2026-08-29 Discoveries

Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal

Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

Luanti has been removed from Google Play due to a DMCA notice from Tracer.AI. We have filed a counter-notice, but this isn't the first time.

Inception-style curved map for turn-by-turn directions

Orbify Demo 2 v72 — interactive Gaussian-splat navigation visualization.

GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven

GUI applications should be fully driven by the keyboard using shortcuts

Does Computer Science Need Computers?

The theoretical side of the field doesn’t require computing machines. But many questions would never have been posed without them. The post Does Computer Science Need Computers? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

A better model for silicon: quantifying chip carbon with Columbia and Cornell

MicroGreen and ACT were built to enable engineers to quantify the embodied carbon of their hardware.

Reviving an SD Card With Shorted Capacitors

A nice thing about SD cards is that even in their non-micro format they are conveniently small. This is however a bit of a problem when an SD card stops …

Why AI Companies Are Buying—And Then Destroying—Old Books

We’ve long joked about delaying bedtime in order to read the entire internet, but the prospect of actually doing so doesn’t sound as appealing as it used to. An ever-growing proportion of text online, we may sense, hasn’t been written by humans, but generated by artificial intelligence. One…

We’re introducing flexible usage limits for Gemini Notebook.

We’re introducing new flexible, compute-specific usage limits to Gemini Notebook.

Watch This Shrimp-Like Fish Walk Backwards

A deep-sea denizen with an identity crisis

DOOM Played on Series of 555 Timers

It’s technically true that any piece of software can be reproduced in hardware, although modern software’s size and complexity generally makes this a non-starter. But if we go far enough …

screenpipe

AI that records your computer work to power agents.

September 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists

Time to brush up that artist's statement! Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article September 2026 Opportunities: Open Calls, Residencies, and Grants for Artists appeared first…

Casting Engine Parts from 3D Prints

After building a couple of internal combustion engines by milling billet aluminium stock and cringing at the absolute waste of material this created, [Camden Bowen] figured he’d give casting metal …

COVID Brain Fog May Not Be Irreversible

At least for one variant

Caddi

Agent that builds agents by only showing your work only once

U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective

Autistici/Inventati provides internet support to activists and collectives coming from the world of grassroot and social movements

Htmx 4.0

GLM-5.3 is now open-weight

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

Listen in on the Sounds of a Jurassic Period Forest

Behold the call of the katydid

Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days

Thinking through how the conventional OSS security embargoes no longer buy us time, and what open source maintainers might do instead to respond

OpenTag

AI coworker lives on Slack and Teams