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Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
AlphaGenome Atlas: a high-resolution map of human DNA
We built our house for LAN parties (2024)
Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent
I resigned from Anthropic today
I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
DaVinci Resolve 21.1
ChatGPT Images 2.5
Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
How to build a printer
Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses
Mercury 2.5
The Helicopter with Radioactive Blades
Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration
Replacing a Rust Enum with a 64-Bit Word Made My Interpreter 17% Faster
The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Tension wood: A 'muscle' that can both bend and straighten plants
A Topological Picture Book, Rendered
27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter
OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math's 'Millennium Problems'
Star Trek Turns 60
Google Will 'Degrade' Search In Europe to Avoid EU Fines
Feds Accuse China of 'Systematic' Distillation of US AI Models
Meta Debuts Muse, Its Long-Planned Personal AI Agent
Australia To Let Social Media Users 'Opt Out' of Algorithm-Based Feeds
A Secret New Elizabeth Holmes Documentary Stuns Telluride
LG TVs Caught Spying Even When Offline or On Standby
Google DeepMind Publishes AI-Powered Predictions For Effect of All 9 Billion Mutations to Human DNA
Teen Reading Slumps to Worst This Century Due to Surge in Screen Time
Secretive DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits, Pulling Them Over
AMD Working To 'Push Rust Deep into the GPU Stack'
Three Cities, 16 Years And $1 Billion Later, 'Defiant' Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens To Mixed Reviews
Why Google Told Drivers to Drive a Longer Way On Purpose
Does Brave Browser Load Faster Than Chrome, Firefox, and Microsoft Edge?
How to build a f**king printer
What makes $BigTechCompany's products bad, anyway?
Switching Password Managers in 2026
I changed my license to EUPL
The state of European cloud providers in 2026
Extreme Server Side Rendering
Rust: When Empty Isn't Bottom
Jellyfin 12.0
How to get a free .arpa domain
Bitap: my favorite string matching algorithm
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in rust
CERN's migration path from CentOS Linux to Debian
Sloc Cloc and Code - Did I just get Buster Scrugged?
Finite-time blowup with smooth forcing for 3D incompressible Euler, Boussinesq, and IPM
This Month in Ladybird - August 2026
My Nix Config Is Intimate
x86 evolution for segmentation and paging
A faster way to convert a timestamp to Hour, Min, Sec
Emacs Bedrock 2.0 Released
Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts
I’ve factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority…from the 90s
Serving Web from volatile Dial-up IP
software for humans
The Depths of JavaScript: Minesweeper in 247 Bytes
Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0 (1999)
Foldable iPhone Duo Will Start at $2,000, Won't Launch Until at Least October
Apple Releases Firmware Update for 140W USB-C Power Adapter
Apple Likely to Announce Beats 360 This Month
How to Watch Apple's 'Surprise and Shine' September 9 Event
Apple Releases iOS 26.6.2
Apple Event Tomorrow: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Ultra Cheat Sheet
Next Apple TV's Chip Revealed in Latest Leak
Apple Watch SE 3 is Suddenly Unavailable
AirPods Turn 10
Apple to Introduce All-New 'Readiness' App Tomorrow
'Small Prophets' Renewed for Season 2 Following Apple TV Deal
Apple Sued Over Alleged Face ID Patent Infringement
Apple Arcade Adds 'Pusheen's Place' and Four More Games in October
Apple Acquires Startup Working on 'Breakthrough Sensing Technology'
Amazon Takes Up to $150 Off M5 MacBook Air
Amazon Introduces First Pre-Order Discount on New Mac Studio, Alongside Mac Mini Deals
Foldable iPhone Development History and Price Revealed in New Report
iPhone Ultra Touch ID 'Confirmed' in iOS 27? Not So Fast
2024 vs. 2026 Mac Mini Buyer's Guide
Foldable 'iPhone Ultra' May Launch Later in China, Says Leaker
When 8 chunks weigh more than 355
Why StyleX is having a moment
Bun now passes 80.5% of Node's test suite
How GPT-5.6 Sol helps run quantum computing experiments
The Work Now Within Reach
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Funding grants for new research into AI and teen development
OpenAI expands initiatives to support journalism from classrooms to newsrooms
1Password increases engineering productivity 21% with Codex
Supporting independent journalism in Ukraine
An Alien Mind
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders: $1B to protect essential services
Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT-6 Astra
Legora reviewed 41 documents in minutes with GPT-6 Astra
GPT-6 Astra: A new generation of intelligence
Safety overview: GPT-6 Astra
ATV Big Air Tour turned 3 days of work into 3 hours with ChatGPT
AlphaGenome Atlas: A predictive map of every possible DNA letter change in the human genome
Introducing WeatherNext 3, our most advanced and accurate global weather AI model
Proactive cyber defense for governments and enterprises
Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic
NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder
Fine-tuning a 350M Model for Better Structured Outputs in 100 GRPO Steps
Give Your Coding Agents a Memory You Own
Training a coding model to paint watercolours with TRL and OpenEnv
Real-Time Intelligence with IBM Time Series Models on Confluent
Quoting Terence Tao
On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5
llm 0.35
Creepy crawlies
Quoting Jakub Pachocki
Video compressor
Mercator ↔ Equal Earth
Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
The purpose of DNS is to spread scams
There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get
Quoting Zach Kehs
Introducing GPT-6 Astra for developers
Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
August newsletter is out
GPT‑6 Astra
llm-openrouter 0.7.1
llm 0.34
llm-anthropic 0.28
llm-gemini 0.34
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded
The Frontier AEO Tracker: What Astra Chooses (and every other frontier model, and what you can do about it)
OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot
[AINews] Collusion.wiki: A second undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm incident...
[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time
GPT-6 Astra: an automated AI Engineer you can hire for <$6 an hour
[AINews] Muse Spark 1.3 matches GPT-5.6-Sol, confirming Meta Superintelligence as the newest Frontier Lab, >90% discount for training
[AINews] Claude Fable/Mythos 5.1: new SOTA model, 75% cache price cut but 70% more output tokens
Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting)
Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
ZGateway: Learnings from Putting a Proxy in Front of ZippyDB
An Organizational Second Brain: Building an AI That Learns From Experts
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Run several agents at once
Decoding the new AI lingo: Loops, harnesses, squads, hill climbing… oh my!
How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality
Enterprise-managed sandbox in Copilot for JetBrains
GitHub Enterprise Server 3.22 is now generally available
New customer portal help.github.com
Automatic Dependabot access to GitHub-hosted registries
GitHub Copilot weekly releases — August 31
GPT-6 Astra is generally available in GitHub Copilot
New API endpoint provides privacy-safe star history data
Multiple trusted publishing configurations for npm
GitHub Actions: Early September 2026 updates
Upcoming deprecation of selected GitHub Copilot models
Vercel Sandbox routing is now 18x faster globally
Introducing Flat Rate CDN
GPT Image 2.5 Flare and Sunburst now available on AI Gateway
Flat Rate CDN is now GA for Pro teams
Ling 3.0 Flash Sante is now available on AI Gateway for free
GPT 6 Astra now available on Vercel AI Gateway
Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox
Basic build machines are now available on Pro and Enterprise
Discord Patch Notes: September 8, 2026
Bun v1.4.2
Bun v1.4.1- New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: til.simonwillison.net/llms…
- Got access to GPT-6 Astra.
- Wrote up my thoughts on the whole OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem…
- Sunday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22752
- Thursday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22750
- Wednesday session 🔗 https://adactio.com/notes/22747
- Switching from one agent ecosystem to another stinks.
- AI is not a silver bullet.
- This is the sort of thing kody.codes enables
- Wrote about what's up in angle brackets land.
- Resting is so much more restful when you’re rested.
- Have you too started hacking on hardware projects because of LLMs?
- Future language designers please don't make the mistake of Python to use indenta…
- If you look at a release like Astra I feel like you can only draw the conclusion…
- okay, it's out github.com/gaearon/conw...
- silo just went into all time greats i think
- astra is very hit and miss.
- I am begging you to stop using AI to write your video scripts.
- this is a fascinating (and sobering) read
- tag yourself
- Due to popular demand (it's me—I'm the demand), I've decided to cut pgbg in two…
- When I was advocating for nogil/free-threading, I always said that it’s importan…