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The Best Foods to Put On Your Plate if You Have a Headache

If taking an aspirin or simply lying down isn't cutting it when you have a headache, you may want to consider what's on your plate for relief. While no food will cure headaches or migraines, certain foods may help -- in addition to hydration, exercise, sleep and stress management. "The most important thing I tell patients is that migraines are highly individualized," says Dr. Nicholas Church, a board-certified member of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Academy of Family Ph

These Expert-Approved Feeder Hacks Turned My Yard Into a Bird Hotel

You don't need to hike into the wilderness to feel closer to nature. Sometimes, all it takes is a simple bird feeder and putting it in the right spot. Whether you're living in the suburbs or just got access to a backyard after years in the city, attracting feathered friends can bring surprising benefits for your mental health. Studies show that spending time around birds and hearing birdsong can lower stress, ease anxiety and even help with depression symptoms. But if your feeder isn't seeing m

Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, but also taps into questions about the irreversible nature of time. “It’s a beautiful work,” said Gregory Falkovich, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. “A tour de force.” Under the Mesoscope Consider a gas whose particles are very spread out. There are many ways a physicist might model it. At a microscopic level, the gas is composed of individual

The uproar over Vogue’s AI-generated ad isn’t just about fashion

Sarah Murray recalls the first time she saw an artificial model in fashion: It was 2023, and a beautiful young woman of color donned a Levi’s denim overall dress. Murray, a commercial model herself, said it made her feel sad and exhausted. The iconic denim company had teamed up with the AI studio Lalaland.ai to create “diverse” digital fashion models for more inclusive ads. For an industry that has failed for years to employ diverse human models, the backlash was swift, with New York Magazine c

Inside OpenAI’s quest to make AI do anything for you

Shortly after Hunter Lightman joined OpenAI as a researcher in 2022, he watched his colleagues launch ChatGPT, one of the fastest-growing products ever. Meanwhile, Lightman quietly worked on a team teaching OpenAI’s models to solve high school math competitions. Today that team, known as MathGen, is considered instrumental to OpenAI’s industry-leading effort to create AI reasoning models: the core technology behind AI agents that can do tasks on a computer like a human would. “We were trying t

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest

Twenty Eighth International Obfuscated C Code Contest Where to start See below for links to the 2024 winning IOCCC entries. Check out the index.html web pages for each winning entry. They have most of the information you need to compile and run the winning program. Take a look at the winning source code and try to figure out how it works. You might also want to check out the author’s remarks for even more details. You may download all winning entries in the form of a compressed tarball, for

Writing a basic service for GNU Guix

According to the Shepherd Services documentation, the start and stop fields of shepherd-service take G-Expressions. But what's a g-expression? Well, because Guix uses Scheme for both higher-level actions–like defining packages–and lower-level actions–like building derivations generated by packages– it needs a faculty for embedding lower-level code in higher-level code. So in the start field of wesnoth-shepherd-service : (start #~(make-forkexec-constructor/container (list #$(file-append package

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Aug. 3, #314

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition might be tough. The yellow category came together right away for me, but the others...not so much. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 3, #784

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle could be tough. But the purple category is pretty fun, at least if you're fascinated with musical groups and their names. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go the

Ethereum turns 10: From scrappy experiment to Wall Street’s invisible backbone

watch now CANNES — Ten years ago, Vitalik Buterin and a small band of developers huddled in a drafty Berlin loft strung with dangling lightbulbs, laptops balanced on mismatched chairs and chipped tables. They weren't corporate titans or venture-backed founders — just idealists working long nights to push a radical idea into reality. From that sparse office, they launched "Frontier," Ethereum 's first live network. It was bare-bones — no interface, no polish, nothing user-friendly. But it could

PixiEditor 2.0 – A FOSS universal 2D graphics editor

What is PixiEditor? Up until today, PixiEditor was known as a pixel-art editor. Version 2.0 is much more than that. It’s a Universal 2D Editor - a brand new category. It’s not yet another Photoshop alternative. We take the word “Universal” much more seriously. We built an extremely configurable raster/vector render pipeline, which you can adjust for any workflow you can think of. Our goal is to build a free and open source editor that can handle all of 2D graphics Raster Vector, Animations

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 3 #518

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle is a funny one. Some of the words were easy, but others took me a little thought to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wordle, Connections an

I tried ‘Bricking’ my phone to fix my brain

is a senior reporter focusing on wearables, health tech, and more with 13 years of experience. Before coming to The Verge, she worked for Gizmodo and PC Magazine. “We need to talk.” Nobody likes to hear those words from their spouse. Especially when it’s delivered in a grave tone as you rot on a couch in a grubby blankie, staring like a zombie while doomscrolling. “Wut?” I said, very intelligently. What came next was a compassionate but firm speech about how I was in dire need of an intervent

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Anthropic beats OpenAI as the top LLM provider for business - and it's not even close

oxygen/Getty ZDNET's key takeaways Programming is AI's killer app. The top business AI, especially for programming, is Anthropic. Open-source AI is lagging behind its proprietary competitors. If you were to ask J. Random User on the street what the most popular business AI Large Language Model (LLM) is, I bet you they'd say OpenAI's ChatGPT. As of mid-2025, however, Anthropic is the leading enterprise LLM provider, with 32% of enterprise usage, according to Menlo Ventures, an early-stage ve

Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos

Fact-checkers may have a new tool in the fight against misinformation. A team of Cornell researchers has developed a way to “watermark” light in videos, which they can use to detect if video is fake or has been manipulated. The idea is to hide information in nearly-invisible fluctuations of lighting at important events and locations, such as interviews and press conferences or even entire buildings, like the United Nations Headquarters. These fluctuations are designed to go unnoticed by humans

The /o in Ruby regex stands for "oh the humanity "

Your code using the /o modifier Source: wikipedia Hi there! Do you like Regex? Do you like performance? Do you like creating confounding bugs for yourself rooted in the mechanics of the Ruby VM itself? If you said yes to all of the above, have I got a feature for you! But first, let’s start with a story. The cliffs of insanity I was recently reviewing some code, and part of the functionality was about matching. A class took an array of strings, and you could call a method to see if an input

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6 Weeks of Claude Code

6 Weeks of Claude Code Jul 30, 2025 - Orta Therox It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie

Compressing Icelandic name declension patterns into a 3.27 kB trie August 2, 2025 Displaying personal names in Icelandic user interfaces is surprisingly hard. This is because of declension — a language feature where the forms of nouns change to communicate a syntactic function. In Icelandic, personal names have four forms, one for each of the grammatical cases of Icelandic nouns. Take the name “Guðmundur”: Grammatical case Form Nominative Guðmundur Accusative Guðmund Dative Guðmundi Genitive

7 ways Google could make a Pixel Flip the best flip phone foldable out there

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority Google is preparing to launch the Pixel 10 Pro Fold this month, marking the company’s third foray into the foldable phone space. What if you want a pocket-friendly Pixel foldable, though? Unfortunately, Google hasn’t launched a Pixel Flip, and we don’t expect one any time soon. That means Samsung and Motorola are the only globally available options if you want a foldable flip phone. That’s a real shame, because I can think of several ways that Google could ma

Anthropic says OpenAI engineers using Claude Code ahead of GPT-5 launch

Anthropic says it has revoked OpenAI's access to the Claude API after ChatGPT's engineers were found using Claude's coding tools. Claude Code is better than any other coding tool in the AI coding industry, also known as "Vibe coding." With Claude, you can create web apps from scratch, and it's also pretty efficient with infra-related work. Not just vibe coders who don't know how to code use Claude, but also professional engineers. In fact, Claude Code is also used in Claude's development at

Google's Powerful New AI Model Can Solve Your Most Complex Problems. If You Can Afford It

A supercharged version of Google's Gemini 2.5 large language model recently reached gold medal status at the International Mathematical Olympiad. Now you can ask a version of it (only a bronze medalist) to answer your toughest math questions. Like, how am I going to pay $250 a month for this AI subscription? Naturally, this new version of Google's Gemini 2.5 Deep Think is designed for complicated questions that require much more work than you'd expect from a free or cheap AI chatbot. Google sai

Hardening mode for the compiler

This is a joint proposal from: @AaronBallman, @shafik, @Endill, and @cor3ntin (with helpful input from others!) Safety and security of C and C++ programs has been an important issue in the ecosystem for a while. Both WG21 and WG14 are making plans on how to improve these aspects of the language from their end, but the standard is constrained by what it can talk about and the speed at which it can move. Implementations need to be the driving force behind improving this situation; we’re ultimatel

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Weather Model based on ADS-B

I recently bought an RTL-SDR dongle and an antenna to receive ADS-B messages. These are short packets of data, broadcast by every plane in the sky, to inform others of their position, heading, speed and other flight data. The transmission of these messages is mandatory for aircraft, as it prevents mid-air accidents. They are also unencrypted, which means anyone can listen to them. All you need is an antenna and a dongle to ingest the data on your PC (pictured above), which can be bought for les

New vision model from Cohere runs on two GPUs, beats top-tier VLMs on visual tasks

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now The rise in Deep Research features and other AI-powered analysis has given rise to more models and services looking to simplify that process and read more of the documents businesses actually use. Canadian AI company Cohere is banking on its models, including a newly released visual model, to make the case that Deep Research features shoul

Cerebras Code

We are launching two new plans designed to make AI coding faster and more accessible: Cerebras Code Pro ($50/month) and Code Max ($200/month). Both plans give you access to Qwen3-Coder, the world’s leading open-weight coding model—running at speeds of up to 2,000 tokens per second, with a 131k-token context window, no proprietary IDE lock-in, and no weekly limits! Cerebras Makes Code Generation Instant Even with the best frontier models, you still end up waiting around for completions. And as

Why open-source AI became an American national priority

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now When President Trump released the U.S. AI Action Plan last week, many were surprised to see “encourage open-source and open-weight AI,” as one of the administration’s top priorities. The White House has elevated what was once a highly technical topic into an urgent national concern — and a key strategy to winning the AI race against China.

Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?

Recently, “the bitter lesson” is having a moment. Coined in an essay by Rich Sutton, the bitter lesson is that, “general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin.” Why is the lesson bitter? Sutton writes: The bitter lesson is based on the historical observations that 1) AI researchers have often tried to build knowledge into their agents, 2) this always helps in the short term, and is personally satisfying to the researcher, but 3) in the long r

Deep Agents

Using an LLM to call tools in a loop is the simplest form of an agent. This architecture, however, can yield agents that are “shallow” and fail to plan and act over longer, more complex tasks. Applications like “Deep Research”, “Manus”, and “Claude Code” have gotten around this limitation by implementing a combination of four things: a planning tool, sub agents, access to a file system, and a detailed prompt. Acknowledgements: this exploration was primarily inspired by Claude Code and reports o

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Aug. 2 #517

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle has a pretty modern topic. If you've ever used Photoshop, or even one of many similar photo-editing programs, you'll know all the answers. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're