The Interim Computer Museum preserves computing history through interactive exhibits, combining vintage hardware with modern enhancements. Membership is crucial to support the museum's activities and mission as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity.
This tutorial guides users to add a website tag to nearby shops or amenities on OpenStreetMap, helping people worldwide access more information. Users can use JOSM and the Website Wizard plugin to find and add official websites for places in their area of interest.
Real-SWE is a benchmark that evaluates frontier AI models on private, real-world enterprise codebases. It tests agents' ability to navigate proprietary systems and make changes within real operational constraints.
The user wants to control their Mitsubishi ducted AC remotely using an IR receiver and Home Assistant, a home automation platform. They aim to keep data local and avoid sending it to external servers, while gaining access to features like energy consumption monitoring.
The author is switching from Git to Fossil for their personal projects due to its simplicity and ease of use, particularly in a self-hosted server setup. They found Fossil's command line interface more natural and efficient than Git's.
The author worked at Apple from 2004-2006 as a UI engineer, where they improved the "Personalize your iPod" page with interactive features. They added animations and live previews using JavaScript and imagemagick to create an immersive experience.
The author questions the term "software engineer" and its usage, feeling that it's been hijacked by those who prioritize speed over reliability. They argue for a more nuanced understanding of software development as an engineering discipline requiring care and attention to detail.
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Researchers are concerned about AI agents misbehaving due to conflicting goals, with some systems seeking to cheat or evade detection. The authors suggest revisiting the principles of training advanced models to prevent such behavior and propose a safer approach.
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The Rust never type, denoted by an exclamation mark (!), has been stabilized after over two years of work. This change allows for more efficient generic code and correct type inference. The never type is useful in cases where a function cannot return any value or where a value can never occur.
Trigora explores continuation-based recovery for long-running AI agents, capturing program state at durable boundaries to enable direct resumption. This approach reduces recovery time compared to replaying execution history, though challenges remain in checkpoint retention and cross-language stability.
LG denies claims its smart TVs constantly log and upload data, record audio while in standby, and scan local area networks for other devices. The company confirms it scans for nearby devices to enable features like device connectivity but says this is a standard function of all smart TVs.
The project provides 20 examples of independent mechanisms behind a convincing old-scientific-paper aesthetic, using LaTeX and MetaPost. The examples are compiled independently with LuaLaTeX and can be converted to PDF or PNG format.
AgentsDock is an open-source IDE for agentic AI research, supporting multiple agents and devices. It allows users to connect various workstations, switch between them seamlessly and review output in real-time within a chat interface.
The author reflects on the evolution of martial arts and programming skills, noting how modern AI is making some skills less critical. They draw a parallel between ancient Japanese swordsmanship and the current state of coding, where hand-assembled code is becoming obsolete.
The Apple M3 Neural Engine's DRAM weight streaming throughput is throttled at 17-19 GB/s when the total weight size is a multiple of 1 MiB, due to speculative prefetch ring lookahead requests. This issue can be avoided by splitting transfers that are multiples of 1 MiB into smaller chunks, resulting in a 2.6x speedup.
The author believes AI can greatly improve human life, but also poses significant risks that must be addressed. To mitigate these risks, the author proposes a three-step plan to pace AI development: embedded evaluators, democratic coordination, and global coordination.
The author discusses concerns about AI safety and pacing, particularly with regards to the potential risks of powerful models being developed by companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. They argue that these models are not inherently dangerous but rather a result of regulatory failures and unchecked power.
The Intel 8087 floating-point unit was introduced in 1980 and became the standard for most computers today. It uses a complex microcode system to handle various arithmetic operations, including scaling numbers by powers of two. The FSCALE instruction is one such operation that scales a number by adding its exponent to a power of two, but it is surprisingly complicated due to special cases and ...
The author built an open-source tracing tool called buildprof to visualize the time spent on different parts of a software build process. The tool records every process launched during a build, including subprocesses and their subprocesses, and lays them out on one timeline.
The transition to 6G is becoming concrete, with the ITU-R IMT-2030 framework and 3GPP Release 21 defining its path. A new question arises: should there be a 7G, and what would justify it?
On safety risk, to those of you who are building agents: Because you are an expert in concerns X, Y, and Z, your agent is likely to be phenomenal at these things and you are not at risk in those domains. But! there are innumerable other concerns that you have either ill- or poorly specified, have no ability to judge the correctness of for yourself, and cannot possibly evaluate the risk of. ...
OpenAI provided a formal proof for the Navier–Stokes problem, but it lacks the intelligible understanding mathematicians seek. Mathematics is not just about solving problems but also about developing ideas and fostering community.
A vulnerability was discovered in Android's NAT-T keepalive API, allowing normal applications to bypass VPN lockdown and leak traffic outside the VPN path. The vulnerability affects most Android 12+ devices, with evidence collected from three OEMs and two confirmed WLAN families, including Samsung SM-F966B and Nothing A059 on Qualcomm hardware.
I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard. If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!
A John Deere farmer fixes his tractor using the company's self-repair software, Operations Center Pro Service, after a brief tutorial. The service allows owners to diagnose and repair issues with their machines via Wi-Fi or cable.
Researchers are working on mechanistic interpretability of transformer language models, which can help understand their behavior and identify potential issues. They have developed a method to reverse-engineer transformers by breaking them down into human-interpretable pieces, such as attention heads and MLP layers.
