Full-text search across article titles and summaries. Refine with sector, year, content type, and reading-time filters.
The ACME protocol (Automated Certificate Management Environment) is a communications protocol primarily designed to automate the process of issuing, validating, renewing, and revoking digital security certificates.
AI represents a multi-dimensional revolution that impacts our defining human ability of thinking.
Sponsored
As your app grows, managing “who can do what” becomes complex. Hard-coded roles and scattered permissions slow you down and fail to
WorkOS RBAC is the fastest way to implement structured, scalable permissions. [6] Define roles, group permissions, and update access for entire user groups in a single step. With developer-friendly APIs, a powerful dashboard, and native integrations for SSO and Directory Sync, WorkOS gives you enterprise-grade access control out of the box.
AI startup Perplexity has made an offer to purchase Google's Chrome browser for $34.5 billion. The offer is significantly more than Perplexity's own valuation at $18 billion and far below some estimates of Chrome's enterprise value. A US District Judge is currently weighing whether to force Google to sell the browser. Perplexity's offer could be an attempt to signal to the judge that there is an interested buyer should he force a sale.
Sam Altman is in the process of co-funding a new brain-computer interface startup called Merge Labs. He is raising funds for it using capital possibly coming largely from OpenAI's ventures team. Merge Labs is expected to be valued at $850 million - OpenAI has not yet committed to the deal, so terms could change. The startup will compete with Elon Musk's Neuralink, which currently has a device in trials for people who suffer from severe paralysis.
Satellite designer AST SpaceMobile is preparing to deploy 45 to 60 satellites to power cellular-based broadband networks to compete with SpaceX. It plans to deploy its satellites into orbit by 2026 and support continuous service in the US, Europe, Japan, and other strategic markets. AST SpaceMobile plans to launch satellites every one to two months to reach its goal. SpaceX currently has more than 8,000 satellites in orbit.
Preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) is testing performed on embryos before implantation for the purposes of gathering genetic information to guide embryo selection during IVF. It is considered a low-risk procedure when performed by experienced professionals. This article looks at what can and can't be learned from the genetic testing of embryos and the different types of testing available today. PGT results should only be seen as screening and not a perfect diagnosis. While it is powerful, it is only useful if it is understood and applied properly.
Sponsored
New research from Sapient Insights shows HR isn't just supporting tech strategy—it's driving it. Join this exclusive webinar [11] to see how HR leaders are shaping governance, ethics, and AI adoption across the enterprise.
One way to approach tech debt is to treat it like it doesn't exist and instead focus on things that are causing problems now, things that will be causing problems soon, and things that are not causing problems. Sometimes people want to schedule tech debt in - this is an anti-pattern that indicates you don't actually know what your problems are, where you want to go, and why you want to go there. Getting a handle on tech debt is about working on the right problems, at the right time, for the right reasons.
There's a widening gap between AI hype and reality. Large language models have hit a plateau despite industry claims of imminent superintelligence. Releases have been underwhelming despite bold predictions and massive investments. The industry needs to make systems actually useful for the industry to have a future.
Akira started with several angel investors, including NBA player Kevin Durant. Its founder became better-prepared and more well-connected thanks to their angel investors. This post details everything they would tell a first-time founder looking to work with angel investors. It covers Akita's fundraising story, the founder's personal experience with angel investors, how to know when to bring on angel investors and how to do so, how to leverage angel investors, and more. Choosing the right angel investors can help founders a lot.
Anthropic was dominating the AI coding space and had a consistently better model than OpenAI for almost two years. OpenAI's response was to set the entire business model on fire and move to a different arena. By releasing GPT-5, a model with the same performance benchmarks as Claude on coding, at a cost of $10 per million tokens, every application layer company that was previously dependent on Anthropic's price point switched overnight. The move signals OpenAI's willingness to prevent the AI coding market from existing.
Sponsored
Learn how to design secure, scalable multi-tenant authentication without reinventing the wheel — and speed up your B2B SaaS roadmap using Clerk's built-in capabilities [17].
Elon Musk has threatened Apple with immediate legal action over antitrust violations, accusing Apple of favoring OpenAI's ChatGPT over X's Grok chatbot in the App Store.
Cheating by candidates and other digital threats have caused companies to start returning to face-to-face meetings.
'Let Me Know' is a hypothetical protocol that provides a method for people to be notified when a singular, specific event occurs.
Sponsored
TLDR AI is your daily fix of LLMs, GenAI, and deep learning goodness. Same TLDR format. Still free.
The Rationalist community has hosted several small groups with very strange beliefs - some are fairly harmless, but others have been linked to violent deaths.
A lot of people effectively use AI as a sort of therapist or life coach, and even OpenAI still hasn't figured out how to make it a big net positive.
AI firms are scraping the Internet Archive instead of scraping data directly from Reddit.
Sponsored
If slow QA processes bottleneck you or your software engineering team and you're releasing slower because of it — you need to check out QA Wolf.
Apple's new App Intents allows users to tell Siri to complete tasks with only their voice. Siri will essentially be able to operate apps with precision within their own interfaces. Testing and perfecting this feature has become a top priority for Apple's global data operations team. Apple plans to ship the feature alongside a broader Siri infrastructure overhaul in the Spring.
GitHub's CEO, Thomas Dohmke, is leaving GitHub and Microsoft to become a founder. GitHub and its leadership team will now become part of Microsoft's CoreAI organization. Dohmke will be staying through until the end of the year to help guide the transition. It is unclear whether the departure and the elimination of the CEO position will change how GitHub operates or the products it creates and maintains.
New Alzheimer's research suggests that medicines and lifestyle changes can slow, prevent, and even reverse the debilitating disease. This article discusses several of the most cutting-edge and promising treatments for Alzheimer's. The Health and Human Services Department recently announced that Dr. Vinay Prasad was returning to the FDA as head of biologics and gene therapies. Dr. Prasad has shown hostility towards Alzheimer's treatments and has said before that paying people to help patients with chores would do more good than funding these treatments.
Boom Supersonic's XB-1, the world's first independently developed supersonic jet, was created with about a tenth of the capital of any other supersonic program. It was designed, built, and flown successfully by a team of just 50 people. Foundational elements like assembling a small, exceptional team were key to the startup's success, but there were also some non-obvious lessons learned. This article is the first in a series on lessons learned at Boom on how to develop hardware quickly and efficiently. It focuses on how Boom uses software to accelerate hardware development.
Sponsored
ThreatSpike ditched underperforming channels like Google and LinkedIn for TLDR. The results?
This article looks at several use cases for Claude Code. These include vibe coding CRUD, using agents to control a VPS, migrating real production projects, and other projects. Claude Code can even be used as a text editor - this opens up a lot of new design possibilities.
React is boring tech at this point. It has one of the largest ecosystems of developers, packages, and educational content for building on the web. The composition model of React was the right architecture choice, and it continues to have benefits. However, the React of today doesn't feel like the React of 2015-2020. This article looks at what has changed and makes suggestions on how to grow the community today.
China has started building a giant hydropower project at the edge of the Tibetan plateau. The $167 billion facility could generate triple the output of the world's largest hydroelectric facility, China's Three Gorges Dam, which can power 40 million Chinese homes. China is determined to become self-reliant in areas of national importance. It imported nearly a quarter of its energy supply in 2023, a level of dependency that it is working hard to undo. The project has stirred accusations that it will give China power to strangle resources beyond its borders and raised fears of environmental damage.
Improvements in AI come from embracing constraints. Context engineering is about understanding the shape of a problem and working with constraints rather than against them. The constraint is the feature, not the enemy. You can become significantly more efficient not by making AI smarter, but by understanding why your current approach fights human nature, and stopping that fight.
Elon Musk stated during Tesla's second-quarter earnings call that he believes Unsupervised FSD will be available for consumers in certain geographies by the end of the year.
The cheaper MacBook will apparently use a 12.9-inch diagonal screen and have limited RAM and storage options.
GM's new project will be focused on autonomous cars for personal use rather than a robotaxi service.
Stripe's Tempo will be a high-performance, payments-based Layer 1 blockchain that will be compatible with Ethereum's programming language.
Creating a consumer-friendly, fully working OS from scratch also involves getting the OS adopted, which means convincing both users and developers of its unique features.
Sponsored
The future of work technology isn't being decided in IT alone—it's being shaped by HR. From AI governance to workforce alignment, HR leaders are guiding the strategy that drives enterprise innovation and ethical adoption.
Alexa+ is a remodel of Alexa that aims to marry the conversational skills of generative AI chatbots with the daily tasks the old Alexa did well. It is now being rolled out widely after being in a testing program for a few months. While the new Alexa is more fun to talk to and has some new capabilities, it is still too buggy and unreliable. It lags behind voice models that other companies provide, and it is noticeably worse than the original Alexa at some basic tasks.
Tesla has obtained a permit to run a ride-hailing business in Texas. Elon Musk said on Tesla's earnings call last month that he believes Tesla could serve half the US population by the end of the year with autonomous ride-hailing services. Tesla's autonomous vehicle efforts have faced a number of challenges across the country, including federal probes, product liability lawsuits, and recalls following injurious or damaging collisions. The company currently lags way behind competitors in the robotaxi market, like Alphabet's Waymo in the US and Baidu's Apollo Go in China.
Scientists in Sweden and the US have helped a 42-year-old man with long-standing diabetes make his own insulin using gene-edited pancreatic cells. The patient was given donated islet cells that were genetically modified using CRISPR to prevent immune rejection. Donated islet cell transplants seem to be able to provide a self-sustained replacement supply of insulin for type 1 diabetics, but these transplants require lifelong immunosuppressive therapy to ensure the host's body doesn't attack the donated cells. The study, while preliminary, suggests that it is possible to avoid provoking an immune response.
Savor, a company in Batavia, Illinois, makes butter from carbon and hydrogen with no agriculture whatsoever. The butter looks, smells, and tastes like real butter but without the farmland, fertilizer, or emissions tied to the typical process. The company expects its products to be available on shelves for the average consumer by around 2027. Savor is backed by billionaire Bill Gates, who says lab-made fats and oils have an immense potential to significantly reduce humans' carbon footprint.
LangExtract is a Python library that uses large language models to extract structured information from unstructured text documents based on user-defined instructions. It can identify and organize key details while ensuring that the extracted data corresponds to the source text. LangExtract features precise source grounding, reliable structured outputs, optimizations for long documents, interactive visualizations, flexible model support, and more. It can be used with both cloud-hosted and on-device models.
Sam Altman and several members from the GPT-5 team recently held an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit. In the thread, Altman says OpenAI will bring back GPT-4o for Plus users and agrees that Plus users should have access to an unlimited model. Other members of staff present in the thread include Sulman Choudhry from Engineering, Tarun Gogineni and Christina Kim from Research, Saachi Jain from Safety, and Daniel Levine from Product.