Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities

U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative

The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded

The Nixpkgs core team has unfortunately decided to disband. We’re proud to have had the opportunity to lead by example in bottom‐up, consensus‐focused governance for Nixpkgs, and of our achievements over the past 10 mon…

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Carl's Required Reading

Carl Kolon's favorite articles about programming.

Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD

Guarded Methods in OCaml (2025)

Implementation of "guarded methods" using type equality witnesses

Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it

Read the Greek and Latin classics in the original — 1,060 works with every word parsed, every form defined, and full dictionary entries from Lewis & Short and LSJ.

Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief

Calling all defenders

An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holes

The Black Hole Mapper reaches a milestone with its first southern hemisphere optical observations, coordinated eROSITA X-ray identification, and multi-epoch tracking of accreting black holes across the universe.

2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out

A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731

DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 reasoning variants across ARC-AGI-1, ARC-AGI-2, and ARC-AGI-3.

What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers

A lot of people seem to be realizing that knowledge work is mostly pointless. AI might give us the pleasure of finding out what happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers.

Mythos social engineering AISI INC-2026-07-28-01

Cross-platform network & port scanner with a desktop GUI. - Fix full-scan hang on multi-homed hosts: defaultRoute() with several default routes (fixes #2) by miraholt31 · Pull Request #3 · ancaferro/myNetwork

Psychological Warfare in Reverse Engineering (2015)

Psychological warfare in reverse engineering. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/REpsych development by creating an account on GitHub.

Assembly Hall of Shame

Racing to the bottom of CPU performance. Contribute to xoreaxeaxeax/asm-hall-of-shame development by creating an account on GitHub.

Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster's Wheel to Strava. It Runs Far Every Night

Meet Mollie, the 10-month-old hamster who’s been logging serious mileage.

Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

AI coding tools deli

Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK

Oracle has banned AI-generated code from OpenJDK contributions, citing safety, security, and intellectual property risks. The open-source Java project steward said developers can use LLMs privately for debugging and reviewing code but cannot submit AI-generated material to repositories, pull requests, or other project channels. The policy contrasts sharply with Oracle's internal practices. Co-founder Larry Ellison recently declared that AI models now write Oracle's code, whilst co-CEO Mike Sicilia credited AI tools with enabling smaller engineering teams to deliver faster. Oracle is investing $70 billion this year in datacentre expansion. The spending spree prompted credit agency S&P to downgrade Oracle's rating to BBB-, one notch above j

NASA to keep its 48-year-old Voyager 2 probe running for yet another year

NASA's Voyager 2 probe, which launched in 1977, can keep operating its last science instruments after a power reduction operation performed in interstellar space.