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Cognition's SWE-2 nears frontier coding models at a fraction of the cost
Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, has released SWE-2, its strongest coding model yet. It scores 50.0% on the FrontierCode 1.1 Main benchmark
DeepSeek Debuts V4.1-Flash, a Compact Multimodal Model on a New Architecture
DeepSeek has announced V4.1-Flash, positioned as the smallest entry in a new model architecture family and its first to ship with native visual understanding ra
Desert Ant Labs bets on tiny on-device models over cloud LLM API calls
A European startup called Desert Ant Labs has launched with 18 small, task-specific models (12 stable, six in beta) for audio, vision, and text that run entirel
Flock's Billion-Dollar Surveillance Dream Hits Bipartisan Backlash
Flock Safety, a company now valued above $8 billion and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, has built a nationwide automated license-plate-reader (ALPR) network of r
GNU Radio Goes Browser-Native: Full SDR Flowgraphs in WebAssembly
GNU Radio World brings the GNU Radio Companion experience to a browser tab, with the DSP engine and Qt GUI sinks compiled to WebAssembly. Users can assemble a s
Google Ads brands a clean Rust terminal app 'malware,' then stonewalls the dev
The developer of RACE — a native macOS terminal multiplexer written in Rust — ran his first Google Ads campaign, spent $500, and had the account suspended for '
GPT-6 Astra: strong on computer use and graphics, trained on a wall of Mac Minis
Sebastian Raschka's early hands-on take frames OpenAI's newly released GPT-6 Astra as the strongest model he has used, with an outsized lead in graphics-heavy w
How Read the Docs survived a 5.5M req/min adaptive DDoS attack
In late June 2026, Read the Docs weathered the largest DDoS attack in its history: a nearly ten-day assault that peaked at 5.5 million requests per minute, roug
How Windows XP Randomly Picked Your First Account Avatar
A reader question prompted Raymond Chen to explain the mechanism behind Windows XP's assignment of a random profile picture when a new account was created. The
iPhone 18 Pro adds cryptographic photo provenance, variable-aperture camera, 2nm A20
Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, leading with a 48MP main camera that gains true variable aperture — six laser-cut blades that shift across four
'Make the Button Blue': An Interactive Jab at AI Assistants and Scope Creep
Opusfived is a satirical, interactive comedy piece that skewers agentic AI coding assistants and their habit of doing far more than they were asked. The whole t
Mathematician demands OpenAI prove it didn't train on his private ChatGPT math
Andreas Thom, a group theorist at TU Dresden, has gone public with a pointed challenge to OpenAI: prove that his private ChatGPT conversations never fed the com