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This is a personal essay describing the author's woodworking journey, including a past GCSE project failure and a recent DIY dog gate built with a partner named Jenny. It details tools purchased, such as a Black & Decker workmate and materials from Screwfix and Sydenhams, and the process of building a gate for their stairs to contain their dog Fern.
A Stratus Technologies fault-tolerant server first switched on in 1993 is still operating at steel maker Great Lakes Works EGL in Dearborn, Michigan, according to IT application architect Phil Hogan, who has maintained it ever since. Roughly 80% of the original hardware remains in place, with disk drives, power supplies and other parts swapped in over the years, and Hogan says the machine has never suffered an unplanned shutdown. It won a 2010 Stratus contest for longest-running server and still runs an early-2000s version of the proprietary VOS operating system.
A writer searched Google for the phrase 'hes never coming over dario,' referencing a 2014 NBA fan meme about player Dario Saric. Instead of returning links, Google's AI Overview interpreted the query as a personal message about heartbreak and responded with sympathetic, therapist-like language.
A site operator configured their personal blog to be accessible via a .onion address, making it reachable only through the Tor network. The setup uses Tor's hidden service feature to route traffic through an nginx server listening locally, encrypted and relayed by the Tor network itself, with a separate build of the static site using the onion address as its base URL.
At its annual Connect event, Meta unveiled Muse, a new personal AI agent, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg signaling the company's intent to embed AI features broadly across its products. TechCrunch's Equity podcast hosts discussed the launch, noting it arrived the same week as new model releases from OpenAI and Anthropic, which have focused more on coding and enterprise tools.
Brief references to a feature called "o, your always-on assistant" appeared temporarily in listings for OpenAI's $100 ChatGPT Pro plan before being removed. Configuration details spotted by users on X included a display name of "o" and an email suffix of "-o", suggesting some email-related function. OpenAI has not confirmed or denied working on the feature.
Imp is a new Elixir library that ports DSPy's approach of declaring language-model tasks as typed, measurable functions to the BEAM virtual machine. Developers define signatures describing inputs and outputs, choose reasoning strategies like chain-of-thought or ReAct-style tool use, and run an optimizer against labeled example sets to improve performance. The library builds prompts and validates responses automatically, returning typed fields rather than raw text.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will have a private dinner with President Trump at the White House on Sunday, marking their first one-on-one meeting. Amodei missed Thursday's state dinner for Xi Jinping due to a scheduling conflict, prompting Trump to extend the separate invitation, according to a source familiar with the arrangement.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei will meet President Trump for a private White House dinner on Sunday, after skipping Thursday's state dinner honoring China's Xi Jinping due to a scheduling conflict. Trump reportedly invited Amodei separately, marking the first one-on-one meeting between the two men.
Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, is scheduled to attend a dinner at the White House with President Trump. The meeting comes despite prior friction between Anthropic and the administration over AI safety concerns and calls for tighter regulation of American AI firms.
Bill Gates told NBC News' Meet the Press that it is "completely irresponsible" for AI systems to lack safeguards and monitoring capabilities, and voiced support for legislative involvement in setting such requirements. He said he wouldn't oppose California Governor Gavin Newsom's proposed AI "kill switch," but argued the more urgent threat is people with malicious intent exploiting AI tools for things like bioterrorism or large-scale financial fraud.
A programmer spent a summer at Recurse Center, a Brooklyn-based self-directed coding retreat, participating in peer-led study groups. Activities included an 'Agentic Adventures' group exploring LLM agents and sandboxed coding environments, a 'Practical Deep Learning' group working through Jeremy Howard's book, and a 'Math Monday' discussion group started with another attendee. Projects included building a remote sandbox for a coding agent, training a small text-prediction model on Romeo and Juliet, and experimenting with LoRA fine-tuning.