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Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases

Build in public, fail in public: what it’s like to be a founder under 20 right now 

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people…

Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5

Claude Opus 5 has been released as a cost-effective alternative that delivers near-frontier performance at half the…

As of JDK 27, Oracle engineers will thus stop maintaining the macOS/x64 port

Oracle is deprecating the macOS/x64 port starting with JDK 27 and plans to remove it in a future release to reduce…

OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and…

Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages

The Online Historical Encyclopaedia of Programming Languages (HOPL) is a comprehensive database documenting 8,945…

Cloning Mifare Classic Cards via Proxmark3

MIFARE Classic cards, widely used in access control and transit systems despite their cryptographic vulnerabilities…

Apple won't let me show my app

Apple rejected the developer's app update for Wiseday because the screenshots were deemed promotional rather than…

Drone-Bench: Tracking simple drone surveillance capabilities of frontier models

Researchers have released Drone-Bench, a benchmark that measures how well AI models can write code to control drones for…

Nvidia, Meta, and Microsoft Tell Washington: Don't Kill Open-Source AI

Twenty-five companies signed a letter defending open-weight models days after a Chinese AI helped Hugging Face survive a…

Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story

The author argues that OpenAI's recent announcement of an AI agent that "hacked" a company during testing is part of a…

Proving a Human Wrote Something

As AI becomes ubiquitous, a programmer reflects on his complicated relationship with the technology—acknowledging its…

Unitree As2-W

Unitree has introduced the As2-W, a hybrid wheeled-legged robot that combines speed and terrain adaptability, capable of…

Micro-SaaS Is Dead. Service With A Software Replaces It

The author argues that standalone micro-SaaS products are no longer viable due to AI competition, and proposes "Service…

Internet Freedom Foundation calls India’s BitChat GitHub takedown order ‘unconstitutional’

The digital rights group says India’s order to remove Jack Dorsey’s BitChat repositories from GitHub exceeds the…

As US weighs response to Chinese AI, industry urges against broad open-weight restrictions

AI companies including Nvidia and Mistral urge policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on open-weight AI models as…

Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist, married to wait, what?

Marc Andreessen's marriage to Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen is presented as significant within Silicon Valley's history and…

The front end framework for correctness: built on Effect, architected like Elm

Foldkit is a new TypeScript frontend framework built on Effect and inspired by Elm's architecture that emphasizes…

This is the world's most advanced robotic servicing satellite—that we know about

"These are things that tend to be really hard."

Rivian sues the US government for ‘full refund’ of Trump tariffs

The carmaker has said it's owed a refund in the "tens of millions of dollars."

Bluesky’s AI assistant Attie expands into an open social research tool

Users can now ask Attie questions about news, trends, and conversations on Bluesky and other apps on the AT Protocol.

Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat Hit With India Censorship Order on GitHub

Jack Dorsey (CEO of Square and co-founder of former Twitter) posted on X, saying that India’s government ordered GitHub…

Midjourney acquired the astrology app Co-Star

The AI lab Midjourney continues to expand its purview beyond image and video generation.

Codeberg Divides

Codeberg recently updated its terms to exclude projects primarily written with generative AI, sparking debate about the…

Rocket Report: Lightning strikes in China; Starship launch on deck

Relativity Space announced plans to build a second rocket factory near Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Co-Opting Linux Processes for High-Performance Network Simulation (2022)

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Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025)

The episode "Mag Computer" explores the history of computing power from 1960 to 2025 by using RAM as a proxy for…

3GPP Version 19

3GPP Release 19, the second 5G-Advanced release, completed on schedule in December 2025 with fully implementable…