Frequently Asked Unicycling Questions
As a unicyclist, I draw a certain amount of attention, and whether it be a busy sunny Saturday morning or 21:00 on a grim Monday evening, people are inclined to ask me questions. I imagine the spectacle and presumed friendliness of someone riding a unicycle contributes to people’s willingness to enquire, and I’ve had some […]
Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the […]
What will enter the public domain in 2026?
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain and become free to enjoy, share, and reuse for any purpose. Due to differing copyright laws around the world, there is no one single public domain — and here we focus on three of the most prominent. […]
Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map exactly once. All known methods for solving this “traveling salesperson problem” are painfully slow on maps with many cities, and researchers suspect there’s […]
Around The World, Part 27: Planting trees
Fri, 28 Nov 2025 by Thomas ten Cate · Comments Game Development, Around the World In the previous post, I determined what kind of vegetation should grow where in my procedurally generated world. Now it’s time to actually plant those plants! As I mentioned last week, I figured out a list of tree species that belong to […]
Arcee Trinity Mini: US-Trained Moe Model
Over the last year, anyone who cares about open weight language models has been watching Chinese labs. Qwen, DeepSeek and others now define a lot of what “state of the art open MoE” looks like. In the United States, most of the action has centered on polishing other people’s checkpoints. At Arcee AI we want […]
Anthropic: AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits
December 1, 2025 ANTHROPIC AI models are increasingly good at cyber tasks, as we’ve written about before. But what is the economic impact of these capabilities? In a recent MATS and Anthropic Fellows project, our scholars investigated this question by evaluating AI agents’ ability to exploit smart contracts on Smart CONtracts Exploitation benchmark (SCONE-bench)—a new benchmark they built comprising […]
Losing Confidence
Cast your mind back to when you learned to drive, ride a bike, speak a foreign language, perform a tracheostomy, or acquire any other skill. Wasn’t confidence the key to your success? Whatever we do in life, confidence is always critical. If you run a business, one of the metrics that are likely to be […]
Apple AI Chief Retiring After Siri Failure
Apple AI chief John Giannandrea is stepping down from his position and retiring in spring 2026, Apple announced today. Giannandrea will serve as an advisor between now and 2026, with former Microsoft AI researcher Amar Subramanya set to take over as vice president of AI. Subramanya will report to Apple engineering chief Craig Federighi, and […]
Why Am I Paying $40k for the Birth of My Child?
November 30, 2025 • 16 minutes to read Life Startups The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence. I had never heard of Michael Green before his now-infamous essay “Part 1: My Life Is a Lie – How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America” went extremely viral on X. Go read it. The short […]