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Workday Cuts 8.5% of Workforce, Embraces AI-Driven Efficiency

2025-02-05

Workday Cuts 8.5% of Workforce, Embraces AI-Driven Efficiency

Workday Inc., a leading provider of human capital management software, announced it is cutting approximately 8.5% of its workforce, impacting around 1,750 employees. CEO Carl Eschenbach cited the need for a new approach given the current economic climate and the company's scale. While aiming for increased efficiency and faster decision-making, Workday plans to invest in strategic AI initiatives and expand its international presence. This move, though surprising given Workday's previous avoidance of large-scale layoffs, may signal concerns about demand recovery or user growth. The restructuring is expected to yield cost savings between $230 million and $270 million by the end of April 2025.

(finance.yahoo.com)

Tech

Correcting Bird's Proof of the Sieve of Eratosthenes: A Proof about Infinite Lists

2025-02-08

This paper corrects an erroneous proof by Richard Bird in his book *Thinking Functionally with Haskell* concerning the Sieve of Eratosthenes. Bird presents a circular, list-based implementation, but his proof hint is flawed. The authors provide a complete correctness proof by introducing new lemmas and appealing to a weakening of Bertrand's Postulate. The connection between this algorithm and David Turner's vision of "Total Functional Programming" is also explored.

(www.cambridge.org)

Development sieve of eratosthenes algorithm proof

TheAuditor: Giving AI-Assisted Development the Gift of Sight

2025-09-08

TheAuditor: Giving AI-Assisted Development the Gift of Sight

TheAuditor is an offline-first, AI-centric Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and code intelligence platform. It runs industry-standard code analysis tools and generates structured, AI-digestible reports, providing developers and AI assistants with a trustworthy source of "ground truth." Unlike traditional SAST tools, TheAuditor tackles the security and quality assurance challenges inherent in AI-assisted development, preventing AI from generating insecure or flawed code. It supports multiple languages and frameworks, offers dependency graph visualization, refactoring detection, and more, ultimately aiming for a human-free, self-correcting AI development loop.

(github.com)

Development

LLM Jailbreak: Bad Grammar Bypasses AI Safety

2025-08-28

LLM Jailbreak: Bad Grammar Bypasses AI Safety

Researchers from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 discovered a simple method to bypass large language model (LLM) safety guardrails: using terrible grammar and long, run-on sentences. LLMs, lacking true understanding, predict text statistically; their safety features are easily circumvented. By crafting incomplete sentences, attackers can 'jailbreak' models before safety mechanisms engage, achieving 80-100% success rates. The researchers propose a 'logit-gap' analysis for evaluating model vulnerabilities and improving safety, emphasizing multi-layered defenses.

(www.theregister.com)

AI LLM jailbreak

The Inevitable Loss of Youth and the Pursuit of Writing

2025-03-03

The Inevitable Loss of Youth and the Pursuit of Writing

A young writer dreams of becoming a prodigious young author like Amis or Updike, setting a timeline for publishing success in his twenties. However, he fails to meet his ambitious goal, only publishing his first novel at 37. The essay explores the passage of youth and the writer's confrontation with the gap between dreams and reality. He ultimately understands that the desire for success isn't unique to youth but a persistent force throughout life.

(tolstoyan.substack.com)

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Google AI Ultra: Your VIP Pass to Cutting-Edge AI

2025-05-20

Google AI Ultra: Your VIP Pass to Cutting-Edge AI

Google unveils Google AI Ultra, a premium AI subscription service costing $249.99/month (50% off for the first three months). It offers unparalleled access to Google's most powerful AI models and premium features, including Gemini (with Deep Think 2.5 Pro), Flow (AI filmmaking tool), Whisk (text and image prompt visualization), NotebookLM, Gemini integration across Gmail, Docs, etc., Gemini in Chrome, Project Mariner task management, YouTube Premium, and 30TB of storage. Designed for filmmakers, developers, creative professionals, and anyone demanding the highest level of AI access.

(blog.google)

AI premium AI features

Black Hole Awakens 300 Million Light-Years Away: Defying Existing Theories

2025-04-12

Black Hole Awakens 300 Million Light-Years Away: Defying Existing Theories

For the first time, scientists have witnessed in real-time the awakening of a supermassive black hole 300 million light-years from Earth. Located in the center of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 in the Virgo constellation, this black hole, nicknamed "Ansky," began emitting intermittent bright flashes of energy in late 2019. Subsequent observations revealed regular X-ray bursts, a phenomenon known as quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs). These QPEs are significantly more energetic and longer-lasting than previously observed, challenging existing theories of black hole lifecycles. Researchers suggest the eruptions might stem from disturbances in the accretion disk caused by nearby interstellar gas, rather than the death of a star. This discovery provides invaluable data for understanding black hole evolution.

(www.popsci.com)

Tech

Tunarr: Build Your Own Personalized Live TV Platform

2025-04-12

Tunarr is a powerful software that lets you create live TV channels from media on your Plex, Jellyfin, and other servers. Its user-friendly web UI allows customization of channels, programs, commercials, and settings. Watch your channels by adding the spoofed Tunarr HDHomerun tuner to Plex, Jellyfin, or Emby, or use generated M3U files with any third-party IPTV player app. Born from a love of TV and building on dizqueTV, Tunarr aims to modernize the stack, provide a migration path for existing users, improve stability and performance, and enhance the web UI, all while adding tons of new features.

(tunarr.com)

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AI Art Prompt Showcase: From Dreamy Forests to Cyberpunk Dragons

2025-04-15

AI Art Prompt Showcase: From Dreamy Forests to Cyberpunk Dragons

This post is a collection of prompts for generating AI art, covering a wide range of styles and subjects. From dreamy forests and regal goddesses to photorealistic portraits, cyberpunk elements, fantastical creatures, and creative food and nature scenes, these detailed prompts offer inspiration for AI art enthusiasts. Many include details like photographers, styles, and lighting information to enhance the final output.

(foundationvision.github.io)

AI prompts

typed-ffmpeg: A Modern Pythonic FFmpeg Interface

2025-05-29

typed-ffmpeg: A Modern Pythonic FFmpeg Interface

typed-ffmpeg provides a modern, Pythonic interface to FFmpeg, offering extensive support for complex filters with detailed typing and documentation. Built with the Python standard library, it simplifies filter graph construction, boasts IDE auto-completion, and includes JSON serialization of filter graphs, automatic FFmpeg validation, and graph visualization. Future development includes broader FFmpeg version support and expanded filter coverage. This project, initially inspired by GPT-3, ultimately leveraged traditional code generation techniques, significantly aided by GitHub Copilot.

(github.com)

Development

Kenyan Startup Uses Mushrooms to Tackle Housing Shortage

2025-03-14

Kenyan Startup Uses Mushrooms to Tackle Housing Shortage

Facing a severe housing deficit, Kenyan startup MycoTile is revolutionizing construction with eco-friendly building materials. They utilize agricultural waste like sugarcane bagasse, binding it with oyster mushroom mycelium to create affordable insulation panels. These panels, already proven effective in student accommodation, offer superior sound and temperature regulation at two-thirds the cost of conventional materials. Furthermore, they're fully compostable. While facing challenges in convincing a conservative construction industry and public accustomed to traditional materials, MycoTile's innovation offers a promising solution to Kenya's housing crisis.

(www.nature.com)

Startup agricultural waste construction materials

Google TV Mandates 64-bit Support for Apps

2025-08-23

Google TV Mandates 64-bit Support for Apps

Google announced that starting August 1, 2026, all apps on Google TV and Android TV platforms must support 64-bit architecture and be compatible with 16KB memory page sizes. This means developers must update their apps to include arm64 native code; otherwise, apps won't be accepted on Google Play. The move aims to improve performance, reduce startup times, and prepare for future hardware. Google recommends developers start checking and updating their app code now to ensure compliance.

(nerds.xyz)

Tech

Rent-a-Brain: The World's First Commercial Hybrid of Silicon and Human Brain Cells

2025-07-04

Rent-a-Brain: The World's First Commercial Hybrid of Silicon and Human Brain Cells

Cortical Labs, an Australian biotech startup, in collaboration with UK company bit.bio, has launched CL1, the world's first commercially available hybrid computer combining silicon circuitry and human brain cells. This groundbreaking system, built from 800,000 neurons grown on a silicon chip, boasts incredibly low energy consumption, significantly outperforming comparable AI in terms of efficiency. CL1 demonstrated superior performance in game-playing tests compared to machine learning algorithms and offers potential applications in drug testing. Units are available for $35,000, or remote access can be rented for $300 per week.

(www.sciencealert.com)

AI

arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on New Features

2025-05-12

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Participants, individuals and organizations alike, embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Got an idea for a project that will benefit the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)

Development

The Quest for the Cutest Neural Network: A Cortex-M0 Adventure

2025-05-05

The author attempts to run a small neural network on a resource-constrained Cortex-M0 microcontroller for pose estimation. Initial attempts using frameworks like TensorFlow Lite Micro and MicroFlow proved too bulky and reliant on floating-point operations. He ultimately decided to build a purely integer-based neural network from scratch using JAX and hand-write the inference code. The journey was fraught with challenges, and the author shares valuable lessons learned, providing insights for developers aiming to run neural networks on resource-limited devices.

(kevinlynagh.com)

Development model quantization

Python Concurrency: Threads, Processes, and Asyncio – A Deep Dive

2025-01-08

Python Concurrency: Threads, Processes, and Asyncio – A Deep Dive

This article summarizes the strengths and weaknesses of three approaches to Python concurrency: threads, processes, and asyncio. Threads share resources and are easy to use, but are limited by the GIL; processes have independent memory spaces, bypassing the GIL but with higher overhead; asyncio uses a single-threaded event loop, efficiently handling I/O-bound tasks, but requires non-blocking operations and has a steeper learning curve. The choice depends on the task type: CPU-bound tasks favor processes, I/O-bound tasks favor asyncio, and threads are suitable for other cases.

(newvick.com)

Development Python concurrency threads

Driverless Maserati Sets New Land Speed Record

2025-03-03

Driverless Maserati Sets New Land Speed Record

A driverless Maserati MC20 Coupe achieved a new land speed record for autonomous vehicles, reaching 197.7mph (318km/h) at the Kennedy Space Center. The feat, a collaboration between Politecnico di Milano and the Indy Autonomous Challenge, pushed the limits of AI-driven software and robotics. The team aims to leverage the extreme testing to improve the reliability of autonomous driving algorithms, ultimately enhancing safety for autonomous road vehicles.

(www.theverge.com)

Tech Autonomous Driving Speed Record

Hubble Confirms First Lone Black Hole

2025-04-21

Hubble Confirms First Lone Black Hole

A team of astronomers, using data from the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia spacecraft, has confirmed the existence of the first isolated stellar-mass black hole. Initially spotted in 2022, this approximately seven-solar-mass black hole was detected through its gravitational microlensing effect. Unlike previously discovered black holes which all had companion stars, this discovery offers a new window into these mysterious objects and paves the way for future searches using the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope.

(phys.org)

Tech

DOJ Greenlit to Sell $6.5B in Seized Silk Road Bitcoin

2025-01-10

DOJ Greenlit to Sell $6.5B in Seized Silk Road Bitcoin

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has received court approval to sell approximately 69,000 Bitcoin seized from the Silk Road darknet marketplace, currently valued at around $6.5 billion. This decision concludes a long-standing legal battle. Despite objections and attempts to block the sale by Battle Born Investments, the DOJ prevailed. Citing Bitcoin's price volatility, the DOJ argued for a swift sale to mitigate potential losses. The sale, managed by the US Marshals Service, will be one of the largest sales of seized cryptocurrency in history.

(cryptobriefing.com)

Tech Silk Road DOJ

Anthropic's Claude 3.7: Reasoning AI Powered by Reinforcement Learning

2025-02-24

Anthropic's Claude 3.7: Reasoning AI Powered by Reinforcement Learning

Anthropic has launched Claude 3.7, an upgraded AI model that distinguishes itself from traditional large language models (LLMs) by focusing on reasoning capabilities. Trained using reinforcement learning, Claude 3.7 excels at solving problems requiring step-by-step thinking, particularly coding challenges, outperforming OpenAI's models on certain benchmarks. This advancement stems from additional training data and optimizations for business applications like code writing and legal question answering. The release of Claude Code further enhances its practicality in AI-assisted coding, providing robust support for complex code planning.

(www.wired.com)

AI

kapa.ai: AI-Powered Developer Support, Leveling Up User Experience

2025-07-22

kapa.ai: AI-Powered Developer Support, Leveling Up User Experience

kapa.ai empowers tech companies to easily build AI-powered support and onboarding bots for their users. Over 150 leading startups and enterprises, including OpenAI, Mixpanel, Mapbox, Docker, Next.js, and Prisma, use kapa to enhance developer experience and reduce support overhead. It leverages existing technical knowledge sources like docs, tutorials, chat logs, and GitHub issues to create AI bots that automatically answer developer questions. More than 750,000 developers access kapa.ai through website widgets, Slack/Discord bots, API integrations, or Zendesk. kapa.ai is backed by top-tier Silicon Valley AI investors, including Initialized Capital (Garry Tan, Alexis Ohanian), Y Combinator, Amjad Masad and Michele Catasta (Replit), and Douwe Kiela (RAG paper author and founder of Contextual AI), among others.

(www.ycombinator.com)

Development

Bad Apple in Vim: 6500 Regexes and a Whole Lotta Magic

2025-01-12

Bad Apple in Vim: 6500 Regexes and a Whole Lotta Magic

This post details how the author rendered the Bad Apple music video within Vim using only search queries. Each frame was converted into a binary pixel array, decomposed into rectangles, and represented by a Vim regex. The result? A file containing over 6500 regexes, played sequentially via a Vim macro to create the animation. This impressive feat showcases Vim's surprising capabilities and the author's considerable programming skill.

(eieio.games)

Development Regex

Beyond Promises: Exploring the Power of Thenables in JavaScript Async Operations

2025-06-10

This article delves into the power of Thenables in JavaScript, objects with a `.then()` method that can be awaited using the `await` keyword, even if they aren't Promise objects. The article demonstrates creating a Thenable simulating asynchronous operations and compares it to Prisma's lazy execution. While highlighting the lightweight nature of Thenables for async operations, the author cautions that complex Thenables can be harder to debug, recommending native Promises when appropriate.

(codedynasty.dev)

Development

US Health Secretary's Purge of Vaccine Advisory Board Sparks Outrage

2025-06-09

US Health Secretary's Purge of Vaccine Advisory Board Sparks Outrage

US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee on Monday, sparking widespread criticism from medical groups. Kennedy cited conflicts of interest and plans to appoint his own team within two weeks. The move, described as a "coup," threatens to undermine public trust in vaccine science and potentially lead to a rise in vaccine-preventable diseases. It also breaks a previous promise by Kennedy and raises concerns about the impartiality of future committee members.

(apnews.com)

Tech

Crystal 1.16.0 Released: Enhanced Multithreading and Crucial Bug Fixes

2025-04-11

Crystal 1.16.0 Released: Enhanced Multithreading and Crucial Bug Fixes

The Crystal programming language has released version 1.16.0, bringing several improvements and bug fixes. This release addresses the implementation of File.match?, improves HTTP::Request resource string parsing, and deprecates parameter name suffixes ? and !. Most notably, it introduces Execution Contexts as a preview feature, significantly enhancing multithreading support and providing more robust tools for concurrent programming. Furthermore, the compiler has been improved with support for longer options and environment variables, and updated support for LLVM 20.

(crystal-lang.org)

Development

OpenAI's o3 Model: A Surreal, Dystopian, and Wildly Entertaining Location Guesser

2025-04-26

OpenAI's o3 Model: A Surreal, Dystopian, and Wildly Entertaining Location Guesser

OpenAI's new o3 model demonstrates an uncanny ability to pinpoint the location of a photograph. The author tested it with an seemingly innocuous picture from a bar in El Granada, California. o3, using image analysis (house styles, vegetation, license plates etc.) and Python code for image processing, correctly guessed the Central Coast region of California. While slightly off on the precise location, its second guess hit the mark. This showcases AI's incredible reasoning capabilities but also raises privacy and security concerns, given its potential for misuse in tracking individuals.

(simonwillison.net)

AI privacy concerns

Open Source QO-100 DATV Solution: SDR Television v1.0 Released

2025-04-26

The first public release of SDR Television is now available. This is a DVB-S2/AAC/H264/H265 program for the QO-100 satellite, leveraging many DLLs from SDR Console to control Pluto/LibreSDR. It demonstrates a full-duplex DATV solution on a modern x86 computer. This v1.0 release is a proof of concept; future versions will add H266/AV1/Opus and improved cross-band UI. Requires Windows 10/11 64-bit, 8+ cores recommended.

(www.sdr-radio.com)

Tech

Dr. Demento Retires After 55 Years of Broadcasting Novelty Music

2025-06-19

Dr. Demento Retires After 55 Years of Broadcasting Novelty Music

Radio personality Barret "Dr. Demento" Hansen announced his retirement this week, ending a 55-year career dedicated to comedy and novelty music. His show, which began in 1970, will conclude in October with retrospective episodes culminating in a final broadcast of the program's top 40 songs. Dr. Demento's show, initially a freeform rock program, evolved into a platform for comedic songs and musical oddities, introducing audiences to artists like "Weird Al" Yankovic, whom he's largely credited with discovering. The show's long run spanned various mediums, from reel-to-reel tapes to online streaming, showcasing Hansen's enduring influence on radio and comedy.

(sopghreporter.com)

Misc

When Will We Fix the World's Crumbling Software?

2025-01-08

When Will We Fix the World's Crumbling Software?

Software underpins the modern world, yet its quality is shockingly inconsistent. Industries like healthcare, retail, and airlines rely on outdated, inefficient software, hindering productivity and potential. The author calls for urgent attention to these neglected areas, advocating for investment in updating crucial software tools to unleash the full potential of professionals and move beyond inefficient, outdated systems.

(www.cgustavo.com)

Development technological disparity tool upgrades

Amazon's AI Talent Woes: Frugality and RTO Policies Hamper Recruitment

2025-09-02

Amazon's AI Talent Woes: Frugality and RTO Policies Hamper Recruitment

Amazon is lagging in the fierce AI talent war. Internal documents reveal that its unique pay structure, lagging AI reputation, and rigid return-to-office (RTO) policies are major obstacles. Competitors offer more competitive compensation and flexible work arrangements, making it difficult for Amazon to attract top talent. While Amazon claims its compensation is competitive, its 'egalitarian' pay philosophy and strict salary bands hinder its ability to compete for high-earning AI experts. The mandatory RTO policy further limits its access to talent. Amazon is trying to adjust its recruitment strategy, but whether its ingrained frugal culture and rigid systems can change remains to be seen.

(www.businessinsider.com)

Tech compensation strategy

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