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September in Servo: <progress>, rounded rectangles, and more
Plus new CSS functions and WEbGL2 improvements.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 2,237 posts.
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OpenSSH 10.6p2 Critical workaround for alpine without PAM
OpenSSH release notes
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Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base: a 280B-A14B hybrid-attention MoE pretrained on 33.5T tokens. An open, efficient pretraining base.
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GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research
Research on aligning AI with human values and intent, and reports documenting model failures.
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Images 2.6
Images 2.6 brings faster image generation, GIF creation, more precise editing, and new API controls across ChatGPT, Codex, and the API.
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A thousand fewer paths to root
OpenAI built an autonomous pipeline that found, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel.
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Ripple-65B Preview: U.S. Open-Weight SOTA on Agentic Coding
We develop frontier AI methods to reinvent chip development, collapsing traditional design timelines, closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, and enabling a Cambrian explosion of custom silicon.
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Education shouldn't be held for ransom
Google told K-12 schools they could turn off AI, but only if they gave up search too. That isn’t integration. It’s holding education for ransom.
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Conductor is joining Meta
We launched Conductor a lifetime ago, in the distant past of July 2025. Writing most of your code with agents (let alone a team of coding agents) felt crazy back then. You trusted us to come along for the ride, and we cannot thank you enough!
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This Month in Ladybird – October 2026
CSS animations and hover that keep working while JavaScript is busy, a JavaScript JIT, a new WebAssembly engine, and a redesigned UI.
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A new Go API for JSON
Go 1.27 introduces new encoding/json/v2 and encoding/json/jsontext packages.
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Progress on provable inference for large language models
Sharing progress on a powerful type of cryptographic proof known as a zkSNARK, which is uniquely fit for provable inference.
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OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
OpenAI will acquire Pierre Computer Company, expanding Codex’s tools for building, understanding, and reviewing code.
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Verification Is Not Knowledge: Science needs more than answers
Science needs more than answers
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Kitty 0.50
kitty is a feature-rich, cross-platform, fast, GPU based terminal. To update kitty, follow the instructions. Recent major new features: Docked windows [0.50]: kitty windows can now be docked to an ...
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Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
A hands-on look at dual-booting Linux on the Nvidia RTX Spark laptop, the GPU clock throttling bug found, and why WSL still wins.
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Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers, along with Mass General Brigham researchers from the Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation, and the Broad Institute, have uncovered biological clues to why colorectal cancer can behave more aggressively in younger people. Published today in Nature Medicine, the…
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Giant canyon on Mars is still tectonically active
Scientists at Columbia University and Imperial College London have found that the largest canyon system in the solar system is still active and shaping Mars today, billions of years after it first formed.
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Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
We’re excited to announce Adaptive Dark Mode in Safari 27.3 beta.
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Can GROUP BY still be optimized after all these years?
An optimization that made Pivot significantly faster on GROUP BY queries with a Top-K operator above them, and a walkthrough of how analytical databases run GROUP BY in the first place.
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Bear turns 10, and it still feels like day one
🐻🎂 Happy 10th bearthday! Join us for the stories behind our design principles, the tiny details hidden all over the app, plus some wonderful new features and Bear swag.
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Mac at any scale
What it takes to run Macs in a datacenter: custom MacBook racks, virtualizing macOS with Apple's Virtualization framework, and building and distributing huge VM images across the fleet.
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There is no posttraining data commons
The LLM revolution ran on a pretraining commons that humanity built for other reasons. Posttraining consumes tasks, not documents, and no such commons exists. If the open models community wants...
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Scaling Git at OpenAI
How OpenAI built Pando, a Git-compatible backend designed for the scale of development that Codex makes possible.
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SLAC researchers find proof of altermagnetism, a new magnetic phase
The team is the first to directly observe a unique property in an altermagnetic candidate material, key evidence of a new phase of magnetism.
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Spreading Liquid with Three.js
We create beautiful expressions through programming and deliver the best possible experiences.
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Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
No patched kernels are available yet for 22.04, 24.04, or 26.04 despite a CVSS 9.8 rating.