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Tidewave Web: In-Browser AI Coding Agent for Rails & Phoenix

2025-08-20

Dashbit introduces Tidewave Web, an AI coding agent running directly in the browser alongside your Rails and Phoenix web applications. It boasts full page and code context awareness, eliminating the constant switching between tools. Tidewave directly accesses your UI state, executes code, queries databases, monitors logs, and more. Users suggest improvements via a point-and-click inspector, and Tidewave automatically builds features and tests them in the browser. Currently supporting Rails and Phoenix, future support for React, Django, and other frameworks is planned. Tidewave changes the traditional AI coding paradigm by creating a shared context between the developer, agent, and web app, boosting development efficiency.

(tidewave.ai)

Development Web development

SPHEREx: NASA's All-Sky Mapping Observatory Begins Science Operations

2025-05-02

SPHEREx: NASA's All-Sky Mapping Observatory Begins Science Operations

After weeks of preparation, NASA's SPHEREx space observatory has commenced its science mission, capturing approximately 3,600 unique images daily to create an unprecedented map of the cosmos. Mapping the entire sky in 102 infrared wavelengths, SPHEREx aims to unlock mysteries about the universe's origins, galaxy evolution, and the building blocks of life. By using spectroscopy, it will create four all-sky maps, investigating cosmic inflation and searching for water in distant galaxies. The mission's vast dataset will be publicly available, furthering astronomical research.

(www.nasa.gov)

Tech Space Observatory Infrared Spectroscopy

Anthropic Settles Massive Copyright Lawsuit After Facing Existential Threat

2025-08-27

Anthropic Settles Massive Copyright Lawsuit After Facing Existential Threat

Anthropic, an AI company, settled a massive copyright infringement lawsuit stemming from the use of millions of pirated books to train its large language models. Faced with potential damages exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars after a judge approved class-action status, Anthropic yielded to immense financial pressure. The settlement highlights the significant challenges posed by current copyright laws and the potential chilling effect on AI innovation, sparking debate over necessary legal reforms in the age of AI.

(news.bloomberglaw.com)

Tech class action

Stop Building GPT Wrappers, Build a World Model Instead

2025-05-16

Stop Building GPT Wrappers, Build a World Model Instead

Foundry is building core infrastructure for browser agents, not GPT wrappers. They argue that every SaaS app and enterprise tool without an API will soon be automated by browser agents, but current browser agent technology is in its infancy. Foundry aims to build hyper-realistic, deterministic web simulations, a comprehensive annotation framework, reliable benchmarks, and robust RL training environments to improve browser agent reliability and efficiency. They are seeking a senior software engineer to build core ML systems and RL infrastructure from scratch.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development browser agents world model

MINI Goes Vegan: A Surprisingly Luxurious Leather Alternative

2025-02-19

MINI Goes Vegan: A Surprisingly Luxurious Leather Alternative

MINI's new all-electric J01 Cooper ditches leather entirely, opting for a sustainable, recycled vegan alternative called Vescin. A hands-on review reveals Vescin's surprisingly plush feel, surpassing the quality of MINI's mid-range leather and even rivaling its premium offering. Easier to clean and more environmentally friendly, Vescin offers a compelling alternative, proving that luxury and sustainability aren't mutually exclusive. While the signature leather smell is absent, the superior comfort, durability, and eco-conscious production make it a compelling upgrade.

(www.motoringfile.com)

Tech vegan leather sustainable materials electric vehicle interior

FlakeHub Boosts Nix Deployments: Get Store Paths Without Evaluation

2025-02-15

FlakeHub Boosts Nix Deployments: Get Store Paths Without Evaluation

Nix's powerful build capabilities rely on evaluating store paths, which can be expensive on resource-constrained devices. FlakeHub introduces "resolved store paths," allowing users to obtain store paths without using Nix and pull directly from the FlakeHub Cache, significantly boosting deployment efficiency for NixOS, Home Manager, and nix-darwin configurations. The `fh` command-line tool simplifies resolving paths and applying configurations, offering significant advantages in cloud environments and on resource-constrained devices. This feature works with FlakeHub Cache; paid plans unlock private flakes and other advanced features.

(determinate.systems)

Development Deployment Efficiency

NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker: Real-time Data Visualization

2025-01-06

Benjamin and Joshua Moshes have created a website, the "Congestion Pricing Tracker," that provides real-time data on New York City's congestion pricing. The site features an interactive map and data visualizations, allowing users to easily see congestion pricing rates and traffic conditions in different areas. This is not only useful for individuals planning their commutes, but also provides valuable data for researchers and urban planners to optimize traffic management and policy. It showcases the power of civic tech in addressing urban challenges.

(www.congestion-pricing-tracker.com)

Tech urban traffic congestion pricing

West Bank Palestinians Rely on Homegrown Navigation Apps to Bypass Israeli Checkpoints

2025-09-20

West Bank Palestinians Rely on Homegrown Navigation Apps to Bypass Israeli Checkpoints

Navigating the West Bank has become a daily struggle for Palestinians, with Israeli checkpoints and barriers severely restricting movement. Homegrown apps like Doroob Navigator and Azmeh, which crowdsource real-time traffic and road closure data, have become lifelines, helping people reach work, schools, and hospitals. These apps highlight the resilience and community spirit of Palestinians in the face of ongoing conflict and restrictions.

(restofworld.org)

Misc navigation apps mapping

NYC Startup Seeks Founding Engineer: AI-First, Full-Stack Whiz Needed

2025-06-07

NYC Startup Seeks Founding Engineer: AI-First, Full-Stack Whiz Needed

A NYC startup is searching for a full-time founding engineer to build new products from the ground up. This critical role offers significant equity and product ownership. The ideal candidate will be a full-stack expert proficient in Next.js, React, Vercel, and Supabase, able to iterate quickly, and possess a strong understanding of integrating AI systems into SaaS products. Bonus points for SQL database familiarity, multi-tenancy database design experience, web scraping skills, and React Native expertise.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development

ULA's Vulcan Rocket Successfully Launches Military Navigation Satellite

2025-08-13

ULA's Vulcan Rocket Successfully Launches Military Navigation Satellite

United Launch Alliance (ULA) successfully launched its powerful Vulcan Centaur rocket on August 12th, carrying the U.S. military's first experimental navigation satellite in 48 years, NTS-3. The satellite boasts advanced anti-jamming technology and a reprogrammable-in-orbit software architecture designed to enhance resilience against jamming and spoofing. This launch marks Vulcan's third flight; previous flights experienced minor anomalies but ultimately succeeded, demonstrating the rocket's reliability and making ULA the second provider, after SpaceX, certified by the U.S. Space Force for national security launches.

(www.space.com)

Tech Vulcan Rocket Navigation Satellite

LearnLM Team Acknowledgements: The Minds Behind the Model

2025-09-19

LearnLM Team Acknowledgements: The Minds Behind the Model

The Google Research LearnLM team published an acknowledgement post, expressing gratitude to everyone who contributed to their work. The post lists numerous contributors, ranging from researchers to executive sponsors, highlighting the collaborative nature of the project's success. The progress made on LearnLM is a testament to the collective effort of these individuals.

(research.google)

AI

Windows 11 Native Video Wallpaper Support is Back!

2025-09-22

Windows 11 Native Video Wallpaper Support is Back!

After years of absence, native video wallpaper support is returning to Windows 11! Previously available in Windows Vista's DreamScene, the feature has been resurrected in the latest preview builds. Users will now be able to set MP4, MOV, and other video formats as their desktop backgrounds. Spotted by @phantomofearth on X, the feature promises a more personalized desktop experience, eliminating the need for third-party apps. While the impact on performance and battery life is yet unknown, its return is a welcome addition for many.

(www.windowscentral.com)

Tech video wallpaper

Sci-Fi Art Legend David Schleinkofer Passes Away

2025-04-28

Sci-Fi Art Legend David Schleinkofer Passes Away

Renowned science fiction illustrator David Schleinkofer passed away this week at age 74 due to ALS. His distinctive airbrush style graced the covers and interiors of countless sci-fi novels, magazines, and games like Transformers and SimCity over his 40-year career. His work, featured in seminal works such as *Tomorrow and Beyond*, significantly influenced the field and will be deeply missed.

(downthetubes.net)

Design Sci-Fi Art Obituary

The 'Incentives' Excuse: Why Blaming the System for Bad Science Won't Cut It

2025-04-28

The 'Incentives' Excuse: Why Blaming the System for Bad Science Won't Cut It

This article critiques the common practice in science of blaming 'incentives' for unethical behavior. The author argues that scientists often use 'incentives' as an excuse to avoid responsibility for actions like p-hacking and selective reporting. Nine arguments are presented against this justification, highlighting how it excuses any behavior, ignores moral and long-term responsibilities, and ultimately fails to change the system, potentially worsening the problem. The article concludes with a call for scientists to take responsibility, adopting a long-term perspective rather than sacrificing scientific integrity for personal gain.

(talyarkoni.org)

Tech scientific ethics research incentives

Adobe Acrobat Studio: AI Reimagines the PDF, Ushering in a New Era of Software?

2025-08-21

Adobe Acrobat Studio: AI Reimagines the PDF, Ushering in a New Era of Software?

Adobe's 1993 release of the PDF revolutionized document handling. Now, Adobe integrates generative AI into Acrobat Studio, introducing 'PDF Spaces' and an AI assistant, aiming to redefine the PDF. This isn't just a feature upgrade; it's a landmark event signifying AI's deep integration into everyday software. While AI functionality is attracting attention, concerns about AI's impact remain. Whether Adobe's move will lead the industry like its transparency support did remains to be seen, but it undeniably marks the arrival of the AI-dominated software era.

(www.wired.com)

Tech

DropZap World: 120 Levels of Laser-Powered Block-Dropping Fun

2025-06-18

DropZap World: 120 Levels of Laser-Powered Block-Dropping Fun

DropZap World, from the creator of the original DropZap games, offers a fresh take on falling block puzzles. This game features 120 challenging levels filled with lasers, mirrors, color-matching mechanics, and a satisfying level progression system. Available across iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and macOS with iCloud sync, DropZap World promises hours of laser-zapping entertainment for both newcomers and veteran players.

(apps.apple.com)

Game lasers

Apple's WWDC2025: Liquid Glass Redesign Sweeps Across Platforms

2025-06-09

Apple's WWDC2025: Liquid Glass Redesign Sweeps Across Platforms

Apple unveiled Liquid Glass, a sweeping design update at WWDC2025, bringing transparency and glass-like shine effects to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe 26, watchOS 26, and tvOS 26. Inspired by visionOS, this universal design adapts to light and dark modes, transforming elements from the dock and lock screen to app interfaces like Camera and Safari. New APIs are provided for developers to update their apps for this major UI overhaul. Marking Apple's biggest design shift in over a decade, Liquid Glass will significantly impact app development in the coming months.

(www.theverge.com)

Design Design Language UI Update

Wildlife Trade: Breeding Ground for the Next Pandemic?

2025-06-03

Wildlife Trade: Breeding Ground for the Next Pandemic?

From Jakarta's bustling Jatinegara market to Vietnam's national parks, the illicit wildlife trade poses a significant threat to global public health. The article highlights wildlife markets as breeding grounds for disease transmission, with COVID-19 serving as a prime example. Despite China's ban on most wildlife trading, the industry persists underground. Researchers are tracing the movement of viruses through wildlife trade networks and analyzing how human behavior exacerbates risks. For instance, the detection rate of coronaviruses in trafficked pangolins increases along the supply chain in Vietnam; in Indonesia, festive periods see a surge in trade, increasing transmission risks. The article emphasizes the crucial need for in-depth studies of trade networks and human behavior to effectively predict and prevent future pandemics.

(www.nature.com)

Tech wildlife trade pandemic prevention virus transmission

AI Coding Agents: From Helpful Assistants to Essential Partners

2025-06-16

The author recounts a transformative shift in their workflow due to autonomous AI coding agents. Initially viewed as a neat curiosity, these agents have become indispensable, dramatically changing how software is shipped. The author details using tools like Claude and Codex to complete tasks ranging from bug fixes to code generation, resulting in significant productivity gains. While acknowledging limitations, such as the potential for getting stuck in local optima, the author believes AI coding agents represent a new era in software development, augmenting rather than replacing developers.

(blog.singleton.io)

Development

Mountain Biking Spinal Cord Injuries Surpass Hockey and Other High-Risk Sports

2025-01-08

Mountain Biking Spinal Cord Injuries Surpass Hockey and Other High-Risk Sports

New research from UBC's Faculty of Medicine reveals a shockingly high number of spinal cord injuries from mountain biking, exceeding those from hockey and other high-risk sports. Between 2008 and 2022, 58 people in British Columbia sustained spinal cord injuries while mountain biking, compared to only 3 from ice hockey. In recent years, mountain biking-related injuries have been seven times higher than those from skiing and snowboarding. The annual number in BC rivals or surpasses those from amateur football across the entire US. The study, published in *Neurotrauma Reports*, found most injured were healthy young men (93% male, average age 35.5). 77.5% were injured after going over their handlebars. While most wore helmets (86.3%), this didn't eliminate risk. The estimated lifetime cost of these injuries to BC is $195.4 million. The study calls for increased awareness and a discussion on safety improvements.

(www.med.ubc.ca)

Tech mountain biking spinal cord injury

The Hanseatic League: A 500-Year Rise and Fall of a Medieval Trade Coalition

2025-07-26

The Hanseatic League: A 500-Year Rise and Fall of a Medieval Trade Coalition

From humble beginnings as individual traveling merchants, the Hanseatic League forged a powerful coalition that dominated Northern European trade for nearly 500 years. Their collective bargaining, coordinated actions, and surprisingly effective security measures built a vast trade network, even enabling them to wage and win wars. However, internal divisions, external competition, and shifting economic interests ultimately led to the League's decline. This epic tale illustrates both the power and fragility of coalitions, offering valuable lessons about the importance of shared goals, adaptation, and the enduring impact of even temporary alliances.

(worksinprogress.co)

Tech Hanseatic League Medieval Trade Trade Coalition

Google Gemini 2.5: Faster, Cheaper, and More Powerful

2025-06-17

Google Gemini 2.5: Faster, Cheaper, and More Powerful

Google announces the general availability of its Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash models, alongside a preview release of the even more cost-effective and faster Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite. These models achieve a Pareto optimal balance of cost and speed, outperforming their predecessors across various benchmarks including coding, math, science, reasoning, and multimodal tasks. Flash-Lite especially excels in high-volume, low-latency applications like translation and classification. The Gemini 2.5 family boasts features like adjustable reasoning budgets, integration with tools like Google Search and code execution, multimodal input, and a massive 1 million-token context window.

(blog.google)

AI

12,795 Objects: A Photographer's Intimate Inventory

2025-01-01

Belgian photographer Barbara Iweins meticulously documented 12,795 objects in her home over four years, creating the project 'KATALOG'. From her daughters' socks to her anxiety medication, the project transcends a simple inventory, becoming a deeply personal exploration of her life, emotions, and memories. It reveals a unique perspective on the profound meaning hidden within everyday belongings.

(www.katalog-barbaraiweins.com)

Art photography self-exploration

Sweden's Saturday Candy Tradition: From Health Recommendation to National Craze

2025-08-13

Sweden's Saturday Candy Tradition: From Health Recommendation to National Craze

Sweden's "Lördagsgodis" (Saturday candy) tradition originated from a 1959 experiment studying the relationship between sugar and tooth decay. Initially, the experiment's conclusion led to a health recommendation of eating candy only on Saturdays. However, over time, it evolved into a national craze. Today, buying loose candy on Saturdays has become a Swedish custom, resulting in Sweden becoming one of the highest per capita candy consumers globally. In recent years, the government has expressed concern over high candy consumption's impact on public health and is considering regulating this tradition.

(en.wikipedia.org)

Misc Swedish culture candy consumption

Voyager's Sunset: A Legacy of Interstellar Exploration

2025-04-05

Voyager's Sunset: A Legacy of Interstellar Exploration

Nearly 50 years after launch, the Voyager probes are nearing the end of their operational lives. Powering down due to decaying plutonium, the aging spacecraft lose 4 watts annually, forcing tough decisions to shut down non-essential systems, including science instruments. Project scientist Linda Spilker recounts the challenges of maintaining these aging vessels and the effort to pass on their knowledge to new generations. Voyager's journey, yielding invaluable data on the heliopause and interstellar space, inspires future interstellar missions, charting a course for humanity's continued exploration of the cosmos.

(gizmodo.com)

Tech

Exploiting the Magic Leap One: Code Released

2025-05-18

Exploiting the Magic Leap One: Code Released

This repository publishes code for exploiting vulnerabilities in the Magic Leap One. The exploit leverages a stack overflow in Nvidia's SparseFS parser (sparsehax) and an oversized kernel device tree (dtbhax) to achieve code execution. These vulnerabilities may affect more than just the ML1; there's a possibility the kernel-dtb vulnerability could be used for persistence on autopilot units in certain cars using the TX2. The repo contains code for the Magic Leap console and a Rust-based Fastboot client for the host. Warning: Bricking your device is possible.

(github.com)

Hardware

Apple's App Store Payment Monopoly?

2025-07-05

This article examines Apple's App Store payment policies, highlighting the requirement that app developers can only choose between Apple Pay and alternative payment services, not both. This limits consumer choice and stifles competition. The author draws an analogy to airport store payment options, arguing that this practice is absurd and calling for intervention from the EU's Digital Markets Act to ensure fair competition, allowing developers to offer multiple payment methods simultaneously.

(www.taler.net)

Tech Payment Monopoly

GitHub Code Suggestion Application Restrictions

2025-04-23

GitHub Code Suggestion Application Restrictions

Several limitations prevent applying code suggestions in GitHub code reviews. These include: no code changes made, the pull request being closed, viewing a subset of changes, only one suggestion per line allowed, applying to deleted lines, suggestions already applied or marked resolved, suggestions from pending reviews, multi-line comments, the pull request being queued to merge, or system limitations.

(github.com)

Development limitations

The Myth of the IO-Bound Rails App

2025-01-25

It's a common belief that Rails apps are inherently IO-bound, with the database being the primary performance bottleneck, making Ruby performance less critical. This post challenges that notion. While the database is indeed a scaling bottleneck, the author argues that this doesn't mean the application spends most of its time waiting for I/O. Analysis of YJIT performance improvements and common performance issues (like missing database indexes) suggests many Rails apps are actually CPU-bound. The post highlights confusion between CPU starvation and I/O wait, and emphasizes that choosing the right execution model (asynchronous, threaded, or process-based) depends on the app's I/O/CPU ratio. The author calls for attention to Ruby performance and points out opportunities for optimization within Rails itself.

(byroot.github.io)

Development

Mosh: A Superior Remote Terminal Protocol

2025-08-28

Mosh is a remote terminal protocol designed to address the challenges of high latency and network switching on the internet. Developed by Keith Winstein and others, it utilizes UDP packets for data transfer and features predictive echo and state synchronization for a smooth terminal experience even under poor network conditions or frequent network changes. Mosh prioritizes security, employing OCB3 encryption and boasting a strong security track record.

(mosh.org)

Development remote terminal mosh

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