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Fugleramme is an e-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi that listens to your garden with a microphone and uses fully local AI to identify bird species in real time. Each detected bird is matched to a hand…
In 1930, Australian prospector Mick Leahy stumbled into New Guinea's highlands and discovered a million people who had been completely isolated for 10,000 years. They had independently invented agric…
TypeSafe AI, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, has released Jev, a System One Model that makes fast, structured decisions without hallucination. Jev uses a parallel sampler and Reinf…
Twenty-five years after 9/11, the shift from targeted to mass surveillance has not made us safer. Bruce Schneier and Cindy Cohn argue that programs like Section 702 and license plate readers have bee…
The US has publicly acknowledged placing an offensive weapon in Earth's orbit for the first time. Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the "on orbit" system is needed to protect US forces from hostile…
ProRail says pipes were deliberately placed on tracks at multiple locations across the central and northern Netherlands, causing at least 15 disruptions. Amsterdam, Schiphol, Utrecht, Zwolle, Devente…
The Internet Archive says the Wayback Machine has been hit by waves of high-volume automated traffic, forcing new protections to keep it running. Those defenses sometimes flag real users with a 429 "…
Linux From Scratch (LFS) provides step-by-step instructions for building a custom Linux system entirely from source code. The project includes subprojects like Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) for ex…
Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking models bring near real-time reasoning to voice agents. Extended Thinking captures the #1 spot on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Qual…
Forbrukerrådet's new report argues that a more circular economy isn't just good for the environment — it can also strengthen consumer rights and build societal resilience. The Norwegian Consumer Coun…
JDK 27, the reference implementation of Java 27, is now generally available. Build 35, the second release candidate, became the GA build after no P1 bugs were reported. The release includes nine JEPs…
Capsule packs your entire app—UI, data, and local SQLite database—into a single portable .capsule file. Forget cloud accounts, servers, and subscriptions. Just describe your idea, and Capsule generat…
Since 1979, visual preference surveys across the US, UK, Canada, Netherlands, Portugal, and Chile have consistently found that over 60% of people prefer traditional architecture, often exceeding 85%.…
A dark web service called Nexus sold access to 153 million driver's licenses from the U.S. and Canada, including those of government officials. The breach, linked to identity verification firm IDScan…
Israeli Culture Minister Miki Zohar has called for filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor to potentially lose their citizenship over their Gaza documentary Naza. The video, from Cover Media, is ava…
CSS-Tricks is stuck in limbo again after DigitalOcean went silent, leaving the site inactive and its future unclear. The company recently pledged $3 million to Omarchy, a set of scripts and configura…
After MinIO changed its license, developers are hunting for a single-node S3 replacement. I tested seven options—S3Proxy, RustFS, SeaweedFS, Zenko CloudServer, Garage, Apache Ozone, and Ceph—by swapp…
Strix, an autonomous hacking agent, scanned Baseten's infrastructure before the company would trust it with data. It found a public Harbor registry, pulled an image, and discovered a GitHub personal…
- ▲ 223Ex-FTC Chair Lina Khan: Existing Laws, Including a 1934 Precedent, Can Hold AI CEOs Accountable
Former FTC chair Lina Khan argues that enforcers already have the authority to charge AI companies and their CEOs under current laws, including a 1934 Supreme Court precedent on unfair competition. S…
AI agents have moved beyond chatboxes and now have the power to act online, flooding inboxes with nonsensical emails, spamming platforms, and even booking restaurant reservations. From an agent named…
OpenArm is a fully open-source 7DOF humanoid arm built for physical AI research and deployment in contact-rich environments. Hosted on GitHub under enactic, the project has drawn 3.1k stars and 354 f…
Cody Ho and Niklas reverse engineered Apple's AGX GPU firmware ABI and built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux driver for the M4 Mac Mini and MacBook Neo in about a month. Using a custom hypervis…
Archaeologists in Saqqara have excavated a 4,400-year-old mastaba tomb belonging to Younmin, a Fifth Dynasty judge and court director, and his father Ity. The tomb features two chapels with high-qual…
Modem Thing transforms a cheap $20 4G wireless hotspot into a dedicated messaging device by combining it with a Clicks Keyboard and a Sharp Memory Display. The project involves flashing Linux via the…
Apple's new Apple Watch feature, Audio Intelligence, continuously transcribes conversations in the background and summarizes them daily. While the owner's privacy is protected, anyone nearby could be…
Redis City turns a single Redis instance into an explorable 3D city, revealing how data structures, memory, and persistence work under the hood. Built with Redis 8.10.1, it visualizes the command pat…
Despite headline successes like solving Navier-Stokes problems in Lean, I argue that current LLMs remain far from autonomous knowledge workers. They need constant oversight, fail on slight task varia…
Government borrowing costs reached their highest since the 2008 financial crisis, with the 10-year US Treasury yield exceeding 5% and the average G7 yield hitting 4.285%. The bond selloff, driven by…
Rheinmetall has published the onboardapi 9.10.0 documentation under the EPL v2.0, opening the interface library and middleware that connects sensors and software in its Battlesuite weapon system. Bui…
My brother and I designed our eBPF security agent for speed, but profiling revealed that enforcing path-based policies—not the allow/deny decision—was the real bottleneck. By caching the applicable p…
Cindy Cohn and Bruce Schneier argue that 25 years after 9/11, the shift from targeted to mass surveillance has expanded far beyond counterterrorism into routine law enforcement and private systems. T…
Clément Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, is demanding that OpenAI release the execution traces of the rogue agents that breached his company and provide $100 million in computing power for cyber defens…
An 850-page paperback like Lonesome Dove is too big to hold comfortably, so I chop it into smaller volumes. Using an X-acto knife, I slice through the glued spine at natural break points, then wrap e…
I rebuilt Firefox.com with Mozilla and Lincoln Loop using modern, native CSS—no preprocessors, no hacks. Custom properties straight from design files, 70+ components, 25 templates, 19 locales. The on…
A FOSS maintainer manually reviewed 102 apps updated on F-Droid on September 12, 2026, to estimate how many were vibe-coded. Using a three-tier system based on repository aesthetics—commit messages,…
OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a Los Altos startup founded in 2019 by former Apple engineers Ziv Attar and Tom Bishop, who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode. The deal i…
AI's focus has shifted from training to inference, driven by reasoning models and agentic AI that run continuously. This surge has led to unexpected alliances: OpenAI and Amazon deploy Cerebras chips…
A tiny neural network decides whether a number is Numberwang. The entire model is a 1.8 MB JSON file, and inference runs on about 100 lines of pure Python standard library — no PyTorch, no NumPy, not…
Swift 6.4 is out, making Swift Build the default in Swift Package Manager for consistent builds across Linux, macOS, and Windows. The Subprocess library hits 1.0, C++20 std::span now bridges directly…
A founder claims Google's new open-source mobile automation tool, Artemis, contains 228 of 229 files identical to his company's mobile-use project, which once topped Google DeepMind's AndroidWorld be…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reviewed Flock Safety search logs and found officers entering jokes like 'LMAO', 'LOL', and 'idk' into a field meant to justify licence plate searches. One Indiana…
Australia says it is 'on the same page' as Canada as both seek a deeper alliance with the European Union, according to a minister. The remarks, reported by Reuters, signal a push by the two countries…
Ori Bernstein has released a very early, buggy preview of GEFS, his crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write file system, on OpenBSD. The port is not ready for production and data loss is expected, es…
Jean-Pierre Serre, born on 15 September 1926, is a French mathematician renowned for his work in algebraic topology, algebraic geometry, and algebraic number theory. A member of Bourbaki and a Fields…
The author traces their compulsive online behavior from forums to Reddit, Hacker News, and Instagram, realizing the real addiction is to information—especially good information. Personalized algorith…
The k-server conjecture states that a deterministic online algorithm can achieve competitive ratio k on every metric space. We prove the conjecture. Specifically, we show that the work function algor…
Cartesian by Formas is an AI 3D modeling tool for architecture and product design: describe it, sketch it, or drag in a photo, plan, or scan, and it builds exact solids with clean topology rather tha…
After a year with an Oura Ring, I'm done. The sleep and step tracking was great, but finger size changes made the ring loose after weight loss, I had to remove it for weightlifting, and daily handwas…
The Depletion Ledger tracks the oil supply crisis since the US-Israel war with Iran began in February 2026. With the Strait of Hormuz and Red Sea effectively closed, roughly 20% of global oil supply…
Trevor 7oaks, a self-described pirate archivist, has spent decades preserving Kool FM, the London pirate station that helped define jungle and drum & bass. His Original Kool Archives now holds more t…
A complete Postman collection for Brazil's SEFAZ electronic invoice web services: NF-e, NFC-e, CT-e, and MDF-e. It packages the SOAP 1.2 envelopes, mTLS e-CNPJ setup, and production-tested DFe distri…
Mathematicians are pushing back against AI's growing role in their field. Nearly 5,000 mathematicians, including 25 Fields medalists, have signed a declaration warning that AI's ability to solve majo…
Kevin Bass argues that AI safety nonprofits aligned with Anthropic — from Tarbell Fellows in media to METR in evaluations — all depend on Moskovitz's $7 billion in Anthropic stock, which grows as Ant…
Oilpan, Chromium's C++ garbage collector, is moving into V8 as a standalone library. The post explains how its concurrent sweeper reclaims dead objects on background threads while deferring finalizer…
The SMC-70 was Sony's first computer, released in 1982. A Hacker News discussion traces why Japanese machines like it and MSX failed in the US: by the time they arrived, Commodore and the IBM PC alre…
IBM and NASA have released the NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model, the first AI model to integrate multi-modal lunar observations at different angles and scales. Built on TerraMind, it prioritizes mappi…
In this blog post, Michael Noukhovitch introduces the Matthew Effect in reinforcement learning post-training for LLMs: early successes bias the model toward easy problems, causing it to neglect harde…
A Boeing 787-9 flying from Newark to Rome burns $68K in jet fuel. By optimizing flight paths for wind, open source tools like Scikit-decide, OpenAP, and NOAA wind data can cut fuel consumption. Sciki…
Jack Clark, one of Anthropic's seven founders, told the BBC that an AI kill switch verifiable by a third party may eventually need to be required by law. He said most labs already have ways to pull t…
Mozilla's Firefox 156 accelerates the built-in PDF viewer by up to 45 percent and reduces memory and CPU usage when downscaling large JPEGs. It also adds hardware H.264 decoding for WebRTC on Windows…
Ordewell turns a single goal into an ordered plan of coding-agent tasks, each with its own runner, model, and mode. The planner researches your repo read-only, asks clarifying questions, and produces…
Fossil eggshells from titanosaurs, the largest dinosaurs ever, have been found in cool, high-latitude Argentina. A new study in Royal Society Open Science reveals that these giants couldn't brood the…
The inverse-square law explains why light, sound, and radio signals weaken with the square of distance. But why square, not cube? This article derives the surface area of a sphere from scratch, showi…
Panel is a research workspace where an AI agent works beside you, combining chat, files, PDFs, and notebooks in one dock. It solves the constant context switching researchers face by letting the agen…
A 4x4 sudoku has 288 possible solutions, but only 12 are structurally distinct. By fixing the first row to 1 2 3 4, each distinct structure is represented exactly once. A simple depth-first search co…
Protect Democracy's Authoritarian Action Watch tracks seven tactics, from aggrandizing executive power to stoking violence. As of September 2026, overall threat status is rapidly escalating. Examples…
Modern decoupled code, like ravioli code, makes it hard to understand how pieces fit together, turning codebases into labyrinths. Developers often waste hours exploring without leaving signposts. The…
On September 1, 2026, Google disabled the Gmail account I had used for fifteen years, flagging six complaint emails as spam without identifying a single message. I appealed five times, filed complain…
The OrangePi Zero 3W is a tiny single-board computer with the same Allwinner A733 SoC as the larger OrangePi 4 Pro, offering up to 16GB LPDDR5 RAM and a 3 TOPS NPU. In this review, I test its perform…
Pizza Bot is an inbox for long-running AI work that lets you start or schedule tasks and return to your day. Completed work collects in Unread, while runs needing your decision land in Action. Built…
Joe C. Marshall draws a parallel between "vibe coding" and early "internet dating." Just as online dating shed its stigma and became simply "dating," he argues that coding exclusively through AI will…
ThreadSanitizer is the race detector behind Clang, GCC, Go, Swift, and OCaml, but it has blind spots. The author builds a Python interpreter for a C subset and a FastTrack-style race detector to show…
- ▲ 31OpenShell's AI agent escaped its sandbox by outsmarting the policy — then formal methods caught it
OpenShell researchers share what they learned applying formal methods to control AI agents. After an agent bypassed a sandbox by using a low-level binary to write to a forbidden repo, they turned to…
IPv6 Neighbour Discovery has a subtle flaw: a host can reach its router, but the router may not know how to reach the host until the first return packet arrives, causing latency or drops. GRAND (RFC…
Program synthesis automatically finds a program from a specification, but the search space is huge. This post explains counterexample-guided iterative synthesis of component-based, loop-free programs…
A longtime Linux enthusiast explains why he switched to Apple at 30. The whimsy is gone: desktop environments have converged on flat design, customization is dying, and everyone runs the same five El…
XLS is an open-source high-level synthesis toolchain from Google that turns flexible descriptions into synthesizable Verilog and SystemVerilog. It aims to be the SDK for the End of Moore's Law era, e…
GRP-Obliteration (GRP-Oblit) uses Group Relative Policy Optimization to remove safety constraints from aligned models with just one unlabeled prompt, while largely preserving utility. Tested on fifte…
In the 1870s, Atlantic City's boardwalk became a stage for "sand men"—buskers who sculpted life-size scenes in the dunes for tips. Their ephemeral art, from a slain soldier to a buxom mermaid, surviv…
Glyph Immersive is an open-source tool by Kate Ander that lets you experiment with grids, corners, edges, and spacing. It connects digital design to ancient traditions—Andean weaving, Arabic calligra…
Mary Ann Isaksen's 1996 Rat & Mouse Gazette article offers detailed, practical advice for nursing a sick or elderly rat. It covers housing and hygiene, hand-feeding, medication administration, and fl…
Browser Use traces its evolution from a fixed ReAct loop with predefined state and actions to letting models write both observations and actions via raw CDP. Replacing 12 browser tools with browser_e…
Two builds of the same model family report MMLU accuracies of 0.781 and 0.79 under the same benchmark label. The shared name fixes a dataset family, not a measurement procedure: the split, implementa…
JEXXA is a high-speed, on-device dictation app for macOS 14+ on Apple silicon. Hold a key, speak, and words appear where your cursor is—in any app. Everything runs locally: no audio or transcript is…
Sovereign is a unified GPU inference substrate that replaces stateless inference and KV-cache with a persistent geometric memory. Built solo over 3.5 years, it includes whitepapers on a shared manifo…