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Ephemeral testing is when you test a base application layer by building on top of it. The original work is not assessed - the software built on top of it is. It is a form of integration testing, except the software on top is thrown away when the test is complete. Instead of building the core while trying to anticipate what might be needed at the other layers, you just simulate the other layers by building them.
The simplicity of plain text is a large part of why it has lasted. Plain text is part of the basic plumbing of computing. There is an enormous collection of tools that know how to work with plain text, and plain text gives users more choice. Text ages surprisingly well, and it is easy to own. It is portable, inspectable, searchable, scriptable, easy to back up, and remarkably resistant to obsolescence.
The field of mathematics is changing, but mathematics is still as important today as it ever was. Mathematics remains a core capacity for human reasoning and deliberation. Future historians will likely see this time as the start of a new era for mathematics. We are at a new frontier where communal norms, values, and expectations are beginning to break down, and the community needs to figure out what should replace them.
CVE-2026-65400 is a high-severity macOS vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code. Apple released a patch for the vulnerability last week for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia, and Sonoma. The vulnerability stems from a bug in the macOS screen sharing capability. In all observed cases, root had been accessed on the affected system and a Monero crypto miner had been placed.
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After nearly a decade of R&D, Doroni unveiled a showroom model of its H1-X flying car. Morgan Stanley projects a $9T market by 2050. First deliveries are targeted for 2028.
AI inference is set to surpass the database market to become the most important market in software.
AI is sustaining the macroeconomy in a time of huge amounts of policy uncertainty.
A look at how money paid to aggregators can flow to personal agents.
The industry's lack of consensus on what AI progress looks like is distracting it from doing practical things.
Thoughts on AI's effects on writing.
The Fitbit Edge will support notifications and limited apps like Google Maps, YouTube Music, and Find My Phone.
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Devs finally have a challenger to GitHub code hosting with Origin. Origin was built _on_ Buildkite. Buildkite is a launch partner for this new code ecosystem. Origin holds the code. Buildkite runs the build. Vercel ships it. Three layers, one path from idea to production. We also run CI for OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI, Airbnb, Nvidia, Canva, Uber, Meta, Pierre, Bun and more. Build faster, more securely, more reliably, with the CI engineered for frontier scale, used by the frontier labs setting the pace.
Apple CEO John Ternus is spending a lot of time overseeing the company's hardware and software design work. He is largely leaving the company's financial operations to CFO Kevan Parekh and the supply chain to COO Sabih Khan. Ternus is deeply involved in product engineering and design. One of his first priorities was to restore the company's design studio standing. The company is not looking to recruit an outside chief design officer to oversee the entire organization.
Neuralink's decoders are machine learning models trained to convert neural activity into intended action. These decoders are unique to each user - all users have to perform calibration prior to using a Neuralink device. Neuralink has collected over 50,000 hours of unlabeled, freeform neural data since its clinical trials began. This post details how the company used this data to improve its models, making its decoders more accurate and long-lived.
NASA wants contractors to prepare to build a nuclear reactor that could survive a space voyage and run without maintenance near the south pole by December 2030. The agency is racing for the future of space exploration. The US and China are both racing to establish a moon base to search for resources and to launch missions deeper into the solar system. Controlling access to the Moon's assets is vital to this mission. Both superpowers believe a nuclear reactor is the centerpiece of this ambition.
The series of Harvard studies that showed that nuclear power plants were associated with higher rates of cancer and cancer mortality are nonsense. The methodology used in the studies will always show an increased cancer risk and mortality no matter what landmark is used. The studies simply do not prove anything about cancer incidence. Sophisticated statistics can produce extremely precise nonsense when the design fails to identify the causal mechanism.
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Agents can generate code. Getting it right for your system is the hard part. More MCPs solve access but not understanding. Join Unblocked live on Oct 7 [10]to see how leading Eng teams save time and tokens with an organizational context layer.
e2e is an open-source AI testing framework. It provides customizable testing for web, mobile apps, and more. e2e remembers agents' actions and replays them when possible without calling the model again. Less repeated reasoning results in fewer tokens and lower costs. Developers can choose their preferred AI model and customize the testing agent.
Advocates for web standards, performance, and accessibility have implored web developers for years to 'use the platform', but despite how obvious the advice seems to be, many people seem to still need convincing. One reason for this is that, for the longest time, browsers were playing catch-up with the ecosystem on top of them. Another is due to the familiarity with tools they've used in the past. Often, even with a robust standard, libraries fill a useful gap between framework ergonomics and the platform underneath it.
David Robinson resigned from OpenAI this week, joining a parade of former colleagues who have decided that the company's current path is unacceptable. Robinson headed the writing of the safety reports that OpenAI publishes with each major launch. OpenAI has thrived by trial and error, but this approach guarantees periodic failures, and the scale of those failures is growing. Achieving something much closer to perfect the first time is becoming more essential because iteration after a mistake may not be possible.
Alexandr Wang, 29, was hand-picked by Mark Zuckerberg last year to oversee Meta's AI efforts. Wang, the company's first Gen Z senior executive, brings an internet-flavored communication style that could help the company connect with younger customers. He is a native of the social-media ecosystem his boss built. Wang has succeeded in building hype for Muse, in part with an unconventional internet campaign. The challenge is now to keep the momentum going as rival companies press ahead with their own offerings.
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Baseten pairs custom kernels with cross-cloud capacity, so open-source and fine-tuned models scale in its cloud or your VPC.
People who want to live dangerously should be able to do that, but it needs to be on an opt-in basis.
The swarm chasers are a loose crew of online sleuths that work together to piece together interconnected AI swarm incidents.
None of Muse's capabilities are new, Meta just put the pieces together in the right way.
Neko Health uses 'advanced technology' to screen for issues in the blood, skin, and metabolism.
Microsoft could win the enterprise harness with Copilot while labs compete to supply its intelligence.
Trades involve physical demands and uncertain rewards that people outside the industry just don't understand.
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80% of product professionals say AI helps them ship faster, but customers aren't seeing value any sooner. Atlassian's _State of Product 2027_ [5] explores the gains AI is delivering and the challenges that remain, from decision-making that hasn't kept pace to gut instinct overriding customer evidence.
Starlink plans to offer hourly, daily, and weekly passes for its satellite internet service. The company is recruiting 'hosts' to sell passes to interested consumers. Pricing details have yet to be released. Starlink will take care of payments, user access, and connectivity while the hosts focus on setting up their sites and earning from connections.
Meta is one of the very few companies that can monetize a personal agent through advertising without ever showing an ad inside the agent itself. The company can keep ads out of the Muse app and still get paid for it on Facebook and Instagram. Every Muse errand can be an incremental signal. Meta can indirectly monetize Muse until enough demand has been aggregated for it to start with direct monetization.
Fervo Energy has started selling electricity from its Cape Station geothermal power plant. It is the first enhanced geothermal company to reach a key commercial milestone. The entire site has the potential to generate as much as 4 gigawatts of electricity. The first block at the site took 23 months to complete - Fervo aims to complete future blocks in as little as 18 months.
NASA's Probe Explorers are a new line of observatories intended to do more science for less money. The project aims to seek a better balance between the smaller Explorer missions and multibillion-dollar flagships. NASA announced on Wednesday it was moving forward with the first of the Explorers, PRIMA (Probe far-Infrared Mission for Astrophysics). PRIMA will observe the universe in faint, far-infrared light in a range of wavelengths between 24 and 235 micrometers. NASA intends to launch the telescope in 2033.
David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails, recently announced that 37signals, a company known for its software craft, was done with writing code by hand. The maturation of AI tools has made it possible for the company to embrace a future where coding by hand is almost entirely absent. AI creates new business models and revenue streams and disrupts traditional software. Companies are now investing in innovation and are willing to pay top-of-market for software engineers who can help them build AI products or become AI-native.
Pi Durable is an experimental package built specifically for long-running, durable, and malleable agents that can run anywhere. It can run anywhere, can be reached from different surfaces, supports infinitely long conversations, survives catastrophic internal and external failures, and lets multiple humans steer the same agents. It is a framework for building any agentic application, including coding agents.
TLDR is hiring its first PM to help build the agent-first operating layer used across the company. We're looking for a builder who has shipped real products/systems with LLMs. Click here to learn more [13].
Asha Sharma, the 38-year-old chief executive of Microsoft's Xbox division, wants Xbox properties to entertain a billion people. This means opening untapped markets in Africa, Latin America, and South Asia by using cloud computing technology to run games on computers and smartphones. Another pillar of her strategy is to reinvest in Minecraft as a competitor to Roblox. Leaders at the company describe the future of its consoles as embodying that idea.
AI is still too limited to substitute for large amounts of human work. However, organizing agents is no longer the hard part. Agents may be easier to integrate into firms than expected, as long as humans are guiding them in the right direction. This could mean more work for people, not less.
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16,000+ investors have put $45,000,000+ into Doroni, maker of the H1-X flying car, after a decade of R&D. First deliveries are targeted for 2028, in a market Morgan Stanley projects at $9T by 2050.
The potential deal will help Anthropic and other companies access chips and other key infrastructure.
For stablecoins to become the new backbone of the financial system, the mix of volumes passing through them will have to converge to those of traditional finance.
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL users can now directly query operational data together with data stored in their data lakes in Apache Iceberg and Apache Parquet formats using existing PostgreSQL applications and tools.
Transcripts record what agents were asked and what they did, so watch them for early warning signs.
Clef and Clef-flash are fully Jev-API compatible decision models that help agents programmatically gather context, make decisions, and take actions on tasks.
arXiv now limits submitters to up to two submissions per calendar month, with a limit of three total active submissions at any given time.