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Google Makes Its Case: Go's Rigid Simplicity Is Built for the AI Coding Era
Google argues that AI-assisted development inverts what makes a programming language valuable. When agents can emit hundreds of lines of valid code in seconds,
Gorton: The Overlooked Engraving Font Hiding on Every Keyboard and City Sign
Typography historian Marcin Wichary traces the story of Gorton, an unassuming monoline sans-serif that most people have looked at thousands of times without not
Grok Bot: xAI's autonomous agent logs into your tools and works while you sleep
xAI is pitching Grok Bot, an early-beta agentic product that goes beyond chat: you authenticate it once against your apps and websites, and it then operates tho
How to draw holograms with a pen plotter, a CD case, and greasy fingers
A hobbyist walks through using a secondhand pen plotter to etch scratch holograms — the same trick behind the moving 'glare' streaks you see on a CD or a smudge
Illinois' new child-safety law quietly puts every OS on the hook for age-gating
Illinois HB5511, now Public Act 104-0664 and signed by Governor Pritzker on July 31, is being sold as a social-media law: it forces platforms like TikTok, Insta
Jolt: a self-hosting Clojure that compiles to Scheme, no JVM required
Jolt is a Clojure implementation that abandons the JVM entirely, targeting Scheme instead — Chez Scheme when running natively, and Gambit when compiling to Java
"LinkedIn CringeBot 3000" is a title, not an article — nothing to summarize
The submitted source is a single-page satirical site poking fun at LinkedIn's performative culture — humble-brags, motivational-post theater, and the like. Both
llama.cpp Pitches Fully-Local, Private AI With a One-Line Install
The page positions llama.cpp as a way to run frontier open-weight models entirely on your own hardware — no API keys, no telemetry, no usage caps — with the sel
Meta Pays Australian Extremists and Anti-Vaxxers Through Content Monetization
An ABC News Verify investigation found that Meta is directly paying several controversial Australian creators through its invitation-only Content Monetization p
Metal capability shim gives macOS VMs near-bare-metal LLM speed on Apple Silicon
Cua, the team behind the Lume macOS virtualization stack, has found that macOS guests running under Apple's Virtualization.framework were leaving most of their
Nvidia ships open 30B agent model and NeMo Switchyard router to cut inference cost
Nvidia added Nemotron 3.5 Lightning to its open Nemotron 3 lineup, positioning the 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model as a fast, customizable worker
OpenAI's only dedicated ethicist exits after under a year — with no replacement
Chloé Bakalar, OpenAI's head of ethics, has left the company less than a year after joining, according to the Financial Times. She arrived in August 2025 from M