Laptop Isn’t Ready for LLMs. That’s About to Change
Odds are the PC in your office today isn’t ready to run AI large language models (LLMs). Today, most users interact with LLMs via an online, browser-based interface. The more technically inclined might use an application programming interface or command line interface. In either case, the queries are sent to a data center, where the […]
NPM Package with 56K Downloads Caught Stealing WhatsApp Messages
The lotusbail npm package presents itself as a WhatsApp Web API library – a fork of the legitimate @whiskeysockets/baileys package. With over 56,000 downloads and functional code that actually works as advertised, it’s the kind of dependency developers install without a second thought. The package has been available on npm for 6 months and is […]
Paperbacks and TikTok
In 1939, Simon & Schuster revolutionized the American publishing industry with the launch of Pocket Books, a line of diminutive volumes (measuring 4 by 6 inches) that cost only a quarter; a significant discount at a time when a typical hardcover book would set you back between $2.50 and $3.00. To make the economics of […]
The Program 2025 annual review: How much money does an audio drama podcast make?
☰ About Episodes Bonuses Articles Merch The Program audio series year in review: 2025 Previous reports: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 It seems the world survived 2025, and this little sci-fi anthology podcast with it. Interestingly enough, The Program seems to become more of a utopia with each passing year, but only in comparison […]
Ultrasound Cancer Treatment: Sound Waves Fight Tumors
For many years, doctors and technicians who performed medical ultrasound procedures viewed bubbles with wary concern. The phenomenon of cavitation—the formation and collapse of tiny gas bubbles due to changes in pressure—was considered an undesirable and largely uncontrollable side effect. But in 2001, researchers at the University of Michigan began exploring ways to harness the […]
US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
On Monday, the US Department of the Interior announced that it was pausing the leases on all five offshore wind sites currently under construction in the US. The move comes despite the fact that these projects already have installed significant hardware in the water and on land; one of them is nearly complete. In what […]
The Garbage Collection Handbook
Richard Jones’s Garbage Collection (Wiley, 1996) was a milestone book in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor, The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management captured the state of the field in 2012. However, technology developments have made memory management more challenging, interesting and important than ever. This second […]
The Algebra of Loans in Rust
The heart of Rust borrow-checking is this: when a borrow is taken, and until it expires, access to the borrowed place is restricted. For example you may not read from a place while it is mutably borrowed. Over the recent months, lively discussions have been happening around teaching the borrow-checker to understand more things than […]
Archiving Git Branches as Tags
I have a spicy git alias that allows me to “archive” old git branches by converting them to tags, making them less visible across git tooling. # ~/.gitconfig [alias] archive-branch = “!f() { : git switch; local git_branch=${1:-$(git branch –show-current)}; git co main && git tag archive/$git_branch $git_branch && git branch -D $git_branch; }; f” […]
GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
2025-12-22 · Research GLM-4.7, your new coding partner, is coming with the following features: Core Coding: GLM-4.7 brings clear gains, compared to its predecessor GLM-4.6, in multilingual agentic coding and terminal-based tasks, including (73.8%, +5.8%) on SWE-bench, (66.7%, +12.9%) on SWE-bench Multilingual, and (41%, +16.5%) on Terminal Bench 2.0. GLM-4.7 also supports thinking before acting, […]