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Python-Style Kwargs in TypeScript

Python-style kwargs in TypeScript 2025-09-21 PythonTypeScript My TypeScript function signatures always start small. There's usually an optional argument or two, but the call sites are easy to reason about: const greet = ( name : string , prefix = "Hello" ) => ` ${ prefix } , ${ name } . ` ; greet ( "Alice" ) ; greet ( "Bob" , "!" ) ; But as these functions grow, it's cumbersome to specify the last optional argument while using defaults for the rest: const greet = ( name : string , prefix = "

Apple researchers develop SimpleFold, a lightweight AI for protein folding prediction

Google DeepMind’s work with AlphaFold has been nothing short of a miracle, but it is computationally expensive. With that in mind, Apple researchers set off to develop an alternative method to use AI to predict the 3D structure of proteins, and it shows promise. Here are the details. If you’re not familiar with AlphaFold, this is Google DeepMind’s groundbreaking AI model that can predict the 3D structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence. This has been especially valuable in helping dev

Deutsche Bank Issues Grim Warning for AI Industry

Economists keep warning that the US economy is being propped up almost entirely by an enormous boom in the tech and AI sector. Should the rest of us be worried? Multibillion-dollar investments have become the norm as AI companies continue to double down on enormous infrastructure buildouts and talent acquisitions that they insist will undergird a new economy in which huge amounts of human labor are automated away. In a new research note, as Fortune reports, the international finance giant Deut

SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust

Introducing SedonaDB: A single-node analytical database engine with geospatial as a first-class citizen The Apache Sedona community is excited to announce the initial release of SedonaDB! 🎉 SedonaDB is the first open-source, single-node analytical database engine that treats spatial data as a first-class citizen. It is developed as a subproject of Apache Sedona. Apache Sedona powers large-scale geospatial processing on distributed engines like Spark (SedonaSpark), Flink (SedonaFlink), and Sno

Who Funds Misfit Research?

This piece is an addition to our Research Leader’s Playbook. We realized that (to our knowledge) nobody had unpacked where the money for “misfit research” — work that is a poor fit for academia, startups, or large companies — was coming from. If you are already deep in this world, you probably know all of this already, but it may still be worth a skim in for something that might surprise you. Funding preferences and situations can change quickly, so if any of this is incorrect or incomplete, pl

Neovate Code Is Open Sourced

Neovate Code is Open Sourced We are excited to announce that Neovate Code is now open sourced! Please give it a star and follow us on GitHub. Vibe Coding is Hot The developer experience is rapidly evolving. AI-powered coding assistants are no longer a luxury—they’re becoming essential tools for modern software development. From code completion to full feature implementation, AI agents are transforming how we write, debug, and maintain code. I think traditional programming is like a sculptor

TikTok child data protection inadequate, Canadian privacy officials say

TikTok child data protection inadequate, Canadian privacy officials say TikTok told the BBC that it will introduce a number of measures to "strengthen our platform for Canadians" although it disputes some of the findings. The investigation also found TikTok had collected sensitive personal information from "a large number" of Canadian children and used it for online marketing and content targeting. Hundreds of thousands of children in the country use TikTok each year despite the firm saying i

Dedicated mobile apps for vibe coding have so far failed to gain traction

While many vibe coding startups have become unicorns, with valuations in the billions, one area where AI-assisted coding has not yet taken off is on mobile devices. Despite the numerous apps now available that offer vibe coding tools on mobile platforms, none are gaining noticeable downloads, and few are generating any revenue at all. According to an analysis of global app store trends by the app intelligence provider Appfigures, only a small handful of mobile apps offering vibe coding tools ha

The Death Stranding anime now has a title and its first trailer

The long-running joke about Hideo Kojima is that he’d secretly rather be making movies than video games. Kojima somehow nearly got into double figures on Metal Gear games without any of them receiving the adaptation treatment (though not for the lack of trying on his part), but it’s looking like a very different story for the Death Stranding series on which he’s been working since departing Konami. A live-action adaptation of the post-apocalyptic walking simulator landed a writer and director b

Chicago’s Once-Disgusting River Just Hosted a Swimming Party

On Sunday, over 250 swimmers dove into the Chicago River for its first open water swim in almost a century. The Chicago River Swim’s triumphant return this past weekend celebrated the city’s environmental progress and raised $150,000 for ALS research at Northwestern’s Ozdinler Lab and swim-safety education programs at the Salvation Army Kroc Center, according to a recent Chicago River Swim statement. “Swimming in the Chicago River may sound like a wild idea, but the river has come a long way f

Airport disruptions in Europe caused by a ransomware attack

The disruptions over the weekend at several major European airports were caused by a ransomware attack targeting the check-in and boarding systems. Among the airports suffering technical difficulties are Heathrow in London, Brussels Airport, and Brandenburg in Berlin. Cork and Dublin airports in Ireland also experienced difficulties, but the impact was minor. The attack started on Friday night, according to Brussels Airport, and targeted “Collins Aerospace, the external provider of check-in an

Breaking Down the Creatures and Secrets of the First ‘Mandalorian and Grogu’ Trailer

This morning Lucasfilm and Disney released the first official trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu, the long-awaited first Star Wars movie to hit theaters since 2019’s The Rise of Skywalker. Although the clip kept details about the film’s story very close to its chest, it was packed with Easter eggs and references to Star Wars‘ past… and still gave us a few little hints about what to expect for the titular Mandalorian and his young ward. The trailer opens with a very familiar ship flying acros

Anti-*: The Things We Do but Not All the Way

I was reading Chase McCoy’s article “Antibuildings” where he cites Wikipedia’s entry on the term “Antilibrary” which points to another entry about the Japanese concept of Tsundoku, all of which deal with this idea of things we do with intention but that never make it to fruition. Antilibraries are the books we buy but never read. Antibuildings the architect’s version of sketches and plans drafted but buildings never made. It got me thinking about the stuff I’ve started with intention but neve

The Galaxy S26 could thrash the iPhone 17 Pro with new video recording features

Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Samsung is reportedly bringing APV codec support for video recording on the Galaxy S26 series. APV will enable lossless video recording with minimal degradation in quality and color. Samsung is also said to include the option to add LUTs to LOG videos directly from the Gallery app. Apple’s iPhone has traditionally been acclaimed as the leader in video recording. The Pro models have especially spearheaded their way with video features, such as ProRes, whi

CEO Says He’s Showing His Engineers How to Get Things Done by Sending Them Stuff He Vibe Coded

Buy-now-pay-later platform Klarna went public on the US stock market last week, sending its stock surging to well above its expected range. The company’s CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, has thrown the entire company’s weight behind artificial intelligence, infamously boasting that the tech was doing the work of “700 full-time agents” last year — only to regret his decision months later, admitting that humans play an important role after all. But Siemiatkowski’s obsession with AI hasn’t disappear

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LinkedIn will soon train AI models with data from European users

LinkedIn is preparing to switch on generative-AI training that draws from European members’ data, setting November 3, 2025 as the go-live date. The company says it will rely on “legitimate interests” as its legal basis and will offer an opt-out so members can refuse use of their data for training—promising that private messages are excluded. The change applies across the EU/EEA, United Kingdom, and Switzerland. This is a pivot from last year’s pause. In September 2024, after criticism and scrut

Timesketch: Collaborative forensic timeline analysis

Timesketch Table of Contents About Timesketch Timesketch is an open-source tool for collaborative forensic timeline analysis. Using sketches you and your collaborators can easily organize your timelines and analyze them all at the same time. Add meaning to your raw data with rich annotations, comments, tags and stars. < Getting started Installation Adding timelines Using Timesketch Adding a Notebook Container Community Contributing Obligatory Fine Print This is not an official Googl

Vibe coding cleanup as a service

Vibe Coding Cleanup as a Service A new service category is quietly emerging in tech: Vibe Coding cleanup. What started as LinkedIn jokes about “fixing AI messes” has become a real business opportunity. The harsh reality nobody wants to admit: most AI-generated code is production-unready, and companies are desperately hiring specialists to fix it before their technical debt spirals out of control. The vibe coding explosion When Andrej Karpathy coined “vibe coding” in early 2025, he perfectly c

CEO Says He's Showing His Engineers How to Get Things Done by Sending Them Stuff He Vibe Coded

Buy-now-pay-later platform Klarna went public on the US stock market last week, sending its stock surging to well above its expected range. The company's CEO, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, has thrown the entire company's weight behind artificial intelligence, infamously boasting that the tech was doing the work of "700 full-time agents" last year — only to regret his decision months later, admitting that humans play an important role after all. But Siemiatkowski's obsession with AI hasn't disappear

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Designing NotebookLM

We built and launched a viral AI product in 2 months (at Google !). Here's how: Our little NotebookLM team has had a crazy few months and is proving that small, nimble teams not only exist within Google, but can move fast and have significant impact. Our newest feature “Audio Overviews” has taken over the internet the past few days. The team has been sprinting - we went from idea to prototype in weeks, then launched publicly in under 2 months. It’s not perfect (yet!), but that’s the p

When Non-Avian Dinosaurs Went Extinct, the Earth Changed—Literally. Scientists Think They Finally Know Why

Rocks formed immediately before and after non-avian dinosaurs went extinct are strikingly different, and now, tens of millions of years later, scientists think they’ve identified the culprit—and it wasn’t the Chicxulub asteroid impact. In a study published Monday in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, researchers argue that dinosaurs physically influenced their surroundings so dramatically that their disappearance led to stark changes to the Earth’s landscape, and, in turn, the geol

You’ll enjoy the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 Carbon even without assist

Two things about the Specialized Turbo Vado SL 2 6.0 Carbon are hard to fathom: One is how light and lithe it feels as an e-bike, even with the battery off; the other is how hard it is to recite its full name when other riders ask you about the bike at stop lights and pit stops. I’ve tested about a half-dozen e-bikes for Ars Technica. Each test period has included a ride with my regular group for about 30 miles. Nobody else in my group rides electric, so I try riding with no assist, at least pa

Despite congressional threat, National Academies releases new climate report

Earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it was going to reject the work it had done back in 2009, when it first determined that greenhouse gas emissions posed a threat to the US public. While it laid out a number of reasons for revisiting its earlier work, one of those focused on the science: The EPA's original decision was over 15 years old, and it claimed our understanding of climate change had itself changed since then. The National Academies of Science (NAS) de

Court lets NSF keep swinging axe at $1B in research grants

A US court has cleared the way for the National Science Foundation to press ahead with the cancellation of more than 1,700 research grants worth upwards of $1 billion. The ruling, handed down this week by Judge Jia Cobb of the DC District Court, rejects a request from researchers, universities and scientific societies to reinstate the cancelled grants while the case is heard. The plaintiffs had argued that NSF's mass terminations were arbitrary, unlawful and would do irreparable harm to the cou

Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement

A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit where music publishers sued the Internet Archive over the Great 78 Project, an effort to preserve early music recordings that only exist on brittle shellac records. No details of the settlement have so far been released, but a court filing on Monday confirmed that the Internet Archive and UMG Recordings, Capitol Records, Sony Music Entertainment, and other record labels "have settled this matter." More details may come in the next 45 days, when parties

Raising Series A in 2026: Insights from top early-stage VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — taking place October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco — get the unfiltered perspective on landing a Series A in today’s market. No smoke, no mirrors, just straight talk from the people signing the checks. How to raise a Series A in 2026 This Builders Stage session brings together Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane (Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb (GV). They’ve seen thousands of decks, led major rounds, and helped steer startups from scrappy begi

Raising Series A in 2026: Insights from Top Early-Stage VCs at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

At TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — October 27–29 at Moscone West in San Francisco — get the unfiltered perspective on landing a Series A in today’s market. No smoke, no mirrors, just straight talk from the people signing the checks. Series A has changed — here’s how to win in 2026 Series A has changed — here’s how to win This Builder Stage session brings together Katie Stanton (Moxxie Ventures), Thomas Krane (Insight Partners), and Sangeen Zeb (GV). They’ve seen thousands of decks, led major rounds

Russia’s Space Chief Touts ‘Rapid’ Development of Starlink Rival

With more than 6 million active users, SpaceX’s Starlink has become the world’s leading provider of high-speed satellite internet. That prominence has sparked some rivalry, and not least with other world powers—including Russia. In a televised interview on Wednesday, the head of Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said it is pushing full steam ahead on an alternative to Starlink, Reuters reported. Dmitry Bakanov said that Roscosmos has partnered with Bureau 1440, a Russian aerospace company, to dev

Rereading books

How arrogant would you have to be to think you’ve gained everything from a book on your first reading? A wildly intelligent friend once said this to me and it struck home. A seemingly obvious point I’d ignored for years changed my approach to reading in a way that has considerably improved my life. If you already reread books regularly, feel free to skip this. If you’re like the old me who thought “Why would I reread a book when there are so many amazing books I haven’t yet read” then read on.

Rereading

How arrogant would you have to be to think you’ve gained everything from a book on your first reading? A wildly intelligent friend once said this to me and it struck home. A seemingly obvious point I’d ignored for years changed my approach to reading in a way that has considerably improved my life. If you already reread books regularly, feel free to skip this. If you’re like the old me who thought “Why would I reread a book when there are so many amazing books I haven’t yet read” then read on.