‘Tsunami’ of emigration reshapes Israel’s future, experts warn
Nearly 270,000 Israelis have left the country over three years, citing political uncertainty and security concerns.
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Trump vows tougher economic measures on Iran and supporting countries
It comes after a 60-day ceasefire expired on Monday, with no sign of a diplomatic or military off-ramp to the conflict.
NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory
Without a rescue, NASA's Swift Observatory is expected to reenter the atmosphere later this year.
Knack MCP Server
The HIPAA-compliant backend for AI builders Discussion | Link
More than 100 dead after goldmine collapses in Central African Republic
The collapse was caused by a landslide, while local officials say the death toll is likely to rise as recovery efforts continue More than 100 people have died after an artisanal goldmine at a small village in western Central African Republic (CAR) caved in due to a landslide, local officials and aid workers said on Wednesday. The landslide happened on Tuesday afternoon in the village of Zamboye, about 50km (31 miles) from the town of Baboua and close to the border of Cameroon. Footage on social media appeared to show an avalanche of sand descend on a group of people, likely the miners, and cover them. Continue reading...
Harry Kane scores goal by winning Golden Shoe for the second time
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Nigeria’s election campaign begins with Tinubu facing a reform test
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Stampli cuts launch hours by 68% using ChatGPT Work
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Shape
The agentic IDE for designers and programmers Discussion | Link
South Korea’s rookie investors lose small fortunes amid AI stocks frenzy
South Korea's stock market has attracted a wave of novice investors amid booming demand for chips used in AI.
International body votes to convene emergency meeting over Nicaragua
Nicaragua's move to extend Ortega's rule and bar rivals from elections triggers a near-unanimous OAS rebuke.
Stripe didn’t really buy OpenRouter because of the ‘singularity’
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v16.3.1-canary.25
Misc Changes [PPF] Remove unstable_eager : #97524 [PPF] Do not mark complete shell requests as partial: #97503 fix: add accessible label to icon-only link: #96334 Fix stale cross-references in skills/: #97566 docs: generateMetadata values should be serializable with use cache: #97551 Move preview props into separate manifest: #96004 docs: adjust interactive app guide: #97558 Turbopack: allow TURBOPACK_PRINT_CHUNK_GROUPS in release builds: #97515 [test] Point next-image-legacy images at a reachable endpoint: #97545 test: improve error-on-next-codemod-comment flakiness: #97553 Turbopack: cross-module constants: #90300 test: better isolate concurrent-install suite: #97546 docs: outlining and lcp: #96942 Fix use cache prerender signal retention: #97476 Turbopack: More aggressively debounce filesystem watch events if we detected changes to node_modules: #96116 docs: document metadata pagination field: #95509 Credits Huge thanks to @lubieowoce , @niketchandivade , @gaojude , @devjiwonchoi , @mischnic , @aurorascharff , @eps1lon , @icyJoseph , @gnoff , @bgw , and @biubiukam for helping!
California passes toughest wildfire rules in the U.S. for home landscaping
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smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript
Research: smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task: Put https://smolmachines.com through its paces as a fast secure sandbox. Explore what it would take to use this to run untrusted Python and JavaScript code in a way that is limited in what RAM and CPU time it can take up (protection against "while true") with no network access and filesystem access only to designated files Goal is to be able to use this to execute user-provided tasks for things like data transformations It quickly ran into a problem: the Claude Code for web environment can't run smol machines . Quoting the notes it wrote : This Claude Code container: Linux 6.18.5-fc-v20 (itself a Firecracker guest), 4 vCPU, 15GB RAM. No /dev/kvm, no vmx/svm CPU flags → no nested virt. smolvm machine run fails as expected: "kvm not available". Plan B: GitHub Actions ubuntu runners DO expose /dev/kvm → run the real test battery via a temporary workflow on this branch, collect logs, remove workflow in final commit. And Plan B is what it did , installing smolvm and running these tests directly in a GitHub Actions runner against that branch. That was a creative solution to the environmental limits posed by Claude Code for web. Another example of Fable being relentlessly proactive . Tags: research , sandboxing , ai , github-actions , generative-ai , llms , coding-agents , claude-mythos-fable
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Run AI agents on your Mac with scoped access Discussion | Link
I quit my £80,000 job to make ice cream - here's how
The co-founder of Little Moons shares her advice for anyone thinking about starting a business of their own.
Young vapers ‘at risk of breathing problems and becoming smokers’
Review by paediatricians links child vaping with poor respiratory health such as coughing, wheezing and asthma Young people who start vaping risk developing breathing problems and going on to smoke cigarettes, children’s doctors have warned. Child vaping is consistently linked with poor respiratory health, such as coughing, wheezing, bronchitis symptoms and asthma exacerbations, while vapes have been shown to act as a gateway to smoking cigarettes, according to one of the most comprehensive reviews of the available evidence so far undertaken by the Royal College of Child and Paediatrics Health. Continue reading...
Quoting Jeremy Morrell
My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web . LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries. We can build our app as a solid, accountable core, and allow users to safely extend it in many directions by having LLMs fill in the missing pieces. We can give our users super powers. — Jeremy Morrell , Extensible Software in the age of LLMs Tags: sandboxing , llms , ai , generative-ai
Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of my highlights from a lightly edited transcript (prompt to Claude: "very minor edits to remove disfluencies"). This is the latest version of an argument I've been trying to build about why sometimes it does make sense to talk about lines of code as an indicator of productivity with coding agents, at 35:01 : A lot of people will tell you it makes no sense to measure productivity in lines of code. I’d actually disagree, because there’s a hard limit. In the before-times, a software engineer could produce a few hundred lines of production-ready code per day — and 200 lines of working, debugged, production-level code is an incredibly good day. Most days you’d produce 50 or 60. If agents let you produce a thousand lines of debugged code, that really is a very meaningful improvement — as long as the code is the same quality: maintainable, tested, all of that. You can get to that point with agents, but it takes a huge amount of skill and knowledge and experience. That’s what senior engineers are made of. I can do way more work as a single engineer than I could without agents. So you could argue, why should a company have more than one engineer? Beyond the obvious bus factor thing — a team of one is a very badly designed team — the answer is that the new limiting factor is cognitive capacity. I can churn out code a hundred times faster. I don’t have the cognitive capacity to stay on top of 100 times the amount of code. So you still need a team of engineers, so you can load balance that cognitive capacity across the team. And this section on conceptual integrity at 46:03 , which Claire equated to the Winchester Mystery House ! Simon : There’s a concept in The Mythical Man-Month — conceptual integrity — where well-designed software has an integrity to it: there are no surprises in it, it covers exactly the right domain of things, everything fits together and makes sense. That’s so much harder with coding agents, where you can have an idea for a feature, run a prompt, and five minuteslater you’ve got the feature. Your software grows little weird bumps in funny different directions. Claire : You know my analogy for that? The Winchester Mystery House. Simon : It’s got 140 rooms, because the woman who built it was the widow of the guy who invented the Winchester rifle, and her psychic told her she’d be haunted by the ghosts of everyone killed with that rifle unless she kept building the house forever. So for 40 years she kept adding new rooms. That’s exactly the problem with coding agents and software: it’s very easy to keep adding new rooms, because the cost of adding those rooms is so much cheaper. What you end up with is something where the conceptual integrity falls apart — and then it’s harder to make decisions about it. It all keeps coming back to discipline. It used to be that the discipline was enforced on you by the amount of time it took. You’d come up with an idea for a crazy feature and think “yeah, but that would take me a week — I cannot justify that, so I’ll forget about it.” If it takes an hour, it’s so much easier to justify. (Side-note: the Wikipedia article includes credible sources that dispute the story about the psychic.) Tags: ai , generative-ai , llms , podcast-appearances , coding-agents
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v0.32.15
What's Changed Add a model metadata cache to reduce Ollama’s per-request overhead New Contributors @gaugarg-nv made their first contribution in #17752 Full Changelog : v0.32.14...v0.32.15-rc1
v0.32.15
What's Changed New desktop onboarding flow on first launch Caches resolved model metadata between requests, cutting time-to-first-token by roughly half (TTFT dropped from ~995 ms to ~524 ms in benchmarks) Fixes a bug where chat and generate could wedge after a mid-stream parser error Qwen 3.8 system messages are now normalized so non-leading system messages are handled consistently MLX and llama.cpp dependency updates New Contributors @gaugarg-nv made their first contribution in #17752 Full Changelog : v0.32.14...v0.32.15
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Let non-engineers build secure internal tools Discussion | Link