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The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.

Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy.

Who said you had to use wires to connect memory to compute?

Actual intelligence in worryingly short supply

Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.

On Equity, we discussed the Trump administration's attempts to rebrand AI.

Here's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors". Thes

The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.

Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash and more — today's net signal.

Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.

"There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others," the pope wrote. "Algorithms lack the spark of humanity."

Blue Origin seeks FAA approval for up to 50 New Glenn launches and 50 booster landings per year.

The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.

Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine’s wartime economy.

Cloudflare now ranks as the fastest provider across 74% of the top 1,000 global networks. By incorporating background telemetry from Cloudflare Challenge Pages, we have expanded our real-user measurement scale while maintaining user privacy.

No login required, exploitation underway, and some admins are still waiting for patches

If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems...

Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age

Simone Catania published a deep dive into domain parking. One interesting note on why Google stopped was that Too many parked domains were being used for harm. A growing number of parked... The post InterNetX “Domain parking in 2026: what changed and what to do now” appeared firs

My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News.I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-liv... Here they are for GPT-6.1-Sol: https://tools.s

Release: llm-anthropic 0.30 In addition to Claude Sonnet 5.5, this release adds the ability to run llm anthropic refresh to refresh the list of Anthropic models directly from their API - which means I don't need to push a new release just to add support for a newly releas

Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycl

Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican, in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, CA, US, CANew 200-800mm Canon EF lens got me my best photo of Morris yet. They really like hanging out under that sign in the harbor! Tags: photography, wildl