SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition

AI coding startup Cursor is now officially a part of SpaceX, according toan announcement on the Cursor blog. Elon Musk’s SpaceX — which also acquired Musk’s xAI earlier this year —announced a deal in Aprilfor the companies to develop technology together; the deal also gave SpaceX the option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion. Two … Devamını oku

The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up

By A. Sina Booeshaghi · August 15, 2026 Costco sells an all-beef quarter-pound hot dog and bun, with free refills on Coke products,for $1.50. The price has not changed since 1984. This price point is so sacred that Costco co-founder Jim Sinegal reportedly told then-CEO Craig Jelinek that he would kill him if he ever … Devamını oku

AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?

AI-written genomes bring medical promise and security risks Elie Dolgin is a science writer specializing in biomedical research. An electron microscopy reconstruction shows one of 16 functional bacteriophages designed using a genomic language model. Sixteen viruses is not a large number. But the 16 bacteria-infecting virusesdescribed on 6 August inSciencewere no ordinary specimens. They were … Devamını oku

The First At-Home Test for Infected Ticks Could Improve Lyme Disease Diagnosis

Research shows that more than31 million Americans—or nearly one in ten people—experience a tick bite every year. While some tick bites can be harmless, these parasitic arachnids that feed on both animals and people can transmit dozens of diseases in as little as 36 to 48 hours, includinganaplasmosis,babesiosis,Rocky Mountain spotted fever,alpha-gal syndromeandLyme disease. This spring, … Devamını oku

Writergate: Zig I/O Interface Overhaul

Writergateis the informal name for Zig’s I/O interface overhaul that began in late 2023 and culminated in August 2025 with the complete removal ofGenericWriter,GenericReader,AnyWriter, andAnyReader. If you’ve touched Zig I/O code recently, you’ve felt the impact. The old API used generic types with type parameters: The new API uses concrete types with vtables and explicit … Devamını oku

Cloudflare’s AI Psychosis

There was a time Cloudflare just made the internet better by staying hidden like Batman’s identity: protect & fight the bad people, for the sake of the global city of the Gotham… err I mean the internet. When I installed Cloudflare on my website for the first time 10 years ago – it saved me … Devamını oku

Edelkrone, gimbal temelli kameraları hareket ettirebilen yeni çözümü Dolly Go’yu tanıttı [Video]

Ankara merkezli dünyaca ünlü üretici Edelkrone, ufak boyutuyla öne çıkan yeni motorlu kamera çözümü Dolly Go’yutanıttı. DJI Osmo Pocket gibi entegre kameraya sahip taşınabilir gimbal kameralar ya da üzerine akıllı telefon veya kamera takılan gimbal modelleri için hazırlanan Dolly Go, üzerine takılan ürünü bünyesindeki motorlar ve tekerlekler aracılığıyla düz zeminlerde rahatlıkla hareket ettirebiliyor. Akıllı telefon … Devamını oku

GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix

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Auto-research with codex: How I achieved a 232x Faster Kernel

GPU Mode, in collab with Core Automation, recently hosted an auto-research themed contest. The problem statement was toimplement batched square compact-Householder QR factorization aka QR decomposition. I placed 12th out of 183 participants, ending up with a 232x speedup over the baseline solution. This post is about how I got there. I will go through … Devamını oku