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Paper packaging offers a number of advantages over its plastic counterparts: It has a high recycling rate, lower CO₂ emissions, and lower disposal costs. However, it cannot yet be sealed without adhesives or layers of plastic—a disadvantage for manufacturing and recycling processes. In the PAPURE project, four…
UA researchers find 3,500-year-old loom that reveals key aspects of textile revolution in the Bronze Age
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Today marks 15 years of Waterfox!
Historical Claude Code performance tracker across model generations on SWE-Bench-Pro.
Learn how AI was used to rewrite JSONata into a faster Go library, reducing costs and improving data processing performance.
In an important step for open science, CERN has been selected to host a new phase of Open Research Europe (ORE) , an initiative supported by the European Commission and a new funding consortium of European national funding agencies and research organisations. Aligned with the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access (2022)…
A solo developer watched his community lose a fight because they didn't have the right tools at the right time. So he started building.
Since OpenTelemetry first introduced Profiles, momentum has only grown towards building a unified industry standard for continuous production profiling, standing alongside traces, metrics, and logs. Today, the Profiling SIG is proud to announce that the Profiles signal has officially entered public Alpha, and we are…
The full Claude Code transcript from discovering and responding to the litellm 1.82.8 PyPI supply chain attack on March 24, 2026 — from mysterious process explosions to malware identification to public disclosure.
Today, we are excited to announce the Early Availability of the RISE RISC-V Runners , a free, managed GitHub Actions runner service that gives any open source project access to real RISC-V hardware in their CI pipelines. No emulation, no cross-compilation hacks, no waitlist. Install a GitHub App, change one line in…
A donation banner is not an attack to users The announcement that LibreOffice 26.8 will feature a donation banner in the Start Centre has prompted a flood of responses, ranging from positive from many FOSS supporters, who understand the need for funding, to mild apprehension to extreme alarm from others. Some articles…
Swift is designed to be the language you reach for at every layer of the software stack. Whether you’re building embedded firmware, internet-scale services, or full-featured mobile apps, Swift delivers strong safety guarantees, performance control when you need it, and expressive language features and APIs.
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
After an enormous amount of work and dedication from FreeCAD contributors we are delighted to announce that FreeCAD Version 1.1 is now released and available for download. There are significant amo…
From April 24 onward, interaction data from Copilot Free, Pro, and Pro+ users will be used to train and improve our AI models unless they opt out.
A complete guide to quantization: how LLMs store parameters as floats, why shrinking them to 4 or 8 bits barely hurts accuracy, and how to measure the tradeoff.
In a new study, University of Washington researchers examine the impact of tilling on soil moisture and water retention using methods designed for monitoring ea
Introducing Ensu, our first step toward a private, personal LLM app that runs on your device and grows with you over time.
Not a shadowing day or research interview - a real job. What I learned working as a pest control technician.
Arm introduces the Arm AGI CPU to power agentic AI infrastructure with rack-scale performance, efficiency and scalable compute for next-generation data centers.
Apple today announced Apple Business, a new all-in-one platform that allows companies to manage devices and reach more customers.
Introducing Hegel, our new family of property-based testing libraries.
Practical AI R&D
Every NanoClaw agent will access external services through OneCLI's Agent Vault, a gateway that handles credential injection, access policies, and approvals so agents never hold raw API keys.
"A Ramsey-style Problem on Hypergraphs" — a problem from FrontierMath: Open Problems, Epoch AI's benchmark of unsolved research mathematics.
