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Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash three weeks after 3.6, halves the price
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash, an update to its high-volume "workhorse" model line aimed at coding and agentic workflows, arriving just three weeks after
Google's Pixel Watch 5 Leans on On-Device AI and Health-Emergency Detection
Google's Pixel Watch 5, priced from $399 and shipping August 20, centers on tighter Gemini integration and a batch of new health-monitoring capabilities. On-dev
HTML over WebSockets: building real-time SPAs while dodging the JavaScript stack
The dominant single-page-app model splits work across two codebases: a JavaScript framework rendering the view and an API shipping JSON, coordinated through bri
Lovable hits $13.3B valuation on $400M Series C for AI app-building
Stockholm-based Lovable has closed a $400 million Series C at a $13.3 billion valuation, led by Menlo Ventures and co-led by EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund. The roun
Mistral OCR 4.1 preview adds paragraph-level bounding boxes and confidence scores
Mistral has pushed a public preview of OCR 4.1, the document-recognition engine behind its Document AI stack. The headline additions over prior versions are str
One bit-flip in AMD's DRAM controller unlocks PSP, SMM, and microcode
The tool skitter-creek-bath-salts attacks the lowest, least-examined layer of the memory pipeline: the AMD memory controller (MCT/DCT), where a physical address
OpenAI Brings Its Codex Desktop Coding Agent to Linux
OpenAI has extended Codex Desktop — the ChatGPT desktop application built around its Codex coding agent — to Linux, adding the platform alongside its earlier ma
Principia Mathematica at 115: The 1910 Text That Predicted Lambda Calculus and Type Theory
Whitehead and Russell's 1910 Principia Mathematica is remembered mostly for spending a thousand pages to prove that 1+1=2, but a close reading of its first chap
ShadeMap: Browser-Based 3D Shadow Simulation Without Google Earth Pro
ShadeMap is a web application that models how shadows fall across real-world locations, letting users simulate the sunlight and shade cast by buildings, trees,
Social Media Sardine Craze Meets Collapsing Catches, Emptying Store Shelves
A viral wave of interest in tinned fish has stripped canned sardines from supermarket shelves across the country. Once a cheap pantry afterthought, sardines got
Spend Your 'Innovation Tokens' Wisely: The Case for Boring Technology
Dan McKinley argues that engineering teams should treat novelty as a scarce resource. Every company gets roughly three 'innovation tokens' to spend on unproven
The Case for Vibe-Coding in Common Lisp Instead of Python
A longtime Lisp programmer argues that when using LLMs to generate code, the target language still matters—and that Common Lisp beats mainstream options like Py