I’ve had preview access to the new GPT-5 model family for the past two weeks (see related video and my disclosures) and have been using GPT-5 as my daily-driver. It’s …

Testing the Framework Desktop - AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with Radeon 8090S. (Four pre-production units were shipped to me for local cluster testing). Single Node configuration (128 GB RAM): Cluster co...

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many think.

Interactive visualization of technological history

Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.

OpenAI just released its first ever open-source large language models, called gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. You can talk to them here. Are they good models…

Here’s an interesting take on Germany’s exit tax, which I have written about before: Leave Germany before your business gets big. What do I mean by that? I mean that once you’re a business owner in Germany and your business has reached a certain size, you…

Install and use the Cursor command-line interface to run AI coding workflows and automate tasks from your terminal.

Multimodal Art Projection

An open-source coding helper. Very friendly! Contribute to synthetic-lab/octofriend development by creating an account on GitHub.

Over on YouTube Talking Sasquach has recently tested custom firmware for the Flipper Zero that can entirely break the rolling code security system used on most modern vehicles. Rolling code security works by using a synchronized algorithm between a transmitter…

A minimalist guide to the LSAT.

A residency for ~30 people to grow into great writers. For the month of November, you'll publish a blogpost every day. Or pack your bags.

Things we wish we didn't know

Sunlight represents a seemingly endless source of largely untapped energy. Just how endless is it?

🌱 A minimal programming language and compiler.