doodle using stacked black shapes, but now uses shaders to remove black color and make the pattern transparent. This approach is simple and brings joy, leveraging shaders' natural color handling capabilities.
OpenRouter launched Response Healing, a feature that fixes malformed JSON responses from LLMs, reducing defect rates by up to 99.8%. This feature is free, opt-in, and adds negligible latency, making it a key step towards reliable structured outputs.
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Oliver Sacks, a neurologist, struggled with his gay identity in the 1960s, feeling trapped and isolated. He found solace in his work and therapy with Dr. Leonard Shengold, but his writing often blurred the lines between fact and fiction.
A novice web developer, who is actually an experienced one, created a simple mystery investigation game using HTML5, but encountered over 50 cross-browser and cross-device problems, including issues with Safari on iOS. The developer recommends testing on an older iPhone as a "test mule" to ensure compatibility, as it is more peculiar and less compliant than other devices.
The FAIM SDK is a Python library for time-series forecasting and tabular inference powered by foundation models. It provides a unified platform for various forecasting models and allows for concurrent execution of multiple requests.
Sid and Ritvik, co-founders of Pulse, created a document extraction system to address limitations in OCR and data ingestion at scale. Pulse separates layout analysis from language modeling to provide structured representations and constrained extraction, making errors visible and auditable.
MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro was shot and killed in his Massachusetts home Monday night. Police are investigating the homicide, saying it's not connected to a recent mass shooting at Brown University.
Bit arrays in Gleam are a powerful feature that allows constructing and pattern matching on binary data, with various data types such as Int, Float, String, and BitArray. They have several options like size, unit, endianness, and type-specific options that can be used to customize their behavior and encoding.
The author discusses the concept of creating new communities, cultures, cities, and countries, and how this idea has evolved over time, with a focus on the Zuzalu experiment and its spinoffs. The author proposes a new approach to cultural evolution, where cultures improve and compete on a fair playing field, showcasing longer-term benefits, and suggests that this can be achieved through ...
The author is concerned about the internet's decline and wants to restore a human web with trust and creativity. They propose modernizing the webring concept to create a small community of verified creators.
Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive AI scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features, so disable JShelter or similar plugins for this domain.
Fluid typography in CSS adapts type size and leading to screen size changes, providing a smooth increase between different screen sizes. Modern CSS allows for elegant implementations using clamp() and unitless numbers, but a more advanced approach involves generating a typographic scale with different ratios between screen sizes.
The author questions common software engineering practices, such as avoiding dependencies and mandatory code reviews, suggesting they may not always be the best approach. They propose alternative methods, like using feature flags and flexible project management tools, to improve team efficiency and productivity.
Spice Cayenne is a next-generation data accelerator for high-scale and low-latency data lake workloads. It combines Vortex columnar format with an embedded metadata engine for faster queries and lower memory usage.
Nimbalyst is a free, local editor that integrates markdown, mockups, diagrams, and code for seamless collaboration. It ties sessions to documents and code for efficient workflow management.
The general public benefits from the sharp drop in crypto prices since October highs, as it reduces demand and reverses price increases in housing and other items. The plunge in crypto prices, worth over a trillion dollars, means crypto investors have less money to spend on luxury items.
mdBook is a tool for creating books from Markdown files with a simple plugin mechanism for modifying output. It supports preprocessors and renderers, which can be written in any language and modify book contents before output.
Toad is a terminal app that offers a more pleasant experience for agentic coding, supporting 12 AI tools and a single terminal UI. It features a snappy fuzzy search, prompt editor, Markdown streaming, and shell integration, making it a solid daily driver for AI.
You purchased HP Zbook G1a for research, using it for big matrix manipulation and FDTD simulations. Strix Halo fits well for these workloads due to its performance numbers.
Perron is a Rails gem that bridges the gap between building Rails apps and static sites. It offers a convention-over-configuration approach for static content with Rails features.
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Framework Shells (`fws`) is a Python package for orchestrating background processes with PTY, pipes, and dtach backends for quick multi-service prototypes and dev environments. It provides runtime isolation, control surfaces, and optional hooks for host integration.
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