A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

Last week we released version 0.2 of pgrust. This release was all about performance. It’s 10x faster than the previous version of pgrust. On OLTP benchmarks, pgrust is 30% faster than Postgres, and on Clickbench, Clickhouse’s benchmark for analytical databases…

The Wyzer Programming Language. Contribute to Wyzer-Lang/wyzer development by creating an account on GitHub.

Here's how to spot the disease—and what to do about it.

We should be giving all agents tools that excel at what’s important for an AI model. Kitesurf is Cloudflare’s new stateless, highly scalable, and cost-effective web browser that runs entirely on top of Workers and was designed specifically for the Agentic…

Jobs and unemployment sent conflicting signals, but fewer people were actively looking for work. The unemployment rate fell to 4.1%.

USA Today Co. has made a deal with software company Palantir to analyze and monetize user behavior, the company announced on Thursday. In its Q2 earnings call Thursday morning, USA Today Co. chairman and CEO Mike Reed told investors he expects the partnership…

Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI are launching the most epic chip-building effort ever - combining logic, memory and advanced packaging under one roof. A future among the stars.

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website. What I tried, how I failed, and what's working now.

Dear new developer, When I was starting out, I thought that software development was all about code. After all, that was the main thing I was working on. Well, maybe not the main thing, as I needed…

Watch the complete collapse and rollover of a massive iceberg near Ilulissat, Greenland, on July 25, 2026.

Non-Timelapse version (55min long): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ5PhjFYRSo

Captured continuously by the AfarTV 4K livestream, this video shows…

A quieter place for your thoughts.

The Black Hole Mapper reaches a milestone with its first southern hemisphere optical observations, coordinated eROSITA X-ray identification, and multi-epoch tracking of accreting black holes across the universe.

The mayor of New York City has assembled a crew of Silicon Valley and United States Digital Service veterans to overhaul city services with better software.

Video and photos show work underway in Big Bend National Park, the location of a border project which has sparked bipartisan fury.

OpenAI is sharing preliminary cybersecurity evaluations for Astra and the steps we’re taking to strengthen safeguards and security controls.

Trickle-down economic policies are destined to fail, research suggests. David Hope explains why the issue is so controversial.

Randall Rothenberg in the New York Times (1988-08-10) writes that although “Puzzle Makers Exchange Cross Words”
about the fall of ERNE and ESNE and the rise of XEROX and PEACE PLAN, one
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From nonsense slogans like “Own your inference” to deep community alienation: Why San Francisco’s AI billboards aren’t just annoying—and how locals are fighting back.

Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated…