LLMs are braindead, our failed quest for intelligence

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (https://bsky.app/p…

Nature - A two-dimensional Dirac graphene-channel flash memory based on a two-dimensional-enhanced hot-carrier-injection mechanism that supports both electron and hole injection is used to make...

Developing a Boids program from scratch without restarting it.

In “More Everything Forever,” the science journalist Adam Becker subjects Silicon Valley’s “ideology of technological salvation” to critical scrutiny.

MCPs—Model Context Protocols—are set to transform AI from passive chatbots into powerful, action-taking agents. But the real story isn’t what MCPs enable—it’s who controls them.

A whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) alleged last week that denizens of Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) siphoned gigabytes of data from the agency's sensitive case files in early March. The whistleblower said…

Sail-trim simulator: animates sail-twist according to apparent wind. A-Class A-Cat catamaran. Learn dinghy sail trim basics.

"What on Earth is going on with decorators?" Is this you? They're not as hard as you think. But we need to get there step by step

This post explores how ZGC, one of the garbage collectors in the OpenJDK, allocates memory for the Java heap, focusing on enhancements introduced in JDK-8350441 with the Mapped Cache. A garbage collector does much more than just collect garbage - and that’s…

Google’s contract with Lenovo Group Ltd.’s Motorola blocked the smartphone maker from setting Perplexity AI as the default assistant on its new devices, an executive of the startup testified at the search giant’s antitrust trial.

Since constexpr was added to the language in C++11, its scope has been gradually expanded. In the beginning, we couldn’t even use if, else or loops, which were changed in C++14. C++17 added support for constexpr lambdas. C++20 added the ability to use allocation…

A speculative new protocol 🌸. Contribute to robinsloan/spring-83 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Multi-disciplinary artist Jack Rusher discusses habit as excellence, what scientists and artists have in common, and the influence of AI on creativity.

News Highlights: ◆We have achieved the world's first successful lightn...

Let’s start with a tiny piece of good news. The majority says: “The parties agree among themselves that we need not develop an internet-specific standard for personal jurisdiction. We also agree.” No need for Internet exceptionalist rules. Yay! With that...