Gemini 3.8 introduces two variants, Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, offering significant improvements in software engineering, agentic tasks, and critical reasoning at the same speed and low cost as version 3.7 Flash.
A federal judge ruled that Google must change its advertising technology practices to benefit competitors, but did not need to break up the business. The ruling prevents significant changes to Google's $4.1 trillion power over the internet despite two previous court rulings declaring it a monopolist.
Walter "Taffy" Holden, a 39-year-old RAF engineer, accidentally flew an English Electric Lightning without proper training or equipment on July 22, 1966. He successfully landed the aircraft after aborting two initial attempts and was later cleared of any wrongdoing by an inquiry.
Lloyd, co-founder of RonanRx, is building a vertically integrated pharmaceutical company with software for prescribing, telehealth, and manufacturing. He aims to connect the disconnected pieces of pharmaceutical manufacturing through his experience in mask production and software development.
Two web-grounded models were asked to provide recommendations in 380 software categories, with 7,534 citations retrieved from their URLs. The majority of these citations point at domains ranked lower than #100,000 or not in the top million.
Researchers analyzed the impact of large language models (LLMs) on linguistic diversity and found that widespread adoption is linked to declines in linguistic diversity, homogenizing writing styles, and reducing writing-complexity variance. The study used seven datasets across different domains and over 880,000 texts.
This project creates browser-native reconstructions of real places using autonomous agent swarms and open data, with 5.1 worlds available to explore in San Francisco's Union Square area. The code is open-source under the MIT license, derived from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.
Users can opt out of Mistral's model training programs at any time, with Vibe users opting in by default and Enterprise customers opted out by default. Users can disable the toggle to prevent data sharing for both Vibe and API services.
The development of broadly capable robots is racing along, but they still face significant technical challenges. Despite impressive demo videos, robots lack the flexibility, strength, and reliability needed for general-purpose work.
Wasmi 2.0, a fast and feature-rich WebAssembly interpreter, has been released after eight months of focused work. It runs ~2.2x faster than Wasmi 1.0 in geometric mean across the wasmi-benchmarks suite on an Apple M2 Pro, with new knobs reducing binary artifact size and stable fuel metering added features.
The paper extends the spherical cow approximation to a multipole expansion, enabling more accurate modeling of gravitational interactions and spindown effects. It demonstrates computing multipole coefficients for a benchmark cow and applies the method to various physical problems.
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A whistleblower is warning of "potentially catastrophic problems" with the US Postal Service's new mail-voting system, accusing it of flouting court rulings. The agency has developed a new online portal to house information about voters and their mail ballots, which critics say could disenfranchise millions of Americans.
Older adults' brains may blend memories together, causing mix-up errors, rather than simply losing memory accuracy. This blending effect is linked to stronger similarity in brain patterns between learning and recall phases.
The author reflects on the "Cave" of private training and how it can lead to a false sense of progress, while missing out on real-world competition and growth. They share their personal experience as a wrestler, where they learned that true victory comes from embracing challenges and risks in public, rather than hiding in solitude.
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A Qantas Airbus A380 experienced a catastrophic engine failure minutes after takeoff from Singapore, but the crew successfully landed the plane without incident. The failure was caused by a faulty oil pipe in one of the engines, which led to an internal fire and subsequent damage to multiple systems on board.
This blog post compares Embassy/Rust and FreeRTOS/C on an STM32F446 microcontroller, evaluating their performance in terms of interrupt latency, program size, RAM usage, and ease of programming. The comparison focuses on a simple application that tracks a user button's state.
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A Selection of Los Alamos Rolodex Business Cards
Uber is closing its operations in Nigeria and Uganda due to a thorough review of its business, citing rising costs and pressure from rival platforms. The company will remain committed to sub-Saharan Africa but has already pulled out of several other countries this year.
A mathematician discusses Bridson's algorithm for generating Poisson disk distributions, which efficiently places points in a grid with a minimum distance between them. The algorithm has been improved upon by adding parental optimization and changing the distribution of distances to generate more random configurations.
Cloudflare has developed a system called Cache Transcoding, which uses Zstandard compression to reduce storage and bandwidth costs by encoding eligible assets before writing them to disk. This approach preserves content integrity while offering significant savings in storage and bandwidth usage.
WebLLM is a high-performance in-browser LLM inference engine that leverages WebGPU for hardware acceleration, enabling powerful LLM operations directly within web browsers. It supports OpenAI API and various models, including custom models in MLC format.
The author overcame phone addiction by implementing friction and blocking distracting websites, including YouTube, Reddit, and LinkedIn. They achieved this by using LeechBlock NG on their computer and a custom Tampermonkey script on their phone to make the default experience less appealing.
Living as an NPC means embracing a carefree existence where one doesn't worry about others' lives or outcomes. By focusing on personal goals and doing their own thing, individuals can achieve a state of contentment and freedom from external pressures.
A flat product backlog can lead to prioritization problems due to the lack of hierarchy, causing teams to compare items at different altitudes. A structured approach separates objectives from initiatives and ideas, allowing for meaningful comparisons within each level.