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S301 passes close to Sagittarius A*—so close that its orbit could reveal how the black hole’s rotation warps the spacetime around it.

Incremental improvements fail to generate much excitement, but Google’s Pixel 11 is still an accomplished Android phone.

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I trained a 125M-parameter transformer to autocomplete piano performances in real time (~108 notes/sec on an iPhone 15). The idea is basically GitHub Copilot or Tabnine, except instead of prompting it with code, you prompt it by playing a few notes on a MIDI piano. The model then continues what you played, entirely on-device. The app is free if anyone wants to try it. Happy to answer questions about the model, training, Core ML, or the many things that didn't work. Comments URL: https://new...

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Google will soon allow you to customize your Discover feed by describing what you want to see. The new feature, rolling out to the Google app in the "coming days," will use AI to automatically tweak your feed and "remember" your preferences for future visits. You'll find the option within the three-dot menu on your […]

A hacker pretending to work for a leading cryptocurrency news website targeted several cybersecurity professionals using Google Docs as a way to deliver malware.

Jason Kelce joked that people should cool data centers with their pee, rather than potable water -- but his suggestion is not completely ludicrous.

An effort to transform the world of sports through steroid use doesn't exactly seem to be bearing financial fruit.

Ever wanted someone else to do your texting for you? ChatGPT is being offered up as an automated text scribe via a new Apple Messages integration.

Businesses are willing to flop back and forth as each lab releases new models, volatility that should give both companies' investors pause about how "sticky" enterprise AI spending really is.

Investors want founders who understand the financial reality of their business. Messy data, misunderstood metrics, or waiting until you’re nearly out of cash to start fundraising can cost founders leverage, valuation, and even a term sheet. In this episode of Build Mode, host Isabelle Johannessen sits down with Sasha Orloff, founder and CEO of Puzzle […]

Building a marketplace sounds simple at first. You have sellers. You have buyers. One side offers a service, the other side pays for it, and the platform connects them. That was roughly how I looked at it when I started building NexoRush . The reality was very different. A marketplace is not just a website with profiles, listings, and a checkout button. You have to think about trust, payments, disputes, discovery, security, SEO, user experience, and perhaps the hardest problem of al...

During the Easter break of 2026, I returned to a project I had already paused twice. The first version had started as eHealth , inspired by my experience as a patient in a public hospital in Cameroon. Later, the idea became a laboratory management system after I got the opportunity to understand the problem from a different perspective. Then my GCE Advanced Level examinations and circumstances around the onboarding process forced me to pause again. But I couldn't leave it there. ...

Whenever someone asks me to add search to an application, I try to find ways around it. The implementation itself isn't the problem, it's everything that comes with it: extra components to manage, more failure points, and the constant challenge of keeping data in sync. For the past few years, I've worked a lot with DynamoDB and with the introduction of Vector Search I feel a lot more comfortable to add this type of functionality. I wrote last week about why AWS released another vector store an...

The Experiment We just published a comprehensive, browser-verified rerun experiment comparing uncontrolled AI-generated React/Tailwind against the newly released Toolcrib v0.5.0 . If you are currently building frontends using autonomous AI assistants or "vibe coding" inside an LLM chat, this structural teardown shows exactly why relying on raw AI generation without a pre-tested component floor guarantees UI, UX, and accessibility drift. 👉 Read the full live-browser teardown here: ...

I have configured my Wi-Fi router to provide four wireless networks: HomeNet_Main HomeNet_Guest HomeNet_SmartDevices HomeNet_HVAC HomeNet_Main This is the primary wireless network for our home. It is the network used by all our personal devices (PC, laptops, tablets, mobile phones) to connect to and interact with the internet securely. Settings Band steering: Enabled The same network name (HomeNet_Main [SSID]) is used for both the 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi frequency ...

An agent drafts a refund decision. A reviewer reads it, changes the amount, adds a line about the customer's contract, and approves. The refund goes out. Everyone moves on. Six months later somebody asks who approved that refund, and why the amount changed. The agent's draft is in a trace. The final amount is in the payments system. The reviewer's reasoning was a sentence in a chat thread that has since scrolled away, and the fact that a human changed the number at all is not recorded anywher...

I carry two YubiKeys. One lives on my keyring, one lives in a drawer, and both are enrolled everywhere that matters. A hardware token with no backup is a single point of failure you have chosen on purpose. For months I had a small irritation I never bothered to chase. Some days git push asked for my PIN, I typed it, and it worked. Other days it asked for my PIN, failed, and then asked again, and the second one worked. Same command, same repo, same laptop. The variable turned out to be which...

I Brought IdentityServer Back to Life as Open Source (.NET 8) The original IdentityServer project was commercialized. Instead of letting it die, I took the codebase, recompiled it for modern .NET, fixed what was broken, and released it as open source under the Apache 2.0 license. This is not a wrapper — it's a working identity server that I rebuilt and verified end-to-end, with two sample applications proving that multi-app SSO and per-app permissions actually work. What it ...

A concurrency problem can begin with an ordinary requirement: let two independent operations make progress without forcing one to wait for the other. The requirement is easy to state. Choosing among Thread , ExecutorService , Future , CompletableFuture , locks, atomics, queues, and synchronizers is harder when they look like competing answers to the same question. These APIs answer different questions. Some describe work, some decide how it runs, some represent results, and others pr...

A few weeks ago I ran this through our own JSON repair tool, in the browser, on our own website: json { "id" : 22233344455566677788 } It came back as: json { "id" : 22233344455566676000 } No error. No warning. Just a quietly wrong number, presented as a successful repair. That number is a made-up snowflake ID, the kind of thing you'd see as a primary key in a distributed system. And our own tool — the one whose entire pitch is ...

My Body Went on Strike Before My Mind Did. I'm Still Waiting for It to Come Back. Five weeks ago I was in bed for three days straight and I genuinely could not tell you why. I Posted 23 Articles in 3 Months. Then My Body Just Stopped. Zero Posts, 5 Weeks of Burnout. Not sick. Not injured. Just... done. My body decided it wasn't doing this anymore and it didn't ask my permission. If you've been following my posts, you know the drill by now — Hilt, Retrofit, ViewModels, another "interview ...

A funding announcement tells you a company has money. A job posting tells you exactly where they're about to spend it — and it's published weeks before the pain becomes a purchase. If a target account just opened its first platform-engineer role, they're about to have infrastructure problems. First "Head of Demand Gen"? Marketing budget incoming. Three sales roles in a month? They found product-market fit and every vendor selling to sales teams should already be in their inbox. Job postings a...

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