Developers give coding agents excessive access for productivity, but this also raises security concerns. A tool like Claude Code hides classification signals in system prompts, making it harder to trust its claims of transparency.
Claude Sonnet 5 is a more agentic AI model that can make plans, use tools, and run autonomously at a lower price than its predecessor. It's available across all plans and offers a safer and more efficient option for developers, with a lower rate of undesirable behaviors and improved performance on tasks like coding and knowledge work.
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
European governments are embedding Google's Play Integrity API into digital ID wallets, which excludes users of de-Googled operating systems. This contradicts the EU's goal of building digital public infrastructure based on openness and inclusiveness.
People in the region remember Yugoslavia's past as better times, but their nostalgia reflects current issues. Europe's shared soundtrack is dance music, with the Dutch playing a key role in its global popularity.
Claude Science is a public beta app that integrates AI with scientific computing, allowing users to run full analyses on their own infrastructure. It connects to 60+ scientific databases and domain-specific open models, and produces reproducible results with full provenance.
The labor share of income in the US has declined to its lowest level in the post-war period, with a 1.6 percentage point drop below its pre-pandemic level. The decline is driven by within-industry changes rather than shifts in economic activity across sectors, similar to earlier recessions.
Nano Banana 2 Lite generates and edits images faster and more efficiently, ideal for designers and creators. It provides high-quality images quickly, reducing waiting time and increasing creative flow.
Henrico County employees are asked to conserve electricity due to a 25% rate increase for government facilities. They are advised to turn off lights, computers, and appliances when not in use to save money.
KNOPPIX is a bootable Linux system on CD, DVD, or USB with automatic hardware detection and support for various devices. It can be used as a productive desktop system, educational tool, or rescue system without installing anything on a hard disk.
Sam Rose created Webernetes, a browser-based Kubernetes cluster, using LLMs to port 100,000 lines of code from Kubernetes. He reviewed and tested the code to ensure its correctness, and now invites others to use and contribute to the project.
In the 1990s, people learned computer basics to play games, but now AI assistants make it easy without requiring knowledge. This ease comes at the cost of losing the intimate relationship with machines that was once gained through struggle and difficulty.
An updated Lean 4 formal proof engineering model optimised for automated theorem proving and autoformalization. 119B total parameters, 6.5B active.
Copybara is a tool used internally at Google to transform and move code between repositories, allowing for syncing of confidential and public repositories. It is stateless and supports Git repositories, with experimental support for Mercurial.
We introduce LongCat-2.0, a large-scale MoE language model with 1.6 trillion parameters, achieving strong performance on coding, agentic tasks, and long-horizon tasks.
The US Supreme Court's decision in Trump v Slaughter has rendered the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) non-independent, jeopardizing the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The European Commission is urged to repeal the framework in an orderly manner due to the loss of independent oversight.
User's account was changed to a less private setting after installing the Cursor iOS app, and support cannot switch it back. The app's prompt for Cloud Agents changed the user's privacy setting without clear explanation.
SQLite fixed a long-standing bug in WAL checkpointing that could lead to database corruption. The dqlite team used TLA+ to model SQLite's behavior and found that dqlite is not affected by the bug due to its stricter locking mechanism.
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The Supreme Court upheld state laws banning transgender girls and women from school athletic teams and struck down limits on party spending in federal elections.
The user enjoys manually restarting their Mac on Saturdays, closing all windows and ignoring unsaved work warnings, for a clean desktop environment. This process allows them to disconnect from work and resolve potential computer issues.
Postgres 19 has a mix of big features, quality-of-life upgrades, and performance improvements. It includes REPACK CONCURRENTLY, SQL property graph queries, and logical replication enhancements.
Fil-C supports memory-safe context switches using longjmp/setjmp and ucontext APIs. It enforces strict rules to prevent stack corruption and capability model violations.
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) and moderate-intensity continuous training (MICT) showed similar effects on fat mass and visceral adipose tissue in healthy older adults.
The user built a radar that can classify materials, specifically targeting asbestos detection, using a combination of material sciences, wave physics, and neural networks. Due to a lack of funding, the project was stopped after achieving a proof of concept, but the user gained valuable experience in embedded firmware programming, product design, and hardware startup development.
Moondream's AI model, Photon, achieves fast inference by overlapping CPU and GPU work using a technique called pipelined decoding, which removes idle time and increases throughput by up to 35%. The technique involves using ping-pong slots, a forward/sampling split, and zombie refcounting to ensure efficient and concurrent execution of AI model steps.
Charles Mackay's 1841 book "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions" studies crowd psychology through historical examples of financial bubbles and mass hysteria. It remains influential in understanding economic speculation and predicting market crashes.
Superpowers 6 is faster and cheaper, reducing build time by up to 50% and token spend by up to 60%. It optimizes Subagent Driven Development with improvements like combining code and spec compliance review agents.
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Sony will remove 551 titles from UK PlayStation users' libraries due to licensing agreements with StudioCanal. Affected customers may not retain purchased content despite buying it digitally.
The book is a narrative by geologist Ekaterina Radkevich about her expeditions and research on Earth and its resources. It completes the Science for Everyone Series, a collection of scientific knowledge for the general public.
Wombats produce nearly 100 cubic feces daily due to their unique intestinal structure with elastic grooves and varying muscle thickness. This ability helps them create flat-sided cubes that don't roll off when marking territory.
ZLUDA has released version 6 with improved Windows support, PhysX pre-alpha, and texture support for Blender. Development is now a weekend project with less frequent updates.
Barley tea, or mugicha, is a Japanese drink made from roasted barley grains, not tea leaves. It's brewed from twice-roasted barley grains, sourced from domestic growers, and packaged in tea bags for a refreshing summer drink.
Amazon seller Jack Nekhala reported being offered a bribe to retrieve frozen funds after his account was suspended for violating review policies. Nekhala documented his experience with a woman offering to pay an Amazon employee to access his account records.
Bluesky users can now store their data on a Personal Data Server (PDS) like Eurosky's, giving them control over their presence. This allows for digital autonomy and migration without losing data or identity.
Past and present challenges combine to make the EU’s foreign policy wing the bloc’s most difficult child. Push marks fresh test of Europe’s effort to outsource migration controls after years of legal setbacks and political controversy. The nice guy of EU politics has angered leaders for the first time. Now comes his biggest challenge.
Evtols are multirotor aircraft that can fly at high altitudes. the angular velocity of the vehicle is the instantaneous rotational rate of a frame x, y, and z, as determined by the inertial reference frame. this can be used to integrate accelerations in the body frame to find body-frame velocity. propellers spin by motors, which produce gross torques which are dissip
Debian package xsnow displays Ukrainian flags more frequently when the user's language is set to Russian, which some consider a form of protestware that could put users in Russia at risk. The issue raises questions about whether Debian should allow software that intentionally discriminates against users based on their nationality or locale, and whether such behavior is acceptable even if it's ...
The author discusses the difference between validation and parsing in TypeScript, arguing that parsing is a more effective way to ensure data integrity. They propose using branded types and discriminated unions to create a strict boundary between untrusted and trusted data.
Dr Julie Elie won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize for decoding zebra finches' core vocabulary and advancing human-animal communication research. Her research showed zebra finches use distinct calls to announce identity and activities, and understand the meanings of their vocalisations.
The Pew Research Center study found that 38% of webpages from 2013 are no longer accessible, but the Wayback Machine has rescued roughly 15% of those dead pages. Web archives like the Wayback Machine play an increasingly important role in rescuing the dead Web and minimizing the fracture of the knowledge graph on the Web.
Researchers found that permanent standard time may be better for health due to increased morning light and reduced evening light exposure. This policy could lower obesity and stroke rates by 2.6 million and 300,000 cases respectively.
PDP-1 Lisp was developed in 1960 by Peter Deutsch, a 14-year-old high school student, as a minimalist and efficient Lisp for the tiny PDP-1. It introduced the read–eval–print loop (REPL) and evolved Lisp from a theoretical language into a practical, interactive tool.
The author used an Ampere Altra system as a desktop for 11 months but had to end the experiment due to compatibility issues with AMD Radeon GPU cards. They switched to an Nvidia RTX 2060 graphics card but still encountered problems with certain applications, ultimately deciding to switch back to their x86-64 system.
TabFM is a foundation model for tabular data classification and regression that uses in-context learning to eliminate manual model training and hyperparameter tuning. It achieves high-quality predictions in a single forward pass, outperforming traditional supervised algorithms.
The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the "Night Witches," was an all-female Soviet military unit that flew over 23,000 sorties during World War II. The regiment was formed in 1941 and flew harassment and precision bombing missions against the German military until the end of the war in 1945.
We are at an inflection point where LLMs have changed the way we think and interact with information, making everyone a builder but also creating a need for consistency and creativity in marketing. The future of jobs may be impacted, with software engineers potentially being safe due to their ability to think and reason, but the increasing reliance on LLMs could lead to a loss of context and ...
The US oat market declined due to agricultural policies favoring corn and soybeans, leading to a shift to importing oats from Canada. A supply chain was built to import Canadian oats, which has proven resilient but may need to be remade to prioritize US soil health and Corn Belt communities.
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The Supreme Court's conservative majority struck down limits on presidential power, allowing the president to fire agency leaders and potentially lower-level employees. This decision could lead to increased presidential control over the executive branch and potentially undermine independent agencies.
The Red toolchain has been updated to support static linking of libraries written in C, allowing for single, self-contained binaries with all dependencies packed inside. This feature is now available for Windows, Linux, and Linux ARM, including the Raspberry Pi, and can be used with the miniz library for compression.
Antares achieved initial criticality of its Mark-0 microreactor at Idaho National Laboratory under the DOE Reactor Pilot Program. This milestone marks a historic moment for American nuclear energy and paves the way for electricity production in 2027 and military deployments in 2028.
An ant colony management system tracks worker history, statistics, and care. It displays colony status, worker count, and data on a main panel with detailed charts and logs on each colony's page.
We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. We’re grateful to our users for their patience, and to everyone who worked with us on redeploying the models.
Scammers are selling fake seeds online with AI-generated images of non-existent plants, targeting big retailers like eBay, Amazon, and Etsy. These scams can lead to people wasting money and unknowingly introducing invasive species to their environment.
Author Saul Newman argues that many reported centenarians are actually younger due to bad record-keeping. Healthy habits alone can't stop aging, and societal conditions play a larger role in determining life expectancy.
The authors are building tenferro-rs, a Rust-native tensor stack for scientific computing, to address the limitations of Julia and other libraries in handling large codebases and AI-written code. The library aims to provide a tensor layer that connects existing Rust libraries, with features like autodiff, einsum, FFT, and explicit CPU/CUDA backends, and is designed to be extensible and verifiable.
BUSY is a lean, cross-platform build system for GCC, Clang, and MSVC toolchains that uses a statically typed build specification language and requires minimal system requirements. It is designed to be easy to use and integrate with source trees, with features such as Lua scripting and support for multi-core builds.
PlanetScale introduces Database Traffic Control, a Postgres traffic management system that enforces flexible budgets on database traffic. It allows users to set resource limits on specific query workloads using custom tags and rules.
Claude Sonnet 5 scores 53 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, outperforming similar models. It supports text and image input, generating text output with a 1m tokens context window.
Craigslist has added emojis to its listings, a departure from its minimalist style, possibly to compete for attention in a modern algorithmic context. This change coincides with the proliferation of emojis, but may also be a small concession to participate in the zeitgeist while maintaining its legacy look.
Proton launched Lumo 2.0, a zero-access encrypted AI assistant with improved capabilities and multimodal processing. It offers faster interactions, deeper thinking, and stronger web search, while maintaining user control over data and privacy.
The author believes that programming languages can help prevent bugs in AI-generated code by enforcing global properties, such as data race freedom, through local reasoning. The author uses Rust as an example of a language that enforces data race freedom through ownership types and traits, and suggests that this approach could be applied to other languages to improve code reliability and productivity.
US adults' pride in being American has hit a 20-year low, with 33% saying they are extremely proud and 20% very proud. Pride levels have declined across all demographics, with the largest drops seen among Democrats, women, and young adults.
Sam Rose created Webernetes, a browser-based Kubernetes cluster, using LLMs to port 100,000 lines of code from Kubernetes. He reviewed and tested the code to ensure its correctness, and now invites others to use and contribute to the project.
Europe aims to reduce its dependency on non-European cloud suppliers by tripling its data centers and investing in AI. However, the continent's power problem may be less significant than its permitting and planning issues.
The AI memory silo problem occurs when AI tools forget user context and memories when switching tools, but an open protocol called Open Memory Protocol (OMP) can solve this issue by allowing tools to share memories. OMP is a vendor-neutral specification for storing, retrieving, and sharing user memories across AI tools, ensuring seamless continuity and user control over their memories.
BMW's iX5 is a new electric SUV with over 400 miles of range and fast charging capabilities. It will be manufactured in the US, using locally-sourced batteries, and will be one of the longest-range and fastest-charging EVs in America.
Claude Code silently deletes project history older than 30 days on startup. This default setting causes loss of reasoning trails and context, impacting research work.
Windows shows "The action can't be completed because the file is open in another program" error due to open file handles. Mark Russinovich's tools Handle and Process Explorer help identify and release these handles.
The user successfully ported the Bonsai Image model to a Samsung Galaxy S25+ using the phone's Hexagon NPU, achieving a 512x512 image generation time of around 2 minutes. However, the process was challenging due to Android's immature machine-learning stacks and varying hardware, resulting in a less-than-ideal experience compared to the iPhone 12 Pro from 2020.
Enter a public repository. GitStock turns recent commits and code changes into a shareable SVG candlestick chart, helping you evaluate repository activity and health trends at a glance.
Ruby is used for reverse-engineering a binary file format, specifically Codemasters' BIGF archive format, with its standard library providing a fast and efficient binary parser. The parser uses String#unpack and Ruby strings as byte buffers to decode the binary data, making it a pleasant and effective collaboration with an AI.
Where cracked founders meet the capital that backs them.
ICE agents harassed a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, over a social media post criticizing an ICE agent who killed a woman. The incident raises concerns about federal law enforcement intimidating voters ahead of elections.
The Spanish galleon Galeón Andalucía sailed along Ireland's west coast, visiting Streedagh Beach in Co Sligo where three Armada ships sank in 1588. The ship's visit is part of the Remembering the Armada Festival, boosting tourism and commemorating the disaster.
The author criticizes a statement justifying the use of solo ML-KEM over ECC+ML-KEM, pointing out several flaws in the justification. The statement is misleading and narrows the risk analysis in a way that excludes known attacks.
Micron's VP Praveen Vaidyanathan discusses the current memory market driven by AI demand, with companies competing for access to fast and dense memory subsystems. He highlights Micron's investments in HBM4, custom memory, and LPDDR6, as well as its plans for future generations of memory and storage solutions.
Polaroid's campaign promotes its new Flip camera by highlighting the importance of human connection and living in the moment. The campaign combines nostalgic visuals with a timely message about the dangers of digital over-saturation.
Loko Scheme 0.13.0 fixes bugs, improves performance and adds features. It's an optimizing Scheme compiler for bare metal, Linux, and NetBSD.
W was born in April 2025 and diagnosed with retinoblastoma at four weeks old. He received photo-activated chemotherapy and has a greatly improved chance of normal eyesight due to early detection.
Tautologies in economics promote clear thinking and help identify plausible causal relationships. They are useful tools that force us to see connections and understand the economy's functioning.
User analyzed NYT crossword data from Saul Pwanson, focusing on 15x15 and 21x21 versions. Results show character distributions, with shading highlighting where each character appears most likely on the board.
Reflexes is a fast and cheap API for semantic signals from agent traces, built on a custom inference engine and small LLM models. It allows tracking of user frustration rates and other signals over time, scaling to tens of thousands of agent runs and millions of turns.
Glenn Fiedler, a game developer, discusses Amazon GameLift Servers' free network bandwidth for all instance types, eliminating unpredictable egress costs for game studios. This change makes AWS a more attractive option for hosting games, potentially disrupting the bare metal game server hosting industry.
A math major analyzed the SEIRS model used for COVID-19 and created a discrete time simulation to predict disease spread. The simulation shows a massive death toll in a closed population without social distancing.
Claude Sonnet 5 is a more agentic AI model that can make plans, use tools, and run autonomously at a lower price than its predecessor. It's available across all plans and offers a safer and more efficient option for developers, with a lower rate of undesirable behaviors and improved performance on tasks like coding and knowledge work.
A free, instant online multiplayer game in the spirit of Tron, Snake and Achtung die Kurve — steer your curve, dodge every trail, and be the last one alive. Play in your browser with friends, no download.
OM Core is an open-source multidimensional modeling engine for structured financial, operational, and analytical models. It represents models using dimensions, cubes, groups, and rules, making them easier to audit and maintain.
Kronotop is a distributed database that uses a third approach to connection management, combining the benefits of Redis and Postgres. It separates the connection and work sides, using a small number of event loop threads for connections and virtual threads for I/O operations.
Godot Foundation is updating its contribution policies to ban AI-authored code and AI-generated text in human communication. The goal is to reduce the burden on maintainers and ensure new contributors become future maintainers.
Logger is a lightweight logging library with a format-string mini-language. It allows registering named log levels with format strings and colours, and emitting log lines with live metadata.