Insider trading is illegal in the stock market for a simple reason: it works too well. If you know the drug trial failed before the announcement does, you can't lose. So it’s banned, and people go to prison for it.

Sharon Yang is a Chromium developer who worked at Google on the browser and now works on it at [...]

Tesla unveiled its long-anticipated Roadster on Thursday during a dramatic event in which the vehicle used compressed-air thrusters to fly off a ramp and perform a midair maneuver.

Sharp pixels, gritty colour banding, and DOS games running at resolutions their own era couldn’t manage. Why I still prefer the software renderer, and why it needs a fast PC.

The other day I was thinking about the first communities I found online and, perhaps tangentially, to what degree they influenced the amount of...

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination

Waymo is officially heading to Canada! We’re laying the groundwork for our fully autonomous ride-hailing service in Toronto, investing in local facilities and jobs, with the goal of welcoming our first riders in 2028.

Interesting piece from Anthropic describing why and how they built their own custom alternative to Git, based on the dramatic increase in rate of changes to their code after the …

Big fish. Small counter. Root shell.

StarSkirmish: where LLMs write code to play StarCraft.

MLX on Mac with Apple silicon lets AI researchers and developers experiment locally with the latest models and methods in a private…

(This is a guest post, written by Jeremy Avigad, Kevin Buzzard, Johan Commelin, Rémy Degenne, Kim Morrison, Oliver Nash and Adam Topaz.) Mathematicians’ reactions to last week’s big OpenAI release …

This post covers how RFC8950 gives the ability to route IPv4 over IPv6 BGP sessions with IPv6 next-hops

A pricey kitchen stove left Charles C Mann with a question: what on earth is Dekton?

"This needs to look organic," wrote a Polymarket rep in an internal Discord server for the program.

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Tesla's new Roadster features SpaceX thrusters designed to give it the ability to fly in short bursts. The vehicle was unveiled at a SpaceX facility in Texas on Oct. 15, 2026. Full Story https://www.space.com/technology/spacex-thrusters-just-made-a-tesla…

JPEG XL has landed, but how does it compare?

In 2025, fewer people worldwide are imagining their futures elsewhere. The U.S., long the world's most desired destination, is attracting less interest than at any point in nearly two decades.