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First Successful Lightning Triggering and Guiding Using a Drone
News Highlights: ◆We have achieved the world's first successful lightn...
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MCP on AWS Lambda with MCPEngine
A virtual feature store for the modern AI stack
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Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Internet
It is wonderful to see the growing number of people working on digital commons, inventing and improving technologies to the benefit of all humanity. 42 of such projects have been selected for funding in the October call of the NGI Zero Commons Fund. In terms of applications, it was the largest call round in NGI Zero's…
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Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run
Atuin Desktop looks like a doc, but runs like your terminal. Script blocks, embedded terminals, database clients and prometheus charts - all in one place.
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π0.5: A VLA with open-world generalization
Our latest generalist policy, π0.5, extends π0 and enables open-world generalization. Our new model can control a mobile manipulator to clean up an entirely new kitchen or bedroom.
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ClickHouse gets lazier and faster: Introducing lazy materialization
ClickHouse learned to procrastinate strategically. Discover how lazy materialization skips unnecessary column reads to accelerate queries.
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Algebraic Semantics for Machine Knitting
As programming languages researchers, we’re entitled to a certain level of mathematical rigor behind the languages we write and analyze. Programming languages have semantics , which are definitions of what statements in the language mean. We can use those semantics to do all sorts of useful things, like error…
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An update to our pricing
Our pricing model is getting much simpler!
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A new form of verification on Bluesky
We’re introducing a new layer of verification — a user-friendly, easily recognizable badge. Additionally, independent organizations can verify accounts directly through our Trusted Verifiers feature.
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Fossil fuels fall below 50% of US electricity for the first month on record
Record-high solar and wind bring the US to a clean power tipping point.
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The effect of deactivating Facebook and Instagram on users' emotional state
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
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How Thai authorities use online doxxing to suppress dissent
A sustained, coordinated social media harassment and doxxing campaign – which we codenamed JUICYJAM – targeting the pro-democracy movement in Thailand has run uninterrupted, and unchallenged, since at least August 2020. Through our analysis of public social media posts we determined that the campaign was not only…
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Gemma 3 QAT Models: Bringing AI to Consumer GPUs
Explore Gemma 3 models now offering state-of-the-art AI performance on consumer GPUs with new int4 quantized versions optimized with Quantization Aware Training (QAT).
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A unique sound alleviates motion sickness
Stay informed about research breakthroughs, university announcements, and opportunities to engage with Nagoya University's dynamic global community.
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Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
Get more out of Claude Code: tell Claude what it can't see, give it a check to run, and enforce the rules that can't have exceptions.
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A New ASN.1 API for Python
We’re working on integrating an ASN.1 API into PyCA Cryptography, built on top of the same Rust ASN.1 implementation already used by Cryptography’s X.509 APIs.
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I gave up on self-hosted Sentry (2024)
Discover why I gave up on self-hosting Sentry before even starting. The high hardware needs, tricky setup, and heavy maintenance made it not worth the trouble.
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Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web. We want to deliver a search experience that prioritises human needs, allowing you to explore the web effectively, privately, and without manipulation. We evaluate new technologies...
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What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
Lead programmer talks Lua’s flexibility, challenges, and integration with Defold game engine after 60k lines of code in Craftomation 101.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Flash, is now in preview, offering improved reasoning while prioritizing speed and cost efficiency for developers.
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TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
Recently revealed text in legal briefs tells a damning story about the company, in its employees’ own words
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Encryption Is Not a Crime
Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects us all. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.
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Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
How we split Feldera into a thousand crates to use every core rustc can get, cutting compile times from 30 minutes to 2.
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Kaggle and the Wikimedia Foundation are partnering on open data
Kaggle is hosting Wikimedia Enterprise's beta release of structured data in both French and English. Kaggle is home to a vast trove of open and accessible data, with mor…
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OpenAI o3 and o4-mini
Our smartest and most capable models to date with full tool access
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Kermit: A typeface for kids
Using design to empower children by making reading easier, improving comprehension, and helping dyslexics.
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JetBrains IDEs Go AI: Coding Agent, Smarter Assistance, Free Tier
All JetBrains AI tools – including our improved AI Assistant and new coding agent Junie – are now available within our IDEs under a single subscription and come with a free tier.
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Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?
In their own words, we see that Snap Inc’s design choices expose millions of kids to harm