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Ditch the Chatbot Explainer: Building Game-Like Sims to Learn Hard Topics
Frustrated by the oversimplified, emoji-laden style of typical LLM explanations, one engineer describes a different way to learn dense technical subjects: inste
Docker ships microVM sandboxes to run AI coding agents in YOLO mode safely
Docker has launched Sandboxes, a tool that runs AI coding agents inside disposable microVM environments isolated from the host machine. Each sandbox enforces us
Gravity-only trebuchet breaks the sound barrier at 776 mph
YouTube engineer Tom Stanton has built a trebuchet that flings a projectile past the speed of sound using nothing but a falling weight — no springs, motors, or
Historian Jill Lepore: Tech's "artificial state" is quietly displacing democracy
Harvard historian Jill Lepore argues in her forthcoming book "The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State" that private tech corporations are steadily absorbing f
How a wrong clock bricked a reMarkable 2 — and the SSH fix that revived it
A reMarkable 2 e-paper tablet left unused since 2021 refused to sync (a cryptic 'error 0') or update. The root cause was a badly drifted system clock, which blo
How VC Pressure Turned HackerOne from a Hacker Haven into a Sales Machine
A veteran bug bounty hunter who worked both sides of HackerOne — as a researcher since 2017 and as a program manager through 2025 — argues the platform has lost
John C. Lilly's 1978 vision of 'solid-state intelligence' erasing humanity
In a passage from his 1978 memoir The Scientist, neuroscientist John C. Lilly recounts a vision received during ketamine-fueled sensory isolation: humanity as a
Klepton runs Android VR APKs natively on Apple Vision Pro — no JIT needed
Klepton is a compatibility runtime that lets Android ARM64 VR apps run on Apple's Vision Pro and macOS without emulation or just-in-time compilation. Its klepto
Meta open-sources Muse Glimmer, a 30B agentic model that runs on one GPU
Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model aimed squarely at local, always-on agent workloads, with weights published o
Mistral Wins Patent on LLMs That Emit Pausable Code to Run Tool Calls
Mistral has been granted US Patent 12,670,045, covering a way for large language models to invoke external tools by writing code rather than emitting discrete f
NZ Music Media Collapsed First — Now a DJ-Built Platform Wants to Rebuild It
New Zealand's live music scene is thriving economically while the journalism that once documented it has all but vanished. The music sector added $451 million d
OpenChamber: an open-source, local-first cockpit for orchestrating coding agents
OpenChamber is an open-source development environment built around AI coding agents rather than around a text editor. Its pitch is orchestration: a 'Session Goa