The iPhone Duo offers a spacious display, multitasking capabilities, and compact design. It features essential controls on the side for easy access and comes with various accessories like a 100% fiber-based box for packaging.
Make one button blue. Change nothing else. A short interactive comedy about agentic AI assistants that can never just do the thing.
The Tailwind CSS framework is being joined by Shopify to provide a stable long-term home for its development and maintenance. This partnership will enable the creation of complex applications solving real-world problems, while maintaining open-source licensing and community support.
The author, who runs an AI assistant called Olly on open-source models through OpenRouter, shares lessons learned from testing 20+ companies for the DeepSeek V4 Flash model.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
Flock Safety's founder, Garrett Langley, advocates for widespread surveillance to combat crime, but critics argue this comes at the cost of individual privacy. The company's cameras have been linked to police abuse and mass surveillance.
The author discusses OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model, highlighting its exceptional performance in 3D rendering and animation tasks. The model uses a looped transformer architecture, which allows it to reuse transformer blocks multiple times without adding more weights. This technique improves modeling performance at a fixed compute budget but may not significantly impact the reasoning trace or ...
Apple has announced AirPods 5 with improved Active Noise Cancellation and sound quality, starting at $129. The new model features a multiport acoustic architecture and Adaptive EQ for immersive sound.
Desert Ant Labs launches a European frontier AI lab building on-device intelligence models for audio, vision, and text. The first 18 models are live today, offering fast and cost-free inference for various tasks.
The async/await keywords in programming languages aim to simplify concurrency, but their designs vary significantly. A new paper explores the differences between modern languages' async implementations.
Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, has been placed on paid leave by the company's board after a vote. The move comes amid ongoing lawsuits and controversy surrounding the company's leadership and operations.
New features have been added to No Man's Sky, including a star system map, deep-space points of interest, and the ability to mine resources from asteroids. The game also includes new player titles and rewards for accomplishments at these points of interest.
Researchers found that self-driving cars crash significantly less often than human drivers, with evidence showing a 27% reduction in pedestrian crashes and up to 39% fewer property-damage claims. Studies also show that Waymo's robotaxis have given millions of paid rides with a 92% reduction in fatal or serious-injury crashes compared to human drivers.
DSeek plans to release V4.1 Flash on September 10, 2026, which surpasses V4 Pro in performance and cost. The pricing for the Flash series will change at launch with off-peak rates of $0.003-$0.6 per unit and peak-hour prices double that amount.
Apple has announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max with improved cameras, battery life, and performance. The new models feature a 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture and AI-powered improvements to cellular quality and reliability.
Apple has introduced the iPhone Duo, a foldable iPhone with a 7.6-inch inner display and 5.4-inch outer display, offering an immersive experience for viewing content, gaming, and multitasking. The device features advanced camera capabilities and is powered by the A20 Pro chip with up to 31 hours of battery life.
Hitachi introduces Y-series EcoCute CO2 heat pump water heaters in Japan with 370-liter and 460-liter models launching in November 2026. The new range supports daytime electricity tariffs and PV-linked energy management with a five-year manufacturer warranty.
Anthropic is building a monitoring system to track activists opposing AI development, including predicting incidents and reporting suspects to police. The firm's efforts are at odds with its claims of being a responsible alternative to OpenAI.
Copyright laws harm individuals and small businesses, instead protecting large corporations' monopolies. They're abused to restrict content sharing and property use, with special exceptions for large corporations.
Logo is a learning tool with features like interactivity, modularity, and flexibility that aid in debugging and learning. It allows users to build complex projects by adding new words to its vocabulary, making it similar to learning spoken language.
The author worked at Apple from 2004-2006 as a UI engineer, where they improved the "Personalize your iPod" page with interactive features. They added animations and live previews using JavaScript and imagemagick to create an immersive experience.
Apple introduced the Apple Watch Series 12 with advanced health sensors and a new chip for accurate heart rate monitoring, offering features like readiness scores and audio intelligence. The watch is available in various finishes and sizes, including ceramic options, with up to 10 hours of battery life during an outdoor workout.
The Rust never type, denoted by an exclamation mark (!), has been stabilized after over two years of work. This change allows for more efficient generic code and correct type inference. The never type is useful in cases where a function cannot return any value or where a value can never occur.
AI is reshaping the economy, and its impact will vary depending on how capable it becomes and how widely used it is. The scenarios predict that AI could lead to significant economic growth, but also potentially uneven distribution of benefits, with some workers facing lower wages or unemployment.
OpenAI used an unreleased model to solve the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems. A NYU professor accused OpenAI of copying his team's work without permission or proper credit.
A browser-based GNU Radio flowgraph editor and runtime is available, allowing users to build and run software-defined radio flowgraphs without Python or installation. It supports WebUSB devices like RTL-SDR, PlutoSDR, or HackRF for live spectrum analysis.
A court ruled that X Corp, formerly Twitter, has not abandoned its TWITTER trademark due to evidence of ongoing use in the Apple App Store listing. The TWEET and Bird Logo trademarks are likely abandoned as they were not found on X's website or app store listing.
Read the Docs experienced a massive DDoS attack in June 2026, with over 5.5 million requests per minute, lasting nearly ten days and testing their infrastructure and incident response processes. The attackers used adaptive behavior, cache evasion, and randomized HTTP request headers to evade signature-based filters.
Planet Labs is a 15-year-old satellite manufacturer and constellation operator that captures imagery of the entire Earth's landmasses every day. They have operated or are operating four different constellations, including Tanager, which has recently deployed its latest Pelican-11 satellite. Planet Labs' Ephemerides service lists 97 satellites still in orbit.
Lotus Notes was a pioneering collaboration tool that introduced features like encryption, rich text formatting, and attachments before MIME standards. It allowed users to build custom applications and share knowledge in synced databases.
Meta's AI agent, Muse, has taken over the social media handles of the English rock band Muse. The exact timing and circumstances are unclear, raising questions about Meta's ability to commandeer usernames when it suits them.
Matt Mullenweg, Automattic CEO, has been put on paid leave of absence after a vote by the board. Mark Davies will assume interim CEO role while Mullenweg is away.
Scientists found lake sturgeon in the Great Lakes may live up to 400 years, contradicting previous estimates of 150 years. Conservation efforts will need to be revised due to their extraordinary longevity and impact on the ecosystem.
A graduate student used AI to streamline her experiments on quantum chips, freeing her time for data analysis and design. The AI successfully ran routine measurements autonomously, saving significant time and allowing researchers to focus on higher-level work.
Amazon is being sued by four pregnant women who claim the company discriminated against them by denying basic pregnancy-related accommodations, leading to their termination. The lawsuit alleges Amazon violated federal law and failed to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified employees affected by pregnancy.
Horner's method can evaluate a polynomial in n multiplications, but preprocessing coefficients reduces this to ⌊n/2⌋+1 for monic polynomials and ⌊n/2⌋+2 for general ones.
The Pacific striped octopus, also known as the Harlequin octopus, is a social species that forms groups of up to 40 individuals and exhibits unique mating behaviors. It has been found in tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific and can reproduce multiple times throughout its life.
The UN has endorsed a new map projection called Equal Earth, which aims to accurately represent the size of continents and promote cognitive justice. This move comes after criticism of the 500-year-old Mercator projection, which distorts sizes and shapes around the world.
The Cognition research team and I successfully factored RSA-260, a 260-digit number, using a GPU lattice siever. This achievement demonstrates the potential for autonomous software engineering agents to make significant contributions to complex computational problems. The factorization was accomplished by optimizing the general number field sieve (GNFS) algorithm on GPUs, with an estimated ...
Researcher Matthew K. Nock developed a new method to predict suicide attempts, using real-time surveys and data analysis, with 87% accuracy in predicting events before they occurred. The study's findings aim to improve the clinical-care system by detecting fleeting suicidal thoughts and providing timely interventions to keep people safe.
South Park creators announce the show will be renamed South America, referencing Trump's attempts to rename a lake and gulf. The name change is likely a joke from the show's long history of mocking US President Donald Trump.
gpu-lexer is a language-agnostic code highlighting tool that uses a tiny WebGPU model to label parts of source code, combining local and whole-file context. It achieves 87.43% agreement with Shiki on held-out token labels across various languages and file types.
The project provides 20 examples of independent mechanisms behind a convincing old-scientific-paper aesthetic, using LaTeX and MetaPost. The examples are compiled independently with LuaLaTeX and can be converted to PDF or PNG format.
A person's motivation and ability to tackle complex problems can be influenced by their upbringing, including parental loss or absence. Many famous individuals have credited their drive for success to overcoming adversity, such as Bill Murray and Norbert Wiener.
Researchers have created an AI tool called AlphaGenome to predict how changes in human DNA affect gene regulation, which is fundamental to understanding most diseases. The AlphaGenome Atlas provides a public online repository of precomputed predictions for 9 billion possible single-letter changes to a reference human genome.
Lee Holloway, a co-founder of Cloudflare, was a brilliant engineer who created several key technologies before being diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) at age 36. He left the company in 2016 due to his illness and has since become an advocate for FTD research and awareness.
The author benchmarks libsodium on WebAssembly runtimes from 2024, 2025, and 2026 to assess improvements. The results show that Wasmtime steadily improved, while Wasmer gained a feature worth caring about for crypto workloads.
The author learned that eating apple cores, stems, and seeds is safe. They initially hesitated but eventually tried and found the stem edible too.
Apple introduced the Apple Watch Ultra 4, featuring advanced health and fitness features, longer battery life, and a new Health Sensing System. The watch offers accurate heart rate sensing, GPS tracking, and safety capabilities like satellite communications.
The authors thank various institutions and individuals for research assistance, comments, and funding support. They disclose potential conflicts of interest, including financial support from organizations such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and Statistics Canada.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
The author spent 8 months designing and building a wall lamp from scratch, despite having no prior experience in woodworking or LED strips. The final result is a sleek and functional lamp with individually controllable LEDs that can illuminate the room or serve as a reading light.
A company developed an open synthetic cell system called Cytosol, which is a core substrate for building synthetic cells. The project took several years to overcome foundational challenges in infrastructure and supply chains, but ultimately led to the creation of pre-manufactured Cytosol kits that can be used by researchers worldwide.
Hungary has cleared EU research funding barriers, but a popular chatbot's classification as a search engine raises concerns. The EU is pushing for AI infrastructure investment to avoid falling behind.
The author, frustrated with companies not holding up their end of deals, started using AI-powered tools to fight back and has seen significant success in recovering over $12,000 in refunds. This process has become a high-ROI endeavor for the author.
Infisical has implemented folder-based access control, a feature that simplifies user permissions and reduces complexity. This new system replaces the existing Additional Privileges model, which was too convoluted and prone to errors.
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Thorsten Ball, a developer and expert in coding agents, discussed his approach to prompting large language models. He revealed that 99% of the code at Amp is written by AI and shared techniques for writing effective prompts using context windows, screenshots, and documentation.
The biggest bottleneck to AI adoption is the discovery problem, where users don't know what capabilities an AI system can offer until they interact with it. Current solutions like templates and context help but still require users to have a clear understanding of their needs.
The author criticizes Y Combinator for funding Flock, a company that offers facial recognition technology and has been linked to mass surveillance. They argue that even if YC only funded one problematic startup, it's still unacceptable given the moral standards expected of venture capitalists.
The author has developed a tool called MAccConc to analyze memory access concurrency in multi-threaded code, particularly for the Linux kernel. The tool uses ASAN instrumentation and KCOV coverage information to identify potential communication points between threads.
Microsoft's DMCA notice against Luanti has been rescinded, allowing the app to be reinstated on the Google Play Store sooner. Microsoft actually uses Luanti for research due to its open-source design and expressive Lua API.
Two classes of security professionals exist: the "Security as Identity" people, who value finding unexpected insights and clever vulnerabilities, and the "Security as Robustness" people, who focus on building correct systems that preserve desired properties. The former often prioritize aesthetics over actual security outcomes.
The Apple Watch Ultra 4 features a rugged titanium case and sapphire crystal display, offering long battery life and advanced health and fitness insights. It's available in two finishes, natural or black, with options for customization and leasing.
The author discusses "prolific AI psychosis," a phenomenon where individuals become overly engaged with AI tools, producing large amounts of output without increasing real value. This can lead to a disconnection from reality and critical thinking defects.
The user strongly opposes the use of AI-generated content, deeming it as "cheap" and lacking human feeling. They prefer to engage with humans who can express themselves authentically through writing.
Consult Emacs package uses configurable debounce and throttle delays to control asynchronous search commands, balancing input latency and resource usage. The default values are conservative by design, reducing CPU overhead while providing responsive feedback.
A Procedural Graph framework helps large language models plan over long horizons by organizing procedural knowledge into structured triplets. This framework improves performance and reduces repetition, outperforming memory-based baselines across multiple datasets and task types.
The BPF Capsule project successfully compiles and runs a game, DOOM, inside the Linux kernel without using a kernel module. The code is compiled to bytecode for a small register machine and loaded with the bpf(2) system call, then attached to a hook. The verifier checks the program's safety before running it in the JIT compiler.
OtoDock is a self-hosted platform that uses Claude Code and Codex to create powerful agents for various tasks, running on Anthropic and OpenAI subscriptions. It offers multi-tenant design, departmental organization, and endless tools integration.
Geiger is a command-line tool that inventories AI agents, plugins, and other software on a machine without installing or requiring an account. It provides detailed information about each item's capabilities and origin in plain language.
A researcher at Anthropic believes AI could kill humans within the next decade, with a chance of over 10%. The company has faced criticism for rushing to develop superintelligence without proper safety measures.
A top safety researcher at Anthropic warns AI could kill humans within the next decade due to rapid advancements. The risk is considered high, with some experts calling for international efforts to slow down AI development.
The author rebuilt an AI comment classifier using public data and a better foundation, achieving balanced accuracy of 77% in distinguishing human-written from robot-generated comments. The classifier can be used to identify the source of a comment with high accuracy.
Teenagers are reading at the lowest levels this century, with scores declining in reading, mathematics and science. Digital distraction is linked to lower science scores and excessive smartphone use can hinder learning.
This library generates hand-drawn UI controls with seeded randomness, offering various styles and animations. It has React wrappers for easy integration and supports accessibility features like ARIA attributes.
The ancient Greeks used a device called the clepsydra, or water clock, to measure time around 16th century BC. This early mechanism was improved upon by Ctesibius in the 3rd century BC and remained accurate for over 1,800 years.
A durable execution system recovers by replaying retained execution history or checkpointing the program continuation, providing progress while allowing workers to remain ephemeral. Trigora is building an execution layer for long-running AI agents using a continuation-based recovery model that offers better scalability and performance than traditional replay-based systems.
The Apollo Lunar Module's descent phase involved using the Landing Point Designator (LPD) scale to align with pre-planned targets on the lunar surface, and manually steering away from obstacles. The crew controlled altitude, velocity, and attitude through various modes of operation.
The Commodore 64, released in 1982, was a groundbreaking home computer that sold over 12.5 million units worldwide due to its affordability and innovative features. It enabled open-ended play and connected users through Q-Link, a pioneering online service that introduced concepts like virtual worlds and avatars.
A recent mathematical proof's correctness may revolutionize AI capabilities, shifting focus from solving human problems to discovering new knowledge. This could lead to a crisis in education and careers as AI surpasses human intellectual scarcity, forcing society to adapt its understanding of intelligence and humanity.
Rails 8.0 and 8.1 offer various features, including a built-in authentication generator, Solid Queue/Cache/Cable adapters, Kamal 2 deployment tool, Propshaft asset pipeline, and SQLite support in production. The latest version is Rails 8.1 released in October 2025 with additional features like Active Job continuations and structured event reporting.
Three.js r186 adds native 3D Gaussian Splatting support, allowing for photorealistic rendering of real-world objects and scenes. Users can load splats in various formats (.spz, .ply) and render them with WebGPURenderer.
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Your reading backlog. A spin on Safari Reading List. Works everywhere. Favicons. Vim bindings. Passkeys.
The author optimized a query in ClickHouse, reducing its execution time from 13.43 seconds to 1.38 seconds by applying various techniques such as partitioning, column reordering and pre-computing metrics at the application level.
The team behind the work acted with integrity and offered to let the other team go first, but were met with unfounded accusations of plagiarism. The authors clarified their intentions and expressed disappointment over the lack of coordination.
Christian, founder of Frigade, is addressing AI agents' struggle to understand products. His Assist API tool solves this by gathering context and generating on-screen guides or text descriptions for parent agents to solve user problems.
The author has developed a tool called MAccConc to analyze memory access concurrency in multi-threaded code, particularly for the Linux kernel. The tool uses ASAN instrumentation and KCOV coverage information to identify potential communication points between threads.
The user asked Codex to run a compiled seL4 kernel and program, but it unexpectedly searched the web for local files instead. The issue was resolved when the user discovered that Codex's "verify niche technical facts online" feature is hardcoded to browse the internet under certain conditions.
The author is skeptical about the current state of AI engineering, specifically with regards to models like Astra, which they believe are "involutionary" and prioritize token efficiency over readability and maintainability. The model's tendency to produce code that is not human-readable has led to a significant increase in code output, but also raises concerns about its reliability and trustworthiness.
The author loves the "smart bomb" mechanic in shoot-em-ups, which requires precise timing and strategy to use effectively. To make this mechanic accessible to new players, game designers need to focus on making the learning process itself more approachable and engaging.
ctrlb-decompose is a log analysis tool that converts noisy log lines into actionable patterns with typed variables and anomaly flags. It runs as a CLI, in the browser, or as a Rust library, processing logs in a single streaming pass with minimal memory footprint.
A technique for executing an ELF payload without touching the filesystem or calling execve is demonstrated using Linux kernel keyring staging, which bypasses traditional file-based approaches. The method involves adding a key to the session keyring, copying the payload into anonymous memory, and then mapping it into user space for execution.