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GOLANG ON THE PLAYSTATION 2

This post details how a developer managed to make Go code run on a PlayStation 2.

ANTHROPIC CAN NOW TRACK THE BIZARRE INNER WORKINGS OF A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL

AI uses some counterintuitive workarounds to complete sentences, solve simple math problems, and suppress hallucinations.

FIVE THINGS AI WILL NOT CHANGE

Even with powerful AI, there will still be many AIs, there will be malicious AI, abundance will not be evenly distributed, politics will be deeply divided, and we will not be 'ants' relative to AI.

TESLA FINDS A CHEF FOR ITS RETRO-FUTURISTIC DINER IN LOS ANGELES

Tesla's new chef is Mr. Greenspan, the founder of Alt/Grub/Faction, an incubator for delivery-only restaurants - he is known for his use of cheese.

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GOOGLE WILL DEVELOP THE ANDROID OS FULLY IN PRIVATE, AND HERE'S WHY

Google is doing away with its current two-pronged Android development strategy and instead shifting all development internally starting next week. The company previously maintained a public branch and an internal development branch, which resulted in Google spending a lot of time and effort merging patches between the two branches. This change doesn't mean that Google is becoming closed-source - the company will continue to publish the source code for new Android releases, but the frequency of public source code releases for specific Android components will change.

OPENAI EXPECTS REVENUE WILL TRIPLE TO $12.7 BILLION THIS YEAR

OpenAI plans to more than triple its revenue this year - it generated $3.7 billion in annual revenue last year. The company hit 2 million paid users for the corporate version of ChatGPT in September. It more recently added a $200 monthly ChatGPT Pro option and is considering charging thousands of dollars per month for certain AI products. The company does not expect to be cash-flow positive until 2029. It has been in talks with regulators to restructure into a for-profit public benefit corporation.

FIREFLY AEROSPACE SELECTS BLUE ORIGIN UNIT TO EXPLORE VOLCANIC FORMATIONS ON MOON

Firefly Aerospace has partnered with Blue Origin's Honeybee Robotics for its third lunar mission in 2028. Honeybee will supply a rover to study the Gruithuisen Domes, unusual volcanic formations located in the Moon's near side believed to be rich in silica. Studying the formations could unlock clues about the Moon's geological history and potential resources for future human missions. The upcoming mission is part of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services initiative.

UPCOMING PRIVATE SPACEX MISSION WILL BOLDLY GO WHERE NO HUMAN HAS ORBITED BEFORE

The Fram2 mission will launch four private astronauts into polar orbit to observe Earth's polar regions at an altitude of around 265 to 280 miles above the ground. It is set for launch on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket no earlier than Monday, March 31 at 11:20 PM ET. The four-person crew will be led by Chun Wang of Malta, who founded Bitcoin mining companies f2pool and stakefish. The astronauts will spend three to five days on board SpaceX's Dragon crew spacecraft as they study an aurora-like phenomenon known as STEVE (Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement), known for its hazy purple and green streaks across the sky. The mission will also include an attempt to grow mushrooms in space.

MCP 🤝 OPENAI AGENTS SDK

The Model context protocol (MCP) is a way to provide tools and context to a large language model. It is an open protocol that provides a standardized way to connect AI models to different data sources and tools. OpenAI's Agents SDK now has support for MCP, enabling developers to use a wide range of MCP servers to provide tools to Agents. The company is still working on MCP support for the OpenAI API and ChatGPT desktop app.

A LOVE LETTER TO THE CSV FORMAT

CSV is often criticized for the wrong reasons. It has many strengths - CSV is dead simple, open and free, text-based, streamable, can be appended to, and succinct. It is dynamically typed, letting developers parse values as they see fit. Reverse CSV is still valid CSV, which means the last rows of a CSV file can be read very efficiently and easily - just feed the bytes of the file in reverse order to a CSV parser. Excel hates CSV, which clearly means CSV must be doing something right.

HAS THE DECLINE OF KNOWLEDGE WORK BEGUN?

The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen 30% since bottoming out in September 2022. Hiring rates have slowed more for jobs that require a college degree than for other jobs. Some economists say that these trends may be short-term in nature and little cause for concern on their own, but there are other signs that the returns on a college degree may have shifted over a longer period - the gap in wages between those with college degrees and those without has flattened during the past 15 years, though it remains large. The flattening of the gap may reflect employers' reduced need for college graduates.

THE VIBE SHIFT AMONGST APPLE DEVELOPERS

Apple's AI product offerings are non-competitive. Software development is moving faster than ever before, and Apple looks like it is increasingly likely to miss out on a generation of developers conditioned on tools like Cursor, Replit, or v0. The company's AI tools remain notably absent. AI may change the equation enough for Apple to shift its stance, but that could take years. Apple could change all of this with web distribution, but that would be very risky for the company.

PLAYWRIGHT MCP

Playwright MCP is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables large language models to interact with web pages using Playwright, bypassing the need for screenshots or visually-tuned models.

THE ROLE OF DEVELOPER SKILLS IN AGENTIC CODING

While advancements in AI have been impressive, these tools are still far away from writing code autonomously for non-trivial tasks - this post looks at the types of skills that developers will still have to apply for the foreseeable future.

X INTEGRATES GROK AI CHATBOT WITH TELEGRAM

Users subscribed to both Telegram Premium and X Premium will be able to chat with xAI's Grok chatbot within Telegram streams.

COCOMMIT

Cocommit is a command-line tool that leverages large language models to enhance commit quality.

30 REFLECTIONS

A list of 30 things Connor Leahy, CEO of Conjecture AI, learned in his 20s.

HYPERLEGIBILITY

Hyperlegibility, making yourself so easy to read and understand that you rise to the top, can help you stand out in a sea of people.

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GEMINI 2.5 IS HERE, AND IT IS AN ABSOLUTE BEAST

Google has introduced an experimental version of Gemini 2.5 Pro, which marks a sizable advancement in AI capabilities. The Gemini 2.5 models are designed to 'think' through problems, an approach that improves accuracy and performance. Google aims to embed these reasoning capabilities across all Gemini models to enable them to tackle complex challenges and support sophisticated context-aware agents. Gemini 2.5 Pro demonstrates strong reasoning and coding proficiencies, with leading scores on common coding, math, and science benchmarks.

OPENAI CLAIMS BREAKTHROUGH IN IMAGE CREATION FOR CHATGPT

OpenAI has updated GPT-4o to generate more realistic images. GPT-4o has now replaced DALL-E 3 as the default image generation model in ChatGPT. The updated image generation abilities are now available to ChatGPT Free, Plus, Team, and Pro users. OpenAI used a group of human trainers, who labeled training data for the model, to improve the model's abilities, enabling it to generate more accurately rendered and useful images and follow human directions more closely. An example image generated by the updated model is available in the article.

BILL GATES-BACKED COMMONWEALTH FUSION SYSTEMS HITS KEY REACTOR CONSTRUCTION MILESTONE

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has installed a key component of its SPARC demonstration reactor called the cryostat base. The milestone signifies a transition into a new stage of the project that involves building the actual tokamak itself. SPARC is expected to come online in 2027 - if it works as anticipated, it could be the first tokamak to produce more power than it takes to run. Three other major pieces of the tokamak will be installed simultaneously later this year or early next year - it will take several months after that to ensure all of the pieces work together as planned.

GOOGLE QUANTUM EXEC SAYS TECH IS ‘5 YEARS OUT FROM A REAL BREAKOUT'

Julian Kelly, Google Quantum AI's director of hardware, says that the technology is only five years away from running practical applications that can't be calculated on modern computers. The technology will be able to do cutting-edge physics and potentially generate new kinds of data. Google's most advanced quantum computer has 105 qubits - experts say 1 million or more qubits will be needed for useful applications. Quantum technology has been in the spotlight recently as Google announced a breakthrough in error correction and Microsoft revealed a new quantum computing chip.

OPEN SOURCE DEVS SAY AI CRAWLERS DOMINATE TRAFFIC, FORCING BLOCKS ON ENTIRE COUNTRIES

Aggressive AI web crawlers are increasingly overloading community-maintained infrastructure, essentially causing persistent distributed denial-of-service attacks on vital public resources. Some open source projects now see as much as 97% of their traffic coming from AI companies' bots. This is dramatically increasing bandwidth costs and service instability and burdening maintainers. New defensive tools have emerged to protect websites from unwanted AI crawlers as prominent industry players have shown little incentive to adopt more cooperative practices.

WHOSE CODE AM I RUNNING IN GITHUB ACTIONS?

Somebody added malicious code to the tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action a week ago, making the compromised action leak secrets to build logs. The attack was possible because it's common practice to refer to tags in a GitHub Actions workflow - changing a tag can make an action run different code the next time it runs. Specifying a git commit ID instead creates a reference that will run the same code every time. This post presents a script that enables you to check whether there are any mutable references within your GitHub Actions workflows.

4-DAY WORK-WEEK PILOT DUE IN TECH LAND BY EARLY SUMMER

The 4 Day Week Foundation is urging tech businesses to sign up for a six-month trial from June 30 in the UK. There will be a six-week workshop and training that starts on May 22. Hundreds of British companies have already shown that a four-day, 32-hour working week with no loss of pay can be a win-win for workers and employers. The results of the upcoming pilot will be reviewed by researchers at the University of Sussex and Newcastle University.

REFLECTING ON WIKITOK

WikiTok is an infinite controlling Wikipedia built on Bun, React, and TypeScript. The app was created using Claude through Cursor, which did a vast majority of the work. The developer gave it the specs they wanted and prompted away. This post details the lessons that the developer learned while building the app and after it went viral.

A16Z- AND BENCHMARK-BACKED 11X HAS BEEN CLAIMING CUSTOMERS IT DOESN'T HAVE

Multiple companies with logos on 11x's website were not actual customers and at least one is threatening legal action over this.

OLDER VIEWERS FUEL YOUTUBE MOVE TO NO. 1 AMONG TV DISTRIBUTORS IN FEBRUARY

YouTube accounted for 11.6% of all TV use in the US in February.

ALLEGED IOS 19 LEAKED SCREENSHOT SHOWS WHAT THE NEW INTERFACE WILL LOOK LIKE

A screenshot of the Messages app in iOS 19 shows an interface heavily inspired by visionOS, with glass-like elements, depth, and shadows.

SELL YOURSELF, SELL YOUR WORK...

For the world to benefit from your work, you have to make it known.

INSIDE A.I.'S SUPER BOWL: NVIDIA DREAMS OF A ROBOT FUTURE

This article takes a look at the robots Nvidia unveiled at a recent weeklong AI conference - it includes photos and videos of a variety of machines.

IN WARNING SIGN FOR HOLLYWOOD, YOUNGER CONSUMERS ARE CHOOSING CREATOR CONTENT OVER PREMIUM TV AND MOVIES

56% of Gen Zs and 43% of millennials find social media content more relevant than traditional TV shows and movies.

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GOOGLE IS SEARCHING FOR AN ANSWER TO CHATGPT

Google's search engine is one of the most profitable technologies ever developed, and there's little evidence that this is changing, but the company is acting with urgency, focusing on generative AI efforts. Multiple independent web publishers say their traffic has been falling as Google's AI overviews present information directly on Google's own results pages. The relationship between Google and publishers is tense - Google is framing it as a broad conversation about the changing nature of search. Big changes are coming to Search, and the web may never be the same.

GENETIC TESTING COMPANY 23ANDME DECLARES BANKRUPTCY

23andMe has entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy and has asked a court to arrange its sale. The company's entire board resigned back in September due to a conflict between its board about future directions - the company has been losing money for years. There is enough funding to continue operations until a buyer is found. The pending sale has raised significant privacy concerns. The US prevents the use of genetic data for use in health insurance and employment decisions, but plenty of other uses are still legal, and customers outside of the US may have far fewer protections.

ELI LILLY WILL SOON RELEASE KEY DATA ON ITS WEIGHT LOSS PILL. HERE'S WHY IT COULD BE A GAME-CHANGER

Eli Lilly expects to unveil data from several late-stage clinical trials on its experimental once-daily obesity pill this year. Orforglipron is predicted to be as effective, safe, and tolerable to take as semaglutide. The pill targets GLP-1 to suppress appetite and regulate blood sugar. It is unclear whether the pill will have a hefty price similar to current GLP-1 injections, which cost roughly $1,000 per month. The pill could receive US regulatory approval as soon as early 2026.

NEW CRISPR TOOL ENABLES MORE SEAMLESS GENE EDITING — AND IMPROVED DISEASE MODELING

Scientists at Yale have developed a series of sophisticated mouse models using CRISPR technology that can simultaneously assess genetic interactions on a host of immunological responses to multiple diseases, including cancer. The new tool, CRISPR-Cas12a, can induce and track changes in a variety of immune system cells in response to gene editing and fine-tune sets of genes in different directions simultaneously. It enables the rapid generation of new disease and treatment models. The tool will be valuable to researchers creating therapies for a host of pathologies, including cancer, metabolic disease, autoimmune disease, and neurological disorders.

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LEDGER IMPLEMENTATION IN POSTGRESQL

pgledger is a financial ledger implementation implemented entirely in PostgreSQL. It makes it easy to view the history to understand why an account balance is at its current value and query for a historical value at a given time. pgledger uses just functions and tables so users can have the full power of PostgreSQL and avoid integrating with any new APIs or run any new services.

RECRUITER ACCIDENTALLY EMAILED ME HER SECRET INTERNAL SELECTION GUIDELINES 👀 (REDDIT THREAD)

A job recruiter accidentally included their secret internal selection guidelines when contacting a potential job candidate. The guidelines listed specific educational institutions candidates must have attended, types of candidates to avoid (visa candidates, job hoppers, graduates from coding boot camps, people with experience limited to big companies, and more), and other qualifications. The listing disqualified candidates who have ever worked at Intel, Cisco, HP, Dell, Capgemini, and several other companies. The listing indicates that top-tier CS schools are the primary path to early career jobs right now.

WHY ANTHROPIC'S CLAUDE STILL HASN'T BEATEN POKÉMON

Claude Plays Pokémon has been struggling to make consistent progress in Pokémon, but even this sub-human level of performance could hold significant lessons for the quest toward artificial general intelligence. The AI model has been struggling to interpret the game's pixelated world as well as a human would, but it performs better in the text-based portions of the game. It has trouble remembering some of the information that it has learned and making sense of what it knows, sometimes inserting incorrect information into its knowledge base. The system's progress can vary quite a bit between runs. There are some signs it can tell when it doesn't know what it is doing and that it needs to be doing something different.

IT WASN'T THE APPLE TV+ SPEND, IT WAS THE APPLE TV+ STRATEGY

Apple made a series of strategic blunders with regard to Apple TV+. The company clearly thought it could use its clout to bully its way into making massive Hollywood hits, but the move was miscalculated - even the marketing was bad. Netflix is the only real tech company that has bent Hollywood to its will and that's largely because it had a great strategy from the beginning and stuck to it, while also being malleable enough as needed. Expectations and strategy have seemingly reset within Apple - the company is now changing to meet the market it arrogantly walked into.

CHINESE AI LAB DEEPSEEK JUST RELEASED THE LATEST VERSION OF ITS ENORMOUS DEEPSEEK V3 MODEL

The latest version of DeepSeek's new v3 model, DeepSeek-V3-0324, is under a new MIT license - the release adds up to a total of 641 GB of files.

THE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING IDENTITY CRISIS

Many software engineers want to build things, not manage or oversee things - but that identity is being challenged with the introduction of AI coding assistants.