This spring, we had a simple and, to my knowledge, novel idea that turned out to dramatically boost the performance of our vulnerability detection agents at XBOW. On fixed benchmarks and with a constrained number of iterations, we saw success rates rise from…

UK officials fear their insistence on backdoor endangers tech deals with US.

Use your Mac trackpad as a weighing scale. Contribute to KrishKrosh/TrackWeight development by creating an account on GitHub.

Our advanced model officially achieved a gold-medal level performance on problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the world’s most prestigious competition for young...

On how plummeting battery prices make 24/7 solar power a reality today.

ParadeDB: Zero ETL search and analytics for Postgres

An experiment exploring whether frontier models can close the books for a real SaaS company.

Everyone hated that.

Wendelstein 7-X—the leading fusion device of the stellarator type—achieved several new performance milestones during its latest run of experiments. Among them is a world record for triple product, the value that measures how close a fusion device is to generating…

Investigate Anker’s recalled power banks. See how CT scanning uncovers battery defects and improves safety in lithium-ion designs.

The toxic water that gushes out of oil wells in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico has spurred environmental concerns and even earthquakes. Now the problem has become so acute that it’s turning producers against one another.

If search is the game, looks matter

It is tempting to view the capability of current AI technology as a singular quantity: either a given task X is within the ability of current tools, or it is not. However, there is in fact a very wide spread in capability (several orders of magnitude) depending…

Occasionally USPS sends me pictures of other people's mail.

A reflection on affordability, finance, and the deep contradictions we struggle to face.

Support for Let's Encrypt services is community-based and information on current status and outages can be found at: https://community.letsencrypt.org

A guide to using uv to run Python scripts, including support for inline dependency metadata, reproducible scripts, and more.

Analysis of broadband affordability deemed "extraneous" by FCC chair.

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