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Microsoft's new agentic web protocol 'NLWeb' done messed up in the most trivial of ways

Microsoft's new agentic web protocol 'NLWeb' done messed up in the most trivial of ways

OpenAI Releases Gpt-oss AI Model, Offers Bounty For Vulnerabilities OpenAI have just released gpt-oss, an AI large language model (LLM) available for local download and offline use licensed under Apache 2.0, and optimized for efficiency on a variety of platforms wi…

nice try, altman!

hackaday.com/2025/08/06/o...

Dr Abeba Birhane on AI for Good Summit censoring her keynote speech at the last minute

Dr Abeba Birhane on AI for Good Summit censoring her keynote speech at the last minute

A reinforcement learning agent beat Pokémon Red

A reinforcement learning agent beat Pokémon Red

Misidentified by facial recognition and arrested In Jacksonville, Florida, police arrested a man because AI facial recognition classified his face as a close match to a suspect’s. The police had the wrong person. Even though charges were dr…

of course this happened in Florida flowingdata.com/2025/07/15/m...

Bees' brain cell density is higher than birds

Bees' brain cell density is higher than birds

Why do you never see baby pigeons?

Why do you never see baby pigeons?

Your brain works fine when you're under 25 (no matter how 'inconvenient' this fact may be) The claim that, if you're under 25, your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make mature decisions, or held responsible for actions, is very common. But also very wrong.

Your brain works fine when you're under 25 (no matter how 'inconvenient' this fact may be)

theneuroscienceofeve...

The 'frontal lobe theory', that your brain isn't 'fully mature' until age 25, remains very influential... and almost entirely wrong.

#Brains #Teens #development #Policy

Generating Plasma With A Hand-Cranked Generator Everyone loves to play with electricity and plasma, and [Hyperspace Pirate] is no exception. Inspired by a couple of 40×20 N52 neodymium magnets he had kicking around, he decided to put togeth…

who up hand-cranking their plasma? (not a euphemism)

First Map Made of a Solid’s Secret Quantum Geometry | Quanta Magazine Physicists recently mapped the hidden shape that underlies the quantum behaviors of a crystal, using a new method that’s expected to become ubiquitous.

“We are in the second quantum revolution,” said Riccardo Comin (opens a new tab), an experimental physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who is one of the leaders of this work. “Now, we have the tools to really explore the wave function of quantum particles.”

Build your own 3D-printed skateboard thanks to megalog_

Build your own 3D-printed skateboard thanks to megalog_

lola’s lab - Open Collective Web advocacy & standards.

Anyway, if anyone wants to sponsor me to implement Close Watcher in Servo, you can do so on my Open Collective.

I’m lucky that I found a mentor. I’ve kind of created my own internship program to learn & contribute to browser engines 💪🏾

give.lolaslab.co

Article Performance Leaderboard: a showcase of news sites and their varying page speeds

Article Performance Leaderboard: a showcase of news sites and their varying page speeds

Calculating Empires uproots 5 centuries of modern technology and world history

Calculating Empires uproots 5 centuries of modern technology and world history

Alessio Figalli: ever the optimalist

Alessio Figalli: ever the optimalist

How to write sheet music with CSS Grid

How to write sheet music with CSS Grid

How does water freeze?

How does water freeze?

Capital B on the effects of electric vehicle manufacture on Black communities

Capital B on the effects of electric vehicle manufacture on Black communities

Jared Hutchins on how big data created the modern dairy cow

Jared Hutchins on how big data created the modern dairy cow

Atlas of Space

Atlas of Space

Quanta on Karl Weierstrass's controversial influence on calculus

Quanta on Karl Weierstrass's controversial influence on calculus

The Extremely Large Telescope

The Extremely Large Telescope

Is It Toxic To?

Is It Toxic To?

RIP Pocket

RIP Pocket

When to use var, let, and const in JavaScript

When to use var, let, and const in JavaScript

Now you can run Windows 95 in an Electron app

Now you can run Windows 95 in an Electron app

Defend the em-dash

NASA Is Shutting Down The International Space Station Sighting Website Starting on June 12, 2025, the NASA Spot the Station website will no longer provide ISS sighting information, per a message recently sent out. This means no information on sighting opportunities pr…

ah damn