It's your chance @brave
JUST IN: Google announces schools that completely ban AI will also lose access to Google Search.
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Google have just added tighter controls: “controls for Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search - access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on.”
blog.google/products-and-p…
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JUST IN: Google announces schools that completely ban AI will also lose access to Google Search.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Google have just added tighter controls: “controls for Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Google Search - access to these products will be entirely off for K-12 student accounts until school administrators explicitly turn them on.”
blog.google/products-and-p…
A ruby regex engine, you bet it's vulnerable
"AI is now helping designers contribute directly to code"
Microsoft's Windows design boss has confirmed that AI is now helping designers contribute directly to code fixes in Windows 11, and I sure hope it speeds things up, because five years after launch, Windows still looks like three operating systems stitched together.
Diego Baca, Microsoft's VP of Product Design, explained on X:
"AI has already helped our design team accelerate significantly. We’re even seeing designers contribute directly to code fixes that improve craft, consistency, and quality. That’s exciting progress, and we’re only getting started."
Baca also admitted that consistency is an active priority, but reminded everyone that designing an OS for more than a billion people is difficult.
Well, he has a point, but compatibility shouldn't be an excuse for inconsistent UI.
On my Windows 11 26H2 PC, clicking Additional mouse settings still opens a decades-old dialog without dark mode.
Credit where it's due, Microsoft is finally rebuilding Search, Run, Properties, and Print Management using native WinUI 3. I love these changes, although I wish Microsoft had done this before launching Windows 11 five years ago!
Baca says Microsoft hopes to "earn back your enthusiasm for Windows through what we deliver, not just what we say."
With AI helping designers write code, I hope Microsoft can finally make Windows feel like one operating system again. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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Oh come on. Quick look at colorshift (13x faster): HashMap in hot loop (unoptimized Rust vibeslop) is slower than indexed arrays (ASM). No shit. Numbers like 17x should raise eyebrows but reading the comments nobody is thinking anymore. This AI psychosis has fried people's brains
I ported the Omarchy screensaver engine (ttfx) from Rust to x86-64 assembler, and it's up to 17x faster!! One-shot translation by Opus 5.5. We keep drilling until the agentic drill bit hits bedrock! github.com/omacom/ttfx/pull/…
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Looks like the gains were not from dropping down to asm
And rather just better design: DOD (SoA), only re-painting what was changed, writev to reduce syscalls, etc
All of which you could in Rust without asm!
I ported the Omarchy screensaver engine (ttfx) from Rust to x86-64 assembler, and it's up to 17x faster!! One-shot translation by Opus 5.5. We keep drilling until the agentic drill bit hits bedrock! github.com/omacom/ttfx/pull/…
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Time to switch to Void Linux
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I am absolutely more productive using agents. I don't know the factor but it's large. However much of that productivity is spent tuning the agents and hardening the product. I'm guessing 30%-40%.
Some might consider that a waste; but I don't. The software I'm creating nowadays is vastly more robust than I'd ever been able to create manually.
I don't mean that the code is better. I mean the surrounding tests are vastly better. I have a higher degree of confidence than I ever had manually -- even when I used very disciplined TDD and Acceptance testing.
And then there's the ability to quickly reorganize the modules and the architecture while keeping those robust tests running. That is a tremendous boon.
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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
Infamous Russian hacker and beatboxer exposes exactly how hackers got access to private GitHub repositories