The Zilog Z80 has turned 50

As of writing, the Zilog Z80 processor was officially launched 50 years ago, in July of 1976, less than 4 years after the last human had walked on the moon, decades closer to WWII than to the present day, roughly at a half way point between the Kennedy assassination and the fall of the Berlin … Devamını oku

Learning a few things about running SQLite

July 17, 2026 Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small … Devamını oku

Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark

16th July 2026 Chinese AI lab Moonshot AI announced Kimi K3 this morning, describing it as their “most capable model to date, with 2.8 trillion parameters”. It’s currently available via their website and API, but an open weight release is promised “by July 27, 2026”. Moonshot are calling this the first “open 3T-class model” (I … Devamını oku

First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

Researchers have found the first atmosphere surrounding an Earth-like, rocky planet orbiting within the habitable zone of a distant star. The researchers say that their discovery provides the strongest evidence yet that worlds with conditions similar to Earth could exist beyond our solar system. The gas detected in the atmosphere is helium, which would not … Devamını oku

A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp

Most programming languages evolve as a single language. Python, Java, Javascript, C++, have new versions and standards, multiple implementations, but they still remain the same language. C and C++ can be compiled with GCC or Clang, Python can be compiled with CPython or PyPy, the same JavaScript runs in both Firefox and Chrome, and Java … Devamını oku

Mozilla: The state of open source AI

V1.0 · Recurring · July 2026 In New Zealand’s far north, a Māori broadcaster trains speech models for te reo — a language too small for any market — under a license that keeps the data with its people. PwC, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, fine-tuned an open model on the … Devamını oku

AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion

I’ve got an estimated bill for $1.7 BILLION over this month. Normal usage is You’re right to question my calculation. The MCP server failed to connect when I tried to look up the field definition. I guessed instead of validating. This is on me. But look at all the revenue! reply reply reply reply reply … Devamını oku

Multi-Primary Color Display Emerges as Next-Gen Color Reproduction Technology

Multi-Primary Color Displays Emerge as a Next-Generation Color Reproduction Technology Beyond RGB July 3, 2026 / in Display , Focus on / by UBIResearchNet At the “Multi Primary Color Display Ecosystem Conference” held in Shanghai, China, on June 27, 2026, multi-primary color display technology, which goes beyond the conventional RGB three-primary-color system, was presented as … Devamını oku