Studying cognition by averaging data from many people’s brain scans hides how individuals use their brains, new Stanford Medicine research has shown. In particular, children who struggle with goal-or

TL;DR The DiskANN paper explained the Vamana algorithm, but implementing it made the missing engineering details obvious. My first version used the right algorithm with the wrong data structures, so

Python install manager 26.1 Release date: March 31, 2026 The Python install manager for Windows is our tool for installing and managing runtimes. The traditional executable installer will stop being

Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer and prepared for war 7 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Stephanie Hegarty Population correspondent, BBC World Service

Commitment Issues: Unverified Evaluations in Dusk's PLONK We found a critical soundness vulnerability in dusk-plonk, the PLONK implementation powering Dusk Network's ~$60M market cap. By exploiting a

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A preprint on the SimdQuickHeap (github:RagnarGrootKoerkamp/QuickHeap) with the latest results can now be found on arXiv (DOI, PDF): Johannes Breitling, Ragnar Groot Koerkamp, Marvin Williams. 2026.

Hello Windows Insiders I’ve now spent the past two months in this expanded role leading the Windows Insider Program. Two themes have stood out in my conversations with you. First, you want more trans

Trauma, Isolation, and Defying the Stereotypes In South Korea, turning 50 often marks a quiet but profound turning point for men—both native and foreign. For Korean men, it frequently signals the end

I’m drawn to San Francisco’s many humorously similar street names, which are liable to confuse both locals and out-of-towners. Prominent examples are Mason St. and Masonic Ave., or Divisadero St. and

A Quieter Revolution We live in an age where artificial intelligence is coming for everything — from accountancy to software development. There were, until recently, a few domains we assumed would re

By Rohana Rezel I’m running the ongoing AI Coding Contest where I pit major language models against each other in real-time programming tasks with objective scoring. Day 12 was the Word Gem Puzzle. T

TOKYO, May 02 (News On Japan) - A hotel in Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, known for offering one of Japan’s earliest sunrise views, has remained closed months after its sudden suspension of operations in l

AI is increasingly at the heart of enterprise applications and software workflows. But even today’s most powerful AI systems rarely rely on a single model or capability. Instead, these systems tend to

My last metastable blog post discussed the interactions between systems and components and how they can lead to metastable failures. Specifically, I looked at interactions between systems/components a

Adding author context to RSS RSS, ATOM, and JSON feeds may be getting a much-needed update to the spec with the addition of Byline, which provides structured identity (AKA: author details) for syndic

183107844 story "The war in Iran has sent oil-starved countries scrambling for fuel," CNN reported this week . And many of those countries now want renewable fuels, the article points out, "leaving t

The clandestine network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout 3 hours ago Share Save Add as preferred on Google Reha Kansara BBC Global Disinformation Unit BBC Sahand packs a Sta

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is one of the world's most common viruses, thought to be lurking in 95 percent of adults. For most, it causes no obvious symptoms. But EBV is more than a short-term infec

They may have seemed cute when they debuted, but delivery robots are clogging sidewalks, creeping through intersections and generally creating many more problems than they solve. This is read by an a

Philip Su's recent post argues that code reviews are not just impractical in the age of coding agents, they're headed toward being irresponsible. He's right on trend. But I think the framing of "light

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Modern commentators have tended to ignore the (incidental) details of Turing’s original game and rephrase his message in these terms: if you are communicating remotely with a machine and, after rigoro

On April 29, Xint Code dropped a Linux kernel privilege escalation that makes every other LPE look like it’s trying too hard. It doesn’t need a race condition or kernel-specific offsets and it doesn’t

The editors of the Haskell Blog are happy to announce a new series of articles called "Haskellers from the trenches", where we invite experienced engineers to talk about their subjects of expertise, b

“If these machines are not conscious, what more could it possibly take to convince you that they are?” That’s the question that esteemed scientist and outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins asks in a new c

As companies have embraced generative AI, the Oscars won’t be playing ball in that respect. On Friday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced new eligibility rules. Going forward,

A curated, developer friendly learning path for building real-time voice AI agents from your first STT call to scaling production telephony. Voice AI has moved from research demos into shipping produ

A Sunnyvale man says the Waymo that took him to the airport neglected to open the trunk for him to retrieve his luggage before driving off. The company wants him to pay for shipping, or take two compl

AWS Lightsail vs Galaxy Cloud Solutions: An Honest Comparison (2026) AWS Lightsail markets itself as the simple, affordable entry point into Amazon Web Services. The listed prices look clean and pred

Greg Hogan, an affiliate of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will serve as acting assistant commissioner of the Technology Transformation Services (TTS), a unit within the Gen

For over a decade now, Tesla has sold a promise of vehicles that can drive themselves, even stating that every car it produced had all the hardware for self-driving. But after years of the company be

Apple's most affordable MacBook ever appears to be a resounding hit with customers, based on comments shared by CEO Tim Cook this week. On an earnings call on Thursday, Cook said that customer resp

183105788 story Long-time Slashdot reader Anne Thwacks frequently uses YouTube's subtitles "not to disturb others in the room, or because my hearing is not very good." But they say there's a new prob

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted unanimously on Thursday to advance a proposal that would strip every testing lab in China and Hong Kong of its ability to certify electronics for sale

Attention is a computational primitive at the core of modern language models, allowing internal representations to reference and influence each other. It’s how these models handle sequential data in t