Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier

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Mistral raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round, valuing the company at over €21 billion. The investment will help Mistral expand its frontier research and infrastructure to support mission-critical AI transformation for global enterprises.

We have a year to fix security everywhere

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The GLM 5.3-flash model, a powerful AI capable of finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, is now accessible to anyone with the necessary hardware, posing an imminent threat to security across various industries. The need for urgent action is emphasized as organizations struggle to deploy patches in time.
A mathematician collaborated with a Large Language Model (LLM) to solve the Navier-Stokes problem, but OpenAI claims to have solved it first. The LLM was used to push the collaboration's work from rough forcing to smooth forcing and incompressible Euler equations.

I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s

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The author explores the security of RSA cryptography, noting that small keys can be factored on a modest desktop computer and some old root certificates are still vulnerable.

My Feed, My Way

The Albanese Government is releasing draft legislation for the Digital Duty of Care, which will require digital service providers to provide a safe online environment and give Australians control over their social media algorithms. The laws aim to protect users from harm, particularly children and young people, with penalties of up to $109.2 million for non-compliance.

Multi-Agents LLM Financial Trading Framework

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TradingAgents is a multi-agent trading framework that uses LLM-powered agents to evaluate market conditions and inform trading decisions. The framework supports various LLM providers, including OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and more.

TALA Is Open-Source

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TALA, an auto-layout algorithm, is now open-source under the same license as D2. It offers a novel orthogonal layout engine with customizable node positions and sizes for various use cases.

I tested 10 model/harness combinations on the same Three.js task

Testing different model and harness combinations to find the best results for a Three.js sci-fi hangar project. The goal is to generate a self-contained HTML file with inline JavaScript, including drone formation toggle and cinematic camera path.

How well do agents use test/verification techniques?

Agents were given various instructions to test code, but most failed to use the techniques effectively. Default performed better than most conditions due to agents not doing useless work when not instructed.

Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU: desktop-class mobile gameplay with AI-native graphics

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The Arm Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU brings dedicated neural accelerators and a new execution engine to create desktop-class gaming experiences on mobile devices. It integrates neural graphics capabilities, such as Neural Super Sampling and Denoising, into the graphics pipeline for improved efficiency and image quality.

GamersNexus and LG: Or why rooting your TV is a bad idea

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The video from GamersNexus investigates LG's smart TVs for potential security vulnerabilities, including eavesdropping and data collection. The investigation raises concerns about the TV's ability to record audio without user knowledge or consent.

Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)

One box per building standing today, appearing in the year it was built. What was torn down along the way isn't here, so this is the surviving county, not the county as it was.

Jellyfin 12.0

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Jellyfin 12.0 is a stable release with major features and improvements, including performance work, support for books and comics, and security fixes. The new version drops the major version from its naming scheme to reflect significant changes in the library database.

There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis

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The author is discussing the challenges of hosting video game wikis on new domains after a Google core update in March 2024, which has made it difficult for these wikis to show up in search results. The author is exploring possible solutions and potential long-term fixes to this issue.

Leaving VMware just got harder after Broadcom pulled VDDK downloads

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Broadcom has removed the public download of VMware's Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), a crucial library for many migration tools, causing concern among customers and vendors. This move may hinder their exit from vSphere to other platforms.

Understanding Computer Memory Architecture and SSD Internals

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Computer memory and storage are organized across different levels, from individual memory cells to SRAM, DRAM, SDRAM, Flash Memory, NAND organization, and SSDs, with each level balancing capacity, latency, bandwidth, reliability, endurance, and cost. The design of computer memory systems involves trade-offs between these factors and architectural mechanisms such as cache hierarchies and ...

UAE-based Falcon AI NSFW classifier among top global open-source models (2025)

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#UAE #opensource - An AI model developed by Ras Al Khaimah-based AI company Falcons AI has surpassed 50.8 million downloads in the past 28 days on Hugging Face, a leading global open-source AI platform. The Fine-Tuned Vision Transformer (ViT) model, designed to classify NSFW (Not Safe for Work) images, is currently the sixth most downloaded AI model out of over 1,400 models hosted on the ...

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

Agents are moving from local computers to phones, with companies providing VMs for them to run on. Instinct uses a sandbox-as-a-service model where agents don't need their own VMs, instead using a disposable Ubuntu box and accessing server-side tools via GraphQL requests.

John Margolies' photographs of roadside America

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti and John Margolies documented the American roadside, with Margolies focusing on quirky buildings and signs. His archive of 11,710 photographs is now available online for free at the Library of Congress.

WeatherNext 3

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WeatherNext 3 can predict all surface variables – including weather station targeted temperature and humidity at 5km resolution, and other surface variables like wind at 10km. This results in significantly more accurate forecasts – even in locations the model hasn’t encountered in training.

Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite

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Researchers found that Tasmanian tigers, also known as thylacines, were not the large predators initially thought to be. They had specialized feeding adaptations that likely prevented them from hunting livestock.

Scientists observe Einstein's gravity in the quantum world

216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]

Trusting-Trust Attack against an Entire Linux Distribution

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A trusting-trust attack can be performed on GNU strip, a build utility, by tampering with its binary seed in the NixOS Linux distribution. This allows for propagation of malicious code into subsequent builds and final standard environment.

Feather Atlas

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Select feather patterns and characteristics to identify the type. Specify size and position for more accurate results.
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The Colorlight 5A-75B is a low-cost FPGA development board featuring an Lattice ECP5 FPGA, priced around $20-$25. It's a receiver card for LED displays and offers features like Gigabit Ethernet, SDRAM, and on-board peripherals.

Show HN: Jigsaw Haiku

Emacs Bedrock 2.0

Bedrock version 2.0 is available for Emacs, requiring version 31, and offers improved defaults with sample configurations for popular packages. The new release includes incremental improvements over the previous version without breaking compatibility with older versions of Emacs.

Icy Moons Are Ocean Worlds

This Month in Ladybird – August 2026

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Ladybird browser has improved with new features like video playback on Twitch, JavaScript debugging in DevTools, and downloads that can be paused and resumed. The engine performance has also been enhanced with a new style engine, layout caching, and CSS animations running off the main thread.