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We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub
We gave Strix a domain. In 25 minutes, it found a live token with admin access to Baseten's product, deployment, and CLI repos in a public Docker image.
100x defect tolerance: How we solved the yield problem
Cerebras powers the world's fastest AI inference on the biggest wafer chip. Cerebras CS-4 delivers up to 30x faster inference than GPUs.
Mozilla's new Firefox Linux package for Ubuntu and Debian derivatives
Great news for Linux users, after months of testing, Mozilla released today a new package for Firefox on Linux (specifically on Ubuntu, Debian, and any Deb
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech
Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS are our most expressive audio models yet.
One universal antiviral to rule them all?
Taking inspiration from a rare mutation that makes people impervious to viral diseases, a Columbia researcher is developing a therapy that could bestow this superpower on the rest of us.
Helix Editor 25.07
A post-modern modal text editor.
Every Signature Is Broken: Insecurity of Microsoft Office’s Ooxml Signatures
Simon Rohlmann, Vladislav Mladenov, Christian Mainka, Daniel Hirschberger, and Jörg Schwenk, Ruhr University Bochum
Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available
Today, Amazon CodeWhisperer, a real-time AI coding companion, is generally available and also includes a CodeWhisperer Individual tier that’s free to use for all developers. Originally launched in preview last year, CodeWhisperer keeps developers in the zone and productive, helping them write code quickly and securely…
LM Studio Bionic: the AI agent for open models
The AI agent made for open models, built to get things done.
French Gendarmerie: "Open source desktop lowers TCO by 40%"
Using an open source desktop lowers the total cost of ownership by 40%, in savings on proprietary software licences and by reducing costs on IT management. Using Ubuntu Linux massively reduces the...
Google launches voice typing in Google Docs
Edit and format your documents — all without touching your keyboard.
Introducing draft pull requests
You can now use draft pull requests to clearly tag when you’re coding a work in progress.
How The New York Times Uses Software to Recognize Members of Congress
Even if you’ve covered Congress for The New York Times for a decade, it can be hard to recognize which member you’ve just spoken with…
Cisco Must Be Held Accountable for Aiding China’s Human Rights Abuses
San Francisco—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is urging a federal appeals court to reinstate a lawsuit seeking to hold Cisco Systems accountable for aiding in human rights abuses by building the Chinese government a system that Cisco officials knew was intended to identify—and facilitate...
Strict Tables – Column type constraints in SQLite - Draft
SQLite strives to be flexible regarding the datatype of the content that it stores. For example, if a table column has a type of "INTEGER", then SQLite tries to convert anything inserted into that column into an integer. So an attempt to insert the string '123' results in an integer 123 being inserted. But if the…
Fixing Python Performance with Rust
Why your JavaScript events are coming in quicker now.
State Partitioning
State Partitioning is the new privacy feature called Total Cookie Protection, which will be available in ETP Strict Mode in Firefox 86.
pg_timeseries: Open-source time-series extension for PostgreSQL
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
Announcing Quill 1.0
Quill is a free, open source WYSIWYG editor built for the modern web. Completely customize it for any need with its modular architecture and expressive API.