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An incisive and moving new critical biography of one of the nuclear age’s greatest visionaries. The Illuminated Man: Life, Death and the Worlds of J. G. Ballard by Christopher Priest and Nina Allan. Bloomsbury...
A lawsuit from 26 Meta employees alleges the company used AI-driven scoring and monitoring systems to select workers for layoffs, disproportionately targeting employees with disabilities or those who had taken protected...
Accretive editing is a failure mode of current AI tools. You’ve probably seen it happen. Accretive Editing What? You have some existing text. Something changes so that the text is no longer accurate. You ask an AI-based...
Not sure how to structure your Go web application? My new book guides you through the start-to-finish build of a real world web application in Go — covering topics like how to structure your code, manage dependencies,...
Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default and requires no configuration. New...
Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis is calling for a U. S.-led AI standards body to review frontier models for national security risks such as cybersecurity and biological threats. His proposal would create a federally...
My wife and I recently went on a 7 week holiday around Europe. Although we each took a massive backpack, we wanted to travel fairly lightly. I took a single universal power brick. This little unit was all I needed to...
A small tribe of Sanskrit-speakers is tending the language the way you tend a fire you did not light, feeding it with what you have. Samashti Gubbi, called sanskritsparrow on Instagram, has perhaps the most daring...
I propose an approach for highly personalized LLMs, for near-future productivity gains and personal info/cybersecurity against increasingly powerful LLMs: they should, in the spirit of uploading, try to emulate the...
Today, the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize internet-native payments for AI agents, APIs, and applications, based on Coinbase's contributed x402 protocol. Backed by companies including AWS,...
For institutions that have already built a C++ backtesting framework, rebuilding the entire system to support more realistic order matching and high-performance market replay is often impractical. DolphinDB’s...
The vulnerability nobody seems interested in fixing Sometimes security research uncovers deeply technical vulnerabilities that require pages of explanation. This isn't one of those cases. This bug is simple. A developer...
Why this post? Someone whose work I respect tremendously, and whose product has truly changed my life, suggested I write “a technical restrospective on your career, discussing practical programming”. As I have no other...
OnePlus will reportedly announce this week that it is shutting down its brand in the U. S. and Europe, following months of signs that parent company Oppo was winding down the brand's global presence. India and China are...
It ' s finally here. The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB ( 13.7 TiB ) of highly compressed world data of the Minecraft server 2b2t, which includes the following: a 1,024,000² (1M²) area of the...
Today, we're announcing Bonsai 27B, based on Qwen3.6 27B, the new multimodal flagship of the Bonsai family and the first model of its capability class to run on a phone. Our earlier releases proved that models with...
IBM shares plunged after the company warned that Q2 revenue and earnings would miss expectations, blaming customers' sudden shift in spending toward AI hardware instead of software services. However, CEO Arvind Krishna...
The licensing paradox: From freedom to exploitation The structural fragility of modern software engineering is intimately bound to the legal frameworks we designed to protect it. Our current licensing models have...
Rating agency S&P Global has lowered Oracle's creditworthiness from BBB to BBB- – this is the lowest notch in the so-called investment-grade area. A further downgrade would push the database company into speculative...
written on July 13, 2026 I feel that some vibecoded software changes somewhat randomly and unexpectedly. That made me think about Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” which shows an already quite chaotic depiction of the...
New York has become the first U. S. state to impose a moratorium on large new data centers, pausing construction for one year over concerns that AI-driven data center growth is raising utility bills, straining water...
Backed by Y Combinator Your evals pass. Production still fails. Agnost finds the missed failures in real conversations and turns them into fixes your team can review. “In collaboration with Agnost AI, we have integrated...
2026-07-13 Two years ago, I switched to Linux on my gaming PC. People kept telling me that it could perform way better than Windows when it comes to FPS, frame pacing and input latency, and when I tried it out, it did...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: StubHub and its CEO, Eric Baker, have been hit with a proposed $5-million class-action lawsuit in the United States over the company's ties to large-scale scalpers...
Agent loops are often oversimplified. They’re presented as a single loop, when really it’s three loops in a trench coat that make up an “agentic” experience for a customer. I’m here to write (yes, I wrote this, insane...
Frank Tipler jolted the astrophysics community in 1980 when he introduced self-replicating interstellar probes into discussion of the Fermi Paradox. The mathematical model of self-replication came from John von Neumann,...
For decades, Jon Zehr was haunted by an organism he knew was there — but couldn’t see. It all started in the ‘90s on a research boat in the middle of the ocean. Zehr was an oceanographer studying nitrogen-fixing...
— Published on Jul 09, 2026 11:29 AM I have written about the FSF facing DDoS attacks several times, including on doing our part to clean up the internet and on Uptime Kuma, as well as "Defending Savannah from DDoS...
My notes for this essay, written on a plane with no internet and no AI:D I have been observing, in myself and in those around me, a tendency to increasingly offload our thinking to AI. From trivial decisions to complex...
View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract: A coding agent solving a software-engineering task spends dozens of steps reasoning, editing code, and running tests, yet little is known about what the underlying language model...
Here are some questions that I consider self-evidently compelling about the modern world: Why is the news media so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time? Why are so many of us obsessed with...
The rapid advancement of AI is changing the global cybersecurity landscape. As these technologies become more powerful, safeguarding access to them is increasingly critical — particularly for the security researchers...
← Tesseract Blog What if you could backpropagate through existing Fortran, C, or C++ simulation code, embed it into JAX and torch, and use it as a high-performance differentiable physics engine? Turns out, you can — if...
Every good abstraction solves a problem, and this post will cover everything I know so far about a brilliant math abstraction - tensors. Neural networks, from a simple 2-layer MLP to GPT-5, all boil down to the same...
T here was a remarkable video going around the Scottish socials yesterday which led to quite a bit of media coverage. It’s a four-minute long video showing some furious Scotrail passengers confronting a drunk...
Proof of Care in the Age of A. I. – Jacob Filipp Now, the same lengthy Pomeranian piece could’ve been blooped out by a bot in 1 0 seconds flat. Impossible to tell if any effort went into writing it. This ease makes it...