Languages as designed latent spaces

Mental disorders among young adults have surged, with new research showing the proportion of young Australians meeting diagnostic criteria for anxiety, mood or substance disorders has increased from 23.4 percent to 36.2 percent from 2007 to 2022.

China is Creating a Herd of 100 Elite Yak Clones

Android may soon restrict on-device ADB

The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)

Teenagers (avg 12 years) who spent six or more hours a day on social media were 2x as likely to experience symptoms of anxiety and 3x as likely to report suicidal ideation than those who spent less than an hour on social media each day…

Japanese firms sell ‘fridges for humans’ to cope with heatwave

Open-weight AI is having its Kubernetes moment

From Silicon Valley to DC, the tech world is suddenly obsessed with one concept in AI: Distillation

Emacs Writing Machine

Texas includes minimal data center info in state water plan, citing ‘limited data’

Facebook Offers a Verification System Certifying to Other Users That You're a Real Human

Finland’s radical answer to renewable energy’s biggest headache: The world’s largest sand battery

KinetiGo: a Go toolchain for LEGO robotics

HP admits 30% of PCs still run Windows 10, rejecting Windows 11, and it's why Microsoft caved on support

Intel just posted its best growth in 15 years – and burned billions to make it happen

Zig 0.16: how do you handle continuous output from multiple workers?

Is this package nesting acceptable in Go for a modular monolith?

Waymo’s driverless cars involved in 68% fewer crashes than human drivers, U.S. study finds

Quil – a reboot-proof terminal multiplexer that resumes AI sessions

China’s CXMT reportedly denied reducing memory prices to Huawei

After months of hard work, I can do basic string processing, compiled to assembly, only 187x slower than rust.

What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate?

Sending packets directly from BPF

Parental wealth may be more important than whether they smoke or drink for a child's future health

RAM thieves in China jailed after looting a string of eSport hotels — stole 16 sticks worth $2,000 in 'frenzied hotel room-dismantling'

rainfrog (0.4.1) now has autocomplete!

Gaze - Facial authentication for Linux (written in Rust :) )

Newborns immunized against RSV also had a 36% lower risk of invasive pneumococcal disease.

OpenAI's rogue hacking incident sparks bipartisan bill giving the government an AI kill switch

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