OpenAI’s pursuit of government-backed financing underscores the escalating cost of AI infrastructure and the growing overlap between tech investment and public-sector support. The move could reshape funding models for large-scale AI projects and signal broader…

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Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gómez-Serrano, Adam Zsolt Wagner, and I have uploaded to the arXiv our paper “Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale”. This is a longer report on…

The shutdown, now in its 36th day, has forced 13,000 air traffic controllers and 50,000 Transportation Security Administration officers to work without pay.

When Natalie Grabow grew up in the 1940s and 50s in New Jersey, there were not a lot of opportunities for girls to do sports.

Fast, stateless LLM for your shell: qq answers; qa runs commands - iagooar/qqqa

I have now spent almost a decade in the bug bounty industry, started out as a bug hunter (who initially used to submit reports with minimal impact, low-h...

Ken Thompson, one of the foremost programmers and computer scientists of the last 50 years, shares stories about his life and career in a newly released oral history.

An open-source framework for verifiably private AI inference - openpcc/openpcc

IKEA is launching 21 new smart home products focusing on lighting, sensors, and control — all built to work with Matter, the universal smart home standard. A significant step in making smart home technology easier to use, more affordable, and better adapted…

Content is infinite and free now. Trust isn't. We're abandoning digital channels entirely because we can't tell what's real anymore.

Spring is here and the nettles are growing again so I decided it was time to make a meal out of them. Most people know that stinging nettles are pesky green plants that irritate the skin when you t…

Cloudflare is warning the U.S. government that foreign anti-piracy blockades are becoming a significant trade barrier for American companies.

The software company wrote to Australian customers to apologise for a lack of transparency when it increased fees for Office plans by up to 45 per cent.

A few years back I did a bit of dance music related data visualization over at Lazily Evaluated. My favourite was an analysis of clubs and their lineups using Resident Advisor / RA data, I called it Clubster Analysis. I always wanted to dig into the technical…

Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.

The mysterious website Archive.today is coming under the FBI's crosshairs. A court order is forcing the provider Tucows to hand over user data.

Kimi K2 Thinking, Moonshot's best open-source thinking model.