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Bosses are rethinking whether you get access to certain AI tools

support@mycoding.id (Sarah E. Needleman,Tim Paradis) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:54:01 +0700

Maskot/Getty Images Companies motionless desire workers to use AI, although several are reconsidering which tools are finest suited for which jobs.

Your favorite AI tool at activity power shortly arrive alongside a budget, a gatekeeper, or both.

After years of urging personnel to clasp the technology, companies including Goldman Sachs, Cisco, and JPMorgan are taking a additional targeted method to deploying it. From environment budgets and tracking use to restricting admission to certain workforce or tools, the distinct strategies arrive as companies spill ever-larger sums into AI and search to decrease safety risks.

Many employers are realizing that AI use is "really picking up" and they need to set guardrails, stated Lari Hämäläinen, a elder partner in McKinsey & Company's technology, media, and telecommunications practice.

At Goldman Sachs, CEO and chairman David Solomon stated this duration that during the financial institution is quickly expanding the range of AI tools it provides to its 45,000 employees, it doesn't create awareness for all of them to have admission to the most advanced models all day.

"We need frontier models for certain things, particularly cyber," he told Bloomberg TV. However, "there are a lot of things anywhere we don't need the frontier" to assistance workforce be additional productive.

Other companies are limiting AI spending following archetypal using looser policies to run adoption. Cisco's chief merchandise officer, Jeetu Patel, compared the company's first method to learning to journey a bicycle: Coding teams got months of unlimited tokens to rotate into fluent alongside AI before worrying concerning efficiency, he stated final duration on the CXOTalk podcast. As use has grown, Patel stated managers throughout his 32,000-person squad would obtain token budgets.

In September, JPMorgan imposed a monthly $2,000 cap on several engineers' use of Anthropic's Claude Code, Business Insider earlier reported. A spokesman stated the financial institution was tying expenses to productivity, quality, hazard reduction, and endeavor impact.

More tokens, additional money

The move toward tighter oversight of AI in the office comes months following several employers boasted how many tokens their workforces were gobbling up.

Visa stated it doubled its monthly token use from 1 trillion in February to nearly 2 trillion in March and that it was giving prizes to its AI power users. In March, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated the business was trying to expend as much as $2 milliard annually on tokens for its engineers — and that he would be "deeply alarmed" if a $500,000 engineer used small than $250,000 worth.

Employers additionally rolled out dashboards to create workers' AI use additional apparent — and, in several cases, to advance broader adoption. For example, Disney's dashboard showed its biggest AI users were making hundreds of requests per day on average and using tens of millions of tokens, Business Insider reported in April.

Similarly, KPMG US stated in May it hoped a dashboard for its advisory endeavor would advance additional "frequent and sophisticated" use among the unit's approximately 10,000 workers. It has since discontinued monitoring AI use through the dashboard now that staffers are using AI in their mundane work, a spokesman told Business Insider.

Making all token count

Now, rising AI spending is prompting companies to change their concentration from expanding use to maximizing their investment.

A new study from Menlo Ventures established that endeavor AI deployment spending reached $177 milliard by September, up from $33 milliard in all of 2025. Meanwhile, lone 13% of concerning 2,000 tech executives polled by Gartner from May through July stated their organizations had gained important value from AI.

Companies' AI bills may be ballooning in part since workers have small incentive to curb their use, stated Alex Sobol, cofounder of the Millennium Alliance, an invite-only community for C-suite executives. Without limits, "they're going to use it in all imaginable way they can," he said.

Broad AI admission can additionally create safety risks if used improperly — another logic companies power be getting additional judicious. A 2025 KPMG study of additional than 1,000 US workers established that 44% were using AI at activity without authority or in inappropriate ways, during 46% had uploaded delicate business data or intelligent asset to community AI platforms.

Rippling, a workforce-management application startup, set monthly caps in August on AI tools following projecting token spending could attain 40% of its R&D caput figure budget. The business stated those limits and additional productive example routing lowered that projection to between 10% and 15% during token use remained near its former peak.

"The item isn't to cut AI costs," Matt MacInnis, Rippling's chief merchandise officer, stated in a declaration to Business Insider. "We're really fine alongside disbursal growth, provided it's productive."

Meet the 2026 rising stars of real estate

support@mycoding.id (Alcynna Lloyd,Jordan Pandy,Jennifer Sor,Noah Sheidlower) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:45:01 +0700

The up-and-coming endowment reshaping business, culture, and innovation.

Alyssa Powell/BI

Meet the next generation of leaders.

Alyssa Powell/BI

Real asset is being remade by a new generation of talent.

As the industry is being reshaped by lawsuits complete delegate commissions, shake-ups at listing sites, changing tax rules in states akin New York and California, and the increase of AI, young professionals are navigating challenges their predecessors never faced. They're additionally finding new opportunities to remain out.

"Real asset is built for a earth that no longer exists," stated Selin Sonmez, the cofounder of sublet startup Snag and one of our 2026 rising stars. "Its biggest difficulty is adapting to the new financial actuality of the rising generation."

Business Insider identified 20 of the most promising young talents ages 35 and under operating throughout business and residential genuine estate. They contain agents, brokers, fintech entrepreneurs, and community relations professionals.

This year's category of rising stars is brokering billion-dollar business deals, finding homes for the next generation of buyers, and starting companies to assistance alleviate the stressors of the accommodation market.

Meet the 20 newest members of Business Insider's annual Rising Stars of Real Estate list.

Joey Ben-Zvi, 30

Real Estate Agent, Ben-Zvi Group

Kenny Burgos, 32

CEO, the New York Apartment Association

Julia Callahan, 32

Senior Director, M18

Saharsh Chordia, 33

Vice President of Strategy and Analytics, Cortland

Michael Dillon, 31

Vice President, Prime Finance

Alex Dobosh, 28

Associate Director, HKS Real Estate Advisors

Tim Donovan, 30

Managing Director, Midloch Investment Partners

Paige Engeldrum, 35

Executive Director, Cushman & Wakefield

Jack Harris, 28 & Michael Fahimian, 28

Real asset agents, The Beverly Hills Estates

Jameson Hartman, 32

Industry Principal, RET Ventures

Landy Liu, 33

Founder, Foyer

Ruben Marin, 27

Real asset agent, CENTURY 21 Circle

Katherine McGrath, 27

Strategic Director, Real Estate, Kasirer

Cordelia Meserow, 35

Vice President of Asset Management, Harbor Group International

Kate Mooney, 30

Senior Associate of Capital Markets, Alterra IOS

Dominic Parikh, 35

General Manager, Real Wallet

Steven Rivera, 35

Team Lead, Team Rivera at Keller Williams Points North

Jared Sheiker, 33

Managing Director and Chief of Staff, Real Assets, Blue Owl Capital

Selin Sonmez, 32

Cofounder and CEO, Snag

James Williams Jr., 35

Shareholder, Gunster

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Joey Ben-Zvi, 30

Real Estate Agent, Ben-Zvi Group

You may have seen Joey Ben-Zvi on Netflix's "Buying Beverly Hills," but whenever he's not in forefront of a camera, he's in the site decision high-profile deals in California.

Ben-Zvi, 30, got into genuine asset following graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and founded the Ben-Zvi Group in 2021 in his backyard. It's since totaled complete $200 myriad in transactions in the final two years gratitude to Ben-Zvi's thoughtful yet productive approach.

"Every asset has its own story, challenges, and opportunities," Ben-Zvi told Business Insider. "What we've established is that during the method to all residence is different, the underlying procedure of preparation, positioning, and implementation can be replicated."

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Kenny Burgos, 32

CEO, the New York Apartment Association

Rent stabilization has been a key reply to New York's accommodation crisis, but critics contend that it discourages new betterment and puts financial force on asset managers.

Former New York State Assemblyman Kenny Burgos has seen the two sides of the debate. During his period representing the Bronx, he saw firsthand how elevated rents power constituents. Now, as the first CEO of the New York Apartment Association, he is focused on improving the scheme for tenants and construction owners alike.

NYAA represents personal owners, landlords, and asset managers of concerning fractional a myriad rent-stabilized apartments statewide. Since taking the function in 2025, Burgos has worked alongside lawmakers and nonprofit groups to advance policies that he says could addition accommodation provision during preserving tenant protections.

"I don't regard myself a genuine asset professional," Burgos said. "But my philosophy, as it relates to genuine asset policy, is to try to archetypal and foremost near the learning gap among the public, lawmakers, and personnel who form accommodation policy."

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Julia Callahan, 32

Senior Director, M18

Julia Callahan built her occupation in genuine asset PR at M18, starting in an entry-level stance in 2016 and rising through the firm's ranks to rotate into elder director.

"Over the former decade, I've worked my way up from supporting accounts to foremost them, shaping scheme for our clients, managing and mentoring group newer in their careers, and now assisting bring new endeavor into the agency," Callahan told Business Insider.

Though the 32-year-old normally plant in the luxury genuine asset sector, one of her favorite latest projects was additional offbeat, whenever she worked alongside a vending device business to change subway newsstands into retailing spaces.

"Much of my occupation has focused on luxury genuine asset and telling stories concerning spaces designed for the 1%," Callahan said. "This was a extremely distinct benevolent of project for me, and an particularly gratifying one."

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Saharsh Chordia, 33

Vice President of Strategy and Analytics, Cortland

Over the final six years at the flat business Cortland, Saharsh Chordia has risen through the ranks from an analytics merchandise director to vice chairman of scheme and analytics. Last year, as AI became a additional pronounced industry priority, he built RevenX, Cortland's AI-driven income administration platform.

"I accept genuine asset is ultimately a group endeavor powered by data," Chordia said. "Residents don't cognition strategies or spreadsheets; they cognition the norm of the homes we provision and the assistance we provision all day."

Chordia leads Cortland's machine-learning models for pricing recommendations and petition forecasting. He has unified data discipline into the team's investments, chief markets, income management, and building teams, asserting that the activity isn't merely a back-office function.

"What separates Saharsh from his peers is the rare blend of profound specialized fluency and executive-level endeavor leadership," stated Scott Moore, Cortland's chief innovation officer.

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Michael Dillon, 31

Vice President, Prime Finance

At 31, Michael Dillon has already made a name for himself in the genuine asset chief markets space. A vice chairman at Prime Finance, Dillon has sourced, evaluated, structured, and traded a $3.1 milliard portfolio of investment-grade securities and lower-rated business mortgage-backed securities. Dillon has played key roles in the firm's capital-raising efforts and has strengthened its modeling and analytical capabilities.

Dillon launched Prime Finance's archetypal separately managed document alongside a sovereign prosperity fund. Dillon has additionally positioned himself to assistance younger genuine asset professionals, serving as a chief of the nonprofit commerce affiliation CRE Finance Council's Young Professionals Steering Committee. This year, his squad has grown its portfolio administration to complete 350 deep-credit association positions backed by complete 4,000 underlying loans and 8,000 properties.

"There's no substitute for difficult work, a fine attitude, and creativity," Dillon said. "Beyond that, have condemnation in a well-studied credit view. Do the work, cognize the agreement or task, and be consenting to defend your position, during letting others' views sharpen your own."

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Alex Dobosh, 28

Associate Director, HKS Real Estate Advisors

While additional young group are entering the genuine asset industry, it is motionless mostly an older crowd. That doesn't intimidate Alex Dobosh.

"A lot of group I'm surrounded by have additional cognition than me," Dobosh said. "However, what you can't create up in experience, you can create up in preparation. If you've done the work, you can current alongside confidence, and group volition obtain you seriously."

As an affiliate director at the New York-based business genuine asset chief advisory resolute HKS Real Estate Advisors, Dobosh helps arrange debt and equity for genuine asset investors, including organizational firms and center market genuine asset companies throughout a mix of asset classes, including multifamily, pupil housing, retail, and hospitality.

To date, he has helped execute additional than $2 milliard in transactions, including complete $350 myriad in the former year.

"My proudest instant of 2026 is seeing what our squad has been capable to accomplish notwithstanding the ever-changing market," Dobosh said. "Some days I motionless inquiry why we do this, but pushing through it as a squad and getting deals done has been rewarding, the two personally and professionally."

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Tim Donovan, 30

Managing Director, Midloch Investment Partners

You power say that Tim Donovan was lured distant from a occupation in finance. The 30-year-old managing director of investments at Midloch stated he was diverted from following a occupation in inventory and association prosperity administration in university following he became engaged in a "phenomenal" genuine asset program at Marquette University. Close family allies in genuine asset were additionally an inspiration for him to act the industry himself.

Donovan spent multiple years engaged in genuine asset underwriting and due diligence at the funding resolute MLG Capital before launching Midloch alongside his endeavor partners whenever he was 23. The firm, which has a concentration on boutique commercial, industrial, and multifamily investments value up to $50 million, has since overseen $1 milliard in historic transactions.

"It was a small bit nerve-wracking," Donovan stated of the jump to initiate his own firm. "I figured there was really no improved way to really dive in headfirst than to be a key associate of a extremely small team."

Donovan stated he's dabbled in "a small bit of everything" complete the years, from operating in due diligence to scheme to the funding flank of genuine estate. He stated a concentration on construction fine relationships has been key to scaling his career. He's additionally engaged in a mentorship program at his alma mater, supporting university students curious in genuine asset careers.

"Maybe it's not a genuine asset doctrine per se, but I think it's a really fine existence doctrine that applies to genuine estate: Relationships are paramount," Donovan said. "I could go rear to countless deals that would've never gotten done if it wasn't for the norm of the association that we've built and maintained alongside the individuals involved."

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Paige Engeldrum, 35

Executive Director, Cushman & Wakefield

Paige Engeldrum has, in the literal sense, grown into her job. The 35-year-old administrator director joined Cushman & Wakefield direct out of university and has been at the business genuine asset services resolute for complete a decade, operating in its brokerage business.

Engeldrum, who was recognized as one of Cushman's youngest board in the Tri-State region, mostly focuses on advising tenants and landlords in the New York area. Moody's, Franklin Templeton, Rockefeller Group, and the New York Fed are on her catalog of high-profile clients.

Engeldrum stated being capable to activity on the two sides of the genuine asset transaction has been extremely precious in her career. Her cognition provides her a distinctive viewpoint on how clients are motivated and the function imaginative solutions can perform in finalizing a deal.

One of her biggest-ever deals engaged assisting Moody's transfer its earth agency from the World Trade Center to 200 Liberty Street, a transaction that encompassed complete 400,000 quadrate feet and engaged operating alongside Brookfield to relocate several existing tenants in the building. The agreement marked among the largest agency signings in New York in 2025, alongside an estimated annual disbursal of $28.1 million, according to data from CoStar.

"I've been compelled small by making moves and additional by continuing to put myself in situations anywhere I'm learning, taking on greater responsibility, and solving increasingly complex problems," Engeldrum said.

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Jack Harris, 28 & Michael Fahimian, 28

Real asset agents, The Beverly Hills Estates

Jack Harris and Michael Fahimian got a operating commencement in the earth of genuine estate. The Beverly Hills Estates agents the two started their careers operating for another genuine asset agents in elevated academy before eventually earning their own genuine asset licenses.

Since then, the 28-year-olds have established themselves as a formidable power in the luxury residential market. The pair, who concentration on high-end properties in Beverly Hills, Malibu, and surrounding neighborhoods, have closed additional than $800 myriad in revenue in 2025 and were recognized as the top small genuine asset squad this year, per a RealTrends ranking.

One of their largest revenue engaged representing the buyer on the O'Malley asset in Malibu's Paradise Cove for $55 million. The brace additionally clasp the exclusive listing for the $400 myriad Chalon Estate, among the most costly residential properties in the world.

Over the way of their careers, Harris and Fahimian have closed additional than $2 milliard in revenue and currently oversee about $1 milliard value of asset listings.

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Jameson Hartman, 32

Industry Principal, RET Ventures

Jameson Hartman started his occupation on the funding flank of genuine estate, operating at Goldman Sachs in genuine asset funding banking. In 2020, the Utah native joined the Park City-based RET Ventures, anywhere he now serves as Industry Principal.

"I knew I wanted to move to the buy side, and RET Ventures felt akin a particularly engaging opportunity," Hartman told Business Insider. "I had covered multifamily genuine asset at Goldman, so I could bring a powerful understanding of residential genuine asset to the role, but RET additionally gave me the chance to move into innovation investing."

Hartman has helped underwrite billion-dollar-plus mergers during supporting dozens of investors and portfolio companies — and he motionless finds period to instruct at his alma mater, the University of Utah.

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Landy Liu, 33

Founder, Foyer

When Landy Liu began the procedure of purchasing his archetypal residence in 2022, he quickly grew disappointed alongside the deficiency of assistance that existed for first-time homebuyers. So Liu, who had worked as a dealer before moving to Better.com, stated he "put everything into finding a solution," using the downpayment for his archetypal residence to commencement a business.

Liu created Foyer, a "401(k) for homeownership" that uses an FDIC-insured downpayment account, credit-building tools, and organized guidance. Users can open a Foyer downpayment document alongside a 3.58% APY, optimize their credit profile, shop lenders for the finest rate, and acknowledge homebuyer aid programs.

At Foyer, Liu, 32, has helped first-time homebuyers transact on nearly $100 myriad in residence revenue and has brought on complete 20,000 users. This year, Foyer signed its archetypal Fortune 500 business as a partner and built out company benefits for its employees. Foyer has generated traction among groups that have historically been disenfranchised in the accommodation market, including lower-income buyers.

"My anticipation is that eventually first-time homeownership becomes a tax-advantaged advantage akin withdrawal accounts, so that the aspiration of owning a residence doesn't awareness so out of attain to the average American," Liu said.

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Ruben Marin, 27

Real asset agent, CENTURY 21 Circle

Ruben Marin isn't equal 30 yet, but he's already made a name for himself as among the highest-volume agents in the CENTURY 21 Circle network. Over the former year, he closed complete $6 myriad in revenue quantity and grew his figure of closed units by 411%, all during maintaining a 99% closed-to-list-price ratio.

When he's not assisting clients buy and market homes, Marin is giving rear to his genuine asset community. For the former four years, he has served as promotion director for his local division of the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP), anywhere he helps bring the organization's events to existence and leads the chapter's social media and community relations efforts.

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Katherine McGrath, 27

Strategic Director, Real Estate, Kasirer

Katherine McGrath went from intern to strategic director at authorities relations resolute Kasirer following starting there during in university at Fordham University.

Six years later, she's in accusation of district use projects in New York City, akin a mixed-use redevelopment in downtown Brooklyn bringing additional than 1,200 accommodation units.

"This was the client's archetypal large-scale rezoning, so I was extremely arrogant to guide the governmental and community involvement strategy, coordinating closely alongside City Hall, HPD and another agencies, and local guidance to build agreement and move the project forward," McGrath, 27, told Business Insider.

She's additionally assisting create the next generation as a co-coordinator of Kasirer's internship program.

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Cordelia Meserow, 35

Vice President of Asset Management, Harbor Group International

Cordelia Meserow believes in the power of a fine connection.

The 35-year-old vice chairman of asset administration at Harbor Group International stated fine relationships have been crucial as she's climbed the ranks in genuine estate. For her, the row between allies from activity and allies exterior of activity is "blurred," she said.

It's one component that has helped established Meserow in New York's sprawling agency market. Earlier in her career, she was engaged in a alliance to market the 477 Madison Avenue construction in New York, which was closed in concerning six weeks. This year, she additionally played a function in leasing 51W52, the $760 myriad skyscraper and erstwhile CBS headquarters, in two long-term multi-floor deals.

Meserow began her occupation operating as an expert at Eastdil Secured, alongside a concentration on agency funding sales. Later, she entered the asset administration flank of the endeavor at Shorenstein Properties before eventually moving to Harbor.

She advises younger group looking to act genuine asset to examine distinct sides of the job, from dealmaking to brokering to operating on the chief markets flank of the business.

"You get so much visibility to distinct investors and chief structures, during learning underwriting fundamentals. You additionally forge relationships alongside the two clients and colleagues, several of whom rotate into life-long allies and mentors," she said.

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Kate Mooney, 30

Senior Associate of Capital Markets, Alterra IOS

Kate Mooney began her occupation in business genuine asset underwriting at WSFS Bank before moving to EQT's genuine asset practice. In 2025, she joined Alterra IOS, a genuine asset business that invests in and manages manufacturing outdoor retention properties throughout North America.

As a elder affiliate in chief markets, Mooney, 30, plant alongside earth banks, debt funds, and organizational lenders to source, underwrite, and execute deals. She supports additional than $2 milliard in debt financing and has helped facilitate additional than $997 myriad in transactions.

Over the former year, she has helped guide multiple of the company's largest deals, including a $400 myriad refinancing led by Truist and KeyBank, a $244 myriad debt from Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies, a $103 myriad facility from PGIM, and Blue Owl Capital's first $150 myriad debt facility in manufacturing outdoor storage.

Mooney stated the key to her achievement has been in construction powerful relationships.

"Real asset is a relationship-driven industry, and being person others can rely and depend on goes a lengthy way," she said.

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Dominic Parikh, 35

General Manager, Real Wallet

Having admission to chief can assistance an entrepreneur develop their business. But for genuine asset agents who depend on commission-based income, getting that backing is sometimes easier stated than done.

Dominic Parikh joined Real, now part of Real REMAX Group, in 2025 to tackle that challenge. In small than a year, he led the innovation and initiate of Real Wallet Capital, a digital lending resolution that considers an agent's endeavor achievement fairly than relying solely on traditional metrics, specified as individual credit scores. Since its launch, the business stated it has provided additional than $25 myriad in backing to complete 1,700 agents.

"I entered fintech whenever it was motionless a new industry, afterward moved from SMB lending into genuine estate. Each time, I challenged myself to learn, adapt, and commencement fresh," Parikh told Business Insider. "I've continually tried to remain curious, obtain the finest from all experience, and use it to keep growing. Looking back, I'm arrogant that I've never let the fear of the unidentified halt me from moving forward."

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Steven Rivera, 35

Team Lead, Team Rivera at Keller Williams Points North

Down the street from anywhere his children began school, Steven Rivera, 35, opened the flagship location of his family-run genuine asset business Team Rivera at Keller Williams Points North. Rivera, whose brokerage operates alongside the North Shore of Long Island, began investing in genuine asset complete a decade ago and earned his licence in 2018. He began the endeavor alongside his mother, Rosemary, and has grown it to shield much of Long Island and Southwest Florida.

Rivera, whose squad landed a $10 myriad waterfront transaction this autumn and has closed nearly 100 transactions, has kept gait alongside emerging innovation by construction an AI-powered rear agency that handles paperwork, scheduling, and follow-ups.

"As a younger agent, I do not try to win on years in the business," Rivera said. "I win on responsiveness, transparency, and a flat of assistance clients do not expect: High-tech rear office, handshake forefront office."

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Jared Sheiker, 33

Managing Director and Chief of Staff, Real Assets, Blue Owl Capital

At 24 years old, Jared Sheiker was tasked alongside a $1.3 milliard portfolio transaction at the resolute he had lately joined, Oak Street Real Estate Capital.

"The procedure was far from smooth," Sheiker told Business Insider. "I made plentifulness of mistakes, came near to quitting additional than once, and dealt alongside countless setbacks, including the buyer's financing falling through at a crucial stage."

The agreement eventually got done, and the cognition gave him the tenacity he needed to advancement into a managing director and chief of personnel at Blue Owl Capital.

Now 33, Sheiker has continued to be a part of ample deals in 2026, including a $2.4 milliard take-private acquisition of the genuine asset funding rely Sila Realty Trust.

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Selin Sonmez, 32

Cofounder and CEO, Snag

Serial entrepreneur Selin Sonmez founded a business that stores luggage in local shops and one that helps neighbors nexus and build community. So whenever she noticed that a lot of her users were subletting, she founded another business in 2025: Snag, which aims to create the subletting procedure easier for renters.

"We built Snag to bring trust, speed, and infrastructure to the new person culture," Sonmez, 32, told Business Insider. "What compelled all move in my occupation is the intuition to disrupt traditional industries."

Her disruption landed Snag $4 myriad during its kernel circular in September.

While backing is great, Sonmez stated she's additional arrogant of assisting users.

"I was proudest whenever a Snag person we interviewed on 76th Street told us he established a location on Snag in small than a day, faster than on any another phase he'd tried," she said. "He had a huge smile."

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James Williams Jr., 35

Shareholder, Gunster

James Williams Jr., 35, became among the youngest-ever shareholders in the genuine asset collection at the law resolute Gunster, focusing chiefly on district use and zoning. Over the final twelvemonth and a half, Williams has generated near to fractional a myriad dollars monthly through his publish of business, spanning important developers, homebuilders, and retailers.

He's led teams including attorneys, planners, architects, traffic consultants, and economists through community hearings and final approvals. His clients contain Lithia Motors, the US's largest automotive retailer by revenue, and Greystar, the country's largest flat manager.

"At this phase of my career, being liable not lone for the lawful work, but additionally for evolving those client relationships, assembling the correct teams, and shaping the scheme is what makes the accomplishment meaningful to me," Williams said.

Williams has led entitlement efforts for Greystar on the redevelopment of a 25-acre part of the Miami International Mall to authorize up to 896 multifamily units. He has additionally spearheaded entitlements on a projected 3.65 million-square-foot manufacturing hub throughout 238 acres in Miami-Dade County, as fine as secured endorsement for a 21-story mixed-use construction under Florida's Live Local Act. Williams has additional secured approvals for a chapel evidence and two charter academy campuses.

"Simply put, James is not merely participating in South Florida's genuine asset market," stated H. William Perry, CEO and managing shareholder at Gunster. "James is assisting decide what gets built, how the region's most difficult projects move forward, and how the next generation of genuine asset professionals learns to lead."

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I was a smug mom who made all my kids' baby food from scratch. Now they eat junk food, and I've made peace with it.

support@mycoding.id (Christina Valhouli) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:41:01 +0700

Courtesy of Christina Valhouli. The author stated she focused on healthy, homemade food whenever her sons were babies (left), but now that they're teens, she's stated up on policing their food choices (right).

When my two sons were babies, I was one of those moms. As a "sanctimommy," I was obsessed alongside giving them the finest commencement in life.

It started effortlessly enough, alongside exclusively breastfeeding. Then, whenever they started dining solids, I made all my own baby food. I spent hours smoky and pureeing create and vegetables, and freezing them in small ice cube trays. If we were on the go and my babies needed a snack, I'd skip the jarred baby food and mash up a banana alongside a fork. I was all natural, all the time.

I never made my kids the customary family favorites akin icy pizza, mac and cheese, or poultry nuggets. When my older son turned 6 and requested kale and roast poultry for his anniversary dinner, I felt akin I was crushing it as a parent. My kids equal ate cancer legs and oysters! I was smug.

The author stated she and her hubby modeled fit dining habits for their children, and for a time, they followed their lead. Courtesy of Christina Valhouli.

They went to school, and vegetables disappeared

The fit meals I packed in class academy started to disappear in center academy whenever they stopped bringing their own lunches. The boys ate what their peers did in the cafeteria, specified as nacho bowls and French toast sticks.

Their cafeteria equal had a slushie device and ice cream. I let it go since it was fair lunch, and I was additionally secretly thrilled concerning not having to expend my dawn packing lunches.

My sons are now in elevated school, and they're allowed to depart evidence for lunch. With liberty and their own money, lunch has rotate into a dependable rotation of pizza, convenience shop snacks, and Chick-fil-A.

The author stated her sons' after-school snacks frequently contain pizza, accelerated food, and convenience-store snacks. Courtesy of Christina Valhouli.

On particularly rushed mornings, I've equal handed them any baked products we have on hand for breakfast, specified as leftover cake. Convenience and sanity win out complete nutrition. Yes, I have certainly softened my stance on food.

I learned how to let go

I motionless chef fit meals and keep nutritious food in the home since that's how my hubby and I akin to eat, and I'm trying to example fine dining habits. But now that my children are 14 and 18, I no longer police everything they eat.

I'm tired of food being one additional item to hassle them about. I'm already on top of them for grades, chores, and curfews, and this twelvemonth we're additionally dealing alongside university applications. I don't desire my association alongside my kids to be all concerning conflict. Food was the easier one to provision up on a bit.

As I observe my kids demolish a bundle of Mallomars, washed downward alongside a Monster Energy drink, I shudder inwardly but prompt myself I can't authority everything. And I don't think I should. Raising kids is additionally concerning learning to let go and let them create their own decisions, equal whenever we may not concur alongside them.

The author stated she has learned to stage rear whenever it comes to her kids' food choices, knowing they likely won't continually eat the way they do now. Courtesy of Christina Valhouli.

What additionally helped me stage rear is remembering the junk I used to eat as a teenager. Eventually, I grew out of it and started paying notice to how distinct foods made me feel. I have to rely my kids volition fig that out, too.

What really matters now

My boys have not eaten dark, leafy greens in years, but I'm reconsidering what it method to lift a "good eater." My older son regularly hosts his allies for barbecues and can grill a average steak. Vegetables are noticeably absent, but I'm impressed that he can chef and has learned the joy of dining alongside friends. My younger son loves to go out for Korean food alongside his buddies.

Maybe raising fine eaters (and fine humans) isn't concerning how much kale they consume, but concerning letting kids discover their own way and recognizing that food brings group together, equal if it's complete a bag of Takis.

I paid $162 to upgrade to 'Premium Class' on Alaska Airlines. I regretted nearly doubling the cost of my trip.

support@mycoding.id (Talia Lakritz) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:32:01 +0700

Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images; Talia Lakritz/Business Insider Is premium category on Alaska Airlines value it?

I was, as they say, influenced.

When I archetypal booked a escape from New York City to Portland, Oregon, on Alaska Airlines for a friend's wedding, I went for the cheapest diet in trainer — no changes, no place selection, and final to board.

Then, I started penning concerning Alaska Airlines' — and the broader transporter industry's — shove to attract additional premium customers.

Curious concerning this trend — and tempted by a $162 upgrade offered at check-in for my escape — I decided to test Alaska's current "Premium Class" product. You know, for science.

Plus, I had already been assigned a center place in the rear of the aircraft and didn't relish the idea of spending six hours crammed in regular coach.

The upgrade from Main Cabin disbursal nearly as much as the escape itself. It came alongside several perks, including first boarding and additional legroom, but I quickly realized Alaska's "Premium Class" motionless felt akin an extra-legroom economics place — not the elevated division the name had led me to picture.

Here's why it wasn't value the upgrade for me.

Upgrading from chief division to premium category on my Alaska Airlines escape disbursal an additional $162.

Upgrading to premium category disbursal $162. Alaska Airlines

My October escape from New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport to Portland, Oregon, initially disbursal $218.40 for a place in coach. I decided to expend the additional $162 to upgrade to Alaska Airlines' premium class, bringing the total disbursal of my trip to $380.40.

The upgrade disbursal lone $56.40 small than the first booking, nearly matching the first cost I paid for the flight.

The lone premium-class seats remaining were in the middle. Since I was going to end up in a center place either way, I hoped that the premium-class configuration would be additional comfortable.

The archetypal difference I noticed was that I got first boarding, and I was greeted by name at the gate.

The Alaska Airlines aircraft I flew on at the gate. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Perhaps the entrance delegate on duty was fair particularly friendly, but that's never happened to me during traveling in coach.

The premium-class seats looked beautiful much identical to those in the chief cabin, but they were located toward the forefront of the plane.

A row of premium-class seats on an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 Max. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

On the Boeing 737-9 Max I boarded, the archetypal five rows were reserved for archetypal class. The 3×3 Premium Class spanned rows six to 10.

Sitting at the forefront meant that I could exit the aircraft faster formerly we landed.

Alaska Airlines' premium category offers four additional inches of legroom than main-cabin seats — a difference that didn't awareness palpable to me.

Legroom in premium class. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Four additional inches power create a difference for taller travelers, but at my 5'3" height, the additional legroom didn't awareness value the additional $162, notwithstanding another perks akin faster boarding and deplaning.

The finest perk of traveling in premium category was the reserved overhead bin area for carry-on luggage.

Overhead bin area in premium class. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

I never inspect a bag if I can assistance it — I favor to group ray and not expend period waiting at baggage assertion formerly I attain at my destination.

When I journey in coach, though, I normally have to gate-check my carry-on since the overhead bins frequently inhabit up.

Traveling in premium category meant that I was in boarding collection B and had plentifulness of area to stow my suitcase in reserved bins. This was my favorite part of the experience.

Premium-class travelers can bask complimentary alcohol, but since my escape was at 10 a.m., I didn't obtain advantage of this service.

Free beverages in premium class. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

Alcoholic beverages, including cocktails, beer, and wine, on the list would normally range in cost from $5.99 to $12.99.

I'd hoped that a center place in premium category would awareness a bit additional roomy and luxurious, but I established it wasn't much distinct from coach.

In my premium-class center seat. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

The place was comfortable enough, but I didn't awareness that it was item particular compared to another trainer seats I've traveled in.

For me, equal in premium class, a center place is motionless a center seat.

In the future, I'll apt preserve my prosperity and fly in the chief cabin.

A complete perspective of the Alaska Airlines cabin. Talia Lakritz/Business Insider

On my way rear up from the washroom at the rear of the plane, I took a nearer appearance at the chief division seats. It was difficult to inform anywhere premium category began.

My spouse, who additionally upgraded to premium category on the escape for the purpose of the experiment, accepted that the seats felt indistinguishable from the chief cabin.

"If you'd told me I was in regular economy, I wouldn't have known the difference," they stated as we walked up the jetbridge following the flight.

For those who desire additional legroom, favor to commission early, are powerfully opposed to gate-checking their luggage, and bask flying alongside an alcoholic beverage in hand, a premium-class upgrade may be value it.

However, those perks didn't appear value the additional $162 to me, and I regretted nearly doubling my trip's cost. To me, "Premium Class" suggested item nearer to a proper premium-economy cabin, but the cognition felt additional akin to an "economy plus" tier.

With Alaska preparedness to initiate a premium-economy division called Premium Reserve on long-haul flights and choose family airplane in 2028, I amazement whether the transporter volition additional explain the difference between its two products.

When reached for comment, an Alaska Airlines delegate shared the benefits of flying in premium category on the airline, including the additional legroom, liberated liquor on flights complete 350 miles, first boarding, admission to reserved bin space, and being among the archetypal to deplane, and added, "I'm apologetic to comprehend the cognition didn't live up to what you had hoped."

I do see why these additional legroom seats can be a moneymaker for airlines. When you've been assigned a less-than-ideal place in the rear of the aircraft or distinct from your journey companions, it's tempting to pay for an upgrade whenever the online booking scheme dangles it in forefront of you.

Next time, I'll likely oppose the encourage to splurge and rod to the chief cabin.

Winnebago ho!

support@mycoding.id (Rani Molla) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:31:01 +0700

Jeff Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Seventy Amazon packages were piled up at an RV park near Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

They weren't for the tourists passing through to act an ancient display or see the nearby historic German villages, says Jamie Wolter, the director of Amana RV Park & Event Center. They're for the hundreds of data center workers now living at the park.

Typically, the 450-campsite park hosts up to 60 long-term campers, but now that Google and QTS are the two construction data centers in the area, workers have come from as far distant as Oregon and Washington. Some bring spouses and children they homeschool. Staff who used to site complaints concerning missing blaze rings now have to decide whether to ask person who's rearward on rent to move their home.

"It's akin you're a landlord now, and you never used to be," Wolter says.

Still, she credits the data center workers alongside assisting mitigate a decrease in RV tourists because of gas prices. "Without these long-term guests, it would have been terrible."

As building workers crisscross the nation for high-paying data center jobs, several are putting their per diem toward an RV. While operating on among the biggest infrastructure buildouts in US history, they could be at a location anyplace from a few months to a few years, frequently in places anywhere hotels and short-term rentals are scarce or expensive. If they discover a place in packed campsites, a journey trailer can extend their accommodation allowance further, shorten their commute, and create area for family and pets — all during "chasing that data center money". It can additionally go alongside them to the next job whenever construction ends.

The trend is a much-needed boost for the RV industry, which has tumbled from its epidemic high. US wholesale RV shipments fell 13.7% through September compared alongside the identical duration final year; revenue to data center workers are assisting several dealers climate the slump. Meanwhile, campgrounds built for tourists are filling up alongside data center workers — and their operators are learning what it method to be inundated alongside long-term tenants.

At ATC RV Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, data center workers helped keep component revenue approximately flat from a twelvemonth earlier. "Without them, it would have been really dilatory for us," director Joel Philipp says.

Because RVs are mostly a leisure purchase, revenue are particularly exposed whenever households cut back. "It's normally the archetypal into a recession and the final out," he says of the industry. "You don't need it, you desire it."

His dealership used geofencing to mark ads to group using their phones about data center building sites. The idea was to attain workers curious in RVs on their breaks, whenever they browse Facebook or ESPN on their phones — and it worked. A figure of those group turned up to buy RVs, he says.

In Louisiana, Bayou Outdoor Supercenter offers workers on Meta's Hyperion project a calculator that compares the disbursal of staying in a inn alongside the disbursal of purchasing an RV they can obtain to their next job.

At Clear Creek RVs in Abilene, promotion director Shannon Calkins estimates concerning fractional the dealership's endeavor now comes from data center workers. Before the buildout, workers purchasing RVs for housing, including group on pipeline and sun-related projects, accounted for concerning 15% to 20% of its business. Calkins credits new customers alongside assisting Clear Creek continue to develop in a difficult market.

Most data center buyers opt for smaller, cheaper journey trailers, Calkins says. Her backing squad has seen per diems ranging from concerning $100 to $300 a day. A smaller trailer can disbursal about $20,000, and depending on the loan, payments can arrive in at $400 a duration or less. A $400 trailer paired alongside a $600 campsite would put the disbursal at $1,000 a duration before electricity, insurance, or food.

Calkins says several buyers have constricted credit histories, which can create loans harder to get and additional costly whenever they do qualify. But a employee who would alternatively expend that prosperity on hotel rooms can put several of it toward a trailer they'll motionless own whenever the job is over. In Cedar Rapids, Philipp did see several petition for larger fifth-wheel RVs, which he says could run $60,000 to $70,000, but those typically came from coworkers looking for bunkhouse models they could portion or tradespeople bringing their families.

At Abilene RV Park in Texas, all the weekly and monthly spaces and long-term cabins were complete whenever I said alongside director Debbie Coffey. Data center workers create up most of her long-term guests, and she says there's continually a waitlist of 20 to 30 people.

Coffey spends so much period handling deliveries that she feels "like a communication female concerning fractional the day all day." There's additional activity keeping up the showers, restrooms, and laundry room, too. The park lately risen its monthly charge by $50, to $600 affirmative electricity, to assistance shield higher asset taxes and upkeep costs.

She keeps concerning five of the park's 66 spaces open for group passing through, the guests she's counting on to arrive rear whenever data center construction winds down.

Near Meta's sprawling data center evidence in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Corporate Mobile Housing's Dunn Village provides building workers alongside rooms in mobile homes as fine as 170 spaces for them to bring their own RVs. Heather Kleinpeter, the company's director of strategic growth, says data centers have stated a new existence to a endeavor whose owners had been considering retirement. Founded following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 to home workers pumping h2o out of New Orleans, the endeavor afterward pivoted to accommodating oil and gas workers. Prior to Meta's Louisiana data center announcement in delayed 2024, Corporate Mobile Housing provided 300 beds. It's now at 1,500, and Kleinpeter expects that figure to twice next year.

Two of Kleinpeter's sons activity in data centers and have the two lived in standardized accommodation at Dunn Village. In her parks and about Richland Parish, she sees all kinds of workers living in RVs, from younger ones who don't need much area to retirees picking up activity again to group traveling alongside kids or dogs. That method campers alongside small fences, swings, and kids' bikes out front. At several parks, food trucks have set up shop to market breakfast.

"People are fair taking advantage of the chance on all level," she says.

The chance comes alongside an end date. Meta says its expanded Richland Parish evidence volition assistance additional than 7,500 jobs at highest building and 1,000 formerly it's operating. When data building projects finish, the traveling crews volition need another job — and location alternatively to park their RVs.

Kleinpeter says Corporate Mobile Housing is preparedness five to seven years out. Afterward, the business could move several of the standardized homes to another job or discover a new use for district it has already armed alongside water, sewer, and electricity. It depends on what the parish looks akin then.

"It's going to be a company like, 'What does the municipality want?'" Kleinpeter says.

Future data center projects additionally visage a tougher governmental climate. In this month's midterms, Texas elected Gina Hinojosa, who backs a statewide moratorium on new data center approvals, as governor. Texas accounts for concerning one in five US data center buildings that are planned or under construction, according to industry tracker Cleanview. Michigan backed Abdul El-Sayed, who has called for a intermission on new developments, for the Senate. Voters in multiple towns throughout the nation additionally approved measures to restrict or ban new data centers.

Around Abilene, Calkins has watched new RV parks pop up in fields, several small additional than shattered gravel and usefulness hookups. Some of these parks have plentifulness of space, she says, equal during established parks are turning distant monthly renters. When the activity dries up, she figures the crews volition hitch up their trailers and obtain them to the next job.

It's the parks they depart rearward that she thinks volition market for "pennies on the dollar."

Business Insider's Discourse stories provision perspectives on the day's most pressing issues, informed by analysis, reporting, and expertise.

I was an Emirates flight attendant. From luxury hotels to strict beauty rules, here were the best and worst parts of the job.

support@mycoding.id (Amal Cherni) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:57:01 +0700

I was an Emirates escape attendant. I traveled all complete the earth but I spent a lot of period tired and sick. Amal Cherni

I was a escape attendant for Emirates for four years before leaving at the end of 2025.

The glamorous manner everyone sees on Instagram — buying in Milan, matcha in Japan, and safaris in Africa — is real. I loved seeing the world, and Emirates paid for my accommodation in Dubai.

But there is a hidden actuality beyond what group see on social media.

During my years in the skies, I spent much of my period off jet-lagged or sick, and I had to adhere to strict attractiveness standards, encounter demanding client assistance expectations, and had no authority complete who I lived with.

With all its perks, being an Emirates escape attendant is a durable occupation that was additional mentally and physically demanding than I thought.

Here were the finest and worst parts of my job.

The uniform made us appearance glamorous, but maintaining that depiction took hours of work

While I had to be at the aircraft at a certain time, I normally had to awaken up three hours before fair to get ready.

Before all flight, following I passed through immigration in Dubai, I'd get a uniform check. If it wasn't absolutely ironed, they sent me to metal it. If a tress liberated my bun, I had to redo it. They additionally looked at nail polish, which had to be a particular color.

My uniform. Amal Cherni

A few years ago, Emirates built a attractiveness hub at the agency to assistance pine up the flight attendant look. It brought in composition specialists from brands akin Dior.

When I visited the attractiveness hub, a French composition expert showed me which hairstyle suited my tress category and told me I didn't need eyeliner.

I traveled a lot and stayed in luxury hotels, but I was frequently jet-lagged

Most layovers were 24 hours, but sometimes we got 56, depending on the route.

In New York, I stayed in Times Square, and in Budapest the inn overlooked the Danube River. At these hotels, there was a lounge specifically for Emirates crew anywhere we could suspend out.

But that doesn't average I was skipping through Manhattan alongside apparent skin and bagless eyes. I frequently worked long-haul flights from Dubai to the US or Australia, so many of these layovers came following operating a 16-hour flight, landing in an contrary period zone.

I had to power myself to remain awake for sightseeing or sleep the entire layover. In several layovers, the lone item I saw was the inn room: I formerly entered a Miami inn at 9 am, wanting lone to sleep and entirely skipping the day I'd planned at Miami Beach.

One of my Miami overnight hotels. Amal Cherni

Overnight turnarounds were particularly hard: sometimes I remaining residence at 10 pm and returned at 2 pm the next day, serving hundreds of passengers in row alongside Emirates' elevated client assistance expectations.

Switching my build clock continually during simultaneously being keen for my flights was a changeless battle. Melatonin didn't help, but reducing caffeine and trying to sleep in row alongside my biologic clock, at smallest on my days off, helped a bit.

I lived in Dubai for free, but the business controlled anywhere I lived

I lived in accommodation designated for Emirates crew; the entire neighborhood was crew-only. Some of these accommodations are in Dubai's most costly areas, specified as Business Bay.

This was among the finest perks since rent in Dubai can be expensive: a adecent one-bedroom flat could disbursal 5,000 AED to 9,000 AED a duration (up to concerning $2,500), depending on whether you were inner or exterior the city center.

Still, the squad apartments were shared, and I couldn't choose anywhere I wanted to live.

The pond at the squad accommodations. Amal Cherni

Emirates additionally offers a accommodation allowance for living elsewhere, but I wasn't eligible since I wasn't married, didn't have family in Dubai, and didn't own a house.

I earned fine prosperity and got awesome benefits, but I had small authority complete my leave

When flying for Emirates, I received a base salary of concerning 5,000 AED, affirmative flying hours paid at about 60 AED ($17) per hour. That translates to approximately 10,000 AED or additional a duration (about $2,700).

I additionally had a meal allowance for layovers, and we got a reward at the end of all year, which was up to 20 weeks of basis salary. We had to be in fine position alongside the business to obtain it. Two years ago, I got a reward of 22,000 AED (about $6,000).

I got distinctive views of Emirates planes. Amal Cherni

While I wanted to expend that prosperity on a holiday alongside my family, who were rear in Tunisia, it was difficult to scheme since I had small authority complete holiday time. When the depart opening opened, we submitted our preferred dates for approval.

The business could aid that duration or allocate a distinct one, but it didn't continually autumn inside my preferred period. That method I missed a lot of holidays and another particular occasions alongside my family. Still, I got a fine amount of period off.

I had a fancy manner but small energy

While I had liberated admission to all sorts of hot spots throughout Dubai, I had constricted period to bask it.

I frequently had at most three days off before having to activity again, and spent those days mostly sleeping to regain from jet lag. I didn't have the energy to go to the liberated gyms, but I had to power myself to go since staying fit was expected of Emirates escape attendants.

My escape attendant job took me all complete the world. Amal Cherni

Still, Emirates' staff-benefit programs gave me discounted admission to restaurants and complimentary admission to certain pools and gyms.

I used to expend period sunbathing at places akin FIVE Palm Jumeirah, a five-star gathering resort, or bowling at Brass Monkey, a famous adults-only dining and social venue.

Constant sickness and exhaustion were partially why I quit

Because I lived much of my existence in a metal element pipe about hundreds of distinct group a day, I was continually getting sick.

I got barotrauma multiple times — a average sickness among escape attendants because of the changeless changing division air force whenever working. When it was severe, I couldn't fly. Severe barotrauma sometimes took additional than a duration to heal.

Sleepless nights and changeless health problems were several of the reasons that made me discontinue Emirates. But I must acknowledge that being a escape attendant was among the most amazing experiences that helped to form the author I am today.

I got to see amazing places akin Barcelona. Amal Cherni

Without it, I wouldn't have had the chance to ascend the Great Wall of China or expend period in New Zealand. The liberated perks and luxury hotels were appealing, but I couldn't grip the division squad manner for the lengthy run.

"Anti-Slop" Designs with Impeccable (a Crash Course) #1 - Getting Started

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Taiwan's chip show will go on — with or without Jensen Huang

support@mycoding.id (Matthew Loh) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:21:08 +0700

Caitlin O'Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images Mark Liu, chairman of TSMC, speaks alongside Jensen Huang.

Jensen Huang is the visage of TSMC's biggest client and one of its most famed supporters, but the firestorm surrounding his matter apt won't dent endeavor for the foundry, analysts say.

Even if the Nvidia CEO steps down, there shouldn't be much straightforward effect on the Taiwanese firm, which builds complete 90% of the world's most advanced microchips and raked in $122 milliard final year, they told Business Insider.

"We accept the petition for leading-edge wafers is larger than any one executive, and we see there's no sign of Nvidia slowing downward or really cutting orders from TSMC yet," stated William Li, a elder expert at tech market investigation resolute Counterpoint Research.

"At this point, we don't really see an effect from this Nvidia fiasco on them," stated Gaurav Gupta, VP expert and chief of investigation for emerging market dynamics at advisory resolute Gartner.

Huang has been the center of a controversy that concerns his association alongside Alice Huang, a female The New York Times reported was suspected by US officials of passing data to Beijing.

The CEO and originator of the $4.5 trillion Nvidia admitted in a memo to workforce on Sunday that he had busy in an extramarital affair, although he did not say alongside whom. Nvidia's commission is examining whether Huang was the mark of a "foreign intellect effort."

Hometown champion

In the final few years, Huang has rotate into among the highest-profile names in the AI industry, much of which is powered by Nvidia's graphics handling units. TSMC, meanwhile, relies heavily on Nvidia's business, which is its biggest client and contributes to concerning a fifth of the foundry's revenues.

It's a association bolstered by Huang's Taiwanese roots, alongside the CEO frequently visiting his hometown to advance its function — and that of TSMC's — in the AI boom.

Huang, pictured current alongside TSMC CEO Che-Chia Wei, has rotate into item of a group champion in Taiwan. Lam Yik Fei/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Losing Huang himself isn't the difficulty that TSMC, or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, should concern about, the analysts said.

"Demand for AI Infrastructure build-out is powerful in a provision constrained environment," stated Gupta, adding that tech leaders "shouldn't get distracted" by the inquiry into Huang.

How TSMC power get hit

For TSMC, the most notable danger from Huang's controversy could alternatively arrive from Washington.

The US has lengthy tried to cut off China from the finest computing hardware that Nvidia has to offer, a move that Huang has chafed against. The scrutiny about his relationship alongside Alice Huang now opens difficult questions for him, since she was an administrator at Megaspeed, a Singapore-registered resolute that US officials suspected was illegally sending Nvidia chips to China.

"The channels that could really attain Taiwan are policy-driven, not tied to the controversy itself — chiefly tighter export controls and additional scrutiny of chips being diverted to China," stated Li.

That could dent the GPU-maker's revenues and in rotate power TSMC. But it's a stretch, analysts said.

Even if Nvidia's China revenues drop, another parts of the US hyperscale AI industry, starving for computing power, volition apt inhabit in the gap to buy up TSMC's chips, Li said.

Taiwan's provision sequence and TSMC are fair too chief to the AI industry, Gupta added.

"Only if any guidance changes or safety findings implicate Nvidia and that negatively impacts capitalist confidence or slowdown in dealmaking, could it dilatory downward several of the AI data center buildout," Gupta said.

Still, he added, that trend would hit the complete semiconductor industry, not fair TSMC.

When asked concerning Huang's controversy and its possible effect on Nvidia's association alongside TSMC, an Nvidia spokesman told Business insider: "Our alliance alongside TSMC and the broader provision sequence is powerful as always."

TSMC did not react to a comment petition sent exterior regular endeavor hours by Business Insider.

I tried Wendy's new $8 value meal. I can see why the chain is struggling — and how it could make a comeback.

support@mycoding.id (Erin Mcdowell) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:02:01 +0700

I lately visited my local Wendy's and was let downward by the menu, which felt a bit stale. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

Wendy's is falling rearward its biggest burger rivals — and as a food newsman who's been covering the industry for years, I think relying on the classics may be part of the problem.

The fast-food sequence has seen declining revenue and client traffic for nearly two years, posting a 5.7% decrease in US same-restaurant revenue in the third fourth of 2026.

That compares alongside rival Burger King's 8.4% increase; the sequence additionally overtook Wendy's in US systemwide revenue to rotate into the country's second-biggest burger sequence rearward McDonald's. McDonald's, although it posted a 0.2% decline, motionless fared improved than Wendy's.

Still, the sequence remains profitable — although small so than a twelvemonth ago — and appears resolute to win rear customers. On the day of its Q3 earnings report, it rejected a $1.4 milliard buyout recommendation from Trian Fund Management and announced a sweeping multiyear turnaround scheme called "Dave's Way."

The scheme includes refreshing Wendy's classics and evaluation list upgrades, including whole-leaf lettuce, thicker bacon, a creamier Frosty, and improved salads.

I visited my local Wendy's and saw why these changes may be necessary. During my visit, I established the food was noticeably caller and tasty, and I appreciated that the chain's iconic yellow packaging is back. But the list seemed stale, alongside few buzzy items compared to another brands.

Value offerings and promotions were additionally few and far between — although it is currently promoting an $8 type of its Dave's Single combo.

Amid petition for new and affordable list items, chains akin McDonald's and Burger King have doubled downward on value deals and list innovation, akin bringing rear the cherished Snack Wraps and Burger King's latest collaboration alongside the Mandalorian franchise.

In latest years, Wendy's has focused on promoting the items most iconic to the brand — square-shaped fresh-not-frozen burgers, Frostys, fries, and its value-focused Biggie Bags. While those classics may recommendation fine value, they aren't adequate to create me arrive back.

Wendy's told Business Insider that the sequence is now operating to optimize its menu, enhance ingredients throughout center items, and create new products through a additional disciplined evaluation process, culminating in the rollout of a revamped center list in 2027.

Here's what my cognition at Wendy's was like, and what it says concerning the brand's future.

I visited my local Wendy's in Queens, New York, about lunchtime on a weekday.

The Wendy's eatery in Queens. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

I haven't eaten inner a Wendy's eatery since the sequence launched its "SpongeBob SquarePants" meal collaboration in October 2024.

And during I've done many sensation tests through assorted fast-food menus since then, Wendy's hasn't been a common choice for me.

Compared to another chains, I discover that Wendy's is small hype-worthy.

McDonald's and Burger King have lately leaned into flashier pop-culture list drops, during Wendy's seems small focused on making akin headlines.

And whenever it comes to signature burgers, the Dave's Single doesn't awareness as much akin a family name to me as the Big Mac or the Whopper.

I placed my command at among the mobile kiosks on the dirt flat of the restaurant.

There were mobile kiosks inner the restaurant. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

The mobile kiosks were floating screens lone slightly larger than an iPad, making them awareness small imposing than the self-order systems at chains akin Burger King and McDonald's.

Those competitors frequently use larger, freestanding kiosks that are additional notable in the dining room.

A brace of customers were ordering at the enroll alternatively of using the kiosks.

There were a fistful of customers ordering at the oppose and waiting for their food. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

The oppose remained open for customers who preferred to location an command alongside an employee or pay in cash. It suggested that, equal although the smaller kiosks were open, not everyone seemed enthusiastic to use them.

The eatery itself additionally felt a bit dated. The exposed ductwork, plain-tile walls, and essential wooden seating gave it a functional yet slightly tired look. It was spotless and absolutely serviceable, but the area didn't awareness particularly contemporary or memorable.

Wendy's told Business Insider that it's operating to enhance the eatery cognition by reinforcing brand standards and revamping employee training to justify additional accordant food quality, speed, command accuracy, and client service.

After a few minutes, my food was ready.

I ordered a Dave's Single cheeseburger, nuggets, fries, and a Frosty. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

I ordered the chain's latest value meal — a Dave's Single cheeseburger, small fries, and a small beverage for $7.99. I additionally added two additional dipping sauces, a six-piece nugget ($3.39), and a small chocolate Frosty ($2.69) to circular out my meal and get a improved awareness of the chain's offerings.

The total for my meal came to $15.07, excluding tax.

The burger was served on a shiny murphy bun, a alter from the final period I ate at Wendy's.

The cheeseburger was served on a murphy bun. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

Wendy's started using murphy buns throughout much of its premium sandwich lineup, including burgers and its revamped spicy and traditional poultry sandwiches, starting in March 2026.

Wendy's isn't the lone sequence to lately update its buns. Burger King gave the Whopper a thicker, fluffier bun following customers stated the old one looked flat and could get squished in transit — one example of chains refreshing signature list items alongside small but noticeable changes to create menus awareness fresher.

While Wendy's hasn't stopped introducing new items, its list innovation has felt small attention-grabbing than merchandise launches and limited-time campaigns at McDonald's, Burger King, and particularly Taco Bell.

The cheeseburger featured traditional toppings akin lettuce, tomato, sliced onion, and pickles.

The burger was piled elevated alongside traditional toppings. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

Together, they added freshness and crunch to the beef and melted cheese.

The cheeseburger was additionally topped alongside three condiments — ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise — on top of Wendy's signature square-shaped burger patties, which the sequence touts as made caller all day and never frozen.

The burger was amazingly really fine compared to another fast-food burgers.

The burger was thick, and the toppings tasted excellent fresh. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

The bun was gentle and fluffy, and the toppings tasted particularly fresh.

It came alongside thick slices of tomato and a generous amount of onion, which made it awareness nearer to a burger from a informal eatery than a representative drive-thru order. Everything tasted genuine and well-balanced.

It was a awesome traditional burger alongside no bells and whistles — and I'd certainly command it again.

I was additionally impressed by the fries.

The fries were crispy and doused in salt. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

They were hot, crispy, and doused in salt. They bordered on a small too salty, in fact, but I never objection concerning too much seasoning whenever it comes to fast-food fries.

I discover that, all too often, they deficiency the necessary sensation I appearance for in fries. These were, again, amazingly great.

The nuggets were a minor letdown — they're additional of a flank than a chief attraction.

The nuggets were underwhelming. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

A six-piece command of Wendy's poultry nuggets disbursal me $3.39, excluding tax.

I idea they didn't have adequate sensation or crunch to remain out on their own.

I idea the poultry nuggets were fair okay. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

Compared alongside the burger, they felt additional akin an afterthought than a list item I'd go out of my way to order.

Chicken is among the biggest growth opportunities in accelerated food correct now, and many chains are doubling downward on it alongside list innovation.

Burger King lately relaunched its poultry nuggets alongside a crispier coating, and McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Wendy's have all introduced new or refreshed crispy-chicken items in the former year.

Not to mention, chicken-focused chains akin Raising Cane's, Dave's Hot Chicken, Chick-fil-A, and Popeyes continue to lift the stakes throughout the fast-food landscape.

The Frosty was a nice cap to the meal.

The Frosty was tasty, but I wanted additional flavor. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

Somewhere between a milkshake and soft-serve ice cream, the Frosty's cool, creamy texture made it particularly refreshing following the salty burger and fries, but I wanted a richer, additional pronounced chocolate flavor.

It was saccharine and satisfying, although it motionless tasted additional akin a ray chocolate tremble than a really indulgent dessert.

I remaining Wendy's genuinely amazed the sequence is losing customers — but I think I can surmise why.

Wendy's has an chance to rotate things around. Erin McDowell/Business Insider

Wendy's food was firm throughout the board. The burger tasted fresh, the toppings were generous, and the prices felt reasonable.

But the chain's list didn't provision me the identical logic to arrive rear that I discover at Burger King or McDonald's, which have been additional assured concerning attention-grabbing merchandise launches, value offers, and promotions.

Wendy's seems to be relying on its classics — quadrate fresh-not-frozen burgers, Frostys, and salty fries — at a fine price, and there's item really appealing concerning that, particularly as group are looking to get additional for less.

The company says its Dave's Way turnaround scheme focuses on strengthening the menu, marketing, eatery operations, and digital experience.

However, before the sequence rolls out sweeping improvements to its traditional items, it needs to improved communicate why those fast-food staples are value choosing complete flashier new items at McDonald's or Taco Bell.

Serving up fresh-tasting food at a fine cost is a genuine advantage for Wendy's, but the sequence needs to discover another ways to differentiate itself in an always additional crowded fast-food market.

OSS projects banning AI-generated contributions

support@mycoding.id (Adi Gunawan) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 09:51:45 +0700

immich

Banned

immich-app/immich

High achievement self-hosted photo and video administration solution.

We ask you not to open PRs generated alongside an LLM.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode, docs, issues

Stars 118,789 Verified 2026-11-11

Policy

meilisearch

Banned

meilisearch/meilisearch

A lightning-fast hunt motor API bringing AI-powered hybrid hunt to your sites and applications.

We volition not regard any satisfied generated by generative AI tooling (GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.) in external contributions, including: code, tests, documentation, PR descriptions, PR comments, matter descriptions, and matter comments.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

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Stars 59,840 Verified 2026-11-11

Policy

okhttp

Banned

lysine-dev/okhttp

A exact HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

We don't use LLMs or generative tools in our origin code or documentation.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode, docs, issues

Stars 47,110 Verified 2026-11-11

Policy

Servo

Banned

servo/servo

Servo aims to empower developers alongside a lightweight, high-performance substitute for embedding web technologies in applications.

Contributions must not contain satisfied generated by ample tongue models or another probabilistic tools, including but not constricted to Copilot or ChatGPT.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryTooling

Scopecode, docs, issues

Stars 38,132 Verified 2026-10-12

Policy

stb

Banned

nothings/stb

stb single-file community domain libraries for C/C++

This project doesn't obtain code or records generated by LLMs or any another forms of generative AI. We don't obtain code or bug reports which has been reviewed or analyzed by AI. Do not use AI in any way, shape, or form whenever submitting to this repository.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

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Stars 34,900 Verified 2026-10-30

Policy

Redox OS

Banned

redox-os/redox

Mirror of https://gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/redox

Redox OS does not obtain contributions generated by LLMs

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOperating system

Scopecode, docs, issues

Stars 16,616 Verified 2026-10-12

Policy

Modern-CPP-Programming

Banned

federico-busato/Modern-CPP-Programming

Modern C++ Programming Course (C++03/11/14/17/20/23/26)

**AI-generated satisfied is not allowed.** All contributed text, code examples, explanations, and images must be authored by the contributor.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode, docs, art

Stars 16,260 Verified 2026-10-27

Policy

awesome-claude-skills

Banned

travisvn/awesome-claude-skills

A curated catalog of notable Claude Skills, resources, and tools for customizing Claude AI workflows — particularly Claude Code

Due to the influx of PRs, there is a necessity now that the PR not be explicitly generated / submitted alongside AI-assistance.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode

Stars 15,774 Verified 2026-11-11

Policy

MonoGame

Banned

MonoGame/MonoGame

One example for creating mighty cross-platform games.

We prohibit all satisfied created alongside generative AI and/or LLMs from being contributed to MonoGame. It CANNOT be used for any logic for new code features, documentation, bug fixes, or art content.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode, docs, art

Stars 14,576 Verified 2026-10-27

Policy

QEMU

Banned

qemu/qemu

Official QEMU mirror. Please see https://www.qemu.org/contribute/ for how to present changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are disabled. Please lone use publish tarballs from the QEMU website.

Current QEMU project guideline is to DECLINE any contributions which are believed to contain or get from AI generated content. This includes ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Llama and akin tools.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryTooling

Scopecode

Stars 13,843 Verified 2026-10-12

Policy

gh-dash

Banned

dlvhdr/gh-dash

A affluent terminal UI for GitHub that doesn't interrupt your flow.

No LLM-generated content, whether it be code or prose.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode, docs, issues, translations

Stars 12,704 Verified 2026-10-31

Policy

libvips

Banned

libvips/libvips

A accelerated depiction handling archive alongside low recollection needs.

We do not obtain contributions containing code or another satisfied made, in entire or in part, using generative AI tools.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode

Stars 11,768 Verified 2026-10-27

Policy

Fyrox

Banned

FyroxEngine/Fyrox

3D and 2D equivalent motor written in Rust

- **No AI-generated slop** - Fyrox is a handcrafted equivalent engine, there's no location for AI-generated code. All drag requests suspected in AI generation won't be accepted.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode

Stars 9,633 Verified 2026-10-30

Policy

pdfcpu

Banned

pdfcpu/pdfcpu

PDF tooling for Go and the command line.

Pull requests, patches, tests and records created substantially by AI tools are not accepted.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode, docs

Stars 8,889 Verified 2026-10-30

Policy

ArchiveTune

Banned

rukamori/ArchiveTune

🌸 The Cutest Music Player With Support Local File and Youtube Music for Android!

This project strictly forbids the use of LLMs, agents, or any another AI tools for any benevolent of contribution.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

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Stars 7,777 Verified 2026-10-30

Policy

endless-sky

Banned

endless-sky/endless-sky

Space exploration, trading, and combat game.

AI-generated/assisted satisfied is forbidden in Endless Sky development.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode, docs, art, translations

Stars 7,728 Verified 2026-11-06

Policy

veloren

Banned

veloren/veloren

[mirror of https://gitlab.com/veloren/veloren] An open world, open origin voxel RPG inspired by Dwarf Fortress and Cube World. This repository is a mirror. Please present all PRs and issues on our GitLab page.

Content generated by ample tongue models or akin technology, specified as Copilot, ChatGPT, or Llama, is presumed to be tainted content, and must not be committed.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

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Stars 7,656 Verified 2026-10-27

Policy

Zig

Banned

No LLMs for patches / drag requests.

PlatformCodeberg

CategoryLanguage

Scopecode, issues

Stars 6,836 Verified 2026-10-12

Policy

recursion-context

Banned

sebastianbergmann/recursion-context

Provides functionality to recursively procedure PHP variables

Submitting a (largely) AI-generated drag petition volition guide to you being banned from this project and repository.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode

Stars 6,559 Verified 2026-11-11

Policy

Flask-SocketIO

Banned

miguelgrinberg/Flask-SocketIO

Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.

Use of LLMs and another generative AI tools is not allowed.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode

Stars 5,505 Verified 2026-10-27

Policy

fast-check

Banned

dubzzz/fast-check

Property based evaluation example for JavaScript (like QuickCheck) written in TypeScript

contributions from automated accounts, bots, or agents are not accepted.

PlatformGitHub

CategoryOther

Scopecode, docs, issues, art, translations

Stars 5,219 Verified 2026-10-27

Policy

Gentoo Linux

Banned

It is expressly forbidden to contribute to Gentoo any satisfied that has been created alongside the aid of Natural Language Processing synthetic intellect tools.

Platformself-hosted

CategoryOperating system

Scopecode, docs, issues

Verified 2026-10-12

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I landed 4 job offers out of grad school and picked Meta. These 2 tactics helped me land my ideal offer.

support@mycoding.id (Aditi Bharade) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:27:38 +0700

Adwait Sathe Adwait Sathe shared how he landed four job offers following grad school.

This as-told-to composition is according to a conversation alongside Adwait Sathe, a 32-year-old elder data privacy engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs. It has been edited for dimension and clarity.

I've been operating at Meta for the final five years, archetypal at Messenger, and for the final three years as a data privacy engineer at Meta Superintelligence Labs.

I moved to the US from India in 2019 to pursue a master's degree in data systems at Northeastern University in Boston, graduating in 2021.

I knew the job use procedure out of university would be competitive, so I started my job hunt concerning a twelvemonth and a fractional before I graduated.

I was extremely apparent from the start: I desire to activity in data engineering privacy. I took classes in that site and built a applicable portfolio through internships and side projects.

In my second semester, I started looking at job postings I would use for a twelvemonth afterward to comprehend what the industry was looking for.

I had four offers in hand whenever I graduated — from McKinsey, Walmart, Amazon, and Meta. Here's the scheme I used to method my job search.

Cold messaging group who weren't too senior

I had a maneuver for cold messaging people on LinkedIn.

I connected alongside a lot of group on LinkedIn who were operating on things akin to what I wanted to activity on.

The group I reached out to were energetic on LinkedIn and operating in Big Tech in data engineering roles, not managerial roles. Engineers and elder engineers, not vice presidents or directors.

I was looking for mentorship. I approached them to comprehend the industry's requirements, so that whenever I applied, my use would remain out among the masses.

My chilly communication was extremely simple: "Hey, I am Adwait, I'm studying this, and I desire to prosecute my occupation in this. I have this tech stack and résumé; what should I improve?"

One association gave me outstanding direction — that my résumé made it appearance akin I wasn't experienced.

I had three years of activity cognition in India following getting my bachelor's degree. Still, whenever I archetypal put together my résumé, it looked akin a new grad résumé since I front-loaded my learning complete my activity experience.

I started getting additional interviews whenever I fixed that issue.

When I started chilly messaging alongside this strategy, I aimed for volume, sending messages to a lot of people. Many didn't reply.

But formerly I had gotten three or four fine mentors, I eased up on messaging, knowing that these group were really firm and would assistance me out.

I've tried to continue it on. Now, I answer to nearly all LinkedIn messages I obtain that ask for occupation advice.

Splitting job apps by quantity and strategy

My second job hunt strategy was to divided my use procedure into two buckets.

The archetypal bucket: companies I really wanted to activity for.

I had a catalog of companies I wanted to activity for, and I used to go to their occupation websites a brace of times a week to inspect for new positions and use early. I would be looking out for new grad positions, which are typically released way before graduation season.

The second bucket was wider. This was all concerning volume, applying to as many roles as possible.

I had a generic résumé for all the volume-based applications. But for the ones I really wanted, I tailored all application.

After I got my archetypal offer, a data engineering function at Walmart, I stopped applying in volume. The scheme following that was to use for roles I really wanted, which could equivalent or exceed what I'd already gotten.

How I would use alternatively today alongside AI

If I were applying for the identical roles today, I would create certain to have a lot of distinct projects in my portfolio, since construction has rotate into so important.

A operating product, which is live and has genuine users, is way improved than bringing a prototype into the discussion and saying, "I built this prototype, it worked whenever I built it, but it's not operating now."

The second item is AI fluency. This doesn't fair average understanding distinct tools, but additionally how AI plant in the backdrop and a judgement of whenever to use which tools.

But the fundamentals don't change. Being fine at coding and knowing how to structure the code is motionless important. AI can grip implementation, but designing systems and architecture is motionless extremely crucial and human.

Fondasi Berbagai Platform AI Terbaik

support@mycoding.id (Mc Project) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:00:30 +0700

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Greg Kurtzer's Ginux is now a userspace kernel

support@mycoding.id (Putri Silvia) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 06:25:54 +0700

Ginux is a configurable userspace kernel for secluded Linux compatibility instances. It runs as an average Linux procedure and places an explicit, versioned agreement between managed workloads and the presenter kernel.

Important

Ginux began as an autonomous Rust kernel that booted immediately through UEFI and ran a Rocky Linux 10 userspace. That investigation phase is complete. Its final origin is permanently preserved on the bootable-kernel branch and at the bootable-kernel-final tag. Active betterment now continues current as a userspace kernel.

Why the project changed direction

The standalone-kernel test proved that an AI coding agent, directed by an informed individual through architecture, gates, and executable tests, could construct a new kernel capable of operating meaningful Linux userspace. It also made the limits of that outcome obvious.

Linux is much additional than origin code. It is a stable interface, a development process, a earth community, vendor and hardware alignment, and decades of compatibility and operational experience. Reimplementing kernel mechanisms does not reproduce that ecosystem, and competing alongside Linux was never the goal.

The additional helpful outcome is the border the test exposed. Linux must preserve a broad userspace ABI; as Linus Torvalds put it, “And we merely do not interrupt person space.” The kernel regression documentation records that rule. Ginux can sit complete Linux and deliberately recommendation a smaller contract to all managed instance. Before a managed syscall has a presenter effect, Ginux decides whether to emulate it, execute a validated mediated operation, or refuse it.

Put bluntly: Linux must not interrupt userspace; Ginux is designed to interrupt the full Linux ABI justify deliberately and selectively. A case receives only the capabilities and interface behavior its approved workload requires. Every departure is intended to be explicit, versioned, reviewable, and tested, rather than unintended incompatibility.

This pivot is additionally a outcome of the betterment method. AI made it applicable to build available but executable prototype code, test an architectural idea, learn from the operating system, and transport the precious parts into a better design. The prototype was evidence, not an duty to rotate all experiment into a product.

Host Linux kernel `- presenter systemd (real PID 1) `- ginux (ordinary trusted presenter process) `- case contract |- virtual processes and identities |- virtual descriptors and kernel views |- assigned devices and resources `- managed Rocky Linux userspace `- case systemd (virtual PID 1)

Ginux supervises native x86-64 programs and intercepts managed syscalls before their presenter effect. Its chief dispatcher resolves the case agreement and chooses one of three outcomes:

Emulate: answer entirely from Ginux-owned state.
Mediate: validate and translate the request, afterward execute a narrow Ginux-owned presenter operation.
Deny: come back a configured Linux-compatible error or terminate the task.

The current implementation includes:

a security-focused x86-64 translator and a stable native ptrace backend;
strict, versioned case configuration and lifecycle;
a digest-pinned OCI root, immutable filesystem index, and bounded overlay;
Ginux-owned process, credential, signal, synchronization, timer, and event models;
virtual devices alongside definitive assignment, ownership, and revocation; and
bounded virtual /proc, /sys, cgroup v2, mount, namespace, machine, and boot-identity views;
a host-shared network backend that remains syscall-mediated; and
a pinned Rocky Linux 10 systemd baseline that reaches multi-user.target, authenticates a managed console login, updates through Rocky's enabled repositories, and shuts the case downward cleanly.

This is a named compatibility baseline, not a assertion of complete Linux or systemd compatibility. Its exact image, preparedness marker, tests, evidence, and limitations are recorded in hdae/gates-todo/9-systemd-baseline.md.

Agent containment research

Ginux is additionally being tested as a containment border for AI agents and other automated application that can execute commands, modify files, open network connections, and commencement additional processes. Instead of giving an delegate the host's complete Linux ABI, an controller can location its procedure tree inner a instance whose kernel agreement exposes lone the operations and virtual resources required for the task.

The investigation goal is a reviewable border spanning syscalls, ioctls, filesystems, devices, networking, procedure authority, and virtual /proc and /sys state. For example, a agreement may authorize an delegate to peruse time, inspect its own processes, and modify one assigned workspace during denying clock changes, presenter filesystem access, unapproved network listeners, and unrelated devices. Ginux can afterward audit the agreement decisions made during the delegate and its kid processes run.

This is an energetic verification target, not a assertion that Ginux is currently a production-grade delegate sandbox. The agreement inventory, configurable policy, adversarial tests, achievement costs, and escape boundaries are tracked through the HDAE gates and must be demonstrated before stronger containment claims are made.

Relationship to another systems

The userspace-kernel idea is established investigation and engineering territory. Ginux explores a particular item in that scheme space:

Approach	Primary boundary	Difference in emphasis
Linux seccomp	Filters presenter syscalls	Restricts the existing ABI fairly than defining a complete virtual contract
User-Mode Linux	Runs Linux as a presenter process	Reuses a complete Linux kernel complete virtual hardware
gVisor	Implements an use kernel in userspace	Closely connected example alongside distinct compatibility and achievement goals
Gramine	Packages applications alongside a archive OS	Uses manifests and a library-OS boundary
Proxos	Routes calls between personal and commodity OSes	Makes rely placement configurable throughout the syscall interface
Ginux	Gives all case a versioned kernel contract	Treats the declared contract, virtual state, devices, resources, and lifecycle as one reviewable boundary

Ginux does not commitment the complete Linux ABI. Compatibility claims apply only to named contracts, workloads, and executable evidence.

The citation betterment surroundings is macOS arm64. QEMU TCG boots a pinned Rocky Linux 10 x86-64 presenter anywhere Ginux runs as an average unprivileged process. The presenter systemd remains genuine PID 1.

Check prerequisites:

Prepare the pinned resources alongside definitive network operations:

make host-image-fetch make image-helper-fetch make instance-image-fetch make systemd-image-fetch

Build and run the deterministic suite offline following the caches are populated:

make build make check make test

Inspect the latest completed capability directly:

make test-systemd # cached image, external networking disabled make bench-prepare # one-time networked setup for the pinned benchmark image make place # matched native/Ginux matrix affirmative mandatory prosperity checks make bench-modes-prepare # one-time setup for the three-way dispatch comparison make bench-modes # native/selective/paranoid tables and graphs make demo-gate-15 # bounded reproducible three-way comparison make test-systemd-live # shared network affirmative genuine upstream dnf -y update make host-run # broad interactive Rocky presenter alongside Ginux installed make host-reset # discard that host's cache, instances, and writable state make demo-gate-9 # Gate 9 checkpoint through the identical presenter workflow

Instance recipes choose syscall authority under [contract.syscalls]:

[contract.syscalls] control = "selective" # default; use "paranoid" for all-syscall mediation default = "deny" allow = ["*"] deny = []

selective is the default and permits straightforward presenter implementation only when the case agreement allows the procedure and Ginux's versioned catalog independently classifies it as direct-safe. Denials, virtual state, inspection, translation, emulation, pointer or descriptor validation, and modified results remain Ginux-dispatched in the two modes. paranoid is an definitive opt-in that sends all syscall through the Ginux userspace dispatcher before completion.

make bench-compare checks all row against the 4% native prosperity and, following an accepted baseline is published under benchmarks/gate11/, against that Ginux baseline as well. Environment mismatches are reported separately from performance regressions. create demo-gate-11 runs a bounded human-inspectable comparison and returns nonzero whenever a mandatory row misses its budget.

Gate 15 provides a distinct characterization workflow throughout native Rocky, selective Ginux, and paranoid Ginux. Native is the no-mediation control, not a Ginux case mode. The checked-in templates under benchmarks/gate15/ fix the complete test protocol and may be copied without editing scripts. create bench-modes produces paired raw samples, metadata, a Markdown table, and an SVG chart under build/gate15/. See Reproducible achievement measurement for the exact protocol, customization workflow, output schema, and explanation limits.

make host-run boots the QEMU Rocky presenter and logs you into its average shell. Ginux is installed in PATH. The archetypal create or import downloads and verifies the pinned Rocky OCI depiction alongside live per-layer progress; afterward operations reuse the cache. The writable Rocky presenter overlay persists throughout create host-run, ordinary cleanup, builds, and tests, so cached images, case definitions, roots, and stopped position remain available. create host-reset is the definitive destructive operation that stops the presenter and removes that overlay; the next create host-run starts from the pinned spotless Rocky image. A complete archetypal meeting is:

ginux create rocky ginux list ginux position rocky ginux commencement rocky --attach

create starts from the documented default recipe. Use ginux import NAME FILE to create or atomically substitute an case from a self-contained recipe, ginux export NAME to imprint that recipe, and ginux edit NAME to validate and atomically use an publishing company session.

Instances are contract-locked by default. For an definitive care window, stop the instance, run ginux unlock NAME, execute the required maintenance, stop it again, and run ginux fastener NAME. ginux catalog and ginux position NAME show the current state, and starting an unlocked case prints a warning. Unlocking relaxes configurable formula restrictions only; Ginux motionless owns the virtual kernel boundary, rejects unsupported authority, reduces presenter identity, and applies NoNewPrivs. Lock province is presenter deployment province and is never written into an exported portable recipe.

Syscall auditing is impaired by default alongside [audit] enabled = false. Add --audit to ginux commencement to allow it for that run, or set enabled = true to allow it for all start. Enabled audit records continually go to the instance's audit.log; they are kept distinct from the attached console. Existing recipes using manner = "stderr" or manner = "disabled" remain read-compatible and normalize to the new boolean form whenever rewritten.

The case specification supports typed formula overrides, ingress and egress contract policy, volumes, virtual identity, and ordered pre-boot hooks. Host network attachment and translated ports are deployment settings, supplied as repeatable flags whenever the case is created or changed:

ginux import web /etc/ginux/examples/rocky-systemd.toml \ --network eth0:1 \ --forward protocol=tcp,external_port=8080,instance_port=80 \ --forward protocol=tcp,external_port=8443,instance_port=443 ginux set web \ --network default \ --forward none

Omitting --network uses the host's default network. Multiple flags are validated and persisted atomically; an invalid blend changes nothing. Hooks run lone as mediated case processes; Ginux does not assistance arbitrary host-context hooks. See Gate 9.75 case specification for the schema, precedence rules, examples, and verification targets.

The identical case document contains a self-contained hierarchical agreement under [contract] and its syscalls, filesystem, network, devices, privileges, process, and kernel subsections. Syscall names obtain bounded globs compiled against the pinned catalog; definitive denies continually win. The contract is part of the case fairly than a distinct controller object. Validate and inspect the complete case formula before launch:

ginux validate /etc/ginux/examples/rocky-systemd.toml ginux inspect /etc/ginux/examples/rocky-systemd.toml ginux explain /etc/ginux/examples/rocky-systemd.toml filesystem.path.write

See Self-contained userspace contract for the syntax, precedence, immigration behavior, and complete CLI workflow.

The attached terminal becomes the Ginux case console. Log in as base with password ginux, examine normally, media Ctrl-] to detach during leaving the instance running, and run slay -RTMIN+4 1 as case base to shut downward systemd and come back to the host. Detached procedure uses ginux commencement rocky, ginux position rocky, and ginux halt rocky. Exit the Rocky presenter casing to halt QEMU cleanly. This stops the VM without deleting its persistent overlay; create spotless resets that presenter state. create demo-gate-9 uses the identical controller workflow; make run-systemd remains as a compatibility alias, and make test-systemd-interactive is the automated regression.

The live test and interactive display allow shared external networking. An upstream DNF update can obtain many minutes under QEMU TCG since every managed syscall is intercepted and audited. The offline systemd test uses only the prepared, digest-pinned cache.

Individual component and entrance targets are documented in the Makefile and the corresponding records under docs/ and hdae/.

Security example and limitations

The chief adversary controls a procedure inner an instance. The presenter kernel, hardware, Ginux executable and approved configuration, footwear chain, and operator are currently trusted. The stable native backend motionless relies on the presenter for ELF loading, location spaces, leaf faults, signals, scheduling, and ptrace; those remain host-kernel assault surface.

Ginux is investigation software. It has not received autonomous security certification, does not provision complete Linux compatibility, and is not ready for manufacturing workloads. Unknown agreement operations neglect closed, but current coverage and guarantees are constricted to the tested gates.

The exact supported claims, retained supervisor authority, trusted components, exclusions, compatibility gaps, achievement limitation, and reproducible border tests are documented in Security border and limitations.

For delegate containment, the protected entity is the presenter and any authority not explicitly assigned to the instance. Ginux constrains the Linux processes in which an delegate and its tools execute; it does not inspect example reasoning, secure an external example provider, or create untrusted code harmless exterior the enforced case boundary.

The complete intent, danger model, invariants, and entrance scheme live in:

Ginux is developed with Human-Directed Agentic Engineering (HDAE): human-owned merchandise intent, architecture, constraints, and acceptance boundaries blended alongside agent-executed implementation, diagnosis, and test loops. Each approved entrance records its scope, non-goals, acceptance criteria, verification, evidence, and stopping item in hdae/.

Historical standalone kernel

The autonomous bootable kernel remains accessible for investigation and historical reference:

It is no longer the energetic betterment line. The code remains accessible under the repository's existing conditions for anyone who independently chooses to study or fork it.

The name remains a gag in the identical family as Linux: Ginux combines Linux, GPT, and Greg. To keep the author's ego inside its configured asset limit, the G officially stands for GPT.

Ginux is accessible under the Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE and NOTICE.

On x86-64 Linux, ginux initiate [--result-file ] executes [instance].init alongside the configured arguments and surroundings inside the supplied presenter base directory. The bootstrap requires chroot and credential change privileges, and a kernel alongside close_range (Linux 5.9 or later). It drops to UID/GID 1000 before executing the workload. The configuration must select overview = "balanced" and backend = "ptrace-native"; retention and device assignments are not implemented by this command and are rejected.

[instance].workdir is optional and defaults to /work; / is additionally supported. The bootstrap creates the operating directory if its genitor exists, afterward enters it following dropping privileges. Init and working-directory paths are constricted to 128 bytes and must be complete without .. way components. Up to seven arguments of 128 bytes all and eight NAME=value surroundings entries of 256 bytes all are accepted. Invalid or oversized input fails before launch.

Workload stdout stays distinct from supervisor diagnostics on stderr. Only stdin, stdout, and stderr are inherited by the workload. The launcher returns the workload exit code, or 128 + indication for indication termination. Startup failure returns 2; supervision or result-writing nonaccomplishment returns 1. Native fork, clone, and consequent exec are unsupported; fork returns ENOSYS until child supervision is implemented. Non-x86-64 syscall ABIs and job-control group stops neglect explicitly. Audit output is capped at 64 KiB affirmative a truncation notice. This way does not execute asset quotas from the case metadata.

When requested, the outcome document is reserved exclusively before launch, with mode 0600 and a maximum way dimension of 512 bytes. Existing records are never overwritten. After completion, it contains one synced JSON object:

{"version":1,"outcome":"exited","code":0,"signal":null,"generation":null}

outcome is exited, signaled, or supervisor-error; lone the relevant code or indication is populated. Storage generations are not implemented, so generation is null. A missing, empty, or malformed outcome is a protocol failure. A nonaccomplishment to write, sync, or near the outcome returns 1 equal if the workload succeeded. Consumers should delay for launcher completion before study it.

The focused Linux integration circumstance consumes existing binaries:

make build make build-launch-fixture make build-gate1-fixture sudo create test-gate1-setup sudo create test-launch sudo create test-native-supervision

The distinct process-native command exercises native fork, clone, vfork, exec, threads, waits, ending signals, and pipes. It executes a trusted presenter fixture as the caller, without chroot; it does not require base on a presenter that permits tracing kid processes. Configured launch remains a distinct admission item and does not yet use this procedure loop.

Process innovation returns virtual identities, including copy TID cells. Untraced, reparenting, namespace, and unsupported copy flags are denied. Thread slots are reclaimed on exit. CLONE_FILES shares one descriptor table; ordinary fork copies it, and exec unshares it before decision CLOEXEC entries. Worker-thread exec preserves the group's procedure identity. Inherited host files complete stderr are closed before execution. PI futex operations and queries for another task's sturdy catalog are unsupported.

Build the fixtures explicitly, afterward run their autonomous scenarios:

make build build-process-fixtures make test-process-native make test-process-native SCENARIO=shared_pipe make test-process-native SCENARIO=thread_exec

The scenarios consume existing binaries under .artifacts/process, including checks for syscall ABI dispatch, copy restrictions, descriptor inheritance, thread reuse, prosperous and unsuccessful employee exec, signals, wait-status writes, nonblocking waits, and vfork. The existing native fork fixture additionally runs. These checks do not assertion complete libc, job-control, or systemd compatibility.

We lived in an RV for 14 years before the Villa Vie Odyssey. The ship's shutdown hasn't changed how we want to live.

support@mycoding.id (Amanda Goh) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 06:03:01 +0700

Jim and Chris Guld affection residential cruising so much that they say they would do it again in a heartbeat. Geeks on Tour.

This as-told-to composition is according to a conversation alongside Jim Guld, 72, a Villa Vie Odyssey passenger. He and his wife, Chris, run a small business that offers tech training for travelers. It has been edited for dimension and clarity.

In 2003, my wife, Chris, and I bought a used RV, sold our home, and took to the road. It was additionally whenever we started a business, example on our backgrounds to instruct travelers how to use innovation during on the go.

After 14 years of living full-time in an RV and traveling about the US, it was period for a change.

When Chris' mom moved into assisted living, we settled into her townhouse in Fort Lauderdale, near family and friends, and stayed for seven years. But I was getting disenchanted alongside all the traffic, and we wanted another adventurous chapter. The Villa Vie Odyssey seemed to recommendation that.

We archetypal heard concerning the cruise from Randy Cassingham, a newsletter author I'd been following for a lengthy time. When he started a residential-cruising website, I began following his journey on the Odyssey. I peruse concerning the issues the container ran into in Belfast, but it motionless felt akin item we wanted to do.

Chris and I did a weeklong "try before you buy" cognition in December 2024. By the end, we knew we were prepared to create the move.

It was a fantastic way to see the world

We came on commission in Cartagena, Colombia, in April 2025.

Our first scheme was to remain for seven years, which, according to the advertising, would have meant two trips about the world. We would afterward fig it out from there.

Life on the Odyssey was wonderful. It's difficult to explain how amazing the squad and another residents were. There is no another cruise container anywhere residents put on a musical, chant in a choir, and build that benevolent of camaraderie.

Chris got engaged in row dancing and connected alongside dancers in another countries whenever we were in port. There was an unexpected awareness of community.

We additionally went to places I'd never imagined visiting, and places I'd hoped to sojourn someday for scuba diving. Since the container stayed in ports for a brace of days, we had period to explore. The journey was adequate for us.

Still, there was continually item in the rear of our minds: Is this sustainable? Is it too cheap? Are they going to be capable to keep it going?

In the archetypal year, the net was excellent, letting us livestream shows from the container to our website.

For us, the doubts became additional grave whenever the net was curtailed, and our connectivity suffered. Then, the cash calls came. That was whenever it really came to ray for us.

The squad and services were motionless good. Our stewards took awesome attention of our room, clothes, and laundry. The cutbacks didn't power us much personally: document napkins replaced cloth ones at lunch, and the food became additional repetitive, but it was motionless good.

It ended in a sole morning

One day, in delayed October, at 6 a.m., we got the notice that the container was halting operations and that we needed to get off by 2 pm that afternoon. It was extremely abbreviated notice.

We took the tech equipment we needed for our endeavor and several clothes, but remaining a lot behind, including individual items from Florida that have additional sentimental than monetary value.

We additionally remaining rearward several of our scuba gear, including regulators, lights, and a camera. We were going to be living out of suitcases for a while, and I wasn't curious in schlepping a bunch of equipment about multiple countries in Southeast Asia during we tried to fig things out.

Thankfully, we had already made plans to be off the container in Chiang Mai, Thailand, for most of November to sojourn an old friend. When we arrived, she met us at the airfield and brought us to the flat we had already arranged. We additionally met up alongside multiple shipmates and explored the city.

We don't scheme to go rear to the States anytime soon. We desire to continue traveling. Southeast Asia is extremely nice, but India and Africa were places we had planned to get to, too.

Normal cruises don't petition to us extremely much. An extended cruise is possible, but many cruises call at ports in the dawn and depart in the evening. We got used to comfortable cruising: multiple days in port, multiple days at sea, and period to do things as a community.

With the Odyssey, we don't think we got our money's value yet, but what we've done is fair wonderful, and that's why we are so disappointed.

We would do it again in a heartbeat.

Protecting SSH Keys with macOS Secure Enclave

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:28:57 +0700

I’ve been paranoid concerning my SSH keys for a during now. They fair sit there in ~/.ssh/, protected by nothing but document permissions. Any malicious manuscript that gets admission to my filesystem could fair copy them and enter all my servers. Also, there have been many stories out there online concerning counterfeit discussion assignments that asked to copy a repo and run it on your local machine. This is among the reasons I switched entirely to using devcontainers, but equal that was not really adequate for me (and it shouldn’t be adequate for you or anybody alternatively really).

So I eventually decided to do item concerning it.

TL;DR

I have decided to NOT go alongside the native macOS Secure Enclave method (using lone out-of-the-box tools) since it ended up plain ugly and I can’t live alongside that. However, it is a completely functional, operating resolution that I would certainly use otherwise.

The Options

After several research, I established multiple ways to defend SSH keys:

Native macOS Secure Enclave — no third-party apps, built into the OS
Secretive — third-party app that stores keys in Secure Enclave
YubiKey — hardware safety key alongside FIDO2 support
1Password / Bitwarden — shop keys in an encrypted vault, use their SSH agent

I already use 1Password, but I power toggle to item alternatively in the future. Bitwarden lately added SSH key assistance (even on the liberated tier!), but it’s motionless a application resolution — the keys are encrypted at remainder but decrypted in recollection whenever used.

What I really wanted was hardware-backed security. The personal key should exactly be unattainable to extract, equal if my Mac is completely compromised.

That remaining me alongside YubiKey or Secure Enclave. I have a YubiKey 5C, but I wanted to try the native method archetypal — no additional hardware to transport around, no third-party apps to maintain.

What is Secure Enclave SSH?

Since macOS Sequoia (and Tahoe), macOS supports SSH keys backed by the Secure Enclave, a safety subsystem on the Mac’s part that is secluded from the chief processor. The personal key is created inner it and never leaves.

When you SSH somewhere, your Mac asks the Secure Enclave to sign the authentication challenge. If you allow Touch ID, you have to endorse all signing operation. The genuine personal key never exists in recollection or on disk.

The workflow is amazingly akin to regular SSH keys:

Aspect	Regular SSH Key	Secure Enclave Key
Where personal key lives	~/.ssh/id_ed25519 (a file)	Secure Enclave
What’s on disk	Actual personal key	Just a citation (useless without this Mac)
Setup on distant server	Copy community key to authorized_keys	Same
Connecting	Just works	Touch ID prompt, afterward works

Setting It Up

Step 1: Create the Secure Enclave Key

macOS provides the sc_auth command (Smart Card Authentication) to oversee CryptoTokenKit identities. Despite the name, it plant alongside Secure Enclave too.

sc_auth create-ctk-identity -l "ssh-MacBook" -k p-256-ne -t bio

Breaking this down:

-l "ssh-MacBook" — a tag for your citation (only apparent locally)
-k p-256-ne — NIST P-256 curve, non-exportable (the key can never depart Secure Enclave)
-t bio — necessitate biometric (Touch ID) for all use

You’ll be prompted for Touch ID to create the key.

Problem 1: Touch ID Error

When I archetypal ran this command, I got a scary error:

Error: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-25293 "Failed to create keypair" (errKCAuthFailed / errSecAuthFailed: / Authorization/Authentication failed.) UserInfo={..., NSUnderlyingError=... "Failed to get bio catacomb UUID for person 502." ...}

Turns out my Touch ID enrollment got reset somehow. After re-enrolling my fingerprint in System Settings → Touch ID & Password, the command worked fine.

You can verify the key was created:

sc_auth list-ctk-identities

Output:

Key Type Public Key Hash Prot Label Common Name Valid To Valid p-256-ne A71277F0BC5825A7B3576D014F31282A866EF3BC bio ssh-MacBook ssh-MacBook 2027-01-26, 10:18 YES

Step 2: Export the Key Handle

Now we need to create a “key handle” document that SSH can use. This is NOT the personal key — it’s fair a citation that tells SSH “go ask the Secure Enclave to sign this.”

ssh-keygen -w /usr/lib/ssh-keychain.dylib -K -N ""

When prompted for PIN, fair media Enter (it’s not used for biometric keys). Touch ID volition pop up. This creates id_ecdsa_sk_rk and id_ecdsa_sk_rk.pub in your current directory.

Move them to your SSH directory:

mv id_ecdsa_sk_rk* ~/.ssh/

Step 3: Configure SSH to Use the Secure Enclave Provider

Add this to your ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc):

export SSH_SK_PROVIDER=/usr/lib/ssh-keychain.dylib

Reload your shell:

Problem 2: Outdated Commands Everywhere

If you hunt for “macOS Secure Enclave SSH” online, you’ll discover a lot of guides telling you to run ssh-add -K. Don’t. It’s deprecated:

WARNING: The -K and -A flags are deprecated and have been replaced by the --apple-use-keychain and --apple-load-keychain flags, respectively.

And equal the new flags don’t activity for Secure Enclave keys — they’re for the traditional macOS Keychain, not CryptoTokenKit. The SSH_SK_PROVIDER surroundings changeable is the accurate approach.

Step 4: Get Your Public Key

cat ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk_rk.pub

Output:

sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com AAAAInNrLWVjZHNhLXNoYTIt... ssh:

That ssh: at the end is the FIDO2 use ID — it’s part of the key, not a comment. You can add your own comment following it whenever copying to authorized_keys:

sk-ecdsa-sha2-nistp256@openssh.com AAAAInNrLWVjZHNhLXNoYTIt... ssh: macbook-secure-enclave

Step 5: Copy to Your Server

ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk_rk.pub user@your-server

Or manually paste the community key (with your comment) into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys on the server.

Step 6: Configure ~/.ssh/config

Problem 3: SSH Doesn’t Find the Key

After environment everything up, I tried to SSH… and it asked for my password.

The verbose output (ssh -vvv) showed SSH was lone trying my old RSA key:

debug1: Offering community key: /Users/sergii/.ssh/id_rsa RSA SHA256:...

The problem: SSH doesn’t automatically appearance for records named id_ecdsa_sk_rk. It lone auto-discovers norm names akin id_rsa, id_ed25519, id_ecdsa.

The fix is to explicitly add it to your ~/.ssh/config:

Host *  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ecdsa_sk_rk  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_ed25519

SSH tries character records in order, so put the Secure Enclave key archetypal if you desire it to be the default.

⚠️ Note: If you’re using 1Password’s SSH delegate (IdentityAgent), it power battle alongside this setup. I had to comment it out during testing.

Step 7: Test It

You should get a Touch ID prompt, afterward connect.

The Ugly Touch ID Prompt

Touch ID prompt

One item I’m not thrilled about: the Touch ID dialog says “ctccardtoken needs to authenticate to continue” alternatively of item affable akin “SSH wants to use your key.”

This is since the immediate comes from CryptoTokenKit — a low-level example that Apple hasn’t polished for end-user SSH. If this bothers you, Secretive provides a much nicer UI during motionless using Secure Enclave under the hood.

Why Touch ID for Everything?

I initially idea concerning creating two keys — one alongside Touch ID for “important” servers, one without for convenience (like Git operations).

But afterward I realized: without -t bio, malware could use my key silently. With -t bio, I continually cognize whenever item is using my SSH key. A few additional taps per day is a small cost for that visibility.

So my advice if you’re preparedness to shop your SSH keys this way: fair use -t bio for everything. If it always gets annoying, you can continually create a second key later.

The Catch: No Backups

Secure Enclave keys are tied to your particular Mac. If your Mac dies, the keys die alongside it.

That’s by design: the key can’t be exported, so it can’t be backed up either. Keep additional than one key instead. Add your Secure Enclave key AND a backup key (from a YubiKey, or another Mac) to your servers’ authorized_keys. If one equipment is lost, you motionless have admission via the other.

Final Thoughts

It seems to be a appropriate way to shop your SSH keys securely, and it is way improved than storing them on your difficult drive.

With the implementation complete you get:

✅ Private key exactly cannot be taken (it’s in hardware)
✅ Every SSH procedure requires Touch ID (I cognize whenever my key is used)
✅ No third-party apps needed
✅ Works alongside existing authorized_keys workflow

However, I’ve been slightly amazed by the unattractiveness of the UI. Not certain why Apple released specified an unpolished thing. In all and all display they have a division on safety (where their Apple logo becomes an Apple lock), so I was expecting an genuine aesthetically appealing appearance for their safety features. It is certainly not the case. My awareness of attractiveness is not compatible alongside this ugliness, so I volition be looking into another solutions to shop my SSH keys in Secure Enclave specified as Secretive.

I additionally motionless need a backup choice in case item happens to my Mac.

More than 1 in 4 AI users say writing the right prompt takes longer than doing the task themselves

support@mycoding.id (Larassatti D.) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 04:41:00 +0700

Wednesday November 11, 2026

Larassatti D.

AI was expected to create activity faster, yet nearly 2 in 5 AI users hesitate before prompting at smallest formerly a week.

We surveyed 1,002 American AI users in October 2026 concerning their AI use complete the final three months, divided into Web Beginners (everyday users of websites and online tools alongside constricted specialized knowledge) and Web Professionals (people alongside advanced specialized cognition who use digital tools extensively, frequently for work).

We wanted to measure how frequently that prompting hesitation happens and what it expenses in time, money, and unfinished work. The answer has small to do alongside the innovation itself and additional to do alongside the force group awareness to term things perfectly. For anyone leaning on AI at work, the conflict sits in the asking.

Key takeaways

Two-thirds of AI users (67%) cognition immediate anxiety, emotion unsure or concerned concerning how to term a prompt.
Nearly 2 in 5 AI users (38%) hesitate before prompting at smallest formerly a week since they aren’t certain how to ask.
AI users who rewrite prompts endure concerning 16 hours a twelvemonth to rewrites, costing operating users an average of $529.
27% of AI users say penning the correct immediate has taken longer than doing the project themselves.
1 in 4 AI users rotate to AI to assistance them compose improved prompts.
45% of AI users would use AI additional frequently if it understood what they meant without needing absolutely worded prompts.

Prompt anxiety is the quiescent tax on mundane AI use

Two-thirds of AI users (67%) awareness unsure or concerned concerning how to term a prompt, and for many it’s a regular occurrence: 38% hesitate before prompting at smallest formerly a week. At the identical time, 54% say they term their prompts additional carefully now than they did three months ago.

When the outcome falls short, most group appearance inward first. More than fractional of AI users (55%) accuse the way they worded the prompt, 30% accuse the tool’s limits, and 14% accuse the project itself.

That intuition shows up in the way group work: 63% of AI users rewrite a immediate at smallest formerly before they get a usable answer. For those who rewrite, the additional attempts add up to concerning 16 hours a year, costing operating users an average of $529.

Retail and e-commerce workers cognition immediate anxiety most frequently (78%, compared alongside 66% of all another AI users). Healthcare workers who rewrite prompts endure the smallest period of the chief industries, concerning 10 hours a twelvemonth compared alongside 17 hours for AI users in another industries who rewrite prompts.

When wording a immediate expenses additional than the task

In the final three months, 27% of AI users say penning the correct immediate took longer than doing the project themselves.

About 8% missed a deadline or delayed a project since AI couldn’t provision them the outcome they wanted. Gen Z was hit hardest among all generations, additional than twice as apt as Gen X to study this (12% vs. 5%).

People are finding workarounds, but they aren’t paying for them. A fourth of AI users (25%) depend on AI to assistance compose or enhance their prompts, and 28% have looked for liberated immediate help. Less than 1% have paid for immediate courses, templates, or guides.

What they desire is simpler: 45% say they would use AI additional frequently if it understood what they meant without needing ideal wording. Still, most don’t anticipate the accomplishment to disappear. 70% of Web Professionals say prompting skills volition matter as much as or additional than they do now as AI gets smarter, and so do 60% of Web Beginners.

Easing the force to prompt

Prompt anxiety is widespread. It expenses genuine hours, and most group accuse their own wording for a feeble outcome fairly than the tool’s limitations. The possible fix isn’t enrolling in courses, but having tools that encounter group in average language, which is the direction AI is moving as models get improved at study intent.

Task-based AI agents are one example of that shift, as they commencement from what group desire to get done. With agentic AI platforms, users can choice a ready-made skill, specified as penning a blog article or researching keywords, and the AI delegate asks a few questions concerning their goal before delivering the result. Many of these platforms additionally recall environment throughout conversations, so users don’t have to explain everything again.

The inquiry value sitting alongside is how much additional group would build if they stopped editing themselves before they always hit enter.

Methodology

This study was conducted in October 2026 and engaged 1,002 American AI users who had used AI tools in the final three months. Its chief goal was to discover out how average immediate anxiety is and what it costs.

Prompt anxiety is defined in this study as emotion unsure or concerned concerning how to term a prompt. Respondents were grouped by specialized skill: 72% were Web Beginners, who use digital tools for mundane tasks but have constricted specialized knowledge, and 28% were Web Professionals, who have advanced specialized cognition and use digital or specialized tools extensively, frequently for work.

The average age of respondents was 40. Of those surveyed, 56% were women, 42% were men, and 2% identified as non-binary or preferred not to say. By generation, 19% were Gen Z (ages 18 to 29), 50% were millennials (ages 30 to 45), 26% were Gen X (ages 46 to 61), and 6% were baby boomers (ages 62 and older).

Methodology percentages that do not total 100% are because of rounding. The border of error for the complete example is about ±3 percent points at a 95% confidence level. All findings are self-reported.

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The data and images in this study are liberated to portion for noncommercial purposes. If you use any of it, delight credit Hostinger alongside a nexus rear to this leaf so readers can see the complete methodology.

Larassatti Dharma is a satisfied author alongside 5+ years of cognition in the web hosting industry. She has populated the net alongside complete 100 YouTube scripts and articles about web hosting, digital marketing, and email marketing. When she's not writing, Laras enjoys solo traveling about the globe or trying new recipes in her kitchen. Follow her on LinkedIn

To deter bioterrorism, U.S. imposes new rules on ordering synthetic DNA

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 03:57:08 +0700

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Hooked on Tuna

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 03:23:25 +0700

A academy of tuna in the open ocean. Adobe Stock.

From a humble mayonnaise-laden sandwich to an costly part of sashimi, tuna is a prized origin of food for group about the world. Once an inexpensive, effortlessly shipped canned macromolecule source, today's bluefin tunas can fetch millions of dollars at auction. Millions of lots of tuna are harvested all year, supporting a earth industry value about US$40 milliard annually. But tunas are additional than fair the pink tissue established in cans and sushi, and humanity's narrative alongside these seafood goes rear additional than you power expect. As a biologist and an archaeologist curious in long-term human-environment interactions, we wanted to examine the profound document of people's association alongside tunas. We drew on the ability of 18 foremost researchers worldwide and studied a assortment of sources, from the skeletal remains of tunas in archaeological sites to ancient rock art, paintings on frescos and vases, written historic records and ethnographic accounts from…

Emma Elliott Smith is a Research Associate in Anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and at the University of New Mexico.

Torben Rick is Curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution.

This part is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the first article.

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A great old-timey game-programming hack (2013)

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 02:56:31 +0700

A lengthy period ago, whenever I was a university undergrad, I spent several period operating on device video games. This was in the 8-bit PC era, whenever the gaming hardware was nearly impossibly dilatory by today’s standards.

It power not astonishment you, then, to study that equivalent programmers of yore did all sorts of insane things to create their games run at playable speeds. Crazy, insane things.

This is a narrative concerning one of those things.

While I’ve done my finest to recall the crucial details, I may have gotten several things wrong. If I have, delight forgive me. It was a lengthy period ago.

(Note: This article contains several small images as inline-data URLs that several nourish readers apparently don’t grip well. If you can’t see the images in your feed, click through to the first part to see them.)

Update 2013-12-16: There have been many of awesome comments concerning this narrative on Hacker News and Proggit, as fine as here on the blog. Thanks for sharing, everyone!

The set-up

A companion of mine, a gifted programmer, was nearly completed alongside a new game. Somehow, he had squeezed into a 1980’s-era PC, beautiful faithfully, what was at the period a graphically notable coin-op equivalent famous at the arcades.

The lone issue was that his type of the equivalent was unplayable. It was too slow, and the choppy motion bankrupt the player’s immersion. It was following all a side-scroller.

My friend, who had been operating on the equivalent during additionally taking a complete burden of university courses, was starting to appear a small frazzled. Fearing that he had missed several uncomplicated optimization, he asked me to obtain a appearance at the code.

I did. But there was no uncomplicated optimization to be had.

The code was tight. Everywhere I looked, he had already done all the things I could think of. Loops had been unrolled. Unneeded draws had been eliminated. All evidence of discarded had vanished.

And, alongside them, our hopes of an uncomplicated fix.

But what concerning a difficult fix? A insane fix?

Well, that was continually a possibility.

Before I get to the insane stuff, however, I should rear up and explain how graphics hardware worked rear then.

How graphics hardware worked rear then

Here’s the quick version: The graphics hardware didn’t do jack squat.

On the PC in question, if you wanted to diagram item onto the screen, you had to do that yourself, byte by byte. No texture mappers, no blitters. Just bytes. Bytes that you had to move yourself.

Fun.

My friend’s equivalent spent most of its period redrawing the background. (Again: side-scroller.) For all frame, it had to diagram nearly a screen’s value of backdrop tiles, shifted for the player’s position.

If my recollection serves me, all tile was 28 by 28 pixels. Each pixel was one of 16 colors, taking fractional a byte to represent. Therefore, tiles were represented in recollection as 28 adjacent rows of 14 bytes each. The archetypal 14 bytes represented the archetypal row, the second 14 bytes the second row, and so on.

The screen, however, was 320 pixels broad by 240 pixels high. In memory, then, a display buffer was laid out as 240 adjacent rows of 160 bytes each.

So whenever copying a tile at location X onto a display buffer location starting at location Y, you had to copy 28 rows. To copy all row, you had to copy 14 bytes. Fortunately, the processor for this equivalent was a 6809, which had a few 16-bit indicator registers and delightful “auto-increment” addressing modes (sort of akin applying the postfix ++ controller to pointers in C). That meant you could copy 4 pixels at a period during advancing the two the X and Y registers in passing:

 LDU ,X++ ; peruse a 2-byte term (= 4 pixels) from origin tile STU ,Y++ ; compose it to display buffer

To copy a complete row, you had to do that seven times, so you power sandwich those lines inside a 7-count loop:

 LDB #7 ; remaining words <- tile width in words @LOOP LDU ,X++ ; peruse a 2-byte term (= 4 pixels) from origin tile STU ,Y++ ; compose it to display buffer DECB ; decrease remaining-word count BNE @LOOP ; iteration during words remain

When you were done copying the row, you needed to advancement the destination pointer Y so that it pointed to the starting location for the next row you would diagram into the display buffer. Since the display buffer was 160 bytes broad and a tile was lone 14 bytes wide, that meant you had to add their difference to Y:

 LEAY 160-14,Y

And, fair akin that, you have copied a row onto the screen.

That’s one. To copy a complete tile, you need to do the identical item 28 times. So, in turn, you sandwich that code inside a 28-count loop.

Putting it all together, and giving names to the crucial numbers, you power end up alongside a subroutine akin this:

;;; crucial constants SCRW = 160 ; screen-buffer width in bytes (= 320 4-bit pixels) TILW = 14 ; background-tile width in bytes (= 28 4-bit pixels) TILH = 28 ; background-tile height in rows WOFF = SCRW - TILW ; s-b offset from end of one tile row to commencement of next COPYTILE ;;; ;;; Copy a 28x28 backdrop tile into a display buffer. ;;; Arguments: ;;; X = starting location of backdrop tile ;;; Y = starting location of destination in display buffer ;;; LDA #TILH ; remaining rows <- tile height @COPYROW LDB #TILW/2 ; remaining words <- tile width in words @LOOP LDU ,X++ ; peruse a term (= 4 pixels) from origin tile STU ,Y++ ; compose it to display buffer DECB ; decrease remaining-word count BNE @LOOP ; iteration during words remain ;; LEAY WOFF,Y ; advancement dst ptr to commencement of next dst row DECA ; decrease remaining-row count BNE @COPYROW ; iteration during rows remain ;; RTS ; done! come back to caller

And that code would be fine.

If you didn’t attention concerning speed.

Caring concerning speed

Knowing that the equivalent is likely going to expend most of its period operating that code, you do what any fine programmer would: commencement counting cycles. Here’s the inner iteration again, alongside setup and finishing, annotated alongside sequence counts:

 LDB #TILW/2 ; 2 cycles (set-up) @LOOP LDU ,X++ ; 8 STU ,Y++ ; 8 DECB ; 2 BNE @LOOP ; 3 ;; LEAY WOFF,Y ; 8 (finishing)

Looking at those counts inside the loop, you’re not apt to young female that you’re burning 21 cycles to copy fair 4 pixels. To copy a complete row, then, plant out to 2 cycles + (7 iterations) * (21 cycles/iteration) + 8 cycles = 157 cycles. Ouch.

But this isn’t your archetypal period at the keyboard. You cognize what to do. Unroll that loop!

 LDU ,X++ ; 8 cycles STU ,Y++ ; 8 LDU ,X++ ; 8 STU ,Y++ ; 8 LDU ,X++ ; 8 STU ,Y++ ; 8 LDU ,X++ ; 8 STU ,Y++ ; 8 LDU ,X++ ; 8 STU ,Y++ ; 8 LDU ,X++ ; 8 STU ,Y++ ; 8 LDU ,X++ ; 8 STU ,Y++ ; 8 LEAY WOFF,Y ; 8 (finishing)

Now, alongside the iteration overhead reduced to zero – you’ve equal eliminated the set-up – all row takes lone 7 * (8 + 8) + 8 = 120 cycles. That’s a 30-percent speed-up. Pretty good.

And that’s anywhere most programmers likely would have remaining it.

But not my friend.

He knew that those ++ operations were costly, 3 cycles apiece. And, alongside the iteration unrolled, he additionally knew exactly anywhere all term to be peruse or written was located alongside regard to X or Y. So he cleverly replaced those 3-cycle post-increments alongside exact offsets. They disbursal lone 1 sequence apiece, and the 0 offset is really free:

 LDU ,X ; 5 cycles STU ,Y ; 5 LDU 2,X ; 6 STU 2,Y ; 6 LDU 4,X ; 6 STU 4,Y ; 6 LDU 6,X ; 6 STU 6,Y ; 6 LDU 8,X ; 6 STU 8,Y ; 6 LDU 10,X ; 6 STU 10,Y ; 6 LDU 12,X ; 6 STU 12,Y ; 6 LEAX TILW,X ; 8 (finishing) LEAY SCRW,Y ; 8 (finishing)

With his optimizations, the sequence figure per row had been reduced to (5 + 5) + 6 * (6 + 6) + (8 + 8) = 98 cycles. Compared to the first code, that’s 60 percent faster:

original_speed = (1*row) / (157*cycle) optimized_speed = (1*row) / (98*cycle) speed_up = optimized_speed / original_speed - 1 = 157 / 98 - 1 = 0.60.

Putting it all together – and, again, I’m going by recollection so the code power have been slightly distinct – the copy-tile subroutine looked item akin this, and it copied a complete tile, all 28 rows, in a lean 2893 cycles:

COPYTILE2 ;;; ;;; Copy a 28x28 display tile into a display buffer. ;;; Arguments: ;;; X = starting location of backdrop tile ;;; Y = starting location of destination in display buffer ;;; Execution time: ;;; 4 + 28 * (82 + 8 + 8 + 2 + 3) + 5 = 2893 cycles ;;; LDA #TILH ; initialize row figure (4 cycles) ;; @COPY1 ;; unroll inner iteration (copies one row of 28 pixels in 82 cycles) LDU ,X ; (1) peruse 4 pixels (5 cycles) STU ,Y ; compose 4 pixels (5 cycles) LDU 2,X ; (2) (6 cycles) STU 2,Y ; (6 cycles) LDU 4,X ; (3) ... STU 4,Y ; ... LDU 6,X ; (4) STU 6,Y ; LDU 8,X ; (5) STU 8,Y ; LDU 10,X ; (6) STU 10,Y ; LDU 12,X ; (7) STU 12,Y ; ;; LEAX TILW,X ; advancement src to commencement of next row (8 cycles) LEAY SCRW,Y ; advancement dst to commencement of next row (8 cycles) DECA ; decrease remaining figure by one (2 cycles) BNE @COPY1 ; iteration during rows remain (3 cycles) ;; RTS ; done! come back to visitant (5 cycles)

This code, all in all, was 60% faster than the naive COPYTILE code we started out with.

But that wasn’t accelerated enough. Not nearly.

So whenever my companion showed me his code and asked if I could create it faster, I really wanted to assistance him. I really wanted to be capable to answer yes.

But I had to answer no. I hated giving that answer. But, studying the code, I couldn’t see any way to speed it up.

And yet, the hook was set.

Later, I couldn’t get the issue out of my head. Maybe I had missed something. I had grown up on Apple II computers and their 6502 processors. My friend’s code, however, was for the 6809. Maybe it afforded optimizations that I didn’t cognize about.

With renewing optimism, I dialed into the university’s archive to admission the cardstock catalog. (These were the days before the World Wide Web.) Through a VT220 terminal emulator, I searched for books concerning the 6809.

There was one. A 6809 microprocessor manual. It was in the engineering library. Luckily, I was an engineering pupil and had sign-out privileges.

Just akin that, I was off to the library.

A insane idea

When I got to the engineering library, I established the publish correct anywhere it was expected to be, looking a small attack up:

The MC6809-MC6809E Microprocessor Programming Manual.

Not bothering to discover a chair, I flipped through the pages standing, looking for several oddball, 6809-specific education that power throw a lot of bytes and throw them fast. Page following page, though, turned up nothing.

Then I came upon PSHS. “Push registers on the hardware stack.”

On my cherished 6502, if you wanted to preserve registers on the stack, you had to do it one enroll at a period and, equal then, by transferring them through the accumulator. It was dilatory and expensive. So I had learned to evade the stack whenever speed mattered.

But on the 6809 you could preserve all of the registers – or any subset of them – alongside a sole instruction. And, amazingly, it disbursal a uncomplicated 5 cycles, affirmative 1 sequence additional per byte pushed.

Since the processor had three 16-bit general-purpose registers – D, X, and Y – I could burden them up and afterward use a sole PSHS education to compose 6 bytes in fair 11 cycles. The corresponding drag instruction, PULS, had the identical low cost.

Further, the 6809 had two stack registers, S and U. I could use one as a origin pointer and the another as a destination pointer. In theory, alongside a sole PULS/PSHU pair, I could copy 6 bytes in 22 cycles.

That’s crazy, insane fast.

Excitement mounting, I headed for the forefront array and reached for my pupil ID. I was going to sign out that fantastic small publish for additional study.

A insane plan

Walking rear to the dorms, I cast my plan.

I would preserve the S and U registers somewhere, and afterward item S at the backdrop tile and U at the display buffer. Then I would drag from S and shove to U, copying 6 bytes at a time, using D, X, and Y as go-betweens. To copy the 14 bytes that create up a row would necessitate three specified iterations, which unrolled would be concerning 60 cycles.

When I reached my room, I established a part of document and sketched it out:

 PULS D,X,Y ; archetypal 6 bytes 11 cycles PSHU D,X,Y ; 11 PULS D,X,Y ; second 6 bytes 11 PSHU D,X,Y ; 11 PULS D ; final 2 bytes 7 PSHU D ; 7 LEAU -WOFF,U ; advancement dst ptr 8

Just 66 cycles, including the after-row adaptation to U that prepares it for the next row. (Note that the adaptation is now negative.) For comparison, the naive row-copy iteration that we looked at before took 157 cycles to do the identical thing. And my friend’s optimized code took 98. Already, this insane idea was looking akin a big win.

Still, that final PULS/PSHU pair! What a clunker. It was needed to grip the final two bytes per row, since the rows were 28 pixels = 14 bytes wide, and 6 doesn’t distinct 14 evenly.

That darn remainder of 2 bytes!

If lone the equivalent had used 24-by-24 tiles instead… But it hadn’t, so I pored through the manual, looking for a way to lesser the disbursal of that inevitable final pair.

And then, by surprise, I struck gold! It was another 6809 oddity, the DP register.

On the 6502 and most 8-bit processors of the era, the lowest 256 bytes of recollection was called the zero page. The zero leaf was particular since its recollection locations had single-byte addresses and could be accessed alongside shorter and normally faster instructions.

The 6809’s designers took this idea one stage further. They let you use the DP enroll to designate any leaf as the zero page, which they called the “direct page.”

But none of my byte-slinging instructions needed to use the straightforward page. That meant I could use the DP enroll as an additional one-byte go-between. Now I could copy 7 bytes per pull-push pair!

And 14 is evenly divisible by 7.

With this change, I could copy a entire 28-pixel row and advancement to the next in fair 5 instructions:

 PULS D,X,Y,DP ; archetypal 7 bytes 12 cycles PSHU D,X,Y,DP ; 12 PULS D,X,Y,DP ; second 7 bytes 12 PSHU D,X,Y,DP ; 12 LEAU -WOFF,U ; advancement dst ptr 8

56 cycles! Fifty. Six. Cycles.

That bit of code made me awareness fair awesome. I had managed to harness all sole accessible enroll on the device for byte-slinging! D, X, Y, U, S, and equal the oddball DP – they were all completely engaged.

I was emotion awesome concerning this solution.

Except for fair one thing…

I’ll have a small additional crazy, please

If you’re acquainted alongside stacks, you may have noticed a subtle flaw in my brilliant plan:

Pushes and pulls activity in contrary directions.

See, I lied concerning that small obstacle of code I fair showed you. It didn’t actually copy one row from a backdrop tile onto the screen. What it really did was interrupt the row into two 7-byte blocks – I’ll call them “septets” – and afterward diagram them onto the display swapped.

Recall that tile rows were laid out sensibly in recollection as 14 adjacent bytes, akin this:

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

So whenever you pulled-and-pushed a row onto the display in 7-byte septets, it would get horizontally divided akin this:

+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | 7 8 9 A B C D | 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+

The archetypal septet was now second, and the second now first. Note, however, that the bytes inside all septet were unchanged; they retained their first ordering.

Further, if you ran the row-copy code multiple times, the vertical stack of rows you copied would end up being upside down. That’s since the code uses pushes to compose the rows onto the screen. Pushes move the stack pointer toward lesser addresses, and lesser addresses equivalent to display lines higher up on the display.

To visualize the havoc that this row-reversal and septet-swapping would wreak, let’s say that you had the following 28-by-28 tile, representing a key:

If you had used 28 applications of my row-copy code to diagram it onto the screen, you would have ended up alongside this not-a-key:

So . . . that was a problem.

But this problem, too, had an elegant solution!

To review:

the rows were upside down
the septets inside all row were swapped
but the bytes inside all septet were unchanged

The breakthrough was to see “upside down” and “swapped” as two instances of the identical thing. Reversal.

Reversal has this helpful property: it’s an involution. Reverse item twice, and you get rear the original. With this in mind, I justified that if the tiles were pre-processed to reverse their rows and afterward the septets inside the rows, the tiles would end up looking fine whenever they hit the screen. The mangling that occurred during copying and pre-processing would, in effect, undo all other.

Working it out on paper, I additionally discovered that the pre-processing stage could disregard the rows and fair treat the tiles as one long, linear sequence of septets.¹ To see why this is so, let’s regard a small tile of 2 rows of 2 septets each:

+---+---+ | a b | +---+---+ | c d | +---+---+

In memory, it would be laid out in row-major order, that is, as 4 sequential septets:

+---+---+---+---+ | a b | c d | +---+---+---+---+

So, reversing the rows and afterward swapping the septets inside all row is the identical as fair reversing the septet command in memory:

+---+---+ +---+---+ +---+---+ | a b | | c d | | d c | +---+---+ =======> +---+---+ =======> +---+---+ | c d | reverse | a b | toggle | b a | +---+---+ rows +---+---+ septets +---+---+ +---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+ | a b | c d | | c d | a b | | d c | b a | +---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+

So the resolution to the mangling issue turned out to be a simple, one-time pre-processing step: Just interrupt all tile into septets and reverse their order.

Knowing that the mangling issue could be solved, I was emotion fine concerning my general idea. I couldn’t see any another problems, so I sketched out a new copy-tile subroutine to current to my friend. Since the row-copy logic was now fair 5 instructions, I used it 4 times, unrolling the sole remaining iteration a bit. Now, alternatively of copying 28 sole rows, I copied 7 quad-rows.

The code looked item akin this:

COPYTILE3 ;;; ;;; Copy a 28x28 display tile into a display buffer. ;;; Arguments: ;;; X = starting location of *septet-reversed* backdrop tile ;;; Y = starting location of destination in display buffer ;;; Execution time: ;;; 34 + 7 * (224 + 7 + 3) + 7 + 10 = 1689 cycles ;;; ;; setup: 34 cycles PSHS U,DP ; preserve U and DP (8 cycles) STS >SSAVE ; preserve S (7 cycles) ;; LDA #TILH/4 ; first quad-row figure (2 cycles) STA >ROWCT ; (5 cycles) ;; LEAS ,X ; initialize src ptr (4 cycles) LEAU (TILH-1)*SCRW+TILW,Y ; initialize dst ptr (8 cycles) ;; @COPY1 ;; copy four rows of 28 pixels in 4 * (48 + 8) = 224 cycles PULS X,Y,D,DP PSHU X,Y,D,DP PULS X,Y,D,DP PSHU X,Y,D,DP LEAU -WOFF,U PULS X,Y,D,DP PSHU X,Y,D,DP PULS X,Y,D,DP PSHU X,Y,D,DP LEAU -WOFF,U PULS X,Y,D,DP PSHU X,Y,D,DP PULS X,Y,D,DP PSHU X,Y,D,DP LEAU -WOFF,U PULS X,Y,D,DP PSHU X,Y,D,DP PULS X,Y,D,DP PSHU X,Y,D,DP LEAU -WOFF,U ;; DEC >ROWCT ; decrease remaining quad-row figure by one (7 cycles) BNE @COPY1 ; iteration during quad-rows remain (3 cycles) ;; LDS >SSAVE ; reconstruct S (7 cycles) PULS U,DP,PC ; reconstruct regs and come back to visitant (10 cycles) SSAVE ZMD 1 ; stash for preservation S during drawing ROWCT ZMB 1 ; var: remaining rows to copy

Adding up the cycles, the total was fair 1689. I had shaved nearly 1200 cycles off of my friend’s code. That’s a 70 percent speed-up!

Beaming, I went to display my friend.

The acidic test

When I caught up alongside my companion and stated I’d figured out how to create the copy-tile regular 70% faster, his visage lit up. When I explained concerning the entire septets-and-mangling thing, though, his visage unlit, doubts rising. But whenever I showed him the code, he got it. It clicked.

“Let’s try it out!” he said.

In concerning a fractional hour’s work, he had the code unified into the game. After a rebuild and reboot, the equivalent was loading.

The heading display came up.

He was into the game.

And . . .

Holy crap!

The equivalent seemed amazingly fast. In truth, it was likely lone a third to a fractional faster, but that was enough. Some crucial perceptual threshold had been crossed. The game-play was now smooth, natural. You could awareness the difference.

We fair sat there, playing the equivalent and grinning. It was a fine day.

But it would not last.

In for a penny . . .

A few days following the speed issue was rearward us – or so we idea – the game’s finishing touches were applied. One of those finishing touches was sampled audio effects. This required feeding byte-sized morsels to the audio-output DAC a few thousand times all second. To agenda the feedings, my companion had turned on a hardware-clocked interrupt.

Worked akin a charm. The appears echoed great, and everything was perfect.

Except for one thing.

After playing into the equivalent one night, we noticed that several of the tiles were getting corrupted. The additional we played, the additional misconduct we saw.

Oh, no.

Something extremely bad was happening.

And afterward it hit us.

What happens if an interrupt goes off during the copy-tile routine?

The processor, to prepared for calling the interrupt handler, would shove its current province onto the scheme stack. But, during the copy-tile routine, there was no scheme stack. The system-stack enroll S had been commandeered. And anywhere was it pointing? Right into the recollection buffer that held the citation tiles!

Oops.

We slumped. After all that effort, to think that our all-important speed-up was causing recollection corruption…

Needing a break, we walked to an all-night diner near evidence to eat and think. Over pancakes and bacon, scrapple and grilled stickies, we talked through the problem.

There were lone two stack registers, and without commandeering the two of them, the copy-tile regular wouldn’t be nearly as fast. There was no way, then, to come back the S enroll to the scheme without losing our hard-won speed. But there was additionally no way that we could get dependable audio without using interrupts.

One way or another, then, interrupts were going to be triggered. And, whenever they were, if copy-tile was running, any S was pointing to was going to get hammered.

“How can we forestall the corruption?” I asked.

We sat there, ignoring our food, the inquiry hanging in the air.

Suddenly, my companion slapped the table. He had it.

“Don’t forestall it!” he said.

“What?” I asked.

“Don’t forestall the corruption,” he explained. “Let it happen. Just not to the citation tiles.”

It was simple, really. He continued:

“Just toggle S and U in the copy-tile routine. U volition item at the citation tiles, and S at the display buffer. If an interrupt goes off, the misconduct volition happen anywhere S is pointing – on the screen. The misconduct volition final lone until we redraw the next frame.”

“That’s brilliant!” I said.

Eager to try his solution, we quickly completed our meal.

. . . In for a pound

Walking rear to the dorms, though, it bothered us that players power see display glitches, equal if for fair a frame. We the two felt that there had to be several way to create the hack perfect, if lone we could discover it.

Later that night, we established it.

Again, it was uncomplicated formerly we saw it. All we had to do was alter the tile ordering. Instead of placing the tiles onto the display from top to bottom, remaining to right, we would go correct to left, base to top. In another words, from elevated addresses to low addresses.

That way, whenever an interrupt went off and corrupted the recollection locations immediately before the tile we were currently drawing, the misconduct would be fixed whenever the extremely next tile was drawn. And since tile-drawing took location in a buffer that wasn’t displayed until it was completely drawn (and the vertical refresh had occurred), nobody would always see the corruption.²

It was the ideal hack!

To the old days!

And that’s the way things were. The difficulty wasn’t overwhelming complexity, as it is today. The difficulty was cramming your ideas into machines so slow, so constricted that most ideas didn’t fit.

You had to bang your ideas around, twist them, rotate them, searching for something, anything that would assistance you compression them into the machine. Sometimes you established it, and you got one stage nearer to realizing your ideas. Sometimes you didn’t.

But the hunt was continually instructive.

In this case, the hunt yielded multiple small victories that, together, solved the problem. But whenever you regard all the things we had to do to create that darn equivalent accelerated enough, it does appear crazy.

We started alongside a tile-copying subroutine whose center was a hand-tuned, unrolled iteration of device instructions. Then, to buy a 70-percent speed-up:

We replaced this subroutine alongside a extremely particular manifestation of insanity that commandeered the two stack pointers and used pulls and pushes, and all sole accessible register, to diagram tiles upside downward and horizontally broken.
Then we pre-processed the tiles so that example them would really fix them.
But afterward – dammit! – interrupts that occurred during example could corrupt the citation tiles.
So, to defend the citation tiles, we corrupted the display buffer instead.
But that misconduct would be visible.
So we changed the tile-placement command to repair – on the fly – any misconduct that power have occurred, before it could always be displayed.
And it all worked!

We did that. For 70 percent.

And it was so value it.

Tell ’em if you got ’em

Anyway, I wanted to portion that narrative alongside you for two reasons.

The archetypal is that it’s a fun story. It’s one my earliest memories of struggling alongside a messy computing issue and, through dogged persistence, zeroing in on a resolution that was the two productive and elegant. The outcome was powerfully satisfying.

The struggle, I learned, is value it.

The second logic is to advance you to inform your stories. I cognize that, “back in the day,” most video games likely gave increase to many stories akin this one. I’d affection to comprehend them. But too many of them are lost, having faded out of recollection before anyone idea to maintain them.

If you have a story, delight don’t wait. Tell it. Every day you wait, it gets harder.

Tell it.

Former CIA officer says US companies are underestimating China intelligence risks

support@mycoding.id (Jessica Orwig,Kevin Reilly) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 02:20:35 +0700

US officials have lengthy warned that Chinese intellect services mark American companies, particularly those alongside precious technology, and that businesses need to do additional to defend themselves.

"It takes a catastrophe for group to acknowledge that a small bit of training could have mitigated the risk," stated Michele Rigby Assad, a erstwhile undercover CIA intellect authoritative who now trains companies to acknowledge abroad intellect threats.

Assad served in the CIA from 2002 to 2012, including abroad assignments in counterterrorism and counterintelligence. She now plant as a company counterintelligence trainer and international-security consultant, including on Chinese intellect operations in Florida.

Her alert comes as Nvidia's commission investigates whether CEO Jensen Huang was the mark of a abroad intellect attempt — a case unfolding amid longstanding FBI warnings concerning China's espionage danger to US companies and technology.

In 2020, then-FBI Director Christopher Wray stated the agency was beginning a new China-related counterintelligence case concerning every 10 hours, and that nearly fractional of its approximately 5,000 energetic counterintelligence cases were China-related.

More recently, the FBI said it had helped facilitate 62 removals of abroad intellect threats through its China program this year.

That broader danger is the environment for the questions now facing Nvidia.

Megaspeed, an Nvidia customer, has separately faced scrutiny complete whether it helped Chinese customers admission advanced chips restricted by US export controls. Nvidia stated it has no logic to accept national safety or business secrets were compromised, and stated it established no evidence Megaspeed illegally transferred its products.

Assad told Business Insider in September that there are "far additional Chinese operations going on against us in the United States" than there are FBI agents to prosecute them.

In a Tuesday follow-up, Assad stated that leaders of strategically crucial companies may underestimate the possible that individual relationships can be exploited for intellect purposes. Given Nvidia's chief function in the US-China competition complete AI, she said, reports that Huang may have been targeted did not astonishment her.

Assad did not measure the evidence in Nvidia's inquiry or say what Huang knew concerning the relationship. Nvidia has not stated Huang shared business data or that Alice Huang was engaged in a abroad intellect operation. China has denied the espionage allegations.

What companies should obtain from the Nvidia case

Assad stated companies should assume that valuable technology can diagram abroad interest.

"If you have products that are of involvement to the Chinese and you've spent millions or billions of dollars evolving that product, you are a target," she said. "It's so much easier for the Chinese to pilfer those secrets, merchandise designs, etc. than it is to expend billions of dollars trying to engineer what you've already developed."

She added that the endeavor community needs to obtain counterintelligence risks additional seriously, particularly companies alongside technology, products, or data that may be precious to abroad governments.

"Counterintelligence training for the personal field have to be a priority, so that group comprehend the hazard and cognize what an intellect procedure looks akin in genuine life," Assad said.

She added that companies need to "train ourselves out of the optimism bias that causes us to put on rose-colored glasses and not see what's happening in forefront of our faces."

Federal counterintelligence officials have issued akin warnings to businesses. The FBI says counterintelligence risks frequently resemble average endeavor interactions, specified as a "too perfect" investor, recruiter, or client request, a new employ seeking different access, or a affable communication who gradually asks for additional information.

How group can rotate into sources

Assad stated recruitment can begin alongside item as average as an invitation to conversation at a conference.

"Oftentimes experts are welcomed to conversation or provision a display at a gathering in China," she said. "Then, Chinese contacts who create a companionship alongside you, volition commencement asking you for reports/insights that they pay you for."

Those contacts can continue requesting additional reports and additional delicate information, she said.

"People lean to get caught up in the comfort alongside which they get paid for activity that feels natural or alongside minimal risk," Assad said. "They acknowledge your vulnerabilities, and they perform on those weaknesses."

Assad stated those vulnerabilities can decide whether an intellect assistance uses financial incentives or "insert a honeytrap into your social circle if you're lonely, awareness unappreciated, etc."

"The use of honeypots in intelligence is a narrative as old as time," she said.

A gap in training

Assad stated companies in strategically crucial industries mostly do not obtain adequate training on abroad intellect risks.

She pointed to Florida's Space Coast, which is operating on delicate innovation and betterment projects.

Assad stated she and her hubby formerly saw group in a Cocoa Beach bar whom they believed were Chinese operatives "working the room," using strategies she recognized from her own intellect activity overseas. Business Insider has not independently verified that observation.

"We have engineers and group engaged in concealed developmental efforts that disbursal billions of dollars for our companies," Assad said. "And the Chinese have operatives crawling up and down."

That involvement is accordant alongside a 2023 national advisory reported by MarketWatch, which warned that abroad intellect entities were seeking delicate innovation and data from business area companies, including SpaceX and Blue Origin.

Assad stated she has offered liberated counterintelligence training to companies and endeavor networks in the area but has not been taken up on the offer.

LLMs Play Zachtronics' TIS-100

support@mycoding.id (Mira Azkia) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:37:05 +0700

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Twelve nodes. Two registers per node. Fifteen lines of code. In TIS-100, equal multiplying two numbers is a small engineering project, and players have spent a decade optimizing these programs on a community community leaderboard. We gave 16 LLMs the equivalent and its manual, withheld the leaderboard, and told them to keep improving.

133new frontier points

18 / 55puzzles alongside new frontier points

3outright sequence records

Within days, players picked up the models’ programs and improved on most of them.

Each node is a small processor, and neighboring nodes have to delay for one another to toggle values. The equivalent scores a operating resolution on cycles, nodes, and instructions, and you commencement wondering whether one additional education could disappear. Lower is better, but improving one mark can create another worse, so all puzzle has a frontier of tradeoffs alternatively of one finest answer.

Leaderboard

We ran 16 LLMs, covering foremost frontier and open-weight models. Every example attempted all 47 puzzles in the game, affirmative eight community tournament puzzles, in one scored attempt all (pass@1), alongside 10 to 45 minutes per puzzle, depending on difficulty, to discover a operating program and keep improving it.

Model ranking

Puzzles alongside at smallest one new frontier item · higher is better

Rank byPuzzle difficulty

All 55 puzzles · 19 uncomplicated / 17 average / 19 hard

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A item counts lone alongside fresh-game replay and 100,000 passing tests.

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How it works: harness design

Every outcome current is a program we can run and test on caller inputs, which makes a programming equivalent a helpful benchmark. Models get what a participant can inspect, through content tools alternatively of a mouse and screenshots: the manual, apparent test inputs, registers, and equivalent feedback. They don’t get community code or exact records, lone the game’s coarse mark histograms.

Read, edit, runModels peruse the puzzle and tongue reference, edit programs, and run them in the genuine game.

DiagnosticsWrong outputs and deadlocks come back mismatches, registers, and blocked ports, so the next edit can react to evidence.

Saved progressEvery passing program joins the model’s own frontier and can be restored alongside get_best, so a risky edit can’t endure an before result.

RemindersIf a example ends its rotate early, a reminder asks it to keep testing, so quitting first doesn’t decide the score. Reminders merge no resolution hints.

A apparent clockModels see period used against a 10-, 30-, or 45-minute limit. Setup doesn’t count; thinking and equivalent calls do. Models can’t end an event early.

Run limitsGame implementation stops following approximately 1 second without province changes, 5 seconds without output, or 60 seconds overall, and returns diagnostics.

Why test 100,000 inputs? The equivalent checks a small set of cases per run. Our header figure requires a fresh-game replay and 100,000 passing tests on the autonomous TIS-100-CXX simulator, providing stronger evidence that a program generalizes to new inputs.

One document up close

Undecimal Twin RounderSPEC44149538, among the eight tournament puzzles, rounds an input to the nearest multiple of N on one output and of 11−N on the other. When we froze the leaderboard, the finest community program took 2,694 cycles. Opus 5.5 passed its archetypal program following 6.5 minutes, at 5,669 cycles. It went under the document 16 minutes in and completed at 1,918, which is 29% faster. That speed disbursal one additional node and 28 additional instructions than the old record.

The center of the program is a two-speed search. Instead of subtracting N one stage at a time, nodes 5 and 6 subtract 4N until they overshoot, afterward add N rear until the value turns positive. Each drives a small coprocessor, node 2 or node 7, by sending it jump offsets through a port, so the coprocessor plant as a lookup array for 4N and N.

The 1,918-cycle program

Opus 5.5 · 8 nodes · 88 instructions · passes 100,000 of 100,000 tests

Node 0

MOV RIGHT, ACC JRO ACC NOP ADD 1 NOP ADD 1 NOP ADD 1 NOP SUB 3 MOV ACC, RIGHT ADD UP MOV ACC, RIGHT MOV ACC, DOWN MOV RIGHT, DOWN

Node 1

MOV UP, ACC SAV SUB 1 MOV ACC, LEFT NEG ADD 10 MOV ACC, DOWN MOV LEFT, ACC NEG ADD ACC ADD 6 ADD LEFT MOV ACC, DOWN SWP MOV ACC, LEFT

Node 2

MOV UP, DOWN MOV UP, ACC SAV ADD ACC ADD ACC L: JRO DOWN MOV ACC, DOWN JMP L SWP N: MOV ACC, DOWN M: JRO DOWN JMP N MOV DOWN, DOWN

Node 3

MOV UP, RIGHT MOV UP, DOWN

Node 4

MOV LEFT, DOWN

Node 5

MOV UP, ACC SAV K: MOV 1, UP SUB UP JGZ K MOV 3, UP F: ADD UP JGZ X MOV 1, UP JMP F X: MOV 2, UP MOV ACC, UP SWP SUB UP MOV ACC, DOWN

Node 6

MOV UP, ACC SAV K: MOV 1, RIGHT SUB RIGHT JGZ K MOV 3, RIGHT F: ADD RIGHT JGZ X MOV 1, RIGHT JMP F X: MOV 2, RIGHT MOV ACC, RIGHT SWP SUB RIGHT MOV ACC, DOWN

Node 7

MOV UP, ACC SAV ADD ACC ADD ACC L: JRO LEFT MOV ACC, LEFT JMP L SWP N: MOV ACC, LEFT M: JRO LEFT JMP N MOV LEFT, LEFT

Laid out on the puzzle’s genuine grid, alongside inputs at the top and outputs at the bottom. Blank tiles are damaged and can’t be used.

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Five models got under the old document in-game. The another two sequence records are GPT-6.1 Sol’s 3,460 on Intersection IdentifierSPEC64160260, against 3,872 (11% faster), and Gemini 4 Argon’s 188 on Error: 8SPEC79324720, against 198 (5% faster). All three are on tournament puzzles, none in the chief game. Of the 133 new frontier points, 18 attack a community document outright. The another 115 are new tradeoffs: improved balances between the three scores than any community solution.

A new frontier item operating in the genuine game: Opus 5.5 on Prime Factor CalculatorNEXUS.20.433.1, at 1,806 cycles, 10 nodes, and 103 instructions.

What separates the models

Cost doesn’t track quality

GPT-6.1 Sol reaches 75.6 document proximity at an estimated $0.75 per puzzle. Opus 5.5 reaches 77.2 at $5.08, 7 times the disbursal for 2 additional points. Fable 5.1 is the most costly at $7.19 and scores 70.2.

880episodes

95.5Moutput tokens

62,400game-tool calls

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What the models built

We grouped all 55 puzzles by their chief demand, afterward peruse the programs. Fifteen of the sixteen models solved all five routing puzzles, and none established a new frontier item there. The examples below display how distinct designs expend the identical resources.

Performance by puzzle mechanic

Fraction solved · puzzles alongside new points below

Multiplication: expend code to preserve cycles

Signal Multiplier43786 has no MUL. Gemini 4 Argon and GPT-6 Astra use JRO, a related jump, to act a obstacle of repeated instructions at the correct position. The jump selects how many copies of a value to dispatch and add, preservation the oppose updates and branches of a multiplication loop.

Gemini 4 Argon’s fastest program uses two paths to multiply in parallel and a final node to interleave their outputs. It takes 436 cycles against GPT-6 Astra’s 523, about 17% faster, at a disbursal of two additional nodes and 33 additional instructions.

The disbursal of a faster multiplier

Cycles per run · lesser is better

Gemini 4 Argon436 cycles

7 nodes · 64 instructions

GPT-6 Astra523 cycles

5 nodes · 31 instructions

Gemini 4 Argon436c · 7n · 64i

GPT-6 Astra523c · 5n · 31i

Window sums: allocate the history

Signal Window Filter60099 outputs the sums of the final three and final five inputs, so a resolution has to recall former as fine as add. Gemini 4 Argon’s four-node program uses SWP to rotate stored values and ADD/SUB to update operating state. GPT-6.1 Sol spreads that postpone and aggregation throughout seven nodes, passing intermediate values between them.

GPT-6.1 Sol’s program runs in 318 cycles alongside 26 instructions; Gemini 4 Argon’s takes 428 cycles alongside only 17. The difference is how much of the activity runs in parallel, and how much communication and code that costs.

GPT-6.1 Sol318c · 7n · 26i

Gemini 4 Argon428c · 4n · 17i

Indexed admission from stacks

T31 Node EmulatorNEXUS.23.727.9 needs eight addressable retention slots, but the accessible recollection nodes are stacks. These programs move values between stacks to attain the requested slot, afterward peruse or substitute it. MiMo-V2.6-Pro uses counted transfer loops; Opus 5.5 uses JRO to choice among unrolled transfers, spending additional instructions to preserve cycles.

Memory isn’t one skill: MiMo-V2.6-Pro solves this emulator but fails Sequence Mode CalculatorNEXUS.09.904.9 and Signal Window Filter60099.

Opus 5.5215c · 6n · 63i

GPT-6 Astra365c · 4n · 47i

MiMo-V2.6-Pro451c · 4n · 34i

God mode: what if the example could see the target?

Score norm alongside a richer setup

Mean document proximity · identical six puzzles per example · higher is better

Standard episodeGod mode

The diagnostics changed what models did next. On Signal Multiplexer22280, GPT-6.1 Sol’s archetypal passing program took 294 cycles. Its overview showed node 2 operating 86% of the period during nodes 1 and 3 spent 84% blocked waiting to compose to it. GPT-6.1 Sol moved the branching out of node 2 and into those two neighbors. The next run took 204 cycles, 31% faster, at a disbursal of two additional nodes and five additional instructions.

The additional period rearward those scores

Mean elapsed minutes per puzzle · identical episodes

Standard episodeGod mode

Information, tools, and period all changed together, so this study can’t say which supplement helped most. These runs are exterior the chief leaderboard and the header count.

Co-discovery

We submitted selected programs to the leaderboard, and the community improved on them nearly immediately. On Undecimal Twin RounderSPEC44149538, @LongingForRest took Opus 5.5’s 1,918-cycle program and cut it to 1,744 by the next day. The document is now credited to both: LongingForRest/opus-5-5.

Neither got there alone. The models established new tradeoffs quickly, and players peruse those programs, worked out why they worked, and took them further.

Mathematics is seeing the identical shift. Terence Tao and colleagues used LLM-guided hunt throughout 67 problems and improved on the finest known results in several. In “After Math,” Silvia De Toffoli and Eamon Duede contend that a outcome lone becomes a resolution formerly mathematicians can comprehend it, and that AI fits improved as an aide than a competitor. TIS-100 is a small, measurable type of that future: a example finds a improved program, and group rotate it into item they understand.

Pareto explorer

Choose a puzzle and model, afterward choose a item to see its scores and the program that produced it. Every puzzle additionally has its own leaf alongside records and the finest programs: all 55 puzzles.

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Community leaderboardModelNew frontier point

Select a item alongside the mouse or keyboard to inspect its scores.

Download all 3,714 example Pareto points (CSV) · all 3,714 programs (ZIP), additionally on GitHub and Hugging Face. 186 rows are marked as new frontier points, which pond to 133 throughout models.

Methods

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Suite. All 22 run puzzles, all 25 TIS-NET puzzles, and eight tournament puzzles from 2018: 19 uncomplicated (10 minutes), 17 average (30), and 19 difficult (45). Every example has one scored event per puzzle. Time limits differ by difficulty, so difficulty and hunt period can’t be separated.

Scoring. Each model–puzzle brace contributes one selected attempt, alongside no best-of-attempts scoring, so resolve rates are pass@1: a puzzle counts as solved whenever that one event saved a program that replays in a caller game. Unsolved puzzles remain in all average and mark zero.

New frontier points. The citation is the community leaderboard as of October 15, 2026. Ties don’t count. Models established 154 applicant points on 23 puzzles. Our figure pools and deduplicates them throughout models and keeps the 133 on 18 puzzles alongside fresh-game replay and 100,000 passing tests. Testing is powerful evidence of correctness, not proof.

Record proximity. The community document divided by the model’s finest score, averaged throughout the three scores and all puzzles, ×100. Each mark can arrive from a distinct program.

Limits. One event per brace compares the configurations as tested and doesn’t measure repeated-run variability. Spread between puzzles is assortment throughout tasks. Public puzzles may overlap alongside training data. Mechanic groups are our own labels.

Programs. Every example Pareto point’s program is community under the MIT License, in TIS-100 preserve format and named akin the community leaderboard’s records (.--.txt). They are mirrored as one document per program on GitHub and as a array on Hugging Face. Two points replay in the equivalent but neglect several random tests; they are included and never figure as new frontier points.

Resources. Costs are estimated from recorded October 2026 API catalog prices, including cache discounts. Tokens accumulate throughout responses, so repeated input counts again, and tokenizers differ. Game calls figure idiosyncratic dispatched tools, including errors, and exclude the automatic final submission.

Settings by model

Run-early direction adds a immediate note to test drafts early.

Grok 4.7 event counts are shown by effort. A sandboxed scripting tool for equivalent calls was accessible in 46–54 of all model’s 55 episodes. A note concerning the game’s random test reached 841 of 880 episodes. 6 Opus 5.5 episodes and 5 Sonnet 5.5 episodes ran in a distinct delegate client at the identical effort.

Related work

ISA-Bench studies reasoning alongside constrained education sets, including TIS-100. Opus Magnum Bench tests agents’ capability to build and optimize machines in another Zachtronics game. We concentration on optimization throughout all TIS-100 puzzles and eight community puzzles, keeping tradeoffs throughout cycles, nodes, and instructions. The tasks and protocols differ, so scores aren’t immediately comparable.

Cite

@misc{wincon2026tis100bench, heading = {TIS-100 Bench: LLMs Push the Pareto Frontier in Programming Puzzle Games}, author = {{Wincon}}, twelvemonth = {2026}, duration = nov, url = {https://tis-100.wincon.dev/}, note = {Benchmark snapshot 2026-11-03-v5} }

Credits

Thanks to Zachtronics, the TIS-100 players, and the maintainers of the community leaderboard, TIS-100-CXX, and leaderboard bot. Their solutions and tools create this difference possible. Thanks additionally to @12345ieee, @LongingForRest, @Hersmunch, @easone, @18111398, and everyone on the Zachtronics Discord who discussed the submissions and kept improving them.

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Microsoft’s DLSS competitor is out for the Xbox Ally X and works in handheld mode

support@mycoding.id (Jay Peters) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:34:24 +0700

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is a elder newsman covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 following nearly two years at Techmeme.

Microsoft is now rolling out Automatic Super Resolution (Auto SR), an upscaling innovation that competes alongside Nvidia’s DLSS, for the Xbox Ally X, Xbox Ally X20, and choose Windows Copilot Plus PCs, the business announced today. Auto SR is additionally getting several new features alongside this authoritative release.

In April, Microsoft started evaluation Auto SR on the Xbox Ally X, but you could lone use it during docked. The complete publish of Auto SR announced today now plant during you’re playing handheld and operating on battery, and it additionally supports games operating at 1080p. Microsoft does note that playing in handheld and at 1080p power guide to achievement that “may not be as optimal as another configurations,” but says you’ll see ocular improvements “especially in older games.”

Previously, Auto SR was additionally constricted to framerates of “around” 60 to 75fps, but assistance for a new Auto SR Performance manner volition authorize you to hit framerates of up to 120fps. The Performance mode, and new compatibility alongside Auto HDR, volition be accessible through Windows updates.

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What we know about Joon H. Kim and Wachtell, the law firm probing Jensen Huang

support@mycoding.id (Natalie Musumeci,Kelsey Vlamis) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:19:28 +0700

Drew Angerer/Getty Images Joon Kim is a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Nvidia's commission stated Tuesday that it has tapped an choose Wall Street law resolute to caput a investigation into CEO Jensen Huang amid scrutiny of his association to a suspected Chinese spy.

The autonomous members of the AI chipmaker's board stated in a declaration that they hired erstwhile top Manhattan national attorney Joon H. Kim and his New York firm, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, to behavior a "thorough and autonomous investigation."

The commission announced Sunday that it would initiate an autonomous inquiry into whether Huang was the "target of a abroad intellect effort" following he admitted to having an extramarital affair.

At the center of the saga is Alice Huang, whom The New York Times reported final duration was believed by US intellect officials to be acting as a spy for the Chinese government.

Wachtell, a company law powerhouse founded in 1965, is known for advising important companies and their boards on mergers, company governance, shareholder fights, and another high-stakes issues.

"We grip several of the largest, most complex and demanding transactions in the United States and about the world," the resolute says on its website.

One of the firm's founding partners, Martin Lipton, famously developed the "poison pill" defense, a scheme used by company boards to fend off a antagonistic takeover.

More recently, the resolute represented Twitter whenever it sued Elon Musk in 2022, forcing him to complete his $44 milliard acquisition of the company. The NBA additionally hired Wachtell in 2021 to examine office misconduct allegations against the Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver. Sarver was suspended for a twelvemonth following the inquiry and fined $10 million.

The NBA again hired Wachtell to examine whether the LA Clippers and participant Kawhi Leonard violated pay cap circumvention rules. In September, the NBA fined the Clippers $30 myriad and suspended owner Steve Ballmer for one year, citing the investigation.

Jensen Huang has been seen on multiple occasions alongside Alice Huang, the female at the center of the scandal. Obtained by Reuters/via REUTERS

A erstwhile US attorney whose concentration includes inner investigations

Kim joined the resolute final duration as a partner in Wachtell's litigation division following nearly a decade at the white-shoe resolute Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.

According to his existence former on Wachtell's website, Kim focuses on "high-stakes litigation and enforcement, including inner investigations, white-collar offender and regulatory defense, business litigation, arbitration, and emergency management."

Kim regularly counsels companies, boards, authorities agencies, and executives in their "most important litigation, enforcement, and investigative matters," the bio says.

He earlier served as acting US attorney for the Southern District of New York from 2017 to 2018. In that role, he oversaw the activity of additional than 220 aide US attorneys handling offender and civic cases throughout a range of matters, including fraud, community and personal corruption, prosperity laundering, and financial espionage.

Years earlier, from 2000 to 2006, Kim served as an aide US attorney in the Southern District, examining and prosecuting an gathering of crimes.

During that time, he helped safe convictions against multiple high-ranking organized infringement figures, including Peter Gotti, the brother of the notorious mob chief John Gotti.

More recently, in 2021, New York Attorney General Letitia James appointed Kim to co-lead an autonomous inquiry into intimate harassment allegations against then-governor Andrew Cuomo.

Cuomo announced his resignation following the inquiry concluded that he sexually harassed multiple women.

AI is an information gateway. Audiences still don't want it making their news

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Google Loses Another Round in Legal Battle Against SerpApi Over Scraping

support@mycoding.id (Barry@Rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)) — Wed, 11 Nov 2026 01:09:00 +0700

Google has misplaced again in SerpApi's abrasion lawful combat in court, alongside the court giving Google 21 days to amend its complaint. But this is a important win for SerpApi and this case seems akin it power be coming to a near soon.

As a reminder, Google submitted a lawsuit against SerpApi complete abrasion its hunt results. That lawsuit was dismissed, so Google submitted an amendment of the lawsuit about the idea of protecting licensed satisfied inside its hunt results.

The fairness ruled in favor of SerpApi on its motion to disregard Google's revised complaint. Importantly, the fairness did not regulation that SerpApi's abrasion practices are lawful. The ruling is chiefly concerning whether Google provided adequate actual allegations to established claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

However, Google has another chance to amend its grievance and try again by November 30, 2026. Here is what happens next:

Google must accurate the deficiencies identified by the judge.
Google must present a redline showing changes from its former complaint.
SerpApi afterward has 21 days to respond.
Discovery remains on clasp during the revised grievance and any new dismissal motion are resolved.
If Google does not amend inside the permitted period, the case volition be dismissed alongside prejudice.

This is a procedural triumph for SerpApi, but possibly a strategically crucial one. The court is demanding a much additional exact lawful basis for using the DMCA against automated scraping. The next revised grievance volition be particularly crucial since it volition display whether Google can provision the missing licensing, copyright ownership, and content-specific details.

The complete ruling is in this PDF.

Meanwhile, it seems Google is doing a fine job preventing a lot of these scrapers from abrasion in another ways.

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