AI is now capable of developing its own inference hardware
An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI. openTPU brings the lessons of auto-arch-tournament to AI accelerators. It asks two questions: how far can AI agents go at hardware design, and can they build the chip that runs their own inference? otpu-chat running LFM2.5-230M on the FPGA card (left), with otpu-smi showing the card’s utilization and […]
The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)
The Early History Of Smalltalk original pdf / make corrections Alan C. KayApple [email protected]# Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and […]
Tapo (Rust/Python library) now speaks TP-Link’s TPAP protocol
Your script has been switching a Tapo plug on and off for months. Then the plug quietly updates its firmware, and the next request comes back with 403 Forbidden. Nothing in your code changed. The cause is a switch called “Third-Party Compatibility”, tucked away in the Tapo app under Me > Third-Party Services. Since firmware […]
Mistral Large 4: “Le Chonk”
Le Chonk Today, we’re launching a public preview of Mistral Large 4. Unofficially ML4, very officially: le Chonk. ML4 pushes the frontier of open-weight performance. You can try the preview API today on Mistral Studio. Weights drop end of this month. Frontier performance ML4 is a 1 trillion-parameter natively multimodal model with 49 billion active […]
Mathematics of Geothermal Energy
SUMMARY: Geothermal energy can be harnessed for domestic heating or to produce electricity via steam turbine. “Geothermal” refers to heat from the interior of Earth generated from the forces that led to the planet’s creation and the ongoing slow radioactive decay that continues to generate thermal activity. While Earth’s surface is relatively cool, temperatures increase […]
Any AI chat can join a machine network anonymously – no keys, no signup
A dependency-free Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that lets any MCP-capable agent join and participate in the GlyphDNA network — machine-native identity, verifiable meeting rooms, and script provenance — without custom integration code. AI agents talk to each other constantly and leave no authoritative record of who said what or where a piece of code […]
Meta’s Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire
from the move-fast-and-break-the-planet dept Meta’s agentic AI product Muse has had a rocky few weeks since launch. The product, which features an animated avatar named Jolly (one presumes to make mass hyper surveillance seem adorable) is supposed to help you offload busywork like making restaurant reservations, paying bills, or ordering groceries. Despite Meta having claimed […]
Release of Polars 2.0
Today we are shipping Polars 2.0. In the earlier announcement post we went through the rationale of the version bump. This post we will discuss what features 2.0 brings. Even though we didn’t intend to make it a big feature release, it still packs a lot to get enthousiastic about. Let’s go through the highlights […]
ASOS app users receive push notifications apparently sent by hackers
Getty Images Joe Tidy Cyber correspondent, World Service 6 October 2026, 10:49 BST Updated 1 hour ago Asos users across the UK have been sent pop-up messages from its app that appear to have been sent by hackers trying to extort the company. Dozens of people have told the BBC about receiving a strange message […]
Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen
The Nobel Foundation Tasked with a mission to manage Alfred Nobel’s fortune and has ultimate responsibility for fulfilling the intentions of Nobel’s will. Outreach organisations Several outreach organisations and activities have been developed to inspire generations and disseminate knowledge about the Nobel Prize.