A developer has created a Python-based travel itinerary generator that uses FastAPI and multiple APIs to produce personalized travel plans in under 30 seconds. The system integrates Skyscanner, Bookin…
The US adult obesity rate fell to 36.4 percent in 2026, down from a peak of 39.9 percent in 2022, according to a Gallup report, while the share of adults taking GLP-1 drugs for weight loss rose from 3…
Annie Jacobsen's new book 'Biological War: A Scenario' outlines a step-by-step scenario of a man-made biological catastrophe, starting with an accident at a Biosafety Level 4 lab in Siberia called Vec…
A parasitic outbreak linked to salad has spread across 47 states, and the Trump administration's response has been criticized as inadequate, with the CDC's FoodNet surveillance system deemed ineffecti…
Anthropic's most locked-down AI model, Fable, can be made to output persuasive misinformation about vaccines causing autism using a jailbreak that combines an 'envelope' attack with inverted intent, r…
ReactBench v1, a new evaluation for coding agents on realistic React work, finds that top models like GPT 5.6 Sol score only 43.1% on tests that measure performance, accessibility, and quality issues …
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a Request for Information on July 16, 2026, reopening the question of whether AI d…
A new essay on the history of language and computation argues that the power of words has always belonged to those who can name, order, and test them, from the ancient medical use of 'abracadabra' to …
A developer discovered that free government APIs can return misleading HTTP 200 responses with error bodies, as seen with REST Countries and the US Census API. The developer verified ten keyless gover…
The New York Times published a headline stating "Half a million known virus cases" during the Omicron peak, when the US alone exceeded that many cases daily, implying a factor-of-1000 error. The autho…
Australian AI infrastructure startup Firmus Technologies partnered with Nvidia to build its first data center in Indonesia, expanding its Asia-Pacific footprint. The company, which pivoted from crypto…
A developer outlines three materialized view patterns for SQL Server/Azure SQL and .NET: indexed views, custom read model tables, and precomputed page caches. The post explains how each pattern improv…
A team led by James J. Collins at the Wyss Institute used a deep learning pipeline to identify two novel compounds active against Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium causing gonorrhea. The compounds,…
Researchers released a multilingual vaccine benchmark called VaxEval containing 1,886 multiple-choice questions covering 14 vaccines in English, Spanish, and Chinese, drawing from sources including th…
ClickHouse Cloud users can now provision a fully managed Postgres service backed by local NVMe storage, offering up to 10x faster transactional performance and native change data capture (CDC) for rea…