📋 Log for 2026-04-13

😄 Joke of the Day

What do you call your friend who stands in a hole? Phil.

Category: dad


YouTube Summaries

[Recursion is a key concept in coding. Gavin explains it simply here.](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-jTrzdO-6i4)

Channel: freeCodeCamp.org

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Published: 2026-04-13T12:17:26+00:00


Latest OpenRouter Models

Qwen: Qwen3.7 Max (qwen/qwen3.7-max)

Qwen3.7-Max is the flagship model in Alibaba's Qwen3.7 series. It supports text input and output and is designed for agent-centric workloads, with particular strengths in coding, office and productivity tasks,...

Published: 21/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3.7-max


xAI: Grok Build 0.1 (x-ai/grok-build-0.1)

Grok Build 0.1 is xAI’s fast coding model trained specifically for agentic software engineering workflows. It supports text and image inputs with text output, and is optimized for interactive coding...

Published: 20/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/x-ai/grok-build-0.1


Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash (google/gemini-3.5-flash)

Gemini 3.5 Flash is Google's high-efficiency multimodal model, bringing near-Pro level coding and reasoning at Flash-tier cost and speed. It is highly optimized for coding proficiency and parallel agentic execution...

Published: 19/05/2026

https://openrouter.ai/google/gemini-3.5-flash


Free Models Catalog

Model Capabilities Publication Date
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Super (free) N/A 11/03/2026
MiniMax: MiniMax M2.5 (free) N/A 12/02/2026
Free Models Router N/A 01/02/2026
StepFun: Step 3.5 Flash (free) N/A 29/01/2026
Arcee AI: Trinity Large Preview (free) N/A 27/01/2026
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking (free) N/A 20/01/2026
LiquidAI: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct (free) N/A 20/01/2026
NVIDIA: Nemotron 3 Nano 30B A3B (free) N/A 14/12/2025
Arcee AI: Trinity Mini (free) N/A 01/12/2025

Elephant (openrouter/elephant-alpha)

Elephant Alpha is a 100B-parameter text model focused on intelligence efficiency, delivering strong reasoning performance while minimizing token usage. It supports a 256K context window with up to 32K output...

Published: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:56:38 GMT



Robot Technology

🤖 Versatile robot uses tracked flippers to traverse varying terrain

Disaster sites vary as widely as rescue missions. Using robotics to help often requires multiple robots to survey, climb, lift, or manipulate objects. Athena unites all these capabilities in a single, rugged, autonomous platform built for search and rescue. Continue Reading Category: Robotics , Engineering Tags: Technical University of Darmstadt , Disasters , Rescue

Source: newatlas.com • Published: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:30:00 GMT

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🤖 Video Friday: This Floor Lamp Will Do Your Chores

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2026 : 1–5 June 2026, VIENNA RSS 2026 : 13–17 July 2026, SYDNEY Summer School on Multi-Robot Systems : 29 July–4 August 2026, PRAGUE Enjoy today’s videos! Lume is a sculptural floor lamp designed to feel at home the moment you place it. It’s crafted ...

Source: spectrum.ieee.org • Published: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:00:01 +0000

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Good News

Unique Honeybees Found Only in Southern California Can Fend Off Deadly Varroa Mites

‘Southern California is home to a black-and-yellow flying treasure’, wrote scientists giddy over good news about bee populations—and our food supply. Commercial honeybee hives across the US have been collapsing for years, under attack from deadly parasites—but now a unique hybrid bee found only in the southern part of California has demonstrated the ability to […] The post Unique Honeybees Found Only in Southern California Can Fend Off Deadly Varroa Mites appeared first on Good News Networ...

Published: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:18:09 +0000

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Archaeologists Stumble Upon a Roman Villa When Expecting to Find Nothing at Their Project Site

Preparatory archaeology work at an English wind farm development site has turned up two incredible discoveries. The first was a Roman villa and bathhouse, and the second was a Neolithic burial mound. These were discovered by a team of archaeologists who fully believed they weren’t going to find anything. The team works for Headland Archaeology, […] The post Archaeologists Stumble Upon a Roman Villa When Expecting to Find Nothing at Their Project Site appeared first on Good News Netwo...

Published: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:00:54 +0000

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America’s Largest Rainforest Safe from Logging Thanks to Alaska Court Ruling

An Alaska district court judge has ruled against a coalition of logging interests looking to get their saws on Tongass National Forest’s old growth timber stands. As the nation’s largest national forest, and the world’s largest temperate rainforest, Tongass acts as a superb stronghold for many species, such as the bald eagle, sperm whale, Steller’s […] The post America’s Largest Rainforest Safe from Logging Thanks to Alaska Court Ruling appeared first on Good ...

Published: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:00:04 +0000

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April’s Lyrid Meteor Shower to Streak Across Moonless Sky for a Perfect Stargazing Show

With the Earth having welcomed the month of April with a full Moon, several celestial events will follow that promise to provide a perfect reason to get out into the shortening spring nights. Chief among these will be the opportunity to see the Lyrid meteor shower safe from the light of the Moon during the […] The post April’s Lyrid Meteor Shower to Streak Across Moonless Sky for a Perfect Stargazing Show appeared first on Good News Network .

Published: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:00:17 +0000

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‘King of the birds’ set to return to England’s skies

Golden eagles could soon be reintroduced to England, but the birds might arrive under their own steam first The post ‘King of the birds’ set to return to England’s skies appeared first on Positive News .

Published: Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:47:37 +0000

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