December 2025

Codex cloud is now called Codex web It looks like OpenAI’s Codex cloud (the cloud version of their Codex coding agent) was quietly rebranded to Codex web at some point in the last few days. Here’s a screenshot of the Internet Archive copy from 18th December (the capture on the 28th maintains that Codex cloud title but did not fully load CSS for me): And here’s that same page today with the updated product name: Anthropic’s equivalent product […]

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On Tuesday, US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright issued a now familiar order: because of a supposed energy emergency, a coal plant scheduled for closure would be forced to remain open. This time, the order targeted one of the three units present at Craig Station in Colorado, which was scheduled to close at the end of this year. The remaining two units were expected to shut in 2028. The supposed reason for this order is an emergency caused […]

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Donald Knuth gives a public lecture each year around Christmas. This year was his 29th Christmas lecture, Adventures with Knight’s Tours. I reproduced one of the images from his lecture. This is the knight’s tour with the minimum number of obtuse angles, marked with red dots. The solution is unique, up to rotations and reflections. Knuth said he thought this was one of the most beautiful knight’s tours. He discusses this tour about 44 minutes into the video […]

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In a roundup of the top stories of 2024, Ars included a supply-chain attack that came dangerously close to inflicting a catastrophe for thousands—possibly millions—of organizations, which included a large assortment of Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Supply-chain attacks played prominently again this year, as a seemingly unending rash of them hit organizations large and small. For threat actors, supply-chain attacks are the gift that keeps on giving—or, if you will, the hack that keeps on hacking. […]

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The world of Big Data is vast, diverse, and fast-moving, no doubt about it. And as organisations in India and across the globe deal with massive data every second, the need for systems that can store, manage, and process data efficiently has grown rapidly. One such system is HBase in Big Data, an open-source, distributed, non-relational database designed to handle huge amounts of structured and semi-structured data. Have you ever wondered how Facebook, LinkedIn, or Flipkart stores millions of records and […]

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Following two years of immense hype in 2023 and 2024, this year felt more like a settling-in period for the LLM-based token prediction industry. After more than two years of public fretting over AI models as future threats to human civilization or the seedlings of future gods, it’s starting to look like hype is giving way to pragmatism: Today’s AI can be very useful, but it’s also clearly imperfect and prone to mistakes. That view isn’t universal, of course. There’s a […]

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