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A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices
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The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including…
Firefox Enterprise
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Sovereignty Bring deployment and data under your control. Deploy Firefox Enterprise on-premises, within your own infrastructure. Define and audit where your data, policies and management live. Firefox Enterprise puts customer privacy, independence and control first. The browser is where work, data, identity, and AI converge. That makes it a critical layer for governance and compliance — and one ma...
Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy
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Character.AI, one of the first breakout startups of the generative AI boom, has filed for bankruptcy and is selling some of its assets to Disney. The company, which builds various online bots for users to chat or roleplay with, has faced mounting scrutiny and lawsuits over the safety of its chatbots, but has continued releasing updates and products in recent months. Character.AI files for bankrupt...
AWS Lambda Web Functions
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AWS News Blog Announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions | | Today, we’re announcing AWS Lambda Web Functions, a new form factor that lets you run standard HTTP web applications on Lambda without rewriting your code into an event handler. You can take a standard port-listening server built with Express, Hono, Fastify, Next.js, or any Node.js framework, deploy it with a single command, and Lambda automati...
Were Software Engineers blue-collar workers all along?
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Were we blue-collar workers all along? There’s a common idea among economists that you can broadly split employees into two categories. “White-collar” workers are typically people who work in offices doing service-based, knowledge-based, managerial, or administrative work; “blue-collar” workers generally do manual labour or perform skilled trades. Since at least the start of my career, software en...
Where is all the new, good software?
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Where is all the new, good software? Here's a question we see, especially from AI skeptics: if AI coding is so great, shouldn't we be seeing more new, good software by now? Here are some answers. As usual in this style of post, these are conjectural, candidate answers, and I would give some of them little weight. - We are in fact seeing software improvement, in the form of fewer bugs and better pe...
DishwasherBench – Can Frontier Models Stack a Dishwasher?
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DishwasherBench is a dishwasher-loading game on a physical simulation of one real machine, built to benchmark language models and playable by people in a browser. The game inside is called Spotless, and the packages are named @spotless/* . A player loads a 3D model of a Bosch SMV4HAX40G with rigid-body physics. A wash on its Eco 50 programme is then simulated (jets, droplets, run-off, soil and det...
Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
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An Update on Character.ai Today, we’re sharing that Character.ai has initiated a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy process to facilitate a court-supervised sale of the company. Over the past year, we’ve taken meaningful steps to sustain and improve our business amid significant legal, regulatory, and operational headwinds. After a comprehensive review of our available alternatives, our board determi...
Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF
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The threat of an AI share price crash rippling out across global markets is putting world financial stability at risk, the International Monetary fund has warned. In its twice-yearly Global Financial Stability Report, the IMF highlighted the sky-high valuations for AI companies along with their increasing debt pile as one reason that risks in the system are “elevated”. “The consequences of an AI c...
Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post
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Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post Vi Hart's Big Navier-Stokes Post The first 5 parts get increasingly intense and then part 6 is for fun, as a treat. But feel free to skip around. 1: "Lean? That sounds familiar..." 2: The Mathlib of Babel 3: The part where leopards eat the mathematicians’ faces, and then I mercilessly mock OpenAI which should shrivel up in shame forever 4: “When I voted for the Kee...
A look at OpenAI’s math that’s claimed computes faster Fourier transforms
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Hi there, argmin readers! Today’s post looks at part of OpenAI’s math repository that claims to compute faster Fourier transforms. It’s more technical than usual, but I tried to add some tutorial material for people who need a refresher course on signal processing or computational complexity. The Fast Fourier Transform is one of the most important innovations in digital signal processing and one o...
Leaving Tech
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I’ve now applied for over 3 dozen jobs and I’ve heard back from 24 of them with a rejection. This tech market at the moment is so very cooked and for that reason I’m stepping away from tech. I’ve been a developer for 20 years across more than just the Ruby and JavaScript that I’m known for. I’ve written books about programming, I’ve given talks and I’ve ran events. I maintain two of the most downl...
China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024
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15:47 JST, September 8, 2026 An analysis on research and development spending in major countries in 2024 found that China surpassed the United States for the first time to take the top spot, with Japan ranking third, according to the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTP). According to the “Japanese Science and Technology Indicators 2026” compiled by the NISTP, under the Educa...
AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities
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Computer Science > Machine Learning [Submitted on 9 Oct 2026] Title:AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilities can be elicited. We show this assumption does not hold under adversarial conditions by c...
Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20
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Protracted Fate Acquisition and Epigenetic De-Aging During Induced Neural Stem Cell Conversion of Human Blood Cells ABSTRACT Transcription factor-based direct conversion of somatic cells represents an interesting avenue for generating induced neural stem cells (iNSCs) from peripheral blood without transit through a pluripotent stage. While this paradigm has been shown to be associated with epigene...
I turned my unused Kindle into a photo frame with GPT-6 Astra
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My Kindle was sitting unused, so I decided to see whether AI could help me find a new use for it. I wanted to create a custom app that could cover a range of uses and be controlled by an AI agent on my MacBook. I started with a small goal: use my own image as the Kindle's screensaver. Once that worked, I asked the agent to build an app that could cycle through a collection of photos. We called the...
Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD
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37 tok/s from Qwen3-Next-80B (a 48 GB model) on a laptop with 32 GB of memory, 24 without drafts, where llama.cpp manages 2.8; reading a prompt, 62 tok/s against 16. Janas-LLM was faster than llama.cpp on every model compared on the same laptop (Debian 13 Linux, Intel Core Ultra 9 185H, its integrated Arc GPU, 32 GB, an NVMe SSD; 9-11 October 2026; the whole machine below): | Model | reading 1,024...
AI is a tool and using it well takes skill
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In his October 11, 2026 article, "'AI' is Not a Tool," Rich Hickey argues that LLMs are automation rather than tools because they cannot be wielded. I agree that outsourcing work can cost us opportunities to learn. But his conclusion does not follow. Even by his definition, an LLM can be something a human wields. And using it well takes skill, just as using other tools does. Picking up a saw does ...
Intel D270 GPU AI Accelerator–Up to 480 GB LPDDR5X
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Frequently Asked Questions Disclaimers Performance projections vs RTX Pro 6000 are based on publicly available information and Intel internal analysis as of Feb 2026. Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors. Memory capacity comparison at comparable bandwidth.
Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done
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Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done The game, which features Marvel and Star Wars characters, has been delayed and will now be an "AI first" project. Image: Epic GamesIt seems as though Epic Games has gotten itself in a bit of a pickle. In March, the gaming company laid off 1,000 employees after a reported “downturn in Fortnite engagement” forced them to cut costs. But, wo...
AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter
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Subscribe to the Frontier Red Team newsletter Get updates on our latest red-teaming research and findings. William Zhou, Daniel Freeman Our experiments suggest that small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices, like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes. A replicator like this would be challenging to shut down, since there’s no centr...
OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed
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Open-ish Licensing Our license is open for anyone to read. Using, modifying, or distributing the software is a separate conversation with Legal. Introducing OpenFatigue™ OpenChamber. OpenAI. Open WebUI. OpenDoor. OpenTable. OpenClaw. Open weights. Open this. Open that. The word has been opened so many times it no longer closes. OpenFatigue™ is the first fully Open-branded platform for people who a...
Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default
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Repository navigation CLI: make daemon_auto_start opt-in — a persistent, self-updating background daemon shouldn't be the default #48195 Description What variant of Codex are you using? CLI — 0.157.0, installed via npm install -g @openai/codex , Linux (WSL2) What feature would you like to see? Please make daemon_auto_start opt-in (default false ) for the CLI, or at least ask once before turning it...
Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic
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Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic I recently read End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor. It's an excellent book and I highly recommend that everyone read it. Tech oligarchs make up an important component of the end-times-fascist coalition. One thing that stood out to me, as a software and security engineer who finds LLMs to be extremely powerful, is...
My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping
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My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping On Friday, I did a Reddit AMA with the r/WebScrapingInsider subreddit about the law of web scraping. You can see the entire discussion here. I posted an introduction to the AMA, which I am sharing here: __ Hi everyone, and thanks for joining this Reddit AMA on web scraping! I thought it would be helpful to start with some introductory remarks. First, and mo...
'AI' Is Not a Tool by Rich Hickey
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'AI' is Not a Tool (I keep delivering this as a quip, here's a bit more) First order of business - is 'tool' going to have an interesting, distinguishing and thus illuminative meaning or be a mere platitudinous stand-in for "anything useful"? We'll save tool as "anyone/thing that can be exploited" for the AI titans, for whom VCs, politicians, wannabe-titan-CEOs, software devs, rural towns etc are ...
AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software
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Anyone who has even tangentially associated with computer programming knows that modern AI coding assistants and agents can be incredibly efficient at generating huge amounts of functional code. But coders making use of those tools also know better than to trust the accuracy of that code, meaning substantial effort needs to be spent reviewing any AI-generated output. A recent study of actual codin...
Thinking will become a hobby
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These lines are very difficult for me to write because I feel like digging my own grave. AI systems are improving by leaps and bounds. From the early 2022 fumbling release of ChatGPT, which couldnât correctly count the number of aâs in my name (it claimed two), we reached OpenAIâs release of math papers where an internal AI model solved many hundreds of previously open math problems. Aside from ph...
Muse Wonder
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A frontier model that leads on personal and professional agents Today, we’re excited to introduce the Muse Wonder series with Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, our most capable models that deliver state-of-the-art performance on personal and professional agentic tasks. Together, they mark the next step on our scaling ladder and a major leap toward personal superintelligence. Muse Wonder brings tog...
Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries
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A Modern Web App in C
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If you wanted a dynamic website in 1994, you wrote a C program, dropped it in a cgi-bin directory, and let Apache fork it per request. Thirty-two years later, I shipped a commercial web product using fundamentally the same technology. Everything about marketyour.games is modern. It's a web product with user accounts, a search dashboard for content creators, folders for organizing them, payments vi...
GLM-Legal
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Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later
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Kevin Kelly's 2016 AI Predictions, 10 Years Later Kevin Kelly's The Inevitable articulates a handful of macro technological trends and follows them to their logical conclusions. It's an insightful read -- I highly recommend it. One decade later, here are some AI-related excerpts from the book: - "By 2026, Google’s main product will not be search but AI." - "oligarchy of two or three large, general...
Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
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Is hacking legal now? Anthropic broke into three systems. OpenAI took political aim and broke into an Australian government health services website. Google felt they were missing out and then hacked into three as-yet-unnamed companies. And of course Meta did some hacking as well. Consequences so far: none. The big AI corporations are hiding behind a responsibility gap argument due to the emergent ...
"Just Ask Claude" Is a Rare and Valuable Skill
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I feel weird when someone asks me to figure something out for them, and I ask AI, and it succeeds. On the one hand, the recipient of “my” help is every bit as helped. On the other, I feel silly taking credit; I’m a stereotypical aristocrat who, when asked to prepare dinner says “Jeeves, prepare dinner!” and then falls onto the fainting couch. But in fact most of the time, whoever I’m helping could...
AI less regulated than milk, Microsoft president says in warning over safety
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Artificial intelligence is less regulated than milk and washing machines, the president of Microsoft has said, as the tech industry warns over the safety of AI. Brad Smith said there should be more safety rules to govern the technology including a legal obligation to a “victim” if their system was breached by rogue AI agents. He told the BBC: “Right now, your washing machine is subject to more saf...
(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers
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(Post-Quantum) Cryptographic Right Answers Publishing “Cryptographic Right Answers” for developers is a tradition by now. Colin Percival started in 2009, Thomas Ptacek followed up in 2015, and then Latacora carried on in 2018 and 2024. It might feel too soon for an update, but so much has changed. The timeline of the post-quantum transition dramatically shifted in early 2026, and there is now cons...
QGIS bans AI assisted contributions
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Repository navigation Add QEP428: No ai contributions permitted - #387 Conversation Followup discussion at https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2026-September/068576.html. This formally changes the AI policy to a strict "NOT ALLOWED" policy. | Hi, maybe this strong take deserves a bit of context of why we want to go further than the previous "Human in the loop" policy So, for this reas...
Living in the Weimar Era of Ruby
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Living in the Weimar era of Ruby Much has been said about the DHH keynote that he gave at RailsWorld. To me, it was the voice of a person in an existential crisis, but also a very jaded one. “Look how I don’t care anymore, and you should not care either” is not a great message when you are the headline speaker at the conference - let’s call it CareConf - that you have, yourself, lobbied for. The m...
Fable Took My Job
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Fable took my jorb - 8 min read - Text OnlyIts true. In a manner of speaking. If LLMs had not reached Fable / Mythos tier of marketed intelligence, I'd probably still have a job with the place I used to be at. For a short while. It wasn't that Fable was better at my job. As the last engineer, Fable was cheaper than my compensation. Evidently, it gave enough confidence to the last vestiges of leade...
Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones
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Attack of the Vibe Coded Photoshop Clones Over the last several months I have been tracking AI guys trying to create vibe coded clones of popular apps, especially Adobe’s apps which have always been the most pirated apps since the 90s. There are now about a dozen vibe coded attempts to clone Photoshop and some other Adobe apps, not including dozens of forks of them. People like this aren't just op...
Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'
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As Anthropic barrels toward a potential $2 trillion market cap on the Nasdaq, one research firm is valuing the artificial intelligence company at a mere $150 billion and says Wall Street is about to face an "unprecedented test of investor gullibility." In a report on Tuesday, independent financial research provider New Constructs called Anthropic's upcoming offering the "most ridiculous IPO of 202...
Will Linux phones become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly?
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by Amos Batto (2026-10-05), License: CC BY 4.0, Download: PDF, ODT Five years ago, Linux phones looked like they were poised to become a viable alternative to the Android/iOS duopoly that has an iron grip on the mobile phone industry. Sadly, after a brief flash of activity and community engagement with the release of the Purism Librem 5 and the PINE64 PinePhone in 2020, the Linux phone market has ...
X Is Bad, Though
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I admire John Gruber. I think he’s a great writer. I think he’s smart as hell. He’s annoyingly funny, too. I am impressed and inspired by his success with both Daring Fireball and The Talk Show. I get excited when John links to one of my apps or articles. When he linked to my story about relaunching Strategery, that led to a wave of extra exposure orders of magnitude over a typical story on this s...
An open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word in pure Rust
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Writing and document design; an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Microsoft Word, rebuilt in pure Rust. A fast, open-source word processor with the Word workflow you already know: the ribbon, styles, tables, track changes, references and mail merge. It reads and writes .docx, runs natively on macOS, Windows, Linux and BSD, and in the browser via WebAssembly. By the ArtCraft team. WordCra...
Local Indexing to reduce tool calling and token usage
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Supercharges you and your agents. Search your files, repos and agent sessions, locally, and give your agents the best context for the job. One search points them to the few passages that matter, instead of grepping the whole disk. Fewer tool calls, lower cost. - Claude Code - Codex - Cursor - Gemini CLI - Windsurf - Claude Desktop - VS Code - any MCP client One search. Every file, repo and session...
Illustration Beyond Proof
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[This is a guest post by Kate Stange and Edmund Harriss. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] In January a group of mathematicians, historians, artists and educators gathered at the Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) for a very unusual workshop on mathematical meaning. Our focus for that week, as part of a special trimester on the use of illustra...
Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence
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To advance beyond humanity's accumulated knowledge, AI itself (the optimizee) may also be its best available optimizer and evaluator. MASS repeatedly optimizes multi-agent workflows, then distills collective intelligence from multi-agent systems and uses it as a self-supervision signal for RSI. It improves score per output token over the base model on research benchmarks. We hope MASS contributes ...
Passkeys are a trap
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Seems like every website wants us to stop using passwords. There is a replacement we are being asked to use instead called passkeys. This should be a tad concerning if passwords are familiar to you and you don’t fully understand these nebulous passkeys. Websites say that passkeys are more secure or more convenient or something similarly beneficial. While it is true that passkeys can be far more se...
A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her
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A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her A New Jersey lawsuit alleges a longtime remote employee was fired after refusing webcam monitoring that would photograph her every three minutes. BY CHLOE ROSENBERG, FREELANCE WRITER Photo: Adobe Stock Across the workforce, employer surveillance is growing increasingly common, even though it is widely disliked by employees. ...