ChatGPT Images 2.0 introduces a state-of-the-art image generation model with improved text rendering, multilingual support, and advanced visual reasoning.
The current limitations of HTTP-based chatbots are being addressed by new features such as async agents, workflows, and durable state storage, but these solutions still rely on polling or HTTP requests for notifications. A more robust solution is needed, such as a durable transport and state solution, which is being developed by Ably, a company building a session-based platform for AI agents.
Researchers developed a smart contact lens that tracks glaucoma in real time and delivers medicine in response to eye pressure. The electronics-free lens uses microfluidics to sense pressure and release drugs, offering a more comfortable and user-friendly option for glaucoma treatment.
The safe-gc crate is a garbage collection library for Rust that uses zero unsafe code, providing a safe API for users to consume and manage garbage collected objects. It implements simple mark-and-sweep garbage collection and avoids common garbage collection footguns, such as use-after-free bugs and memory leaks, by using Rust's ownership and borrowing discipline.
Complex systems evolve from simple ones and have inherent irreducible complexity. Understanding technology and managing it are often mutually exclusive, and quantifiable things can be measured for better outcomes.
NASA's Curiosity rover found over 20 organic compounds on Mars, including a nitrogen-bearing molecule linked to DNA, suggesting Mars can preserve life's building blocks. The discovery supports the idea that Mars may have had conditions suitable for life 3.5 billion years ago.
Acetaminophen is generally safer than ibuprofen for most people, but both have risks, especially if taken incorrectly. Official sources don't clearly state this due to complexity and fear of giving medical advice, prioritizing safety labels over comparative safety information.
A Vercel OAuth supply chain compromise exposed customer secrets at platform scale due to a compromised third-party OAuth application and Vercel's environment variable model. The incident highlights the risk of OAuth trust relationships bypassing traditional defenses and amplifying blast radius.
MuJoCo is a physics engine for simulating articulated structures, used in robotics, biomechanics, and machine learning. It has a C API and Python bindings, with interactive visualization and utility functions for physics-related quantities.
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A fully searchable, cross-referenced, and annotated digital edition of the 1910–1911 Encyclopædia Britannica — 40,000+ articles across 28 volumes.
GitHub Copilot's Individual plans are changing to protect existing customers by pausing new sign-ups, tightening usage limits, and adjusting model availability. These changes aim to ensure a predictable experience for existing users while a more sustainable solution is developed.
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Stephen's Sausage Roll, a sokoban game, released 10 years ago, has influenced modern puzzle games with its meticulous design and tough difficulty. It has inspired many developers, including Alan Hazelden, Patrick Traynor, Gwen Frey, Corey Martin, and Joseph Mansfield, to create their own puzzle games.
Interactive Sankey diagram showing energy flows in a fusion power plant. Adjust Q, conversion efficiency, and heating system efficiency to see how plasma gain translates to net electricity.
Rock carvings in Tanum, Sweden, date from 1,700 to 300 BCE and depict power, ritual, and warrior ideals. Over 600 known sites feature common motifs like ships, humans, and animals, but understanding their meaning remains a challenge.
The author compared Windows Server 2025 on Intel and ARM systems, finding ARM to be faster due to consistent performance and lower latency. ARM's steady execution timing benefits virtualized environments, but Intel's peak performance is still ideal for workloads requiring high throughput.
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro features Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors, up to 64GB of memory, and 8TB of storage. It's designed for Linux compatibility with a haptic touchpad and customizable ports.
Cal.diy is a self-hosted, open-source scheduling platform that allows users to manage their own scheduling infrastructure without commercial dependencies. It requires advanced knowledge of server administration and database management, and users must carefully review installation and configuration steps.
TagTinker is a Flipper Zero app for infrared ESL protocol study and controlled experiments on authorized hardware. It's licensed under GPL-3.0 and intended for educational research only.
Meta is installing software on US employees' computers to track keystrokes and mouse movements to train its AI. Employees are upset and cannot opt out of the program, but Meta says it's for improving AI models and has safeguards in place.
CrabTrap is an HTTP proxy that secures AI agents by blocking or approving requests in real time. It allows for editing and adding rules to intercept and log decisions made by the proxy.
The evolution of concurrency abstractions, from threads to callbacks to promises to async/await, has improved the local experience of writing async code but introduced new costs and complexities at the global level, such as function coloring and ecosystem fragmentation. Each solution solved a problem but introduced new structural costs, and language designers are now reevaluating the approach ...
A data engineer shared honest insights after 10 years of experience. He believes technology stacks don't matter, but certain tools are good at specific jobs.
Sterling Hooten, founder of Iku Bio, is developing a microfluidic bioreactor that uses printed circuit boards to culture, sense, and stream biological data in real-time, increasing experimental throughput by 10,000x at a 100x lower cost. Media optimization, a crucial step in biologics manufacturing, involves adjusting the composition and timing of cell culture media to optimize cell growth ...
US authorities are investigating the deaths and disappearances of at least 11 scientists with ties to NASA, nuclear research, and classified defense programs. The cases span multiple agencies and companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin, and have raised concerns about a potential national security threat.
It appears that Anthropic has removed Claude Code from its $20-a-month pro subscription based on its pricing page. Anyone able to confirm who has a $20 plan? claude.com/pricing
Kuri is a lightweight browser automation tool with a single 464 KB binary, optimized for agent integration and token economy. It offers a standalone fetcher, interactive terminal browser, and scriptable CLI for Chrome automation.
The user was debugging a bug in the EtherSLIP packet driver that caused data corruption when simulating an ARP response, and they found the issue to be a bug in the code that mixed and matched segment and offset registers. The bug was fixed by removing the incorrect move of DS into ES and continuing to use the ARP request buffer as the source of data for the simulated ARP response.