OpenAI buys tiny software developer to improve Codex
OpenAI is buying Pierre Computer Company in order to incorporate the San Francisco-based software developer’s Code.Storage infrastructure layer for Git into its Codex AI-powered programming tool. Pierre Computer, whose employe...
How Remedy designed Control Resonant’s wildest mission: ‘Anything kind of goes’
Note: Some spoilers for Control Resonant's "Recursions and Iterations" mission follow. One of Control Resonant's most memorable missions involves time travel - kind of. There are certainly multiple timelines intersecting, or maybe overlapping, or maybe…
I’ve reviewed almost every Android foldable this year — here’s how the iPhone Duo compares
When I first read Allison and Nilay's Verge review of the iPhone Duo, I was immediately struck by one of their complaints: that the cover display is too small. That's not how the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 feels, I thought. Had they got it wrong? After a…
After printing 40,000 whistles, this is the 3D printer I’d buy
I've been wanting to try 3D printing, people tell me. Which printer should I get? I finally have a fairly easy answer: the Bambu Lab P2S Combo. The auto-loading, fully enclosed touchscreen printer is one of the very few I can recommend. It's the only one…
The Enough Phone is made by and for people fed up with big screens
It's a bad time and maybe also a great time to make a new smartphone. Brennan Jordan and Austin Boer are two-thirds of the trio behind the Enough Phone, a small phone that will run your choice of stock Android or the minimalist OdysseyOS. They're…
Protesters break into Microsoft data center site in Amsterdam
Protesters have broken into a construction site of a new Microsoft data center in Amsterdam this morning. Members of the Geef Tegengas group helped organize the protest against the construction of three 85-meter data center towers in the outskirts of…
CPython flaw exposes AI inference servers to sandbox escape attacks
A memory-safety flaw in CPython can allow malicious AI model templates to escape code sandboxes and execute arbitrary code inside inference servers, according to security researchers at RunSybil. “By exploiting this vulnerabil...
Tesla is ‘winding down’ production of the Cybertruck next year
Tesla is getting the Cybertruck ready for retirement in an effort to ramp up its robotaxi output. In an X post on Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the company will be "winding down" Cybertruck production at its Texas Gigafactory sometime around the…
I watched a humanoid robot clean my apartment. It felt like a taste of the future.
I’m not the sort of person who typically pays for a house cleaner. I’m too frugal, and I kind of enjoy putting on a podcast and going to town on my tub with a Magic Eraser. But when I saw an X post about a new humanoid-robot cleaning service in San…
Python is de-jitted but still de-lovely
A major experimental component of Python, its native JIT (just-in-time) compiler, is to be removed. But that won’t make Python any less attractive or powerful. Follow the links below to read about all its new features, explore on...