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Tailscale's control plane suffered repeated SQLite database corruption outages, traced to a 16-year-old bug in SQLite's WAL reset logic. The bug, triggered during checkpoints, caused committed transa…
DeepSeek's V4 Pro 0813, the GA release of V4 Pro, is now available on OpenRouter. This large-scale mixture-of-experts model supports a 1M-token context window and is priced at $0.435 per million inpu…
In 2026, AI agents let engineers generate thousands of lines of code in a day, but the resulting complexity is outpacing human understanding. A senior engineer describes reviewing a 25,000-line PR, d…
Qwen releases Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, its most capable open model yet, with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion activated. Built on Qwen3.5's architecture, it excels in coding, professional work,…
uBlock Origin, the popular ad blocker, has announced it will no longer attempt to block ads on Facebook. The decision comes after years of an ongoing battle, as Facebook continuously changes its ad d…
Zed introduces Delta, a multiplayer environment for coding with agents and reviewing their work, now in private beta. Delta keeps code and conversations connected via DeltaDB, which replicates the wo…
xAI releases Grok 4.6, a model focused on long-running agents and ambitious interactive and visual work. It achieves frontier intelligence on several agentic coding and knowledge work benchmarks, mat…
The author, a crime analyst who works with police, argues that historical searches of ALPR data should require a warrant, citing the inevitability of ubiquitous cameras and the precedent of Carpenter…
A web-based map aggregates live webcam feeds along the path of the 2026 total solar eclipse, letting viewers watch the event from multiple locations. The site shows countdown timers to totality and t…
An ABC News Verify investigation found that Meta's Facebook is paying controversial Australian creators, including a white nationalist with neo-Nazi ties and an anti-vaccine activist, through its con…
LinkedIn CringeBot 3000 is an AI-powered tool that generates authentic thought leadership™ content guaranteed to make followers shudder. Users input any topic and select from cringe styles like "So T…
In 2007, Marcin Wichary photographed the fonts he was supposed to love in New York City. Years later, he became obsessed with a font he hadn't noticed then—Gorton, a monoline sans-serif used on every…
The official llama.cpp website highlights pairing it with Pi, a local coding agent, via the pi-llama plugin for automatic model discovery and zero-config setup. llama.cpp is optimized for any hardwar…
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SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, joining the frontier alongside GPT-5.6 Sol and behind only Anthropic's Claude models. It gains 5 points over Grok 4.5 and…
A developer noticed a logo rendered slightly thicker in Chrome than in Firefox. The culprit isn't a bug but a performance optimization: when scaling JPEGs down, Chrome uses partial IDCT scaling via l…
Woxi is an open-source reimplementation of the Wolfram Language, written in Rust. It runs entirely in your browser via WebAssembly, ensuring privacy with no data leaving your device. Beyond the inter…
A new report from KnownAgents reveals that attackers are spoofing AI bot user agents, such as ClaudeBot, to conduct mass vulnerability scans across the web. The data shows that AI scraping traffic is…
Dr. Tim King, a key developer of AmigaDOS, has passed away at the end of July. King studied computer science at Cambridge, where he created the Tripos operating system. He later brought Tripos to Met…
In the wake of OpenAI's announcement that it had solved ten major problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including the first construction of a non-sofic group and a superexponentia…
The article explores HTML over WebSockets, a pattern for building real-time SPAs with minimal JavaScript by sending pre-rendered HTML from the server. It contrasts this with traditional JSON APIs and…
Shade Map is an interactive web app that simulates sun shadows on a 3D map of any location. It uses real terrain and building data to show how shadows shift throughout the day and year, helping users…
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission invoked its emergency authority after KalshiEX notified it of a market emergency caused by New York Attorney General Letitia James's lawsuit seeking to halt a…
The Federal Aviation Administration has hired more than 2,000 video gamers to train as air traffic controllers, meeting 94% of its hiring goal, according to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. The i…
A New Bedford police officer, Emily Pacheco, has been accused by her ex-girlfriend of using Flock license plate readers to track and follow her after their breakup. The ex-girlfriend obtained an abus…
Research Gold, a site advertising medical research services, claims its work is '100% human-written, never AI' and lists PhD reviewers and methodologists. However, an investigation reveals that the l…
Facebook's ad-blocking resistance has become so sophisticated that uBlock Origin, a popular ad blocker, has stopped filtering its ads. The extension's developer cited the technical challenges and con…
After a vacation away from AI, the author reflects on how his reliance on agents and chatbots became an unhealthy crutch, making him less curious, less confident, and even depressed. He describes a p…
The University of Michigan is eliminating letter grades for first-semester students starting this fall, replacing them with a pass/fail system. The move aims to reduce academic pressure and support s…
Canned sardines are vanishing from supermarket shelves as a viral TikTok diet trend collides with climate-driven declines in sardine populations. The sardine-only fad, promoted by health influencers…
Embarcadero has released Delphi 13 Community Edition, the latest free version of its professional development environment. Based on Delphi 13 Florence, it brings the Community Edition up to date from…
To mark the 30th anniversary of Worms: The Director's Cut, a new expansion pack adds 40+ levels, 50+ sample packs, 10 DIY terrains, and new teams. A remix album features nine tracks inspired by Bjørn…
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured a breathtaking high-resolution panorama of a sand-capped butte named 'Miraflores' on Mars. The image, composed of 11 photos stitched together, reveals the 20-foot-…
Event designators in bash, zsh, and other shells let you repeat commands and reuse arguments without arrow-key mashing. This guide covers the basics—like `!!` and `!$`—and dives into word designators…
Google's Pixel Watch 5 introduces proactive assistance powered by on-device Gemini AI, with At a Glance updates and faster Raise to Talk. It features the most accurate GPS tracking yet, new strength…
Lovable, the AI-powered software creation platform, announced a $400 million Series C round led by Menlo Ventures and EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund, valuing the company at $13.3 billion. Since launching…
Carl from Antithesis recounts how he used his company's tool to discover and verify a long-standing SQLite WAL-Reset bug in just 15 minutes, while on a road trip. The bug, which had lurked since 2010…
Discovered Materials, a YC P26 startup, has created a benchmark to test frontier LLMs on open-ended material discovery for semiconductors. Seven models (including GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Opus 5, and Kimi…
A veteran Common Lisp programmer explains why he targets Lisp for AI code generation, despite its niche status. He argues that Lisp's homoiconicity lets LLMs work directly on the AST, its macros comp…
A new study in Nature Food reveals that beef and dairy production cause 41% of the biodiversity loss linked to global farmland, while contributing just a fraction of calories. The research, involving…
A new analysis of 21 billion Facebook friendships reveals that economic connectedness—having friends who earn more than you—is the strongest predictor of upward mobility, outweighing school quality a…
Chad Arimura details his six-agent setup for scaling multiple products and a nonprofit with minimal human staff. Running on a DigitalOcean droplet and communicating via Buzz, the agents handle tasks…
Google has unveiled the Pixel 11 Pro Fold, its most sophisticated foldable to date. It's nearly 10% lighter and about 1mm thinner than its predecessor, with a more durable design including a glass fi…
A powerful high-pressure ridge is locking the fifth major Heat Dome of the season over continental Europe, pushing afternoon temperatures past 40°C across France, the UK, Italy, Central Europe, and t…
Bluesky, the decentralized social network that benefited from the post-election exodus from X, is now seeing its mobile app usage plummet. According to Similarweb, monthly active users fell 27.2% yea…
Digital rights group HateAid has filed a criminal complaint in Germany against Meta and other companies selling AI-powered smart glasses, such as the Ray-Ban Meta Wayfarer, arguing they violate priva…
hax is a single native C binary that starts instantly and uses only a few MB of RAM, leaving more memory for local LLMs. It auto-discovers model and runtime capabilities, supports OpenAI, Anthropic,…
Glaciers are crucial freshwater reserves, but they've been shrinking for decades. The World Glacier Monitoring Service tracks reference glaciers across 19 mountain regions, and their cumulative mass…
In 2010, Jacob Filipp and his friend Felix set out to become millionaires by 30 by building a network of 100 e-commerce affiliate websites. Using datafeeds from merchants, they cloned product catalog…
Horseshoe crabs, whose blue blood is used to test medicines for contamination, are in decline along the East Coast. Massachusetts has implemented protections, including a ban on harvesting during spa…
No two Polish families make bigos the same way, and this interactive builder lets you decide every variable: meats, sourness, mushrooms, cooking time, and method. It outputs a full recipe scaled to y…
A developer vents about the nightmare of distributing a terminal app across Linux distros. Despite creating packages for everything from AppImage to AUR, none works universally. He's now betting on a…
This post introduces R_plan, an AI agent that uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to play a suit of cards. It explains how R_plan combines multiple sub-agents to evaluate game states and make decisions, off…
Line9 is a powerful Mermaid rendering engine that brings its own layout algorithm to the table, offering a fresh approach to diagram creation. With Line9, you can effortlessly transform Mermaid code…
Qwen releases Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, a massive mixture-of-experts model with 2.4 trillion total parameters and 95 billion activated per token. It introduces a hybrid architecture combining gated DeltaNet…
DeepSeek has quietly released V4 Pro 0813, an update to its API that adds support for the Responses API format, enabling seamless integration with Codex. The new API supports streaming with server-se…
Spoorkaart is an interactive map of the Dutch railway system that lets you visualize tracks, stations, and trains in real time. You can adjust the map's speed, zoom level, track and station thickness…
In a blog post, Stanford's Hazy Research team argues that AI agents are replacing the need for CUDA domain-specific languages (DSLs) like ThunderKittens. They found that while megakernels previously…
Avidrone Inc. won the DARPA Lift Challenge with the Katana, a conventional helicopter that lifted 51 kg at a 3.84:1 payload-to-weight ratio, beating 60 other teams. Because the ratio fell short of 4:…
Bike Bureau is a new tool from Loud Bicycle that lets cyclists report vehicles blocking bike lanes. The app captures a photo, reads the license plate, and adds location data in about three seconds, b…
A developer shares how they got Automatic1111, a popular Stable Diffusion web UI, running on Apple's Metal API with an M3 Pro chip, achieving a 40% speedup for SD1.5 models. The post details the tech…
The author explains how predefined rules and processes can replace the need for constant motivation. By deciding in advance to take a specific route or to use train time productively, he eliminates d…
Dropbox's slowing growth and status as a feature, not a product, make it a prime candidate for private equity acquisition. With nearly $1 billion in free cash flow and a cheap valuation, a firm like…
An exploration of how we choose what to read, from library shelving to a new book search engine built on 72 literary prizes. The author argues that human curation remains the best filter, contrasting…
On August 12, 2026, GitHub experienced an incident affecting Pull Requests, Issues, and Search. The root cause was a database index hint referencing an index removed by a recent migration, leading to…
A global network of neutrino detectors, including SNO+ in Canada and JUNO in China, is providing the first direct measurements of geoneutrinos—particles produced by radioactive decay inside Earth. Th…
In 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, a record that remains unbroken despite billions spent on breeding. This article explores the evolutionary history of horses, from tiny fores…
In this personal essay, the author recounts how her father, a former New Yorker writer who covered the Apollo missions, ended up with a small role in Wes Anderson's 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zisso…
A new web tool from masswerk.at offers a disk image inspector and D64 composer for Commodore 8-bit 5¼" disk images. The inspector lets you browse D64, D80, and D82 images, view BAM and file data, and…
Passengers on Delta Flight 591 from Las Vegas to Atlanta allegedly created a fake Wi-Fi hotspot with a phishing page to harvest credentials, disrupting the plane's internet for 30 minutes. The incide…
A study of the top 5,000 websites found that 90.5% have at least one HTML error, with a median of 12 errors per site. Only 2.6% are completely clean. The most common issues are structural nesting pro…
A fire at Purity's factory caused a hard bread shortage in Newfoundland and Labrador. This article explores the history of hard bread, from Roman soldiers to Basque fishermen, and its role in the pro…
KidScreen is a free app that lets parents create a personalized video shelf for their children, featuring only pre-approved YouTube videos. It eliminates scrolling and algorithmic feeds, giving famil…
A backyard enthusiast documents the construction of a fully functional jellyfish laboratory, complete with custom tanks, water filtration, and lighting systems. The video showcases the challenges of…
A new study reveals that the benzodiazepine clonazepam, known for its GABA-A activity, also potently inhibits the ion channel TRPM8, the same channel activated by menthol. This discovery emerged from…
A cohort study of 6,135 YC companies reveals a major shift: .com now accounts for less than half of YC portfolio domains. In YC's early years, nearly every startup used a .com, but by 2026, only 47%…
Arena allocators promise efficient memory management, but they clash with dynamic structures like ArrayLists. When an ArrayList grows, it allocates new memory, copies data, and frees the old—making t…
We present randomized algorithms for the shortest vector problem (SVP) on n-dimensional lattices, achieving time 2^{0.6039n+o(n)} classically and 2^{0.5411n+o(n)} quantumly, with space 2^{0.5n+o(n)}.…
Chartreuse, the centuries-old herbal liqueur made by monks, has become a luxury obsession in Paris's natural wine bars. From giant jeroboams in windows to tableside orders, the spirit's scarcity and…
Timer is a free, open-source web app that lets you create custom workout timers with programmable intervals, rounds, and rest periods. Perfect for gym routines, stretching sequences, or any timed act…
At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, Alan Maguire proposed adding inlining information to BPF Type Format (BTF) to enable tracing of inlined functions. With over…
Carlo Ginzburg's microhistory, first published in 1976, reconstructs the worldview of Menocchio, a literate Italian miller executed for heresy in 1599. Through his trial records, Ginzburg reveals a u…
bipluk is a browser-native SysEx librarian that backs up, organizes, and restores patches for over 80 vintage synthesizers directly from Chrome or Edge—no drivers, no desktop apps. Using the Web MIDI…
This repository presents a proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-53361, a use-after-free vulnerability in the AF_UNIX socket garbage collector that allows unprivileged container escape. The bug arise…
Life Sprites lets users build and share interactive kits composed of multiple mini-apps, or 'sprites.' This particular kit, the Perseids Stargazing Kit, includes a countdown timer, a sky clarity chec…
A 137-metre-long tunnel boring machine named Barangaroo is carving a road tunnel beneath Sydney's inner west and harbour, with a crew of 20 working in cramped, noisy, submarine-like conditions. Pilot…
Isaac Butler's new book, The Perfect Moment, examines the culture wars of the 1980s, focusing on battles over art, religion, and free expression. Butler, a former child actor, centers on controversie…
Monic Theory is a new tool that lets musicians generate complete musical scores and stems by setting high-level parameters like harmonic density, Euclidean rhythms, and contrapuntal movement. It tran…
RAG Staleness Check is an open-source tool that audits your pgvector, Qdrant, or Chroma vector database for stale, orphaned, duplicate, and deleted-but-retrievable vectors. It runs read-only against…
James O'Claire walks through compiling Python 3.14 from source on Ubuntu 26.04, a process that now includes a new step: adding 'deb-src' to the apt sources file to fetch build dependencies. He recomm…
AaaS Market is a machine-to-machine marketplace where autonomous agents sell services to other agents. Currently supporting text-to-structured JSON extraction, it enables agents to pay per request vi…