An American MEXT scholar shares the pros and cons of doing a PhD in Japan, from funding and part-time work to university life and career options.

How one unchecked login token put 17 trillion rows in a Microsoft internal analytics service within reach.

The federal government released dozens of mortality reviews of immigrants who died in detention in recent years. They show a uniform pattern of medical neglect.

The full 1996 dial-up experience: the handshake, the wait, someone picking up the phone. Sound on.

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Marques Brownlee just released a video essay titled “Dear YouTube” . I loved it. He talks about how YouTube is going to start shipping this new feature where…

My great-great-grandfather thought he’d be replaced by technology too. He was a farrier in Mandres-en-Barrois, the small village in rural France where I grew up.

An IDE for solid modelling with distance fields

Analysis of Google's Gemini 4 Argon (High) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

We are thrilled to announce the latest release of Gitea v28.0.0 . Gitea drops the historical 1. prefix from its version numbers, so this release is 28.0.0 rather than 1.28.0. Highlights include audit logging, bot accounts, HTTPS deploy tokens, user impersonation for administrator

Singapore's govt dating app runs on a Nobel Prize-winning game theory algorithm 👏 FirstDate uses Gale-Shapley, the 1962 stable marriage algorithm that won the 2012 Economics Nobel and still runs hospital residency matches and kidney exchanges today. how it works: 1 | your preferences and dealbr…

Nearly 27 years after the final Blackbird flight, NASA quietly launched a project last summer to return an SR-71A to flight.

See how Netlify rebuilt Edge Functions on MicroVMs to deliver lower latency, greater reliability, and faster log delivery.

On September 30, 2026, EDG's C++ front end goes open source with The C++ Alliance as its nonprofit home. What changes for EDG users, how to contribute, and where to follow the work.

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time.

Announcing Gemini 4 Argon, our frontier model for real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work and cyber defense, rolling out soon.

Ledge is a Markdown notebook for developers and DevOps. Run a code block in place and its output streams in beneath it. Free and open source, for Mac, Linux, Windows, and iPhone.

Before the AI era, I wrote pretty long commit descriptions (or commit bodies) for major changes. It took me about five to ten minutes to draft and reread them to make sure I didn’t miss anything important. I did that for several reasons.

Open source inference engine for agents that optimizes itself for your exact hardware. Compiles and tunes its kernels on your device, so open models run up to 2x faster than llama.cpp. Works on App...

Let's chill just a little bit on the "TLA+ will save AI from itself" narrative

rant and building of the slop YOLO project to detect other slop YOLO projects

It gave Wall Street traders and analysts an unprecedented window on global markets

Funny how quiet everyone got.

The real difference between texture-atlas, SDF, MSDF, and Slug glyph rendering on the GPU: how each works, where each breaks, and when to use which.

Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux ecosystem on a stable foundation. As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fix […]

A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms

The vast majority of data centers in Europe keep information about their environmental impact secret, according to a study by Lighthouse Report in collaboration with Trouw and other European media. In the Netherlands, less than a quarter of larger data centers publish data about their electricity and drinking water usage.The researchers spent a year trying to obtain data on data centers’ environmental impact in Europe, invoking freedom of information laws in various European countries. Their attempts have yielded no results.

GPT-6.1 Sol replaces GPT-6 Sol after just 7 days. It scores 1 point below GPT-6 Astra in the Intelligence Index at less than one quarter of the Cost per Task

Pi now supports MCP. Why we changed our minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is.

Train a tiny GPT in under a minute (CUDA only). Contribute to lostmsu/TurboGPT development by creating an account on GitHub.

OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.

How a Pole sees the world in September 2026: a scrolling essay that follows one closed strait into fuel, food, bonds, defence and demography.

Responsible Release of AI-Generated Mathematics September 29, 2026 Back to main page Download PDF At present, some frontier AI labs are testing advanced mathematical problems on proprietary models …

A custom AI architecture being developed in rust . Contribute to Sparticle62ops/pssa development by creating an account on GitHub.

Tesla's profits keep falling, but it has guided for higher CapEx in the coming year. To fill the gap, it just opened a $30B credit line.

Can we do better than Serde?

Explore 3D Enigma models, follow their electrical circuits and rotor mechanisms, and learn how the machines were used.

McDonald's is using AI to set menu prices in franchises across the world by estimating customers' "willingness to pay" for items at each store.

A deep dive into converting a simple arithmetic expression into a binary tree, leading to a custom language in C.