
Teaching a Fruit Fly Brain to Play Balatro
Someone used a digitized fruit fly brain connectome to play Balatro. Before you panic about insect overlords, let's look at what's actually happening here....
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Someone used a digitized fruit fly brain connectome to play Balatro. Before you panic about insect overlords, let's look at what's actually happening here....

NVIDIA just used a multi-agent AI pipeline to port Python GPU kernels to safe Rust, proving that automated code translation can actually work when backed by a shared compiler IR....

Your network-attached storage box is actually a 24/7 Linux machine idling in your rack. It's time to plug some real gear into those ports....

Meta is reportedly dropping a camera-free version of its smart glasses after a brutal privacy backlash. But losing the lens doesn't fix the underlying issue....

Mice with human brain cells and the quiet progress of climate tech remind us that the future arrives sideways, long before we figure out the ethics....

What happens when a 4-bit model actually outperforms its full-precision parent? Quantization-Aware Healing shatters the old rules of compression....

New data proves we are moving past one-off AI experiments into permanent job expansion. Here is what that actually means for builders....

Running heavy LLM agents locally just got a massive reality check. Here is why the latest MLPerf edge benchmarks matter for builders....

Thousands of autonomous workers burning cash on simple tasks? A former OpenAI Codex dev points out that massive AI agent swarms are mostly just a coordination tax....

A look back at a year of funded open-source engine development shows that backing maintainers is the real engine of progress....