Microsoft introduces MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model for fast and efficient assistance in developer workflows. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 with better price to performance and is now rolling out to GitHub Copilot users in VS Code.
The user is frustrated with Gmail's new AI features that nag and interrupt them while composing emails. They're switching to Fastmail after 16 years with Gmail due to the unwanted features.
We CT scanned four BYD componentsβa battery cell, window switch, EV charger, and key fobβto see what's inside the world's best-selling EV that's banned in the U.S.
Microsoft introduced MAI-Thinking-1, a strong AI model trained from scratch on enterprise data, demonstrating advanced reasoning and coding capabilities. It's designed for human-centric AI, with a focus on safety, security, and enterprise readiness, and is available in private preview on Microsoft Foundry.
The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) helps combine repair data on electronics by defining a shared approach. It collects data on product, repair, and session information to identify trends globally and locally.
The HP 16c Collector's Edition retains the classic layout but is 100x faster with customizable word size and base conversions. It features programming capabilities with conditional branching, subroutines, and flags, and supports up to 203 bytes of program memory.
This walking tour in downtown Seattle aims to expose the hidden layers of surveillance technology in the city, including cameras, license plate readers, and data collection systems, and to raise questions about their use and impact on society. The tour highlights various surveillance tools and sites, including Amazon Go, Acyclica, the Washington State Fusion Center, and a peering site, and ...
Big Tech companies are proposing a built-in advertising system, Attribution Level 1, which prioritizes their own tracking over user privacy. This system could lead to more money for Big Tech and less for legitimate sites, while also enabling riskier tracking practices.
Adafruit received a letter from Flux's counsel demanding they stop publishing an article about Flux's intellectual property and user base. Adafruit has temporarily stopped publishing to consider their response to the demand.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing AI-driven cyber threats with a voluntary review process for AI companies. The order aims to enhance national security and global AI dominance while avoiding heavy federal oversight.
The app uses a phone microphone to detect breathing patterns in real-time, without uploading audio or speech analysis. It provides biofeedback by reflecting the user's breathing back to them, without forcing extreme or forced breathing.
Rishi and Sahil developed Rudus, an AI-powered takeoff and estimation platform for concrete subcontractors. It accelerates their workflow by auto-classifying plans, detecting concrete elements, and generating line items for estimators to review and export.
Kapa's AI assistant uses a vision model at indexing time to describe images as text, then retrieves these descriptions alongside text chunks at query time, improving answer quality and reducing costs. This approach, which involves describing images once at ingestion and storing them as separate text chunks, outperforms query-time vision and is more cost-effective for large-scale applications.
The user is learning Clojure and finds it ergonomic and powerful, preferring it over Common Lisp and Scheme due to its cohesive design and large standard library. They appreciate Clojure's simplicity and uniformity, but acknowledge some pain points, such as its syntax and the need to learn Java for interop.
QBE 1.3 is a significant release with 7k new lines of code and 1.5k deleted ones, featuring a new IL matching algorithm and optimizations. It achieves 63% of commercial compiler performance on coremark and 33% improvement on the Hare test suite.
Doubleword is building an inference cloud using AMD's MI300X, a high-end AI accelerator. The MI300X is underappreciated due to software issues, but it offers 192GB of HBM3 and comparable FP8 compute to NVIDIA's H100 at a lower price.
The author promotes Janet, a small, easy-to-learn Lisp dialect with a simple syntax and powerful features like macros and implicit serialization. Janet is ideal for writing command-line apps, scripting, and embedding in other languages due to its ease of use and flexibility.
User is considering GitHub Copilot preview, and agrees to share info for personalized communications and targeted ads. GitHub Copilot is currently available to existing Pro users, with future access for free users and new customers.
Project Glasswing is expanding to 150 new organizations in 15 countries to secure software with AI. The goal is to adapt to AI's changing cybersecurity landscape and prevent catastrophic attacks affecting over 100 million people.
FidoNet is a point-to-point email network that uses modems to connect over 20,000 nodes worldwide, allowing users to send and receive email and news. The network was developed in 1984 and has a unique addressing system, with gateways to the Internet and other networks, and a strong focus on user autonomy and minimal technical support.
Microsoft has developed Scout, an 'autopilot' AI agent that can run independently to complete tasks across Microsoft 365 applications. Scout is available as an experimental release to Frontier program customers, with pricing details yet to be announced.
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Plasma is transitioning to Wayland, removing X11 support in Plasma 6.8. This change will allow for new performance improvements and features, but may require custom scripts and workflows to adapt.
Systemd timers are a modern alternative to traditional cron jobs, offering more flexibility and features such as stdout and stderr output control and calendar versus time span units. They can be configured to run at specific times, intervals, or relative to other events, and provide a clear picture of scheduled tasks with the list-timers subcommand.
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Great Question is hiring an AI-native Software Engineering intern for a 3-month summer program. The intern will work on real AI-focused projects, own a project from day one, and collaborate with the CTO as a mentor.
The author discusses the design of primitives in BQN, arguing that they should be discovered rather than invented, and that they should have a fixed role and be represented by symbols.
Governments worldwide are introducing age verification measures to supposedly protect children, but this actually lays the groundwork for a fully government-controlled internet and mass surveillance. Identity verification, which is the correct term for age verification, restricts freedom of information and expression, and can be used to censor and control citizens, ultimately leading to a ...
RePlaya is a self-hosted session replay built on S2, storing each session as one S2 stream. It replays sessions live and allows filtering and exporting.
Athena is a lightweight Change Data Capture (CDC) solution that streams changes from Microsoft SQL Server to Apache Kafka. Built in Golang, it supports SASL-authenticated Kafka brokers and provides a straightforward setup experience. Unlike alternatives such as Debezium, which can be complex to configure and manage. Athena offers greater simplicity and operational ease. It automatically ...
My father shared a three-part rule about honesty and deception. The rule states that lying to those who want lies gets you rich, telling the truth to those who want it gets you a living, and telling the truth to those who want lies gets you broke.