An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry | EP #48

Good morning, it's Thursday. This is Guru's Tech Bytes, episode 48. Grab your coffee, make sure Windows didn't reboot itself overnight like it owns the place, and let's get through the tech news before some chatbot starts explaining triangles to your toaster. First up, an OpenAI model apparently disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry, which is the kind of sentence that makes me check if my high school math teacher still has my permanent record. The big deal is not just that AI found a fancy counterexample; it's that these systems are starting to poke at real research problems where humans have been stuck for years. Heh. Hhh, okay, that's something. I mean, I still need a calculator to split a dinner bill, but sure, the machine is out here fighting geometry. Second, GitHub confirmed a breach involving thirty-eight hundred repositories through a malicious VS Code extension. That's rough, because developers trust extensions the way my cousin trusts gas station sushi: with confidence, somehow, and against all available evidence. The lesson is boring but important, folks: review what your editor plugins can access, rotate exposed tokens fast, and remember that convenience is usually security wearing a fake mustache. Third, there's a great nerdy breakdown asking how fast N tokens per second really is. This matters because AI demos love bragging about speed, but ten tokens per second can feel quick for a chatbot and painfully slow for coding, search, or anything where you're waiting like Peter Griffin at the DMV. Latency, context size, batching, and the shape of the task all change the experience, so don't buy the speed number without asking what it actually feels like to use. And finally, Mozilla is saying goodbye to asm.js, one of those web technologies that helped bridge the old internet to the faster WebAssembly world we have now. It's a little like retiring the weird adapter cable in your drawer: you don't use it anymore, but without it, three computers, a printer, and one questionable college project never would have worked. The web keeps moving, and sometimes progress means thanking the old hack before you toss it in the junk drawer. That's your daily byte. Have a great day. Until next time.