Hang on to Your Firefox

“Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” According toWikipedia, it’s an adage that goes back to 1512 in Germany. People have known for hundreds of years that you should be careful not to throw out a good and vital thing in your zeal to get rid of a minor annoyance. I think about this … Devamını oku

AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B

AI training-data startup AfterQuery hasreportedlyraised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion. This just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April. That’s more than a 10x increase in less than half a year and, according to Y Combinator partner Gustaf Alströmer, thefastestthat any startup has … Devamını oku

Open AI’s Astra model is on the way—and very good at breaking into computer systems

“We plan to make Astra available soon,” OpenAI’s blog post reads, “but access to its most advanced cybersecurity capabilities will be more limited.” The frontier lab determined that Astra is capable of finding unknown security flaws in computer systems, and exploiting them without a person’s guidance. That’s similar to the concerns Anthropic raised about its … Devamını oku

Refurbishing a Tektronix TDS7104 Oscilloscope

A little over a month ago, I ran into a Tektronix TDS7104 at theSilicon Valley Flea Market, where else? Other than some dirty buttons, a few smudges here and there, and the usual assortment of calibration and asset tracking tags, the unit was in excellent cosmetic shape, but the price tag of $700 was way … Devamını oku

The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice

I was poking around in my~/.cache/folder usingOmniDiskSweeperwhen I spotted something interesting. The OpenAI Codex desktop app (sincerebrandedto just ChatGPT) has 1.7GB of stuff in there in a folder calledcodex-primary-runtime, including a full Python installation, a full Node.js installation, and native binaries forPoppler, git, and theLibreOfficeopen source office suite (which forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010): The~/.cache/codex-runtimes/codex-primary-runtime/plugins/openai-primary-runtime/plugins/documentsfolder … Devamını oku

Google’s Android update tackles motion sickness, accessibility, and more

On Tuesday, Google announced it’s rolling out five new updates designed to make Android phones more accessible, useful, and personalized. Announced in ablog poston Tuesday, the features include those aimed at reducing motion sickness, helping blind and low-vision users navigate their surroundings, remembering where users leave important items, and another that adds new ways to … Devamını oku

Anthropic’s new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive

On Tuesday, Anthropic released Fable and Mythos 5.1, twinned versions of the company’s most advanced AI model. In addition to performance upgrades, the new Fable release includes changes meant to reduce token cost and false-positive restrictions from the model’s safeguards. As with the previous Mythos model, Mythos 5.1 will only be available to registered Anthropic … Devamını oku

Top 10 robotics stories of August 2026

In August 2026, large funding rounds, humanoid robot developments, and stories about the latest AI models for robotics got our readers’ attention. Like other global automakers, XPeng Motors is branching into humanoid robots. The electric vehicle manufacturer said that its Dogotix robotics unit has raised more than $900 million, bringing its pre-money valuation to $5 … Devamını oku

Anthropic, Claude Fable 5.1 ve Claude Mythos 5.1 modellerini kullanıma sundu

Anthropic, bu akşam uzun süredir geliştirme aşamasında olan Claude Fable 5.1 ve Claude Mythos 5.1 modellerini kullanımasundu. Şirket tarafından kodlama ve bilgi odaklı çalışmalar için dünyanın en gelişmiş yapay zeka modelleri olarak tanımlanan yeni sistemlerden Fable 5.1, özellikle karmaşık ve uzun süreli görevlerdeki performansıyla öne çıkıyor. Modelin araştırma yeteneklerinin yapay zeka sistemlerinin bilimsel ilerlemeye gelecekte … Devamını oku