Scientists release biggest 2D map of the universe

Hold on to your telescopes: theDESI Legacy Imaging Surveysteam has released the largest-ever 2D color map of the universe. The 5.6-trillion-pixel map contains nearly 4 billion celestial objects, primarily stars and galaxies. The data is available for all to use and publicly viewable through theLegacy Survey Sky Viewer. Astronomers and citizen scientists can explore the … Devamını oku

Felony Bench

A benchmark you really don’t want models to be saturated with. Scores indicate count of illegal activity. Higher is… you decide. Felony Bench counts unique instances where AI agents affect third-party entities. Escaping a sandbox alone does not constitute a counted incident. It is for these reasons that Frontier Security’sKimi K3incident andAlibaba’s ROMEincident are not … Devamını oku

Kobo can run apps now

Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers: a launcher, a signed App Store, a Rust SDK, and a runtime that keeps every app in its own unprivileged process. Install it once over USB. Every app after that installs, updates and removes on the reader itself, over Wi-Fi. A reboot returns to the stock … Devamını oku

AI Boosted Homework Scores by 18% – Then Exam Scores Dropped 20%, Study Shows

A new study tracking 27,000 students in China has found that pupils who used artificial intelligence tools saw higher homework scores over time, but performed worse than their peers on exams taken without AI assistance, according to research covered by The Economist on August 18. The research was conducted by David Stromberg of Stockholm University … Devamını oku

Omacom Foundation Launches with $8M

It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly available and fundamentally change how people relate to their computers for the first … Devamını oku

Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results

We’ve revamped our Stocks widget. It should appear more often when you need it. It can now display information about exchange-traded funds in addition to stocks. Most importantly, it now features a price chart, with animations between time windows that instantly contexturalize how big the price fluctuations you’re seeing are compared to the wider story: … Devamını oku

Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera

A grand jury in Ohio has declined to indict a man charged with felony vandalism for allegedly destroying a Flock automatic license plate reader camera. Police in Union Township, a Cincinnati suburb, accused Cody Morelock of disassembling the camera, its support pole and solar panel on June 13. Investigators, according toWKRC-TVin Cincinnati, identified Morelock after … Devamını oku

TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering

An in-depth technical analysis of TigerBeetle’s core architecture, exploring how static memory allocation, zero-copy io_uring interfaces, and Zig-based performance engineering eliminate runtime overhead and deliver predictable, sub-millisecond tail latencies. When evaluating high-performance database architectures, the conversation often centers on horizontal scaling, distributed partitioning, and query optimization. However, for mission-critical transactional systems like financial ledgers, the … Devamını oku

AI companies destroy physical books – let’s scan rare books before it’s too late

A guest post by Anna’s Archive volunteer “u” (translated from Chinese). TL;DR:AI companies are secretly buying, scanning, and destroying millions of physical books to train their models, permanently locking human knowledge inside private corporate servers. Anna’s Archive is urgently calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever. Several … Devamını oku