2026-07-18
Why Bigger Context Windows Make AI Agents Worse, Not Better
Why bigger context windows often make AI agents less accurate. Learn about lost-in-the-middle, context rot, reranking, and smarter context engineering.
Multi-Agent Systems Need a Control Plane, Not Just Better Orchestration
Multi-agent AI systems need control planes to separate agent recommendations from execution authority, policy enforcement, and auditability.
Imminent, urgent, trending and important
The nearest lightning was 1,200 miles away. At least that’s what the weather site reported. When lightning is that unlikely, we don’t worry about it much. It turns out that...
Designing Software for Change: The Engineering Discipline Behind Systems That Survive Growth
Learn why resilient software architecture is designed for change, not just scale—and how to reduce technical debt, cognitive load, and future engineering risk.
Pixel Art Adventure Brave Escape Leaps Over To Consoles This Month
Independent developer Hit Start Studios has announced that its two-player co-op platformer Brave Escape will officially launch on PlayStation 5 and XBOX Series X|S on July 24th, 2026. Brave Escape...
Fallout 5: Confirmed details (and speculation) about Bethesda's next post-nuclear RPG
Bethesda is finally returning to the irradiated wastes.
Why Superintelligence Won't Be Born on Earth
Why state regulations, institutional lies, and the "alignment trap" guarantee that true Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) will only be born far beyond Earth.
BaseRT
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Cross-Sectioning Crickets with a Femtosecond Laser
Unlike most cutting lasers, femtosecond lasers don’t vaporize materials; rather, they produce such short, intense bursts of light that the affected region is ablated without having the chance to heat...
Map and Territory, Predictably Wrong
Crossposted (with small tweaks) from my Substack.What Do I Mean By “Rationality”?We distinguish epistemic rationality (making your beliefs more accurate) from instrumental rationality (succeeding at getting what you want).“rationality is...
NextBSD returns to dollop Apple source on FreeBSD
New maintainer revives the project with Darwin components, Gershwin, and Claude Code
Golden Dome Could Cost $1,200,000,000,000 — or $185,000,000,000. Nobody Knows, Because Nobody Has Defined the Mission
$175 billion, $185 billion, or $1.2 trillion — the price of Golden Dome depends on a question Washington hasn't answered: which war is the shield for?
China Went From 200 Nuclear Warheads to Roughly 620 in Under a Decade — the Fastest Buildup on Earth
The fastest nuclear buildup on Earth is real — and the precise speed is less certain than the alarm implies. The full ledger of China's sprint: the numbers, the silos,...
His A-10’s Cannon Malfunctioned Mid-Burst, Blew Off the Canopy, and Jammed the Nose Gear. He Landed on the Belly
The gun the A-10 was built around turned on it mid-burst — canopy gone, radios dead, nose gear jammed. What Capt. Brett DeVries did next is why the Warthog's survivability...
TradFi Volumes Triple, 12M Users Reached as BTCC Exchange Marks 15 Years
On July 10, BTCC hosted an exclusive VIP dinner in Ginza, Tokyo. The invitation-only event brought VIP clients together under the theme of "Tsumugi" (to weave),
Claude make Fable 5 permanent
Claude make Fable 5 permanent An update from the @claudeai account on Twitter: Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at...
The Lockheed Martin SR-72 ‘Son of Blackbird’ Will Never Hit Mach 6 As It Looks Doomed
A demonstrator was supposed to be flying by 2025. Instead: no photos, no leaks, no acknowledgment. What the silence around Lockheed's "Son of Blackbird" likely means — and the engine...
nascheme/quixote
nascheme/quixote A certain vintage of Python web nerd might be delighted to learn that the most recent commit to the Quixote web framework was six hours ago. The oldest commit...
ASMTwo 0.96y1 | PPA.pl
AsmTwo to assembler, który powstał na bazie Asm-One 1.02+. Jego główną zaletą jest zachowanie umiarkowanego zapotrzebowania na pamięć podczas programowania na Amidze 500. Wiąże się to jednak z niedogodnością w...
The 5 AWS Services Every Developer Must Know to Build AI Products in 2026 (With Real Projects)
You don't need to know all 200+ AWS services to build AI products. You need these 5. Here's the complete beginner's guide to Amazon Bedrock, Lambda, API Gateway
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