OpenAI's new Spark model codes 15x faster than GPT-5.3-Codex - but there's a catch

OpenAI's new GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark promises ultra-fast, conversational AI coding, if you can tolerate a few trade-offs.
Daily Mail

NASA gives a glimpse inside Orion's cramped quarters where four astronauts will live for 10 days as they whizz around the moon - 'the smell would be intolerable!'

With the first launch window for Artemis II now just days away, NASA has shared a glimpse inside the cramped quarters of the Orion spacecraft. Four astronauts – Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina ...
IEEE

Modular Python Library for Simulations of Semiconductor Assembly and Test Process Equipment

Abstract: Increasing global demand has led to calls for better methods of process improvement for semiconductor wafer manufacturing. Of these methods, digital twins have emerged as a natural extension ...
GitHub

ryp: R inside Python

running R code inside Python quickly transferring huge datasets between Python (NumPy/pandas/polars) and R without writing to disk interactively working in both languages at the same time ...