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121. 'Chemtrails' Conspiracy Theory Dogging the Battle Against Drought
122. Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail
A few months after launching Qwen3-VL, Alibaba has released a detailed technical report on the open multimodal model. The data shows the system excels at image-based math tasks and can analyze hours of video footage.
123. The Junior Hiring Crisis
AI isn’t replacing everyone. It’s removing the apprenticeship ladder. Here’s what that means for students, early-career professionals, and the tech industry’s future.
124. Reverse math shows why hard problems are hard
Researchers have used metamathematical techniques to show that certain theorems that look superficially distinct are in fact logically equivalent.
125. It's Been a Hard Year
Unlike a lot of places in tech, my company, Set Studio/Piccalilli has no outside funding. Bootstrapped is what the LinkedIn people say, I think. It’s been a hard year this year. A very hard year. I think a naive person would blame it all on the seemingly industry-wide attitude of “AI can just do this […]
126. What Will Enter the Public Domain in 2026?
At the start of each year, on January 1st, a new crop of works enter the public domain. Find our highlights of what lies in store for 2026 here.
127. Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model
128. VA staff flag dangerous errors in Oracle-built electronic health record
129. Nixtml: Static website and blog generator written in Nix
Static website and blog generator written in nix. Contribute to arnarg/nixtml development by creating an account on GitHub.
130. Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid for helps improve the security of the internet, by limiting the scope of compromise, and making certificate revocation technologies more efficient.
131. Microsoft lowers AI software sales quota
Microsoft on Wednesday denied a report from The Information that multiple divisions at the company lowered sales growth targets for certain artificial intelligence products after several sales staff missed their goals in the fiscal year that ​ended in June. The source-based report cited two salespeople in the Azure cloud-computing unit, which is closely watched by investors as ‌it is the main beneficiary of Microsoft's AI push. "The Information's story inaccurately combines the concepts of growth and sales quotas, which shows their lack of understanding of the way ‌a sales organization works and is compensated," a company spokesperson said in a statement.
132. Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release
Tega Brain is an Australian artist based in New York examining the politics of computation at a time of climate change.
133. Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k
Japanese game makers are struggling to locate affordable commercial fonts after one of the country's leading font licen…
134. Rootless Pings in Rust
135. OpenAGI emerges from stealth with an AI agent that it claims crushes OpenAI
136. After nearly 30 years, Crucial will stop selling RAM to consumers
Micron cites AI data center demand as reason for killing DIY upgrade brand.
137. AI just proved Erdos Problem #124
138. Advent of Compiler Optimisations 2025
Announcing AoCO 2025 - daily December posts about compiler optimisations
139. All about automotive lidar
140. Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document
141. Why doesn't Apple make a standalone Touch ID?
142. 'If you aren't lying, you aren't flying.' Pilots hide mental health struggles
143. School Cell Phone Bans and Student Achievement (NBER Digest)
144. Amazon launches Trainium3
AWS has been building its own AI chips — and systems — for years now. It just released its third version, known as Trainium3, with some impressive specs.  
145. OpenAI acquired AI training monitor Neptune
I’m excited to share that we’ve entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by OpenAI, subject to closing conditions. We are thrilled to join the OpenAI team and help their AI researchers build better models faster.
146. Half of Linux Users Stick with X11, Despite Years of Wayland Being Forced
Wayland has been the default for several years on the largest Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc.), yet Wayland usage has actually decreased since 2024...
147. Lowtype: Elegant Types in Ruby
type - Elegant types in Ruby
148. Python Data Science Handbook
149. universal-tbxi-patchset: Mac OS New World ROM patchset to boot System 7.5
TBXI (classic Mac OS New World ROM) patchset to boot 7.5+ - Wack0/universal-tbxi-patchset
150. Better Than JSON