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Kraków, Poland in top 5 worst air quality worldwide
Compare live air quality rankings for major cities worldwide. See real-time AQI levels and pollution conditions by location.
Porsche sold more electrified cars in Europe in 2025 than pure gas-powered cars
With a balanced sales structure across individual markets, Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG, Stuttgart, delivered a total of 279,449 cars to customers around the world in 2025.
The assistant axis: situating and stabilizing the character of LLMs
Who is the Assistant? We investigate the character that most modern language models inhabit when interacting with users.
Nonviolence
As a theologian, Martin Luther King reflected often on his understanding of nonviolence. He described his own “pilgrimage to nonviolence” in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom , and in subsequent books and articles. “True pacifism,” or “nonviolent resistance,” King wrote, is “a courageous confrontation of evil by…
What came first: the CNAME or the A record?
A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients. This post explores the technical root cause, examines the source code of affected resolvers, and dives into the inherent ambiguities of the DNS RFCs.
Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights
In a new analysis we trace Big Tech's fingerprints on the Digital Omnibus proposals - a major deregulation of EU digital laws including the GDPR and the AI Act. They are helped in this attempt by the Trump administration and the European far right.
Are arrays functions?
A high-performance and high-level purely functional data-parallel array programming language that can execute on the GPU and CPU.
The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable
The medal and the diploma are the physical symbols confirming that an individual or organisation has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize itself – the honour and recognition – remains inseparably linked to the person or organisation designated as the laureate by the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK
As members of NATO, we are committed to strengthening Arctic security as a shared transatlantic interest. The pre-coordinated Danish exercise ”Arctic Endurance” conducted with Allies, responds to this necessity. It poses no threat to anyone. We stand in full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people of…
Keeping 20k GPUs healthy
How we do active and passive monitoring on hyperscalers and neoclouds.
jQuery 4
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery
Labs at Stanford and MIT built Claude-powered systems that run genome-wide studies in minutes and automate gene cluster interpretation.
Dark Mode vs. Light Mode: Which Is Better?
In people with normal vision (or corrected-to-normal vision), visual performance tends to be better with light mode, whereas some people with cataract and related disorders may perform better with dark mode. On the flip side, long-term reading in light mode may be associated with myopia.
The recurring dream of replacing developers
Every decade brings new promises: this time, we'll finally make software development simple enough that we won't need so many developers.
ClickHouse acquires Langfuse
Our goal continues to be building the best AI engineering platform
Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC
Desoldering a drone's flash chip and reconstructing the firmware from broken data.
FLUX.2 [Klein]: Towards Interactive Visual Intelligence
Introducing FLUX.2 [klein], our fastest image models. Unified generation and editing in under a second, on hardware you already own. Apache 2.0 on 4B.
Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation
A proposal for a standard /install.md file that provides LLM-executable installation instructions.
Releasing rainbow tables to accelerate Net-NTLMv1 protocol deprecation
Mandiant aims to lower the barrier for security professionals to demonstrate the insecurity of Net-NTLMv1.
Our approach to advertising
OpenAI plans to test advertising in the U.S. for ChatGPT’s free and Go tiers to expand affordable access to AI worldwide, while protecting privacy, trust, and answer quality.
6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available
Update: March 11, 2026 If you use Certbot, see Six-Day and IP Address Certificates Available in Certbot for details on requesting these certificates. Short-lived and IP address certificates are now generally available from Let’s Encrypt. These certificates are valid for 160 hours, just over six days. In order to get a…
Cloudflare acquires Astro
The Astro Technology Company is joining Cloudflare! Astro remains open-source, MIT-licensed, and platform-agnostic. With Cloudflare's support, we're focusing 100% on building the best framework for content-driven websites. Astro 6 beta is available now.
SETI Home Flags 100 Signals After Sorting 12B Others
UC Berkeley’s SETI@home, one of the most popular crowd-sourced research projects ever, turned up some 12 billion signals of interest. A lengthy analysis found 100 worth another look.
CVEs affecting the Svelte ecosystem
Time to upgrade
Supply Chain Vuln Compromised Core AWS GitHub Repos & Threatened the AWS Console
Wiz Research discovered CodeBreach, a critical vulnerability that risked the AWS Console supply chain. Learn how to secure your AWS CodeBuild pipelines.
LLM Structured Outputs Handbook
A practical handbook for developers using LLMs to get structured outputs.