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Migrating a production AI agent to GPT-5.6: 2.2x faster, 27% cheaper
For four months, no frontier model beat Claude Opus in our production evals. GPT-5.6 did. This is what we learned while migrating.
FLUX is fast and it's open source
FLUX is now much faster on Replicate, and we’ve made our optimizations open-source so you can see exactly how they work and build upon them.
VMware transition to subscription, end of sale of perpetual licenses
Get the latest Broadcom news, press releases, and updates. Broadcom software powers the world’s complex digital infrastructure.
Supreme Court declines to hear Wikimedia's challenge to NSA mass surveillance
On February 21st 2023, the Wikimedia Foundation circulated the below joint statement with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.…
New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting. The new finding may explain heat loss in nuclear fusion reactors.
AWS Lambda Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
Discover more about what's new at AWS with AWS Lambda@Edge changes duration billing granularity from 50ms down to 1ms
The Sandstorm Team Is Joining Cloudflare
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
From seawater to drinking water, with the push of a button
MIT researchers created a portable desalination unit that can remove particles and salts simultaneously to generate drinking water. The user-friendly unit, which weighs less than 10 kilograms and does not require filters, can be powered by a small, portable solar panel.
Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
The U.S. military is poisoning Okinawa
Blood testing confirms high levels of carcinogen PFAS in the blood of hundreds living close to US bases Japanese demand answers while Americans deny responsibility By Pat Elder December 1, 2022
A redesign of the Django websites
Posted by Jannis Leidel and Russell Keith-Magee on Dec. 15, 2014
PHP 5.4.0 released
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Kicad 6: new feature review for open source EDA tool
In this article, I document many of the most important changes that the KiCad developers have introduced to KiCad 6, including numerous "under the hood" improvements, and new productivity features in the front end.
Opera Mini approved for iPhone
Keep up on what's happening at Opera by following our latest public announcements.
Mercury 3: Diffusion at scale
Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion LLM released to date. It outperforms GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 while running 4–8x faster at 1,000+ tokens per second.
Kropotkin escapes from prison
On the occasion of Peter Kropotkin's birthday, we present an account of his escape from prison in Tsarist Russia.
Highlights from Git 2.35
The open source Git project just released Git 2.35. Here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes.
CouchDB 2.0
The Apache CouchDB development community is proud to announce the immediate availability of version 2.0. See also the official Apache Press Release. CouchDB 2.0 is 99% API compatible with the 1.x s…
TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max
We’ve expanded our eighth generation TPU portfolio with TPU 8tx and TPU 8i Max, marking four new TPU systems in a single year.
YC Interviews in India
We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding interviews for the Summer 2019 batch in Bangalore for founders based in India. This will take place from May 7 to 9. We’ve received an increasing number of applications from India and this will allow us to interview more Indian founders. So far, we’ve funded over 40…
Mitmproxy 7.0
We’re delighted to announce the release of mitmproxy 7, a free and open source interactive HTTPS proxy. This release is all about our new proxy core, which bring substantial improvements across the board and represents a massive milestone for the project.