2026-10-21 Discoveries

DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

DeepInfer: High-performance, large-scale inference framework for DeepSeek models - deepseek-ai/DeepInfer

Benchmarking Bot Detection Systems Against Modern AI Agents in 2026

We test five bot detection systems against scripted browsers, stealth browsers, and AI browsing agents completing a realistic survey. Detection rates range from 9% to 99%.

Introducing the Raspberry Pi Guide to Retro Gaming

The definitive guide on how to play your favourite games of yesteryear on a Raspberry Pi.

Lazarus and the Free Pascal Compiler Gain Dynamic Package Support

If you have developed in Pascal or Delphi in the past decades, you’re probably familiar with the Lazarus IDE that provides an interface to the Free Pascal Compiler (FPC), much …

Doctor Who’s Tom Baker Plays Douglas Adams’ Digital “Agent” in the AI-Predicting…

Cast your mind, if you will, back to the year 2020. It now feels like a different time, what with the spreading COVID-19 pandemic and the heated sociopolitical battles being waged online, and indeed in the (socially distanced) streets. That spring, we featured here on Open Culture an amusing…

Get hands-free personalized help on the road with Gemini

Gemini is available in cars globally. With Personal Intelligence, get uniquely tailored help while keeping your eyes on the road.

Going Whole-Hog on a First Satellite Ground Station

When most radio enthusiasts start trying to pick up signals from satellites, they might put together a quick-and-dirty Yagi antenna and try to catch a repeater as is passes overhead, …

Primates Also Become Germophobes After Living Through a Viral Outbreak

And it could shed light on the evolutionary origins of disgust

Hear How Clare Torry’s Vocals on Pink Floyd’s “The Great Gig in the Sky” Made the Song…

Smack in the middle of Pink Floyd’s classic Dark Side of the Moon sits a song many listeners may hear as an extended bridge between the two true centerpieces, “Time” and “Money.” But I’ve always thought of “The Great Gig in the Sky” as the album’s true center, a swirling, swinging, soulful…

Inflight

The missing feedback layer for prototypes

Ask a Scientist: How can AI help doctors spend more time on collaborative care?

AMIE, an AI system people can chat with before doctor’s appointments, securely gathers patient information, and saves doctors time.

Álvaro Urbano Honors the Lost Specimens of Mexico City’s Iconic Casa Cueva

Álvaro Urbano presents an homage to the innovations of Casa Cueva, an icon of modernist Mexican architecture. 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 Álvaro Urbano Honors the…

Are Our Hearts Strong Enough to Get to Mars?

Prolonged space travel can wreak havoc on the circulatory system

NASA’s Lunar Grounding Challenge is a Real Buzz

One could make a joke about how an astronaut walking on the lunar surface is rather akin to a cat walking on the carpet in the living room, but out …

Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)

Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.

Portlivo

Every local dev server on your Mac, in the menu bar

New Gemini tools for small business owners

We’re announcing new tools for Gemini — including a dedicated business landing page — to help small business owners around the world.

‘The Department of Objects’ Brings the Charm of Sleep-Away Camp to Chicago

Wyatt Hersey, Melissa Lakey, Esther Pearl Watson, and Anna Valdez joined Joy Machine at Camp Wandawega for five days of arctic magic. 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…

Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads

If you teach or present with an iPad, avoid iPadOS 27.

Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust

Cloudflare is collaborating on tsrs, a Rust port of TypeScript that is up to 8x faster and uses 70% less memory.

EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise

Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case

Insofar as a political organization like Ofcom is even capable of admitting defeat, it did so in the 4chan enforcement today. In testimony before the Commons Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport Comm…

Voxtral 3

SimCity, but with Permits

Build the city of your dreams. Subject to approval. A free city builder about zoning, hearings, lawsuits and reelection.

Why does this animal never age? - Raymond Adkins

Explore the incredible regenerative abilities of hydras, and get to know their biology to find out if they're really immortal. -- In 1740, naturalist Abraham Trembley found something shocking in pondwater. He couldn't tell if it was a…

You Will Only Like Half of This Video

Want to support our craft and save our asses? This is the best way: https://shop.kgs.link/Calendar27 Our 12,027 Human Era Calendar is out now, giving you something beautiful and science-inspired in return for funding all that we do. Every…

The Most Unsettling Books We Know

Scientists and artists tell us about the book that scared them to the core

Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years After Its Debut

'Six Themes' at Paula Cooper Gallery celebrates the artist's seminal sculptures. 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 Revisit Claes Oldenburg’s Seminal ‘Six Themes’ 50 Years…

Stage

Review, fix and sign off working prototypes and products