OpenAI has released a collection of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier AI model, sharing them through a GitHub repository along with computational cost estimates and formal proof verifications in Lean, while consulting with mathematics experts on best practices for AI-assisted discovery.
Read full article →Using a simple modulo operation to pick a random item from a list skews probabilities, a subtle bug known as modulo bias. The blog post explains why random_u64() % n fails to give uniform odds, demonstrates the distortion with a small example, and advocates for higher‑level APIs like random_between or weighted random_choice to avoid the mistake.
Read full article →A GitHub project shows how PSP games can be played directly in a web browser by statically recompiling MIPS code to WebAssembly, using a high‑level emulation layer for the PSP OS and a WebGL2 renderer, achieving playable frame rates for titles like God of War.
Read full article →Google has introduced Playground, an experimental platform that enables users to create, play, and share custom games without requiring coding skills, using natural language prompts to guide game development.
Read full article →When two unexploded World War II bombs were discovered in Devon on the same day in January 2026, bomb disposal experts faced the critical challenge of assessing degraded fuzes to determine whether to move the devices or detonate them in place—a process made increasingly difficult by eight decades of corrosion and environmental exposure.
Read full article →A GitHub project shows how to implement a Pi-hole-style DNS ad-blocker on an ESP32-C3 microcontroller for about $2, storing 537,000 domains as 40-bit hashes in flash to avoid PSRAM requirements while maintaining approximately 10ms lookup times.
Read full article →Both tech giants are significantly reducing employee access to Anthropic's Claude AI as they shift toward internal coding tools, though they remain major external customers of the AI provider.
Read full article →The programming heuristic of moving conditionals toward callers and loops toward batch processing can clarify code and improve performance, but only when certain algebraic conditions hold.
Read full article →AnyPS5 is an open-source project that ports PlayStation 5 executables to run natively on Linux and Windows by implementing the console's system libraries and using a relinker to convert game binaries, achieving compatibility without emulation.
Read full article →After finding that family members ignored his Home Assistant dashboard, Anton Frolov hired an illustrator to create custom artwork of their house. The resulting interface uses layered illustrations with day/night versions and animated device states, displayed via a TV‑based kiosk setup that the whole family now enjoys using.
Read full article →Strands Agents has released Strands Decider 2B, a 2‑billion‑parameter decision model that replaces the language model head with a pointer head to score predefined options. The model delivers low‑latency decisions, confidence scores, and is positioned for tasks like routing, tool selection, and guardrails in agentic systems.
Read full article →Nomad found his parents' smart coffee maker transmitted about 1 terabyte of data in just over a week, with most traffic staying local but sufficient to saturate their home Wi‑Fi access point, which he attributed to a likely bug in the unit.
Read full article →Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai receive the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for pioneering non‑linear effects and autocatalysis that enable the production of single mirror‑image molecules, a capability vital for drug development.
Read full article →A developer's hands-on experience shows DeepSeek 4.1 Flash delivers frontier-model performance at a fraction of the cost, thanks to aggressive KV cache compression, yet the industry response remains subdued due to existing subsidy structures and a preference for paying premium prices for top-tier intelligence.
Read full article →StepFun has released its Step 5 Preview model on OpenRouter, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 27B active parameters out of 600B total, a 1 million-token context window, and pricing of $1 per million input tokens and $2.70 per million output tokens. The model is positioned for agentic work, software engineering, and professional knowledge tasks, with particular strength in finance, and supports tool calling, structured outputs, and multimodal input.
Read full article →Victorian elites achieved global dominance not through relentless STEM study or austere regimens, but by emphasizing moral formation, sports, and peer‑led governance in their schools and universities.
Read full article →A faithful recreation of the original Commodore 64 keyboard lettering has been created from photographs of vintage keycaps, providing designers and enthusiasts with an authentic 1980s computing typeface for contemporary projects.
Read full article →Archaeologists are using experimental replicas of a 35,000‑year‑old perforated mammoth tusk to demonstrate how Stone Age peoples made rope from plant fibers, revealing a widespread but rarely preserved technology that shaped toolmaking, transport, and daily life.
Read full article →A recent paper argues that the process of translating natural language mathematical proofs into formal languages like Lean is so fraught with ambiguity that even AI-generated proofs verified in Lean may not accurately reflect the original natural language argument, using OpenAI's claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes blow-up problem as a case study.
Read full article →A civil engineer's two-decade project to dig 15 meters of tunnels beneath his Tilehurst property is now for sale, featuring an underground railway, secret entrances, and over 1,300 square feet of subterranean space.
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