The author shares new features in Emacs 31, a pre-release version, that make the editor more efficient and user-friendly. These features include improved tree-sitter support, a markdown mode, and various usability enhancements.
Universities and hospitals are conducting late-stage clinical trials with lower costs, repurposing existing drugs for new uses. This "hidden" research system offers affordable treatments with huge potential, operating outside of the patent system.
Midjourney is building a machine to reimagine healthcare and body relationships with a new kind of medical imaging. The goal is to make regular health scans accessible and affordable for everyone, potentially preventing 30% of deaths and 50% of healthcare costs.
The user is fascinated by W Social, a microblogging platform that claims to be Europe's alternative to X, but has discrepancies between its public image and reality. The European Commission's migration of its ATproto accounts to W Social is concerning due to W Social's lack of transparency and potential reliance on Bluesky's infrastructure.
Agent Builder is now available and uses a persistent memory layer for agents, which is built on Elasticsearch and structured around three categories from cognitive science: episodic, semantic, and procedural memory. The memory system includes features such as hybrid recall with reranking, supersession for contradictions, and per-user Document-Level Security (DLS) isolation, and is designed to ...
The author, a software business founder, shares their experience with local AI models, specifically Qwen 27B, and its limitations, including infinite loops and hallucination risk, despite its potential value for certain tasks and workflows. They highlight the importance of proper tuning, agent skills, and normalizing results with cloud models to get the most out of local AI, and emphasize the ...
CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course on programming language implementation covering universal compilers and research topics. The course involves reading papers and open-source hacking tasks using LLVM and an educational IR.
Lore is a centralized, content-addressed version control system that represents repository state as Merkle trees and an immutable revision chain, optimized for binary-first storage, deduplication, and sparse/on-demand data hydration at scale.
Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows has a notification problem where clicking a notification takes 10 seconds to open the email, compared to 5 seconds when opening Outlook directly. The issue is due to the app's WebView2 architecture, which is a Chromium-based rendering engine that slows down the notification process.
Arbee used AI to help debug MAME's Power Macintosh emulation, which led to significant progress. The AI, along with Arbee's supervision, found and fixed several bugs, including issues with the PowerPC emulation, 6522 VIA emulation, and PowerPC 601 emulation.
AMD has quietly removed the Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) feature from lower-end CPUs, leaving users potentially vulnerable to physical attacks. The company has not officially acknowledged the change, leaving it unclear whether it was an intentional policy decision or an unintentional regression.
The Varnish Cache FOSS project changed its name to Vinyl Cache in March 2026, with a new project identity and governance model. Varnish Software created a new downstream project called Varnish Cache, governed by the company, which is not considered the continuation of the former Varnish Cache FOSS project.
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Mathematicians Mark Sellke, Jialu Shi, and Jiamin Wang proved a cutoff phenomenon exists for riffle shuffling with less precise cuts. Their work extends the 1992 proof by Dave Bayer and Persi Diaconis to more realistic shuffling scenarios.
You've noticed a pattern where apartments deteriorate after two years, with issues like mold, leaks, and pests. You're unsure if this is a real phenomenon or just your perception of wanting to switch things up every two years.
The emulator operates at syscall level for Windows and Linux binaries, saving and restoring state for quick resume. It's designed for researchers to control process execution with precise control and scripting capabilities.
This is the story of how I found 10,000 repositories on GitHub that distribute Trojan malware. They are all from different contributors, have different names, and are not forks of other repositories. But they share a common pattern, which is what allowed me to write a script to find such repositories. I have a project on GitHub, and I wanted to check whether search engines had indexed it. I ...
Last fall, Modos debuted the Paper Monitor and Dev Kit, an open-source e-paper display kit that hit a record 75-hertz refresh rate. The project was successful, raising almost double its $110,000 goal.Now the two-person startup is back fund-raising for Modos Flow, a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with a higher native resolution of 3,200 x 2,400, touch input, and a 60Hz refresh rate, which is ...
Glojure is a Clojure interpreter hosted on Go, providing easy access to Go libraries. It's in early development with bugs and limited performance, but used in hobby projects and a subset of the Clojure library.
Browser Use Cloud rebuilt its system using Firecracker, a lightweight VM system, to create isolated and cheap cloud browsers. They optimized the system to reduce latency and cost, achieving a VM cold start under 400ms and end-to-end browser create latency of 825ms.
Madrid's metro expansion from 1995-2007 was a success due to low costs, streamlined processes, and a unified government structure. The project's efficiency and accountability were key factors in its success, with politicians and engineers working together to deliver the project on time and within budget.
A daily colour series explores its history, chemistry, and controversies. New entries arrive Sundays at 06:00 GMT, with ongoing corrections and occasional letters.
A person revived a damaged phone by charging it and discovered Android's mouse and keyboard support. They repurposed the phone as a web server using various software options, including Apache, PHP, and Cordova, and integrated hardware features like Bluetooth and SMS.
Occlupanids are small plastic objects grouped by oral groove dentition in synthetic taxonomy. Their phylogeny is based on dentition arrangement, with new orders arising as niches expand.
The Alaska brand was a computer brand sold in Mexico from 1998 to 2006, created by Mexmal Mayorista and DinastÃa International Corp, with a focus on Intel-based systems. The company went bankrupt in 2006 and its assets were acquired by ASI Computer Technologies after a series of financial troubles and court cases.
The QUERY method is a safe and idempotent HTTP request that allows a client to ask a server to perform a query operation without changing the target resource's state. It is used to initiate a server-side query and can be cached like GET requests.
Adam New's CADAM generates CAD models in seconds from plain language descriptions. It exports models as OpenSCAD, STL, SCAD, or DXF, showcasing parametric designs for various parts and machines.
The Loreline language is used with the free Loreline Writer app to write stories and dialogue easily. It has built-in features for complex stories and adapts to various tools for portability and translation.