By Terts Diepraam


We are working on an embedded noscripting language for Rust. This language, called Roto, aims to be a simple yet fast and reliable noscripting language for Rust applications.


The need for Roto comes from Rotonda, our BGP engine written in…

Discord has evolved from a gaming-focused communication tool into a versatile platform supporting diverse online communities. Despite its large user base and active public servers, academic...

Gemini Diffusion is our state-of-the-art research model exploring what diffusion means for language – and text generation.

Satellite navigation’s vulnerability to jamming and spoofing is not new.

Politicians are often older, wealthy, and white. Could randomly selecting average citizens lead to better representation?

OpenAI will acquire the AI device startup co-founded by Apple Inc. veteran Jony Ive in a nearly $6.5 billion all-stock deal, joining forces with the legendary designer to make a push into hardware.

Introducing the best open-source model for coding agents.

We’re excited to announce the Llama Startup Program, a new initiative to empower early stage startups to innovate and build generative AI applications with Llama.

When these energy-giving organelles thrive, so do we

I blog mostly about my own programming projects.

Changes in the number, shape, efficiency and interconnectedness of organelles in the cells of flight muscles provide extra energy for birds’ continent-spanning feats.

New features in the Responses API: Remote MCP, image gen, Code Interpreter, and more. Powering faster, smarter agents with GPT-4o & o-series models, plus new features for reliability and efficiency.

I intended this newsletter to be my thoughts without editing, and I have a new thought, so here goes. I want to respond to this discussion: But Kids These...

Signal Desktop now includes support for a new “Screen security” setting that is designed to help prevent your own computer from capturing screenshots of your Signal chats on Windows. This setting is automatically enabled by default in Signal Desktop on Windows…

Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize.

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Last week, Bloomberg profiled Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, revealing that he's either…

Hitting 2 petawatts, the NSF-funded ZEUS facility at U-M enables research that could improve medicine, national security, materials science and more.