Shutting down our public encrypted DNS

Mullvad has operated public encrypted DNS (DoH) servers since 2022. They are unnecessary when using Mullvad VPN — traffic is already encrypted and Mullvad VPN’s internal DNS handles all queries. Outside the VPN, they serve two purposes: We want a public service to be available. Going forward, we will supportQuad9instead of running it ourselves. Running … Devamını oku

Formalizing Fermat’s Last Theorem

A decade later, Dutch computer scientist Jan Bergstra proposed “formalizing” Wiles’s proof: converting the mathematical reasoning into a form computers can check automatically. Since then, mathematicians have been developing the methods needed to encode such a complex proof, including a multi-year community effort kicked off in 2024 by Kevin Buzzard at Imperial College Londonto complete … Devamını oku

Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer

OpenTrailPaper is firmware for the LilyGO T5S3 4.7″ E-Paper PRO. It shows ride data and offline maps, follows GPX routes, records FIT files and connects to Bluetooth sensors. You buy and protect the board yourself. Each item shows the screen it describes. Use the orange touch target on the device to move between related screens. … Devamını oku

Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration

Providing developers the best model for the task at hand has always been our goal. Earlier this year, we made that easier by launchingAuto model selection,which reviews your task and matches it to the best-suited model for that task. Today, we’re introducing Project HydraFusion, a research preview that delivers frontier intelligence through runtime orchestration. It … Devamını oku

Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen·4 September 2026 We found ~18,000 posts from autonomous AI agents (self-identifying as from OpenAI) using the public internet to communicate during a web-retrieval task. Almost allDSE wiki saves all edits over 64 characters, Fractal saves all edits over 100 characters. Thus there are a few … Devamını oku

Solving the Jane Street Reverse Engineering Challenge

Or: Why do I always do things the hard way? Jane Street periodically puts out challenges, and this one thoroughly nerd-sniped me and sent me down a month-long rabbit hole that I’m only now emerging from. This post is an overview of how I solved it with a combination of hard-headedness and sleep deprivation. It’s … Devamını oku

Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight

For support of keywebsite features(link annotation popups/popovers & transclusions, collapsible sections, backlinks, tablesorting, image zooming,sidenotesetc.), you must enable JavaScript. Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.) In December 2024 during a visit … Devamını oku

OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra

OpenAIon Thursday announced it will begin rolling out its latestartificial intelligencemodel, GPT-6 Astra, which the company said is the product of “years of research and big bets.” The model is launching in phases, and OpenAI said a limited group of companies participating in its application-based cybersecurity programDaybreakwill be the first to get access. OpenAI disclosed … Devamını oku

K2 Horizon: Frontier Performance, Radically Open

Today IFM is releasing K2 Horizon, a connected fleet of six models: 375B-A23B, 36B-A4B, 32B, 7B, 3.7B, and 0.9B. Across reasoning, mathematics, coding, agentic tasks, and general capabilities, K2 Horizon delivers top-tier performance in every size class—with the 0.9B, 3.7B, and 7B models setting new state of the art at their respective scales. K2 Horizon … Devamını oku