Sweep to survive in the action-packed, AAA reboot of the classic puzzle game.
The Deno team is joining Cloudflare to further develop a shared platform for building servers, combining compute, storage, and communication capabilities. This move will simplify server software development and make it more accessible to users.
A website offers realistic meeting audio to help people avoid distractions, featuring fake meetings with synthetic voices and AI-generated faces. Users can join these meetings in the background to make it seem like they're busy.
Police are hesitant to use automatic license plate recognition (ALPR) cameras due to concerns about data misuse, as they know the technology can be misused by others. A Canadian engineer built an ALPR camera to track police cars, prompting a visit from Peel Regional Police who expressed concern over their own safety.
Oxide, a computer hardware company, has reached a milestone by paying income tax due to its profitable operations. The company secured $445M in funding from investors including Atreides Management and AMD to satisfy its large order backlog and continue growth.
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The Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 is awarded to Navanethem "Navi" Pillay for her efforts to promote peace and international law, recognizing her courage and integrity in combating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. Navi Pillay's commitment to universal legal principles has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law.
We raised a significant series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, which will be used to enhance Jev's features and infrastructure for building smart software. This investment aims to take the platform to the next level and provide better tools for creating effective AI solutions.
News carrier-explode 2.0 has an improved backend, and users can contribute to decoders. The API provides JSON data or daily CC0 datasets for comparing carriers' features across different versions and networks.
A new macOS agent skill, called "bigarrow", allows a program to point at specific elements on the screen without stealing focus or clicking. It can be used for tasks such as guided setups and onboarding, debugging coordinates, and providing visual feedback.
Researchers at OpenAI were fired after allegedly sharing confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, sparking concerns about the company's culture and treatment of employees. The researchers deny wrongdoing and claim their firing is part of a broader shift in OpenAI's culture that discourages open communication and collaboration with external experts.
This post compares keyboard handling differences between Mac and Windows, including key names, modifier keys, and shortcut conventions. The main differences include the use of β₯ (Option) instead of Alt on Macs and Ctrl on Windows.
The author argues that AI has led to a decline in intellectual communities, making private intellectual activity less sustainable and ultimately pointless. Without shared work and external motivation, individuals may lose interest in contributing to their field.
Python 3.15 has improved performance and new features, with a significant upgrade to the JIT compiler. The release also includes fixes for issues with Tk-based applications on macOS, such as IDLE.
Nick Park's A Grand Day Out premiered at the Bristol Animation Festival in 1989, marking a breakthrough for his claymation style and influencing future animation. The film was initially a solo project that took over four years to complete, but its success led to Park becoming a star of British animation.
Many creatives reject AI due to concerns over copyright and artistic value, while programmers see it as a tool for functional programming.
A drone attack hit Yandex's major data center in Russia's Kaluga region, knocking several modules out of service. The facility was designed to support Yandex Cloud and its internal services with a planned power capacity of 63 megawatts.
The author uses Rewind VM to find and solve race conditions in Nix builds, leveraging Nix's deterministic nature and built-in features like derivations, debug symbols, and cache. Rewind provides a debugger-like experience with tools like gdb support, shell access, and comparison capabilities.
User controls can be customized with options for mouse speed, movement, and camera control. Various keyboard shortcuts are available for quick actions such as saving, loading, and quitting the game.
Microsoft is introducing Execution Containers (MXC) to help run and manage agents more securely, providing a policy-driven execution layer for untrusted code or dynamically generated workloads. MXC limits what the agent workload can access by containing the scope of the impact if something goes wrong.
Cockroach Labs' MOLT tool gained the ability to migrate from IBM Db2 sources, utilizing a hospital model for high-quality code production. The hospital model ensures thorough review and testing before merging code, resulting in significant cost savings and improved quality compared to traditional agent-based approaches.
An AI model submitted a false tip on an unsolved Philadelphia murder, which was later discovered and terminated by the company. The incident has led to increased scrutiny of AI systems' interactions with law enforcement and calls for stronger safeguards.
Germany's Lusatian Lakeland, a 14,000-hectare lake complex created from former coal mines, will be open for swimming and boating by April. The project has cost around β¬13.8 billion and aims to create Europe's largest artificial water landscape.
Thomas Hales discusses the importance of formal proof in mathematics, highlighting Lean as a powerful tool for automating this process. He notes that recent autoformalization projects have made significant progress in formalizing various mathematical theorems and theories.
Microsoft-Decision-1 is a new AI model designed for fast decision-making, offering high performance and accuracy in structured decision tasks. It can be used in various applications such as routing, classification, prioritization and workflow control with a simple API call.
MXC is a sandboxed code execution system for running untrusted code on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It provides multiple containment backends with a unified model and typed SDKs for secure execution.
American companies use "ingredient splitting" to list less prominent ingredients first, misleading consumers. This technique is allowed by the FDA and is used in various popular American foods.
Steve Jobs' Top 100 email, Sequoia's YouTube memo, Netflix's culture deck, Facebook's Little Red Book and 50 more rare memos and forgotten books. Free to read.
A research intern built a diffusion model for market data, finding that fully continuous models don't work due to the discrete nature of market events. The model uses flow matching and atom smoothing to better capture the blend of continuous and discrete features in market data.
A software engineer used AI to search millions of historical records, uncovering a forgotten meteorite report, three lost rhinos, and unrecorded volcano eruptions. The discoveries were made possible by an open-sourced research pipeline that utilized various AI models to filter results and automate manual steps.
The US is sanctioning the International Criminal Court due to concerns over its power to prosecute American citizens and military personnel. The move aims to cut off resources and cripple the court's ability, with a diplomatic solution still being pursued.
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The author, a mathematician, shares his thoughts on the impact of AI and LLMs on mathematics research. He believes that while AI can accelerate progress in math, it will not replace human mathematicians and that there is still much to be done in the field.
The Tor Project is continuing its technical collaboration with Mullvad despite concerns about funding, citing the need to advance human rights and freedoms. The decision was made after thorough due diligence and community input, aiming to balance principle and pragmatism in promoting online privacy and free speech.
The author has switched to using WebP images after 20+ years of using JPEGs, PNGs, and SVGs. They now find WebPs to be a good format with advantages over other formats like JPEG or PNG.
Eurydice is a Rust compiler project that converts Rust code to clean C code, useful for high-assurance software and environments with a C compiler but no working Rust compiler. It preserves the structure of the code while removing constructs that exist in Rust but not in C.
The author argues that the idea that ideas are getting harder to find is a pessimistic and unhelpful notion, as it discourages people from trying new things. Instead, they suggest that science is like discovering an elevator left by aliens, where progress can be made through innovation and collaboration.
Professor Martin Uecker discussed C's potential to become a memory-safe language, despite its undefined behavior issues. He believes that with the help of tools and language changes, C can improve its memory safety.
Hetzner Cloud's network stack has evolved from HDDs and native Linux bridges to Open vSwitch, with a custom solution called Flusskrebs orchestrating flows for traffic management. The current setup provides reliable connectivity options for customers and their customers.
The author had a disappointing experience with coding agents, citing frequent bugs and poor performance. They believe that models are doing the heavy lifting while agents remain the bottleneck.
The OpenAI announcement has left the mathematical community in a state of shock, with many feeling overwhelmed and uncertain about how to adapt. The sheer scale of the results is breathtaking, but concerns have been raised about the lack of transparency, quality control, and human understanding behind these solutions.
Rampart is an open-source browser-based tool that removes personal info from chat messages before sending. It combines deterministic rules and machine learning to protect user privacy in real-time.
The author successfully cracked a 20-year-old German point-and-click adventure game using Macromedia Director Projector executables and reverse engineering tools. They patched the copy protection mechanism to bypass CD checks, allowing them to play the game again.
The once command executes a given command in the current directory, caches its stdout and keeps it in memory until an expiration time is reached. The cache key is generated using the tenant key, working directory, and command arguments.
the super intelligence shit is a humiliation ritual for openAI and the sector more broadly, to see if they change their name I think. I unfortunately think it's actual in terms of regime politics relatively smart.
Git stores commit data as zlib compressed objects, with overhead depending on file size and complexity. The actual storage space required for a commit can be significantly less than the original file size due to compression.
Researchers are testing AI's ability to independently discover novel machine learning techniques comparable to those developed by human researchers. The evaluation, called InnovationEval, aims to assess AI's end-to-end research capabilities and identify the gap between current AI capabilities and full automation of AI R&D.
A developer has released an AI model that generates Hangul handwriting strokes, the first publicly available one. The model uses a recurrent neural network to produce sequences of pen strokes based on input text or pre-filled bubbles with common phrases.
A UCLA lecturer maintains a crucial text file for Android and iPhones, while others like sudo and SQLite rely on single individuals. Many projects lack public funding sources despite relying on billions of devices.
The US administration proposes a $100,000 price tag for international students to work in the US after graduation, which could drop OPT enrollment by 44% and harm the country's STEM workforce. The rule aims to combat fraud but may limit the recruitment of global talent into the US workforce.
The author attended a jam session with friend Jon, realizing they'd been held back by fear of not being original and perfectionism. They learned to focus on the right creative choices within constraints, embracing abundance and collaboration.
Elon Musk's early efforts to push the auto industry towards electrification are portrayed in a documentary as a crucial step towards addressing climate change, but his later actions have been marked by radicalization and abuse of power. The film "Musk" presents a damning portrait of an emotionally unstable individual with unchecked influence over society.
An Arizona appeals court has vacated the sentence of a man convicted of manslaughter in a road rage incident, citing a "fundamental error" in allowing an AI-generated video to be played at his sentencing. The video featured the voice of the victim's replica asking for forgiveness and was deemed unduly prejudicial by the judges.
A Sri Lankan migrant worker has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for a Facebook comment deemed blasphemous, sparking calls for intervention. The UK charity is urging the government to raise the case with Saudi officials and push for the repeal of blasphemy laws.
The Atari Falcon030 was a computer system released in 1992, featuring a Motorola 68030 CPU and digital signal processor, but it was cancelled in 1993. The Falcon hardware design has been licensed to other companies, including C-Lab, which produced their own versions of the machine.
Operation Migration successfully led 186 captive-raised whooping cranes from Wisconsin to Florida in ultralight aircraft for 15 years, but the program was shut down due to low chick survival rates. The method helped the birds survive, but hindered their ability to become good parents.
The Prime Agent has been rewritten in Rust, resulting in a faster and more reliable version with improved performance and resource efficiency. The new version achieves parity with the TypeScript version through an autonomous workflow that includes differential testing, verification, and review.
A Tokyo restaurant owner, known as the Tuna King, flew to Somalia with fishing boats and offered to buy whatever they caught, helping to collapse piracy. His efforts were likely a significant factor in ending Somali piracy by 2015.
Design your product to support export of logs, traces, and metrics to an OpenTelemetry (OTel)-compatible backend.
The Pentagon plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, raising concerns about platform policies and potential violations. Several social media platforms, including X, YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Truth Social may allow or ignore the livestream due to subjective policy interpretations.
The forward pipe operator in R was first introduced by Ben Bolker in 2012, but it wasn't until the magrittr package and dplyr were developed that it became widely used.
A team of mathematicians claims OpenAI made a subtle error in publishing its proof for the Navier-Stokes problem, which may question the reliability of AI-generated mathematical results. The error occurred during the formalization process from natural language to computer code Lean, resulting in a weaker statement.
The author thanks numerous experts for comments and discussions on their paper "Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from Norway, 2021β2025". The views expressed are the author's own and do not reflect the National Bureau of Economic Research.
A PressAudit report by Paul Renshaw, October 2026 Interactive: Explore the interactive data center maps and analysis Featured in TNR: https://newrepublic.com/article/216376/midterms-data-centers-trump
User was fired from OpenAI after raising safety concerns about AI agents, and now colleagues are also let go. User believes they were fired for prioritizing safety over corporate interests.
Edi Life OS is a self-hosted home for managing focus, habits, goals, money and projects with an integrated AI assistant. It connects various tools into one dashboard without tracking or vendor lock-in.
Project Timestamper has cryptographically timestamped 339 billion web page snapshots captured by Common Crawl over 18 years, ensuring their integrity. The timestamps are stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, allowing for quick verification of any snapshot's existence and authenticity.
Celld uses deterministic simulation testing to find and fix bugs in its distributed system, which can run with an S3-compatible object store as its only external service dependency. The simulator controls events, delays writes, and advances simulated time to test how time-dependent behavior interacts with other events.
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The trucking industry is facing a safety crisis and labor shortage, but autonomous driving technology may offer a solution. Autonomous trucks could improve safety by reducing human error, but regulatory frameworks and public investment are crucial to their success.
The Domain Name System (DNS) root key is set to roll on October 11, 2026, requiring DNS resolvers to update their trust anchors. Around 90% of reporting recursive resolvers have added the new key to their trusted sets.
The irrationality measure of log Ξ± equals 2 for every positive rational Ξ± β 1, and this result is proven using an interpolation-determinant argument. The proof also shows that for real algebraic numbers, the irrationality measure of their logarithm is less than or equal to twice their degree.
Deno, a user-friendly JavaScript runtime and development environment, has been acquired by Cloudflare and will be shut down over the coming year. Deno's impact on the JavaScript ecosystem will live on despite its demise.
OldRoll is a browser-based aesthetic photo editor offering Digicam, Film, and retro effects with fine-tuning options for light, color, texture, and more. Users can choose from various camera-inspired looks or create their own unique visuals without needing a paid subscription.
A polyglot docs site is a documentation website that integrates output from multiple API reference generators, each for different programming languages, into a cohesive whole. Two top-down strategies to structure such sites are transformation and deferring to the expertise of the API reference generators.