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Microsoft debuts MAI-Code-1-Flash, a Copilot-tuned model that undercuts Haiku 4.5

Microsoft has released MAI-Code-1-Flash, an in-house coding model now rolling out to GitHub Copilot individual users in VS Code through both the explicit model

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One month with Clojure: a developer's honest first impressions

A developer reflects on roughly a month of hands-on work with Clojure, sharing the practical lessons learned from picking up the Lisp dialect on the JVM. The po

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open-sourcetech-culture

Open Repair Data Standard aims to unify global electronics repair data

The Open Repair Alliance maintains ORDS, a shared schema for capturing data about attempted repairs of small electrical and electronic devices at community repa

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OpenFOV brings free webcam-based head tracking to iRacing

OpenFOV is a project that uses a standard webcam to deliver head tracking for the iRacing simulator, letting drivers look around the cockpit by moving their hea

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Pluto.jl Hits 1.0 After Six Years of Reactive Notebook Development

Pluto, the reactive notebook environment for Julia, has reached version 1.0 after six years of development. The 1.0 release itself contains only deprecation rem

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Reverse-engineering the world maps of Test Drive III after 5 years

A developer spent five years on-and-off reverse-engineering Accolade's 1990 DOS racing game Test Drive III: The Passion, with AI assistance recently pushing the

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Stanford study: law professors prefer AI tutor answers to peer responses 75% of the time

A Stanford-led study had 16 law professors from U.S. institutions write answers to 40 contracts law questions, then blindly evaluate roughly 3,000 head-to-head

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Trump's Slimmed-Down AI Order Lands After Weeks of Policy Whiplash

President Trump has signed a significantly pared-back executive order on artificial intelligence following weeks of internal reversals and revisions. The final

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Turning idle GPU VRAM into Linux swap via NBD instead of kernel hacks

A new MIT-licensed project, nbd-vram, lets Linux users press unused NVIDIA GPU memory into service as swap space. The trick is avoiding the usual dead end: NVID

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VSCode Webview Flaw Let a Single Click Steal GitHub Tokens via github.dev

Researcher Ammar Askar found that github.dev — the browser-based VSCode that GitHub launches when you swap .com for .dev — receives a broadly-scoped OAuth token

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What's Left When You Stop Ruining It

Seth Godin riffs on an observation from stereo maker Paul McGowan: musicality in an amplifier isn't an additive feature engineers bolt on, but the natural quali

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Why folding more protein sequences won't keep scaling AI drug design

Generative deep-learning models like AlphaFold3, Chai-2, and Latent-X2 have moved biomolecular design from prediction into actual drug creation, with antibody a

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