Student performance across OECD countries has continued to decline, reaching the lowest average ever recorded by the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in mathematics and reading. Across the OECD, one in five 15-year-old students is…

An open-source AI agent that designs, documents and validates real PCBs from a prompt.

The fact that AI can create convincing fakes is not why it’s such a powerful tool of disinformation. Other attributes matter more.

Richmond keeps throwing water problems at us, so we've built our preps around that instead of the zombie apocalypse stuff. What does your local threat model look like?

“I didn’t think a full, six-day-per-week, fourteen-hour-per-day, in-office schedule was necessary to discharge my duties clicking the ‘generate’ button, foll...

For two weeks in August 2026, some PyPI users hit intermittent 502 and 503 errors downloading files. Here's what was happening, and what we changed.

AlphaGeo’s analysis of 72 major cities shows that climate resilience depends not only on exposure, but on the strength of adaptation in place. Using CRRI, the report identifies where policy, infrastructure, and investment are reducing residual risk — and…

As part of the ZX Spectrum tour, I implemented some routines that would let you play simple tones out of the 1-bit beeper. These were in large part inspired by earlier work I did on the Apple II. W…

We’re introducing AlphaGenome Atlas, a database predicting the effects of every possible single nucleotide variant in the human genome.

Let me tell you the story of saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India. A king named Abenner, who persecutes Christians, hears from his court astrologers that his son will attain great power and rule ov…

A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output. - ayghri/i-have-adhd

404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.

We’ve well established how the $111 billion Paramount and Warner Brothers merger is terrible for labor, creatives, consumers, and markets. But the kind of behaviors Paramount leadership have …

I test Unsloth GGUFs of Qwen3.8 27B (Q4_K_M, UD-Q2_K_XL, UD-IQ1_S) with llama.cpp on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1. Q4_K_M matches BF16 abd fits an RTX 4090.

Building LogiCola's new design language from what I found reverse-engineering the 2008 original.

Every time I give a talk on design, someone finds me afterward. They wait out the handshakes and the business cards, and then they ask a version of the same question. How do I make THEM do things the

“GrapheneOS has entered into a partnership with Motorola to create phones for the custom Android version, but I have a lot of questions and concerns. This is why I am not excited about this partnership.”

Ensuring the correct functionality of systems software, given its safety-critical and low-level nature, is a primary focus in formal verification research and applications. Despite advances in...

Exclusive: Documents show officers from Maine to California worry Meta’s camera-equipped glasses will be used either to secretly record them or aid acts of terrorism