First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life

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Analysis of Z AI's GLM-5.2 (max) and comparison to other AI models across key metrics including quality, price, performance (tokens per second & time to first token), context window & more.

Friends, this post has been in the making for maybe, 20 years.

It helped popularize the interactive computing paradigm we take for granted today.

A $10 million procurement reviewed by 404 Media indicates ICE is buying records related to immigrants’ tax identifiers. “It looks for all the world like Trump is trying to skirt the law and a court order to fuel his mass-deportation campaign,” Senator Ron Wyden said.

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The Justice department says the Pentagon needs xAI to keep using its unpermitted gas turbines.

Assuming the gravitational field is classical and that it couples to quantum fields via the semiclassical Einstein field equations, we show that the weak-field dynamics of a massive and non-relativistic qubit can in principle be used to solve an $\mathsf{NP}$-complete problem in polynomial time. We attribute this vast computational power to the non-linear dynamics afforded by the semiclassical Einstein field equations. Consequently, the above two assumptions entail a violation of the Physical Extended Church--Turing Thesis, which we regard as evidence for the quantization of gravity.

Modular IDE designed for agentic coding. Contribute to evanklem/polypore development by creating an account on GitHub.

A tiny macOS menu-bar utility that fixes wrong-keyboard typing and remembers your input language per app, per website, per chat.

The British Writer and Catholic apologist G. K. Chesterton is, perhaps, most well known to programmers through a paragraph in which he introduces what is now known as “Chesterton’s fence”. It’s a very simple idea: You walk through a field and see a fence which, seemingly, has no purpose. Instead of tearing it down because it seemingly has no use, try to understand or ask why somebody put it there. 1 That’s it! The full quote is: ‘IN the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”’ [source] ↩

Why stdx is not on crates.io While I think that the xxx aspect of stdx has been well received, a lot of Rust developers were suffering with the current status

Pentagon also claims 1.5 million personnel are using generative AI tools.

OpenAI and Molecule.one show how a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 improved a key drug-making reaction, advancing medicinal chemistry research.

How Greptile built TREX, an execution layer for AI code review that runs code in sandboxed environments and generates multi-modal artifacts to catch runtime bugs.

The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation Accurate timing simulation remains one of the most important tools in computer architecture, but modern systems have made cycle-level simulation…

On the outskirts of Helsinki, a pioneering factory is harvesting natural, scalable proteins all from fermented bacteria. Could this be the future of food?

Rust image deconvolution and restoration library. Contribute to pbkx/deconvolution development by creating an account on GitHub.