David Owen on our obsession with putting our belongings in metal boxes and then never looking at them again.

The scaling laws hold that a language model grows more capable with more parameters and more training data, and Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures have ridden these laws to remarkable results, activating only a fraction of an enormous stored parameter…

Medieval mathematics was a highly personal craft, with knowledge of mathematics and methods being treated as a liability (for better and for worse) and having that knowledge was treated as secret

[This post has been cross-posted to Terence Tao’s blog.] When I was around 11 I heard for the first time about Fermat’s Last Theorem. I was immediately captivated by the problem stateme…

CrowdSec update on a source code exposure that occurred in May 2026, including the scope, impact, investigation, and security measures taken.

What if retries could know when they’re helping, and when they’re making things worse? Uber Engineering built error ownership to prevent and contain retry storms.

Code Scans turns broad engineering goals into concrete improvements across your codebase. Tell Devin what you want to achieve, and it investigates what needs to change, evaluates the findings, and turns them into pull requests.

The gearhash crate has gained a NEON backend for improved performance. How a direct port started out slower than scalar, and the dependency-chain work that fixed it.

Ask a team what they shipped this year and you’ll get a list. Ask what they killed and the room goes quiet.

“The KhipuFieldGuide democratizes khipu research, making the wonder of khipus available to everyone.”

Paleontologists from Fundación Dinópolis have identified the first confirmed fossils of the genus Diplodocus found outside North America.

Build web, desktop, and mobile apps in Python. Start in your browser with Flet Studio, create reusable UI components, and ship your app across six platforms.

Ask anonymously. A stranger—not AI—will answer, because some things are easier to tell someone who doesn't know you.

Two rules keep an LLM from pasteurizing your writing: never take a word it suggests, and never let it encourage you. Then hand it all the tedious work.

A single GPS receiver in a Melbourne chassis came back from maintenance believing it was 2006 — and a national mobile network believed it. What went wrong, and why.

ByteShape's full ShapeLearn release of Qwen 3.8 27B: five GGUF models on the measured quality-speed frontier across six GPUs, plus MTP and DFlash2 speculative decoding.

Your own search engine. Contribute to asciimoo/hister development by creating an account on GitHub.

Welcome to the first feature article on our site. We’re going to cover an ongoing problem with x86 emulation that affects every application that we emulate.…

This release contains over 160 commits, focusing on the technical debts cleaning including refactorings, bug fixes, test coverage improvement, and option cleanups. The release also includes portab...

Ternary Bonsai 2 27B retains 98.2% of Qwen3.8 27B benchmark performance in a 5.9GB footprint, with multimodal and agentic capabilities.

A viral video dismissed by some as fake has now been traced to Crystal Cove State Beach in Southern California.

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

Little Urchins, a new grom event put on by the fabulous Gudauskas brothers, brings surf and stoke to San Clemente's next generation.

Waymo is bringing its autonomous rides for Singaporeans. Learn about Waymo's vision in Singapore, its technology, safety record — and sign up for future updates on our journey to bring our service to you.

They might look mesmerizing, but swimming in a standing wave (or seiche) is a deadly mistake.

A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories

Dom Stone captured the south swell hotspots absolutely firing during Hurricane Marie.

A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.

Monsanto dominates America’s food chain with ruthless tactics. Even worse, the company has a decades-long history of toxic contamination.

A deep dive into the DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash technical report: CED, CSA2, HSI, Single-Pass mHC, Engram and FP4 KV Cache — how the KV cache was compressed to just 890 bytes per token.

Recursive self-improvement is becoming increasingly vital for autonomous AI agents, where progress hinges on discovering high-value solutions across complex domains.…

Over the past few months I’ve been working on mapsnap, a program to automatically georeference old insurance maps. This post explains why these maps are interesting, how mapsnap works, and why this is worth doing.

Contribute to browser-use/jev-ultrafast development by creating an account on GitHub.