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Stanford researchers blocked 15-PGDH, an aging-related protein, to rejuvenate cartilage. In aged mice, the inhibitor thickened knee cartilage and prevented osteoarthritis after ACL-like injuries, and in human knee cartilage from joint replacements, treated tissue began producing new hyaline cartilage. The regeneration arose from existing chondrocytes changing their gene expression, not stem cells. If effective in people, an oral drug or injection could regenerate cartilage and reduce joint replacement need. Early evidence is promising but clinical trials in humans are needed to confirm safety and efficacy.
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Devographics’ State of Devs 2026 finds developers under unprecedented strain: about half report job insecurity and low wages, with a quarter laid off and 10% in the last 9 months; over a quarter expect a career change within five years. Mental-state indicators show two-thirds feeling less motivated and more cynical, with widespread burnout (62%). AI sparks mixed views (49% positive, 42% negative) and concerns about its mental impact, overwork, and unrealistic productivity. Discrimination persists, especially for women and LGBT+; respondents urge safer AI use and greater industry change. The mood is exhausted but hopeful for dialogue.
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AnyPS5 is an open-source tool to port PS5 executables to Linux and Windows using a native relinker and PS5 system libraries for dynamic linking (no emulation). It includes usage and build instructions, contribution guidelines, and a compatibility/technical-debt ledger, with verified games like Dreaming Sarah. Input supports SDL controllers; keyboard/mouse is configurable via anyps5-input.ini. Licensed under GPL-2.0. Disclaimer: for interoperability, research, and preservation; users must ensure legal use of binaries.
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Miguel Grinberg runs an informal benchmark of Python 3.15 (rc3) vs 3.14 and earlier, using fibo.py and bubble.py in single- and multi-threaded modes, plus PyPy, Node.js, and Rust. Verdict: 3.15 is a modest gain over 3.14; most improvements are small, but the JIT edition shows notable wins (≈1.2x in fibo, ≈1.27x in bubble). The free-threading version yields big speedups in multi-threaded fibo (~4.5x). PyPy remains fastest; Node.js is faster in some tests. Conclusion: upgrade not urgent; JIT is promising but experimental; 3.15’s new features may justify trying it.
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OpenAI Math releases a preprint titled “Integer multiplication below n log n” (Sept 23, 2026). The GitHub page hosts the accompanying paper.pdf for this OpenAI Math release on integer multiplication.
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Vaughan Hilts shares a long struggle with RSI from extensive typing, worsened during heavy coding and keyboard maneuvers. He gradually reduced pain through ergonomics and better typing technique. In 2026, he increasingly relies on AI agents to perform refactors, write design specs, and generate prose, while he does more reviewing and meetings. Despite continuing coding, his arm pain has diminished significantly. He wonders whether LLMs are enabling a healthier, less keyboard-heavy workflow, not just boosting productivity.
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Modulo on a uniform random biases selection among a set. For example, 10 inputs can map 4 to one option and 3 to others when choosing among 3 items. The correct approach is to express the desired distribution directly, via random_between or, better, random_choice with weights. Relative integer weights (e.g., (Blue,10),(Red,5)) preserve proportions without floating-point fuss; map weights to an interval with random_between. Also, non-linear operations on random variables don’t preserve expectations. At Antithesis they removed random_u64() in favor of weighted choices to improve testing and exploration.
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Penguin Mail is a GPL-3.0+ Linux app that unifies mail, calendar, and contacts for Gmail, Microsoft 365/Outlook, and IMAP/POP3. It shows one inbox across accounts, calendar views, and contact suggestions. It signs/encrypts with OpenPGP/S/MIME via your own GnuPG (keys stay local). It auto-discovers server settings, supports Gmail-style categories, and lets you schedule or undo sent mail. An optional local assistant (LM Studio or Ollama) can help but prompts before actions. No servers, ads, or trackers; mail stays on your computer. GitHub: Pivotd.
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The piece argues that by 2026 “vibecoding” has yielded several viable Photoshop‑like tools, proving the can‑do question. It reviews Photon Studio (polished, free but not open source), OmaPhoto (Linux port of Compositor; PSD import supported but export and some features lacking), PhotoCraft (open‑source Rust reimplementation with PSD import/export but color handling quirks), and PhotoSuite (open source, closest UI parity, but cannot edit Smart Objects yet). Additional newcomers like Patchy and Xuan are mentioned. The point: strong PSD support and agent‑driven workflows show real progress toward Photoshop parity; interop remains variable.
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OpenAI's documentation hub covers API usage across models, agents, tools, audio, and production, with guides, examples, and references for building on the OpenAI platform. A focus section, the Decisions API (public beta, model gpt-6-luna, endpoint /v1/decisions), explains evaluating text and images by posing questions of types predicate, choice, and score, returning answers with probabilities, confidence, and structured outputs. Pricing for Decisions is $0.10 per 1M input tokens; data residency and HIPAA-friendly options are noted, along with developer tooling, security, and deployment guidance.
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GitHub page for openai/math, in the math/preprints directory. It’s a long directory listing of hundreds of math preprint file names (many starting with “A-” and dated September–October 2026), spanning various mathematical topics. It’s a repository index with GitHub UI chrome, not a narrative article.
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Berth runs coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) on your own boxes, letting you work from a laptop; close the lid and agents keep running on the boxes. Start a worktree on a chosen box; Berth launches the agent with its dev server in a tab, showing steps and diffs as they happen. Supports multiple worktrees with a shared tab strip and color-coded lanes, tab groups, and side-by-side compares; customizable themes. Available as a macOS app and berthd, open source; install via curl.
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Readyset rewrites arbitrary SQL into a canonical dataflow graph that incrementally maintains results as upstream data changes. On CREATE CACHE, a three-pass pipeline converts SQL into a form the streaming engine can compile: full qualification of columns, binary equality joins, decorrelated subqueries, and inlined derived tables. Passes include ARRAY(...)->LATERAL, redundant-join elimination, left-spine hoisting for Top-K, subquery decorrelation with 3-valued logic probes, derived-table inlining, and canonical join ordering. The final Block strips redundancies and parameterizes literals. The result is a compilable, fingerprinted semantic shape that enables cache-backed reads; future work adds cost-based join reordering and targeted rewrites.
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Google Gemma unveils EmbeddingGemma 2, a lightweight, on-device multimodal embedding model that unifies text, code, images, video, and audio in one space. Key specs: 740M parameters with modular encoders; configurable dimensions (768dim-128dim) via Matryoshka Representation Learning; 8K context window (4x text-only EmbeddingGemma); Apache 2.0 license. It delivers best-in-size-class performance on benchmarks like MTEB (Code) and MIEB (Lite) and is suited for local codebase indexing, semantic code search, and coding-agent retrieval, with a ~9.92-point code improvement.
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Zohaib Ansari is a Waterloo, ON-based software engineer transitioning from Android apps to full‑stack systems and AI agents. Founding Software Engineer at Regimen (2025–present); previously Software Engineer II at Pluang (2021–2023); Android Developer for Google Summer of Code (2021); Android Developer Intern at RedCarpetUp (YC’15). Notable projects: OpenMode (macOS PDF reader with AI chat) and Wallportal (Android wallpaper app). Education: University of Waterloo, Electrical and Computer Engineering (2023–2024); Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Information Technology.
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OpenSSH released 10.6/10.6p1 (2026-10-06) with extensive security fixes and many new features. It adds post-quantum support (mlkem768x25519-sha256, and a hybrid variant with Ed25519), a WarnWeakCrypto option, expanded SSH key/agent tooling (AgentSocketPath, -A), a new hexdump export mode for keys, refined ChannelTimeout with fractional seconds, and improved Pubkey/HostKey algorithm handling. Deprecations include SCP’s -R behavior and DSCP/IPQoS adjustments; DSA remains slated for removal. Numerous portability fixes and a policy of quicker bugfix releases.
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Muse, Meta’s AI personal assistant, builds continuously updated dossiers on about 4 million users, mapping who matters, desires, and social ties. It updates hourly based on chats, emails, and mentions, including data about non-users via other Muse agents, and aims to strengthen relationships by tailoring nudges and recognizing inside jokes. It performs nightly analyses, can infer unspoken goals, and stores data in separate VMs; users can export data and, in principle, forget items, though erasure may not remove originals. Meta says data isn’t shared with ads, encryption is planned, and some data is de-identified to improve the product.
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Psiphon, a Toronto-based VPN spun out of the Citizen Lab, says it would relocate its operations if Canada passes Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, which would force electronic service providers to secretly modify systems to enable police and CSIS surveillance. With about 20 million monthly users relying on Psiphon to bypass censorship in Iran, Myanmar, Russia, and China, the company argues the bill would force them to compromise privacy features. Citizen Lab's Ron Deibert warns the bill would hobble many privacy-preserving tools in Canada.
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