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3 Wacky Hermes Skills You Should Try

A real astrology engine disguised as a fortune teller. A scammer-punishment machine loaded with the Shrek screenplay.

Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)

Elon Muks's xAI has gone all in on natural gas, while SpaceX is obsessed with orbital data centers.

80386 Microcode Disassembled

Researchers have successfully disassembled the microcode from the Intel 80386 processor's ROM (94,720 bits), a…

Electrobun 2.0 will be decoupled from Bun due to the rust rewrite

Making Deep Learning Go Brrrr from First Principles

# Summary The article explains how to improve deep learning performance by reasoning from first principles rather than…

Trump Shares AI Video Tossing Stephen Colbert Into Dumpster After Late Show Finale

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- -dangerously-skip-reading-code – olano.dev

The author argues that skipping code review for LLM-generated output is acceptable if organizations consciously accept…

White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems

White Rabbit is a synchronization technology that provides sub-nanosecond accuracy for large distributed systems,…

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork

Peec, one of Berlin’s rising startups, more than doubled annualized revenue in months to $10M, sources say

Peec, which helps brands track their presence in AI searches, offers proof of a key trend among European startups.

Spanish Court Declines to Fine NordVPN over LaLiga Piracy Blocking Order

A Spanish court declined to impose fines on NordVPN for allegedly failing to comply with a February order to block IP…

Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby

Rubish is a Unix shell written in pure Ruby that parses shell syntax and compiles it to Ruby code for execution.

Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees

Microsoft is canceling most of its internal Claude Code licenses after employee adoption became unexpectedly expensive,…

Is AI Profitable Yet?

FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack

TikTok disproportionately served anti-Democratic videos during the 2024 election

A study published in Nature found that TikTok's recommendation algorithm disproportionately exposes users to…

I was bored so I turned my dev tools into an alien planet ruled by my dog

Planet Maiko is a developer platform styled as an alien planet inhabited by space dog agents that integrates tools like…

AI is being used to resurrect the voices of dead pilots

People used AI on a spectrogram image of cockpit recordings to reconstruct them, forcing the NTSB to temporarily block…

Don't just paste the AI at me

The article warns against simply copying and pasting AI chatbot responses when answering someone's question, since they…

Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU

Firefox developers implemented a workaround for crashes occurring on Intel Raptor Lake CPUs, with the fix being reviewed…

First-generation Chromecast users stressed by devices suddenly failing

Google tells Ars it fixed the first-gen Chromecast bug.

Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda

A software developer in Australia shipped a refurbished MacBook to Django, a Congolese refugee in Uganda pursuing a…

Google goes for the glitter with disco-ball icons: ‘Are y’all sure you still want this?’

You can now disco ball-ify your entire Pixel homescreen, says Google.

How VCs and founders use inflated ‘ARR’ to crown AI startups 

Some AI startups are stretching traditional revenue metrics when talking about progress publicly.

Hengefinder: Finding When the Sun Aligns with Your Street

A developer created Hengefinder, a tool that predicts when the sun aligns with streets in any city (similar to…

Microsoft's Free AI Just Beat OpenAI and Google at Browsing the Web

Fara1.5 is a family of open-weight browser agents from Microsoft Research that outperforms OpenAI's Operator and…

Models.dev: open-source database of AI model specs, pricing, and capabilities

Models.dev is an open-source database that aggregates AI model specifications, pricing, and capabilities from various…

Two Men Federally Charged Over AI Deepfake Porn Under the Take It Down Act

Federal prosecutors charged two men under the 2025 law that criminalizes non-consensual AI-generated intimate imagery.

GitHub introduces staged publishing and new install-time controls for NPM

GitHub has released two npm security features: staged publishing, which now requires maintainer approval before packages…