User has mixed feelings about systemd due to its growing responsibilities and integration of non-init system features. They successfully installed OpenRC on their Debian laptop, but encountered issues with booting and audio functionality.
An AI resume screening tool is flawed due to non-deterministic outputs from its LLM, leading to inconsistent scores. This tool fails to differentiate between qualified and unqualified candidates, essentially filtering based on luck rather than quality.
GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, beat Claude Code at IDOR detection with 39% F1, costing $0.17 per vulnerability found. The harness still matters more than the model, but open-weight models have crossed a threshold worth watching for security tasks.
The user reverse engineered the ASIF file format used in macOS 26 Tahoe, discovering its structure and how to read from an arbitrary offset inside the virtual disk. The format uses a combination of tables, entries, and bitmaps to store and manage chunks of data, and the user provided a detailed explanation of how to calculate the correct chunk for a given offset.
US states and countries are introducing age verification regulations under the guise of protecting children, but it's actually a precursor to attributing digital identities to physical ones, making it easier for law enforcement to identify and harass individuals. This could lead to automated identity attribution and increased surveillance, allowing governments to target inconvenient people.
The MSPM0C110x microcontrollers are part of the MSP highly-integrated ultra-low-power 32-bit MCU family based on the enhanced Arm Cortex-M0+ core platform operating at up to 24MHz frequency. They offer high-performance analog peripheral integration, support extended temperature ranges, and operate with supply voltages from 1.62V to 3.6V.
Herdr is a terminal multiplexer with workspaces, panes, and tiling, supporting SSH and persistence. It uses explicit keybindings and shows agent states in the sidebar.
Lore is a deterministic system of record that grounds agents against team decisions, citing current decisions and declining superseded ones. It uses Requirements as Code (RAC) to classify and validate artifacts, enforcing trust boundaries and preventing agent mutations.
The interactive dataset tracks historic and current memory and storage prices, including DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM, with modeled estimates from Epoch AI for AI-accelerator costs. The data is downloadable and includes quarterly updates for HBM and monthly updates for DRAM and NAND prices from 1957 to the present.
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
The author used Opus 4.8 to analyze an MRI and got a second opinion on their diagnosis, which disagreed with the original doctor's report. The AI analysis found no partial-thickness tear, contradicting the doctor's diagnosis and making the author question the treatment plan.
Researchers introduced Proxy-KD, a method to transfer knowledge from black-box LLMs to smaller models efficiently. Proxy-KD surpasses traditional white-box KD techniques and enhances performance.
Cloudflare's Images service experienced intermittent truncation of image data due to a race condition in the hyper library that occurred when the reader consumed data slower than hyper wrote it. The issue was resolved by adding a flush before shutdown in the hyper library, ensuring that all data is sent before closing the connection.
The US grid is facing a structural constraint in adding firm capacity, leading to a shift towards Behind-The-Meter (BTM) solutions for datacenters, which offer speed and certainty on power timelines. BTM is now the most attractive option for AI labs and hyperscalers due to its ability to provide power quickly and reliably, making it a crucial solution for the growing demand of datacenter capacity.
An article discusses Arabic typesetting complications, including the importance of ligatures in Arabic script. The inclusion of a special Unicode codepoint solved the problem of rendering the basmala phrase correctly.
Zanagrams is a free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it. A new Zanagrams puzzle every day.
The LineShine Supercomputer in China has taken the top spot on the 67th TOP500 list with 2.198 Exaflops of sustained FP64 performance. This is the first Chinese submission to the TOP500 in 9 years and marks a significant milestone for China's HPC capabilities.
The concept of tokenmaxxing, where companies spend large amounts of money on AI tokens without expecting a return, is not dead but rather evolving as companies realize the benefits of compounding correctness, where more tokens spent lead to better results. The shift towards open model platforms and generalist agents will lead to another rise in tokenmaxxing behavior, ultimately resulting in ...
The KIDS Act package includes bills that require age verification, government-directed moderation, and new rules for private communications. This could lead to restrictive age-checking practices, reduced online privacy, and limited free expression.
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Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University detected massive cheating on a midterm exam using AI, with at least 50 students involved. He believes the university's response was inadequate and that AI is altering century-old traditions at elite universities, requiring a broader debate on academic integrity.
The Garamantes were an ancient Berber civilisation that built a sophisticated urban state in the Libyan Sahara, engineering water from deep underground to sustain their cities. Their legacy endures in the language and culture of the Tuareg, but their sites remain poorly protected and face new pressures from development and erosion.
Aleph Alpha built Savanna, a model factory that automates the entire model training pipeline in code, making it easier to collaborate and scale. By implementing Model Training as Code (MTaC), Savanna reduces errors, costs, and organisational challenges, enabling teams to work more efficiently and paving the way for auto-research.
The Loongson processor is a Chinese-developed CPU that emerged in 2001, initially based on MIPS architecture, and was later developed into a 64-bit processor. The Loongson processor was used in the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, a low-cost netbook that was released in 2008.
LibrePods is a project that allows non-Apple devices to use AirPods features. It implements the proprietary protocol used by Apple devices to exchange data with AirPods.
The author visits Pinal Airpark in Arizona to see retired Boeing 747s, once the principal host of important journeys, now a symbol of American decline. The 747 was a technological innovation that embodied American might, invention, and progress, but its accidental longevity defined an era of decline.
What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexignore plus a global ignore file). Example: ...
Daisugi, a Japanese technique, involves growing multiple trees from a single tree, creating a giant bonsai-like structure, but it's actually a form of coppicing, a common woodland management technique practiced for centuries. This method produces straight, usable timber without harming the original tree, and it's being re-emphasized as a sustainable way to manage woodlands.
Scientists have found potential evidence of life on Mars, but no conclusive proof, with the latest discovery being two chemicals formed by microbial activity or chemical reactions. The possibility of life on Mars has been tantalizing humans for over a century, with many previous claims debunked, but new research suggests life could exist underground.
The Space Shuttle's I/O Processor had 24 network connections and 25 virtual processors, implementing two different instruction sets. It used microcode to run the virtual processors on one physical processor.