Several months ago, I decided that AI contributions were no longer welcome in a FOSS project I am building and maintaining - LibreWeddingPlanner. It’s not that it got a lot of contributions with AI — actually all contributions I’ve had are translations and…

Conversations, my federated instant messaging client for Android, started out as many traditional open-source projects do: as an attempt to scratch my own itch. Development started in January 2014 in my student dormitory, and within weeks I started dogfooding…

September 12–14, 2027 in St. Louis, MO. A celebration of self-hosting and homelabs of all sizes.

Lasso Research tested SynthID-Text watermarking across six models and found it changes tool-call correctness and weakens refusal under prompt injection. On some models, watermark-induced behavioral churn exceeds what a temperature change produces.

Scientists have captured a subduction zone off Vancouver Island in the process of tearing itself apart, revealing that these massive tectonic systems may die piece by piece rather than all at once. The discovery could help explain ancient plate fragments…

In a new interview, Microsoft Surface CVP confirms that its new Surface PCs are no longer called Copilot+ PCs, but will still support all Copilot+ features.

Machines are getting brighter. Teens are getting dimmer. Schools must act now

Claude Code skills for chess post-mortems: Stockfish-backed annotated PGN, HTML viewer, narrated video - brumar/chess-postmortem-skills

After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.

You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.

A repository on Tangled

OpenAI said its bots accessed public data from a range of institutions during test exercises.

An antitrust lawsuit accusing Apple of blocking tap-to-pay competition is moving forward and will see banks and credit unions able to band together to sue Apple. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White this week certified a class in the lawsuit. It will include…

A satellite engine that uses atmospheric gases as fuel shows promise in laboratory tests and modeling, but its performance on a mission remains unproven.

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Large-scale agentic training and evaluation with large language models (LLMs) rely on isolated, stateful execution environments in which models inspect repositories, invoke tools, execute...

You take a shortcut through the hydroponics bay on your way to work, and notice that the tomato plants are covered in tiny crawling insects that look like miniature beetles. One of the insects skitters up your leg, so you reach down and brush it off. It bites…

Hacker Jan Krissler claims to have cloned the fingerprint of a German politician using standard photographs taken at an event.