Spectral rendering, part 2: Real-time rendering
Published 2025-11-13 Based on the insights from part 1, we have the means to define illuminant and reflectance spectra for our scene data. Then the color of a pixel arises from an integral over a product of spectra. The main goal of this blog post is to find efficient ways to evaluate such integrals using […]
What Happened with the CIA and The Paris Review?
Peter Matthiessen in New York City, 1961. Photograph by Ben Martin/Getty Images. When Peter Matthiessen’s name comes up in conjunction with The Paris Review, two facts are sure to emerge. The first is that Matthiessen was one of the magazine’s founders, and that his enchantingly shabby Paris apartment provided a bumptious gathering place in its […]
Kubernetes Ingress Nginx is retiring
By Tabitha Sable (Kubernetes SRC) | Wednesday, November 12, 2025 To prioritize the safety and security of the ecosystem, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee are announcing the upcoming retirement of Ingress NGINX. Best-effort maintenance will continue until March 2026. Afterward, there will be no further releases, no bugfixes, and no updates to […]
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650GB of Data (Delta Lake on S3). Polars vs. DuckDB vs. Daft vs. Spark
cluster fatigue I recently tried to light the tinder for what I hoped would be a revolt — the Single Node Rebellion — but, of course, it sputtered out immediately. Truth be told, it was one of the most popular articles I’ve written about in some time, purely based on the stats. The fact that I […]
Blue Origin lands New Glenn rocket booster on second try
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has landed the booster of its New Glenn mega-rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean on just its second attempt — making it the second company to perform such a feat, following Elon Musk’s SpaceX. It’s an accomplishment that will help the new rocket system become an option to […]
OpenMANET Wi-Fi HaLow open-source project for Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios
OpenMANET is an open-source project for building Raspberry Pi–based MANET radios on Wi-Fi HaLow (915 MHz) using Morse Micro chipsets. A MANET (Mobile Ad-Hoc Network) is a self-forming wireless mesh where each node connects directly without centralized infrastructure. This technology is especially useful in the civilian space for search and rescue, disaster response, airsoft events, […]
SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the first community-driven system to detect and downrank deceptive AI-generated text, images, and video inside search results. It’s 2025, and the internet we loved […]
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
We recently argued that an inflection point had been reached in cybersecurity: a point at which AI models had become genuinely useful for cybersecurity operations, both for good and for ill. This was based on systematic evaluations showing cyber capabilities doubling in six months; we’d also been tracking real-world cyberattacks, observing how malicious actors were […]
Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in new code quickly yields durable and compounding gains. This year we look at how this approach isn’t just fixing things, but helping us move faster. The 2025 data continues to validate the approach, […]