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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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