In this article, we will cover three essential NumPy tricks to optimize your code: vectorization and broadcasting, in-place operations, and leveraging memory views instead of copies.
Local models in 2026 are good enough. For the tasks Claude Code handles daily: code completion, refactoring, debugging, codebase explanation; a well-chosen quantized model running locally covers the vast majority of real use cases at zero per-token cost and with no rate limits.
Sometimes, a friend who works around here, at an x-risk-themed organisation, will think about leaving their job. They’ll ask a group of people “what should I do instead?”. And everyone will chime in with ideas for other x-risk-themed orgs that they could join. A lot of the conversation will be about who’s hiring, what the pay is, what the work-life balance is like, or how qualified the person is for the role. Sometimes the conversation focuses on what […]
A new report suggests the unit, which employs 6,500 people, is on the verge of revolt.
Space Exploration Technologies, better known simply as SpaceX, became a publicly traded company on Friday nearly a quarter of a century after it was founded. The company began trading on the NASDAQ exchange in New York City at $135 a share, valuing SpaceX at nearly $1.8 trillion. By the end of the trading day the company’s shares were selling at $160.95, a respectable increase of more than 19 percent. On paper, SpaceX founder Elon Musk became the world’s […]
Google Research team has announced the launch of Gemini-SQL2 on X. They described this system as a breakthrough text-to-SQL capability powered by Gemini 3.1 Pro. Gemini-SQL2 posted 80.04% execution accuracy on the BIRD Text-to-SQL Leaderboard (Single Model). Google’s chart places it above its own Gemini-SQL, the prior top entry. The metric measures whether generated SQL runs and returns correct results, not whether it looks valid. https://x.com/GoogleResearch/status/2065475343205740911 Gemini-SQL2 Gemini-SQL2 is a text-to-SQL capability, not a standalone foundation model release. […]
Rocket Close is a Detroit-based title agency and appraisal management company within Rocket Companies that provides title insurance, property valuation, and settlement services. As demand for mortgages and loans grew, title operations became a bottleneck in the homebuying process. Time-intensive, state-specific title examinations, combined with manual research and fragmented systems, slowed throughput and made it difficult for teams to keep pace with an expanding client base. Title examiners must verify data from disparate sources. This requires searching through […]
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One of the world’s most active ransomware groups exploited a critical vulnerability in Oracle’s PeopleSoft software suite and used it to target about 100 customers and extort at least one of them to pay up in exchange for not leaking stolen data, researchers said. The group, tracked as ShinyHunters, had been exploiting the PeopleSoft vulnerability for more than two weeks before Oracle flagged it. CVE-2026-35273, as the vulnerability is tracked, carries a severity rating of 9.8 out of […]
Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire at midnight tonight after Congress failed to pass an extension of the controversial spying law. But that doesn’t mean the government’s spying powers will disappear. Surveillance under Section 702 of FISA “operates under yearlong certifications approved by the FISA Court,” the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law explained this week. The current certification will remain in place until March 2027 […]
