2026-05-15
Designing AI factual claims for "easy verification"
"Sometimes the AI just makes stuff up" is a problem I don't really expect to go away. In the nearterm, AI is going to keep occasionally hallucinating, or misinterpreting information....
Leaked Xbox Elite 3 controller images show at least one oddball addition, but it'll struggle to compete in a radically changed market
Gamepads are better, and cheaper, than they've ever been.
Cerebras risked it all on dinner plate-sized AI accelerators a decade ago. Today it's worth $66B
Here's a look at the tech powering the first big IPO of 2026
Demerzel’s fate
Bringing the robot character to life, and death, for season 3 of Foundation. A new excerpt from the magazine. The post Demerzel’s fate appeared first on befores & afters.
Controlling a Vibrobot with Only One Motor
The vibrobot – a vibrating motor and battery attached to the head of a brush – isn’t truly a robot, since its movement can’t be controlled, but it’s whetted the...
Not so locked in any more
This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week. I was talking to someone who...
Wired on the Dark Mood Inside Meta
Paresh Dave, Lauren Goode, Steven Levy, and Zoë Schiffer, reporting for Wired (News+ link): As Meta employees brace for layoffs next Wednesday, May 20, many say the vibes are horrifically,...
Nobody believes the 'criminals and scumbags' who hacked Canvas really deleted stolen student data
Other than Instructure execs - maybe?
Autograph.video Beta
A drag and drop Motion Design tool to swap creatives quickly Discussion | Link
Quoting Mitchell Hashimoto
[...] On the interesting side is how fungible programming languages are nowadays. Programming languages used to be LOCK IN, and they're increasingly not so. You think the Bun rewrite in...
PM's Guide to Claude - When to use Chat vs Cowork vs Code, with Pawel Huryn
What the PM who tracked Anthropic’s 74 releases in 52 days actually runs on his own machine - from Cowork to Claude Code to Dispatch.
A PvE-only mode is coming to Marathon as Bungie lays out plans for seasons 3, 4 and 5
"We want to evolve Marathon as a whole."
Automated Alignment is Harder Than You Think
SummaryThis is a summary of a paper published by the alignment team at UK AISI. Read the full paper here.AI research agents may help solve ASI alignment, for example via...
datasette-agent 0.1a1
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a1 Now uses the execute-sql permission when deciding which tables to list to the user. #8 Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
2026-05-14
The original Doom soundtrack joins 'our national playlist' in the US Library of Congress
Bobby Prince's groundbreaking soundtrack is one of 25 recordings inducted into the famed Library of Congress today.
Building a Mission-Critical Integration Blind, Part I: XML, Queues, and Guesswork
No access to the external broker. No spec—just 300 pages of government PDFs. We built an async service (PHP/Symfony/PostgreSQL/RabbitMQ) that processes millions of legally significant requests. Key lessons: let Claude...
Native DeepCloner vs. Manual Serialization: What You Need to Know
In this comprehensive guide, we will explore the theoretical differences between these cloning strategies, the inner workings of PHP’s memory management, and analyze real-world micro-benchmark data to determine the definitive...
Using Docker Compose for AI Agent Development
This article walks through building a production-like local AI agent stack using Docker Compose, combining LiteLLM, Pinecone Local, Langfuse, MCP filesystem servers, and a FastAPI-based research agent into a reproducible...
Subnautica 2 sells 1 million copies in its first hour, and I have to imagine the CEO of Krafton is pouring himself a very stiff drink right about now (Update: Whoops, wait, it's 2 million copies now)
The scenario that Krafton humiliated itself to avoid seems to be coming true very quickly.
Planora
A digital workspace for creative collaboration Discussion | Link
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