How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent https://spectrum.ieee.org/delhi-electricity-loss
IEEE Spectrum
From Candlelit Kitchens to Electrified Everything: Delhi's Grid Comeback
It slashed electricity losses from 50 to 5 percent
StreetComplete on iOS is now in public beta https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete/issues/5421
GitHub
iOS - Testing! :-D · Issue #5421 · streetcomplete/StreetComplete
This ticket is something like the master ticket to coordinate development on an iOS port of StreetComplete. It replaces #1892 which also included a lot of discussion and research / observation work...
GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design https://news.synopsys.com/2026-09-30-OpenAI-and-Synopsys-Announce-GPT-Synopsys-Frontier-Intelligence-to-Revolutionize-Chip-Design
Synopsys News Releases
OpenAI and Synopsys Announce GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
Companies form strategic partnership to dramatically advance and accelerate semiconductor innovation News Highlights: Companies sign multi-year agreement to collaborate as preferred partners to...
How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026 https://nnethercote.github.io/2026/09/30/how-to-speed-up-the-rust-compiler-in-september-2026.html
Nicholas Nethercote
How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
My last post on the Rust compiler’s performance was two months ago and a lot has happened since then.
Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform https://blog.cloudflare.com/clef-decision-models/
Cloudflare Blog
Introducing Clef: our open-source decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform
We are introducing Clef and Clef-flash, open-source decision models hosted on Workers AI for high-speed classification and agentic workflows. Also launching: a new reinforcement learning platform that allows developers to fine-tune decision models using their…
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake https://blog.gitbutler.com/git-3-sha-256
Butler's Log
Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
Git 3.0 will make SHA-256 the new default content hashing algorithm and it will be an incomprehensibly expensive and ultimately valueless and avoidable global nightmare.
To grieve, or not to grieve? https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2026/10/01/to-grieve-or-not-to-grieve/
Xena
To grieve, or not to grieve?
Recent events in the field of AI for mathematics have shown us beyond all reasonable doubt that the field is currently undergoing a rapid transformation, unlike anything that we have ever seen befo…
Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas https://stillwet.art/
stillwet.art
Paintings by AI models: programs run through a simulation of oil paint.
Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Court Agrees with EFF: Utah’s VPN Law Demands a Technical Impossibility
In a win for digital rights, a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction blocking Utah’s SB 73, the state’s draconian anti-VPN age verification law. The decision comes as EFF submitted our
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With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ai-finally-beat-the-best-stratego-player-in-history-and-did-it-on-a-budget/
Ars Technica
With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now
Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.
Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers https://erictopol.substack.com/p/loss-of-cell-identity-drives-human
Substack
Loss of Cell Identity Drives Human Aging
That’s What Biological (Epigenetic) Aging Clocks Are Measuring
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/
The Athletic
Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city. Over 19 minutes, he showed it off to the world
The former Steelers coach went deep sharing his passion project on YouTube, and teased more to come.
Apple Pass Designer https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/
Apple Developer
Pass Designer - Apple Developer
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.
Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q
YouTube
Kernel Recipes 2026 - Security in the LLM age
Greg KH
A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f
Bluesky Social
Paul Byrne (@theplanetaryguy.com)
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.
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.
Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/
Aleph Alpha
Kolibri Has Landed: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model — Aleph Alpha
Kolibri is an English-German Mixture-of-Experts model with 78B total and 3B active parameters, a context of up to 1M tokens and open weights under Apache 2.0, specialized for sovereign, mission-critical work.