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Delighted our paper has been accepted for the European Geosciences Union (EGU) in Vienna “Fostering the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in the Geosciences”. Mrinalini Kochupillai Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem Mark LindsayEuropean Geosciences Union (EGU) hashtag#geology hashtag#geoscience hashtag#machinelearning hashtag#artificialintelligence hashtag#AI hashtag#AIethics hashtag#ethics hashtag#geoethics

What Lies Ahead I have no Way of Knowing, But It’s Now Time to Get Going Tom Petty This post previously appeared in Philanthropy.org A while ago I wrote about what happens in a startup when a new event creates a wake-up call that makes founding engineers reevaluate their jobs. (It’s worth a read here.) […]

Cross-site scripting (XSS) remains one of the most prevalent vulnerabilities on the web. The new standardized Sanitizer API provides a straightforward way for web developers to sanitize untrusted HTML before inserting it into the DOM. Firefox 148 is the first browser to ship this standardized security enhancing API, advancing a safer web for everyone. We […] The post Goodbye innerHTML, Hello setHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog

Anthropic releases Sonnet 4.6, Google Rolls Out Latest AI Model Gemini 3.1 Pro, Pentagon threatens to cut off Anthropic in AI safeguards dispute

The React Foundation has officially launched, hosted by the Linux Foundation.

Will AIs be jealous of one another?

In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the potential use cases.

Every high-resolution hero image, autoplay video, and complex JavaScript animation carries a cost. Sustainable UX challenges the era of “unlimited pixels” and reframes performance as responsibility. In 2026, truly sophisticated design is defined not by how much it adds, but by how thoughtfully it reduces its footprint.

We are excited to announce the 1.0 release of Swift System Metrics , a Swift package that collects process-level system metrics like CPU utilization time and memory usage. Swift System Metrics runs on both Linux and macOS, providing a common API across platforms. <img src="/assets/images/system-metrics-1.0/grafana.png" alt="Swift System Metrics visualized in Grafana, demonstrating what's possible with real-time monitoring." tit

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experiences that haven’t been invented yet, and it can’t invent all of those itself. What’s the plan?

An AI control system co-developed by SMART researchers enables soft robotic arms to learn a broad set of motions once and adapt instantly to changing conditions without retraining.

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3.1 Pro is designed for tasks where a simple answer isn’t enough.

Preface This essay argues that rational people don’t have goals, and that rational AIs shouldn’t have goals. Human actions are rational not because we direct them at some final ‘goals,’ but because we align actions to practices[1]: networks of actions, action-dispositions, action-evaluation criteria,

The Gemini app now features our most advanced music generation model Lyria 3, empowering anyone to make 30-second tracks using text or images.

What makes streaks so powerful and addictive? To design them well, you need to understand how they align with human psychology. Victor Ayomipo breaks down the UX and design principles behind effective streak systems.

When I was a new VP of Marketing I got a painful lesson of who my PR (Public Relations) agency actually worked for. Later I realized that it was true for all of my external vendors. And much later I realized what I really should have been asking them to do. The lessons still apply […]

It's not just chatbots anymore

Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, I’ve been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page. I’ve spent a lot of time writing cheat sheets for tools (tcpdump, git, dig, etc) which have a man page as their primary documentation. This is because I often find the man pages hard to navigate to get the information I want. Lately I’ve wondering – could the man page itself have an amazing cheat sheet in it? What might make a man page

Machine Perception

Dreamer is the name of the platform and company I started with Hugo, Nicholas and others a little over a year ago. The company was lovingly christened /dev/agents in homage to Stripe while we contemplated our real name.

Google DeepMind brings National Partnerships for AI initiative to India, scaling AI for science and education

The Navigation API is now Baseline Newly available, providing a better way to handle navigation in single-page applications.

An action-packed episode!

Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.

The Python Security Response Team now has an approved public governance document (PEP 811) and is welcoming new members.

Will 2026 be looked back on as the pivotal year for making decisions about the singularity?

A crazy packed edition of Last Week in AI! Plus some small updates.

Was the Renaissance truly a Golden Age? Or was it something far more powerful — and far more revealing? In my third conversation with Ada Palmer, we dive into her new book, Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age, and dismantle one of the most enduring myths in Western history: that civilization moves cleanly […]

Introducing QDA Miner 2026: Elevating Qualitative Analysis with Smarter AI Assistance We are pleased to announce the release of QDA Miner 2026. This version represents a continuation of our effort to combine human expertise with more flexible, AI-assisted tools. Key Highlights of QDA Miner 2026 Smarter AI & Validation Interacting with your data is now […]

Designing for mental health means designing for vulnerability. Empathy-Centred UX becomes not a “nice to have” but a fundamental design requirement. Here’s a practical framework for building trust-first mental health products.

I was fortunate to visit the southern part of the East African Rift recently, South of Mt Suswa, beautiful flood trachytes (lava) along the N-S fissures of the rift floor. Reported to have erupted approximately 1 Million years ago (Pleistocene). Subsequent erosion has left these elongated volcanic features. On the ground examining these rocks, you... Continue Reading →