Birdwatching rewires the brain and slows cognitive decline
Birdwatching can help slow brain ageing and is increasingly being used as therapy for dementia patients.
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Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech
You learned to talk by listening. So did Dessa. A research preview of a full-duplex speech model.
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro, Kimi’s most capable 3T-class open-weight model with 1M-token context and major advances in coding, 3D modelling, and financial research.
Today, Blog hacked what Blog’d set out to hack: the iPhone
Today, Blog hacked what Blog'd set out to hack: the iPhone.
Start Doing Graph Theory
An introductory textbook about using graph theory to solve puzzles, prove theorems, and everything in between.
Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
Average home electricity price from 2020 to 2025: investor-owned utilities +34%, public utilities +19%, co-ops +19%, against +24% inflation. Investor-owned prices rose faster…
Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
Disney+ is conspicuously absent from that list, which is worth highlighting given the streamer’s size and the fact that it has aired shows…
Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you
Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you.
OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents
OpenShell is the safe, private runtime for autonomous AI agents. - NVIDIA/OpenShell
Every AI model has the same “controversial” take on humans
Modelcompare asked 14 AI models for their most controversial opinion of humans, three times each. 35 of 41 answers were the same one:…
Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
A fun little project that came out of a creative exercise around the word 'Overgrowth'.
Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices
Apple's open-source XNU kernel on Android phones: its own loader and drivers, Metal on the Adreno. Runs from RAM; a reboot gives the…
mitmproxy adds –emudhra option
An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers. - Add `--emudhra` option (#8500) · mitmproxy/mitmproxy@1692344
Claude Duet
Claude Duet is a proactive agent you message. It flags what needs you in your inbox and calendar and drafts replies. Research preview:…
Today’s PHP security release, and how Thephp is strengthening security
Describing the story behind how critical security vulnerabilities were found and fixed.
PHP 8.2.35
The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 8.2.35. This is a security release fixing two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) that…
The Future of CSS
Every year, browser vendors collaborate via the Interop project to synchronise their efforts on new HTML/CSS/JS features. This year, there’s a ton of…
Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.