This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake. In April 2024, a mysterious someone using the online handles “Waifu” and “Judische” ...

Microsoft Excel remains one of the most in-demand skills across roles. From data analysis and business reporting to finance and operations, Excel sits at the center of business decision making. Its beginner friendly approach makes it so that one can learn it effortless, with ease. But basic ...

The AI industry is currently obsessed with ‘agents’—autonomous programs that do more than just chat. However, most current multi-agent systems rely on brittle, hard-coded heuristics that fail when the environment changes. Google DeepMind researchers have proposed a new solution. The research team ...

In this tutorial, we build a fully stateful personal tutor agent that moves beyond short-lived chat interactions and learns continuously over time. We design the system to persist user preferences, track weak learning areas, and selectively recall only relevant past context when responding. By ...

When he was just a teenager trying to decide what to do with his life, César de la Fuente compiled a list of the world’s biggest problems. He ranked them inversely by how much money governments were spending to solve them. Antimicrobial resistance topped the list.  Twenty years on, the problem has ...

The threats started in spring.  In April 2024, a mysterious someone using the online handles “Waifu” and “Judische” began posting death threats on Telegram and Discord channels aimed at a cybersecurity researcher named Allison Nixon.  “Alison Nixon is gonna get necklaced with a tire filled with ...

Moonshot AI has officially brought the power of OpenClaw framework directly to the browser. The newly rebranded Kimi Claw is now native to kimi.com, providing developers and data scientists with a persistent, 24/7 AI agent environment. This update moves the project from a local setup to a ...

PyCaret is an open-source, low-code machine learning library that simplifies and standardizes the end-to-end machine learning workflow. Instead of acting as a single AutoML algorithm, PyCaret functions as an experiment framework that wraps many popular machine learning libraries under a consistent ...

Artificial intelligence tools are evolving rapidly, but the real productivity gains don’t come from using one The real power of these tools comes from using them together. Google NotebookLM specializes in structured knowledge synthesis, helping users analyze curated sources, generate summaries, and ...

The landscape of generative audio is shifting toward efficiency. A new open-source contender, Kani-TTS-2, has been released by the team at nineninesix.ai. This model marks a departure from heavy, compute-expensive TTS systems. Instead, it treats audio as a language, delivering high-fidelity speech ...

OpenClaw is a self-hosted personal AI assistant that runs on your own devices and communicates through the apps you already use—such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord, and more. It can answer questions, automate tasks, interact with your files and services, and even speak or listen on supported ...

Suppose you want to locate a particular piece of information in a library that is the size of a city. This is a predicament that businesses have to deal with on a daily basis regarding their electronic data. They contain giant quantities of logs, documents, and user actions. Locating what is ...