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OpenAI made a series of calculated moves when it released Sora. The app initially had an opt-out clause for people's likenesses to be used in clips. This caused a flood of clips using copyrighted material to be created. The company then quickly pivoted to an opt-in model. This could cause legal trouble for OpenAI in the near future.
Hyperliquid is a decentralized exchange with an automated trading pool and token buybacks. It is a booming platform for perpetual futures, the never-expiring contracts that dominate crypto speculation. Run by a team of roughly 15 people based in Singapore, the site's front end blocks US users, but anyone can trade on the blockchain that powers it. Hyperliquid was designed with transparency in mind - every trade, liquidation, and validator action is verifiable in real time, and Hyperliquid never takes custody of user funds. Much more about the two-year-old exchange is available in the article.
mRNA vaccines that code for virus-like nanoparticles produce a strong immune response while still being quick and cheap to make. Scientists at the University of Washington have shown that an mRNA version of a COVID-19 nanoparticle vaccine produces an immune response in mice that is up to 28 times higher than that of a standard mRNA vaccine. The more potent vaccine could lower side effects as patients receive lower doses. Scientists are already working on mRNA-launched nanoparticle vaccines for the flu, Epstein-Barr, and other viruses.
Post-operative pain relief has relied on opioids since ancient times. The FDA approved the first non-opioid pain reliever suitable for treating post-surgery pain in January. Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Journavx has known of the signs of the problematic side effects associated with opioids. While the drug likely won't serve as an outright opioid replacement, it is the first step on the journey to minimizing opioid usage.
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Technical debt is essentially a pile of knowledge. Everything 'bad' about the code represents what has been learned about how to do software better. Fixing that code isn't a 'debt to pay off', but an investment opportunity that will reap rewards. Skipping the opportunity to fix code is wasting the investment previously made in learning, and this could lead to a loss in revenue as competitors make the most of their knowledge.
Open source powers the internet. If it stopped being maintained by benevolent people, things would break. Companies fail, but open source is immortal. Open source will never fail to adapt to new markets because someone will force it to adapt either by contributing to it or forking it. Open source's fragility demands collective action to ensure its resilience.
The first human genome took $2.3 billion and 13 years to sequence. It now takes an Oxford Nanopore to sequence whatever DNA you want in less than 48 hours. The machine uses electrical nanopores to read the individual charge of each DNA base pair. It costs $1,000, making it possible to sequence your own DNA at home for around $1,100. Using the machine can help people avoid giving their DNA to companies and risking it being lost in a data breach.
Knowledge and scientific progress are very much private goods. It's all about specific people and how they think. Cultural artifacts can and will spread, but there's nothing free about it, and it won't spread equally everywhere. The view that scientific research is a public good is a naive and indefensible view.
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Free-threaded Python has the potential to be a huge quality-of-life improvement for those managing thousands of ASGI and WSGI Python containers on vast infrastructure.
X Premium Plus and Premium Business customers will soon be able to browse and request inactive usernames on the X Handle Marketplace.
UK-based researchers used CRISPR technology to delete the specific gene responsible for browning in Cavendish bananas.
VDPHL01, a re-engineered extended-release version of oral minoxidil, could be the first new treatment for pattern hair loss in nearly 30 years.
ChatGPT continues to lose share, and Perplexity has exceeded a 2% threshold.
David Sacks, the Trump administration's AI and crypto czar, has publicly criticized Anthropic for running a sophisticated regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering.
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DoorDash and Waymo have entered into a partnership that brings Waymo's driverless Jaguar SUVs into DoorDash's delivery fleet. Waymo will deliver orders from DoorDash's DashMart store starting in Phoenix. It plans to add more restaurants, retail, and grocery stores over time. Customers will have to go to the vehicle and unlock its trunk with the DoorDash app to retrieve their orders.
Helion has been granted a Conditional Use Permit to start the next phase of development for its commercial fusion power plant. This clears the way for the construction of the fusion generator building of the company's Orion fusion power plant in Malaga, Washington. Helion plans to deliver electrons to the grid before the end of this decade. The company's approach of rapid iteration and testing has enabled it to make steady progress toward a commercial fusion power plant. It was the first private fusion company to achieve 100 million degrees Celsius plasma temperatures, generally considered the required operating temperature for commercial fusion feasibility.
Chinese scientists have achieved three breakthroughs that could be key to unlocking all-solid-state batteries. The first is iodine ions, which actively attract lithium ions in the interface between the electrode and the electrolyte, plugging the gaps and enabling a better bond. The second is a polymer material that can be bent 20,000 times and twisted into a twist without breaking. The third is a type of 'shield' on the electrolyte surface that passes needle penetration tests and can handle temperatures of over 120 degrees Celsius. The breakthroughs could result in a 100-kilogram battery pack that delivers over 1,000 kilometers of range.
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Claude Skills are folders that include instructions, scripts, and resources that Claude can load when needed to improve performance on specific tasks. Each skill has a Markdown file telling the model how to do something, optionally accompanied by extra documents and pre-written scripts the model can run to help it accomplish tasks. At the start of a session, Claude scans all available skill files and reads a short explanation for each one, which is very token-efficient. Skills are easy to share - the upcoming Cambrian explosion in Skills will make the MCP rush look pedestrian by comparison.
The Delaware Supreme Court heard the latest set of arguments over Elon Musk's compensation package for Tesla on Wednesday. The pay package could hypothetically be worth well over $100 billion as of mid-October. A panel of justices will weigh whether the package was an extraordinary move that reflected undue influence or inadequately informed shareholders, or a properly conducted business decision. Meanwhile, Tesla's board of directors has proposed a new, future compensation package that could make Musk the world's first trillionaire if fully realized.
YouTube has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on Earth in two decades. The platform has become a dominant force in media, and there are signs the company is close to breaking through to the other hours people are spending on their TV sets. YouTube has paid out more than $100 billion to its creators, artists, and media partners over the past four years. Sports is in many ways the final frontier for YouTube to conquer.
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Agents don't remove the human job of setting goals, choosing constraints, and judging outputs.
AI may make fusion power possible by finding robust paths to generating net energy and by directly controlling reactors' operations.
Amazon puts some real effort into its web obfuscation.
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Amazon entered an agreement with Energy Northwest about a year ago to support the development of up to 12 advanced reactors by the early 2030s.
The Free Software Foundation's LibrePhone initiative aims to create a completely free smartphone software ecosystem.
Even if you fail, you'll have that experience, and if you do want to come back to it later, your learning ramp is going to be much shorter because you've already invested that time.
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Your Kafka cluster is costing you - and often more than you think. Teams pay big-data prices for small-data streams, and burn engineering hours managing stateful brokers.
Apple's new 14-inch MacBook Pro, iPad Pro, and Apple Vision Pro are the first devices to get the new M5 processor. The M5 features four high-performance CPU cores, six high-efficiency CPU cores, 10 GPU cores, and a 16-core Neural Engine. Its biggest upgrade is a leap in memory bandwidth that helps contribute to a 30% increase in GPU performance and a 45% increase in ray-traced GPU performance relative to the M4. The GPU includes a Neural Accelerator in each core that improves the performance of GPU-based AI workloads by up to 400%.
Google's latest biological AI system has generated and experimentally confirmed a new hypothesis for cancer treatment. It could lead to a promising new pathway for developing therapies to fight cancer. Cell2Sentence-Scale 27B (C2S-Scale) is a 27-billion-parameter foundation model for single-cell analysis built on Google's Gemma family of models. The discovery shows that scaling up biological AI models can result in them producing entirely new hypotheses.
AtmosZero is building novel steam-producing heat pumps to replace the gas-burning boilers that factories rely on. Its Boiler 2.0 machine can be installed in a day in a process that is as simple as replacing an old gas boiler. While it isn't as efficient as other heat pumps, it is easier and cheaper to install, making it an attractive choice for factories that don't want to disrupt operations. AtmosZero aims to crank out 120 to 240 heat pumps per year by 2030.
Starlink V3 is significantly longer and larger than its predecessors. It uses a pair of longer solar arrays, and the central satellite bus is also bigger. The improvements will enable the satellites to deliver gigabit internet speeds. The larger size explains why SpaceX needs to use Starship to deploy V3 satellites rather than on a Falcon 9. Each V3 could weigh up to 2,000 kilograms.
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Vite+ is a unified toolchain for JavaScript. It works as a drop-in upgrade to Vite with additional features. Tooling complexity and performance have become real bottlenecks. Vite+ enables teams to focus on shipping products instead of wasting time evaluating, configuring, and debugging their tool stacks.
Vibe coders discover APIs by asking their LLMs to solve a problem. This means apps looking to increase their vibe-ability will need to make it easier for LLMs to discover and correctly use their APIs. Flat and verbose beats concise, and conformity beats originality. This could mean there will be fewer innovative API designs in the future and that adoption might become tougher for newer programming languages.