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GitHub, the platform that millions of developers depend on daily, has become the subject of a quietly cutting website called Days Without GitHub Incident. The site is exactly what it sounds like — a running counter — and it's been generating real conversation, with nearly one hundred comments on Hacker News alone. It says something about developer frustration when a simple joke site lands that kind of engagement.
Staying in the world of artificial intelligence, Stuart Russell, one of the field's most respected long-time researchers, took the stand as Elon Musk's sole expert witness at the ongoing OpenAI trial. Russell used the moment to argue that governments need to step in and restrain frontier AI labs before a full-blown arms race takes hold. It's a rare instance of a courtroom becoming a stage for existential policy debate.
And out of China comes a striking hardware claim — a supercomputer called Lingsheng, said to reach two exaflops of performance using only CPUs, no GPUs required. Forty-seven thousand processors packed into ninety-two compute cabinets. Chinese authorities are framing it as a path past American dominance, though independent verification of those numbers hasn't happened yet.
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