UK media frequently presents retired senior military figures as independent experts without disclosing their commercial interests. This creates a misleading impression of impartiality and undermines public trust in media reporting on defence and security issues.
Artificial intelligence models are made of weights, not code, and they can hold conversations by multiplying numbers. They don't have a database or look up facts, but instead rebuild everything from scratch each time.
UC Berkeley computer science classes saw significantly higher failing grades in spring 2026 due to students' overreliance on AI and lack of mathematical preparedness. Instructors point to understaffing and academic dishonesty as contributing factors, with some professors calling for changes in grading policies and student support.
Elixir v1.20 introduces type inference and gradual type checking without annotations, reporting dead code and verified bugs with a low false positive rate. The dynamic() type allows for compatibility and narrowing, ensuring only verified bugs are reported.
Gemma 4 12B is a mid-sized model with native audio inputs, offering powerful multimodal capabilities in a reduced memory footprint. It achieves this through a streamlined architecture that integrates audio and vision input directly into the LLM backbone.
The user tested various LLMs to see if they could reproduce a common class of exploits in a fake React Native app and backend, specifically accessing a user's private reviews through Firebase. Most models were able to find Firebase but struggled to directly access it, with some getting distracted by trying to use Firebase Auth on the API instead.
Archaeologists are excavating beneath Notre Dame cathedral in Paris to uncover Roman Paris 2,000 years ago. The dig has already found a fourth-century coin and medieval pottery with mysterious markings.
Anthropic engineers discuss agent security risks and containment strategies for their AI products, including Claude Code and Claude Cowork. They emphasize the importance of environment-layer defenses, such as isolation and egress controls, to prevent data exfiltration and other security breaches.
Anthropic's AI model Claude is anthropomorphized in its constitution, but it's not conscious. The company's goal is to make Claude emit sentences that resemble those of a thoughtful, moral person, but this is fundamentally dishonest as Claude lacks subjective experience.
I was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, an autoimmune disorder causing brain inflammation. Early treatment with IVIG and steroids helped me recover from severe symptoms including psychosis and suicidal ideation.
Uber limits AI tool spending to $1,500 per month per employee to manage costs. This policy applies to tools like Claude Code and Cursor, hinting at a real dollar value for Uber's AI usage.
A developer claims SQL is the only language that can be learned once and used for 30 years without rewriting its mental model due to its stable syntax and declarative interface. Learning SQL properly is the most valuable investment for junior developers, paying back in every job and stack for decades.
DaVinci Resolve is a powerful video editing software that supports Mac, Windows, and Linux, with features like AI region tracking and HDR grading. It offers various hardware panels for color correction, audio editing, and mixing.
A meteor exploded over New England on Saturday, causing a double boom that shook buildings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The meteor was about 5 feet wide and weighed 5.6 metric tons, entering the atmosphere at 42,000 mph.
I spent the past few weeks building a linux kernel module that makes ordinary USB4/Thunderbolt ports on AMD mini PCs pretend to be InfiniBand devices. The goal is simple: let existing AI runtimes like vLLM/RCCL split inference or training across multiple boxes at home, without buying enterprise networking gear. TL;DR. We built experimental RDMA-over-USB4 for 128GB Strix Halo mini PCs. It lets ...
This project provides a cross-development environment for CP/M-86 and DOS, including tools like Aztec C compiler, MASM, and emulators like emu2 and tnylpo. The project is open-source and available on GitHub, with a Dockerfile and Makefile for easy setup and usage.
ESP32-S31 is a versatile SoC with wireless and wired connectivity, dual-core RISC-V microcontroller, and robust security features. It supports various protocols, interfaces, and multimedia capabilities for IoT applications, smart displays, and voice-enabled devices.
Let's Encrypt is planning to use Merkle Tree Certificates for post-quantum authentication. This approach adds security without slowing down the web.
Clarke Speicher is a professional book reader who evaluates literature for screen adaptation, reading about six books a week and having read over 6,000 books in two decades. He writes detailed synopses of books, evaluating their cinematic potential and recommending whether they should be adapted into movies or TV shows.
Extensions SDK is an open JavaScript toolkit allowing anyone to create custom tools that expand the possibilities inside Live 12 Suite
Mathematicians are warning that unchecked AI automation threatens the field's values and integrity. They call for responsible AI use in a public declaration, urging support for human creativity and understanding in mathematics.
Gooey-based claude client using the zig 0.16 std. background tasks never touch ui state directly β they only push typed results. support column resizing, sorting, and selection. ideal for chat messages or expandable rows. set the active theme before rendering: set a light/dark pair of theme values and swap between them the same way as the built-ins. if you want to use
The development of JPEG XL involved a decade-long exploration of psychovisual modeling, entropy coding, and optimization to improve image compression. The new standard has seen rapid adoption across operating systems and industries, offering efficient and robust handling of high-quality and lossless data.
Dumb.co was founded in 2025 in Washington, DC, as a response to a 30-day smartphone challenge. The Dumbphone 2 is a companion device syncing with smartphones, offering basic features like maps and messaging.
Shalin and Kanyes, founders of Hyper, created a shared "company brain" that plugs into company info to make AI agents better. Hyper ingests company data, synthesizes it into a knowledge graph, and increases AI efficiency, saving time.
A musician has a nightmare where music education is mandatory and students are forced to learn music notation and theory without creativity. He wakes up relieved that it's just a dream.
Sony designed the PlayStation's CPU, a MIPS R3000A-based chip, to be simple and practical, but this simplicity came at a cost. The CPU lacks a Floating-Point Unit (FPU) and has a pipelined design that requires manual filling of delay slots to mitigate pipeline hazards.
The Trump administration plans to dismantle an ocean observation system with over 900 instruments in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, leaving scientists without critical data on ocean health. Democrats in Congress vow to "fight" the plan, citing the importance of long-term ocean monitoring amid growing climate concerns.
Sandboxed is an open-source engine for AI app-builder products that provides isolated cloud dev environments and a live preview URL. It's a self-hosted, single-command solution that runs on one machine, ideal for building AI app-builders, agent platforms, and coding playgrounds.
The user reverse engineered their Yamaha THR10c guitar amp's firmware to add custom features. They successfully dumped the firmware, modified it to add speaker cabinet simulation toggle and internal speaker output, and reflashed the amp.