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Tauric Research has opened a research framework that divides market analysis, debate, trading and risk-management tasks among specialized language-model agents.
Read report »Draft online-safety legislation would require platforms to let Australians choose whether their default feed uses personalised recommendations.
Read report »A new write-up based on Gamers Nexus research says the only sure way to stop the set from phoning home is to cut its network access entirely.
Read report »A long response to a GamersNexus investigation argues that some of the alarming behavior may be ordinary smart-device networking, but that privacy concerns remain.
Read report »A new eval says prompting agents to use TDD, property-based tests or formal methods did not reliably improve correctness on Rust tasks.
Read report »A small self-run experiment across ten model and harness combinations suggests tooling and orchestration can matter as much as the prompt itself.
Read report »The media-server project says users need a full backup before moving to the new major release, which rewrites parts of the database on first boot.
Read report »The French AI company says Samsung led the Series D as it pushed its valuation above €21 billion and set a new benchmark for European fundraising.
Read report »A Weird Gloop post says its Overwatch and Fortnite communities have just been moved off Fandom, despite the pull of Google rankings and platform gravity.
Read report »The open-source compressor bzip3 pitches itself as a better and stronger spiritual successor to BZip2, with higher ratios and faster performance.
Read report »Right to Repair Europe says more than 80 percent of new smartphones still fail to publish the repair information the EU requires.
Read report »The credit-card-sized Xteink X3 has become a viral hit because it is cheap, finicky and unusually effective at getting people to read more.
Read report »The Premier League club says Broadcom’s VMware changes helped push it toward HPE’s Morpheus VM Essentials and a very large cost saving.
Read report »The proposed October 30 event says a hundred teams will use frontier models on open conjectures and defend their results before mathematicians, in what organizers call the first hackathon devoted to research-level mathematics.
Read report »In a reflective post on DevZ, a software engineer says reading, family time and old-fashioned study helped counter the mental drift that can come with constant screens, AI tools and short-form content.
Read report »Meta’s agreement to pay as much as $18bn in a children’s safety settlement has reopened a long-running debate over whether the company can keep the same leader after years of scandals, fines and whistleblower criticism.
Read report »An essay on Orchid Files says many developers treat coding as work, but a smaller group sees the act of programming itself as the point, not the paycheck or the speed of delivery.
Read report »A new vLLM post explains how draft-and-verify decoding works on AMD Instinct GPUs, and why the throughput gains depend heavily on the model, draft method and proposal length.
Read report »Variety says an unannounced Telluride film about Elizabeth Holmes is part documentary, part reality-TV experiment and part character study, extending the long afterlife of the Theranos case.
Read report »Trail of Bits’ new Rust CLI wraps agentic coding tools in disposable virtual machines, giving Claude Code and Codex a contained environment with full development tooling but a smaller blast radius on the host.
Read report »Oxide’s latest design note lays out a rack-level secret-sharing scheme meant to protect data at rest even if an attacker steals a subset of drives or sleds from a machine rack.
Read report »A Rest of World essay says a newly graduated South African PhD holder was invited to train an AI system on tasks from assessment design to essay marking, showing how the AI labor market now depends on human judgment it may later replace.
Read report »A new GitHub project called Engrim is pitching a local-first SQLite memory layer for coding assistants, aiming to preserve project decisions, constraints and context as developers switch between AI tools.
Read report »Switzerland’s federal administration has launched a pilot that will replace Microsoft 365 with open-source tools on 3,000 workstations, part of a broader push for digital sovereignty and lower dependence on a single foreign vendor.
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