Don’t run OpenClaw on your main machine
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that connects to WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and dozens of other services. Give it a task over chat, and it executes shell commands, browses the web, reads and writes files, and calls APIs on your behalf. It exploded to over 215k GitHub stars in a matter of weeks. But […]
Allocating on the Stack
We’re always looking for ways to make Go programs faster. In the last 2 releases, we have concentrated on mitigating a particular source of slowness, heap allocations. Each time a Go program allocates memory from the heap, there’s a fairly large chunk of code that needs to run to satisfy that allocation. In addition, heap […]
NASA announces major overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays
New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a major overhaul of the agency’s Artemis moon program Friday, acknowledging that the agency’s plan to land astronauts on the moon in 2028 was not realistic without another preparatory mission first to lay the groundwork. He said NASA will now add an additional flight in 2027 in which astronauts […]
Experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies
ChatGPT Health regularly misses the need for medical urgent care and frequently fails to detect suicidal ideation, a study of the AI platform has found, which experts worry could “feasibly lead to unnecessary harm and death”. OpenAI launched the “Health” feature of ChatGPT to limited audiences in January, which it promotes as a way for […]
We gave terabytes of CI logs to an LLM
Last week, our agent traced a flaky test to a dependency bump three weeks prior. It did this by writing its own SQL queries, scanning hundreds of millions of log lines across a dozen queries, and following a trail from job metadata to raw log output. The whole investigation took seconds. To do this, the […]
Tenth Circuit: 4th Amendment Doesn’t Support Broad Search of Protesters’ Devices
In a big win for protesters’ rights, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit overturned a lower court’s dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants to search a protester’s devices and digital data and a nonprofit’s social media data. The case, Armendariz v. City of Colorado Springs, arose after a housing protest in […]
The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic
Since late 2024, Anthropic’s models have been approved for classified US government work thanks to a partnership with Palantir and Amazon. In June, Anthropic announced Claude Gov, a special version of Claude that’s optimized for national security uses. Anthropic signed a $200 million contract with the Defense Department in July. Claude Gov has fewer guardrails […]
We deserve a better streams API for JavaScript
Handling data in streams is fundamental to how we build applications. To make streaming work everywhere, the WHATWG Streams Standard (informally known as ”Web streams”) was designed to establish a common API to work across browsers and servers. It shipped in browsers, was adopted by Cloudflare Workers, Node.js, Deno, and Bun, and became the foundation […]
PostmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels, bans use of generative AI
February 26, 20266 min. read The biggest thing in February for postmarketOS was of course FOSDEM and our hackathon, about which we wrote a whole blog post already. Because of this, and the new approach outlined in the last monthly post, the blog post here is compareatively short. The PMCR 0009 about defining new requirements […]
F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2026
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for two years each. You may nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission). Please send nominations by email to [email protected] (one email per nomination) and make sure that […]