If you have ever stared at a misbehaving circuit at two in the morning, muttering about the "bug" you cannot find, you are part of a lineage that runs back to a very literal insect. On September 9, 1947, engineers working on Harvard's Mark II computer opened up the machine, found a moth wedged i...

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ACP vs AP2: the two AI-checkout protocols, and what your store actually has to build

A few weeks ago I wrote about describing your site once so any AI can use it. Since then the thing I was hand-waving at ("agents will check out for users") stopped being hypothetical. OpenAI shipped ACP and Google shipped AP2, and they solve the same problem in almost opposite ways.

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Australia news live: Wong pushes Chinese counterpart on submarine missile launch in face-to-face Manila meeting

Australia’s foreign affairs minister discussed the importance of peace in the Pacific at her meeting with Wang Yi in the wings of Asean. Follow today’s news live Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Christopher Pyne speculates that Barnaby Joyce could return to Nationals ...