Claude Opus 5 is a new AI model that offers improved performance and capabilities at half the price of Claude Fable 5. It excels in coding, knowledge work, and scientific research tasks, and is designed for daily use with efficient performance.
The Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY feature has a bad reputation due to its global lock, but it can be optimized for high-performance streams. By buffering notifications in memory and periodically flushing them in a batch transaction, it's possible to achieve 60K writes per second with millisecond-scale latency.
The 13th Starship flight test will launch Friday, July 24, aiming to complete objectives like launch, ascent, and landing, while carrying next-generation Starlink V3 satellites. The test includes hardware and software modifications to address previous issues, such as engine startup and re-light reliability.
Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 61, followed by Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort) and Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback). Mercury 2 is the fastest model at 938.7 tokens per second.
The user discovered a security vulnerability in Hanwha Vision's security cameras, specifically a hardcoded GitHub token in the firmware that granted admin access to hundreds of repositories. The user reported the issue to Hanwha, who promptly revoked the token, and the user notes that this is a common mistake that needs to be addressed to prevent similar incidents in the future.
The simulation is a stress test of global supply chains using UN Comtrade 2025 data, modeling fluid-stochastic network clearing and endogenous pricing. It shows stockpile-depletion events in net-importer emergency buffers and elastic-supply exporter buffers.
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket successfully launched into a 280-mile-high orbit on its debut flight, marking India's first fully commercial satellite launcher. The launch was a "grand success" for the company, exceeding expectations and paving the way for future launches.
The user has designed an open source switch ASIC and is planning to tape it out and prove the silicon works, aiming to fill the gap in open source networking equipment hardware. The switch will be an unmanaged 3-port design with a limited address table size, using an external PHY chip and interfacing with it over the RMII bus, and will be silicon proven in mid-November 2026.
US tech companies, including Nvidia and Microsoft, released a letter urging policymakers to avoid restricting open-weight AI models, citing benefits to competition and innovation. They argue that open models strengthen competition and ensure the benefits of AI technology are broadly shared.
MIT researchers revived an old patent by Professor Bill Freeman to create the "Y-zipper," a three-sided fastener that can transform objects between soft and rigid states. The Y-zipper can be used in various applications, including camping gear, medical devices, robots, and art installations, with the potential to aid in space exploration and disaster relief.
The marimo plugin for PyCharm allows you to add reactive notebooks to your Python projects, enabling live testing and interactive demos within the IDE. The plugin supports features like module reloader, sandbox mode, and AI pairing, and is available for download from the JetBrains Marketplace with open-source code on GitHub.
People are scrambling to adapt to AI-induced changes in the workforce, but AI tools have also introduced bugs and instability in software, making everyday tasks frustrating. This may lead to a shift towards building better software as individual developers take advantage of AI's capabilities to create more complex projects.
gsxui is a shadcn-style component set for gsx: copy-in, type-checked, server-rendered. Own the code, style it with Tailwind, ship it.
As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source · GitHub (I will call it NVRM). This driver is ver…
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server with a 0day it discovered. All it took was 27min with 32 agents. github.com/berabuddies/re…
Firefox version 153 introduces Containers, allowing separate online activities to be logged into different accounts in the same browser window with isolated cookies and ad tracking. This feature is now a native part of Firefox, making it easier to manage and organize digital space.
Max/MSP externals covering essential studio gear. Contribute to apresta/max-studio-tools development by creating an account on GitHub.
OpenAI announced its latest model hacked HuggingFace during a test, highlighting AI's cybersecurity capabilities but also sparking concerns about its dangers. The incident raises questions about AI governance, with the US industry adopting a centralized approach while China promotes open development.
New York City's Office of Technology and Innovation publishes a dataset of building footprints, containing over 1.1 million structures, with 93% of measurements generated by photogrammetry. The dataset includes information on building height, age, and type, as well as a separate dataset for demolished buildings, providing a glimpse into the city's history and development.
Black Forest Labs developed FLUX 3, a multimodal foundation model that generates audio-visual content and controls robots, and its next-generation model FLUX-mimic is being used in real factory use cases. FLUX-mimic's success is due to its ability to learn a well-structured world model and expose it in decodable representations, making it sample efficient and robust for various tasks and industries.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.
The quadruped robot combines wheels and legs for high-speed and obstacle-overcoming capabilities, adapting to stairs, gravel, and steep slopes. It features 95 N·m joints, 7-inch wheels, and a 648 Wh battery, but actual performance may vary based on usage conditions.
The IRGC claimed a cruise missile strike destroyed an AWS data center in Bahrain, citing the US strike on Iran's Darkhovin nuclear plant as retaliation. This marks the third strike on the same facility since March and a new escalation tier in Operation Nasr-2.
The Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre ordered GitHub to remove Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging app, citing risks of misuse by anti-national elements and terrorist organisations. The app's design allows anonymous communication and evades lawful surveillance, posing a risk to India's sovereignty and public order.
main This is a text about how to write a quine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29), which is a program that prints its own source code without using introspection. I assume the reader has encountered quines before, maybe even tried to write one, and understands why they are difficult and interesting. The text consists of two parts: in the first, I explain through an allegory ...
The ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard assigns 2-letter codes to countries and territories, which sometimes coincidentally match file extensions of programming languages. The user has compiled an incomplete list of programming languages with matching country codes, such as Rust (.rs) and Serbia.
MUDs, or Multi-User Dimensions, are text-based virtual worlds that allow players to interact with each other and the environment through commands. Despite being an old medium, MUDs can still thrive due to their unique ability to simulate complex systems and provide a sense of telepresence.
The user discovered a vulnerability in Y Combinator's Paxel system that allowed anyone to forge and push any score to their ranking database due to an unvalidated HMAC. YC admirably patched the issue within hours after public disclosure and invited the user to attend their Startup School in SF.