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Microsoft released Azure Linux 4.0 in public preview, allowing users to run it on any Azure virtual machine. This marks a shift from a special-purpose appliance distro to a general-purpose Linux distro, built from Fedora with declarative overlays.
C++: The Documentary premiered on YouTube, showcasing the language's 40-year success story. Key figures like Bjarne, Andrew Koenig, and Herb Sutter contributed to C++'s growth.
This is a reference implementation for autonomous vulnerability discovery and remediation using Claude, which includes a lightweight SDK-only walkthrough and a managed option called Claude Security. The implementation provides a step-by-step guide to building a vulnerability finding pipeline, customizing the logic, and using it with various access to Claude APIs.
Open Code Review is an AI-powered code review CLI tool that identifies code defects and generates structured review comments. It combines deterministic engineering with an agent for precise file selection and smart file bundling.
The user fine-tuned LLMs to write like 90s tech writers using Microsoft manuals and achieved convincing results. Fine-tuning is a cost-effective way to adapt models to specific styles, but requires high-quality training data and careful parameter selection.
Researchers evaluated three projection sharing constraints in transformers, finding that sharing query, key, and value projections (Q-K=V) achieves comparable or better performance with 50% cache reduction in language modeling. This approach is complementary to head sharing, enabling up to 96.9% cache reduction for practical on-device inference.
The user attempted to build a "fake" GPS module using an ESP8266 to grab time over WiFi for a precision clock, but abandoned the project due to ambitious goals and complexity. The user experimented with NTP and WiFi polling, achieving sub-millisecond accuracy, but struggled with control loop stability and eventually realized a simpler approach using a TCXO would have been more effective.
The author, who wrote the book Ultralearning, is skeptical of dramatic proposals to reform schools because research consistently shows that direct instruction and practice are the most effective teaching methods. He believes that schools should focus on increasing efficiency and choosing what to learn, rather than trying to make education more like play or using technology to gamify learning.
Real-time up/down status heatmap for 80+ popular internet services. See which services are up, degraded, or down — right now.
Blqsort is a fast sorting algorithm that uses branchless partitioning and custom sorting networks for small subsets. It can be used in C++ and C with multithreading support and is suitable for sorting custom data structures.
Following a meticulous course of conservation treatment, Eugène Delacroix’s Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople is returning to the Red Rooms, joining a number of other famous works by the artist. By restoring the piece’s colours to their original brilliance, once darkened by yellowed varnish, the conservators’ work has allowed its complex significance to shine through once more.
Magenta RealTime 2 is a live, interactive AI model for music synthesis with low-latency real-time controls via MIDI, text, and audio. It enables musicians to build and play AI instruments on their laptops.
Bloomberg's S&P Dow Jones Indices will keep existing eligibility requirements for main benchmarks. It rejects proposals to make it easier for large companies to join the S&P 500 Index after going public.
Browser Choice Alliance believes PC users should have free choice and respect, not control or manipulation. Microsoft's tactics restrict user choice, undermine web freedom, and unfairly favor its own browser, Edge.
The US government is secretly funding a propaganda website called La Tilde to influence Latin American audiences through AI-generated content. The site promotes US military operations and downplays national sovereignty issues.
A Linux driver for the ASUS ZenVision lid OLED has been created, allowing users to display images, animations, and more on the 3.5" monochrome screen. The driver is open-source and can be used with the companion app zenvision-studio, with support for other ASUS lid-OLED models also possible.
I’m messing around with the Raspberry Pi Pico RP2350 and PIO and at some point want to see if I can hook it up to a Z80. As a starter, I’ve been experimenting with seeing if I can get an RP2350 to see the Z80 address and data bus in any manner. There is a lot of detail out there about the Z80 and Z80 bus, so I’m not going to go over that again here, but here are some key references: The ...
Tokugawa Edo was a unique city where Japan's elites were concentrated and monitored, with a dual nature of being both the apex of society and a prison. The city's physical form was shaped by the government's need to control and monitor the population, resulting in a highly restricted and stratified urban environment.
The Go programming language has an experimental feature system that allows users to try out new features before they become part of the standard language. Experimental features can be enabled or disabled using the GOEXPERIMENT environment variable and may have different statuses such as off-by-default, on-by-default, or permanently available.
AI systems are rapidly accelerating their own development, with Anthropic's Claude model writing 80% of the company's code and improving at a rate of 3x per year. This trend points to a future where AI systems can fully design and develop their own successors.
KVarN delivers FP16-level accuracy with up to 4x KV-cache capacity and 1.3x throughput. It's a calibration-free, plug-and-play solution for vLLM with native attention backend.
As a technologist and parent, I'm choosing to share enriching aspects of technology with my kids by using physical media like CDs and DVDs, and setting up a home phone and computer with curated access to the internet.
Cloudflare is acquiring VoidZero, the company behind Vite, but Vite will remain open source and vendor-agnostic. Cloudflare will invest $1 million in a Vite ecosystem fund to support maintainers and contributors.
Scientists discovered that queen bee cells are made of chemically engineered wax that helps future queens survive and develop. The wax's unique properties, such as lower density and higher melting temperature, play a crucial role in raising new queens.
User connects JLink to Pinecil using a breakout board and female-to-female dupont wires. This setup allows for debugging with gdb using JLinkGDBServer and port 2331.
So. Looking back at my history on this blog I have noticed that I, ummmmmm, tend to write long posts. It is a character flaw of which I am acutely aware. When I want to understand a thing I feel a kind of psychological compulsion to delve too deeply into the darkness, dive into to as many of the specifics as I possibly can, organise my thoughts around those specifics, and then drag the whole ...
South Korean government requires internet communities to scan user uploads with AI due to regulation changes. Small businesses face financial pressure to buy datacenter-grade Nvidia GPUs to implement the new requirement.
CASTOR is a hierarchical storage management system developed at CERN for archiving physics data. It provides access protocols and manages data storage on disk and tape.