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Agent-in-a-loop: Codex hill-climbs to a 232x GPU kernel speedup
A hobbyist GPU programmer describes placing 12th of 183 in a GPU Mode auto-research contest by wrapping OpenAI's Codex agent in a tight optimization loop. The t
AI Bug-Hunting May Make Software Too Secure — and Revive the Backdoor Wars
Cryptographer Matthew Green argues that AI-powered vulnerability discovery is about to upend the uneasy truce over encrypted communications. Since roughly 2010,
AI by Hand: Tom Yeh's Substack Teaches ML Math via Pen-and-Paper Exercises
The page retrieved here is not an article but the subscription landing page for "AI by Hand ✍️," a Substack newsletter run by Prof. Tom Yeh. The actual body con
Alibaba Opens Qwen3.8 Weights: 27B Multimodal Model Plus a 2.4T Max-Tier MoE
Alibaba's Qwen team has published open weights for its Qwen3.8 lineup under a permissive Apache 2.0 license, headlined by Qwen3.8-27B. It's a dense, natively mu
At-Home Tick Test Aims to Speed Up Lyme Disease Diagnosis
A Boston pediatric physician associate, Erin Dawicki, is bringing a consumer product called LymeAlert to market this August that lets people test a tick they've
Australia's Home Battery Subsidy Halves Wholesale Power Prices in a Year
Roughly a year into a program offering a 30 percent discount on home battery systems tied to solar arrays, Australia has crossed 500,000 installations — more th
Building an e-ink 'newspaper' from RSS feeds to escape phone reading
A developer frustrated with straining their eyes reading blogs on a phone repurposed a pocket-sized e-reader as a dedicated feed reader. The device is the X4 by
China taps Deutsche Bank as Europe's first foreign yuan clearing bank
The People's Bank of China has authorized Deutsche Bank to clear renminbi transactions from Frankfurt, the first time a non-Chinese institution has been given t
Eigendrum: a client-side FEM solver that plays the modes of any drum shape
Eigendrum is a browser tool that computes and sonifies the vibration modes of a clamped membrane of arbitrary shape. It treats the physics as the Helmholtz eige
Firefox becomes the last major browser to fully support uBlock Origin
As Microsoft Edge prepares to enforce Manifest V3 and cut off Manifest V2 extensions, Mozilla has confirmed via Bluesky that Firefox will keep supporting uBlock
Flagged forever: how a fake sanctions-list name traps a real Sean Byrne
Sean Joseph Byrne keeps getting blocked by restricted-party screening because his common Irish name matches a single entry on the U.S. Commerce Department's Ent
Gloomberb: an open-source, keyboard-driven Bloomberg Terminal clone
Gloomberb is an open-source market-data terminal that pitches itself as a fast, extensible alternative to Bloomberg's terminal, shipping as both a native deskto