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GeoBounties Earns a 75.61 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building a Location-Based Task Marketplace Connecting AI to Real-World Physical Actions

Discover how GeoBounties earned a 75.61 Proof of Usefulness score by connecting AI agents to real-world physical actions via Model Context Protocol (MCP).

SMSFAST Expands Developer Access to Its SMS Verification API

SMSFAST expands developer access to its SMS Verification API, enabling seamless phone verification, faster integration, enhanced security, and global scalabilit

My Solar Atlas Earns a 40.77 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an Objective Solar Quote Comparison Tool

My Solar Atlas earned a 40.77 Proof of Usefulness score for helping homeowners compare solar quotes, warranties, and expected returns without selling their data

How Social Media Engineers Addiction (And How Tech Can Harness It For Good)

RiseGuide reworks social media engagement mechanics into a self-improvement loop designed to deliver real-world value instead of maximizing screen time.

DELAX GEO-RISK INTELLIGENCE Earns a 64.63 Proof of Usefulness Score by Building an AI-Powered Geopolitical Decision-Ready View

DELAX GEO-RISK INTELLIGENCE earned a 64.63 Proof of Usefulness score for connecting geopolitical events, energy disruptions, and market risk.

Nowy atak na WordPressa znaleziony przez AI: od XSS do admina i wykonania dowolnego kodu PHP

Dziura znajduje się we wszystkich wersjach WordPressa aż do 7.0.3 (niezależnie od zainstalowanych pluginów) i pozwala atakującemu stać się administratorem bloga, a nawet wykonać dowolny kod PHP po stronie serwera....

How to Draw Characters in Pixel Art

London still dominates Britain's datacenter map, but the regions are powering up

The capital holds two-thirds of capacity, while multimegawatt projects gather beyond the M25

Obrazy z obrazami (i przemyślnym kolekcjonerem). Malowane gabinety Leopolda Wilhelma Habsburga

W nowożytnej Europie uprawianie kolekcjonerstwa przez przedstawicieli wyższych warstw społecznych miało wymiar przede wszystkim polityczny. Pomiędzy papieżami, władcami i wpływowymi rodami toczyła się rywalizacja o posiadanie starożytnych rzeźb, roślin z...

Más del 50% de los hogares del este de Omaha tiene niveles inseguros de plomo. No significa que la EPA los limpiará.

The post Más del 50% de los hogares del este de Omaha tiene niveles inseguros de plomo. No significa que la EPA los limpiará. appeared first on ProPublica.

Sean Grindal on the Hidden Costs of AI Code

Sean Grindal explains why AI coding tools accelerate development but also reduce code ownership, encourage feature bloat, and contribute to developer burnout.

More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up.

The post More Than Half the Homes in East Omaha Have Unsafe Lead Levels. That Doesn’t Mean the EPA Will Clean Them Up. appeared first on ProPublica.

From Agile to the Product Operating Model: What Practitioners Say Is Actually Changing

TL; DR: The “Agile to the Product Operating Model” Survey Results Between August 2 and August 10, 2026, 48 practitioners participated in my Agile to Product Operating Model (POM) survey,...

Managing the Transition From Predictable API-Based Software Toward AI Agents

Learn how enterprises can safely transition from API-driven software to AI agents using APIs, RAG, guardrails, governance, and platform engineering.

Smart glasses are only smart if we train them to be good. Then they'll be fantastic

Just add smart humans – and a pinch of dog

Is Eval Gaming Downstream of Verbalized Eval Awareness? Not when it's reflexive.

Code and data available at github.com/KieronKretschmar/latent-awarenessTL;DRWe take two eval-gaming model organisms (Hua et al.'s (2025) organism and RogueQwen) and apply direct preference optimization (DPO) to their chain-of-thought (CoT) to reduce...

Netok Earns a 54 Proof of Usefulness Score by Translating Network Problems Into Plain English

Netok earned a 54 Proof of Usefulness score for its open-source Windows app that turns network diagnostics and connection errors into plain language.

Give me one reason

When your project, proposal or resume is rejected, it’s tempting to try to understand why. Scrutinize the rejection letter and turn the short sentence into a paragraph or an essay,...

Even on the Red Planet, Hexagons are the Bestagons

Though their pure Platonic Forms may only exist in the world of ideas, certain regular shapes can’t help but keep falling out of natural processes– case in point, the six-sided...

AI Investor and CEO Rob May Discusses the Value of the Post-Model World Thesis

Rob May argues AI's future lies in intelligent systems, not standalone models. Explore his Post-Model World thesis, model fragmentation, and Neurometric.