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A VIBE CODED SAAS KILLED MY TEAM

It is negligent to use LLM-generated code without expert oversight and verification.

ANTIMATTER DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

If humans ever find a way to cross the gulf between stars, it will be with antimatter-powered propulsion.

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ALIBABA'S MAIN AI APP DEBUTS STRONGLY IN EFFORT TO RIVAL CHATGPT

Alibaba's Qwen app drew more than 10 million downloads in the week after its relaunch. The company will gradually add agentic AI features to support online shopping in the coming months. Alibaba has rebranded itself as an AI-first business. It plans to deeply integrate core lifestyle and productivity services directly into the Qwen app.

ELON MUSK'S BORING COMPANY REVEALS PRUFROCK TBM'S MOST DISRUPTIVE FEATURE

The Boring Company's Prufrock-5 tunnel boring machine (TBM) will begin tunneling by December 1. One of the key features of the Prufrock machines is that they can be retrieved, upgraded, and deployed again with improvements. Standard TBMs are often left underground at the end of projects because retrieving them is usually too expensive and impractical. TBMs from the Boring Company could eventually be as reusable as SpaceX's boosters.

MAPPING THE SENSE OF WHAT'S GOING ON INSIDE

Interoception is a sense that supplies the brain with a remarkably rich picture of what is happening throughout the body. It shapes our emotions, behavior, decisions, and feelings. A growing body of research suggests that many psychiatric conditions may be caused in part by errors in our perception of our internal environment. Scientists still need to develop a firm understanding of how interoception works, but someday it may be possible to treat some conditions by returning a person's internal sense.

BRAIN HAS FIVE ‘ERAS', SCIENTISTS SAY – WITH ADULT MODE NOT STARTING UNTIL EARLY 30S

The brain experiences five major phases, split up by four pivotal turning points (at around the ages of nine, 32, 66, and 83 years) in which brain organization moves on to a different trajectory. Understanding the brain's structural journey helps scientists identify when and how its wiring is vulnerable to disruption. It could also give insights into risk factors for mental health disorders, which most frequently emerge during the adolescent period. An overview of the five stages is available in the article.

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NEW GEMINI API UPDATES FOR GEMINI 3

Gemini 3 is now available for developers to build with via the Gemini API. Google has rolled out several updates to the API to support Gemini 3's state-of-the-art reasoning, autonomous coding, multimodal reasoning, and agentic capabilities. The changes are designed to give users more control over how the model reasons, how it processes media, and how it interacts with the outside world. Details are available in the article.

WHAT A CTO SHOULD KNOW ABOUT TECH

Tech leaders should take the time to learn what they need to know about tech to be effective. Their job as a CTO is to make decisions in an extremely complicated environment and under conditions of considerable uncertainty. It's really important to understand clearly what tools and what teams are working with. A lack of understanding will eventually cause a messy crash.

TECH PREDICTIONS FOR 2026 AND BEYOND

Technology has become so intertwined with day-to-day life that it influences everything, from our relationships to the way we work, protect ourselves, and even the things we choose to learn and when. The next year will see humans transition into a new era of AI in the human loop. This cycle will create massive opportunities to solve problems that truly matter.

THE MATH OF WHY YOU CAN'T FOCUS AT WORK

You are not uniquely undisciplined. Deep work is mathematically rare unless you deliberately design for it. Just one less interruption per hour each day can transform your week. Learn how to split up tasks into smaller chunks. This post presents a model for increasing focus at work.

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WE NEARLY HAD POWER PROFILING IN CHROMIUM

Power profiling in Firefox allows developers to get granular information about the energy being consumed by the browser as a website is used.

NVIDIA CEO TELLS EMPLOYEES TO USE MORE AI — AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT THEIR JOBS

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang wants every task that can be automated with AI to be automated with AI.

WEBGPU IS NOW SUPPORTED IN MAJOR BROWSERS

WebGPU, a powerful API for running high-performance 3D graphics and general-purpose GPU computations, is now officially supported in Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari.

NVIDIA IS SO SPOOKED BY GOOGLE'S SUDDEN AI COMEBACK THAT IT'S POSTING ON X TO DEFEND ITSELF

Nvidia posted on X to defend itself after a report suggested Meta was considering shifting part of its AI infrastructure to Google's TPUs.

WHAT THEY DON'T TELL YOU ABOUT MAINTAINING AN OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

Shipping is just the beginning.

MEMORIES OF .US

A look at the history of the .us domain and why it failed to take off.

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ANTHROPIC INTRODUCES CHEAPER, MORE POWERFUL, MORE EFFICIENT OPUS 4.5 MODEL

Anthropic has released its latest frontier model, Opus 4.5. The model brings improvements in coding performance and user experience. The Opus 4.5 API costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens. Anthropic's developer platform now includes a new 'effort' parameter that allows developers to more precisely tune the balance between efficacy and token usage. Claude Code is now available in the desktop Claude apps.

AMAZON TAKES AIM AT STARLINK WITH SATELLITE BETA PROMISING GIGABIT SPEEDS

Amazon has made a promise that its Leo satellites will offer gigabit satellite internet speeds. The company has opened a preview program to select enterprise customers to beta test its Starlink competitor. Amazon's Leo Ultra satellite dish provides download speeds of up to 1Gbps and upload speeds of up to 400Mbps simultaneously. A wider commercial rollout won't happen until next year.

BLUE ORIGIN TO BUILD A "SUPER HEAVY" ROCKET TO COMPETE WITH STARSHIP

Blue Origin plans to make a super-heavy version of its New Glenn system to rival SpaceX's Starship. Named the New Glenn 9x4, it will feature a larger payload fairing and be able to deliver 70 metric tons to Low Earth Orbit, 14 metric tons to Geosynchronous Orbit, and 20 metric tons to the Moon. Blue Origin plans to conduct launches using both the enhanced and super-heavy versions of its New Glenn rocket to improve performance and launch cadence.

BOY WITH RARE CONDITION AMAZES DOCTORS AFTER WORLD-FIRST GENE THERAPY

Hunter syndrome is an inherited condition that causes progressive damage to the body and brain. The effects are sometimes described as a type of childhood dementia, and patients with the disease usually die before the age of 20 in the most severe cases. Medical staff in Manchester have halted the disease in a three-year-old boy by altering his cells using gene therapy. It has only been a year since starting the treatment, but the boy appears to be developing normally.

REALLY GOOD SEARCH IS REALLY HARD

Search remains a highly open problem. This post looks at how to design information systems for agents. Agents need to have ready access to information without a human in the loop. Systems that plug AI in require highly configurable behavior and properties that aren't always conventional.

HOW WE BUILT THE V0 IOS APP

Vercel recently released its first mobile app, v0 for iOS. Building a native app was new territory for the company. It built dozens of iterations of the app before its public beta, experimenting with drastically different tech stacks and UI patterns each time. This post provides a technical breakdown of how the app was developed.

EXECS SAY OPENAI HAS FIRST HARDWARE PROTOTYPES, PLAN TO REVEAL DEVICE IN 2 YEARS OR LESS

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company has finished its first prototypes for hardware devices. The company has yet to reveal any details about what the device is or what it does. OpenAI's hardware plans are being closely watched by rivals. A successful device launch from OpenAI could threaten Apple, which has had trouble rolling out its AI features.

GOOGLE'S NEW 'ALUMINIUM OS' PROJECT BRINGS ANDROID TO PC: HERE'S WHAT WE KNOW

Google is unifying ChromeOS and Android into a single desktop platform codenamed 'Aluminium OS'. Aluminium OS will feature deep integration with Gemini at the core. There is little information on what features Gemini will enable on Android PCs. Gemini already powers an array of on-device AI features on smartphones. The operating system will eventually be extended to detachables, tablets, and mini-PCs.

VIBE CHECK: OPUS 4.5 IS THE CODING MODEL WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

Opus 4.5 holds the thread across complex flows, course-corrects when needed, and executes like a senior engineer who knows what they're building.

NO FREE LUNCH IN VIBE CODING

As long as absolute control remains a requirement, there's no way around addressing the resulting complexity.

THE UNPOWERED SSDS IN YOUR DRAWER ARE SLOWLY LOSING YOUR DATA

SSDs can suffer from corrupted or lost data if left unpowered for extended periods.

PEBBLE WATCH SOFTWARE IS NOW 100% OPEN SOURCE + TICK TALK #4 - PT2 DEMOS!

Pebble owners now have all they need to build, run, and improve the software behind their devices.

GOOGLE REVISITS JPEG XL IN CHROMIUM AFTER EARLIER REMOVAL

JPEG XL is a replacement for JPEG that introduces animation support and also reduces file size without a loss in visual quality.

META, GOOGLE DISCUSS TPU DEAL AS GOOGLE TARGETS NVIDIA'S LEAD

Meta is reportedly in discussions to spend billions to integrate Google's TPUs into its data centers starting in 2027 and also rent TPU capacity from Google Cloud.

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APPLE IOS 27 TO BE NO-FRILLS ‘SNOW LEOPARD' UPDATE, OTHER THAN NEW AI

iOS 27 will be focused on improving software quality and underlying performance. Many users have reported bugs in iOS 26, including device overheating, unexplained battery drain, user interface glitches, keyboard failures, cellular connectivity issues, app crashes, and sluggishness during system navigation and animations. iOS 27 will also lay the foundations for foldable iPhones and other new hardware. In general, Apple's operating systems next year will revolve mostly around performance and AI.

GOOGLE MUST DOUBLE AI SERVING CAPACITY EVERY 6 MONTHS TO MEET DEMAND, AI INFRASTRUCTURE BOSS TELLS EMPLOYEES

Google aims to be able to deliver over a thousand times more capability, compute, and storage for essentially the same cost, power, and energy level in the next five years. This will require it to double its serving capacity every six months. Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta are now expected to collectively spend more than $380 billion on infrastructure this year. Besides infrastructure build-outs, Google plans to bolster its capacity with more efficient models and custom silicon.

AI TRAINED ON BACTERIAL GENOMES PRODUCES NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PROTEINS

Evo is a genomic language model developed using an enormous collection of bacterial genomes. It can generate novel sequences from prompts. Evo can produce outputs that include regions that encode proteins with related functions when prompted with a gene. It appears to be capable of outputting entirely new yet functional proteins.

WE INDUCED SMELLS WITH ULTRASOUND

Smells are processed in the olfactory bulb, which is tucked behind the top of the nose. Scientists have managed to use ultrasound targeted at the olfactory bulb to induce the sensation of fresh air and ozone and the smell of garbage and burning wood. Smells are strong and localized to the nose, while sensations are more diffuse, like a light tingling on the face. The scientists plan to improve their technique to significantly increase the bit rate of olfactory stimulation.

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WE STOPPED ROADMAP WORK FOR A WEEK AND FIXED 189 BUGS

Once a quarter, the team at Google working on Perfetto, an open source suite of tools for performance tracing and analysis, stops all regular work for a week and fixes the small things that have been annoying them or their users. The most recent 'fixit', in which 40 people participated, resolved 189 bugs. Fixits are a great chance to work on the details that separate good products from great ones. They increase team morale and spirit and create real momentum. This post contains a guide on how to run a fixit.

KIT

kit is a toolkit for codebase mapping, symbol extraction, code search, and building LLM-powered developer tools, agents, and workflows. It can build things like code reviewers, code generators, and IDEs. kit can be used directly with Python, MCP with function calling, REST, or through the command-line. kit ships with CLI-based pull request review and summarization features. It can generate intelligent commit messages from staged changes.