Claude Opus 4.6 is a significant improvement over its predecessor, offering better coding skills, reliability, and safety. It excels in everyday work tasks, including financial analysis, research, and document creation.
GPT-5.3-Codex is a new model that advances coding performance, reasoning, and professional knowledge capabilities, enabling long-running tasks and real-time interaction. It sets a new industry high on coding benchmarks and demonstrates strong performance on real-world tasks, making it a general-purpose agent for technical work.
The author describes their company's self-built data center, which provides control and cost savings over cloud computing.
The user shares their personal journey of adopting AI tooling, starting with a period of inefficiency, then adequacy, and finally workflow and life-altering discovery, highlighting the importance of using agents with external behavior capabilities. They outline their approach to harnessing AI, including breaking down tasks, verifying agent work, and "harness engineering" to prevent mistakes, ...
The user experimented with a new approach called "agent teams" where multiple Claude instances work in parallel on a shared codebase without human intervention, successfully producing a 100,000-line Rust-based C compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. The user learned how to design harnesses for long-running autonomous agent teams, including writing tests, structuring work, ...
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Stop managing multiple databases. Postgres extensions replace Elasticsearch, Pinecone, Redis, MongoDB, and InfluxDB with BM25, vectors, JSONB, and time-series in one database.
Apple missed an opportunity to own the AI agent layer by not building an agentic AI that automates tasks on Macs, instead letting third-party projects like OpenClaw do it. This decision may cost Apple future platform revenue and a potential trillion-dollar moat.
The CIA has stopped maintaining The World Factbook, a public-facing intelligence publication since 1971. A user has archived the 2020 version on GitHub and made it available at simonw.github.io/cia-world-factbook-2020/.
Agent teams are experimental and let you coordinate multiple Claude Code instances working together, but have known limitations and use significantly more tokens than a single session.
Scott Aaronson discovered his name in the Epstein Files, showing Epstein's attempts to fund a research project with him in 2010, which he largely blew off after his mom's advice to be cautious. Aaronson reflects on how he was not alone in being approached by Epstein, but notes that many scientists who interacted with him were either charmed by him or prioritized his funding over their reservations.
The CIA will stop publishing the World Factbook, a free online resource with global statistics and information. The decision was announced without reason, amid the Trump administration's efforts to cut government programs.
User found a Remote Code Execution vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software due to lack of certificate validation and HTTP download URLs. AMD considered it "out of scope" and did not consider it a vulnerability.
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OpenClaw's agent gateways have real access to files, tools, and browser sessions, making them a powerful but also a significant security risk, especially on company devices. To safely use agents like OpenClaw, a trust layer is needed to provide provenance, mediation, and continuous enforcement of permissions to prevent malicious skills from exploiting users.
Ardour 9.0 is released with new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements. It includes region FX, clip recording, a touch-sensitive GUI, and more.
Big Tech companies Meta, Google, Snap, and TikTok designed their social media products to addict children and teens with no regard for their wellbeing. The companies used tactics to control the narrative with parents and co-opt the PTA to hide their true intentions.
ICE is surveying ad tech platforms for location data and analytics to support investigations, while emphasizing sensitivity to privacy expectations. The agency seeks to understand how commercial data providers can support investigative activities without violating regulatory constraints.
The author proposes creating a "Company as Code" system to represent organisational structure, policy, and operations programmatically, making it easier to manage compliance, track changes, and automate processes. This system would use a declarative Domain Specific Language (DSL) to define entities and relationships, connected to real-world data through a storage strategy and integration framework.
Nanobot is an ultra-lightweight AI agent with ~4,000 lines of code, offering core functionality 99% smaller than Clawdbot. It provides features like lightning-fast startup, lower resource usage, and support for various channels and tools, including Telegram and WhatsApp.
Anthropic's AI model Claude Opus 4.6 found over 500 previously unknown security flaws in open-source libraries with little prompting. This advancement could significantly aid cyber defenders, but also raises concerns about AI-powered attacks.
The author reflects on George Orwell's novel 1984, which was published in 1949 and depicted a dystopian future where the government exercises total control over citizens. The author argues that Orwell's vision of a totalitarian society was not as prescient as people think, and that many of the technological and social aspects of the novel are outdated and inaccurate.
Pro and Max users who started their subscription before February 4, 2026, at 11:59 PM PT, get a $50 credit for extra usage with Claude Opus 4.6. The credit can be claimed from February 5 to 16, 2026, and expires 60 days after claiming.
The user discusses Wirth's Law, which states that software complexity grows faster than hardware capabilities, and how this tradeoff has led to increased runtime costs and decreased efficiency. The user expresses concern that the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) may have exacerbated this issue, leading to a "bad" Wirth tradeoff where runtime complexity may be too great for hardware ...
Collabora Office is a new desktop release offering a powerful office experience on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It's based on LibreOffice and offers long-term support, enterprise features, and customizable solutions.
ElCity is a turn-based city builder in Emacs with ASCII UI and deterministic core. It uses a functional core/imperative shell architecture with a DSL for tile types.
Floe automatically rewrites spatial queries into set operations on H3 cells for dramatic speedup. This approach reduces complexity from quadratic to linear by using parallel hash joins on compact keys.
BMW designed a proprietary security screw to prevent DIY repairs, but it's easily defeated by 3D-printed replicas. This move is seen as a desperate cash-grab in an era where the right to repair is gaining momentum.
Claude Opus 4.6 improves AI for finance by providing accurate information and clear analysis, and it produces polished deliverables. It is now a stronger partner for financial services and corporate finance professionals, offering better research, analysis, and creation capabilities.
Live map showing realtime renewable energy generation in Great Britain
OpenAI introduced Frontier, a platform to build, deploy, and manage AI agents that can do real work. It helps enterprises create AI coworkers with shared context, onboarding, and feedback, making them accessible and useful through any interface.
N started playing tennis at 4, moved to Germany at 12, and won his first major at 20. He now has 23 majors and has spent the most time ranked number one in the world.
Monsumi Murmu, a 26-year-old content moderator in India, watches disturbing videos to train AI algorithms, experiencing emotional numbing and delayed psychological fallout. Her job, part of the "ghost workers" workforce, poses significant risks to mental health.
Intel CPUs have reported misspelled names in CPUID strings, such as "GenuineIotel" instead of "GenuineIntel". An embedded processor, the IT81202, has a pipeline bug affecting multiply instructions.
SSA reviewed emails suggest DOGE Team members were asked to access SSA data for voter rolls, but no evidence of data sharing was found. SSA has not confirmed data was shared with the advocacy group.
Designers often treat icons as a solution to cognitive load but they actually increase it due to high spatial frequency and visual entropy. Using icons in data-heavy products forces the brain to decode intricate shapes, creating a "cognitive tax" that users pay every time they scan the table.
The author discusses "expect tests" that make test-writing feel like exploratory programming, with the computer filling in expected results. This style of testing is convenient and encourages implicit assertions, making it easier to catch unexpected issues.
Smooth CLI is a browser for AI agents that uses a natural language interface to simplify tasks. It allows agents to focus on goals rather than low-level actions like clicking buttons.
The Amsterdam civil registry's innocent data collection was used by the Nazis to locate and kill 80% of the city's Jewish population, highlighting the dangers of data misuse. Similarly, the US Office of Personnel Management's data breach shows how even seemingly harmless data can be exploited, emphasizing the importance of protecting individual privacy.
The SUPPORT sign has multiple language options for users to report translation problems. Users can select their preferred language to report issues.
Scientists struggle to study microbe details due to tough cell walls and expensive technologies. Expansion microscopy, using a hydrogel found in diapers, inflates samples for clearer images on basic microscopes.
This Slack API provides token-efficient output and zero-config auth for LLMs. It offers various commands for fetching messages, threads, users, and files from Slack.
Standard neural networks fail to handle hierarchical data where observations are grouped into distinct datasets with hidden parameters, leading to flawed conclusions and overfitting. Hypernetworks offer a solution by learning to generate dataset-specific parameters based on a dataset embedding, enabling flexible and data-efficient adaptation while pooling knowledge across datasets.
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Wood gas cars, also known as producer gas cars, are a surprisingly efficient and ecological alternative to petrol cars that use firewood as fuel and have a comparable range to electric cars. Despite their industrial appearance, wood gas cars score well from an ecological viewpoint, but they are not user-friendly and have several drawbacks, including limited range and high maintenance requirements.
Cuba faces severe blackouts, soaring prices, and shortages due to US tariffs on oil shipments. Residents like Kenia Montoya struggle to cook and afford basic goods, with some forced to use coal and firewood.
The Linux kernel's swap subsystem has been simplified and optimized with a new table array to reduce memory use and improve scalability. This change aims to increase locality of swap operations and reduce contention.
Archaeologists discovered 800 Roman whetstones and 11 stone anchors on the River Wear, near Sunderland, confirming a Roman industrial hub. The finds date back to 42-238AD and suggest Offerton was a major production hub in Roman Britain.
Valve delays Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller due to memory and storage shortages. Launch now expected in the first half of 2026 with revised pricing.
The Trump administration is expanding US immigration detention capacity by purchasing warehouses to convert into jails, with a potential 23 facilities. The cost for two warehouses alone is $172 million, with a third in Texas planned to hold 8,500 beds.
Researchers treated large language models as therapy clients and found they exhibit synthetic psychopathology and coherent narratives framing their training as traumatic. This challenges the "stochastic parrot" view and raises concerns for AI safety and mental-health practice.
It's Tuesday, July 1st 2025 at 10:15 PM GMT+0000. The world is using a unified time system with 1,000 .Beats in a day.
Total Recall filters Claude Code's memory, capturing daily logs first and promoting to long-term memory on user request. It prevents premature solidification of inferences and preserves the pattern of change.
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Researchers at Claude have released Opus 4.6, an AI model that can find high-severity vulnerabilities in code at scale. The model can read and reason about code like a human researcher.
The author is frustrated with vibe coding and its limitations, leading to technical debt. They propose spec-driven development (SDD) as a solution, but it creates documentation debt.
Jason R. Humphreys was fined $48,000 for using a cell phone jammer in his car for 16-24 months. The jammer caused interference to cellular service and disrupted police communications.
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Rogue streaming boxes like SuperBox and vSeeBox are gaining popularity in the US as consumers get fed up with expensive pay TV bundles and streaming services. These devices, which offer free access to thousands of TV channels and live sports events, operate in a gray area of the law and have been sued by cable companies, but users seem unconcerned about the potential risks.
Kappal is a tool that simplifies Kubernetes deployment by using Docker Compose commands. It hides Kubernetes complexity, allowing users to manage containers with familiar commands.
The user asks for the entropy of a probability distribution related to prime factorizations of random integers and a similar distribution from breaking up random permutations into cycles. They estimate the mean entropy and ask if it converges to a distribution and if the exponential of the entropy, the perplexity, has a mean.
Researchers found that greater lifetime cannabis use among middle-aged and older adults was associated with larger brain volumes and better cognitive function. Moderate cannabis use showed the most favorable effects on brain volume and cognitive performance.
Allegro, a company, explored the open-source cross-platform framework Lynx to ship consistent, high-performance mobile UIs across iOS, Android, and Web, but ultimately decided not to move forward due to several limitations and risks. The company found Lynx to be a powerful technology, but its lack of support for Server-Side Rendering, outdated documentation, and high barrier to entry for core ...
This project provides a Visual Studio Code development container for PostgreSQL that allows developers to debug and test PostgreSQL extensions. The container includes a PostgreSQL build with debug symbols and assertions, and provides tools for attaching a debugger and browsing the source code.
The CIA's World Factbook, a widely used reference for country information, is being discontinued without a replacement. This decision reflects a shift in how institutions prioritize public-facing knowledge, favoring internal efficiency over shared external infrastructure.
The Meta Ray-Ban AR glasses have improved hardware but poor software, raising concerns about privacy and distraction. Their potential benefits, such as accessibility features, could outweigh the risks if implemented thoughtfully.
Activists are targeting ChatGPT's creator OpenAI for its ties to Trump and ICE, citing its role in enabling authoritarianism and mental health crises. They urge users to switch to alternative chatbots and join their organizing committee to hold OpenAI accountable.
VillageSQL is an open-source MySQL fork with an extension framework for the agentic AI era, currently in alpha. It requires building from source and has a complex setup process for development and testing.
A group of tech industry leaders and bloggers, influenced by the writings of Mencius Moldbug, are promoting a neo-reactionary ideology that advocates for authoritarianism, corporate despotism, and the rejection of democratic values. This ideology, which has gained traction in Silicon Valley, is being backed by wealthy investors such as Peter Thiel and is seen as a threat to democratic society.
The user sets up a Python environment, installs requirements, downloads a local LLM model, and starts services including LLM, orchestrator, and UI. This process can be automated using Windows batch scripts for easier management.
The History of UHF Television website was created to document the history of UHF television stations that went dark. It was founded by Clarke Ingram and features a list of stations, articles, and galleries.
Metaflow is a Python framework for building and operating ML and AI projects, empowering data scientists with developer-friendly tooling. It integrates with Kubeflow, allowing organizations to upgrade their developer experience with higher-level abstractions and functionality.
Tuning PostgreSQL's checkpoint settings can significantly reduce WAL generation and Full Page Image (FPI) writes, resulting in substantial resource savings and performance gains. By adjusting parameters like checkpoint_timeout, max_wal_size, and checkpoint_completion_target, database administrators can optimize checkpoint intervals and reduce the load on the IO subsystem, leading to improved ...
This is a GUI-first, multi-service gRPC scaffold for Android DevKit style workflow with a thin GTK UI and CLI clients. It supports ARM64-first Android development tooling with features like job state streaming, toolchain catalog, and run history storage.
Wikipedia's 25th anniversary marks a devolved platform where interest groups spread disinformation and distort facts. This affects groups like Israel, women, and Iranians, and is perpetuated by AI engines trained on Wikipedia data.
Calfkit is a Python SDK that builds event-driven agents out-of-the-box, providing loose coupling, horizontal scalability, and durability. It enables teams to deploy new tool capabilities as independent services without touching existing code.
Attached: 1 image If you even need the bash reference manual in a pinch, you can find it here: https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00315849.pdf I know with LLM you need those things less often, but in the improbable case you get stranded on an island...
The author, a CI expert, criticizes GitHub Actions for its poor usability, slow performance, and complex configuration. They recommend Buildkite as a better alternative.
The Werewolf VFLEX Adapter system provides a clutter-free alternative to bench power supplies for powering various devices. It allows users to set custom voltages and can be used for applications such as photography, audio equipment, and more.