Today
Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Meta filed for a patent that includes a "memory recall" system that appears to detect people via facial recognition and record them automatically, and show you a highlights real later.
Using the railway network as a flatbed scanner
an adventure in image processing and taking very wide photographs (blog post; 4,600 words)
Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
Britain’s postwar sugar rationing was an accidental experiment. Decades on, it’s revealing how early diet shapes cancer risk, ageing and eating habits for life.
Code-native generation of highly programmable 3D assets (2026)
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2607.22738: Nova3D: Code-Native Generation of Programmable 3D Assets
The Benchmarkpocalypse
The benchmarkpocalypse | Patreon There's been a lot of talk about the vulnpocalypse, to which I don't have much to add because I'm not a security person, but I haven't seen much discussion on the closely related (and to be fair, less serious, issue), the benchmarkpocalypse. While it's become easier than ever to make serious performance gains, it's also become easier than ever to reward hack a benchmark and make fake performance gains. The former is probably happening quietly across many differen
Turbovec – Google's TurboQuant for vector search in Rust
A vector index built on TurboQuant, written in Rust with Python bindings - RyanCodrai/turbovec
Yesterday
India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions
India's UPI may finally face merchant fees, raising questions over who pays and whether users will resist.
Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
Analysis of historical price data trends indicates that the memory crisis has driven RAM prices to never-before-seen heights.
AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira
Wiz Red Agent finds its way into Snowflake's internal Jira through a flaw in a GitHub Copilot–Assisted PR.
Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
Analysis of Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.
A Preview of DuckDB v2.0
DuckDB v2.0 is coming this fall. In this post, we preview its headline features: DuckDB as a server, triggers, the VARIANT type, asynchronous I/O, a new SQL parser, a new storage format, and much more.
Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress, but you can…
Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
Ten years of DNS measurements reveal three trends across the Internet's most popular domains: email continues to consolidate around two providers, DMARC enforcement has hit a plateau, and a surprisingly large long tail of infrastructure defies easy classification.
Apple's App Tracking Transparency treated its own apps better than rivals
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GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2608.13759: GPU Offload in Rust: Portable, Safe, and Fast
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
In court documents, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation and others shared which words they used to target grants.
This Week
AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
The key advantage may not be superior reasoning, but a virtually unlimited symbolic working memory.
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin
Firefox says it will keep supporting uBlock Origin even as Microsoft Edge and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3.
Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13470613/
What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?
LittleLearner Chat Findings Models Sandbox Cite LittleLearner Language Models Under Pedagogically-Controlled Knowledge Exposure A language model that only knows what a 5th grader knows. Fanfei Li1,2*† · Jana Zeller1,2,3* · Manuel Prada-Corral1,2,3 · Thaddäus Wiedemer1,2 · Prasanna Mayilvahanan1,2 · Ryan Cotterell3 · Wieland Brendel1,2 1MPI for Intelligent Systems · 2ELLIS Institute Tübingen · 3ETH Zürich *Equal contribution · †Correspondence to fanfei.li@tuebi
St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core
Saint Lucie Nuclear Power Plant Unit 1 was manually shut down Aug. 13 after 3 control rods dropped into the core. The NRC classified it as a non-emergency.
The AI Credit Resale Economy
A look at the brokers buying unused AI credits from startups and reselling them — the marketplaces, the bulk-discount routers, and the message boards where off-market inference changes hands
Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network
Deutsch | English | Español | Nederlands | Polski | Português | Türkçe | Українська | 日本語 | 简体中文Reticulum | Start | Hardware | Connect | Manual | Cryptography | Credits | Source | Donate Reticulum Reticulum is the cryptography-based networking stack for building local and wide-area networks with readily available hardware. Reticulum can continue to operate even in adverse conditions with very high latency and extremely low bandwidth. The vision of Reticulum is to allow anyone to operate their ow
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking
I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in my hometown of Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaini…
Patterns and problems in emerging multi-agent systems
We ran experiments on swarms of Claude agents and found coordination failures, collusion, and sabotage. Here, we share what they mean for AI safety.
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
https://api-docs.deepseek.com/https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v4-prohttps://twitter.com/ChrisGPT/status/2087572834650407024, https://xcancel.com/ChrisGPT/status/2087572834650407024
The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later
Writings on software correctness, AI, formal verification, and other technical topics.
ChatGPT lost 22 points of web share in a year
Worldwide AI-chatbot web visits: ChatGPT 76% → 54%. Gemini 6% → 28%. Claude 1% → 9%. This is not monthly users and not revenue. See who took the share →
In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
Close / ← → Search Search Yale Environment 360 Published at the Yale School of the Environment Explore Search About E360 E360 Digest August 14, 2026 In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half NSW Climate and Energy Action A little more than one year ago, Australia rolled out a program to heavily subsidize home batteries, part of a larger effort to make use of the huge volumes of solar energy that were going to waste. On Friday, officials anno
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OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors
Researchers say results mark a really ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’
Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters
An overview of how Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters are making Gemma 4 models up to 3x faster at inference.
A couple million lines of Haskell: Production engineering at Mercury
What it takes to run 2 million lines of Haskell in production at a fintech company serving 300,000 businesses.
Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
A technique for accurate text and numbers in AI-generated images: generate the layout deterministically, then ask the image model to paint on top.
Should I run plain Docker Compose in production in 2026?
Yes, plain Docker Compose can still run production workloads in 2026—if you close the operational gaps it leaves: cleanup, healing, image pinning, socket security, and updates.
Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs
We benchmarked computer use against auto-generated API endpoints on the same admin panel. 53 steps and 551k tokens vs 8 calls and 12k tokens.
Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - docs: add Phase-A porting guide · oven-sh/bun@46d3bc2
ProgramBench: Can language models rebuild programs from scratch?
Abstract page for arXiv paper 2605.03546: ProgramBench: Can Language Models Rebuild Programs From Scratch?
Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
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Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Google Chrome is downloading a 4 GB Gemini Nano model onto users
ZAYA1-8B matches DeepSeek-R1 on math with less than 1B active parameters
Who should care If you work with math, science problems, or complex coding tasks and you're looking for something small enough to run locally or cheaply via API, this is worth serious evaluation. The benchmark numbers at 760M active parameters are not normal and the Markovian RSA boost means performance scales with compute budget rather than hitting a fixed ceiling. If you're building agent workflows that need reliable tool calling or multi-step instruction following, look elsewhere fo
Show HN: Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web
Hi HN, author here. SHARP is Apple's recent single-image 3D Gaussian splatting model (https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10685). Their reference code is PyTorch + a pretty heavy pipeline; I wanted to see if it could run in a browser with no server hop, so I exported the predictor to ONNX and ran it via onnxruntime-web with the WebGPU EP.What works: drop in an image, get a .ply you can download or preview live, all on your machine — your image never leaves the tab. The model is large (~2.4 GB sidecar) so first load is slow on a cold cache, but inference itself is a few seconds on a recent Mac.Caveats: SHARP's released weights are research-use only (Apple's model license, not the code's). I host the exported ONNX on R2 so thedemo "just works", but you can also export your own from the upstream Apple repo and upload locally.Happy to talk about it in the comments :)
Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license
Modders, start your engines.
Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
Muse Glimmer is a 30-billion-parameter open agentic model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, optimized for always-on local workflows on consumer hardware.
Text-to-CAD
An open source harness for generating CAD models. Contribute to earthtojake/text-to-cad development by creating an account on GitHub.