Andrés Morales

The NSF budget cut brought the agency’s funding down to nearly half for fiscal year 2026. The freed-up money is being redirected to a federal plan for artificial intelligence applied to science, while thousands of basic research grants are left without funding.

On iOS, no browser can bring its own ad-blocking engine: Apple requires everyone to use WebKit and its content blocker system. We look at how that API works in Firefox, its technical limits, and how to enable it right now.

Apple blocked an Irish developer over a name invented in 2009, while Nasdaq and DHL resolved the same restricted-list error within hours. The case exposes how automated name matching can trip up anyone with a common name.

Alibaba published Qwen3.8-27B-FP8 on Hugging Face, a 27-billion-parameter model with native FP8 quantization and reasoning effort control. We cover its chat template, how to use it with transformers, and its hardware limits.

A new artificial intelligence model identifies hidden signals in solar data that anticipate a flare with hours of lead time. The news, reported by Phys.org, adds to the wave of AI tools applied to space science. An early warning like this could change how satellites, airlines, and power grid operators prepare for space weather.

skitter-creek-bath-salts is a research project that uses DRAM scrambling to rewrite address translation on AMD Family 16h CPUs and expose memory reserved for the PSP, SMM, and the microcode. It’s not a remote attack: it requires physical access and specific hardware, but it questions how solid the memory isolation guarantees are that the rest of the industry takes for granted.

Z.ai published the weights for GLM-5.3, the direct update to GLM-5.2. The model keeps the Mixture-of-Experts architecture, ships with open weights, and exposes an OpenAI-compatible API.