Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the opposite. Computer scientists with Model Evaluation & Threat Research (METR), a non-profit research group, have published a study…

In the 12 years since Radio Rozana’s first broadcast, founder Lina Chawaf has worked tirelessly to expand the outlet’s coverage of her native Syria. She was forced to flee the country in 2011 after former President Bashar Assad began cracking down on independent media in the wake of the Arab Spring,…

In the Zig Roadmap 2026 stream Andrew announced a new way of doing I/O, let’s see what are the goals of this upcoming design and how that relates to the revival of async / await in Zig. The new I/O Interface The most notable change to Zig is the introduction of a new interface in charge of all I/O…

Editor’s note: The author wrote this post on behalf of DX. Every organization is asking how to go faster with AI. “The problem with this question is that we’re really focused on the faster part and a lot of us haven’t stopped to think where we’re even going,” said Laura Tacho, CTO of DX developer…

We're only just starting to see SSDs that push the limits of the PCIe 5.0 interface, but work on next-gen drives is already underway, with promises of speeds of up to a massive 28GB/s. That's nearly twice as fast as the WD Black SN8100, and it's thanks to a new PCIe 6.0 SSD controller that's just…

The savings on SSDs continue to stay hot for now, but larger forces, like tariffs and geopolitical issues, threaten to lead to higher prices in the coming months. For now, there are big discounts to be had on 4TB and 8TB SSD models that continue to supply 5 cents per GB prices on the best-value…

Opinion Sep 02, 2024 - Georg Zoeller Large tech companies have significantly scaled back their direct investment in product and engineering talent. Instead they are leveraging their capital and monopoly power to indirectly corner the market in emerging opportunities, funding startups and extracting…

The debate about intelligence versus wisdom is as old as history, but artificial intelligence has transformed it into an intensely practical question. The cheaper professional knowledge becomes, the more precious it is to know how to use it. It’s becoming ever clearer that the most valuable thing is…

Incus has joined LinuxContainers Read the project announcement here. Container and virtualization tools linuxcontainers.org is the umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more. The goal is to offer a distro and vendor neutral environment for the development of Linux container…

We really did it! We bootstrapped ProjectionLab to $1,000,000 in annual recurring revenue. And I’m still processing that this is real. 🥹 Back in 2021, I was inspired by the financial independence movement and wanted a better way to plan my own life. I couldn’t find the right tool, so I started…

Wildlife photography: where patience meets 600mm glass and the occasional mosquito bite. Whether you’re stalking lions in Africa or squirrels in your backyard (no judgment), the right lens makes all the difference. Long reach. Fast focus. Creamy backgrounds. Let’s round up the best beasts of glass…

By Published 48 minutes ago Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard Here is a fact-based summary of the story contents: Here is a simplified version of the story contents: Explore a different perspective: With dozens of bank accounts and credit card statements, loan documents, investment reports,…

Ask most PC enthusiasts about the most powerful or fastest CPU and graphics card you can buy, and they'll probably think of AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D or Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5090. But if you ask them again about SSDs, you'll get far more varied replies, and I'd bet money on few of them being a PCIe 5.0…

Once again, the software development landscape is experiencing another big shift. After years of drag-and-drop, no-code platforms democratizing app creation, generative AI (GenAI) is eliminating the need for no-code platforms in many cases. Mind you, I said “no code” not “low code” — there are key…

Magic Lantern is an open-source firmware extension for Canon DSLR cameras to add features that extend functionality for both photographers and videographers. We wanted to talk about Magic Lantern and discuss it with the new development team as there seemed to be newfound energy around the project.…

Issue 4: Responsibility Jun 2, 2025 10 min The shamed retreat into themselves, but the guilty can take responsibility for their actions. A Review of Frédéric Gros’s A Philosophy of Shame. Varney, the Vampyre—or, The Feast of blood, James Malcolm Rymer, 1854. Wikimedia. In what is perhaps the first…

Those who write about shame like to begin by deploring the shameful neglect of the subject by their predecessors. If they happen to be psychiatrists, they insist that shame has been not just neglected, but actively suppressed. The time has come, they say, to lift the curtain of censorship and “bring…

Back in high school, I remember receiving an email for a study guide from a friend. Instead of the PDF coming attached, it was a link to a site called Dropbox. Upon opening the file, you create an account. From there you’re introduced to a feature stack that went well beyond any typical PDF: shared…

bitecode.dev just posted a massive video interview with Python core dev Brett Cannon. Among many other things, Brett explains why Python packaging hasn’t been part of Python core development: Basically, they’re separate because Guido doesn’t care about packaging. That’s really what it comes down to.…

Image Credits:Inimma-IS / Getty Images AI AI coding tools are shifting to a surprising place: the terminal Russell Brandom 9:30 AM PDT · July 15, 2025 For years, code-editing tools like Cursor, Windsurf, and GitHub’s Copilot have been the standard for AI-powered software development. But as agentic…

Because sometimes, stock firmware just isn’t enough. Contents Magic Lantern is the unofficial superpower pack for Canon DSLRs. Think: extended video features, focus peaking, zebras, RAW video recording — basically turning a mild-mannered camera into a mini Hollywood-grade machine. But not every…

Open Questions For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end. June 17, 2025 Photograph by Balarama Heller You’re reading Open Questions, Joshua Rothman’s weekly column exploring what it means to be human. What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t…

Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food. Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach…

Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna Harper, 274 pp., $32.00 The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood by James Boyle MIT Press, 326 pp.,…

2025-07-16 • 4119 words • 45 minutes • #go • #dark-arts • #protobuf Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before Historically I have worked on many projects related to high-performance Protobuf, be that on the C++ runtime, on the Rust runtime, or on integrating UPB, the fastest Protobuf runtime, written by my…

OpenAI is going all-in on the most-hyped trend in AI right now: AI agents, or tools that go a step beyond chatbots to complete complex, multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf. The company on Thursday debuted ChatGPT Agent, which it bills as a tool that can complete work on your behalf using its own…

Project CETI is a large-scale effort to decode whale speech. If AI models do learn a universal language, we might be able to use it to talk to whales. Growing up, I sometimes played a game with my friends called “Mussolini or Bread.” It’s a guessing game, kind of like Twenty Questions. The funny…

During college, my class was instructed to study Schopenhauer in political philosophy. Complete bummer, pessimist, the guy just makes you want to kill yourself. There was one quote about him though that really opened my eyes. Schopenhauer's philosophy is the mirror of his own nature... What he saw…

(Title written with apologies to Sandi Metz.) One of the biggest fallacies in coding is that dependencies have zero downsides. It's treated as free functionality you don't have to write yourself. Wow, what a deal! But dependencies absolutely have a cost. They may require a significant time…

The title of this blog post is not something you hear people say often, if ever. What you do hear people say is “concurrency is not parallelism”, but that’s not as useful, in my opinion. Let’s see how Wikipedia defines those terms: Concurrency refers to the ability of a system to execute multiple…

As ever, here is what's ahead: Updates on prior piecesMy most recent Rough Notes essayA few things worth reading Updates & Erasures: I previously wrote about the perils of building renovation as a Fed chair, especially given an administration bent on finding a reason to fire you "for cause." As…

man vs. machine Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship "Humanity has prevailed (for now!)," writes winner after 10-hour coding marathon against OpenAI. Benj Edwards – Jul 18, 2025 3:34 pm | 4 Przemysław Dębiak (right) receives an award for winning the 2025 AtCoder World Finals…

Tomáš Baránek 12 min read·3 hours ago -- Photo by Nahrizul Kadri on Unsplash Disclaimer: I am a book publisher & I love technology. It can empower people. I have been using LLM chatbots since they became widely available. I regularly test machine translation at our publishing house in collaboration…

Backup: Beyond the Simple Copy For as long as I can remember, backup is something that has been underestimated by far too many people. Between flawed techniques, "Schrödinger's backups" (i.e., never tested, thus both valid and invalid at the same time), and conceptual errors about what they are and…

By Caitlin Welsh July 15, 2025 — 3.30pm , register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for later Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In the very first scene of Girls, 24-year-old aspiring writer Hannah (series creator Lena Dunham) has just been…