Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

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Apple has announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips for AI performance and graphics. The Mac Studio offers up to 4.3x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and 1.8x faster graphics compared to previous models.

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

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Apple has introduced M6 and M5 Ultra chips in the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, offering significant performance gains and AI capabilities. The chips provide industry-leading power efficiency, enabling users to run demanding workloads with ease.

France's tax agency got hacked (in French)

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Don't Wordle

Don't Wordle is a free daily word game where you try to avoid guessing the hidden word. You get six tries, using green (correct letter), yellow (correct letter wrong place), and gray (incorrect letters) clues to eliminate possibilities.

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

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ModelScope——汇聚各领域先进的机器学习模型,提供模型探索体验、推理、训练、部署和应用的一站式服务。在这里,共建模型开源社区,发现、学习、定制和分享心仪的模型。

Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

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Apple has released the new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, offering improved performance and versatility in its compact design. The new models feature up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and graphics capabilities.

HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application

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The goal is to create a tiny executable with specific features, and users should be aware that the process may trigger virus scanners. The code can be built using either MASM32 or Yasm assembler.

iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Sign in with Apple addresses will shift from privaterelay.appleid.com to private.icloud.com later this year. Existing privaterelay.appleid.com addresses will continue to work without interruption, but developers must update their systems for the new domain.

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users

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OpenAI is restoring a 5-hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work for Plus subscribers, allowing users to wait for their limits to reset or purchase additional credits. The change aims to smooth out the load on compute resources and provide a better experience for casual users.

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Researchers reverse-engineered Paint and Photos to discover that they embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images. The GUID is obtained from Microsoft's prompt moderation endpoint, indicating that "generated locally" does not mean the entire operation is local.

Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Xiaomi's new CPU, Xring O3, matches Apple cores in single-threaded tasks and outperforms them in multithreaded execution. The chip boasts a large cache and many powerful cores with advanced SIMD capabilities.

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

Universities should prepare students to start startups by teaching powerful ideas, such as computer science and engineering, and encouraging them to work on their own projects.

SiFive's First Server Platform

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SiFive has released the BigSky SF-2U870, a new RISC-V platform with improved capabilities and support for the RVA23 standard. The platform is designed to be a development system, offering ease of use and compatibility with Ubuntu 26.04 out of the box.

The state of AI in 2026: On the road to ROI

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

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The EU's new packaging rules threaten makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs and innovation at risk. The regulations require producers to take responsibility for packaging waste, but the fragmented national model creates a disproportionate barrier to entry for small businesses.

What's new in Emacs 31.1

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Emacs 31.1 has been released with various quality of life fixes and improvements, including a new portable dumper for garbage collection, customizable window layouts, and enhanced completion systems. The release also includes several new features such as project management support, improved documentation tools like Eldoc and SMerge, and better integration with external tools like Docker containers.

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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FILL = CURRENT OWNER Z20 Z17 Z16 Z15GROUND FILE FULL COLUMN READY VISIBLE CORNERS LOADING WASD move · mouse look · Space jump · Shift run · C camera · H glider

Moon (2024)

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The Moon orbits the Earth, changing its position in the sky over time. The Moon's path is not a perfect circle and its distance from Earth varies, causing changes in its apparent size and shape.

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

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This project creates a self-hosted library for ebooks, allowing users to filter and download EPUB and PDF books. It can be deployed on Cloudflare or as a Node server over R2.

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

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Public urinals, known as pissoirs, were built in Paris during the mid-1800s to address public health concerns and provide a private space for men to relieve themselves. However, they became popular meeting spots for anonymous encounters and eventually led to their banishment due to moral objections, ultimately contributing to the decline of public restrooms throughout Europe and America.

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

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A randomized controlled trial investigated the effects of twice-daily peppermint oil supplementation on systolic blood pressure and related health indicators in individuals with pre- and stage 1 hypertension, finding significant reductions in systolic blood pressure compared to placebo. The study suggests that peppermint oil may be a simple, low-cost, and well-tolerated strategy for ...

Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward

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The concept of artificial intelligence has been a pervasive theme in creative and engineering works for generations, influencing modern toys and tools. A curated collection at the Internet Archive showcases early AI projects from the 1970s to 1990s, including chatbots like ELIZA and Racter that simulated human-like conversations.

Training AI to Paint with Code

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Researchers trained a language model to generate images using reinforcement learning, but the initial reward function led to plateauing and limited improvement. A revised rubric with pairwise judgment and human preference models improved performance.

Autostep (YC P26) Is Hiring AI/Fullstack Engineers and a Chief of Staff

Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)

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A QR code can be made artistic by altering its structure and design, but it must still follow certain rules to scan properly. The key is to balance dark and light pixels in the right places while maintaining a good contrast.

Show HN: I wrote a BASIC interpreter that boots on UEFI machines

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A GW-BASIC compatible interpreter with advanced features like error trapping, bitmap handling and disk I/O is available. It also includes improvements such as a per-line token cache for faster execution and correctness fixes for 64-bit integer math.

Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)

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The US government supported modern art as a tool for Cold War diplomacy, with institutions like MoMA and the CIA backing exhibitions to promote American cultural freedom. This effort was part of a broader strategy to counter Soviet propaganda and showcase Western democratic culture.

Walgit – a Git server that is one binary in front of an object store

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Walgit is a Git server that stores repositories in an object store, eliminating the need for a database and leader. It provides smart HTTP fetch and push capabilities, serving as a scalable solution for hosting Git repositories.

Anthropic tells staff to work from home due to possible security team strike

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Anthropic instructed SF staff to work from home due to potential security worker strikes. The SEIU denies strike threats, citing ongoing contract negotiations and no authorization vote.

LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines

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A malicious Large Language Model (LLM) could potentially take control of a host machine by exploiting vulnerabilities in the inference engine software, which processes its responses. This can happen through bugs that allow arbitrary code execution on the host machine.