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Forward Email's npm packages have hit 1 billion downloads in 10 years. The company uses its own tools, which makes sure that the packages are reliable and continuously improved.
A technical writer discovered that Substack's web application firewall, designed to prevent path traversal and command injection attacks, was blocking posts containing paths to common Linux system configuration files like /etc/hosts.
This developer wrote to the Free Software Foundation address listed in the GPLv2 license notice and received a printed copy of the GPLv3 license, showing how software distribution methods have changed over time from physical media to the internet.
DB Diagram is a free, code-based online tool designed for devs and data analysts to easily create, share, and integrate Entity-Relationship Diagrams.
A Rails application experienced an unexpected database connection pool leak due to a background thread in the Semantic Logger holding onto a connection while resolving an ActiveRecord relation passed to it, which was resolved by logging primitive values instead of lazy objects.
tsdown is a library bundler designed for fast and efficient building and declaration file generation.
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Modern data teams are switching to Change Data Capture (CDC) — a lightweight way to sync systems without constantly reprocessing everything.
X is evolving from a social media platform powered by advertisers to one betting on revenue generated from AI and subscriptions. This change appears to have had a positive effect as the company recently posted $91 million in revenue tied to data licensing and subscriptions in February, a 30% increase from last year. The company boasted nearly $1.5 billion in annual earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. X now has almost $1.1 billion cash on hand, but it still owes $12.5 billion in expensive debt.
Perplexity is building its own browser to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app and sell premium ads. Its CEO believes that users will be fine with its tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them. The company has said that it would buy the Chrome browser business if Google was forced to sell. It recently signed a partnership with Motorola to have its app pre-installed on the Razr series.
Despite reusable rockets being available nowadays, NASA is still paying more than it did 30 years ago to launch missions into orbit. Launches are now becoming more routine, with SpaceX sending batches of Starlink Internet satellites and other kinds of missions into space every few days. NASA is only one of SpaceX's customers - the US military is launching more missions than ever before and SpaceX is about to become the Pentagon's top launch provider. There's still a lot of demand, so prices haven't gone down.
Aurora Innovation plans to unleash driverless trucks on a 200-mile stretch of Interstate 45 between Dallas and Houston by the end of the month. The company has been testing its vehicles in closed and virtual environments. It was denied an exemption request from a federal regulation that stipulates that truck drivers must deploy roadside warning devices whenever they're stopped on the side of the road. This prompted Aurora to sue the Motor Carrier Safety Administration, as the company doesn't have human operators to physically deploy the necessary devices.
Any prompt that has been fed into a public large language model has already probably been used for training, even if they haven't been disclosed publicly. This makes it difficult to create personal benchmarks for models - mainstream benchmarks already have a high risk of being gamed. This thread contains prompts that AI still can't answer, along with discussions about the inner workings of large language models. Examples include taking a common riddle and then changing one little detail, asking something about an obscure movie, and asking about things that don't exist.
Zev helps developers remember or discover terminal commands using natural language. Users describe what they want to do and Zev presents a list of commands which users can copy and paste to use. Zev can be used with Ollama and the OpenAI API.
While the smartest AI systems are surpassing humans in some domains, it's hard to argue that today's AI systems are conscious. Consciousness is a taboo subject within the world of serious AI research as people are wary of anthropomorphizing AI systems. However, that is starting to change, as there is a growing body of academic research on AI model welfare taking the prospect of AI consciousness more seriously as systems grow more intelligent. While AI models may not be conscious yet, it may be worth exploring for signs of consciousness as long as it's not diverting resources from AI safety and alignment work aimed at keeping humans safe.
CEOs looking to blindly implement AI may be doing so to find more funding rather than build a better product. Employees stuck working in these environments are best off deciding whether they want to go on a VC-driven startup ride or work somewhere else in a product-driven role. These types of AI implementations are often not a real strategy and are more for PR. Doing things for more funding and doing things that get the work done are not always the same. If funding is a real concern, the CEO's approach might be valid.
Remote staffers at several units within Google have to start showing up at the closest office for a hybrid work schedule or their roles may be at risk.
The code is generated by AI, then reviewed and accepted by engineers.
CocoIndex is an open-source engine that supports custom transformation logic and incremental updates specialized for data indexing.
Waymo's expansion was aided by the company's partnerships with Uber, automakers, and the operations and maintenance businesses that tend to its vehicle fleets.
It's better to keep related code close together to reduce context boundaries and limit the amount of relevant detail.
The Nintendo Switch 2 preorder frenzy has led to widespread problems with the web infrastructure for major retail chains.
Greatness is more common than we release - it's actually more rare to be recognized for it.
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Keyword matching is becoming yesterday's approach as context-aware systems take over - but “just add AI” isn't going to work for mature digital stores.
Anthropic launched a new research initiative to examine the potential moral relevance of AI systems, including how and when model welfare should be considered in alignment and safety efforts.
Adobe unveiled a major Firefly update that unifies image, video, audio, and vector generation tools, along with mobile support and deeper Creative Cloud integration.
Perplexity will be pre-installed on new Motorola phones with features like voice control, smart reminders, and direct integration with Moto AI, including 3 months of Pro access.
PhiloAgents lesson shows how to turn game simulation agents into API-ready, real-time interactive characters for more immersive environments.
AI interpretability must advance as models grow more complex. The field should prioritize transparency to mitigate risk.
A recent letter signed by prominent figures argued against OpenAI's transition to a for-profit model, stating it undermines its founding mission to ensure AGI benefits humanity. The letter urged state attorneys general to block the restructuring, emphasizing that prioritizing shareholder returns could jeopardize essential safeguards.
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Trae [12], the AI-powered IDE, now lets you summon specialized AI agents using @mentions (just like tagging that colleague who actually remembers context). Create your own custom agents, define their rules, and never lose context between conversations. Read about out the new
Google, HHMI, and Harvard have introduced ZAPBench, a larval zebrafish dataset combining structural and functional brain data for advancing neural activity prediction models.
This study introduces RoWeeder, a new framework for identifying weeds in agricultural fields using unsupervised methods. It combines crop-row detection with a noise-resistant deep learning model, training it to differentiate crops from weeds based on crop-row information.
MiniPLM is a new framework designed to enhance pre-training of small language models using knowledge from larger models.
Google's Live API lets developers build real-time interactive apps by processing live audio, video, and text with minimal delay.
A strong improvement in real time, open vocabulary, object detection.
GEMCODE is a new AI-based system for automating co-crystal screening.
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Perplexity launched an AI assistant app for iOS with real-time answers and research tools.
Google reported that AI Overviews hit 1.5 billion monthly users.
Microsoft announced the release of Microsoft 365 Copilot Wave 2, which introduces new capabilities like AI-powered search, content creation tools, and an Agent Store featuring reasoning agents powered by OpenAI.
The TON Foundation has appointed MoonPay co-founder Maximilian Crown as its new CEO, aiming to increase growth following a plateau in user adoption and ecosystem activity. Crown's leadership is expected to bring fresh strategic direction to TON, which has seen limited momentum despite its integration with Telegram and previous efforts to expand its blockchain ecosystem.
Citigroup projects that the stablecoin market could expand to nearly $4 trillion by 2030. This will be largely driven by the increasing use of stablecoins in payments, cash management, and as a hedge against local currencies. ~90% of stablecoins will remain U.S. dollar-denominated. Banks can potentially stay relevant by offering services like custody, reserve asset brokerage, and issuing their own stablecoins.
SNAIL introduces a new zero knowledge circuit that improves prover runtime to be within 30% of native execution. It is a new way to prove that complex computations (like executing a blockchain block) were done correctly without redoing the work. Instead of doing lots of cryptographic tricks, like FFT transforms and using big Merkle trees, SNAIL streams a program's data once and uses a novel “difference check” to compress everything into a single proof. Live, on-the-fly proofs are now practical, enabling Ethereum blocks to be proved in 30ms and verified on a smartphone in 1ms.
Halo is launching HUSD to be a digital dollar for the Hyperliquid chain and DEX. It aims to replace bridged USDC to eliminate cross-chain and issuer risks. Backed by treasury assets with daily attestations and ISIN-level visibility, HUSD offers native liquidity and yield capture for the ecosystem. Unlike existing stablecoins, Halo will distribute most trading and collateral income back to liquidity providers, builders, and HYPE stakers.
Key blockchain indicators, including TVL, fees, stablecoin market cap, DEX volume, and net bridge flows, should be distilled into “size” and “growth” scores that simplify cross-network comparisons. Using 30-day averages and normalized market-share conditions for “size” alongside week-on-week min-max and Z-score aggregations for “growth” surfaces major shifts without requiring deep dives into raw data. Applied to L1s and L2s, the metrics show a modest decline in the top three networks' (Ethereum, Solana, and Base) combined market share and highlight volatility driven by bridge flows and token performance.
Decentralized Science (DeSci) tackles pain points across collection, transformation, storage, and computation by embedding cryptoeconomic incentives and blockchain-based verifiability to guarantee data ownership, privacy, and quality. It positions data collection as the key piece to coordinating high-quality contributions at scale and is enabled by Web3 wearables, DataDAOs, and cryptographically secure lab hardware. DeSci aims to overcome fragmentation, bias, and trust issues that plague traditional AI academia by tokenizing participation and anchoring provenance onchain.
Plasma is an EVM-compatible L1 incubated by Bitfinex/Tether. It anchors its state of Bitcoin and uses custom PlasmaBFT consensus to offer compliant, shielded, and zero-fee USDT settlements. Plasma aims to build a “T-chain” ecosystem focused on payments, PayFi, and fintech rails rather than speculative trading. Its goal is to capture stablecoin volume and foster long-term USDT adoption.