Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love

A new desktop-first, native Matrix chat application — forked from nheko, rebuilt around matrix-rust-sdk, in pursuit of a finer Matrix chat experience.

AlphaEvolve: Gemini-powered coding agent scaling impact across fields

Discover how AlphaEvolve optimizes algorithms for genomics, quantum physics, global infrastructure, and more to accelerate scientific progress and solve real-world challenges.

Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit

Oh boy yet more linux kernel vulns

Agents need control flow, not more prompts

Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve eve...

Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered

The original 1881 serial ended in chapter fifteen with the puppet hanging dead from an oak tree. Italian children wrote in begging the author to continue. He resumed reluctantly. What followed — donkey-skin drums, dead-girl fairies, a satire of every other moralising children's book in Italy — became one of the most translated books in human history, and quietly helped teach Italians their own language.

The map that keeps Burning Man honest

The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.

AI slop is killing online communities

Los Alamos and the long path to detecting neutrinos

Neutrinos forced physicists to rewrite the Standard Model. From solar mysteries to dark matter, Los Alamos experiments help reveal why these particles still matter.

Gambling ads on social media reach more than twice as many men as women: study

Researchers led by the University of Cambridge analysed 411 advertisements from 88 licensed gambling operators in Ireland and found that young men were reached

I want to live like Costco people

An online magazine for today's home cook, reporting from the front lines of dinner.,Some of us are crying in H Mart; some of us are mourning in Costco.

Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect

Hospitals spent $7.8B on consulting over a decade with no meaningful improvements in finances, staffing, operations, or patient outcomes, a new study finds.

Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

Under new guidelines caning will only be used as a punishment for male students aged nine and above as a ‘last resort’

Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094

GNU IFUNC is the real culprit behind CVE-2024-3094 - robertdfrench/ifuncd-up

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal

DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal. Contribute to antirez/ds4 development by creating an account on GitHub.

Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data

Instructure’s learning management platform Canvas is down, after recently confirming a data breach and a ransom message from the ShinyHunters hacking group.

Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE

Plasticity and language in the anaesthetized human hippocampus

Baylor College of Medicine researchers have found that the human brain is capable of sophisticated language processing while in an unconscious state from...

Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text

Turning Claude's thoughts into text