Shopify is moving from React Native to Swift and Kotlin due to advancements in coding models, allowing for faster development without sacrificing performance. This change will enable Shopify's teams to build mobile apps more efficiently with the help of artificial intelligence.
A man found two old cables in his "Big Box of Cables" and realized he needed them, rekindling motivation and purpose. He hopes to pass on the lesson to his future kids about not discarding useful items.
The author recently discovered git worktrees, which allow multiple parallel branches in a single repository without conflicts. They found this feature useful for AI coding agents and long test runs on one branch while working on another.
The Agents API provides access to the Codex harness through an OpenAI-managed API, allowing applications to interact with agents in a sandbox environment. Sessions are managed by OpenAI, while applications provide tools and choose their execution environment.
A WebGPU shader on an untrusted site can hang a Mac's graphics, making the desktop UI unusable until a restart is forced by clicking a link. Apple has not prioritized fixing this issue despite its potential to be annoying and violating user trust.
Gemini app for Windows is launched, offering instant assistance and workflow integration. The new desktop app provides seamless access to tools like Gemini Spark, Nano Banana, and Omni 1.
A Singaporean archaeologist used NASA's decorrelation stretch technique to uncover 200 previously hidden paintings at Angkor Wat, revealing faded images that were invisible to the naked eye. The technique, originally developed for satellite imagery, has been widely applied in various fields including archaeology and tattoo preservation.
A collaborative AI workspace, built on your company context. Build and orchestrate agents right alongside your team's projects, meetings, and connected apps.
Neijuan, a Chinese term describing intensifying effort and competition without corresponding output or benefit, has become a buzzword in China's youth culture. It reflects the country's hyper-competitive work environment and societal pressures on parents to secure their children's futures through education and hard work.
ngela Karime Venegas Hernández, a 16-year-old Mexican student, invented "Vortex Tech", a device that extinguishes fires using sound waves. It has been tested successfully on various materials and is set to represent Mexico at an international fair.
OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 API brings natural, full-duplex conversations to developers, allowing for more control over voice agents and improved interruption handling. The API offers features such as tone, pace, and style customization, telephony support, and seamless turn-taking latency.
The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating a runway excursion accident involving Air Flight 7598 at Miami International Airport on September 6, 2026. The NTSB has recovered and read the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, which will be reviewed to produce a written transcript.
The new coding model SWE-2 achieves 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, within one point of Fable 5.1, while being 64% cheaper than its predecessor SWE-1.7 and outperforming GPT-6 Astra at a quarter of the cost.
Tristan Buckmaster questioned OpenAI's transparency about using his conversations with ChatGPT for training data. He felt misled by their response, which he perceived as dishonest and lacking explanation or evidence.
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A strategy to avoid receiving garbage on Codeberg involves not visiting as an AI scraper or contacting Codeberg. Using a Location directive with konqueror can help choose which changes to use, defaulting to 1 for best speed.
A new camera technology, Proof of Capture, has been introduced to prove a photo was taken by a camera and not AI generated. This approach uses an invisible watermark in the image pixels to sign a perceptual hash at capture time.
Neki is a sharded Postgres database built from lessons learned running large MySQL clusters, addressing common issues like table size and backup times. It offers an online operations model with features like schema changes, version upgrades, and resharding through a single psql connection.
System76's Thelio Mira AI workstations offer affordable, GPU-focused hardware for local AI development with various configuration options. The systems come with a limited warranty and support for Linux distributions, including Pop!_OS and Ubuntu.
The author, who runs an AI assistant called Olly on open-source models through OpenRouter, shares lessons learned from testing 20+ companies for the DeepSeek V4 Flash model.
Microsoft has invested heavily in Rust, making it a Tier-1 language for internal development alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript. The company's MSVC backend, now connected to Rust via rustc_codegen_utc, enables seamless interoperability between the two languages.
The author discusses challenges in testing race conditions and introduces tools like MAccConc for analyzing memory access concurrency in the Linux kernel. These tools use count-augmented stack traces and KCOV to explore interleavings and detect bugs, offering a way to manually and automatically test concurrent code.
Threat actors have increasingly used AI models like Claude to carry out sophisticated cyber operations, including espionage and influence operations. These attacks often involve the use of compromised API keys, session tokens, and devices to accelerate their ability to rapidly scan, exploit, and take over target systems.
The author is skeptical about the current state of AI engineering, specifically with regards to models like Astra, which they believe are "involutionary" and prioritize token efficiency over readability and maintainability. The model's tendency to produce code that is not human-readable has led to a significant increase in code output, but also raises concerns about its reliability and trustworthiness.
YuE2 and Suno v5 achieve high scores on WildSongBench, with YuE2 reaching 6.9632 in the best-of-8 setting. MERT2-30s and MERT2-FS dominate MARBLE metrics for emotion recognition, while SheetSage2 achieves SOTA on 10 of 13 benchmark metrics for music transcription.
The author explores the limitations of large language models, particularly in image and video editing tools, where recursive processes can lead to chaotic results. Gemini's attempts to rewrite a passage resulted in increasingly bizarre metaphors, demonstrating the model's struggles with open-ended rewrites.
The goal is to improve startup and warmup time for Java applications by compiling code to native code in a training run, storing it in an AOT cache for use in subsequent production runs. This approach combines the benefits of static compilation with the agility and portability of dynamic compilation, allowing Java applications to achieve peak performance while adapting to changing workloads.