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Mistral has released the weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed Le Chonk. The 1-trillion-parameter multimodal model was trained in Europe and is billed as the best open-weight model for coding.

A 2014 piece revisits the FBI’s anonymous, threatening letter to Martin Luther King Jr. that told him “You are done,” framing it as part of the bitter institutional opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. Reader discussion connects that history to segregationist officials who retained power, the gutting of voting-rights protections, and coded rhetoric that still redirects anger and preserves inequality.

DoorDash has announced plans to acquire Instacart, aiming to combine their platforms to help retailers of all sizes reach more customers. The companies say the deal would give stores access to technology typically built by the largest online retailers and grocers.

Claude Code reportedly wastes about 15–20% of tokens on generating a three-word status line. Flamerix AI has released an MIT-licensed Bun preload that disables the agent_summary feature to reduce that token overhead.

Mexico is becoming a showroom for electric vehicles that aren’t available in the U.S., including sleek new models from Chinese brands unfamiliar to American buyers. A growing fleet of these cars highlights how Mexico’s EV market is giving consumers access to options absent from the U.S.

Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon has taken the #1 spot on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5. It ranks second only to Claude Opus 5.5 on the separate Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index.

A single malformed WAP Push SMS can crash com.android.phone on Android with zero victim interaction, dropping calls including emergency calls. Mark Blaszczyk has published full disclosure of the silent remote denial-of-service issue.

An interactive world map resizes each country according to the number of IPv4 addresses it holds rather than its physical land area. Users can flip between real land and “IPv4 land,” zoom in, and compare countries to see how address allocation reshapes the global map.

The author writes from a hospital bed while undergoing chemotherapy, saying the treatment is as brutal as people warn but remains preferable to the alternative. They note this is their first experience with chemotherapy and share the update while expressing relief and positivity.

Stack Overflow is now receiving fewer than 1,000 questions a month—below even its earliest months—and discussion participants say the site has effectively ceased to function as a thriving Q&A community. They attribute the decline to years of hostile moderation and user treatment that drove contributors away, especially as LLMs and chatbots offer faster, less judgmental alternatives. Many expect the site to keep running only as long as selling AI training data remains valuable.

DoorDash has agreed to acquire Instacart for $65.00 per share, valuing the company at about $17 billion and representing a 26% premium to Instacart’s October 22, 2026 closing price. The deal consideration will be at least 75% cash, with Instacart stockholders able to elect cash, DoorDash stock, or a mix, subject to proration so DoorDash stock does not exceed 25%. The companies say the combined business would help retailers of all sizes reach more customers and give consumers more choice and delivery savings while expanding earnings opportunities for Dashers and Shoppers.

Google outlined how it determines the names of bodies of water in Google Earth, a service used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. The post from its global public policy director explained the company’s approach to geographic naming in the mapping product.

GitLab reported a security incident involving attempted exploitation of CVE-2026-97229. The brief description ties the incident to Alpine Linux, with further details not provided.

A researcher built a fully handmade Microsoft Edge exploit chain for Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 using only logic bugs. The chain avoids memory corruption entirely and was developed without AI assistance.

This 2016 piece offers a high-level walkthrough of the video compression techniques behind MPEG and AVC/H.264 codecs. It explains why H.264 is such an impressive and widely adopted standard, breaking down the core ideas that make efficient video encoding possible.

Hackers have reportedly exposed the identities of more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees. The reader discussion largely sidestepped the breach itself, focusing instead on minimalist news sites and drawing a historical comparison to identifying former Stasi informants.

Cuba will skip its November 1, 2026, clock change and remain on daylight saving time until November 7, 2027, in an effort to ease power outages. School and work start times will be delayed as part of the measure.

A new investigation asked five AI assistants 200 questions requiring numerical answers and traced 1,285 cited statistics back to their original sources. It found that many figures quoted by AI are outdated, misattributed, or otherwise unreliable “zombie stats” that persist online.

Researchers have embedded a functioning, deterministic RISC-V CPU inside Qwen3.5 by compiling it into the Qwen 3.5 4B model’s weights and using its Gated DeltaNet layers as RAM. The CPU runs C and MicroPython inside the model’s forward passes, and Qwen uses it to perform exact arithmetic.

Vox published the anonymous 1964 letter the FBI sent Martin Luther King Jr. as part of its campaign to discredit him, which explicitly urged him to kill himself before accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. The piece places the letter in the context of the bureau’s COINTELPRO surveillance and harassment of King.

NetBSD -current has added a new beginner-friendly text editor called atto(1) to its base system as an alternative to vi(1) and xedit(1). It is a modeless, screen-based editor similar to nano, pico, xedit, or emacs, and at only 48 kilobytes it is suitable for inclusion in the rescue system.

Google Search accounted for less than half of Alphabet’s revenue for the first time, at 49.7% in Q3 2026, down from 62% in early 2019. The milestone reflects faster growth in Google Cloud, which has steadily reduced Alphabet’s reliance on Search.

A !!Con West 2019 talk argues that the programming keyword “else” was probably introduced as a literal translation from German. The accompanying GitHub project collects the evidence behind this etymological claim.

A new algorithm has been introduced for faster 64-bit signed floor division, addressing a gap in low-level integer arithmetic. The work is framed as the missing chapter of Hacker’s Delight, the classic bit-twiddling reference. It targets the often-overlooked floor-division case in performance-sensitive code.

SkyPilot’s new scheduler delivers 27% more usable GPUs from Grace Blackwell NVL72 racks by keeping multi-node training and inference on NVLink with topology-aware placement. It also adds in-place recovery from GPU failures and automatic defragmentation, since only rack-local jobs benefit from the single 72-GPU fabric.

A custom PHP2Shell exploit chained with a kernel local privilege escalation flaw has been used in the wild to root 25 servers, including US government systems and firewalls. The attack highlights a dangerous exploit chain that turns web-level access into full system compromise.

The Milwaukee Brewers won their first World Series title in franchise history, defeating the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 5. The victory ends nearly six decades of heartache for the franchise.

The founder of ellipsis.dev reflects on how far image generation has advanced since August 2022, highlighting the rapid pace of improvement in AI image tools. The piece underscores how much the technology has evolved in just a few years.

MicroZig, a toolbox for building embedded applications in Zig, has adopted a strict no-LLM/no-AI policy. The policy is outlined in the project’s code of conduct and applies to its community and contributions.

Keplearn is a new open-source GitHub project for symbolic regression that aims to extract equations from data in seconds. It targets fast equation discovery and invites contributors to the owls-on-wires/keplearn repository.