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17k agent runs reveal which tools Claude, Codex and Cursor actually pick
A team at Armature ran what it calls the largest study to date on how coding agents select third-party services. Rather than asking agents to merely recommend a
An LLM read 72K lines of 68000 assembly to port a 1993 Iraqi Amiga game to Godot
Babylonian Twins was written in 1993 on an Amiga 500 in Baghdad — pure hand-tuned 68000 assembly, bit-banging the hardware directly under sanctions with electri
ChatGPT Outage Marked Resolved — No Details Provided
The source carries no reportable substance beyond a status label indicating a ChatGPT outage that has since been resolved. There is no information about when th
Claude autonomously formalizes Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean in 11 days
Anthropic says its AI produced the first end-to-end, computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, a result unproven for over 350 years and first cracked by
Fake beaver dams in California lift juvenile coho salmon survival from 8% to 60%
After fur trappers wiped out the beaver population of northern California's Scott River valley in the 1830s, the cold, slow-moving wetland habitat that juvenile
From frustrated emails to 1M users: the MIT origins of Julia
Julia began in 2009 as an MIT research effort to fix a persistent pain point in scientific computing: languages like MATLAB and Python were easy to use but slow
Gloria Steinem, feminist writer and organizer, dies at 92
Editor's note: This is an obituary of a political and cultural figure, not a technology or security story — it surfaced here because it trended on Hacker News.
GPT-6 Astra tops ARC-AGI-3, beating human action efficiency on 96% of levels
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra posted state-of-the-art results on ARC-AGI-3, the ARC Prize benchmark for agentic intelligence that drops models into novel, turn-based env
How Mega-Funds Turned Venture Capital Into 'Cancer Capital'
Anil Dash, a former startup CEO and board member who has raised tens of millions in venture funding, argues that the industry no longer resembles the check-writ
Human Go champion beats KataGo AI in first official win under two-stone handicap
Shin Jin-seo, the world's top-ranked Go player, took a 2-1 series against KataGo, the strongest Go engine currently available — the first time a human has won a
ID Verification Firm IDScan.net Leaked 153M Driver's Licenses in Real Time for a Year
A dark-web identity-theft service called Nexus is selling scanned driver's licenses belonging to more than 153 million people across the US and Canada, and the
Math finally cracks fair 'Go First' dice for five players after 15 years
A puzzle first floated at a 2012 gaming convention has finally been resolved: how to build dice that let each player roll once and settle who goes first with ze