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Seven Nations Hit Near-100% Renewable Electricity Generation
Albania, Bhutan, Nepal, Paraguay, Iceland, Ethiopia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo now produce over 99.7% of their electricity from renewable sources lik
SQLite 3.53 Ships Query Result Formatter - Try It in Your Browser
SQLite 3.53.0 introduced a new Query Result Formatter library, and Simon Willison built an interactive browser demo to explore it. The tool lets you run queries
SQLite 3.53.0 Lands with Constraint Alterations and New JSON Functions
SQLite jumped from 3.51 straight to 3.53.0 after the 3.52.0 release was withdrawn, making this a particularly feature-dense update. Among the highlights: ALTER
The Web Killed Consistent UI Design - and We All Pay the Tax
Desktop software from Windows 95 through Windows 7 shared a remarkable consistency: standardized menu bars, universal keyboard shortcuts, clearly labeled button
Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Installers Push STX RAT After CPUID Breach
Attackers compromised CPUID's distribution channel and used it to ship trojanized builds of CPU-Z and HWMonitor, two widely trusted hardware diagnostic utilitie
Why Lean Is a Perfectable Language: Dependent Types, Metaprogramming, and Community Gravity
The author argues Lean stands apart because it is perfectable rather than perfect. You can state and prove properties about Lean code inside Lean itself, which
Why most engineering orgs can't justify their teams' cost — and what LLMs change
An eight-engineer team in Western Europe burns roughly €87,000 a month, or €4,000 per working day, yet most engineers and many of their managers can't quote tha
AI Models Exposed as Poor Gamblers in Premier League Betting Study
A benchmarking study called KellyBench, run by London-based startup General Reasoning, pitted eight leading AI systems against the 2023-24 Premier League season
Artemis II Splashdown Success Raises Hard Questions About What's Next
NASA's Artemis II crew returned safely to Earth on Friday after a 700,000-mile lunar flyby, marking humanity's first deep space crewed mission in over 50 years.
ChatGPT voice mode still runs on GPT-4o while Codex gets the frontier models
Simon Willison highlights an underappreciated gap in OpenAI's product surface: the voice mode most casual users interact with reports an April 2024 knowledge cu
Cirrus Labs Acquired by OpenAI, Cirrus CI Shutting Down June 1
Cirrus Labs, the bootstrapped developer tooling company behind the Tart virtualization platform and Cirrus CI, is being acquired by OpenAI. The team will join O
Citizen Lab Exposes Webloc: Ad-Tech Data Repurposed to Track 500M Devices
Citizen Lab researchers have documented how law enforcement agencies tapped a commercial location-intelligence platform called Webloc to surveil roughly 500 mil