Tim Cook will become Apple's executive chairman on September 1, 2026, while John Ternus will take over as CEO. Ternus has been with Apple for 25 years and has overseen many groundbreaking products.
People are resisting AI by intentionally feeding it trash data to waste its training, citing AI's negative impact on the world. This resistance aims to make AI companies rethink their data sourcing methods.
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is an early preview of a proprietary model with stronger world knowledge and instruction following, along with improved agentic coding. It achieves top scores on six major coding benchmarks and is available through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio API.
We are open-sourcing the Kimi Vendor Verifier (KVV) project to ensure open-source models run correctly everywhere. KVV includes Pre-Verification, AIME2025, K2VV ToolCall, Upstream Fix, Pre-Release Validation, and Continuous Benchmarking to improve model accuracy and trust.
Lucebox rewrites LLM inference software for specific chips, achieving high performance and efficiency. It uses techniques like kernels, speculative decoding, and quantization tailored per target, with projects like megakernel and DFlash demonstrating significant speedups.
The US has attempted to equip its entire tactical air fleet with the F-35, a masterpiece but expensive and limited platform, which may not be suitable for protracted wars. A balanced force with unmanned systems could hedge against the F-35's limitations and provide a more sustainable solution.
A Carnegie Mellon University study found 6 million fake GitHub stars across 18,617 repositories, with AI/LLM repos being the largest non-malicious category. The study's tool, StarScout, identified fake stars distributed by roughly 301,000 accounts.
ggsql is a new data visualization tool that uses SQL syntax to create rich, structured visualizations, making it easy for SQL users to create custom plots. The tool is designed to be powerful, ergonomic, and safe, with a focus on integrating with AI agents and code-based reporting tools, and is currently available in alpha release.
Kefir is an independent C17/C23 compiler developed by Jevgenij Protopopov, validated with 100 software projects and targeting x86_64 architecture.
Deezer reports a surge in AI-generated music uploads, with 60,000 tracks daily, but 85% are detected as fraudulent. The company will no longer store hi-res AI tracks and labels them for transparency.
AES-128 is safe against quantum computers due to the difficulty of parallelizing Grover's algorithm, making it impractical to break with current technology. Experts, including NIST, agree that AES-128 remains secure for decades to come, and no key size changes are necessary as part of the post-quantum transition.
Someone wrote a unit test for @servo 10 years ago with a cookie expiry date of April 18, 2026, now the CI is broken. Maintainers suggest using system time or a library like TimeCop to make tests more robust.
Culling is a crucial optimization technique in game development that reduces unnecessary work by skipping objects, triangles, or lights that are not visible to the player. Various culling techniques, including distance, frustum, occlusion, and meshlet culling, can be combined and layered to achieve the best results, with the goal of being conservative with correctness and aggressive with wasted work.
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Bloom is a platform that generates on-brand marketing assets in seconds, helping small businesses avoid template-like designs. It raised ~$1M from YC and notable investors, aiming to build a Brand OS system.
Kimi K2.6 is a state-of-the-art open-sourced model featuring long-horizon execution, agent swarm capabilities, and strong improvements in coding tasks. It demonstrates exceptional reliability, instruction following, and out-of-distribution generalization, setting a new bar for open-sourced models in agentic workflows.
Organizations can appear to be functioning well but actually be stalled due to hidden maps such as expertise, trust, memory, and influence that don't align with the formal org chart. Making these maps visible can reveal the real organization in execution and expose institutional dysfunction, but it can also be politically challenging and uncomfortable for those benefiting from the current ambiguity.
The C standard library's string.h functions, such as memcpy, are often implemented as built-in functions by the compiler due to their importance in program speed, and can be optimized using x86 assembly instructions like rep movsq and SIMD extensions. The glibc's implementation of these functions, such as memcpy and memset, uses indirect functions that can choose the most efficient ...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down, with John Ternus taking over as CEO on September 1, 2026. Cook will transition to chairman of the board, assisting with certain aspects of the company.
Government urges staff to switch from Silicon Valley to Visio platform. France and Germany disagree on detoxing from Big Tech, with France filing a complaint against Kick.
I spent 3 years building Unity games by copying tutorials and stitching forum scripts together. Then an interviewer asked me what Queue<T> was. I could not answer.
The author is leaving the Kindle ecosystem due to Amazon's shift from prioritizing ownership to control, citing forced obsolescence, invasive telemetry, and a focus on the storefront over the library.
Self-hosting breaks down when customers modify software settings, making it hard to debug issues. A better model allows developers to operate software in customers' environments while maintaining control.
Saunas have a therapeutic effect and promote cardiovascular health by stimulating the heart and increasing blood volume. Sauna use is linked to better same-day recovery, with lower nighttime heart rates and increased activity.
Iryna Stetsenko and her fiancé Serhiy Lobanov got married in Pripyat on April 26, 1986, unaware of the nearby Chernobyl nuclear disaster. They were evacuated three days later due to radiation exposure.
Figma is vulnerable to disruption from AI-powered design tools like Claude Design, which can perform design tasks with ease. Figma's reliance on expensive AI inference and large employee base makes it difficult to compete with smaller teams inside frontier labs.
The user discusses the security risks of current agent gateways, comparing them to the insecure MS-DOS era, and proposes a safer architecture for agents. The user's own project, Wirken, uses separate processes, hardened containers, and a hash-chained audit database to provide a more secure agent gateway.