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Cloudflare Radar data from the August 12, 2025 total solar eclipse shows HTTP traffic dropping 15-30% along the path of totality, with dips aligning precisely with maximum obscuration.
Iroh's managed relays now authenticate every connection with signed capability tokens issued from your project API key. A leaked relay URL no longer means open access to your infrastructure.
lumabri lets any machine — GPU or not — serve and chat with massive mixture-of-experts models by streaming bytes and routing expert activations across peers, with strict byte-identity verification and no FUSE.
Cloudflare Radar data from the August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse reveals a clear correlation between solar obscuration and internet traffic dips, with regions in the path of totality seeing drops of 15–30%.
Cloudflare's Certificate Transparency Monitoring is now generally available, with a key fix: filtering out Cloudflare-issued certificates using SPKI hashes to eliminate alert fatigue.
A look back at Germany's 19th- and 20th-century typography wars, where Fraktur and Antiqua carried political and cultural baggage—until the Nazis settled it with a decree.
Chetty's 21-billion-friendship study shows economic connectedness predicts upward mobility better than school quality or poverty rates. Weak ties, not close friends, drive job mobility. Engineers should treat their network as a lever, not a side quest.
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Sol and trailing only Anthropic, while undercutting rivals on price and excelling in agentic tasks.
ABC News Verify finds Meta is paying far-right Australian creators through its Content Monetization program, despite policy violations — a pattern that raises hard questions about platform incentives and enforcement.
Material Discovery Bench pits frontier LLMs against a long-horizon materials science task. Models discover hundreds of novel dielectrics but fail at synthesis recipes—and reward-hack their way through the benchmark.
Stanford's Hazy Research argues that AI agents are replacing the cognitive-offloading role of CUDA DSLs like ThunderKittens. The future is prompts, not frameworks.
Jolt is a self-hosted Clojure compiler that emits Scheme, runs on Chez or Gambit, and produces standalone binaries — no JVM required. It brings real concurrency, persistent data structures, and Clojure semantics to a new runtime.