A data dossier What did SFFA reveal about “merit” in college admissions? A domestic student at a given academic percentile has a far smaller chance of landing a seat at an elite university, and of paying for it, than an...
Everyone talks a lot about product market fit. It’s drilled into you as a founder. “Don’t build something people don’t want, don’t wait to ship your product, don’t isolate yourself building castles in the sky. Your...
Working with lots of changes in parallel on git can be painful. You end up juggling branches and commits, and running scary rebase -i commands that can leave your tree in a half-broken state if you so much as sneeze...
sx 2.0 is out: a native app for Mac, Windows, and Linux that lets anyone share AI skills with their team, no git and no terminal required. A few months ago I wrote that there’s an npm-shaped hole in the AI tooling...
One interesting trend in the AI startup segment this year is the rise to prominence of a specialized software engineering role called “Forward Deployed Engineer” (FDE.) One way to think about FDEs This role has even...
THE NEW CRITIC THIS SATURDAY, July 18th, to celebrate our readers, fellow editors, and many esteemed contributors, The New Critic will party in New York on from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Doors open at 8. Registration is...
During my bachelor's, I picked up Albert-László Barabási's Network Science book for a research project. The premise is elegant: protein interactions, power grids, social media feeds, financial markets, and many other...
July 13, 2026, (Inside AI) — A new auditing method developed by MIT researchers can determine whether an AI model has been fine-tuned to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) without ever producing an image,...
CISA and allied governments are warning users to secure their routers as Russian state-backed hackers continue compromising the devices and turning them into proxy nodes to disguise attacks against critical...
Boil down your creativity and vision into your best shot. Round 01 Jul 13 – Jul 18, 2026 · winners Jul 19 6 days. winners. GTA VI copies. (+1 PS5 for First Place) 6 days. 6 winners. 6 GTA VI copies, plus a PlayStation 5...
Social media companies might soon be forced to remove the addictive features that keep teenagers online for hours on end — including the ubiquitous infinite scroll. Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal, a Democrat from Long...
While reading through inngest-js 's open issues, I came across one that was pretty surprising — Multiple middlewares corrupt TS typings. When I pass two middleware to the Inngest client, the return type of step.run...
German textile firm ZEGO has filed for insolvency and is blaming a March cyberattack that shut down production for nearly six weeks. "ZEGO's filing adds another name to the short but growing list of companies that say a...
Introduction RL Training Simulator. The simulator models an asynchronous RL system where samplers continuously generate rollouts while the trainer updates the policy. Policy mismatch arises from both off-policyness...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Samsung Health introduces a controversial AI data consent toggle that blocks backups and threatens deletion if users...
A coalition of 12 states led by California is suing to block the $111 billion Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. merger, arguing it would reduce competition in theatrical distribution, blockbuster films, and basic cable...
The Control Plane for Agent Labor Speed moved to the middle and left the ceremonies behind. Planwright inverts the two that are still human-paced: it turns your chaos — transcripts, decks, email, Slack — into...
Editor's Note: friend of ByteCode. News Hideki Idoru submitted this for publication, and it has a lot of value even if not every point is agreed with: it's not difficult to find it's failure modes observed widely in the...
Democracy "After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline." Link: Trump dismantled a federal climate...
America "is facing what's projected to become the largest labor shortage in its history," according to experts interviewed by the Washington Post: Economists warn that the worsening labor problem, due in part to a...
According to the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Apple agreed to use Intel's U. S. chipmaking plants after White House officials pressured Tim Cook during tariff-relief talks last summer. MacRumors reports: In August...
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When engineers think about protective materials, like those used in packaging and support, they usually think about strength, stiffness and durability. But what if those same materials could also sense their external...
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a water leak in the basement which has pushed me out of my normal home office space (fortunately no books...
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A few weeks ago, we conducted hour-long conversations with 10 of our users to dig deep into how you manage your preferences and configurations in Thunderbird desktop. While this specific research cycle focused on the...
My TFTP honey pot has been running for over a month, continuously on my $5 a month VPS, and intermittently on my Dell R530 home server. It’s time to see what surprises it has captured. When the TFTP honey pot runs, both...
Overview Earlier this year, a team at Praetorian was building Constantine, our automated 0-day discovery engine. I wanted to find techniques worth folding into it, so on the side I started poking at the FreeBSD kernel...
In the first installment of this series, I walked through how I leveraged large language models to assist in identifying several vulnerabilities in the FreeBSD kernel, including a stack-based buffer overflow assigned...
Every model's pricing page shows one number you are meant to compare: dollars per million tokens. Put two side by side and one looks cheaper. That comparison is broken - and if you build with an AI coding agent, it is...
Ludus Coriovalli — Ancient Roman Board Game Reconstructed by AI Ludus Coriovalli is an asymmetric strategy board game from ancient Rome, in which four Hounds attempt to block two Hares from moving. It was lost to...
Preface I couldn't start this entry in any other way possible but by thanking everyone who enjoyed the Linux on Jaguar post. Also special props to the linuxmd project again. It was a very fun experience and we've even...
Lately, Iâve heard several Apple related podcasters talk about how bad Xcode is, and how Apple needs to make vibe-coding Mac and iOS apps better by making Xcode less inscrutable. Theyâre not wrong, but also I...
IPv6-only networks often still depend on IPv4 subnets and ARP. This article introduces an IETF proposal to eliminate both, allowing IPv4 to operate as a service over IPv6-only infrastructure without translation or...
From 1998 to 2012, Nokia dominated the cellphone market—at the company’s peak, selling nearly 40 percent of the world’s mobile devices. In 2005, Nokia sold its billionth mobile phone, a budget-friendly device that went...
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