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Cognition dropped SWE-2, a coding model built on the 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 base, hitting 50.0% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main — within a point of Fable 5.1 at 64% lower cost. It also posts 73.0% on DeepSWE 1.1 and 92.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1, landing within a few points of GPT-6 Astra at a quarter of the price. It ships today across Devin Desktop, CLI, Web, and Fusion with three selectable effort levels.
Shopify is abandoning React Native for Swift and Kotlin, and the stated reason is LLMs — the 2020 assumption that building features twice was prohibitively expensive no longer holds when agents handle implementation, testing, and review on both platforms. They're doing greenfield rebuilds rather than gradual migration, and shipped a fully rebuilt Shop app in 12 weeks with AI assistance. They also built an internal system called Helix to gate AI-generated code through checkpoint-based review.
OpenAI opened up the Codex harness as a managed API, handling sessions, orchestration, and context management while developers supply tools and pick the execution environment. Core pieces are agent configuration, hosted or self-hosted sandboxes, persistent stateful sessions, and subagent delegation for parallel work. Reference builds include incident response systems, Slack bots, GitHub issue investigators, and document reviewers.
Mathematician Andreas Thom asked OpenAI whether his ChatGPT conversations about the expander matching problem and unpublished work with Gabor Kun ended up in training data or model reasoning. OpenAI's flat reply — "that did not happen" — reads as narrow, since in a separate case the company conceded it "cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models." Thom's worry is that the ambiguity damages the communal process of mathematics more than AI-generated results help it.
Forgejo 16.0.4 and 15.0.8 patch a CVSS 9.9 remote code execution bug in repository template generation. Variable expansion on files listed in .forgejo/template could be abused to create a rogue .git folder that git would then adopt during initialization, letting a malicious template read arbitrary host data and execute arbitrary processes. The fix strips any existing .git directory after expansion and before init — upgrade immediately if you self-host.
A deep dive tracing a single STG.E store instruction through an RTX 4090's memory hierarchy — write-through L1, RRPV-based L2 eviction with special "8-dirty" rules, and asynchronous write-back to DRAM. Stores retire in about 6 cycles while data migrates independently, which is why write coalescing and kernel pipelining matter so much. It also quantifies the pain: a membar.sys fence costs roughly a microsecond, brutal for small kernels or frequent checkpointing.
An open-source answer to Apple's Reference Image, embedding capture provenance directly into the pixels via steganography rather than relying on strippable sidecar metadata. It certifies the original image only, which is the obvious limitation — commenters immediately flagged the missing piece as a certification chain that permits edits while documenting them and linking back to the original ID. Early days, but it's the right problem at the right moment.
Decorrelation stretch, built at JPL in 1978 to analyze Mars satellite imagery, remaps original colors into an expanded color space rather than just cranking contrast. Archaeologist Jon Harman adapted it for rock art in 2005 with software called Dstretch, using color spaces tuned specifically for pigment. It has surfaced over 200 unknown paintings at Angkor Wat, bats and pigs in Egyptian tombs, and roughly 15 undocumented figures in Norway.
Robert Hutchinson's free, open music theory textbook spans 35 chapters from pitch and notation through counterpoint, jazz theory, set theory, serialism, and minimalism. It's built on PreTeXt and hosted via Runestone Academy, with interactive exercises, answer keys, MathJax notation, and full-text search. Aimed at college courses but perfectly usable for self-study.
Jim Nielsen riffs on a line from Tyler Gaw — "Don't ever let anyone take your Big Box of Cables away" — after Tyler needed a cable he'd stored for a decade. The argument is that cable hoarding isn't clutter, it's practical foresight. Nielsen taped the quote to his family's cable box as a permanent reminder.