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Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
Press release of Nintendo Co., Ltd.
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Does that use a lot of energy?
This tool was designed to get a sense of the differences in energy consumption between different products. It's often difficult to understand whether activities matter a lot or very little for our overall energy consumption.
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We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare
Cloudflare is hosting a competition to see who will build the next Git platform for an era of AI agents. Artifacts is in open beta, with Workers bindings, data jurisdiction controls, and event subscriptions for repository changes.
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How the terrorist group Boko Haram uses frontier AI
The Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy (CASP) is an interdisciplinary research programme on frontier AI at the University of Cambridge.
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The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
Slot machines on the Las Vegas Strip return about 93 cents on the dollar. This is widely considered some of the worst odds in gambling. Yet on Kalshi, a CFTC-regulated prediction market, traders have wagered vast sums on longshot contracts with historical returns as low as 43 cents on the dollar. Thousands of…
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Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)
Results and speed for other programs on enwik8 and enwik9 are available at the Large Text Compression Benchmark .
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Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising
Citadel Securities is an award-winning global market-maker across a broad array of fixed income and equity products.
2918
TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
So… Here we are again. Today, after a minor disaster with my Obsidian vault, I decided to restore from Time Machine, and… I realized that it had silently ...
2919
Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)
What my father taught me.
2920
Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
As you probably already know, I regularly get in contact with drawing tablet brands for reviews on my Youtube channel . I usually agree to do detailed video test of their models (see my hardware tag) but only at two condition: test the tablet on GNU/Linux, and only use Free/Libre and Open Source software for the test…
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The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source
Four and a half years ago, Modular made a bet: AI would not run on one kind of silicon forever, and the software stack would need to be rearchitected for a world of heterogeneous hardware and increasingly complex AI workloads.
2922
We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM
We gave our AI agent a SQL interface to billions of CI log lines in ClickHouse. How we ingest, store, and query 1.5 billion log lines a week.
2923
Way to Play Super Mario 64: On Apple Vision Pro
Super Mario 64 becomes a living diorama on Apple Vision Pro. Each level sits on your real table, and you walk around it while you play with a game controller. You are the camera: lean in for a closer look, or step around the table to see Mario from any side.
2924
The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view
The enormous faux shopping bag that served as an advertisement for Macy’s is mostly gone, save for a patch of red facing Sixth Avenue. Scaffolding covers the ground floor retail space, and da…
2925
Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well
A sampling of recent news
2926
Life During Class Wartime
War is bad. Don’t start one. But we’re already in a class war and we’re losing. Where by “we” I mean most people; the winning side comprises, roughly, the richest 0.1% of the population, who are morphing into a hereditary aristocracy. [I mean that, see below.] So, what to do in a war one didn’t choose?
2927
Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude
Anthropic researchers find weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms with Claude Mythos Preview
2928
10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home
I already had 2.5Gb/s working. Here's how I upgraded the whole house to 10Gb/s Ethernet -- including real iperf3 numbers, MikroTik switches, scary thermals, and what actually worked.
2929
Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug
A University of Toronto professor’s research on the physiology of sleep and breathing has paved the way for a new sleep apnea treatment that recently reported positive results in a phase 3 clinical trial.
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We have proof automation now
I've long had a soft spot for dependently-typed languages like Coq Rocq and Lean. They offer the possibility of a type system capable of encoding and enforcing arbitrarily subtle invariants. The sort of thing that, in regular languages, ends up (at best) as a comment, and which quickly gets lost as the size of the…
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Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower
Keeping workflow state and application data in the same Postgres database lets one transaction update both, simplifying idempotency and atomicity.
2934
Tooltips need a delay, and then they need to skip it
Thinking about UX, a slight delay on a simple tooltip can be nice so that mousing over something quickly doesn't trigger it, but if there are related tooltips nearby, maybe we don't need to wait.
2935
Better Models: Worse Tools
About an aggravating tool-calling regression in newer Claude models.
2936
The age of Pump and Dump software
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
2937
OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
We’ve been working on some exciting new features for OpenTTD 16, and they need testing! The first beta release is now available, and we’ve opened the competition to create the title game for the next release.
2938
Faster than earcut: triangulating 3.7M map polygons in 489 ms
We published the triangulator of our map engine as earstrip, an ISC-licensed C++ and WebAssembly library. How it came to be: the ear clipper rebuilt one idea at a time and timed on 3.7 million polygons of real map data.
2939
Harold and George Destroy the World
I have been thinking a lot lately about these two fellows. If you are not lucky enough to know them already, those are Harold and George from the Captain Underpants series of books (among others)…
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New U.S. college grads now have higher unemployment than the average worker
A recent U.S. college degree long meant lower unemployment than the average worker. That edge flipped in 2019, and the gap is now the widest on record.