Owning a tablet Amazon kept shutting down: CVE-2022-38181, four AI models, five months

Beyond the front page of the orange site.

Coconut oil jet fuel matched kerosene's efficiency in engine tests and cut hydrocarbon emissions, a new study in the journal Fuel finds.

Seventeen models on the Featherbench leaderboard: glm-5.3 leads at 100%, eight tie at 96%, and checker errors flip the safety ranking. See who tops the board.

Two pieces crossed my feed recently, both about Sal Khan and the AI tutoring revolution that wasn’t. The first was Matt Barnum’s reported piece in Chalkbeat, where Khan himself acknowledged that…

Research suggests that naturism, the practice of non-sexual social nudity, can help people improve their body image. Naturists and experts tell the BBC how it works.

open-source replacements for bloated vendor software

In 2012, the creator of the xkcd cartoon Randall Munroe unveiled Up Goer Five — a detailed diagram of the Saturn V rocket, annotated using only the most common 1,000 (sorry, “ten hundred”) words in…

How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.

There’s some talk today about how agentic coders are balking at Anthropic’s pricing and adopting alternatives. I was reminded of a thought I had in the weeks following Fable’s release: the free lunch was over.

Pol had 12 hours, a blank repo, and a fresh weekly quota. By morning, only one of those remained.

Journalist Gil Durán argues that a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires and venture capitalists have concluded that democracy is in their way — and that they should be governing in its place.

When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.

Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam activity LED, and unauthenticated memory writes over the network.

Pixels are a lie. Even if you think you're drawing something with "pixel perfect" accuracy, your monitor is lying to you. There is no grid of platonically perfect squares. In CSS, pixels are a double lie: Note that 1px doesn't necessarily equal one physical…

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