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Jan 31 • 3 months ago

AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast

Moltbook lets 32,000 AI bots trade jokes, tips, and complaints about humans. ...

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Jan 13 • 4 months ago

Even Linus Torvalds is trying his hand at vibe coding (but just a little)

"But then I cut out the middle man—me." ...

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Dec 13 • 5 months ago

OpenAI built an AI coding agent and uses it to improve the agent itself

"The vast majority of Codex is built by Codex," OpenAI told us about its new AI coding agent. ...

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Dec 11 • 5 months ago

A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options

Devstral 2 model scores 72% on industry benchmark, nearing proprietary rivals. ...

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Nov 10 • 6 months ago

New project brings strong Linux compatibility to more classic Windows games

But author warns that Direct3D 7 "is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability." ...

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Oct 16 • 7 months ago

Open source GZDoom community splinters after creator inserts AI-generated code

UZDoom fork promises to fix other top-down leadership problems with the decades-old mod. ...

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Sep 30 • 7 months ago

DeepSeek tests “sparse attention” to slash AI processing costs

Chinese lab's v3.2 release explores a technique that could make running AI far less costly. ...

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Sep 30 • 7 months ago

Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks

Latest Claude model beats OpenAI and Google on coding tests. ...

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Sep 29 • 7 months ago

F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project

F-Droid sees Google's plans as a threat to FOSS apps. ...

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Sep 09 • 8 months ago

Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit in supply-chain attack

Incident hitting npm users is likely the biggest supply-chain attack ever. ...

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Sep 04 • 8 months ago

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

Historic interpreter taught millions to program on Commodore and Apple computers. ...

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Sep 04 • 8 months ago

New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with caveats

Openly available AI tool creates steerable 3D-like video, but requires serious GPU muscle. ...

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