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Anthropic: AI Now Writes 80% of Our Code, Pushing Toward Self-Improving Systems

Anthropic is publishing internal data showing how much of its own AI development is now being done by AI. As of May 2026, Claude authored more than 80% of code

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aicybersecurity

Anthropic releases open-source reference pipeline for Claude-driven vuln discovery

Anthropic published a reference implementation showing how to wire Claude into an autonomous vulnerability discovery loop: recon, find, verify, report, and patc

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open-sourcedevops

Branchless Quicksort beats std::sort and pdqsort by dodging mispredictions

A new sorting library called blqsort claims to outperform std::sort and pdqsort on both Apple M1 and AMD Ryzen hardware when sorting 50 million doubles, with mu

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open-sourcetech-culture

C++: The Documentary Charts 40 Years of Bjarne Stroustrup's Language

A new documentary tracing the 40-year history of C++ premiered on YouTube, featuring Bjarne Stroustrup alongside figures including Alexander Stepanov (STL), And

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open-sourcedevops

Conventional Commits gets it backwards: scope matters more than type

Conventional Commits prioritizes the type of change (fix, feat, chore) over the scope, but that ordering is exactly wrong. Contributors scanning history, debugg

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tech-culturepolicy

Edo: How Tokugawa Japan Engineered a City to Imprison Its Own Elite

From 1600 to 1868, the Tokugawa Shogunate maintained three centuries of peace in Japan through a uniquely structured social system, with the city of Edo at its

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aiopen-source

Google ships Gemma 4 QAT checkpoints, shrinking E2B to under 1GB for mobile

Google released Quantization-Aware Training checkpoints for Gemma 4, trading the usual post-training quantization penalty for models trained with quantization s

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aiopen-source

Huawei's KVarN squeezes 3-5x more KV-cache into vLLM without losing FP16 accuracy

Huawei's CSL group released KVarN, a vLLM attention backend that quantizes the KV cache aggressively while keeping FP16-level accuracy and throughput. On Qwen3-

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tech-culturepolicy

ISS crew shelters in spacecraft as cosmonauts patch fresh Zvezda module leaks

Five crew members aboard the International Space Station were ordered into an elevated safety posture and took shelter in their docked spacecraft while two Russ

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open-sourceai

Ladybird Closes Public PRs, Citing AI-Era Trust Collapse Ahead of Alpha

The Ladybird browser project will stop accepting public pull requests, restricting code changes to project maintainers only. All currently open external PRs wil

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tech-culture

Marjane Satrapi, 'Persepolis' author, dies at 56

Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian graphic novelist and filmmaker best known for the autobiographical comic 'Persepolis,' has died at 56. Her work chronicled g

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tech-cultureopen-source

Meta unlocks ADB on retired Portal devices, opening door to community reuse

Meta has enabled Android Debug Bridge access on its discontinued Portal video-calling devices, giving owners a path to repurpose hardware that would otherwise b

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