The last six months in LLMs in five minutes 19th May 2026 I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, using the latest iteration of my annotated presentation tool. I...
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Until this past weekend, a contractor for the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) maintained a public GitHub repository that exposed credentials to several highly privileged AWS GovCloud accounts and a...
PRESS RELEASE May 19, 2026 Apple unveils new accessibility features, and updates powered by Apple Intelligence With Apple Intelligence, detailed descriptions and natural language navigation are coming to features such...
The Virtual OS Museum This is a virtual museum of operating systems (and standalone applications) running under emulation, implemented as a Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM. A custom emulator-independent launcher...
Gemini 3.5: frontier intelligence with action Today, we’re introducing Gemini 3.5, our latest family of models combining frontier intelligence with action. This represents a major leap forward in building more capable,...
When we shipped Gemini CLI last year, our goal was to bring the magic of Gemini directly into your terminal. Along the way, we’ve learned a lot from our community of millions of users, with over 100,000 GitHub stars,...
A new era for AI Search The goal of Search has always been simple: to help you ask anything on your mind — from quick facts to the deep, complex or hyper-specific questions that can be hard to articulate. To make this...
Last Thursday night, I was working late, trying to put some of the finishing touches on our forthcoming World Cup model — and actually looking up an article I’d written for FiveThirtyEight in 2014 about my previous...
Drainage district workers in Nueces County, Texas, were doing routine maintenance on a ditch outside Robstown in January 2026 when they noticed something they had not seen before. A pipe they did not recognize,...
Railway Service Disruption Major Outage Dashboard (railway.com) Login - GitHub Login - Google DNS Traffic Build Machines (GCP) Image Registry (GCP) TCP Proxy (GCP) Southeast Asia (GCP / Singapore) US East (GCP /...
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Everything in C is undefined behavior If he had been a programmer, Cardinal Richelieu would have said âGive me six lines written by the hand of the most expert C programmer in the world, and I will find enough in them...
Table of Contents Impact Incident Timeline What Happened? Preventative Measures???? This report reflects what we know at time of publication and may be updated pending Google Cloud's internal review. Railway experienced...
College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos — 'deal with it' one speaker fires back as students heckle positive pitches for AI's role Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt received a cold reception...
The undersigned organisations condemn Meta’s recent decision to restrict the Facebook and Instagram accounts of independent NGOs, researchers, and civil society figures from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia and the...
Adieu Visa et Mastercard: 130 millions d'Européens basculent vers un paiement 100 % souverain dès 2026 L'Europe règle ses comptes L'Europe lance enfin sa riposte technologique face à l'hégémonie américaine. Cinq géants...
GitHub has confirmed that roughly 3,800 internal repositories were breached after one of its employees installed a malicious VS Code extension. The company has since removed the unnamed trojanized extension from the VS...
Table of Contents VICTORY! Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins $835,000 settlement after First Amendment lawsuit NASHVILLE, May 20, 2026 — After spending 37 days in jail for nothing more than posting a...
Overview The spend on public cloud is fast approaching $1 trillion per year - we estimate this boundary will be crossed before the turn of the decade. Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) and...
Renaissance Europe admired ancient Rome, ancient Rome admired ancient Greece, and ancient Greece admired ancient Egypt. But the admiration could actually go both ways in that last case, since the two civilizations’...
About Kyber With Kyber, companies operating in regulated industries can quickly draft, review, and send complex regulatory notices. For example, when Branch Insurance's claims team has to settle a claim, instead of...
Sharla Boehm earned a teaching degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, before she channeled her talent for math into computer programming. While working at the RAND Corporation, she built a groundbreaking...
Your life’s goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be. Your path, your character, your life, should be the most unlikely, the most unexpected, the least predictable version you can make. Improbable...
Axe-time, sword-time, shields are sundered, Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls.–Völuspá, Poetic Edda As of Firefox 148, SpiderMonkey’s asm.js optimizations are disabled by default, and we plan to remove the code...
Structural Backpressure Beats Smarter Agents Formal verification gates for AI coding loops, in the language you're already shipping. Some of the most serious software bugs are also the most boring. A user should not be...
EDIT: Lutz Euler points out that the NEXT sequence (used to) encode an effective address with an index register but no base. The mistake doesn’t affect the meaning of the instruction, but forces a wasteful encoding. The...
I submitted Inkwell for iOS to Apple for review on April 21st. It has gone through numerous rejections, code changes, resubmissions, clarifications, one phone call, and one appeal to the review board, which I’m still...
this page describes the full technical specifications of the flipper one since the device is under active development, specifications may change flipper one outline size and weight ⚠️ final weight is pending — value...
Roger Creus Castanyer, Geoffrey Bradway, Lorenz Wolf, Maxwill Lin, Augustine N. Mavor-Parker, Matthew James Sargent Description We introduce PopuLoRA, a population-based asymmetric self-play framework for reinforcement...
Why age assurance laws matter for developers Youth safety requirements are moving down the tech stack to operating systems and app stores—raising new questions for open source developers. Policymakers around the world...
In Yesterday’s IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. (See longer description on their website.) TL;DR: They are pushing Search more into the “here’s your processed answer” direction that “AI...
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DistroWatch Weekly DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1173, 18 May 2026 Welcome to this year's 20th issue of DistroWatch Weekly! Have you ever wanted to set up a FreeBSD server, maybe with some virtual machines or jails, but...
To the young programmers of the World! The cry of the rebellion we launch here, in which we firmly implant our ideals alongside those of the Futurist painters, does not come from a little aesthetic minded clique but, on...
The last few weeks I traveled through Africa, with barely any internet. At some point I got an email from Google Search Console about a new owner for the domain https://kafka.immersivepoints.com/. Weird… My...