US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials’ names with Senate
Companies such as Microsoft and Meta have shared the names of civil servants and academics working on European tech regulation with a senate committee investigating “tech censorship” or “jawboning”, news magazine Vrij Nederland reported on Friday. The cabinet has described the news as “extremely worrying”, given that the named officials could now face travel bans […]
BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork
BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, with the same networking binary black box in question today. Why are they willing to burn the goodwill over it? There’s something most have sensed but never seen it all in one place, the five-law framework China built between 2017 and 2023 ⤵️ So maybe […]
Experience: We found a baby on the subway – now he’s our 26-year-old son
In the summer of 2000, I could never have imagined becoming a father. I was 34, living in New York City, with a good job in social care, but still in a tiny apartment. I had been with my partner, Pete, for just over three years; we were serious, but we didn’t live together. Becoming a parent was not on my radar. […]
Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby
A UNIX shell written in pure Ruby. Shell syntax is parsed and compiled to Ruby code, then executed by the Ruby VM. Fully Bash-compatible Rubish supports all the features of bash, and the shell syntax is fully compatible. You can run your existing bash scripts without modification. If you found any bash script that doesn’t […]
Microsoft reports AI is more expensive than paying human employees
Firms today are pushing employees to use as much AI as possible to squeeze out the technology’s productivity gains. But that pressure is leading to cracks, and those cracks may be irreparable. Microsoft has reportedly begun canceling most of its direct Claude Code licenses, according to The Verge, instead moving engineers toward using GitHub Copilot […]
SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket
IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. May 22, 202609:41 Now Playing SpaceX successfully launches prototype of Starship rocket 09:41 UP NEXT SpaceX scrubs Starship V3 rocket launch 05:26 New details on NASA’s Artemis III mission 05:04 Pentagon releases declassified UFO files 02:03 Pentagon releases batch of […]
Don’t just paste the AI at me
In case you want to get roasted in your own language: If your reply starts with ”Here’s what Claude said:” or straight eight hundred words of unedited ChatGPT text, congratulations: you just proved your brain is a gizmo, Darwin would be proud. Please, don’t reproduce. Here’s what you just did Someone asked you a real […]
Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug
How decades of sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug | Temerty Faculty of Medicine Skip to main content Main Second Level Navigation Breadcrumbs Home News & Events Recent News How decades of sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug May 20, 2026 SHVETS production/Pexels By Betty Zou Share This
Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda
For the last few years, while finally earning my belated Bachelor’s Degree in the University of London’s World Class program, I’ve met some amazing people from all across the world, completing their degrees after hours while balancing work, families, and other extremely challenging circumstances. But few have circumstances as challenging as Django’s. Django is a […]
Models.dev: open-source database of AI model specs, pricing, and capabilities
Models.dev is a comprehensive open-source database of AI model specifications, pricing, and capabilities. There’s no single database with information about all the available AI models. We started Models.dev as a community-contributed project to address this. We also use it internally in opencode. You can access this data through an API. curl https://models.dev/api.json Use the Model […]