A year ago, we introduced AlphaEvolve, a Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms. We showed that AlphaEvolve can help make new discoveries on open problems across mathematics and

8 min read On April 29, 2026, a Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability was publicly disclosed under the name "Copy Fail" ( CVE-2026-31431 ). Cloudflare’s Security and Engineering teams

At the end of April, I ran a short campaign to find 15 more paying members of Not-Ship. And we did it! Thank you to the wonderful souls who chose to back this work. It means the world to me. ???? Ama

Over the last year, I’ve come to an unsettling realization—the upper middle class is caught in a trap, and many of them don’t realize it. A few weeks ago I wrote about why private school isn’t worth

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Source: CNBC, Financial Times, BBC, Reuters At this point it’s almost routine: Almost every time Donald Trump makes a major announcement about the Iran War, that announcement is preceded — sometimes

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A LinkedIn feature the average non-paying user likely only glances past could end up setting a legal precedent in the EU regarding how companies treat customer data that they've processed. Take a loo

Maachis Designer Sonal Nagwani, who started Maachis with Kevin Thomas and is now running it on her own, used to build miniature furniture out of matchboxes while growing up. “That tactile, almost obs

He has put up personal items, including a pair of socks, to fund his US$56 billion bid for the platform On Sunday, GameStop offered US$125 a share in cash and stock for eBay. PHOTO: NYTIMES [TEXAS]

If you tried to load amazon.de this evening and got a SERVFAIL, you weren't imagining it. On May 5, 2026, Germany's .de top-level domain — one of the largest country-code TLDs on the planet — had a ve

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Introduction Many idempotency designs start as a key-value lookup: given this Idempotency-Key , have we already produced a result? The client sends: POST /payments Idempotency-Key : abc-123 Content

- Advertisement - Zyphra just dropped a model that’s doing something most people will scroll past without understanding why it’s interesting. ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math benchmarks. Stays c

In each task, the agent receives an executable and its documentation, and it must re-implement the given executable. It does not get access to any of the executable's source code, it cannot de-compile

Neel Sundaresan doesn’t answer three questions. One of them, he says with some amusement, is why IBM Bob is named Bob. That particular deflection is telling. Sundaresan — GM of Automation and AI at I

How to Make LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA May 6, 2026 May 6, 2026 Authors: Daniel, Michael, Mathew and Datta, with help from NVIDIA Fine-tuning is one of today's most computationally i

A university student in Taiwan is out on bail after being accused of interfering with signals sent to the country's high-speed rail network, bringing trains to a halt. In a statement issued to local

First of all, correction for part 1 – the “focus mode” wasn’t removed. It was renamed to “quiet mode” and relocated to a different part of the UI, and I failed to spot it there. It’s still slightly pe

Apple doesn’t know which stores, neighborhoods, or clinics you visit. And Maps doesn’t require you to sign in to use it. Even if you choose to sign in, Maps keeps your data in sync across all your dev

Apple, arguably the largest phone and computer manufacturer in the world, isn’t immune to the chip shortage, as it once again reduced the highest memory capacity available for the Mac Studio and Mac M

The TD4 is a famous 4-bit CPU featured in the book How to Build a CPU by Kaoru Tonami. The book focuses on constructing a functional processor entirely from basic 74-series TTL logic ICs. While the bo

I wanted to test out the new Unsloth models for Qwen3.6 and Gemma4 on my gaming PC. llama.cpp on Windows is tedious to compile, and I have littered my Windows installation with too many toolchains alr

Yeah yeah, I know, data-point of 1. I recently read Susam's blog post where they said that "most of the traffic to my personal website still comes from web feeds" - I wondered if that was true for my

Living on light is a dangerous game. Not only do the sun’s rays carry ultraviolet waves that can snap DNA strands and degrade molecules, but they also vary wildly in intensity. Plants must endure and

You might not have asked for an AI model on your computer, but you might have gotten it anyway. Google Chrome has been installing a 4GB model onto devices without asking or notifying users. Google ha

This week, the Trump administration backpedaled and signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to run government safety checks on the firms’ frontier AI models before and after their r

TL;DR: Human data is directly related to what drug development demands, but is difficult to generate and perturb. Mouse data allows us to discover causality and is easy to generate, but is only a prox

The home security company ADT said cybercriminals breached company systems on Monday and stole a “limited set” of customer and prospective customer information. An investigation into the incident fou

A new hash table for Lwan 2026-05-06 For a long time, Lwan used to use a heavily modified version of the hash table from the kmod project. I was lightly involved with that project during its incepti

Adjust Share In Greek myth, Eos falls in love with Tithonus. She is the goddess of the dawn. He is a Trojan prince, yet still a mere mortal. Eos asks Zeus to give her mate the gift of eternal life—­b

A customer wanted to know how to inform Windows that they were opening a file in text mode, as opposed to binary mode. That way, Windows can perform text conversions as necessary, like adding carriage

May 6, 2026, 1:18 p.m. ET Dealing with customer service can be a cross to bear, even for the pope. Pope Leo XIV ran into trouble when he called his bank's customer service line last year, his longti

One of J. Edgar Hoover’s greatest reforms at the FBI was his embrace of fingerprinting. During the 1930s, visitors to the FBI offices in Washington, D.C., received souvenir fingerprint cards featuring

Models & Pricing The prices listed below are in units of per 1M tokens. A token, the smallest unit of text that the model recognizes, can be a word, a number, or even a punctuation mark. We will bill

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And th