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An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop
Thinking of using AI for your Shopify 3D models? Read this first. We compare AI-generated 3D 'slop' vs. handcrafted models to show why the human touch is very much required to attain positive ROI.
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So you want to write an “app” (2025)
I touched "every" OS so you don't have to
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Too Much Color
I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.
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Hackers influence ChatGPT and Gemini to direct users to scam centers
Think you can trust AI to give you correct answer? Think again.
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Meta's Muse appears to use an OpenAI model labeled muse-special
While Muse was building my website, one subagent ran on a model called azure/muse-special. So I dug through the filesystem again.
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Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
A vulnerability in Ramp's Sheets AI allowed the agent to insert formulas that made external network requests without user approval, creating the risk of data exfiltration via indirect prompt injection.
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Job queues are deceptively tricky
A worked out example of different job queueing semantics and how they affect workloads.
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Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)
Several neural network design principles are almost identical to cipher design principles.
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The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub
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…
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Announcing Rust 1.96
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell
We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learned—and how we beat them.
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PVX-001: open-source Covid-19 vaccine starts Phase 1 trial
First participants safely dosed in Melbourne, Australia, on August 31, 2026, in the first-in-human trial of our broadly-protective COVID-19 vaccine candidate PVX-001.
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How Kubernetes Probes Work
Learn how probes work interactively on simulated Kubernetes clusters running in your browser.
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Let's Get Physical
This week has been… eventful. And when I say eventful, I can say this has been the funniest pentest I have ever been on in my life. Let me tell you about it!
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New features in GCC 16: Improved error messages and SARIF output
Explore new GCC 16 features for C++ developers. Learn about improved hierarchical error messages, updated SARIF output, and experimental HTML diagnostic tools.
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Racket v9.3
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.3 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: The `raco setup` command can generate markdown documentation, using the `--doc-mark...
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The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award
What started as a conversation on the beach between two scientists led to the “Nobel Prize in computing“ decades later. More on Charles Bennet, co-recipient of the 2025 Turing Award.
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OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip
OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.
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Farewell, Rust for web
Farewell, Rust for web. For now…
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AI is too expensive
If you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, including vast, detailed analyses of NVIDIA, Anthropic and OpenAI’s
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I toured Unitree's factory. I'm more bullish on the West
Everyone thinks China's robot factories are automated. They aren't. The robots are Chinese; the robots that make robots will be Western.
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Bye Bye Gmail
TLDR: Please remove @gmail.com as my primary email address and substitute removed . I will try to respond to email sent to @gmail.com but no guarantees.
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Securing our frontier model training environment
OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.
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The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate
In a world racing to automate every interaction, the organisations that invest in genuine human connection are quietly building something no algorithm can copy.
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The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century
An S-1 full of fantasies, insiders who will pocket millions, index companies that have changed the rules: it's all a recipe for regular people to have their pockets picked.
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Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature
On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising "easter egg" to users of Claude Code: `2.1.198` includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents to continue on without being blocked on direction from a human.
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Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file
(I don't plan on doing lots more of these Windows UI blog posts. I just happened to come across this and found it interesting. Besides, it's super hot where I live and I can't do anything meaningful anyway, so here we go.)
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Price per 1M tokens is meaningless
It stops being all about the vibes when the API bill hits you. Many companies are now discovering that AI can indeed be pricey. One habit that might be driving up your AI bill is comparing models by $X per 1M tokens ....