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Coding agents have crossed a chasm
https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2025-06-14-coding-agents-cross-a-chasm/

"‘Shark Skin’ Coating for Airliners May Cut Fuel Use by 4% – Delta is Testing on its 767 Fleet"
#Aviation #Aeroplanes

‘Shark Skin’ Coating for Airliners May Cut Fuel Use by 4% – Delta is Testing on its 767 Fleet
An Australian startup has developed an adhesive film inspired by shark skin that reduces drag on aircraft and could cut fuel use by 4%.

Anysphere debuts a $200/month Ultra plan for Cursor with 20x more usage on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI vs. its $20/month Pro plan (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/anysphere-…

Anysphere launches a $200-a-month Cursor AI coding subscription | TechCrunch
Cursor-maker Anysphere is launching a $200-a-month subscription for its AI coding tool, as the space for "vibecoding" products heats up.

https://www.wionews.com/world/israeli-hackers-breach-iranian-tv-urging-iranians-to-rise-up-in-protest-1750304429134
“The visuals displayed were of women tearing off their hijab and cutting their hair in defiance,…

Israeli hackers breach Iranian TV, urging Iranians to rise up in protest
During a live broadcast, footage from the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests, women cutting their hair in defiance, flashed across screens in Iran state TV (IRIB)

New Bounds and Constructions for Variable Packet-Error Coding
Xiangliang Kong, Xin Wang, Ron M. Roth, Itzhak Tamo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15233 https://…

New Bounds and Constructions for Variable Packet-Error Coding
In this paper, we consider the problem of variable packet-error coding, which emerges in network communication scenarios where a source transmits information to a destination through multiple disjoint paths. The objective is to design codes with dynamic error-correcting capabilities that adapt to varying numbers of errors. Specifically, we first provide several bounds on the rate--distortion trade-off for general variable packet-error coding schemes. Then, we present two explicit constructions …

I just saw an all-caps instruction file that someone uses to 'instruct' an LLM to help with coding, and it's just "don't hallucinate", "check your work", "don't say you did something when you didn't" with multiple exclamation marks.
So, basically the whole 'vibe coding,' or having "AI" "help" with coding just devolves into shouting at your computer.
Which reminded me of something, and then it hit me!
#ai #llm #vibecoding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SWMAQYQf0

Cutting and pasting pairs of manifolds with tangential structures
R. A. Vlierhuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15204 https://arxiv.org/…

Cutting and pasting pairs of manifolds with tangential structures
This paper studies cutting and pasting groups (SK-groups) of pairs of manifolds. By a pair of manifolds we mean a manifold with a submanifold of strictly smaller dimension. Existing results in the unoriented category by Komiya are generalized to manifolds with certain tangential structures. In this way multiple new splitting results for SK of pairs are obtained, in particular for SK of pairs of manifolds with a map to a reference space. We also prove that SK of manifolds with a map into $X\time…

Was chatting with an Italian woman who told me how in NYC Little Italy noone was Italian, nobody spoke Italian, and the dishes weren't authentic. I explained "Little Italy" just means "the place where poor immigrants work". She said, "Ah, the ones Trump wants to deport!" #Italy25

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

Careem, Uber's ride-hailing MENA arm, will suspend its decade-old Pakistan service on July 18, citing economic challenges, competition, and capital constraints (Ariba Shahid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific