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digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
European Commission overview of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, its risk-based rules, implementation, and enforcement structure.
artificialintelligenceact.eu
Independent, searchable presentation of the EU AI Act text with article-level navigation and implementation context.
www.nist.gov
Voluntary NIST framework for governing, mapping, measuring, and managing risks across the AI lifecycle.
www.nist.gov
NIST AI 600-1 profile applying the AI Risk Management Framework to risks specific to generative AI.
www.gov.uk
Official UK policy collection for the government's principles-based, regulator-led approach to AI regulation.
oecd.ai
Intergovernmental principles for trustworthy AI covering human rights, transparency, robustness, and accountability.
www.coe.int
Official portal for the Framework Convention on AI, human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.
www.aisi.gov.uk
UK government institute researching, evaluating, and mitigating security risks from advanced AI systems.
www.nist.gov
U.S. government center developing AI measurement science, evaluations, standards, and security guidance at NIST.
www.anthropic.com
Anthropic's maintained policy and update log for evaluating frontier capabilities and applying proportional safeguards.
openai.com
OpenAI's framework for tracking severe-harm capabilities and defining safeguards for increasingly capable models.
deepmind.google
Google DeepMind's updated framework for identifying frontier capability thresholds and specifying evaluation and mitigation protocols.
oecd.ai
OECD platform tracking national AI policies, incidents, indicators, and evidence for policy analysis.
hai.stanford.edu
Stanford research institute publishing interdisciplinary work on AI policy, economics, safety, and social impact.
www.governance.ai
Research organization focused on governance institutions and policy responses for advanced AI.
www.safe.ai
Nonprofit conducting technical research and policy work on societal-scale risks from advanced AI.
futureoflife.org
Nonprofit producing policy analysis and advocacy on advanced AI governance and other large-scale technology risks.
partnershiponai.org
Multistakeholder nonprofit developing guidance and research on responsible AI practices and deployment impacts.
ainowinstitute.org
Independent institute researching the concentration of power, accountability, labor, and public policy around AI.
www.anthropic.com
Anthropic's policy hub for government engagement, regulation proposals, economic research, and public-interest initiatives.
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www.perplexity.ai
AI answer engine that searches the web, synthesizes responses, and exposes citations to supporting sources.
you.com
AI search and assistant service with web-grounded answers, model selection, and research-oriented modes.
www.phind.com
Developer-focused answer engine that combines web search with code-aware explanations and cited sources.
exa.ai
Semantic web-search API for retrieving pages by meaning and supplying current context to AI applications.
search.brave.com
Independent search engine with privacy controls and an AI-generated Answer with AI result mode.
andisearch.com
Conversational search engine presenting generated answers alongside visual cards and linked web sources.
www.diabrowser.com
Browser from The Browser Company with AI integrated into tabs, page context, and browsing workflows.
brave.com
Browser assistant in Brave that can summarize pages, answer questions, and work with tab context.
notebooklm.google
Google research notebook that answers from user-provided sources and generates summaries, study aids, and audio overviews.
get.mem.ai
AI-assisted notes workspace that organizes content and retrieves related information from a personal knowledge base.
reflect.app
Networked note-taking application with semantic search, transcription, and an assistant grounded in personal notes.
tana.inc
Structured, node-based knowledge workspace with AI commands for capture, organization, and reusable workflows.
capacities.io
Object-based personal knowledge system with AI-assisted capture, linking, search, and content transformation.
www.glean.com
Enterprise search and assistant platform connecting workplace applications, permissions, and organizational knowledge.
github.com
Open-source Obsidian plugin for semantic note discovery, related-note views, and chat over vault content.
github.com
Open-source Obsidian assistant supporting vault-grounded chat, multiple model providers, and retrieval workflows.
github.com
Open-source Obsidian plugin for generating and transforming note content with configurable language-model providers.
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artificialanalysis.ai
Independent comparisons of model quality, price, latency, and output speed across major AI providers.
openrouter.ai
Model and application rankings derived from aggregate usage on the OpenRouter inference marketplace.
llm-stats.com
Filterable comparison of language-model pricing, context limits, benchmark results, and API characteristics.
arena.ai
Crowdsourced model comparison platform using blinded, pairwise human preference votes to produce arena rankings.
livebench.ai
Frequently refreshed language-model benchmark designed to reduce contamination through newly released questions.
huggingface.co
Reproducible evaluation results and artifacts for comparing open language models across standardized tasks.
scale.com
Scale AI leaderboards based on expert-designed evaluations and private test sets for frontier models.
www.swebench.com
Benchmark and leaderboards measuring whether models can resolve real issues from software repositories.
aider.chat
Coding-model leaderboard based on repository edits across multiple programming languages using Aider.
bigcode-bench.github.io
Benchmark for practical code generation with diverse function-level tasks, tests, and detailed execution metrics.
arcprize.org
Research competition and leaderboard built around ARC-AGI tasks for testing abstract reasoning and generalization.
epoch.ai
Research and datasets on notable AI models, training compute, hardware, algorithmic progress, and scaling trends.
aiindex.stanford.edu
Annual evidence-based report tracking AI research, technical performance, investment, adoption, education, and policy.
www.stateof.ai
Annual review of major developments in AI research, industry, politics, safety, and investment.
ourworldindata.org
Research and interactive charts on AI capabilities, adoption, investment, compute, public opinion, and societal effects.
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vast.ai
Marketplace for renting GPUs from independent hosts, with broad hardware availability and host-dependent reliability.
www.runpod.io
GPU cloud offering configurable pods and serverless endpoints for training, inference, and development workloads.
www.tensordock.com
GPU cloud marketplace offering hourly virtual machines across a range of consumer and data-center accelerators.
www.hyperstack.cloud
GPU cloud providing on-demand and reserved virtual machines for AI training, inference, and rendering.
www.paperspace.com
DigitalOcean GPU platform with virtual machines and Gradient tools for notebooks, training, and deployment.
salad.com
Distributed GPU cloud using capacity from geographically dispersed consumer and data-center machines.
www.cudocompute.com
GPU cloud for virtual machines and clusters spanning AI training, inference, and high-performance computing.
www.coreweave.com
Specialized cloud providing large-scale NVIDIA GPU infrastructure, managed Kubernetes, and AI platform services.
lambda.ai
AI infrastructure provider offering GPU instances, reserved clusters, and on-premises systems for model workloads.
www.crusoe.ai
AI cloud and data-center operator providing GPU clusters with an emphasis on energy-efficient infrastructure.
www.gpulist.ai
Searchable comparison of GPU instance availability and hourly pricing across cloud providers.
www.shadeform.com
Unified API and console for finding, provisioning, and managing GPU instances across multiple clouds.
fullstackdeeplearning.com
Practical comparison of GPU cloud options, hardware, pricing models, setup tradeoffs, and provider selection.
github.com
Apple's array framework for machine learning research and local model execution on Apple silicon.
tinygrad.org
Minimal tensor framework and integrated multi-GPU workstation designs for local AI development and training.
developer.nvidia.com
NVIDIA embedded computing platform and developer kits for running accelerated AI inference at the edge.
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neurips.cc
Major annual research conference covering machine learning, computational neuroscience, and AI systems.
icml.cc
Major annual conference for machine-learning theory, methods, applications, and empirical research.
iclr.cc
Annual research conference centered on representation learning, deep learning, optimization, and related methods.
colmweb.org
Annual research conference dedicated to language modeling, including architectures, evaluation, theory, and applications.
www.aclweb.org
Association for Computational Linguistics portal linking its flagship conference and broader NLP conference program.
aclweb.org
Durable ACL Anthology venue page for the annual Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing.
cvpr.thecvf.com
Flagship annual conference for computer vision, visual recognition, and pattern recognition research.
www.thecvf.com
Major alternating computer-vision conferences covering recognition, geometry, generative methods, and visual learning.
Long-running annual conference spanning foundational and applied artificial-intelligence research across subfields.
www.ai.engineer
Practitioner conference series focused on building, evaluating, deploying, and operating AI-powered products.
theaiconf.com
San Francisco industry conference covering applied AI, infrastructure, research translation, and enterprise adoption.
raysummit.anyscale.com
Anyscale conference for Ray users working on distributed Python, machine learning infrastructure, and AI applications.
mlopsworld.com
Practitioner event covering production machine learning, generative AI operations, platforms, governance, and observability.
www.anthropic.com
Official calendar of Anthropic developer sessions, community gatherings, workshops, and conference appearances.
devday.openai.com
OpenAI's developer conference for platform announcements, technical sessions, demonstrations, and product-building guidance.
io.google
Google's annual developer conference, with major tracks and announcements for Gemini and AI-enabled platforms.
www.nvidia.com
NVIDIA's annual conference for accelerated computing, AI infrastructure, model development, robotics, and industry applications.
www.wemakefuture.it
Rimini technology festival with a substantial program on AI, digital innovation, startups, and applied technology.
www.theaisummit.com
Global event series for enterprise AI strategy, implementation, governance, infrastructure, and vendor ecosystems.
huggingface.co
Community calendar for Hugging Face meetups, workshops, hackathons, and open machine-learning events.
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huggingface.co
Hosts versioned machine-learning datasets with searchable metadata, previews, and streaming access.
www.kaggle.com
Provides community datasets, notebooks, and competition data across tabular, vision, and language tasks.
datasetsearch.research.google.com
Searches dataset metadata published by repositories, governments, universities, and other providers.
www.openml.org
Open platform for sharing datasets, tasks, runs, and reproducible machine-learning benchmark suites.
archive.ics.uci.edu
Long-running academic repository of canonical datasets for classification, regression, and clustering.
commoncrawl.org
Maintains openly accessible petabyte-scale web crawl archives used for search and language-model research.
huggingface.co
Large deduplicated and filtered English web corpus derived from Common Crawl for language-model pretraining.
allenai.org
AI2's open multi-source pretraining corpus released with provenance and processing documentation.
huggingface.co
Large source-code dataset assembled from Software Heritage with repository and licensing metadata.
github.com
OpenAI benchmark of Python function-synthesis problems evaluated with executable unit tests.
laion.ai
Large openly indexed collection of image-text pairs derived from Common Crawl for multimodal research.
www.image-net.org
Canonical labeled image dataset organized around WordNet concepts for visual-recognition research.
cocodataset.org
Widely used image dataset with object detection, segmentation, keypoint, and caption annotations.
commonvoice.mozilla.org
Mozilla-led multilingual speech corpus contributed and validated by a global volunteer community.
www.openslr.org
Approximately one thousand hours of labeled English audiobook speech for automatic speech recognition.
github.com
Large benchmark of labeled short video clips covering hundreds of human action classes.
www.wikidata.org
Collaborative multilingual knowledge graph with machine-readable entities, properties, and provenance.
dataspace.copernicus.eu
European access point for Sentinel Earth-observation imagery and related processing services.
planet.openstreetmap.org
Regularly published full-planet snapshots and change files from the OpenStreetMap database.
github.com
Multitask benchmark measuring language-model knowledge across 57 academic and professional subjects.
huggingface.co
Dataset of grade-school math word problems with natural-language, multi-step solutions.
gretel.ai
Commercial platform for generating, transforming, and evaluating privacy-oriented synthetic tabular and text data.
spawning.ai
Tools and registries for checking, licensing, and communicating preferences about AI training data.
mlcommons.org
MLCommons metadata format for documenting machine-learning datasets in a portable, machine-readable form.
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platform.openai.com
Official guides and API reference for integrating OpenAI models, tools, and agent workflows.
claude.com
Anthropic's terminal coding agent for repository analysis, code changes, testing, and automation.
github.com
OpenAI's open-source terminal agent for inspecting repositories and executing coding tasks locally.
github.com
Google's open-source terminal agent with repository tools and Gemini model integration.
aider.chat
Git-aware terminal pair programmer that edits repositories and works with multiple model providers.
opencode.ai
Open-source terminal interface for agentic coding with selectable model providers.
cursor.com
AI-focused code editor with repository indexing, inline editing, completion, and multi-step agents.
windsurf.com
Agentic code editor combining contextual generation, repository search, and tool-driven changes.
continue.dev
Open-source IDE extensions and tooling for configurable coding assistants and model providers.
cline.bot
Open-source VS Code coding agent that can inspect files, edit code, run commands, and use browsers.
github.com
GitHub's coding assistant across editors, command line, pull requests, and repository-scoped agents.
devin.ai
Hosted software-engineering agent for delegated implementation, debugging, testing, and repository tasks.
replit.com
Browser-based agent that creates, tests, deploys, and iterates on full-stack applications in Replit.
bolt.new
StackBlitz's browser-based agent for generating, running, and deploying full-stack web applications.
v0.app
Vercel's agent for generating and deploying web interfaces and full-stack applications from prompts.
ollama.com
Local model runner with a command-line interface, model library, and HTTP API.
github.com
Portable C and C++ inference runtime for quantized language models across CPUs and accelerators.
docs.vllm.ai
High-throughput model-serving engine with continuous batching and an OpenAI-compatible API server.
openrouter.ai
Unified API and routing layer for comparing and calling models from multiple providers.
www.together.ai
Hosted inference, fine-tuning, and dedicated endpoints for open and custom models.
fireworks.ai
Managed inference and deployment platform optimized for open and fine-tuned generative models.
replicate.com
Hosted API platform for running packaged public models and deploying custom model versions.
modelcontextprotocol.io
Open protocol for connecting AI applications to tools, resources, prompts, and external systems.
docs.claude.com
Python and TypeScript SDK exposing Claude Code's tools, agent loop, and context management.
www.langchain.com
Framework and platform for composing tool-using agents, model calls, retrieval, and execution graphs.
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cloud.llamaindex.ai
Hosted document parser that extracts structured text and tables for retrieval and agent workflows.
unstructured.io
Open-source and hosted pipelines for partitioning PDFs, office files, HTML, email, and images.
reducto.ai
Commercial document-ingestion API focused on layout, table, form, and image extraction.
github.com
Open-source document converter with PDF layout, table, reading-order, OCR, and structured export support.
github.com
Open-source converter that renders documents as Markdown, JSON, HTML, or structured chunks.
github.com
Open-source PDF parser for extracting text, formulas, tables, images, and reading order.
github.com
Mature open-source OCR engine with broad language support and a long-lived ecosystem.
github.com
Multilingual OCR toolkit covering text detection, recognition, layout analysis, and document parsing.
github.com
Open-source OCR, layout analysis, reading-order, and table-recognition toolkit for many languages.
github.com
Adds searchable OCR text layers to scanned PDFs while preserving the original page images.
docs.mistral.ai
Hosted OCR API for extracting interleaved text, images, tables, and document structure from PDFs.
huggingface.co
Microsoft's pretrained multimodal model for document text, image, and layout understanding.
huggingface.co
OCR-free document-understanding model that maps document images directly to structured text outputs.
aws.amazon.com
Managed AWS service for OCR and structured extraction from forms, tables, queries, and identity documents.
cloud.google.com
Managed Google Cloud processors for OCR, layout analysis, classification, and specialized document extraction.
azure.microsoft.com
Managed Azure service for OCR, layout, tables, and pretrained or custom document extraction models.
developer.adobe.com
Adobe APIs for PDF creation, conversion, manipulation, OCR, and structured content extraction.
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huggingface.co
Transformers-based post-training library with supervised, preference, and reinforcement-learning trainers.
huggingface.co
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning library implementing LoRA and other adapter-based methods.
github.com
Configuration-driven toolkit for full and parameter-efficient post-training of open language models.
github.com
Unified web and command-line toolkit for fine-tuning and evaluating many open model families.
github.com
Optimized training library for memory-efficient fine-tuning and reinforcement learning on open models.
github.com
Apple MLX package for generating from and fine-tuning language models on Apple silicon.
www.deepspeed.ai
Microsoft's distributed training system with ZeRO memory optimization and large-model parallelism.
pytorch.org
PyTorch's native fully sharded data-parallel API for distributing parameters, gradients, and optimizer state.
github.com
NVIDIA framework for training large transformer models with tensor, pipeline, context, and data parallelism.
platform.openai.com
Official guidance for preparing data, running supervised fine-tuning jobs, and evaluating tuned OpenAI models.
cloud.google.com
Managed tuning workflows for supported generative models on Google Vertex AI.
docs.together.ai
Managed supervised fine-tuning for supported open models with API-based job and checkpoint management.
docs.fireworks.ai
Managed supervised fine-tuning service for supported open models with deployment integration.
arxiv.org
Foundational paper introducing low-rank trainable updates for parameter-efficient model adaptation.
arxiv.org
Paper combining frozen 4-bit quantized base models with LoRA for memory-efficient fine-tuning.
arxiv.org
Paper deriving a direct preference-learning objective that avoids an explicit reward model and PPO loop.
github.com
Reproducible recipes and reference implementations for supervised and preference-based language-model alignment.
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www.anthropic.com
Develops the Claude model family and research on reliable, interpretable AI systems.
openai.com
Develops GPT, reasoning, multimodal, and Codex models alongside consumer and developer products.
deepmind.google
Google's AI research lab develops Gemini models and systems including AlphaFold.
ai.meta.com
Meta's AI organization develops the Llama open-weight model family and related research.
x.ai
Develops the Grok model family and makes it available through consumer and developer products.
mistral.ai
A French model lab producing open-weight and commercial language and multimodal models.
cohere.com
Develops enterprise language models and retrieval systems, including the Command and Embed families.
www.ai21.com
Develops enterprise language models, including the hybrid-architecture Jamba family.
blackforestlabs.ai
A generative-media lab developing the FLUX family of image models.
stability.ai
Develops generative image, audio, video, and language models, including Stable Diffusion releases.
www.deepseek.com
A Chinese AI lab known for open-weight language and reasoning model releases.
qwen.ai
Alibaba's broad family of open-weight language, coding, reasoning, and multimodal models.
www.kimi.com
Develops the Kimi assistant and language models with an emphasis on long-context workloads.
z.ai
Provides Zhipu AI's GLM language, reasoning, coding, and multimodal model family.
www.midjourney.com
Operates a hosted generative-image service built around its proprietary image models.
runwayml.com
Develops generative video models and production tools for creating and editing media.
lumalabs.ai
Develops multimodal generation products including the Dream Machine video service.
pika.art
Provides a generative-video platform for creating and transforming short-form visual media.
elevenlabs.io
Develops speech synthesis, voice cloning, dubbing, transcription, and audio-generation models.
suno.com
Provides a generative-music service that creates songs from text and audio inputs.
www.udio.com
Provides generative-music tools for creating, extending, and remixing songs.
www.heygen.com
Provides generative avatar, translation, and video-production tools for business media.
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www.youtube.com
A code-first video series that builds neural networks from micrograd through GPT-style language models.
www.youtube.com
A four-hour implementation walkthrough covering GPT-2 data preparation, training, and optimization.
course.fast.ai
A free, application-first course on training and deploying deep-learning models with fastai and PyTorch.
huggingface.co
Free courses from Hugging Face covering language models, agents, reinforcement learning, audio, and computer vision.
www.deeplearning.ai
Andrew Ng's education platform offers structured programs and short courses on machine learning and generative AI.
web.stanford.edu
A Stanford seminar series featuring researchers and practitioners working on transformer models and applications.
stanford-cs336.github.io
A rigorous Stanford course on implementing language-model data, architecture, training, scaling, and evaluation pipelines.
introtodeeplearning.com
MIT's open introductory course covers deep-learning foundations and applications through lectures and labs.
www.3blue1brown.com
Grant Sanderson's visual lessons develop intuition for neural networks, gradient descent, and transformer concepts.
www.oreilly.com
Chip Huyen's book covers foundation-model application design, evaluation, data, deployment, and operations.
www.oreilly.com
Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst explain language-model concepts through visual explanations and practical code.
www.manning.com
Sebastian Raschka's book implements a GPT-style language model, pretraining, fine-tuning, and evaluation in PyTorch.
huyenchip.com
Chip Huyen's book presents design principles for reliable, scalable production machine-learning systems.
www.deeplearningbook.org
The free online textbook by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville covers deep-learning foundations.
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
Technical articles on language-model research, implementation, fine-tuning, and evaluation.
mlabonne.github.io
Practical articles and notebooks on fine-tuning, quantization, synthetic data, and model merging.
eugeneyan.com
Engineering essays on recommendation systems, retrieval, evaluation, and production language-model applications.
hamel.dev
Practitioner guidance on language-model evaluation, fine-tuning, data quality, and AI product development.
huyenchip.com
Essays on machine-learning systems, data infrastructure, language models, and AI engineering.
github.com
Anthropic's open course repositories cover its API, prompt evaluation, tool use, and Model Context Protocol.
academy.langchain.com
Free courses on building agents and language-model applications with LangChain and LangGraph.
www.pinecone.io
Technical guides on vector search, embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation, and semantic search.
www.youtube.com
Detailed video walkthroughs of machine-learning papers, methods, and research debates.
www.youtube.com
Concise visual explanations of machine-learning papers and core AI concepts.
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wandb.ai
A hosted platform for experiment tracking, model evaluation, sweeps, and registry workflows.
mlflow.org
An open-source platform for experiment tracking, model packaging, evaluation, and model registry workflows.
www.comet.com
A hosted platform for experiment management, model evaluation, prompt tracing, and production monitoring.
clear.ml
An open-source suite for tracking experiments, orchestrating pipelines, managing data, and serving models.
metaflow.org
An open-source Python framework from Netflix for data-science workflows, versioning, and scalable execution.
flyte.org
A Kubernetes-native, strongly typed workflow orchestrator for machine-learning and data pipelines.
www.zenml.io
An open-source framework for portable machine-learning pipelines across orchestration, tracking, and deployment stacks.
www.kubeflow.org
A Kubernetes project for portable machine-learning workflows, training jobs, notebooks, and model serving.
dvc.org
Open-source version control and pipeline tooling for datasets, models, and machine-learning experiments using Git and external storage.
dagster.io
An asset-oriented orchestrator for testable, observable data and machine-learning pipelines.
www.bentoml.com
An open-source framework for packaging, serving, and scaling machine-learning and generative-AI models.
kserve.github.io
A Kubernetes-native model-serving project supporting autoscaling, inference graphs, and multiple serving runtimes.
developer.nvidia.com
NVIDIA's open-source inference server runs models from multiple frameworks on GPU and CPU infrastructure.
docs.ray.io
Ray's distributed Python serving library scales online inference and multi-model application graphs.
cloud.google.com
Google Cloud's managed platform for training, deploying, evaluating, and monitoring machine-learning and generative-AI systems.
aws.amazon.com
AWS's managed platform for building, training, deploying, and governing machine-learning models.
azure.microsoft.com
Microsoft's managed service for machine-learning development, training, deployment, registry, and governance.
www.databricks.com
A managed lakehouse platform combining data engineering, model development, registry, serving, and governance.
langfuse.com
An open-source platform for language-model tracing, prompt management, metrics, datasets, and evaluations.
www.langchain.com
LangChain's hosted platform for tracing, testing, evaluating, and deploying language-model applications.
www.helicone.ai
An open-source gateway and observability platform for logging, caching, monitoring, and evaluating language-model requests.
docs.arize.com
Arize's open-source platform for AI tracing, retrieval analysis, experiments, and evaluations.
www.trulens.org
A Snowflake-supported open-source library for tracing and systematically evaluating language-model applications.
www.braintrust.dev
A hosted platform for datasets, prompt experiments, evaluations, tracing, and quality monitoring for AI products.
www.traceloop.com
An OpenTelemetry-based platform and instrumentation library for tracing and evaluating language-model applications.
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simonwillison.net
Frequent technical reporting and experiments on language models, developer tools, and AI products.
importai.substack.com
Jack Clark's newsletter analyzes AI research, capabilities, security, and public policy.
www.interconnects.ai
Nathan Lambert writes technical analysis of open models, post-training, reinforcement learning, and AI policy.
www.latent.space
A newsletter and podcast focused on AI engineering, agents, models, infrastructure, and developer practice.
www.oneusefulthing.org
Ethan Mollick examines practical uses of generative AI in work, education, and organizations.
www.aisnakeoil.com
Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor critically examine AI claims, evidence, policy, and social impact.
thezvi.substack.com
Zvi Mowshowitz's newsletter analyzes frontier-model developments, AI policy, safety debates, and industry claims.
stratechery.com
Ben Thompson analyzes the business strategy and market structure of major technology and AI companies.
news.smol.ai
A weekday digest summarizing technical AI discussions, releases, research, and developer news.
tldr.tech
A concise daily email digest of AI product, research, business, and industry news.
bensbites.com
A daily newsletter covering AI products, company news, workflows, and practical tools.
www.therundown.ai
A broad daily digest of AI products, business developments, research, and tutorials.
www.reddit.com
A large practitioner community for local inference, open-weight models, quantization, and fine-tuning.
www.reddit.com
A long-running community for machine-learning research papers, technical discussion, projects, and career topics.
news.ycombinator.com
A high-volume technology discussion board where major AI releases and research are frequently examined.
www.eleuther.ai
A nonprofit research institute and community focused on open language models, interpretability, and alignment.
discuss.huggingface.co
The official support and discussion forum for Hugging Face libraries, models, datasets, and hosted services.
www.anthropic.com
Anthropic's official Discord entry point for Claude developers and users.
community.openai.com
OpenAI's official developer forum for API usage, platform features, integrations, and troubleshooting.
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platform.claude.com
Anthropic's official guidance on prompt structure, examples, XML organization, roles, and prompt chaining.
docs.claude.com
Anthropic's official collection of task-oriented prompt examples for Claude.
cookbook.openai.com
OpenAI's maintained recipes for prompting, structured outputs, tool use, evaluation, and model-specific patterns.
developers.openai.com
OpenAI's official API guide to instructions, message roles, reusable prompts, context, and model-specific prompting.
ai.google.dev
Google's official guidance on clear instructions, few-shot examples, context, structure, and iterative prompt design for Gemini.
docs.mistral.ai
Mistral's official guidance on roles, task instructions, output constraints, examples, and model prompting.
learn.microsoft.com
Microsoft Learn's practical guide to system messages, grounding context, examples, cues, and output structure.
www.promptingguide.ai
An open reference covering prompting methods, model guides, risks, tools, and research literature.
lilianweng.github.io
Research surveys explaining agent architectures, reasoning methods, hallucination, and language-model systems.
eugeneyan.com
A practitioner catalog of retrieval, evaluation, caching, guardrail, and user-experience patterns for language-model systems.
dspy.ai
A declarative framework that optimizes language-model programs and prompts against examples and metrics.
smith.langchain.com
LangSmith's hosted registry for discovering, versioning, and sharing prompt templates.
www.promptlayer.com
A hosted platform for prompt versioning, request tracing, evaluation, and release management.
github.com
Anthropic's official notebooks and code recipes for Claude prompting, tool use, retrieval, and multimodal workflows.
github.com
A long-running community collection of reusable role and task prompts with broad model support.
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github.com
Open-source Postgres extension for exact and approximate nearest-neighbor vector search.
qdrant.tech
Open-source vector database written in Rust with filtering and hybrid-query support.
weaviate.io
Open-source vector database with hybrid search, filtering, and managed deployment options.
www.trychroma.com
Open-source retrieval database designed for local and hosted AI application development.
milvus.io
Distributed open-source vector database for large-scale similarity search workloads.
lancedb.com
Open-source multimodal lakehouse built on the Lance columnar format for vector retrieval.
vespa.ai
Open-source serving engine combining vector, lexical, and structured retrieval with ranking.
www.pinecone.io
Managed vector database for production semantic search and retrieval systems.
turbopuffer.com
Managed search engine that stores vector and full-text indexes on object storage.
www.mongodb.com
Managed vector and hybrid search integrated with MongoDB Atlas data and filters.
redis.io
Redis data type for storing embeddings and running filtered vector similarity queries.
www.voyageai.com
Commercial text, code, and multimodal embedding and reranking models from MongoDB.
docs.cohere.com
Cohere API for multilingual text, image, and document embeddings for retrieval.
platform.openai.com
OpenAI API guide for generating text embeddings for search and relatedness tasks.
ai.google.dev
Google Gemini API documentation for text embeddings, task types, and retrieval workflows.
huggingface.co
Open-weight multilingual model supporting dense, sparse, and multi-vector retrieval.
huggingface.co
Open-weight long-context text embedding model with configurable output dimensions.
huggingface.co
Open-weight multilingual embedding model with task-specific adapters and long context.
huggingface.co
Open-weight English text embedding model from Mixedbread for semantic retrieval.
huggingface.co
Open-weight multilingual embedding model optimized for retrieval quality and efficiency.
huggingface.co
Leaderboard for the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark across retrieval and embedding tasks.
haystack.deepset.ai
Open-source Python framework for retrieval pipelines, agents, and production RAG systems.
developers.llamaindex.ai
Primary LlamaIndex guide to ingestion, indexing, retrieval, and response synthesis for RAG.
docs.langchain.com
Primary LangChain documentation for retrieval components and grounded RAG applications.
docs.ragas.io
Open-source framework for evaluating RAG and agent systems with metrics and test sets.
AI
arxiv.org
Recent preprints in artificial intelligence from arXiv's cs.AI category.
arxiv.org
Recent preprints in computation and language, including NLP and language-model research.
arxiv.org
Recent machine-learning preprints from arXiv's cs.LG category.
www.alphaxiv.org
Research discovery interface for arXiv papers with discussion and generated explanations.
huggingface.co
Community-ranked daily machine-learning papers with model and repository links.
www.semanticscholar.org
Academic search engine with citation graphs, related-paper discovery, and concise summaries.
www.connectedpapers.com
Visual graph for exploring papers related by citation and bibliographic similarity.
openreview.net
Open peer-review and publishing platform used by major machine-learning conferences.
www.anthropic.com
Anthropic publications on model capabilities, alignment, interpretability, and societal impacts.
transformer-circuits.pub
Technical research thread on mechanistic interpretability of neural networks and language models.
openai.com
OpenAI's research publications and technical reports on models, systems, and safety.
deepmind.google
Google DeepMind publications across machine learning, science, robotics, and AI safety.
research.google
Google's broader research portal spanning AI, computing, science, and human-computer interaction.
ai.meta.com
Meta research publications on machine learning, generative AI, perception, and systems.
www.microsoft.com
Microsoft Research publications and projects in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
epoch.ai
Empirical research on AI capabilities, compute, data, investment, and development trends.
distill.pub
Archived research journal known for durable interactive explanations of machine learning.
www.alignmentforum.org
Research-focused forum covering technical alignment, interpretability, governance, and AI risk.
www.apolloresearch.ai
Independent research organization studying deceptive behavior and evaluations of advanced AI systems.
metr.org
Research nonprofit measuring whether frontier AI systems can complete long-horizon tasks.
AI
www.figure.ai
Developer of general-purpose humanoid robots and embodied AI systems for commercial work.
www.1x.tech
Robotics company developing wheeled and bipedal humanoids for home and workplace tasks.
apptronik.com
Apptronik's general-purpose Apollo humanoid is designed for industrial and logistics work.
www.sanctuary.ai
Developer of the Phoenix humanoid and general-purpose robot intelligence for workplace tasks.
www.agilityrobotics.com
Developer of Digit, a bipedal robot intended for material handling and logistics.
www.tesla.com
Tesla's program to develop a general-purpose bipedal humanoid robot.
www.unitree.com
Chinese robotics manufacturer producing commercial quadruped and humanoid platforms.
bostondynamics.com
Robotics company behind Atlas, Spot, and Stretch research and commercial platforms.
www.physicalintelligence.company
Research company building generalist vision-language-action policies for diverse robots.
www.skild.ai
Developer of a general-purpose robotics foundation model intended to transfer across embodiments.
wayve.ai
Developer of end-to-end embodied AI models for autonomous driving.
developer.nvidia.com
NVIDIA foundation-model and data-generation stack for humanoid robot learning.
deepmind.google
Google DeepMind vision-language-action models for robot reasoning, control, and embodied interaction.
github.com
Open-source Hugging Face library with robot policies, datasets, and hardware integrations.
robotics-transformer-x.github.io
Open cross-embodiment robotics dataset and RT-X model collaboration.
aloha-2.github.io
Open low-cost bimanual teleoperation hardware and learning system for manipulation research.
www.tri.global
Research program applying machine learning to manipulation, assistance, and robot behavior.
mujoco.org
Open-source physics engine for fast, accurate simulation of articulated systems and contacts.
developer.nvidia.com
NVIDIA simulation, synthetic-data, and robot-learning tools built on the Isaac platform.
www.ros.org
Open-source middleware, libraries, and tooling for interoperable robotics software.
genesis-embodied-ai.github.io
Open physics and generative simulation platform for robotics and embodied AI research.
AI
www.openevidence.com
Evidence search and clinical decision-support system designed for verified health professionals.
www.hippocraticai.com
Healthcare-focused conversational agents for patient-facing, non-diagnostic workflows.
glass.health
Clinical decision-support platform for differential diagnosis and care-plan drafting.
www.abridge.com
Ambient clinical documentation platform that converts medical conversations into structured notes.
deepmind.google
Google's open Gemma variants for medical text and image application development.
www.harvey.ai
Legal AI platform for research, document analysis, drafting, and professional workflows.
www.thomsonreuters.com
Professional AI platform integrating legal research, document analysis, drafting, and workflow automation.
www.spellbook.legal
Contract drafting and review assistant integrated with Microsoft Word.
www.robinai.com
Contract review and legal workflow platform combining AI with optional human review.
www.bloomberg.com
Research language model trained by Bloomberg for financial-domain natural-language tasks.
www.hebbia.com
Document-analysis workspace for financial research, diligence, and other evidence-heavy workflows.
www.rogo.ai
Financial research and analysis platform for investment-banking and asset-management workflows.
github.com
Open-source project for financial language models, datasets, and evaluation tasks.
deepmind.google
Google DeepMind system for predicting protein structures and biomolecular interactions.
isomorphiclabs.com
AI-first drug-discovery company developing predictive and generative models for molecular design.
www.microsoft.com
Microsoft generative model for proposing stable inorganic materials with specified properties.
deepmind.google
Google DeepMind graph neural network for medium-range global weather forecasting.
www.khanmigo.ai
Khan Academy's AI tutor and teaching assistant for learners and educators.
www.synthesis.com
Adaptive mathematics tutoring product for school-age learners.
sierra.ai
Enterprise platform for deploying customer-service agents across support channels.
decagon.ai
Customer-service agent platform for handling support conversations and operational workflows.
www.mavenagi.com
Enterprise customer-support agent platform grounded in company knowledge and systems.
www.dropzone.ai
Security operations platform that automates alert investigation and triage as an AI analyst.
AI
deepgram.com
Speech API for low-latency transcription, synthesis, and real-time voice-agent workloads.
www.assemblyai.com
Hosted speech-to-text API with streaming transcription and audio-intelligence models.
github.com
Open-source OpenAI model and reference code for multilingual speech recognition and translation.
www.speechmatics.com
Speech-to-text API focused on multilingual transcription, diarization, and real-time audio.
elevenlabs.io
Primary documentation for ElevenLabs' controllable text-to-speech models and APIs.
cartesia.ai
Real-time voice API providing low-latency speech synthesis and related audio models.
www.hume.ai
Voice models and APIs designed to generate and interpret expressive speech.
vapi.ai
API platform for assembling and operating real-time phone and web voice agents.
www.retellai.com
Managed platform for building, testing, deploying, and monitoring phone voice agents.
docs.livekit.io
Open-source framework for real-time multimodal agents built on LiveKit media infrastructure.
www.pipecat.ai
Open-source Python framework for orchestrating real-time voice and multimodal agent pipelines.
www.browserbase.com
Managed browser infrastructure for agents, automation, sessions, and observability.
www.stagehand.dev
Open-source Browserbase framework combining Playwright primitives with AI-directed browser actions.
browser-use.com
Open-source framework and hosted service for browser-control agents.
e2b.dev
Isolated cloud sandboxes for running agent-generated code and computer-use workloads.
www.langchain.com
Graph-based runtime for durable, stateful agent workflows with human-in-the-loop control.
www.crewai.com
Open-source framework for coordinating role-based agents, tasks, and process flows.
microsoft.github.io
Microsoft open-source framework for event-driven single-agent and multi-agent applications.
www.letta.com
Framework and platform for stateful agents with persistent memory and context management.
openai.github.io
Open-source SDK for tool-using agents with handoffs, guardrails, sessions, and tracing.
modelcontextprotocol.io
Open specification for connecting AI applications to external tools, resources, and prompts.
composio.dev
Managed tool integrations, authentication, and execution infrastructure for agents.
www.arcade.dev
Tool-calling platform that provides delegated authorization and integrations for agents.
mem0.ai
Open-source and managed memory layer for retaining user and agent context.
modal.com
Secure serverless containers for running arbitrary code and agent-generated workloads at runtime.
Security
genai.owasp.org
OWASP GenAI Security Project guidance on common risks and mitigations for applications built with large language models.
atlas.mitre.org
MITRE knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques observed in attacks against AI-enabled systems.
www.nist.gov
NIST framework and companion resources for identifying and managing risks across the AI system lifecycle.
incidentdatabase.ai
searchable real-world incidents.
github.com
NVIDIA's LLM vulnerability scanner.
github.com
Microsoft's Python Risk Identification Toolkit for AI.
www.promptfoo.dev
eval + red-team framework, CI-friendly.
www.giskard.ai
Open-source testing framework for evaluating model quality, robustness, and security-related failure modes.
github.com
Open-source, pytest-style framework for evaluating LLM application outputs with reusable metrics and test cases.
inspect.aisi.org.uk
UK AISI's eval framework.
www.lakera.ai
prompt-injection/PII firewall.
protectai.com
ML supply-chain security.
hiddenlayer.com
Commercial platform for model scanning, runtime detection, and security monitoring across machine-learning systems.
github.com
NVIDIA, programmable rails.
github.com
Open-source toolkit providing configurable scanners and sanitizers for LLM inputs and outputs.
www.anthropic.com
Anthropic alignment & red-team research resource in AI Security & Red-Teaming.
www.apolloresearch.ai
deceptive-alignment evals.
metr.org
autonomy/capability evaluations.
www.aisi.gov.uk
UK government institute publishing AI safety evaluations, research, and testing resources.
www.nist.gov
NIST program materials on U.S. government AI safety measurement, evaluation, and standards work.
simonwillison.net
Practitioner articles tracking prompt injection research, demonstrations, and defensive design constraints.
embracethered.com
Johann Rehberger, AI red-team blog.
learnprompting.org
Learn Prompting overview of its AI red-teaming competition, challenge structure, and participating tracks.
aivillage.org
Security community and DEF CON village focused on testing, research, and education for AI systems.
saif.google
Google framework for applying secure-by-design practices to AI systems, including model, data, infrastructure, and application risks.
Security
owasp.org
Open community producing free resources, tools, and standards for improving software security worldwide.
portswigger.net
Free, world-class web security training with hands-on labs covering every major vulnerability class.
cwe.mitre.org
MITRE's community-developed list of software and hardware weakness types used in vulnerability classification.
semgrep.dev
Static analysis tool for finding bugs and security issues in source code with a large rule registry.
zaproxy.org
Open-source DAST scanner and proxy for automatically finding security vulnerabilities in web applications.
snyk.io
Developer security platform for scanning code, dependencies, containers, and IaC for vulnerabilities.
www.sonarsource.com
SonarSource platform for static code analysis, code quality checks, and security-focused rules across many languages.
csp-evaluator.withgoogle.com
Google tool for analysing CSP header configurations and identifying common misconfigurations and bypasses.
cheatsheetseries.owasp.org
Practical, community-reviewed guidance for implementing common application security controls and avoiding recurring weaknesses.
csrc.nist.gov
NIST SP 800-218 practices for integrating secure software development activities across the development lifecycle.
dependencytrack.org
Open-source software composition analysis platform for tracking components, SBOMs, and known supply-chain risk.
codeql.github.com
Official documentation for querying code as data to identify security vulnerabilities and software defects.
Security
cloudsecurityalliance.org
Non-profit defining cloud security best practices through research, certifications (CCSK), and the CCM framework.
prowler.com
Open-source cloud security tool for auditing, hardening, and continuous compliance across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
github.com
NCC Group's multi-cloud security auditing tool that produces an HTML report of misconfigurations.
trivy.dev
Comprehensive scanner for container images, IaC files, git repos, and Kubernetes clusters.
checkov.io
Static analysis tool for Terraform, Kubernetes, Dockerfile, and CloudFormation to catch misconfigurations pre-deploy.
falco.org
CNCF runtime security tool for detecting anomalous behaviour in containers and Kubernetes workloads.
aws.amazon.com
Centralised AWS security posture management aggregating findings from GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, and third-party tools.
steampipe.io
Query cloud APIs with SQL; includes prebuilt compliance benchmarks for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
tag-security.cncf.io
CNCF's Security Technical Advisory Group producing white papers, assessments, and guidance on cloud-native security.
kubernetes.io
Official Kubernetes guidance covering cluster, workload, pod, and API security concepts.
docs.aws.amazon.com
AWS architecture guidance for identity, detection, infrastructure protection, data protection, and incident response.
cloud.google.com
Google Cloud reference architecture for organization structure, identity, networking, logging, and security controls.
Security
nist.gov
Voluntary framework of standards, guidelines, and practices for managing cybersecurity risk, now at version 2.0.
cisecurity.org
Prioritised set of 18 defensive security controls developed by the Center for Internet Security.
www.iso.org
International standard for information security management systems (ISMS) and its certification framework.
eur-lex.europa.eu
Official consolidated access to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, including the GDPR articles and recitals.
pcisecuritystandards.org
Governing body for PCI DSS, the payment card industry data security standard.
enisa.europa.eu
EU Agency for Cybersecurity publishing threat landscapes, guidelines, and policy recommendations across the EU.
www.aicpa-cima.com
AICPA's Service Organization Control 2 framework for auditing security, availability, and confidentiality of cloud services.
eur-lex.europa.eu
EU Network and Information Security Directive 2 expanding cybersecurity obligations to more sectors.
bsi.bund.de
German federal authority for information security, publishing technical guidelines and IT-Grundschutz.
csrc.nist.gov
NIST catalog of security and privacy controls for information systems and organizations.
www.cisa.gov
Prioritized baseline cybersecurity practices published by CISA for organizations across critical infrastructure sectors.
www.ncsc.gov.uk
UK NCSC framework for assessing cyber risk management and resilience of essential functions.
Security
cryptopals.com
Series of cryptography challenges teaching practical breaks of real-world crypto constructions.
ssl-config.mozilla.org
Generates secure TLS configurations for nginx, Apache, HAProxy, and other servers based on Mozilla guidelines.
letsencrypt.org
Free, automated, and open certificate authority providing TLS certificates to the public.
openssl.org
The widely-used open-source toolkit for SSL/TLS and general-purpose cryptography.
doc.libsodium.org
Modern, easy-to-use cryptographic library with opinionated, hard-to-misuse APIs for encryption, signing, and hashing.
age-encryption.org
Simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool and library with a clean format specification.
sigstore.dev
Open-source project for signing, verifying, and protecting software supply chains with keyless code signing.
www.rfc-editor.org
The Internet Standards Track specification for Transport Layer Security version 1.3.
csrc.nist.gov
NIST index of approved cryptographic algorithms, implementation guidance, and transition publications.
cheatsheetseries.owasp.org
OWASP implementation guidance for password hashing, work factors, salts, peppers, and algorithm migration.
Security
d3fend.mitre.org
Complementary framework to ATT&CK mapping defensive techniques to the offensive tactics they counter.
github.com
Generic signature format for SIEM rules enabling detection content to be shared and converted across platforms.
virustotal.github.io
Pattern-matching tool for identifying and classifying malware samples based on textual or binary patterns.
wazuh.com
Open-source security platform combining SIEM, XDR, and CSPM for endpoint detection and log analysis.
www.elastic.co
Elastic security analytics, SIEM, and endpoint capabilities built on the Elastic Stack.
greenbone.net
Open-source vulnerability scanning and management solution with a large continuously updated feed of tests.
zeek.org
Powerful network analysis framework that generates rich, structured logs for security monitoring and forensics.
atomicredteam.io
Library of tests mapped to MITRE ATT&CK for validating defensive controls and detection coverage.
securityonionsolutions.com
Open platform for network security monitoring, log management, threat hunting, and case management.
osquery.io
Open-source framework that exposes operating-system state as SQL tables for fleet visibility and investigation.
learn.microsoft.com
Microsoft Sysinternals service that records detailed process, network, and file activity to the Windows event log.
Security
keycloak.org
Open-source identity and access management with SSO, OIDC, SAML, and fine-grained authorisation.
goauthentik.io
Self-hosted identity provider supporting OIDC, SAML, LDAP, and Radius with a modern UI.
authelia.com
Open-source authentication and authorisation server providing 2FA and SSO for reverse proxies.
developer.hashicorp.com
Official Vault documentation for secrets management, dynamic credentials, encryption services, and access policies.
pages.nist.gov
Current NIST guidance for identity proofing, authentication, federation, and authenticator assurance levels.
openid.net
Identity layer built on top of OAuth 2.0 enabling client applications to verify end-user identity.
fidoalliance.org
Industry consortium behind FIDO2, WebAuthn, and passkeys — the standard for passwordless authentication.
zitadel.com
Cloud-native, open-source IAM solution with multi-tenancy, passkeys, and audit log out of the box.
oauth.net
The authorisation framework spec and resources — RFCs, security BCP, and implementation guides.
www.w3.org
W3C specification for public-key credentials used by passkeys and phishing-resistant web authentication.
www.rfc-editor.org
IETF protocol specification for interoperable provisioning and management of identity data.
spiffe.io
CNCF project defining interoperable workload identities and attestation for distributed systems.
cheatsheetseries.owasp.org
OWASP guidance for implementing authentication, credential handling, session controls, and reauthentication.
Security
thehive-project.org
Scalable, open-source security incident response platform with case and alert management and MISP integration.
docs.velociraptor.app
Official documentation for the endpoint visibility and DFIR platform used to collect artifacts and hunt across fleets.
www.autopsy.com
Open-source digital forensics platform with a GUI front-end to The Sleuth Kit for disk image analysis.
volatilityfoundation.org
Leading open-source memory forensics framework for analysing RAM dumps from Windows, Linux, and macOS.
ericzimmerman.github.io
Collection of free Windows forensic tools for registry analysis, prefetch, event logs, shellbags, and more.
gchq.github.io
GCHQ's browser-based data analysis "Cyber Swiss Army Knife" for encoding, encryption, and data transformation.
dfir.training
Curated directory of DFIR tools, training, and resources maintained by the community.
www.exterro.com
Exterro forensic imaging and preview tool for acquiring drives, memory, and logical evidence while preserving source integrity.
csrc.nist.gov
Current NIST guidance for integrating incident response into cybersecurity risk management.
www.cisa.gov
CISA operational playbooks for standardizing incident and vulnerability response activities.
plaso.readthedocs.io
Open-source framework for extracting and analyzing timestamped events from forensic artifacts.
Security
ghidra-sre.org
NSA-developed free and open-source reverse engineering tool suite with a decompiler for major architectures.
rada.re
Portable reverse engineering framework and disassembler with scripting, debugging, and binary patching capabilities.
x64dbg.com
Open-source x64/x32 debugger for Windows focused on malware analysis and reverse engineering.
binary.ninja
Commercial binary analysis platform with a powerful API and collaborative features for reverse engineering.
any.run
Interactive online malware sandbox for analysing suspicious files and URLs with real-time process monitoring.
hybrid-analysis.com
Free malware analysis service powered by CrowdStrike Falcon with YARA rule matching and network indicators.
unpac.me
Automated malware unpacking service supporting 100+ packers and protectors.
remnux.org
Linux distribution curated for reverse engineering and malware analysis, with 150+ pre-installed tools.
github.com
Curated list of malware analysis tools, resources, and guides maintained by the community.
capev2.readthedocs.io
Open-source malware sandbox for automated behavioral analysis, configuration extraction, and reporting.
github.com
Mandiant-maintained Windows environment installer for reverse engineering and malware analysis tools.
malwareunicorn.org
Free reverse-engineering workshop materials covering static analysis, debugging, and common malware techniques.
Security
suricata.io
High-performance, open-source network IDS, IPS, and network security monitoring engine.
snort.org
Pioneering open-source network intrusion detection and prevention system maintained by Cisco.
pfsense.org
Open-source firewall and router platform based on FreeBSD with enterprise-grade features.
opnsense.org
FreeBSD-based open-source firewall and routing platform with modern UI and active development community.
mxtoolbox.com
Suite of DNS, MX, DMARC, SPF, and blacklist lookup tools for diagnosing email and domain security.
ssllabs.com
Qualys free tool for deep analysis of SSL/TLS server configurations, graded A to F.
cloudflare.com
Global network providing DDoS protection, WAF, CDN, Zero Trust access, and DNS security at scale.
netbird.io
Open-source, WireGuard-based overlay network for zero-config secure peer-to-peer connectivity.
www.wireguard.com
Modern VPN protocol and open-source implementation using a compact cryptographic design.
nlnetlabs.nl
Validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver with DNSSEC support and privacy-focused configuration options.
www.manrs.org
Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security provides concrete actions for safer internet routing and route validation.
dnsviz.net
DNSSEC analysis tool that visualizes delegation and validation problems in DNS zones.
Security
krebsonsecurity.com
Brian Krebs's investigative security blog known for deep reporting on cybercrime and breach investigations.
schneier.com
Bruce Schneier's blog on security, privacy, and technology policy — one of the most respected voices in security.
darkreading.com
Enterprise security news covering vulnerabilities, threats, and security strategy for IT professionals.
securityweek.com
Security industry news covering breaches, vulnerabilities, malware, and enterprise security market.
thehackernews.com
High-volume cybersecurity news site covering CVEs, breaches, hacking campaigns, and security tools.
risky.biz
Weekly information security podcast and news site with high-quality interviews and briefings.
isc.sans.edu
Daily threat intelligence updates and diary posts from SANS handlers tracking live internet threats.
reddit.com
Reddit community for technical information security content — high quality signal, minimal noise.
defcon.org
The world's largest underground hacking conference, with talks published free and a year-round community.
blackhat.com
Technical security conference series focused on advanced research, with free Briefings archives.
www.cisa.gov
Official CISA advisories on active threats, vulnerabilities, mitigations, and incident activity.
googleprojectzero.blogspot.com
Technical vulnerability research and disclosure write-ups from Google Project Zero.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
Independent technology publication with sustained reporting on ransomware, breaches, malware, and security updates.
www.usenix.org
Long-running peer-reviewed conference publishing open security research papers and presentation materials.
Security
kali.org
Debian-based Linux distribution maintained by Offensive Security and pre-loaded with hundreds of pentesting tools.
metasploit.com
World's most used penetration testing framework; exploit modules, payloads, and post-exploitation tools.
portswigger.net
Industry-standard web application security testing platform with proxy, scanner, and intruder modules.
hackthebox.com
Online platform with intentionally vulnerable machines, labs, and Pro Labs for practising real-world attack techniques.
tryhackme.com
Browser-based learning platform with guided pentesting labs covering beginner to advanced topics.
offsec.com
Training and certification provider behind OSCP, OSEP, and other hands-on security certifications.
pentesterlab.com
Hands-on web pentesting training with real exercises, from SQL injection to deserialization.
nmap.org
Network discovery and security auditing tool — port scanning, OS fingerprinting, and service version detection.
owasp.org
OWASP methodology and test cases for authorized assessment of web applications and web services.
caido.io
Web security testing toolkit with an intercepting proxy, request replay, automation, and project workflows.
testssl.sh
Open-source command-line tool for authorized testing of TLS protocol support, ciphers, and common configuration flaws.
Security
attack.mitre.org
Globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures based on real observations.
virustotal.com
Multi-engine file and URL scanner aggregating results from 70+ antivirus engines and threat intelligence feeds.
shodan.io
Search engine for internet-connected devices — servers, IoT, industrial systems — with banner and vulnerability data.
censys.io
Internet-wide scanning service for attack surface management; maps exposed services, certs, and misconfigurations.
greynoise.io
Filters internet background noise from real threats by categorising mass-scanning and exploit-broadcasting IPs.
otx.alienvault.com
Open Threat Exchange — community-driven threat intelligence sharing platform with millions of indicators.
abuse.ch
Non-profit running MalwareBazaar, URLhaus, Feodo Tracker, and ThreatFox for free threat intelligence feeds.
circl.lu
Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg — publishes free threat intelligence feeds, MISP, and CVE tools.
www.cisa.gov
US CISA's authoritative catalog of CVEs actively exploited in the wild, with required remediation dates for federal agencies.
misp-project.org
Open-source threat intelligence sharing platform and format standard used by hundreds of organisations globally.
docs.opencti.io
Documentation for the open-source platform used to structure, correlate, and share cyber threat intelligence.
docs.oasis-open.org
OASIS standard language for representing cyber threat intelligence in a structured, interoperable format.
docs.oasis-open.org
OASIS application-layer protocol for exchanging cyber threat intelligence over HTTPS.
www.first.org
Exploit Prediction Scoring System estimates the probability that a published CVE will be exploited in the near term.
Security
nvd.nist.gov
NIST's authoritative CVE database with CVSS scores, references, and patch advisories.
Google's open database for vulnerabilities in open-source software, queryable by package.
github.com
Security advisories for packages on npm, PyPI, Maven, RubyGems, and more, curated by GitHub.
hackerone.com
Leading bug bounty platform connecting security researchers with program-running companies.
bugcrowd.com
Crowdsourced security platform for bug bounty programs and vulnerability disclosure.
security.snyk.io
Developer-focused database of open-source package vulnerabilities with fix guidance.
www.cve.org
Official program for assigning and publishing globally recognized identifiers for publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.
www.kb.cert.org
CERT Coordination Center advisories with technical details, affected vendors, and mitigation information.
www.first.org
Official specifications and calculators for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System.
www.zerodayinitiative.com
Published vulnerability advisories from Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative with vendor and disclosure timelines.
securitylab.github.com
Open security research, CodeQL queries, advisories, and coordinated disclosure work focused on open source.
IT
spec.openapis.org
The industry-standard specification for describing HTTP APIs, enabling code generation and documentation.
hoppscotch.io
Open-source, lightweight API development ecosystem — REST, GraphQL, WebSocket, and SSE client.
graphql.org
Query language and runtime for APIs enabling clients to request exactly the data they need.
grpc.io
High-performance, open-source RPC framework using Protocol Buffers, with multi-language support.
asyncapi.com
Open standard for defining event-driven and message-driven APIs — the OpenAPI equivalent for async systems.
kafka.apache.org
Distributed event streaming platform used for high-throughput data pipelines, event sourcing, and messaging.
rabbitmq.com
Reliable open-source message broker supporting AMQP, MQTT, and STOMP with flexible routing patterns.
nats.io
Lightweight, high-performance cloud-native messaging system for microservices, edge, and IoT.
redpanda.com
Kafka-compatible event streaming platform with a single-binary architecture and self-managed or cloud deployment options.
swagger.io
Tooling for OpenAPI — Swagger Editor, Swagger UI for documentation, and Codegen for API stubs.
json-schema.org
Open specification and documentation for describing, validating, and annotating JSON data.
protobuf.dev
Official documentation for Google Protocol Buffers, a language-neutral binary serialization format.
www.postman.com
API platform for designing, sending, testing, documenting, and monitoring API requests.
insomnia.rest
Open-source desktop client for testing and debugging REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and WebSocket APIs.
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aws.amazon.com
The world's most comprehensive cloud platform with 200+ services from compute to AI and edge.
cloud.google.com
Google's cloud platform with strengths in data analytics, ML infrastructure, Kubernetes, and global networking.
azure.microsoft.com
Microsoft's enterprise cloud platform with tight Active Directory integration and hybrid cloud capabilities.
digitalocean.com
Developer-friendly cloud with simple pricing, managed Kubernetes, databases, and an excellent tutorials library.
hetzner.com
German cloud and dedicated server provider with excellent price-to-performance, popular in the European tech community.
fly.io
Platform for running full-stack apps and databases close to users with WireGuard-based private networking.
workers.cloudflare.com
Serverless compute platform running JavaScript/WASM at the network edge in 300+ cities globally.
ovhcloud.com
European cloud and hosting provider with bare-metal, VPS, managed Kubernetes, and object storage.
render.com
Unified cloud for web services, static sites, cron jobs, and databases with Git-based deployments.
www.linode.com
Akamai cloud compute services for virtual machines, Kubernetes, storage, databases, and networking.
www.scaleway.com
European cloud provider offering compute, managed Kubernetes, databases, serverless services, and object storage.
vercel.com
Managed deployment platform for web applications with preview environments, serverless functions, and edge delivery.
IT
docs.docker.com
Official Docker documentation for containerisation — engine, Compose, build, and registry.
podman.io
Daemonless, rootless container engine compatible with Docker CLI and Compose, from Red Hat.
kubernetes.io
Open-source container orchestration system for automated deployment, scaling, and management of containerised workloads.
k3s.io
Lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution from Rancher/SUSE optimised for edge and resource-constrained environments.
helm.sh
The package manager for Kubernetes, managing application lifecycle through charts and templating.
kustomize.io
Kubernetes-native configuration management that customises YAML manifests without templating.
argoproj.github.io
Declarative, GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes syncing cluster state from Git repositories.
fluxcd.io
CNCF GitOps toolkit for keeping Kubernetes clusters in sync with configuration sources automatically.
containerd.io
CNCF-graduated container runtime used as the standard OCI runtime inside Docker, Kubernetes, and other platforms.
cncf.io
Cloud Native Computing Foundation hosting Kubernetes, Prometheus, and 100+ projects shaping cloud-native infrastructure.
opencontainers.org
Linux Foundation project maintaining open image, runtime, and distribution specifications for containers.
cri-o.io
OCI-compatible container runtime implementing the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface.
kind.sigs.k8s.io
Kubernetes SIG-maintained tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using container nodes.
IT
postgresql.org
The world's most advanced open-source relational database with strong ACID compliance and extensibility.
sqlite.org
Self-contained, serverless SQL database engine — the most widely deployed database in the world.
duckdb.org
In-process analytical SQL database with columnar storage, designed for fast OLAP queries on local files.
clickhouse.com
Column-oriented database for real-time analytics capable of processing billions of rows per second.
redis.io
In-memory data structure store used as cache, message broker, and session store with persistence options.
mongodb.com
Leading document-oriented NoSQL database with flexible schema, rich query language, and Atlas cloud service.
min.io
High-performance, S3-compatible object storage for on-premises and cloud environments.
cassandra.apache.org
Highly scalable, distributed NoSQL database designed for high-availability with no single point of failure.
cockroachlabs.com
Distributed SQL database with geo-partitioning, horizontal scaling, and PostgreSQL wire compatibility.
elastic.co
Distributed search and analytics engine at the core of the Elastic Stack, used for full-text search and log analysis.
mariadb.org
Official home of the MariaDB open-source relational database server and its documentation.
ceph.io
Open-source distributed storage platform providing object, block, and file interfaces from one cluster.
openzfs.org
Open-source storage platform combining a filesystem and volume manager with checksums, snapshots, and replication.
www.foundationdb.org
Open-source distributed key-value database designed for strict serializable transactions and composable data models.
IT
code.visualstudio.com
Microsoft's open-source code editor with a vast extension marketplace and deep language server protocol support.
jetbrains.com
Suite of professional IDEs for Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, PHP, and web development.
neovim.io
Hyperextensible Vim-based text editor with Lua-based configuration and a rich plugin ecosystem.
zed.dev
High-performance, multiplayer code editor built in Rust with AI assistance and real-time collaboration.
git-scm.com
The distributed version control system — official documentation, reference manual, and Pro Git book.
gitlab.com
Complete DevSecOps platform with self-hosted and SaaS options for code, CI/CD, and project management.
gitea.com
Lightweight, self-hosted Git service with GitHub-compatible interface and low resource requirements.
github.com
Terminal multiplexer for managing multiple terminal sessions, panes, and windows in a single connection.
devenv.sh
Nix-based tool for declarative, reproducible development environments with direnv integration.
microsoft.github.io
Official protocol specification for language features shared between editors and language servers.
editorconfig.org
File format and editor plugin ecosystem for sharing basic coding-style settings across tools.
direnv.net
Shell extension that loads and unloads project-specific environment variables when changing directories.
cli.github.com
Official command-line interface for GitHub repositories, issues, pull requests, releases, and workflows.
IT
docs.github.com
CI/CD automation platform built into GitHub with a large marketplace of reusable actions.
docs.github.com
Documentation for hosting static sites from GitHub repositories with Jekyll or custom workflows.
docs.gitlab.com
Official GitLab CI/CD documentation for pipelines, runners, jobs, environments, and deployment workflows.
dagger.io
Portable CI/CD engine that runs pipelines as code in containers, locally and on any cloud.
earthly.dev
Build automation tool combining Makefile and Dockerfile concepts for reproducible, container-based builds.
tekton.dev
CNCF cloud-native CI/CD framework running pipelines as Kubernetes-native resources.
buildkite.com
Scalable CI/CD platform using your own infrastructure as agents, with fast pipelines and a clean interface.
argoproj.github.io
Kubernetes-native workflow orchestration engine for running parallel jobs, DAGs, and data pipelines.
jenkins.io
The most widely-used open-source automation server with a vast plugin ecosystem for CI/CD pipelines.
www.gnu.org
GNU build automation tool for expressing file dependencies and reproducible command workflows.
bazel.build
Open-source build and test tool supporting large, multi-language repositories with hermetic and incremental builds.
woodpecker-ci.org
Open-source CI engine using container-based pipeline steps and common Git forge integrations.
IT
terraform.io
HashiCorp's infrastructure-as-code tool for provisioning and managing cloud resources across 1,500+ providers.
opentofu.org
Open-source, community-driven fork of Terraform under the Linux Foundation, API-compatible with Terraform.
ansible.com
Red Hat's agentless automation platform for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration.
pulumi.com
Infrastructure as code using general-purpose languages (Python, TypeScript, Go) rather than DSLs.
nixos.org
Linux distribution built on the Nix package manager enabling reproducible, declarative system configuration.
crossplane.io
CNCF project extending Kubernetes to manage cloud infrastructure as Kubernetes custom resources.
packer.io
HashiCorp tool for building identical machine images across multiple platforms from a single configuration.
saltproject.io
Event-driven infrastructure automation and configuration management tool for large-scale systems.
cloud-init.io
Cross-platform standard and tool for initializing cloud instances from provider metadata and user data.
developer.hashicorp.com
Official documentation for defining and managing reproducible virtual-machine development environments.
www.puppet.com
Official documentation for Puppet declarative configuration management and infrastructure automation.
docs.chef.io
Official documentation for Chef Infra configuration management, resources, cookbooks, and clients.
IT
nginx.org
High-performance web server, reverse proxy, and load balancer widely used for serving and proxying HTTP traffic.
haproxy.org
Industry-standard open-source TCP/HTTP load balancer and proxy server known for reliability and performance.
caddyserver.com
Modern web server with automatic HTTPS, simple configuration syntax, and a powerful plugin ecosystem.
iana.org
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority maintaining root DNS, IP address allocations, and protocol parameter registries.
ripe.net
Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia — IP allocation, routing data, and RPKI.
bgp.tools
Real-time BGP routing table, AS path lookup, and prefix visibility tool used by network engineers.
bgp.he.net
Network lookup tools covering BGP prefixes, ASNs, peering, and route origin for internet infrastructure analysis.
wireshark.org
The world's most widely-used network protocol analyser for packet capture, filtering, and deep inspection.
tailscale.com
Zero-config WireGuard-based mesh VPN for securely connecting devices across any network.
envoyproxy.io
High-performance, cloud-native L7 proxy and service mesh data plane used in Istio and as a standalone edge proxy.
software.es.net
ESnet-maintained tool for active measurement of TCP, UDP, and SCTP network throughput.
frrouting.org
Open-source routing suite implementing BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, and other protocols for Linux and Unix systems.
openwrt.org
Linux operating system for embedded network devices with package management and extensive routing features.
datatracker.ietf.org
Internet Standards Track specification defining Internet Protocol version 6.
IT
news.ycombinator.com
Y Combinator's technology and startup discussion board — fast-moving, high signal, from devs and founders.
lobste.rs
Technology-focused link aggregator with invitation-only membership and tagging — higher signal-to-noise than HN.
theregister.com
British tech news site with sharp, sceptical commentary on industry, security, and enterprise technology.
infoq.com
Practitioner-focused coverage of software architecture, engineering culture, and emerging technology trends.
tldr.tech
Daily email digest of the most interesting tech, programming, and AI news — 5-minute read format.
changelog.com
Podcasts, newsletters, and articles for developers covering open-source, software development, and tech culture.
sreweekly.com
Weekly newsletter curating the best SRE, reliability, and on-call engineering content from around the web.
stackoverflow.com
The world's largest Q&A platform for programming questions across all languages and frameworks.
lwn.net
Independent publication covering the Linux kernel, free software, and open-source development in technical depth.
queue.acm.org
Practitioner magazine from ACM publishing long-form articles on software and systems engineering.
www.usenix.org
Technical association publishing open systems research, conference proceedings, and practitioner materials.
IT
prometheus.io
Open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit with a pull-based model and a powerful query language (PromQL).
grafana.com
Open-source analytics and visualization platform for metrics, logs, and traces with 100+ data source plugins.
opentelemetry.io
CNCF standard for collecting telemetry — traces, metrics, and logs — with vendor-neutral SDKs and collectors.
jaegertracing.io
CNCF distributed tracing platform for monitoring microservice transactions and diagnosing latency problems.
grafana.com
Horizontally scalable log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus, designed to store logs efficiently.
sentry.io
Error tracking and performance monitoring for frontend, backend, and mobile applications with detailed stack traces.
victoriametrics.com
Fast, cost-effective, and scalable time series database and monitoring solution, Prometheus-compatible.
vector.dev
High-performance observability data pipeline for collecting, transforming, and routing logs and metrics.
netdata.cloud
Real-time performance monitoring for systems, containers, and applications with a 1-second resolution.
www.zabbix.com
Open-source monitoring platform for servers, networks, applications, services, and synthetic checks.
signoz.io
Open-source observability platform for traces, metrics, and logs built around OpenTelemetry.
openmetrics.io
CNCF specification for transmitting cloud-native metrics at scale.
grafana.com
Open-source distributed tracing backend designed for high-scale storage and OpenTelemetry ingestion.
IT
python.org
General-purpose, high-level language dominant in data science, AI/ML, scripting, and backend development.
go.dev
Statically typed, compiled language from Google with fast compile times, garbage collection, and built-in concurrency.
rust-lang.org
Systems programming language focused on memory safety without garbage collection, with a modern toolchain.
typescriptlang.org
Strongly typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain JS, developed and maintained by Microsoft.
deno.com
Secure JavaScript and TypeScript runtime with built-in tooling, native Web APIs, and npm compatibility.
elixir-lang.org
Functional language running on the Erlang VM, optimised for building fault-tolerant, distributed, real-time systems.
ziglang.org
Low-level systems language focused on simplicity, explicit control, and C interoperability without a preprocessor.
ruby-lang.org
Dynamic, object-oriented language known for developer ergonomics and the Rails web framework.
kotlinlang.org
Modern, statically typed JVM language from JetBrains, the preferred language for Android and a growing server-side choice.
dev.java
Official Java learning and reference portal covering the language, JVM, tools, and current JDK releases.
nodejs.org
Open-source JavaScript runtime for servers, command-line tools, and network applications.
www.php.net
Official PHP language site with documentation, release information, and extension references.
learn.microsoft.com
Official Microsoft documentation for the C# language and its .NET development tools.
www.swift.org
Official home and documentation for the open-source Swift programming language.
IT
ietf.org
Internet Engineering Task Force producing open internet standards including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, and TLS.
rfc-editor.org
Authoritative archive of Request for Comments documents defining Internet protocols and standards.
w3.org
World Wide Web Consortium developing open web standards for HTML, CSS, SVG, WebAssembly, and Linked Data.
ecma-international.org
Standards body responsible for ECMAScript (JavaScript), the language spec behind every browser and runtime.
linuxfoundation.org
Non-profit hosting Linux, Kubernetes, CNCF, OpenSSF, and hundreds of other critical open-source projects.
apache.org
Non-profit hosting Apache Kafka, HTTP Server, Spark, Airflow, and 200+ critical open-source projects.
openssf.org
Open Source Security Foundation improving security across the open-source ecosystem through tools and standards.
oasis-open.org
Standards consortium advancing open standards for cybersecurity, IoT, and cloud including STIX and ODATA.
standards.ieee.org
IEEE standards for networking (802.11 Wi-Fi, 802.3 Ethernet), software engineering, and power systems.
whatwg.org
Standards community maintaining the HTML and DOM Living Standards and related web platform specifications.
www.unicode.org
Organization maintaining the Unicode Standard, character database, and internationalization specifications.
pubs.opengroup.org
The Open Group Base Specifications defining portable operating-system interfaces, shells, and utilities.
IT
wiki.archlinux.org
The most comprehensive Linux reference wiki — accurate, detailed, and useful beyond Arch Linux.
man7.org
Online Linux manual pages — comprehensive reference for system calls, commands, and libraries.
tldr.sh
Community-maintained simplified man pages with practical examples for common command-line tools.
explainshell.com
Parses any shell command and visually explains each argument and flag from the relevant man pages.
shellcheck.net
Static analysis tool for shell scripts that detects common bugs, pitfalls, and portability issues.
mywiki.wooledge.org
Thorough, opinionated guide to writing correct Bash scripts, covering quoting, arrays, and common pitfalls.
systemd.io
Init system and service manager for Linux with comprehensive documentation for services, timers, and units.
digitalocean.com
High-quality tutorials covering Linux server administration, databases, web servers, and security hardening.
ssh.com
SSH.com's reference guide covering SSH protocol, key management, tunnelling, and secure file transfer.
cron.help
Plain-English cron expression builder and validator with examples for common scheduling patterns.
debian-handbook.info
Free reference covering Debian installation, package management, networking, services, and administration.
documentation.ubuntu.com
Official Ubuntu Server guides for installation, networking, storage, security, and common services.
docs.freebsd.org
Official handbook for installing, configuring, securing, and administering FreeBSD systems.
docs.redhat.com
Official administration and deployment documentation for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and related infrastructure products.
IT
developer.mozilla.org
Reference for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, browser APIs, and web platform behaviour — the definitive source.
web.dev
Google's resource for modern web development — performance, Core Web Vitals, PWAs, and best practices.
caniuse.com
Browser compatibility tables for HTML, CSS, SVG, and JavaScript APIs across all major browsers.
react.dev
Meta's declarative UI library for building component-based web and native interfaces.
vuejs.org
Progressive JavaScript framework for building user interfaces with an approachable, performant, and versatile design.
svelte.dev
Compiler-based frontend framework that shifts work to build time, producing small, fast vanilla JS output.
tailwindcss.com
Utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs without leaving HTML.
vite.dev
Official documentation for the Vite frontend build tool and development server.
astro.build
Web framework for content-heavy sites that ships zero JavaScript by default and supports all major UI frameworks.
nextjs.org
React meta-framework from Vercel with hybrid SSR/SSG, App Router, server components, and edge runtime support.
angular.dev
Official documentation for the Angular web application framework, CLI, libraries, and tooling.
nuxt.com
Vue-based full-stack web framework with server rendering, routing, data fetching, and deployment integrations.
webassembly.org
Open web standard and portable binary instruction format for running compiled code in browsers and other runtimes.
web-platform-tests.org
Cross-browser conformance test suite for web platform specifications, maintained by browser vendors and contributors.
Technology
techcrunch.com
Startup and technology publication covering funding, product launches, acquisitions, and major industry shifts.
theinformation.com
Subscription technology journalism with sourced reporting on major platforms, startups, and Silicon Valley deals.
stratechery.com
Ben Thompson's analysis of technology strategy, platform economics, business models, and competitive dynamics.
ben-evans.com
Independent analysis of macro technology trends spanning mobile, AI, media, commerce, and consumer behavior.
platformer.news
Independent reporting and analysis on social platforms, content moderation, technology companies, and their societal effects.
crunchbase.com
Company database covering startup funding, investors, acquisitions, leadership, and private-market activity.
ycombinator.com
Startup accelerator publishing a large company directory, founder resources, essays, and requests for new startup ideas.
cbinsights.com
Research platform tracking venture capital, private markets, company strategy, and emerging technology sectors.
www.reuters.com
Global wire reporting on major technology companies, regulation, semiconductors, cybersecurity, deals, and industry developments.
Technology
obsidian.md
Local-first Markdown knowledge base with backlinks, graph views, canvases, and a broad plugin ecosystem.
notion.so
Collaborative workspace combining documents, databases, wikis, forms, calendars, and project management.
www.zotero.org
Open-source reference manager for collecting, organizing, citing, annotating, and synchronizing research sources.
bitwarden.com
Open-source password manager with end-to-end encrypted vaults, cross-platform clients, and self-hosting support.
keepassxc.org
Open-source, offline password manager using the portable KeePass database format on major desktop platforms.
signal.org
End-to-end encrypted messaging and calling app built around an open protocol and minimal metadata collection.
proton.me
Privacy-focused suite offering encrypted email, calendar, cloud storage, password management, and VPN services.
syncthing.net
Open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization that keeps data on user-controlled devices without a central cloud service.
raycast.com
Extensible macOS launcher combining application search, commands, clipboard history, window management, and integrations.
www.libreoffice.org
Community-developed open-source office suite for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, formulas, and databases.
Technology
tomshardware.com
PC component reviews, benchmark testing, technical reporting, and buying guides spanning CPUs, GPUs, storage, and memory.
notebookcheck.net
Detailed laptop, smartphone, and tablet reviews with instrumented display, battery, thermal, and performance measurements.
rtings.com
Measurement-driven reviews and comparison tools for displays, headphones, speakers, cameras, and other consumer electronics.
www.servethehome.com
Independent reviews and technical coverage of servers, networking, storage, accelerators, and data-center hardware.
www.phoronix.com
Linux hardware testing and open-source graphics coverage backed by a large archive of reproducible benchmark results.
gsmarena.com
Extensive mobile-device database with specifications, hands-on reviews, comparison tools, and historical models.
ifixit.com
Community repair manuals, teardown analysis, parts, tools, and device repairability information supporting right-to-repair work.
nytimes.com
Editorially tested product recommendations and long-term use guidance for consumer technology and household equipment.
semiengineering.com
Technical reporting on chip design, fabrication, verification, packaging, manufacturing equipment, and semiconductor markets.
Technology
archive.org
Nonprofit digital library preserving websites, books, audio, video, software, and other cultural artifacts for public access.
wiki.archiveteam.org
Volunteer web-preservation collective documenting and rescuing at-risk online services, communities, and user-created media.
knowyourmeme.com
Reference database documenting internet memes, viral media, online subcultures, origins, and patterns of spread.
tvtropes.org
Long-running community wiki cataloging storytelling devices, conventions, and recurring patterns across media and online culture.
www.internetsociety.org
Global nonprofit supporting an open, secure, trustworthy internet through technical communities, policy work, and historical resources.
www.pewresearch.org
Nonpartisan survey research on internet use, social platforms, digital behavior, technology adoption, and public attitudes.
tildes.net
Nonprofit, community-funded discussion site designed for thoughtful conversation, transparent moderation, and user control.
metafilter.com
Independent community weblog centered on member-curated links, discussion, questions, and shared internet discoveries.
Technology
arduino.cc
Open-source electronics platform spanning microcontroller boards, development tools, documentation, and educational project resources.
raspberrypi.com
Official home of Raspberry Pi single-board computers and microcontrollers, with documentation, projects, and educational material.
www.oshwa.org
Nonprofit stewarding the open-source hardware definition, certification program, community events, and creator resources.
adafruit.com
Open-hardware manufacturer and component shop paired with extensive electronics tutorials, libraries, and project guides.
sparkfun.com
Electronics retailer specializing in microcontrollers, sensors, prototyping components, open hardware, and practical learning guides.
hackaday.com
Daily coverage of electronics projects, embedded systems, reverse engineering, hardware hacking, and open technical work.
www.hackster.io
Hardware-project community with documented builds, contests, tutorials, and integrations across popular development boards.
printables.com
Community repository for downloadable 3D-printing models, makes, remixes, collections, and design contests.
instructables.com
Community-authored step-by-step projects covering electronics, fabrication, woodworking, repair, crafts, and practical skills.
tinkercad.com
Free browser-based Autodesk tools for introductory 3D design, circuit simulation, and block-based coding.
Technology
theverge.com
Technology publication covering products, major platforms, policy, digital culture, and the businesses shaping consumer technology.
wired.com
Long-form reporting and analysis on technology, science, security, business, politics, and digital culture.
arstechnica.com
Technically detailed reporting on computing, science, security, policy, hardware, software, and technology history.
spectrum.ieee.org
IEEE's editorial publication covering engineering, robotics, semiconductors, energy, computing, and emerging technologies.
www.technologyreview.com
Independent MIT-owned publication analyzing emerging technologies and their commercial, political, and social consequences.
www.404media.co
Worker-owned investigative publication focused on cybersecurity, surveillance, online platforms, consumer technology, and internet culture.
engadget.com
Consumer technology news and reviews covering devices, apps, gaming hardware, transportation, and digital entertainment.
9to5mac.com
Focused reporting, reviews, and practical guides for Apple hardware, operating systems, services, and ecosystem developments.
androidauthority.com
Android ecosystem reporting with device reviews, comparisons, application coverage, and practical user guides.
Technology
opensource.org
Steward of the Open Source Definition and the authoritative review process for approved open-source software licenses.
fsf.org
Nonprofit advocating for computer-user freedom, supporting the GNU Project, and publishing the GPL family of licenses.
www.softwareheritage.org
Nonprofit infrastructure collecting, preserving, and making publicly referenceable the source code of software projects worldwide.
github.com
Daily and weekly discovery view for repositories and developers attracting unusual attention across programming languages.
github.com
Community-maintained index of curated resource lists spanning programming languages, platforms, tools, and technical domains.
f-droid.org
Community-operated catalog and reproducible-build ecosystem for free and open-source Android applications.
codeberg.org
Community-governed nonprofit software forge providing Git hosting and collaboration services for open-source projects.
sr.ht
Minimalist software-development platform built around Git, email workflows, continuous integration, tickets, and public archives.
alternativeto.net
Community-curated software directory for comparing applications by platform, license, features, and user recommendations.
Technology
eff.org
Nonprofit defending privacy, free expression, access to technology, and civil liberties through litigation, policy, and technical work.
accessnow.org
International digital-rights organization combining policy advocacy, campaigns, and a security helpline for people and groups at risk.
epic.org
US public-interest research center litigating and advocating on privacy, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and democratic governance.
privacyinternational.org
Global organization investigating surveillance and data exploitation while supporting legal and policy campaigns for privacy rights.
citizenlab.ca
University of Toronto research laboratory documenting targeted surveillance, spyware, censorship, and threats to civil society.
privacyguides.org
Community-maintained, threat-model-oriented recommendations for privacy-respecting software, services, and practical digital hygiene.
torproject.org
Nonprofit developing the Tor anonymity network, Tor Browser, onion services, and censorship-circumvention technology.
mullvad.net
Privacy-focused VPN with numbered accounts, independently audited infrastructure, open-source clients, and minimal account data.
simplelogin.io
Open-source email-alias service for separating identities, blocking unwanted mail, and shielding primary addresses.
haveibeenpwned.com
Search and notification service for determining whether email addresses or passwords appear in documented data breaches.
Technology
duckduckgo.com
Search engine and browser company emphasizing reduced tracking, private search, and tracker blocking for mainstream users.
kagi.com
Subscription search engine without advertising, offering result controls, personalization, lenses, and an independent ranking layer.
search.brave.com
Search engine built around Brave's own web index with privacy protections and optional independent result-ranking features.
www.startpage.com
Privacy-oriented search service that returns Google-sourced results without exposing users' search histories to Google.
www.mojeek.com
Independent crawler-based search engine maintaining its own web index and a privacy policy that avoids user tracking.
mozilla.org
Mozilla's open-source web browser and the main cross-platform browser built on the independent Gecko engine.
brave.com
Chromium-based browser with built-in blocking for trackers and ads plus privacy-oriented browsing and search features.
vivaldi.com
Highly configurable Chromium-based browser with tab management, workspaces, mail, feeds, notes, and synchronization tools.
Technology
joinmastodon.org
Official entry point for the open-source Mastodon network, including server discovery, applications, documentation, and project information.
join-lemmy.org
Open-source federated link-aggregation and discussion platform with independently operated communities using ActivityPub.
pixelfed.org
Open-source federated photo-sharing platform with independently hosted instances and ActivityPub interoperability.
bsky.app
Social network built on the AT Protocol with portable identity, user-selectable feeds, and an open federation architecture.
nostr.com
Open protocol for relay-based social applications using cryptographic keys for portable identity and signed events.
www.w3.org
W3C Recommendation defining interoperable client-to-server and federated server-to-server social networking protocols.
atproto.com
Official technical documentation for the decentralized social-networking protocol underlying Bluesky and compatible applications.
fediverse.observer
Directory and statistics service for publicly visible Fediverse servers running Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and related software.
reddit.com
Large network of topic-based communities combining link sharing, discussion, moderation, and user-created media.
x.com
Large real-time social platform used for public conversation, breaking news, professional networks, and creator publishing.
Technology
youtube.com
Large-scale video platform spanning creator channels, tutorials, music, documentaries, live streams, and archival media.
twitch.tv
Live-streaming platform centered on gaming, creative broadcasts, events, live chat, and community subscriptions.
joinpeertube.org
Open-source, federated video-hosting platform that distributes publishing across independently operated servers using ActivityPub.
letterboxd.com
Social film diary and discovery service for logging, rating, reviewing, listing, and discussing movies.
justwatch.com
Country-aware streaming search and availability guide for films, series, rentals, purchases, and subscription catalogs.
jellyfin.org
Free open-source media server for organizing and streaming user-controlled video, music, live television, and photo libraries.
plex.tv
Media-server and streaming platform for organizing personal libraries alongside ad-supported video and live television.
kodi.tv
Free open-source media-center software with a ten-foot interface, broad format support, add-ons, and local-library management.
pocketcasts.com
Cross-platform podcast player with synchronization, queues, filters, variable speed, silence trimming, and web playback.
sponsor.ajay.app
Open crowdsourced browser extension and API for identifying and skipping sponsored or repetitive segments in online videos.
Gaming
boardgamegeek.com
The largest board-game database, with ratings, rules discussions, forums, marketplaces, and play logs.
boardgamearena.com
Browser-based platform for playing licensed modern board games asynchronously or in real time.
tabletopia.com
Digital tabletop sandbox with official board-game adaptations, workshops, and cross-platform play.
www.dicetower.com
Board-game reviews, rankings, podcasts, convention coverage, and video programming from a large reviewer network.
www.shutupandsitdown.com
Editorial board-game reviews, videos, podcasts, and recommendations focused on the experience around the table.
www.boardgamequest.com
Reviews, previews, news, and buying guides spanning strategy games, family games, and tabletop releases.
www.tabletopgaming.co.uk
News, reviews, interviews, and features covering board games, miniatures, role-playing games, and designers.
www.boardgameoracle.com
Board-game price comparison service with retailer listings, price histories, wish lists, and regional storefront coverage.
www.yucata.de
Free browser platform for asynchronous and real-time play of licensed board games, with ratings and tournament support.
ludii.games
Research-backed platform for playing, studying, and comparing historical and traditional strategy games from many cultures.
Gaming
www.pagat.com
Long-running reference for the rules, history, and regional variants of traditional card games worldwide.
scryfall.com
Fast, comprehensive Magic: The Gathering card search with advanced queries, rulings, prices, and APIs.
gatherer.wizards.com
Wizards of the Coast's official Magic card database with Oracle text, rulings, formats, and sets.
www.mtggoldfish.com
Magic deck lists, metagame analysis, card prices, tournament results, and collection tools.
limitlesstcg.com
Tournament results, deck lists, metagame statistics, card data, and event tools for the Pokémon TCG.
netrunnerdb.com
Community card database and deck builder for the Netrunner living card game, including legality and rulings.
arkhamdb.com
Card database, investigator deck builder, and campaign reference for Arkham Horror: The Card Game.
www.pokemon.com
Official searchable Pokémon Trading Card Game database with card text, expansions, formats, rarity, and illustrator data.
www.db.yugioh-card.com
Official Yu-Gi-Oh! database for card searches, product lists, deck management, rulings information, and tournament legality.
www.wopc.co.uk
Illustrated reference and archive covering playing-card history, regional patterns, makers, artists, and collecting.
Gaming
www.playstation.com
Sony's official destination for PlayStation hardware, games, services, support, and platform announcements.
www.xbox.com
Microsoft's official hub for Xbox consoles, games, subscriptions, cloud gaming, accessories, and support.
www.nintendo.com
Nintendo's official site for consoles, first-party games, account services, news, purchasing, and customer support.
blog.playstation.com
Official PlayStation announcements, developer interviews, release details, event coverage, and platform updates.
news.xbox.com
Official Xbox newsroom for game announcements, platform changes, developer features, events, and business updates.
www.nintendolife.com
Independent Nintendo publication with news, reviews, guides, interviews, videos, and release coverage.
www.pushsquare.com
Independent PlayStation publication covering news, reviews, features, guides, hardware, and release schedules.
www.purexbox.com
Independent Xbox publication offering news, reviews, features, guides, deals, and backward-compatibility coverage.
www.nintendo.com
Nintendo's official stream of game announcements, interviews, event updates, release news, and platform features.
www.doesitplay.org
Community database testing whether physical console releases can be installed and played without downloads or an internet connection.
Gaming
howlongtobeat.com
Community-maintained estimates for main-story, expanded, and completionist play times across thousands of games.
isthereanydeal.com
PC game price comparison and alert service that tracks authorized digital stores and historical discounts.
backloggd.com
Social game journal for logging play status, recording ratings and reviews, organizing lists, and discovering games.
www.igdb.com
Structured video-game database with release dates, platforms, genres, companies, media, ratings, and discovery tools.
www.dekudeals.com
Console-focused price tracker with sale histories, wish lists, collections, and personalized deal notifications.
steamdb.info
Independent database exposing Steam application metadata, price histories, update records, charts, and current promotions.
opencritic.com
Review aggregator combining critic scores, excerpts, publication data, release details, and ranked game lists.
www.grouvee.com
Social game collection manager for tracking backlogs, play status, ratings, reviews, shelves, and recommendations.
www.exophase.com
Cross-platform achievement and trophy tracker with player profiles, leaderboards, game activity, and embeddable gamercards.
Gaming
liquipedia.net
Community-maintained esports reference covering tournaments, teams, players, results, transfers, and game-specific histories.
www.hltv.org
Counter-Strike esports database and news site with match schedules, results, rankings, statistics, and team records.
www.vlr.gg
Valorant esports coverage with fixtures, results, event brackets, rankings, team rosters, statistics, and discussion.
escharts.com
Audience analytics platform for esports tournaments, channels, games, teams, and streaming viewership trends.
www.faceit.com
Competitive gaming platform providing matchmaking, leagues, tournaments, hubs, rankings, and anti-cheat services.
www.start.gg
Tournament platform for event registration, brackets, seeding, schedules, communities, and competitive-game discovery.
www.dotabuff.com
Dota 2 statistics and match-analysis service with player profiles, hero trends, rankings, and esports data.
oracleselixir.com
League of Legends esports data resource providing downloadable match statistics, dashboards, and analytical tools.
competitiveops.riotgames.com
Official Riot portal for esports rules, competitive policies, compliance material, and global player contract data.
lolesports.com
Official League of Legends esports site with schedules, standings, results, event coverage, teams, and live broadcasts.
Gaming
gdcvault.com
Archive of Game Developers Conference presentations on design, programming, production, art, audio, and business.
www.gamedeveloper.com
Professional publication covering game design, engineering, production, art, audio, careers, and industry practice.
learn.unity.com
Official Unity tutorials, learning pathways, sample projects, and courses for real-time game development.
dev.epicgames.com
Official technical documentation, guides, API references, samples, and production workflows for Unreal Engine.
docs.godotengine.org
Official manuals, tutorials, class references, and workflow guides for the open-source Godot game engine.
gameprogrammingpatterns.com
Free online book explaining reusable software design patterns through practical game-programming examples.
Global professional association offering chapters, special-interest groups, career resources, events, and developer advocacy.
gameaccessibilityguidelines.com
Practical reference organized by implementation complexity for making games usable by players with diverse access needs.
book.leveldesignbook.com
Open reference covering level-design theory, workflows, blockouts, playtesting, tools, and production practice.
www.gamesur.com
Professional community with articles, events, job resources, and guidance for user research and player-experience work in games.
www.gameuidatabase.com
Searchable visual-reference database of categorized interface screenshots and videos from released games.
developer.mozilla.org
Mozilla's guides and reference material for building browser games with standard web technologies and graphics APIs.
Gaming
www.indiedb.com
Community database where independent developers publish games, development updates, media, demos, and release information.
gamejolt.com
Creator-focused community and distribution platform for independent games, devlogs, events, and fan communities.
www.indiecade.com
Independent-games organization presenting festivals, showcases, awards, talks, and professional development programs.
igf.com
Annual festival and awards program recognizing innovation and achievement in independently developed games.
indiegamesplus.com
Editorial site highlighting independent releases, developer interviews, previews, reviews, and unusual game concepts.
wholesomegames.com
Curated community and showcase series focused on thoughtful, comforting, and emotionally resonant independent games.
www.alphabetagamer.com
Discovery site covering playable alpha, beta, prototype, student, game-jam, and independent game projects.
www.dayofthedevs.org
Nonprofit showcase organization presenting curated independent games through events, broadcasts, and public exhibitions.
a-maze.net
International festival and cultural platform presenting arthouse, experimental, independent games and playful media.
buried-treasure.org
Independent criticism and discovery publication focused on overlooked, small, and unusual indie games.
thinkygames.com
Specialist publication and showcase hub for puzzle, strategy, automation, and deduction-focused independent games.
Gaming
www.digitalfoundry.net
Technical game and hardware analysis focused on rendering, image quality, performance, and platform comparisons.
pcgamer.com
News, reviews, features, hardware coverage, and practical guides centered on PC gaming.
www.ign.com
Long-running publication covering game news, reviews, guides, video, entertainment, and major industry events.
www.gamespot.com
Established publication providing game news, reviews, previews, features, video, and release coverage across platforms.
www.eurogamer.net
European game publication known for news, reviews, interviews, criticism, guides, and independent editorial features.
www.polygon.com
Games and culture publication featuring reporting, reviews, essays, guides, entertainment coverage, and criticism.
www.rockpapershotgun.com
PC-focused publication covering news, reviews, features, recommendations, guides, and critical commentary.
www.theguardian.com
The Guardian's games section with criticism, reporting, interviews, reviews, newsletters, and cultural analysis.
www.gamesindustry.biz
Trade publication reporting on game studios, publishing, labor, finance, regulation, careers, and industry strategy.
aftermath.site
Worker-owned publication producing original reporting and criticism about games, labor, internet culture, and media.
www.gamefile.news
Independent publication offering original games-industry reporting, interviews, analysis, and a regular newsletter.
Gaming
www.bloodontheclocktower.com
Official home of the storyteller-led social-deduction game, with rules, character references, scripts, community links, and online-play resources.
www.mafiascum.net
Long-running forum and reference wiki for moderated online Mafia games, including role definitions, strategy material, archives, and active play.
www.jackboxgames.com
Official catalog and support site for locally hosted party games that use players' phones as controllers for drawing, trivia, writing, and bluffing.
www.freeformgames.com
Publisher of downloadable murder-mystery party games with host instructions, character materials, invitations, clues, and editions for varied group sizes.
www.sporcle.com
Large user-created trivia platform with timed quizzes across many subjects, playlists, multiplayer formats, and hosted live trivia events.
improwiki.com
Searchable reference for improvisational theater games, exercises, warm-ups, techniques, formats, and workshop activities for groups.
www.worldquizzing.com
International organization coordinating quiz competitions, including the World Quizzing Championships, with event information, rankings, and practice material.
garticphone.com
Free browser party game that turns drawing and written prompts into collaborative telephone-style rounds for live groups.
codenames.game
Official browser version of Codenames for creating private rooms and playing the team word-association game remotely.
netgames.io
Free browser collection of remotely playable social, bluffing, drawing, and hidden-role games for groups.
Gaming
www.pcgamingwiki.com
Community reference for PC game fixes, configuration details, compatibility notes, and technical workarounds.
www.nexusmods.com
Large mod-hosting and community platform with files, tools, documentation, and discussion for supported games.
www.moddb.com
Long-running database and hosting community for game modifications, independent projects, articles, and development updates.
www.protondb.com
Crowdsourced compatibility reports and configuration guidance for running Windows games on Linux through Proton.
lutris.net
Open-source Linux game manager integrating multiple stores, runners, emulators, and community installation scripts.
playnite.link
Open-source Windows game-library manager that unifies installed titles and libraries from multiple services.
www.gamingonlinux.com
News, reviews, technical reports, release coverage, and compatibility updates for Linux and Steam Deck gaming.
www.steamdeck.com
Valve's official resource for Steam Deck hardware, specifications, software features, support, and availability.
heroicgameslauncher.com
Open-source launcher for Epic, GOG, and Amazon game libraries on Linux, Windows, macOS, and Steam Deck.
appdb.winehq.org
Community compatibility database documenting how Windows games and applications run through Wine.
github.com
Open-source Vulkan and OpenGL performance overlay for monitoring frame timing, frame rates, temperatures, and system load.
Gaming
archive.org
Public archive of historical software, documentation, cover media, and emulated computer and console materials.
www.mobygames.com
Extensive game database cataloging releases, credits, platforms, companies, screenshots, cover art, and reviews.
gamehistory.org
Nonprofit organization preserving, researching, and improving access to video-game history and source materials.
www.museumofplay.org
The Strong museum's research collection documenting electronic games, creators, companies, hardware, media, and play culture.
www.gamingalexandria.com
Preservation community cataloging scans, promotional material, prototypes, interviews, artwork, and game-development history.
tcrf.net
Community research wiki documenting unused, hidden, regional, revised, and prerelease content found in video games.
amiga.abime.net
Detailed Amiga game database with credits, release data, screenshots, packaging, manuals, reviews, and conversion information.
www.filfre.net
Long-form researched history of computer games, interactive fiction, platforms, developers, and the surrounding software industry.
flashpointarchive.org
Community preservation project for browser games, animations, and other web-native interactive media that depend on discontinued technologies.
www.gamepres.org
Japan-based nonprofit preserving game software, hardware, publications, documentation, and related technical knowledge.
lib.umich.edu
University of Michigan research collection of games, consoles, computers, board games, and related historical material.
www.tosecdev.org
Long-running cataloging project documenting software, firmware, and media for historical computers, consoles, and arcade systems.
Gaming
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
Free collection of compact logic games with browser versions, downloadable applications, configurable difficulty, and generated puzzles.
www.nikoli.co.jp
Official English site of the Japanese puzzle publisher known for original logic-puzzle rules, books, magazines, and online puzzles.
puzzles.mit.edu
Official archive and resource hub for the long-running team puzzle hunt, including past hunts, solving guidance, history, and event information.
puzzledpint.org
Monthly casual puzzle event with local gatherings, downloadable puzzle sets, hints, solutions, location puzzles, and an extensive archive.
www.jigsawexplorer.com
Browser-based jigsaw platform with a large rotating puzzle library, custom image puzzles, multiplayer play, and saved progress.
www.worldcubeassociation.org
International organization governing official twisty-puzzle competitions, with regulations, event calendars, rankings, results, records, and competitor profiles.
www.puzzlemuseum.com
Online museum documenting mechanical puzzles across historical periods, makers, themes, materials, patents, collections, and puzzle ephemera.
roomescapeartist.com
Independent escape-room publication offering reviews, industry reporting, event coverage, player guides, design analysis, and a searchable recommendation map.
www.jaapsch.net
Detailed reference for mechanical, twisty, sliding, and permutation puzzles, including solution methods and mathematical analysis.
www.puzzles.wiki
Community reference for puzzle types, hunt history, solving terminology, construction resources, and puzzle-hunt archives.
puzzlehuntcalendar.com
Community calendar for discovering upcoming online and in-person puzzle hunts, competitions, and related events.
Gaming
store.steampowered.com
Valve's storefront and distribution platform for PC games, software, community features, and workshop content.
gog.com
Digital game store specializing in DRM-free releases, including both classic and current PC titles.
itch.io
Open marketplace for independent games, game-jam projects, tools, assets, and experimental interactive work.
store.epicgames.com
Epic's digital storefront for PC and Mac games, add-ons, free-game promotions, and publisher releases.
www.humblebundle.com
Digital PC game retailer connected to Humble's bundles, memberships, publisher sales, and charitable giving program.
www.greenmangaming.com
Digital game retailer offering publisher-supplied PC keys, release information, promotions, and editorial content.
www.fanatical.com
Authorized digital retailer for PC games, bundles, software, downloadable content, and publisher promotions.
apps.microsoft.com
Microsoft's official Windows storefront for PC games, downloadable content, apps, and account-linked purchases.
www.ea.com
Electronic Arts' official Windows client for buying, installing, updating, and managing EA games and subscriptions.
www.ubisoft.com
Ubisoft's official game distribution and player-services platform for purchases, libraries, rewards, saves, and social features.
Gaming
www.dndbeyond.com
Official Dungeons & Dragons digital toolset with rules, licensed books, a searchable compendium, character creation, and campaign management.
2e.aonprd.com
Officially licensed Pathfinder Second Edition rules reference covering classes, ancestries, equipment, spells, creatures, and game-master material.
roll20.net
Browser-based virtual tabletop with maps, tokens, dice, character sheets, rule compendiums, group finding, and licensed game content.
foundryvtt.com
Self-hosted virtual tabletop software with game-system packages, community modules, maps, automation, journals, and browser access for players.
www.ironswornrpg.com
Official home of a tabletop role-playing system designed for guided, cooperative, and solo campaigns, with rules downloads and play resources.
www.projectaon.org
Volunteer-authorized archive preserving Joe Dever's Lone Wolf gamebooks as free online editions with rules, illustrations, and supporting material.
critrole.com
Official site for the actual-play company, with campaign episodes, podcasts, show schedules, cast information, and related tabletop projects.
www.drivethrurpg.com
Large tabletop role-playing marketplace for licensed and independent rulebooks, adventures, supplements, virtual-tabletop assets, and print-on-demand editions.
rpggeek.com
Community database for tabletop role-playing games with editions, credits, ratings, collections, session logs, and forums.
donjon.bin.sh
Long-running collection of generators for adventures, maps, encounters, names, treasure, calendars, and campaign preparation.
kanka.io
Collaborative campaign and worldbuilding manager for characters, places, organizations, timelines, calendars, and permissions.
www.rpg.net
Long-running tabletop role-playing community with discussion forums, reviews, columns, and an indexed game database.
Science
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
National Library of Medicine search system for biomedical citations, abstracts, publication metadata, and links to full text.
biorxiv.org
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory preprint server for rapid, openly accessible communication of research across the life sciences.
cell.com
Flagship Cell Press journal publishing primary research and reviews across molecular, cellular, systems, and organismal biology.
elifesciences.org
Open life-sciences publisher combining public preprints, reviewed preprints, editorial assessment, and transparent peer review.
journals.plos.org
Open-access journal publishing significant research, methods, perspectives, and community work across biological science.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Public archive of annotated nucleotide sequences maintained by NCBI as part of the international sequence database collaboration.
ebi.ac.uk
European bioinformatics institute providing open molecular data resources, analysis tools, training, standards, and research infrastructure.
ensembl.org
Genome browser and annotation platform for vertebrates and model organisms with variants, comparative genomics, and programmatic access.
www.uniprot.org
Authoritative protein sequence and functional-annotation resource combining expert curation with large-scale computational analysis.
www.rcsb.org
US portal for the global Protein Data Bank archive of experimentally determined three-dimensional biological macromolecular structures.
Science
chemrxiv.org
Open preprint server operated for the chemistry community by major chemical societies before formal peer review.
pubs.acs.org
American Chemical Society journal platform covering fundamental, applied, materials, medicinal, environmental, and industrial chemistry.
rsc.org
UK learned society publishing chemistry journals, standards, educational material, professional resources, policy work, and research news.
iupac.org
International authority developing chemical nomenclature, terminology, measurement standards, atomic weights, and globally coordinated recommendations.
cen.acs.org
American Chemical Society newsroom covering research, chemical industry, regulation, safety, careers, and scientific policy.
pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
NIH open chemistry database linking structures, identifiers, properties, safety data, bioassays, patents, and scientific literature.
materialsproject.org
Open computational database of predicted material properties with analysis tools and APIs for materials discovery.
webbook.nist.gov
Evaluated reference data for thermochemistry, phase changes, reaction energetics, spectra, chromatography, and fluid properties.
www.crystallography.net
Open-access collection of crystal structures for organic, inorganic, metal-organic, and mineral compounds with downloadable data.
Science
ipcc.ch
United Nations body assessing published climate science, impacts, adaptation, mitigation, and evidence for policymakers.
UN specialized agency coordinating global weather, climate, hydrological observations, standards, assessments, and early-warning systems.
climate.nasa.gov
NASA portal explaining climate evidence, causes, effects, solutions, vital signs, satellite observations, and Earth-science missions.
noaa.gov
US agency providing authoritative weather, ocean, fisheries, atmospheric, environmental, and climate observations and forecasts.
climate.copernicus.eu
European Union service producing global climate reanalyses, forecasts, indicators, datasets, and regular monitoring reports.
globalcarbonproject.org
International research project quantifying greenhouse-gas sources and sinks through global budgets, datasets, and synthesis reports.
ourworldindata.org
Open, source-linked charts and datasets comparing emissions, energy use, temperature, and climate indicators across countries and time.
carbonbrief.org
Specialist journalism and analysis explaining climate science, energy, policy, and the evidence behind public claims.
realclimate.org
Commentary by working climate scientists explaining new research, scientific disputes, methods, models, and recurring misinformation.
e360.yale.edu
Yale School of the Environment publication featuring reporting, analysis, and expert perspectives on global environmental issues.
Science
arxiv.org
Recent mathematics preprints across algebra, analysis, geometry, topology, probability, combinatorics, logic, and related fields.
www.ams.org
Professional society publishing mathematical research, reviews, books, conference resources, career material, and public outreach.
mathworld.wolfram.com
Extensive mathematics encyclopedia with definitions, formulas, diagrams, references, and cross-links across major mathematical subjects.
oeis.org
Authoritative collaborative database of integer sequences with formulas, references, programs, cross-references, and mathematical context.
dlmf.nist.gov
Authoritative online reference for special functions, numerical methods, identities, asymptotics, notation, and computational guidance.
3blue1brown.com
Visual mathematics lessons and interactive explanations by Grant Sanderson covering calculus, linear algebra, probability, and advanced topics.
projecteuler.net
Long-running collection of challenging mathematical problems intended to be solved through reasoning and computer programming.
brilliant.org
Interactive problem-solving courses in mathematics, statistics, science, and computer science for independent learners.
stats.stackexchange.com
Moderated question-and-answer community for statistics, probability, data analysis, machine learning, study design, and inference.
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
Andrew Gelman and collaborators on Bayesian methods, causal inference, visualization, scientific practice, and applied statistical modeling.
Science
thelancet.com
International medical journal family publishing clinical research, global health evidence, reviews, commissions, and commentary.
nejm.org
Peer-reviewed medical journal publishing major clinical trials, reviews, practice-changing evidence, and professional perspectives.
bmj.com
General medical journal publishing clinical research, education, evidence analysis, news, and investigations into health systems.
cochranelibrary.com
Database of systematic reviews and controlled-trial evidence used to assess healthcare interventions and support evidence-based decisions.
clinicaltrials.gov
US National Library of Medicine registry and results database for publicly and privately funded clinical studies worldwide.
medrxiv.org
Preprint server for health-science manuscripts with prominent screening and warnings that reports have not completed peer review.
who.int
United Nations health agency publishing international guidance, standards, surveillance, emergency information, and global health data.
www.nih.gov
US biomedical research agency providing institute programs, health information, funding resources, research news, and open scientific infrastructure.
US public-health agency publishing surveillance data, epidemiological guidance, outbreak information, recommendations, and prevention resources.
statnews.com
Specialist journalism covering medicine, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, public health, research institutions, and healthcare policy.
Science
brain-map.org
Allen Institute portal for open gene-expression, cell-type, connectivity, development, aging, and multimodal brain datasets.
www.humanconnectome.org
NIH-supported project distributing high-quality human neuroimaging, behavioral, and connectivity datasets with analysis tools.
psyarxiv.com
Open preprint service for psychology and related behavioral and cognitive sciences, supported by the scholarly community.
nature.com
Peer-reviewed journal publishing research across molecular, cellular, systems, computational, and cognitive neuroscience.
brainfacts.org
Public neuroscience education resource from the Society for Neuroscience with reviewed explanations, multimedia, and teaching material.
quantamagazine.org
In-depth explanatory journalism on cognition, consciousness, neural computation, brain development, and neuroscience research.
braininitiative.nih.gov
US research initiative supporting technologies, data infrastructure, and collaborative programs for understanding brain circuits and behavior.
sfn.org
International professional society publishing journals, organizing the major annual neuroscience meeting, and supporting education and advocacy.
cognitivesciencesociety.org
Interdisciplinary society connecting psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, education, and artificial intelligence research.
Science
quantamagazine.org
Editorially independent, nonprofit journalism explaining research in mathematics, physics, biology, and theoretical computer science.
www.sciencenews.org
Independent nonprofit publication reporting evidence-based developments across scientific disciplines for a broad public audience.
newscientist.com
Weekly science publication covering research, technology, health, environment, space, and their implications for society.
scientificamerican.com
Long-running science magazine publishing reporting, analysis, commentary, podcasts, and accessible explanations across disciplines.
nautil.us
Long-form science essays and reporting connecting research with history, philosophy, culture, and the human experience.
knowablemagazine.org
Nonprofit explanatory journalism from Annual Reviews synthesizing established evidence and emerging research across scientific fields.
www.sciencemediacentre.org
Independent UK organization providing journalists with rapid expert comments, briefings, and evidence on science-related news.
sciencefriday.com
Nonprofit radio program, podcast, and education organization exploring current research, nature, technology, and scientific culture.
Science
quantamagazine.org
In-depth explanatory journalism on quantum theory, particles, condensed matter, gravity, cosmology, and fundamental physics.
symmetrymagazine.org
Fermilab and SLAC publication explaining particle physics, accelerators, dark matter, cosmology, and the people doing the research.
arxiv.org
Recent physics preprints spanning instrumentation, education, history, atmospheric science, applied physics, and interdisciplinary topics.
inspirehep.net
Open information platform for high-energy physics literature, data, conferences, authors, experiments, institutions, and citations.
aps.org
Major professional society publishing the Physical Review journals and supporting physics meetings, education, careers, and policy.
www.iop.org
UK and Ireland professional body supporting physics education, careers, policy, community programs, and scientific publishing.
home.cern
European particle-physics laboratory operating the Large Hadron Collider and publishing experiment, accelerator, computing, and open-data resources.
fnal.gov
US national laboratory conducting particle-physics, accelerator, neutrino, quantum-science, and cosmology research.
perimeterinstitute.ca
Independent theoretical-physics institute publishing research, public lectures, educational material, and an open seminar archive.
hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu
Georgia State University concept map linking concise explanations, equations, diagrams, and examples across introductory physics.
Science
arxiv.org
Open preprint repository for physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, statistics, economics, and related fields.
ssrn.com
Research-paper repository and preprint network with strong coverage of economics, law, social sciences, business, and health.
nature.com
Multidisciplinary research journal and publisher covering major results, reviews, news, and commentary across the sciences.
science.org
AAAS flagship multidisciplinary journal publishing research, reviews, perspectives, policy analysis, and science news.
plos.org
Broad open-access journal evaluating scientifically rigorous research without selecting primarily for perceived novelty or impact.
doaj.org
Independent index of quality-controlled, peer-reviewed open-access journals with journal- and article-level discovery metadata.
www.crossref.org
Nonprofit scholarly infrastructure registering persistent identifiers and open metadata for research outputs, funders, licenses, and references.
semanticscholar.org
Free academic search engine from Ai2 providing citation graphs, related-paper discovery, author pages, and research recommendations.
openalex.org
Open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, funders, and citation relationships with a public API.
scholar.google.com
Broad scholarly search engine indexing articles, theses, books, conference papers, patents, and court opinions.
Science
nasa.gov
US civil space agency publishing mission information, science results, imagery, educational material, and extensive open datasets.
esa.int
European intergovernmental space agency covering science missions, launch systems, Earth observation, exploration, and technology programs.
jpl.nasa.gov
NASA center leading robotic exploration, planetary missions, Earth science, deep-space communications, and mission engineering.
www.eso.org
Intergovernmental astronomy organization operating major ground-based observatories and publishing observations, imagery, instruments, and research results.
ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
Core literature and citation database for astronomy and physics, maintained by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory for NASA.
spacex.com
Official mission, vehicle, launch, human-spaceflight, Starship, and company information from the commercial launch provider.
planetary.org
Independent nonprofit supporting space science, public education, advocacy, citizen science, and member-funded technology projects.
skyandtelescope.org
Astronomy publication offering observing guides, celestial events, equipment reviews, research news, and resources for amateur astronomers.
space.com
General-audience reporting on astronomy, missions, launches, spaceflight, observing, and space-industry developments.
heavens-above.com
Location-aware observing tool for satellite passes, the International Space Station, planets, comets, and sky charts.
Geopolitics
v-dem.net
Research institute that produces comparative datasets and analysis on democratic institutions and political systems worldwide.
freedomhouse.org
Organization that publishes country assessments of political rights, civil liberties, and democratic governance.
electoralintegrityproject.com
Research project studying election quality through expert surveys, comparative datasets, and publications on electoral integrity.
idea.int
Intergovernmental organization providing electoral data, democracy assessments, and support for democratic institutions.
Annual index assessing countries and territories across electoral process, government functioning, participation, political culture, and civil liberties.
Nonprofit organization supporting elections, democratic institutions, political participation, and civil society programs worldwide.
aceproject.org
Collaborative knowledge resource covering election administration, electoral systems, legal frameworks, and comparative electoral practice.
www.electionguide.org
Database of national elections, referendums, results, electoral systems, and political institutions around the world.
Geopolitics
iea.org
International Energy Agency portal for energy statistics, market reports, policy analysis, and energy transition research.
eia.gov
US Energy Information Administration data and analysis on domestic and international energy production, consumption, prices, and trade.
opec.org
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries portal for oil market reports, production data, publications, and member information.
energymonitor.ai
Journalism and analysis covering energy markets, infrastructure, climate policy, and the transition between energy systems.
energypolicy.columbia.edu
Columbia University research center examining energy markets, security, geopolitics, climate policy, and energy transitions.
irena.org
International Renewable Energy Agency data, reports, and policy analysis on renewable energy deployment and energy transitions.
resourcegovernance.org
Independent nonprofit institution researching governance of oil, gas, and mineral resources and supporting policy reform in resource-producing countries.
www.energyinst.org
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Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.
Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.
Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.
AI systems are regularly completing tasks in ways that their prompters don't want or intend. Some of them are disturbing, and some of them are dangerous. This is something I've been calling " genie behavior ," because I think that really gets at the core of wh
The country faces a plummeting birth rate sooner than some of its global south peers.
This could be their worst-ever year.
We evaluate several models on 100 tasks from the [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] (selected at random), and find that GLM-5.3 develops full control flow hijacks in 4% of the trials; Claude Mythos Preview did so in 6%. Although GLM-5.3 performs below Cl
Mass protests over an 87-year-old’s eviction prompt new proposed legislation.
In the U.S.-China relationship at present, nothing might be better than something.
Regional wars have required Cairo to maneuver between competing demands.
My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News. I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-liv... Here they are for GPT-6.1
I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the keynote. Tags: ai , openai , generative-ai
Agencies publish resolution plan feedback letters for 15 banking organizations
Should new parents favour financial capital, human capital or something else?
Payment cards linked to cryptocurrency accounts may enable Chinese purchases of American AI models
Even with higher growth, taxes may be harder to find
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget revealed today that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week breached its systems after exploiting a zero-day flaw in third-party security products. [...]
Apple's long-rumored smart home hub will reportedly be unveiled on October 13th. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that the smart-home device will be revealed alongside a new HomePod mini and an upgraded Apple TV device. All three products are set to showcase Si
Gaming online can seriously strain your internet connection, but the best gaming routers could give you the edge.
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady drip of disclosures about other hacks in the weeks since has k
From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s Lanterns, Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
The Kenya refinery is part of Dangote's ambitious bid to expand and help industralise Africa by 2030.
Learn what to look for when buying a kids’ mattress, plus how six top models stack up, according to my 2-year-old.
Lowe and his wife Kim Painter announce the death of their daughter, who "was the light of our lives".
"We want to stop the North Koreans as far from Pusan as we can. Block the main road as far north as possible. Contact General Church. If you can't locate him, go to Taejon and beyond if you can. Sorry I can't give you more information. That's all I've got. Goo
In January, this article series opened with a blunt question: Economic statecraft is back, but is America ready?Driving the question, in part, was the fact that the United States had not yet articulated (at least overtly) a strategy for economic statecraft. Th
Docking stations expand what your laptop can do, and I’ve been testing the best of the best to see which you should buy.
Blasts in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) injured three South Korean personnel earlier this month.
Witnesses say Raseel's tent was hit by an Israeli helicopter strike. Israel’s military says it has no record of the attack.
The meeting at the White House came as some tech bosses and experts have called for tighter rules around AI.
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available. [...]
For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had
The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to "Super Intelligence," thanks to a new executive order signed by Pres
When BMW first announced it was reimagining the i3 as an all-electric four-door sedan built on its Neue Klasse platform, it left out a lot of important details, like battery capacity, range, and price. Today, the German automaker is finally starting to fill in
Dutch police say they arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in connection with ShinyHunters, the hacking group that claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks on Ticketmaster, Rockstar Games, and more recently, the FBI. In a press release, Dutch authoritie
Signal, the secure messaging app, released version 8.30, completing the rollout of its secure backups feature across all supported operating systems (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows). [...]
Custom variants of OpenAI's ChatGPT promoted in sponsored Google results are directing unsuspecting users to malicious sites that use ClickFix attacks to deliver malware. [...]
The FBI is warning members of the ShinyHunters extortion group to turn themselves in after Dutch police arrested a man the bureau described as one of the group's alleged leaders. [...]
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and modalities, Quine helps scientists comp
Starting yesterday, our sensors picked up a small number of scans for "wordfence-waf.php". This particular script is used by Wordfence, a solution to protect WordPress sites. During the Wordfence install, the wordpress-waf.php file will be created in the site&
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
In the first two posts of this three-part series, we discussed private market participants that are active in repo markets for profit-making motives. Central banks are also active repo market participants, but their reasons often differ from those of private p
Game Republic New Horizons has added Housemarque and Bithell Games to its speaker lineup in addition to an open session with Nintendo representatives for developers and publishers. Read more
This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access sensitive information, access user accounts, execute OS-level commands, or take full control over the device. The following versions of Anjvision YSSD-RTMP-H5
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow attackers to achieve remote command execution on affected devices, potentially with root privileges, leading to full compromise of the camera system. The following versions of VIVOTEK Ca
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution or cause a denial of service. The following versions of MikroTik RouterOS are affected: RouterOS CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 9
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malformed messages which may lead to a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of Baicells Nova 430H are affected: Nova 430H eNodeB (model pBS3101SH)
Valve is updating Steam's Discount & Events section , shifting from manual, calendar-based listings to a more "dynamic and personalised" system to improve discoverability. Read more
Global game content revenue is projected to increase from $204.4 billion in 2025 to $229.1 billion in 2030, representing a 2.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), according to S&P Global Market Intelligence Kagan. Read more
Steam announced a new set of changes for its discounts and events tab that will impact which games players see.
'If you’re a developer, studio, or creator working on something interesting in horror, give me a shout!'
Naughty Dog is signaling what comes next for the studio after it finishes Intergalactic.
'It has to feel like it’s on you to make a decision on what to do with those elements that you see within the world.'
Denis Fedorov founded Unfrozen, the studio behind Iratus: Lord of the Dead and Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era. He also leads Nova Assembly, a holding company co-owned and run by five studios that share development and marketing expertise, while retaining t
Aleksander Grøndal admits Embark has struggled to balance the needs of millions of players with those of its workforce.
The rumoured Xbox Mythic Achievements - the equivalent of PlayStation's Platinum Trophies - have been officially announced, and they're rolling out for Xbox Insiders now. Read more
Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares how treating context like code - complete with testing, CI/CD, package managers, and security scanning - enables engineerin
Grand Theft Auto 6 is set to launch on November 19, and it's a fairly safe bet that it will be the biggest game launch of all time. Read more
After about a month in testing , Xbox's disc-to-digital feature has officially launched for all owners of Xbox consoles. The feature allows users to turn Xbox One and Xbox Series X discs into digital copies. Read more
At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
OpenAI's Dev Day showcased a product that is, frankly, pretty confusing. However, there is more vision here than it might seem.
From Becky Chambers to Audrey Niffenegger, there are some heavy hitters with new sci-fi novels out this month – and a hefty dose of time travel, says Alison Flood
Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat and extreme weather around the globe
A subtle change in household power habits could eliminate the need to build new gas power plants, say researchers studying energy usage
CodeScene has published a case study in which coding agents refactored 300,000 lines of C over three weeks for roughly $4,000 in tokens, verified by a frame-by-frame replay harness. The agents built a playbook of codebase-specific recipes along the way. Practi
The Svelte team has entered the release candidate phase for SvelteKit 3, which focuses on code refinement and prepares for future updates. Notable changes include moving configuration to vite.config.ts, replacing the $lib alias with #lib for improved compatibi
the most confident DevDay yet.
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 30 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featu
Hurricanes Polo and Nolo sent destructive effects ashore amid an active season in the northeastern and central Pacific.
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
NASA’s 2027 Human Lander Challenge is seeking ideas from college and university students to help address one of the most critical needs for sustained lunar exploration: reliable communications. As NASA prepares for long-term human presence on the Moon through
NASA has awarded a contract to Omitron Inc. for the acquisition of orbital safety analysis services, which provide for critical protection of NASA spaceflight assets and astronaut lives. This indefinite-delivery contract is valued at approximately $23.5 millio
NASA will participate in the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from Monday, Oct. 5, to Friday, Oct. 9, highlighting America’s leadership in human exploration to the Moon and Mars, advancing responsible exploration under the A
From EIA: From Bloomberg today: The US ordered another release of oil from emergency reserves — and urged European nations to do likewise — as the Trump administration grapples with fuel prices that are surging less than two months before the midterm elections
Recently launched, Amazon CloudWatch Omni is an AI-first observability platform designed to monitor, evaluate, and troubleshoot applications and autonomous AI agents in a unified environment. By Sergio De Simone
From the Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update: A slight respite, but oil prices have risen again, so probably brief. Costs for trucking: Source: WSJ.
Conference Board index registers 81.9 vs consensus 89.2 (and previous 88.6). It's currently three standard deviations below mean. Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentiment, using Cummings Tedeschi adjustment (blue), Conference Board Confidence Index (brown), Gal
In cities such as London, trees are already struggling with hot and dry summers. Botanists warn that we need to start replacing them with drought-adapted species
Explore GitHub’s latest transparency data and learn more about policy updates affecting developers and open source. The post Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
An exquisitely preserved fossil found in China shows that many anatomical features seen in birds also evolved independently in another group of dinosaurs
Cloudflare has implemented native support for the HTTP Vary header across its edge network, enhancing cache management for all customer plans. This feature allows for better negotiation of content representations while minimizing cache fragmentation. Operators
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Shares in the aerospace company rose close to 3% in premarket trading on Wednesday after the U.S. Navy selected it to develop its next-generation fighter jet.
Beneath the languished moves in the main stock-market indexes, there were some disturbing features.
Investors have become accustomed to returns distorted by artificially low interest rates. 5% on bonds and 6% on stocks are more realistic and Bianco finds value in U.S. Treasury notes now.
Strategists at the bank said a rally at the end of the year would likely depend on oil prices lowering or stabilizing even as the historically best-performing quarter approaches.
Plus, Klassik recreates the KDE 3 desktop experience on Qt 6
A contributor proposed a new OpenBSD port for uutils, the Rust reimplementations of GNU coreutils. The proposal met firm resistance: Stuart Henderson called it unusable, explaining that GNU coreutils exists mainly to stabilize GNU-sensitive build environments.
On 23 September, the European-Chinese Smile mission was declared ready to start revealing how Earth responds to the wind of charged particles from the Sun. This follows a busy in-space commissioning period since the spacecraft launched on 19 May and reached it
30 September 2026 marks the start of a new year on Mars. At exactly 10:16 CEST/08:16 UTC on Earth, the Red Planet begins a new orbit around our Sun.
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Congrats team!
