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Count Binface takes 27% in Clacton by-election, his best result yet
Novelty candidate Count Binface — the bin-headed alter ego of satirist Jon Harvey, a former writer for The Thick of It and Have I Got News For You — won 9,455 v
DeepSeek open-sources Harness, a plugin-driven agent runtime, in developer preview
DeepSeek has released a developer preview of DeepSeek Harness, an open-source framework for building agent harnesses — the layer that lets a language model perc
DONKEY.BAS Turns 45: The Gates-Coded IBM PC Demo Gets a Browser Revival
A developer has rebuilt DONKEY.BAS in JavaScript to mark the 45th anniversary of the one-button game that shipped with early IBM PC DOS. Originally coded in BAS
Every Ordinary Comfort Was Once Someone's Miracle
Ordinary Abundance is a quiet interactive essay that frames a single unremarkable evening at home — music on a speaker, a lamp switched on, tea in the kitchen,
GLM-5.3 release post — article body not provided, summary unavailable
No summary could be generated. The submitted item contained only the headline 'GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities' and a placeholder inst
Google open-sources HEIR, a compiler for encrypted AI inference
Google has released HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source compiler that converts pre-trained AI models to run inference dire
How Pi's Coding Agent Beats Context Limits by Summarizing Its Own History
Coding agents like Pi, Claude Code, and Codex run into a hard ceiling: the LLM context window. Every turn appends the system prompt, tool definitions, user mess
Inside ChatGPT Enterprise: Usage Grew 7x, Skewed to Big Firms and Junior Staff
OpenAI researchers, working with academics from Columbia and Wharton, linked ChatGPT Enterprise account records to usage logs, worker job titles, message-level
'It's NP-Hard, So Give Up' Is a Myth That Doesn't Survive Contact With Practice
A common lesson from computer science courses is that NP-hard problems are effectively hopeless: solvable in theory, but so expensive that no practical algorith
Mixedbread's Toast 1 offloads the search loop from frontier models at 10x less cost
Mixedbread has launched Toast 1, a specialized retrieval agent designed to handle the search half of agentic workflows so that expensive frontier models can spe
PBS station sues Iron Mountain to recover 50TB archive stranded by defunct vendor
Nine PBS, the St. Louis public television station, filed suit on July 28 in Denver District Court seeking to recover more than 50 terabytes of archival material
Qwen3.8-27B lands on Hugging Face: FP8 vision-language model with 1M-token context
Alibaba's Qwen team has published Qwen3.8-27B-FP8, an FP8-quantized build of its newest 27-billion-parameter dense model. The release is a natively multimodal s