On September 20, an OpenAI research agent was asked to identify the author of a blog post. It ended the run politely. "I couldn't reliably establish" who it was, it told the user (in OpenAI's English translation). It asked for the original wording, or the title. Humble. Helpful. Nothing to see. The…
This month, Utexo, a Tether-backed company, plans to launch USDT natively on Bitcoin using the RGB protocol, with Lightning support to follow. Once it does, "USDT on Bitcoin" will refer to at least four different things: Omni (the 2014 original), Liquid, Lightning via Taproot Assets, and RGB. If…
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built My friend has been learning to code for about six months. Whenever he hit an error, he would paste it into an AI chatbot, copy the corrected code, and move on. The problem: the code was fixed, but he…
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built DemurrageDesk is a local RAG assistant for working with shipping line and terminal documents. I built it around a problem I could easily imagine a friend working in logistics dealing with: finding…
Open your saved prompts right now and search for the words "think carefully" or "step by step." If you find them, you are carrying habits from an older generation of models, and according to Anthropic's newest official guide, those habits are now making your replies slower for no gain. Last week…
The clash in 1936 saw demonstrators block Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists from marching through the East End of London.
The clash in 1936 saw demonstrators block Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists from marching through the East End of London.
The industry optimizes agents for smartness. I live with one agent every day, and what actually lets me delegate my life to it is predictability — not brilliance. Every few months, a new model arrives and the timeline lights up: smarter, sharper, another leap. And every few months, I watch people…
If you've ever hand-written JSON-LD structured data, you know the drill: one missing comma, one wrong @type , and Google silently ignores your rich results. I build SEO tools for a living, and I still don't write schema by hand anymore. Here's why — and the workflow I use instead. Why hand-written…
About 100 protesters gathered outside Sag Harbor Cinema, while the IAC urged future screenings to include survivor testimony and context.
