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Visit website →Niri 26.04: Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor
Niri 26.04 brings major improvements to background blur, screencasting, and rendering.
A system where agents themselves maintain a Karpathy-style LLM wiki - based on Markdown and Git
A wiki system maintained directly by agents, based on Markdown and Git, has been released.
The AI industry is discovering that the public hates them
Public animosity toward the AI industry and the perception gap between experts and the public are deepening.
USB Cheat Sheet (2022)
A single-page summary of USB generation names, wire counts, and power specs.
An amateur using ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem
GPT-5.4 Pro solved Erdős's primitive set problem with a new proof.
Web-based RDP client built with Go WebAssembly and grdp
A Go WASM client has been released that connects to Windows RDP from the browser without any plugin.
GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
OpenAI has launched a bug bounty to find jailbreaks that bypass GPT-5.5's bio safety measures.
Trump fires all 24 members of National Science Board, the NSF's oversight body
Trump has dismissed all 24 members of the National Science Board, the oversight body for the NSF.
Replacing the IBM Quantum Backend with /dev/urandom
Key recovery results were shown to be reproducible using only /dev/urandom instead of IBM Quantum.
Firefox integrates Brave's ad-blocking engine
Firefox 149 includes Brave's adblock-rust, but it's disabled by default.
New 10 GbE USB Adapter Is Cooler, Smaller, and Cheaper
The RTL8159-based 10GbE USB adapter turned out smaller, cheaper, and less hot.
mini-swe-agent - A 100-line AI agent for resolving GitHub issues and command-line support
A Princeton/Stanford team has released a 100-line bash-based AI coding agent.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API
OpenAI has launched GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.5 Pro in the API.
SSH is enabled by default on an audio interface
Default SSH access and an unsigned firmware update flow were found on the Rodecaster Duo.
A Scientific Theory of Deep Learning Will Emerge
It outlines the possibility of establishing a learning mechanics theory that explains deep learning training.
Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform - Google Cloud's Next-Generation AI Agent Integration Platform
Google Cloud has officially launched the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, which extends Vertex AI.
ClawSweeper: An AI-Powered Open Source Issue Management Bot
ClawSweeper used AI to triage over 13,000 accumulated openclaw issues and PRs.
Compounding-Growth Startups That Took the AI Pill
AI agents and coding tools are fundamentally transforming how startups build products and run their organizations.
Show GN: purplemux – an open-source tmux manager for managing Claude Code sessions on web and mobile
An open-source tmux manager for managing Claude Code sessions on web and mobile has been released.