EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
Abstract Successful speech communication in multi-talker scenarios requires a skillful combination of sustained attention and rapid attention switching. While the neurophysiology literature offers detailed insights into the neural underpinnings of sustained attention, there remains considerable uncertainty on how attention switching takes place. In this study, using EEG recordings from normal-hearing adults in an immersive multi-talker […]
Pebble Mega Update – July 2026
TL:DR; #Pebble Time 2 Shipping Status Since we started mass production in late March, we’ve built over 23,000 Pebble Time 2 watches. We’re over 80% of the way through fulfilling all the pre-orders we’ve received! But that means there are still some ultra patient folks who haven’t received their watches yet. If you’ve placed an […]
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
A chemical process called carbonation, which helps seal cracks, could help explain why many ancient Roman structures are still standing today. Researchers hope that the insights will lead to better modern-day building materials Sara Hashemi | Daily Correspondent July 14, 2026 The Canopus, a pool at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, Italy Carole Raddato via Flickr under […]
GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
In 2026, technology can be a lifeline – or a weapon. For people experiencing domestic violence (DV), tech-facilitated abuse is now one of the most common forms of control. This includes GPS stalking, hidden tracking apps, spyware, image-based abuse, and monitoring of messages or location. Australian research shows that 99% of domestic violence cases now […]
The Human-in-the-Loop Is Tired
The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired /Pydantic AI Yet another thought piece about LLMs. I know. Bear with me. This is an attempt to put words around something I think most developers are experiencing right now but haven’t had time to make sense of. Programming with LLMs is genuinely useful and genuinely destabilizing. These two things coexist. […]
Show HN: Mojibake – a low-level Unicode library written in C
Mojibake is a low-level Unicode 17 text-processing library written in C11 and compatible with C++17. It is released under the MIT License. Usage You don’t need to install anything. There are two files (mojibake.c, mojibake.h) to add to your C/C++ project. Download it here mojibake-amalgamation-027.zip Examples of normalization, characters count and NFKC casefold. #include #include […]
My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto, and it’s a indictment of modern software
16 Jul, 2026 Just yesterday morning, my brand-new MINI Countryman auto-installed software update 03/2026.54. How exciting! The release notes promised groundbreaking changes, like changing the default interface highlights to green and other vague, unmentioned ”stability improvements.” You know what else it improved? It completely killed Android Auto. And it’s not just me. Forums also have […]
The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning
This is the associated GitHub page of the Little Book of Reinforcement Learning. This book is a short introduction to Reinforcement Learning, from the basics to applied algorithms. In this repo, along with the book itself, you can find the supplementary material of the book. More precisely: under the algos/ folder, the Pytorch-based implementation of […]
’Likweli’: A new monkey species discovered in the Congo Basin
From 2018 to 2022, the researchers recorded 114 observations of Likweli over a range of about 1,700 square kilometers in Lomami National Park and its buffer zone on highlands located between three tributaries of the Congo River: the Tshuapa, Lomami, and Lualaba. The monkeys, which were most frequently observed in small groups of about six […]
Ring-Zero: Scaling Zero RL to a Trillion Parameters for Emergent Reasoning
Abstract:Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards without human-annotated data, often referred to as zero RL, has emerged as a powerful paradigm for eliciting chain-of-thought reasoning. However, due to computational constraints, existing studies are largely restricted to small models, leaving the training dynamics and emergent capabilities at a large scale unexplored. To meaningfully explore this frontier, we […]