This week’s Paper Club is all about alternative compute.

Modern AI has been shaped by a tight coupling between transformers, backpropagation, and GPUs. But as compute efficiency starts to plateau, there may be very different ways to build the machines that…

Happy College Radio Day! In honor of the annual celebration of student radio (this year on October 2), we invite you to explore the college radio collections in the Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications (DLARC). Some of the…

Google's prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher, built in partnership with Planet, launched into orbit aboard the Transporter-18 rideshare mission with SpaceX.

This will never stop blowing my mind.

A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away.

And around it, four planets slowly orbiting.

Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.

Reporting on 2B tokens of AI usage and what shapes model selection and cost

Whether you’re creating passes for a local fitness center, a small music venue, a global airline, or a national coffee chain, Pass Designer makes it easy to craft and preview passes that reflect your business.

'There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.'

As enterprise generative AI applications move to production, platform engineers face a key challenge: balancing the flexibility of LLM-as-a-judge guardrails with the reliability and portability of

Recently, several posts and projects (Thoughts Memo, Babel Translation, Please Give Them a Chance) have taken important steps towards raising AI safe…

The 2016 Panama Papers leak tightened regulatory enforcement around money laundering and offshore banking. We investigate whether the diversion of foreign aid in developing countries led to a shift to cryptocurrency as an alternative laundering platform.…

Docs, benchmarks and setup notes for ds4, antirez's C inference engine for DeepSeek V4/V4.1, Qwen3.8 Flash Next and GLM 5.x on Metal, CUDA and ROCm.

We give developers powerful APIs to build incredible capabilities into their apps for Apple products, backed by a set of controls designed to protect users’ private data. Full Disk Access largely sidesteps these controls in order to allow backup apps to function…

Agent tooling for generative LEGO models building, built with Astra and Opus 5.5, powered by Jev - anteloc/ldraw-nova

I see a lot of posts about people leaving platforms. This one about leaving Reddit, this one about leaving WordPress, and a bunch of others about leaving Dis...

Muse gadgets are open source devices you build yourself. Program an off-the-shelf ESP32 board or set up a Raspberry Pi with our SDKs, then connect Muse to your displays, buttons, sensors, actuators, and whatever else you’ve got lying on your workbench.

Why SaaS business is now a harness one.

After a crusade left Venice drowning in debt, the republic created the world's first bond market and, with it, a new way for governments to fund themselves.

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

For the longest time, I couldn't login to my Vanguard account through web.

I reset the password maybe 3 times during the past year, and it still didn't work. I didn't have time to think about it more, so I assumed there was a glitch. I'd