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Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine as the Standalone NPU Fades
A developer who abandoned an open-source Linux driver for Apple's Neural Engine (ANE) three years ago has returned to fully map the accelerator's M1 internals —
Rune, a GPU-rendered keyboard-driven IDE built in Go, goes open source under GPLv3
Unstable Build, LLC has released Rune, its native IDE aimed at power users, as open source under the GPLv3. Written primarily in Go, Rune renders its interface
Same async/await, seven answers: why languages disagree on concurrency
Brown University researchers set out to test how uniform async/await really is across modern languages, and found far more divergence than expected. Their paper
Study links psychoactive substances to the rise of Andean civilization
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The 'Waymo effect': how frictionless AI quietly erodes research collaboration
Riding a driverless Waymo in San Francisco, the author—an executive in the Holtzbrinck group—noticed he was delighted by a technology whose entire appeal is tha
A NASA satellite algorithm is now resurrecting faded rock art from antiquity
Decorrelation stretch — an image-enhancement method developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to squeeze more detail out of satellite data — has become a st
Anthropic: AI now orchestrates cyberattacks, erasing the amateur–state gap
Anthropic's latest threat intelligence report details malicious use of its Claude models disrupted between December 2025 and August 2026, spanning seven harm ca
Anthropic locks Claude to 18+, adds Yoti age checks for flagged accounts
Anthropic has formalized an age floor for its consumer Claude product: only users 18 and older are permitted. New accounts must self-attest to being an adult at
Apple's first foldable, the iPhone Duo, bets on dual displays and on-device AI
Apple has introduced the iPhone Duo, its first foldable phone, built around a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer screen that share an aspect ratio so c
Armin Ronacher on GPT-6 'Astra': Impressive Model, Unusable Coding Partner
Armin Ronacher argues that today's AI engineering resembles 'involution' (Neijuan) — escalating effort and compute that raises output per unit but not per perso
Cherenkov Radiation: Why Reactor Cores Glow Blue — No Physics Broken
Cherenkov radiation is the faint blue glow seen in the water surrounding submerged reactor cores and spent nuclear fuel. It appears when a charged particle — us
EPA Moves to Kill Public Comment on Data Center and Power Plant Air Permits
The EPA is proposing to eliminate a federal rule that requires states to notify residents and open a public comment period before issuing air-pollution permits