Google’s Gemini 3.1 Pro is mostly great
Google on Thursday launched the latest version of its Gemini Pro model. While it’s not the best at every task, Gemini 3.1 Pro, which is officially...
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After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions
Siminoff acknowledged in an interview with The New York Times that including maps that showed mass surveillance in an ad was a mistake. | Screenshot from...
Read moreFrom chickens to humans, animals think “bouba” sounds round
Does “bouba” sound round to you? How about “maluma”? Neither are real words, but we’ve known for decades that people who hear them tend to associate...
Read moreFixing a Destroyed XBox 360 Development Kit
As common as the Xbox 360 was, the development kits (XDKs) for these consoles are significantly less so. This makes it even more tragic when someone...
Read moreCode Metal Raises $125 Million to Rewrite the Defense Industry’s Code With AI
The Boston startup uses AI to translate and verify legacy software for defense contractors, arguing modernization can’t come at the cost of new bugs.
Read morePerplexity’s Retreat From Ads Signals a Bigger Strategic Shift
The AI search startup once predicted advertising would be a massive business. Now it’s betting on a smaller, more valuable audience.
Read moreThe Pulse #162: Even fewer middle managers and more flexible teams?
Note: after a two-week hiatus, The Pulse returns. The absence was due to organizing and hosting The Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco. You can access The...
Read moreSony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes of games like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls, according to Bloomberg. The...
Read moreTwilio’s A2H is a new protocol that helps agents talk to humans
Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a proliferation of frameworks and protocols for agentic AI tools. There is Agent-2-Agent (A2A) for agents to talk...
Read moreThe AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster
A hacker tricked a popular AI coding tool into installing OpenClaw – the viral, open-source AI agent OpenClaw that “actually does things” – absolutely everywhere. Funny...
Read moreBaseus’ retractable, 6-in-1 travel adapter is on sale for its lowest price to date
The nifty universal adapter lets you charge your electronics in more than 200 countries worldwide. | Image: Baseus Packing multiple charging adapters can quickly eat up...
Read moreTurbostat With Linux 7.0 Can Report New L2 Cache Statistics
The Turbostat command-line utility for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other useful information for AMD and Intel CPUs can now report some L2...
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