Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?
written on September 07, 2026 I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output. The way in which it sometimes shows up in the West is the 996 nonsense. The English term […]
The Gemini app is now available for Windows
Today, we’re launching the Gemini app for Windows. Designed to work seamlessly alongside your favorite tools and daily applications, the new desktop app gives you instant assistance without breaking your flow. Here are three ways you can use the Gemini app on your PC: 1. Access Gemini instantly with a keyboard shortcut. Press Alt + […]
Mexican student creates an acoustic fire extinguisher to put out fire in seconds
Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández is 16 years old and has an idea no one else had. She studies at CETIS 78 in Altamira, Tamaulipas, and one day decided to put out a candle without blowing, without water, without anything but sound. She assembled a device with a 12-volt battery, a frequency generator, and a speaker […]
YuE2 · Frontier Music with Symbolic Planning
SOTA counts refer to the leading scores against SheetSage1, Madmom, and the task-specific systems in this comparison. Results use one model selected by validation loss. Melody F1 measures pitch-class notes; structure F1 measures section boundaries at the stated tolerance. On Chords1217, ChordFormer uses five-fold cross-validation, while SheetSage2 evaluates one fixed model on all 1,217 tracks.
Thelio Mira AI Linux Workstation: 192 GB GPU Memory
Accelerate your AI development with Thelio Mira AI, System76’s affordable, GPU-focused workstations, built for local AI development — so you can train, fine-tune, and iterate challenging AI workloads entirely on your own hardware. Configure Thelio Mira with up to: 16-core AMD Ryzen 9000 Series CPU 192 GB DDR5 RAM Dual NVIDIA RTX […]
NTSB Issues Investigative Update on B-767 Runway Excursion Accident in Miami
WASHINGTON (Sept. 9, 2026) — The National Transportation Safety Board is providing the following update on its investigation into the Sept. 6 runway excursion accident involving 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-33A cargo airplane, at Miami International Airport. The following information from the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) is preliminary […]
Proof of Capture: Apple Reference Image, but open source and using steganography
Apple introduced yesterday Apple Reference Image: a way to cryptographically prove a photo was actually taken by a camera, instead of AI generated. During my time at the Recurse Center this summer, Alex Hornstein and I (two camera lovers) built a camera with proof of capture. The camera: a Raspberry Pi Zero, a display board, […]
OpenAI Agents API
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41import OpenAI from “openai”; const client = new OpenAI(); const session = await client.beta.agents.sessions.create({ agent: […]
The Deathray: A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac
A simple way for an untrusted site to freeze a Mac September 10th, 2026 TL;DR A WebGPU shader on an untrusted site can hang a Mac’s graphics, making the desktop UI unusable until a restart is forced. All the victim needs to do is click a link. This issue reproduces cross-browser on MacOS, but not […]
Genuine Creativity Is Your New Moat (2026)
✍️ AI makes it fast and easy to copy what’s already out there. If you build products or run a business, your competitive edge is not necessarily features or price, it’s ideas. This means getting in the habit of inventing new things is more valuable than ever. And to explain how, let’s look back at […]