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TL;DR Today we're releasing two research assistants: Quick Assistant and Research Assistant (previously named Ki during beta). Kagi's Research Assistant happened to top a popular benchmark (SimpleQA) when we ran it in August 2025. This was...
DuckDB 1.4 ships database encryption capabilities. In this blog post, we dive into the implementation details of the encryption, show how to use it, and demonstrate its performance implications.
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
Today, we’re introducing a way for Quick Share to work with AirDrop.
Nano Banana Pro is our new image generation and editing model from Google DeepMind.
Ubuntu Pro now supports LTS releases for up to 15 years through the Legacy add-on. More security, more stability, and greater control over upgrade timelines for enterprises. […]
From April 2026, only verified devices can send or receive end-to-end encrypted message on Element.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has proposed new rules that would effectively end the public’s ability to challenge improperly granted patents at the Patent Office itself. We need EFF supporters to file public comments opposing these rules this week. The USPTO is moving quickly, and staying silent will…
We introduce and open-source an automated evaluation for political even-handedness, testing six models across 1,350 prompt pairs.
Introducing GPT-5.1-Codex-Max, a faster, more intelligent agentic coding model for Codex. The model is designed for long-running, project-scale work with enhanced reasoning and token efficiency.
We’ve seen incredible adoption of SAM 3 over the last few months, and during that time, we’ve been working behind the scenes on updates to improve video processing efficiency. Today, we’re pleased to introduce SAM 3.1.
Big Tech Oligopoly helps the Trump Administration crack down on free speech
Thunderbird Exchange support has finally landed for email in the latest monthly release. Find out what's in, out, and still on the way.
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson.
Compare AI model performance on AA-Omniscience v1.1: Knowledge and Hallucination Benchmark. A benchmark measuring factual recall and hallucination across various economically relevant domains.
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
The Free and Open Source 3D Creation Software — blender.org
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.
DAVIS, California – November 18, 2025 – The Connectivity Standards Alliance (Alliance) announced today the release of Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi, the new brand for Zigbee’s Sub-GHz feature…
Unlock state-of-the-art coding and reasoning in your terminal. Gemini 3 Pro is now in Gemini CLI for Google AI Ultra and paid API subscribers.
Every advancement in model intelligence for coding has encouraged us to rethink how development should be done. The Integrated Development Environment (IDE)…
Gemini 3 is introducing advanced agentic coding capabilities, plus Google Antigravity, a new agentic development platform.
Today we’re releasing Gemini 3 – our most intelligent model that helps you bring any idea to life.
We are pleased to announce the release of Ruby 4.0.0-preview2. Ruby 4.0 updates its Unicode version to 17,0.0, and so on.
When entertaining the idea of communities issuing their own money (called complementary currencies ), people often wonder if that idea has been successfully done before. In doing our research into the concept, we encountered a number of stories where communities issued their own currency and produced a prosperity…
Edit (November 26th, 2am Pacific): This post was originally titled “Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work”. We’ve had a bit of time to reflect on this blog p...
Grok 4.1 is now available to all users on grok.com, 𝕏, and the iOS and Android apps. It is rolling out immediately in Auto mode and can be selected explicitly as “Grok 4.1” in the model picker.
Learn how code execution with the Model Context Protocol enables agents to handle more tools while using fewer tokens, reducing context overhead by up to 98.7%.
