Analysis of Kimi's Kimi K3.1 Pro and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

White noise machines are widely used for sound masking, increasing privacy in offices and helping people sleep. The classic approach is a fan in a box, though in the past ten years people have mostly switched over to electronic ones. But a fan is really…

You learned to talk by listening. So did Dessa. A research preview of a full-duplex speech model.

Kimi K3.1 Pro scores 55.1 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 2.5 points short of Claude Opus 5.5: open-source AI is now 31 days behind the best closed model, down from 104. It extends China’s run: a Chinese lab has had the best open model on every…

Somehow a film made 56 years ago named Colossus The Forbin Project predicted the world of today

After the Spelling Society's London congress, Anatoly Liberman makes the case for reforming English spelling slowly: drop needless letters in words like acquire, communal, and sufficient, offend no one, and let popular culture help.

According to the new terms, sharing your data for better AI recommendations also means opening it up for more personalized ads.

OpenAI explains how we strengthened containment for frontier model training and evaluation, including offline environments and high-compute red-teaming.

Brian Louis Sguros responded to Dennis West’s Lauderhill home in 2022 for a welfare check. Sguros later claimed he spent at least $214,000 on the home, according to police documents.

Live count of published CVE records, rebuilt daily from the official CVE list.

Sony has stopped shipping the UBP-X700/K in Japan, its last standalone 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray player in the country. Shipments ended on October 22, and according to Sony retailer Kunkoku, the remaining stock on Sony's Japanese store sold out almost immediately.…

Rune 1.3 brings Kitty graphics, a new browser package, Helix mode, animated activity tabs, and full workspace restoration, including Agent conversations. Our first release with community contributions.

Typical software development involves one of two processes: the creation of new software
to fit particular requirements or the modification (maintenance) of old software to
fix problems or fit new requirements. These transformations happen at the source-...

In September 2014 I published a short post announcing rqlite. The idea was simple: take SQLite, put a Raft log in front of it, and replicate every write to a cluster so that the loss of a node did not mean the loss of the data. The source went on GitHub that…

The billionaire told Meta’s board that he planned to list his Silicon Valley home for sale. The company remade its stock structure to help him pay the tax if voters pass it.

Scientists have uncovered an unexpected culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: overactive immune cells in the brain. By temporarily removing these cells, researchers restored more than two hours of sleep per day in mice, revealing a promising new…