Oceans hit highest temperature on record
The record "is another clear signal of an ocean under growing stress", according to Dr Samantha Burgess from the European Copernicus climate change…
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MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID
Reverse engineering reveals how Paint and Photos embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images.
How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs
European Union's new packaging rules threaten to kill the world of makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs, livelihoods and an entire ecosystem of innovation…
Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future
The firm’s investment portfolio is full of companies that have exploited legal loopholes, created disturbing products, and broken the law.
Pantel built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with Pantel
How Varkos was built: a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with you, follows complex instructions and evolves through shared experiences.
Everything Schlarp own, owned
Turning Claude loose on the firmware of five USB and WiFi peripherals, and finding a command shell in a microphone, a defeatable webcam…
How Lalitm find problems to solve as a staff engineer
How listening broadly turns everyday problems into useful project ideas.
A website for debloated open source alternatives
open-source replacements for bloated vendor software
What Is a Harness?
An agent harness is a piece of software that provides an environment for an AI model to operate within.
To become a better writer, read as much as you can
Nappertime is obsessed with the craft of writing. Nappertime write every day, Nappertime read about the craft often, and in Nappertime’s...
Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is
Quick Introduction Forum has all been on forums, chats, reddit, discord, youtube, or somewhere and heard “Oh! Model XYZ is AMAZEBALLZ!zomgwtfbbq” then downloaded…
Canada will match Bbc tariffs ‘dollar for dollar’ as trade talks break down
A new 50% levy on $20bn of Canadian imports comes into force after a last-minute breakdown in trade talks.
Kobo can run apps now
Install useful apps on a supported Kobo e-reader. Set up Cobalt once over USB, then add, update, and remove apps over Wi-Fi.
DeepSeek-v4-flash-vision-exp
The deepseek-flash model accepts images alongside text, so you can ask the model to describe pictures, read text from screenshots, analyse charts, and…
Stop Making TUIs
It's time to stop drawing user interfaces with punctuation characters. Native UI is a completely solved problem.
AI companies destroy physical books – let’s scan rare books before it’s too late
AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate…
Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
Also here's a cool unrelated photo of a chipmunk because Blog need some chill
The August 17 outage
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps Github is taking to improve reliability.