librarian 
written on October 06, 2026 More than a year ago I wrote a few posts here that recommended people not to load custom tools into their context (or MCP servers) but to just use more scripts. Most importantly I wrote … Read more
For the past few days, I did a quick survey of hot-patching mechanisms. But the hot-patch design accommodates only one hot-patcher. If somebody goes to hot-patch a function and finds that it’s already been hot-patched, what happens? If somebody goes … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Update (28th of September 2026)Max Desiatov told me that the @c swift attribute should work, instead of declaring the functions using @_cdecl. The @c attribute marks a global function as a C function implemented in Swift, which formalizes the @_cdecl … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more