TECHTOK

This repository is a collection of system message instructions for various publicly deployed chatbots. It allows contributors to share and discuss these prompts, which can be used to analyze chatbot behaviors, understand system limitations, and develop more transparent and accountable conversational AI.

Seelen UI is a powerful desktop environment for Windows that allows you to fully customize your workspace. It offers a tiling window manager, media player, app launcher, and an intuitive configuration interface, helping you boost productivity and personalize your computing experience.

Drawnix is an open-source, all-in-one whiteboard tool that allows users to create mind maps, flowcharts, and freehand drawings. Built on the Plait framework, it uses a plugin architecture to support multiple UI frameworks and rich text editors, enabling modular development and expansion of its features. Users can export their work to PNG and JSON, collaborate with others, and use the tool on mobile devices.

This comprehensive neural network course covers a wide range of topics, from the basics of backpropagation and language modeling to building complex models like GPT and WaveNet. The course uses Jupyter notebooks and YouTube videos to teach these concepts in a step-by-step, hands-on approach, allowing learners to gain a deep understanding of how neural networks work under the hood.

WhisperLiveKit is a powerful tool for real-time, fully local speech-to-text with speaker identification, powered by leading research. It overcomes the limitations of running a simple Whisper model by using advanced techniques for intelligent buffering and incremental processing, enabling live transcription, subtitling, and more.

Verifiers is a comprehensive library for building RL environments and training LLM agents. It offers modular components, support for large-scale training, and integration with various RL frameworks, enabling users to create custom environments, train agents, and evaluate LLMs.

MCP Toolbox for Databases is an open source server that simplifies building and deploying AI tools for database access. It handles complexities like connection pooling and authentication, allowing developers to integrate tools into AI agents quickly and reuse them across projects. Key use cases include natural language database querying, automated database management, and accelerated development through context-aware code generation.

Firecracker is an open-source virtualization technology that enables secure, multi-tenant, minimal-overhead execution of container and function workloads by using KVM to create lightweight virtual machines called microVMs, which provide the benefits of both hardware virtualization and containers.

Agent Reinforcement Trainer (ART) is an open-source RL framework that uses GRPO and RULER to train reliable agents for real-world tasks without reward engineering. It provides examples for training agents on a variety of games and tasks, demonstrating strong performance.

The Windows Terminal is an open-source, modern, and feature-rich terminal application for Windows that combines the Windows Console Host and shared components to provide an improved command-line experience with customizable themes, tabs, and integrations with various shells.

Instagram has successfully scaled its recommendation system to over 1000 ML models, addressing challenges around model management, deployment, and monitoring by implementing a model registry, automated model launch tooling, and model stability metrics to ensure reliability and quality without sacrificing innovation.

The 2025 Unity Gaming Report highlights how game developers are adapting to industry changes, such as new platforms, technologies, and player preferences, to create more engaging and innovative gaming experiences.

An architecture review board (ARB) is a multi-disciplinary team that reviews solution architectures to ensure compliance with enterprise guidelines, best practices, and supportability, helping organizations maintain compliance while accelerating implementation of initiatives, reducing costs, minimizing security events, and diminishing technical debt.

Google introduces Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, a new AI-powered image generation and editing tool that enables developers to create and customize images with just a prompt. The tool features an invisible SynthID digital watermark to identify AI-generated content and is now available through partnerships with OpenRouter.ai and fal.ai.

Anthropic introduces Claude for Chrome, a browser extension that integrates the Claude AI assistant directly into the Chrome browser. The company has implemented robust safety mitigations to address prompt injection attacks, reducing success rates significantly compared to previous capabilities.

The article provides a comprehensive analysis of the Apple M1 GPU, concluding the series on dissecting this advanced technology.

Monodraw is a powerful ASCII art editor that allows users to create intricate diagrams and illustrations using only text characters. With its intuitive interface and advanced features, Monodraw simplifies the process of creating complex, yet visually striking, ASCII art.

Nx, a popular build system package, has been compromised with malware that uses Claude code CLI to explore the filesystem and steal sensitive information like wallets and credentials.

Rv, a new Ruby management tool, offers a streamlined approach to managing Ruby environments and dependencies. By focusing on simplicity and user experience, Rv aims to enhance productivity for Ruby developers.

The Therac-25 incident involved a software-controlled radiation therapy device that caused multiple severe radiation overdoses, resulting in serious injuries and deaths. The root cause was a race condition in the software that allowed the beam to fire at full power if the operator typed too quickly. The incident highlights the importance of rigorous software testing and quality assurance processes, especially for safety-critical systems.

An F-35 pilot held a 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crashing the aircraft in Alaska. The incident highlights the complex relationship between pilots and engineers in modern fighter jets, as they work to troubleshoot issues in real-time during flights.

SpaceX's Starship Mars rocket nails its 10th critical test flight, deploying satellite simulators and reigniting its engine in space, despite sustaining damage during the violent reentry. This milestone brings the company closer to realizing its vision of using Starship to build out its Starlink satellite network and travel to distant destinations.