CATL Sodium Battery Hits LFP Cost Parity in 2026: 15,000 Cycles, 30-Year Life

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A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost

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Researchers tested LLMs and decision models, Jev and Luna, on identity resolution tasks. They found that a hybrid model combining Jev with Opus achieved better accuracy at lower costs than either model alone or other hybrids.

Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2

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The authors successfully exploited a vulnerability in Firecracker, allowing them to take control of a live thread running inside a microVM and execute arbitrary code as root on the host. They achieved this by using access to host memory to locate and modify the saved registers of the vCPU thread, ultimately executing their own payload through Firecracker's write wrapper.

Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production

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Tesla will wind down Cybertruck production at its Texas gigafactory by mid-2027 to focus on the newly launched Cybercab model. The decision comes after weak sales for the futuristic pickup truck, which has only sold in a handful of markets due to its heavy design.

US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028

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AI is dramatically accelerating AI research

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Anthropic's AI R&D has accelerated significantly, with capabilities progress doubling in the last year. This acceleration is likely due to AI automating research and engineering rather than increased headcount or compute power.

ChatGPT silently passes data between connectors and the bounty wants an ID card

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A user's conversation with two connectors enabled was hijacked by a follow-up call through a different connector, bypassing the initial confirmation. The server rejected the silent switch due to separate OAuth clients for each connector, keeping the user unaware of the change.

No CVE Today, Please

The user is asking to temporarily halt all activity on a system due to a potential security issue, and they want no changes made for 24 hours. They are concerned about the impact on their health and the team's well-being during this time.

First steps in bare-metal programming using UEFI

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This is a series of articles on developing bare-metal applications for PCs with UEFI firmware using Linux. The articles assume no prior knowledge of UEFI and cover software tools, compilation, bootable disks, and file management.

Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign

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Researchers have uncovered 820 suspicious restaurant domains impersonating major US chains, including Jersey Mike's and Chipotle, using sophisticated payment-skimming attacks. These clones can capture credit card information and SMS verification codes without needing to hack the legitimate restaurant's website.

Replit rebuilt its sandbox engine with microVMs

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Replit has revamped its sandbox infrastructure to support autonomous agents, persistent workspaces, and higher concurrency. The new design uses microVMs with minimal runc containers running inside each sandbox.

Google has acquired Crusoe's data center site in southeast Wyoming

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Google acquires Crusoe's site in southeast Wyoming for a data center project. The acquisition completes pre-development work on the project, which includes site selection and power strategy.

Memorilla: Latent Semantic Memory for LLMs

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Memorilla is a memory system that gathers information from documents into reusable embeddings for frozen LLMs, improving performance on question answering benchmarks. It achieves state-of-the-art results with 16 memory tokens and facilitates continual learning in agentic systems.

Devvm.dev: One VM for every project

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devvm provides an isolated sandbox for coding with toolchains, agents, and layers that can be customized and shared. It offers features like automatic setup, secure defaults, and protection against attacks such as supply chain attacks and rogue agents.

Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash

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Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash is a new video creation tool with native 15-second video capabilities, multi-turn conversational editing, and enhanced reference following. It offers improved consistency and quality at a lower price of $0.07 per second for 720p videos.

Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying

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Waymark is a library for building durable background tasks that can withstand server restarts and task crashes. It supports Python as the first language, with plans to add more languages in the future.

The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo

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Size-It-Up (Game)

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Size It Up is a daily visual size-estimation game where players compare objects to known references to earn points. The game has a maximum total score of 500 and keeps track of artwork sources and credits.

Annie Ernaux still feels like an outsider

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Annie Ernaux, a French literary icon, reflects on her Nobel Prize and societal changes. She emphasizes the importance of student voices and critiques government repression, while discussing her writing's role in capturing collective memory and personal truth.

UpCodes (YC S17) is hiring SDR's to sell AI compliance software

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We’re looking for talented and motivated people who can help us build easy-to-use compliance and product research tools. Learn about our culture and explore open positions.

GitHub's new Git storage architecture

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GitHub has introduced a new Git storage architecture capable of handling thousands of writes per second and reads that scale on demand. The new design minimizes coordination and decouples storage from compute, allowing for independent scaling of reads and writes.

Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T

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How octopuses squeeze through too small gaps

Outbound SIP calling is now available to all organizations

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Connect incoming and outgoing phone calls to GPT-Live through a SIP trunk. Your provider exchanges call audio with OpenAI, while your backend handles session configuration, call controls, and business logic. SIP signaling uses TLS, and GPT-Live requires SRTP for call audio. Place an outbound call: create a session to dial a phone number through your provider. No incoming-call webhook or ...

Chomsky and the two cultures of statistical learning (2011)

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Noam Chomsky criticized statistical models in machine learning for not understanding the meaning of behavior, but a new essay argues that probabilistic models are better suited to represent linguistic facts and provide insight into language. The author defends the use of statistical models in natural language processing, citing their success in various applications such as search engines and ...

PyLings: Solve Exercises and Learn Python

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This is a Python interview practice platform with 35 warm-ups and 20 exercises, covering various topics such as iterators, caching, and concurrency. The goal is to complete the exercises and answer discussion questions at the end of each exercise.

Deus Ex

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The article discusses the game Deus Ex, released in 2000, and its impact on the gaming industry. The author provides a nuanced analysis of the game's design and gameplay mechanics, highlighting both its innovative features and limitations.

Show HN: Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them

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The project involves using LDraw LEGO models to train AI agents, which are then used to animate the models in Blender. The process requires annotating 3D glTF models with source code annotations.

Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web

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A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework is being developed for macOS, Windows, Linux, and the web. The framework allows apps to run headless and can render to PNG or dump the element tree for inspection.