Fragments: September 29
Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do...
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The Tower of Zeldaga is a free retro mash-up of Zelda and Druaga in which you rescue Ganondorf from some evil blonde queen
The recent screening of Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake has proven a thing of existential horror for many grey-haired Zeldenthusiasts. Is that...
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Silicon is starting to design silicon — how AI is being used in chipmaking, from EDA tools to OpenAI's Jalapeño and beyond
How close is AI to designing the very same chips it runs on? We explore how artificial intelligence is being used in modern chip design today.
Read moreMesa 26.3 Enables Intel's New Jay Shader Compiler By Default, Compile Times 55% Faster Or 66% Faster Than Windows
Over the past year Jay has been in development as a new open-source shader compiler for Intel GPUs. Alyssa Rosenzweig has been leading its development since...
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California Signs 3D Printer Gun-Blocking Bill Into Law
California’s 3D printer firearm-blocking bill is now law. But the version signed by Governor Gavin Newsom is quite different from the bill introduced earlier this year....
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Konami has a Silent Hill lore bible and no, you can't see it
The two great commandments of the Silent Hill lore bible are probably: has fog, has creepies.
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Reporting Confirms: Stupid Over-Reliance On Palantir AI Helped Lead To US Bombing Of Iranian Schoolgirls
In the piece Dave Willner and I published last week about why “the apocalypse won’t be sexy,” we discussed how the real threat wasn’t “rogue” out...
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AICoder 1.5.0 Release Day – Nova Voice ist live
AICoder 1.5.0 ist veröffentlicht. Der heutige Nova-Voice-Test ist erfolgreich durchgelaufen – inklusive lokalem Wakeword/STT, normalem AICoder-Provider-Routing und lokaler Sprachausgabe. Nova Voice ist da Lokales Wakeword „Nova“...
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Save 40% on a new budget gaming keyboard
Save 40% on this SteelSeries Apex 3 gaming keyboard at Woot
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BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux
BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs...
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