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Hartwork Blog · libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months

blog.hartwork.org

Pi, Minimal and Performant | EARENDIL

How Pi's minimal harness improves coding-agent cost and performance, with examples from Databricks and Shopify's pi-autoresearch extension.

earendil.com

Thanks FedEx, This is Why we Keep Getting Phished

I've been getting a lot of those "your parcel couldn't be delivered" phishing attacks lately and if you're a human with a phone, you probably have been too. Just as a brief reminder, they look like this: These get through all the technical controls that exist at

troyhunt.com

August 4, 2026 - From the road - Waymo

Starting today, anyone in Dallas can download the Waymo app and hail a fully autonomous ride.

waymo.com

Introducing Shieldstral. | Mistral AI

Shieldstral introduces a 3B open-weights multimodal safety classifier that outperforms models up to 7x its size.

mistral.ai

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI | TechCrunch

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

techcrunch.com

All of Winona Police Department’s Flock cameras cut down and stolen

Lost cameras valued at about $24,000

valleynewslive.com

What Colors Are We? Constructing A Color Space For Skin Tones

Simple equations and a color picker to inclusively select simplified skin tones in a custom color space for digital art or game development.

toneyalexander.github.io

Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement

The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recursive self-improvement” for a specific feedback loop: an AI uses its current intelligence to improve the cognitive machinery that produces its intelligence. This feedback loop in modern AI may indicate the model rewriting its own weights directly, or more broadly the model improves the training pipeline and the deployment system, which in turn enables a better successor model with improved performance across economically valuable tasks. The speed of research development in AI has been shown to drastically accelerated in frontier labs (Anthropic; OpenAI).

lilianweng.github.io

GitHub - ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x

Contribute to ryanzhou/deepseek-v4-flash-mi300x development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc.

Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. When Sony announced that they were discontinuing physical discs

birchtree.me

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

The voice-clock sang, breakfast was ejected, but no doors slammed. The garage chimed and lifted its door to reveal the waiting car. The house sat alone in a city of rubble and…

short-stories.co

AI-Generated Images Discourage Me From Reading Your Blog

If you’re willing to use AI-generated images, how do I know the text isn’t AI-generated?

nelson.cloud

GitHub - leonickson1/Swiftlet

Contribute to leonickson1/Swiftlet development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

FFmpeg/RELEASE_NOTES at n9.0 · FFmpeg/FFmpeg

Mirror of https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git. Contribute to FFmpeg/FFmpeg development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

Pandoc - twenty-years-of-pandoc

A universal document converter

pandoc.org

Bor v0.8.0 released

Bor v0.8.0 is out. This release adds three new policy types — Thunderbird, Microsoft Edge for Business, and Firewalld zones — alongside a full web UI overhaul, finer-grained RBAC, and a dedicated security hardening pass. The complete changelog is on the GitHub release page. Thunderbird policy type Mozilla Thunderbird can now be managed on enrolled desktops with the same mechanism used for Firefox ESR. The agent writes the managed policies.json that Thunderbird expects, merged from all bound policies, and removing the last policy restores the original file.

getbor.dev

Smaller, faster, safer: running Kimi and GLM at scale

Serving frontier models like Kimi and GLM means fighting for GPU memory. Here's how we quantize KV caches, compress model weights, and add integrity checks to serve them faster, cheaper, and safely.

blog.cloudflare.com

GitHub - lyogavin/airllm: AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU

AirLLM 70B inference with single 4GB GPU. Contribute to lyogavin/airllm development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

rust-project-goals/src/2026/move-trait.md at main · rust-lang/rust-project-goals

Rust Project Goals tracker. Contribute to rust-lang/rust-project-goals development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video

An open-weights omni-modal video model with real stereo sound and 2K output — this powerful model is greatly optimized in ComfyUI and can run locally on a 3060.

blog.comfy.org

Andy Pavlo joins ClickHouse to establish ClickHouse Labs | ClickHouse

I am excited to announce that I am joining ClickHouse, Inc. to establish and lead a new research team at ClickHouse Labs.

clickhouse.com

LLMs reward expertise

seangoedecke.com

Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time ever

More of Germany's electricity came from wind and solar power than from fossil fuels for the first time ever in 2025, according to Carbon Brief's ...

intellinews.com

Taylor Farms Has Rewritten Its Cyclospora Statement Four Times in Sixteen Days. It Still Has Not Said What Changed at That Plant After 2013, or Why Two Thousand Negative Tests Should Mean Anything.

A company’s public statement in the middle of an outbreak is not marketing. It is evidence — what the company said it knew, and when, published to the

marlerblog.com