Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition
COMMUNICATION WORKERS UNION24/06/2026FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wikipedia workers in Britain are setting a “global first” by becoming the first body of workers at the online encyclopaedia to seek union recognition. British-based employees at the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) wrote a letter to management today (Wednesday 24thJune) requesting their right to be represented by the United Tech and […]
OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor, designed and manufactured in collaboration with Broadcom. Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems. OpenAI’s own AI models assisted in the development of the chip, the company said. While the chip is still being tested, OpenAI says […]
Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash
Making computer use safe in 3.5 Flash To mitigate some of the prompt injection risks for agents operating in live environments, we use targeted adversarial training for computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash. We’re also releasing two optional enterprise safeguard systems that enable enterprises to: Require explicit user confirmation for sensitive or irreversible actions. Automatically […]
The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader
I’ve had the Xteink X4 for a couple of months now, a £40 e-ink reader small enough to stick to the back of a phone. I’d seen a few posts about it (Khairul Selamat, Neil Brown, joelchrono, and moddedbear among them), so I got curious and ordered one. First impressions Out of the box, the […]
I taught a bucket to speak Git
What happens if I just point a git server at an object storage bucket? Back when I was porting agent sandboxes to Go, I built everything on top of billy, a filesystem abstraction for Go. The whole trick of the project was teaching a Tigris bucket to act enough like a filesystem that a shell […]
CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years
TL;DR: Every CAPTCHA generation (distorted text, harder text, image grids) was eventually beaten by machines. Now with everyone using agents to run real workflows, the game has changed from testing what a browser can do to verifying who it is. That’s why Browserbase is building agent identity with Verified and Web Bot Auth, because the […]
Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in […]
For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward
Proprietary AI is both too expensive and too centralized in control for most countries and companies to rely upon. NYC — Yann LeCun, one of the “Godfathers of AI,” may have long been Meta’s chief AI scientist, but at the United Nations Open Source Week in his keynote speech, he took a very different tack […]
RubyLLM: A single, beautiful Ruby framework for all major AI providers
Copy page A single, beautiful Ruby framework for all major AI providers. Easily build chatbots, AI agents, RAG applications, content generators, and every AI workflow you can think of. Battle tested at – Fully private work AI Build a working Ruby AI chat in two minutes Using RubyLLM? Share your story! Takes 5 minutes. Why […]
Running Windows Games on a Hobby OS with Wine
A few months ago, I posted about Astral, a hobby OS I have been working on over the years, running Minecraft. Since then, others have gotten modern versions of Minecraft to run as well as Factorio (using a glibc compatible libc). However, while these games are made or packaged in a way that makes it […]