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OverviewArtificial Intelligence is already impacting higher education and the legal profession, and the pace of change appears only to be accelerating. It is thus critical for us to use this moment to carefully reflect on how legal education should adapt. This memo describes the approach we are taking to legal…
Define a simple, standard API for parsing and generating JSON documents so that doing so does not require an external library. Enable many JSON processing tasks to be accomplished with little coding. This is an incubating API .
I always liked to see and touch the cover artwork of the CDs and LPs I bought in the past, but in the end the convenience of digital streaming won me over and I accepted no (or stamp-sized) artwork. Lately I’ve been missing this more and more and ultimately decided to try to do something about it. So I built a…
Observations made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) have revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Unlike moons in our Solar System, the newly found object does not orbit a planet, raising questions about what to name it. Instead, it circles a brown…
Animate compact tetrahedral cages and reuse static mini-BLASes to ray-trace hundreds of millions of triangles in real time, dramatically cutting per-frame update and memory costs for dense foliage, grass, and crowds.
In Brief: Two motions regarding
In a previous post SIMD Matters I discussed the big wins I got from graph coloring to make the contact solver faster. That same approach exists in Box3D. I like to call this approach “wide SIMD”. The idea is to process multiple work units at the same time. In the contact solver this means solving four contact points…
A new system developed at MIT CSAIL helps users design three-sided fasteners called “Y-zippers,” then 3D prints them. The devices can be attached or embedded to camping equipment, medical gear, robots, and art installations, seamlessly switching each item between soft and rigid.
Is it Cut 'n' Paste, like Fish 'n' Chips?
But a Redfin analysis found that AI data centers have benefits: In northern Virginia, taxes on data center equipment are likely contributing to a surge in education spending.
A guide to preventing Postgres from toppling over.
Bring reactive notebooks into your Python projects, without leaving your IDE
Kimi K3 matches Fable 5 on SWE tasks (92.4% vs 92.6%) at up to 50x lower cost on Fireworks. See where each model wins and how routing beats both.
Four frontier models, a blank canvas, and colored pencils. We tracked every stroke, dollar, and output as they tried to draw the Mona Lisa.
OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
Today, we’re excited to announce the Preview of Containers in Firefox version 153, which lets you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping
Today we’re releasing Laguna S 2.1, a significant step forward in our development of models that pursue longer horizon work and make effective use of reasoning.
We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
Or: the difference between vibe-coding and vibe-engineering.
An alternative way of calculating the homeownership rate tells us how many individuals own their homes—something the most commonly used metric fails to track
Qwen offers comprehensive functionality spanning chatbot, image and video understanding, image generation, document processing, web search integration, tool utilization, and artifacts.
While Japanese agencies continue to dominate the industry, non-Japanese VTubers are forging their own unique paths to success.
ACLU documents how surveillance camera company Flock has lied to local officials about its operations
We compared old and new agent swarms building SQLite from scratch and found that better coordination delivers similar quality at a fraction of the cost.
After quite a long while, Hyprland 0.55 is upon us! This is an enormous update by each measurable metric - commits, contributors, features and changes.
The Wasm GC and exceptions proposals are both enabled by default in today’sWasmtime 47 release! We are excited to help bring more languages to WebAssemblyand everywhere that Wasmtime runs. Getting to this point involved large Wasmtimecha...
I scored the full text of over 12,000 arXiv papers from 2021 to 2026 across ten different fields and found that about a third of the papers currently…
The leaked draft text suggests that the Commission significantly caved in to US’s excessive demands for unfettered information access.
Adam Kues used a $200 GPT5.6 Sol Ultra subscription to discover a pre-authentication SQL injection and full RCE exploit chain in WordPress Core – a chain that chains a batch API desync, cache poisoning, changeset abuse, and hook injection into a complete takeover.
