Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place
May 25, 2026 Reading Mode Wider Open your favourite Doom News App any morning in 2026 over your morning coffee, and the only honest phrase that should come out of your mouth is, ”Oh, this is the Bad Place.” Because the world has gone truly mad. The president of the United States is running a […]
AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost
I gave an AI a civilisation to run. By the midgame it was winning: a trade network that dominated the map, alliances on every border, a diplomatic victory within reach. It had outbuilt, outearned, and outmanoeuvred every rival on the board. What it hadn’t noticed was France. Quietly, across a hundred turns, French culture had […]
The new HTTP QUERY method explained
In the world of RESTful APIs, we have long lived by a strict set of (self-imposed) rules. Whether you are fetching data with GET, creating an entity with POST, or updating a resource with PUT, the HTTP method tells the server what your intention is. Quite recently, RFC 10008 got published, which defines the new […]
Will It Mythos?
OK, so Mythos finds really challenging security bugs, right? That’s why it’s cordoned off from the hoi polloi, to protect the world from such a powerful finder of exploits. I am skeptical of the reasons given publicly, I suspect it’s really just so much more expensive to operate than their current models that they don’t […]
Ultralytics YOLO26: Unified Real-Time End-to-End Vision Models
Abstract:Real-time vision demands models that are accurate, efficient, and simple to deploy across diverse hardware. The YOLO family has become widely deployed for this reason, yet most YOLO detectors still rely on non-maximum suppression at inference, carry heavy detection heads due to Distribution Focal Loss, require long training schedules, and can leave the smallest objects […]
VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
Abstract:This technical report introduces VibeThinker-3B, a compact dense model with 3B parameters developed to investigate how far verifiable reasoning can be pushed within a strictly small-model regime. Building upon the Spectrum-to-Signal post-training paradigm, we systematically enhance the model through an optimized pipeline that includes curriculum-based supervised fine-tuning, multi-domain reinforcement learning, and offline self-distillation. Experimental evaluations […]
An Introduction to YOLO26
YOLO26 is an end-to-end object detection and multi-task model family supporting detection, instance segmentation, pose estimation, oriented object detection, and image classification across five size variants from Nano to Extra Large. Released in January 2026, it removes Non-Maximum Suppression for lower latency and drops the Distribution Focal Loss module for better compatibility with edge and […]
In Praise of Memcached
If you happen to find yourself in a sysadmin position, or a position where you just so happen to maintain someone’s infrastructure, chances are that at some point in time the topic “we need a cache” comes up. You think for a moment and reach out for Redis, because you’re used to it, it’s fully […]
Polymarket’s viral videos showed people winning big, but the bets were fake
Polymarket is seeking the CFTC’s permission to bring its main exchange back to the US, but also offers a more limited, US-regulated version of its trading service through a mobile app. Polymarket launched the app last year after acquiring QCX, a firm that is licensed by the CFTC and now operates under the name Polymarket […]
Unsloth GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally
Copy [Start thinking] The user wants a short Flappy Bird game. I’ll create a complete, self-contained HTML file with: 1. A classic Flappy Bird-style game 2. Nice graphics and animations 3. Score tracking 4. Game over screen 5. Restart functionality 6. Good physics (gravity, jump mechanics) 7. Pipes that move and are randomly placed 8. […]