Pebble watch software is now 100% open source, ensuring long-term reliability through decentralization. Core Devices, the company behind the relaunch, is self-funded and aims to continue manufacturing Pebble watches as long as it stays profitable.
SSDs can lose data if left unpowered for years, especially those with TLC or QLC NAND, which can retain data for up to 3 years and 1 year respectively. To prevent data loss, use alternate storage media and invest in a backup system.
Anthropic's Claude AI agent uses three features to improve tool use workflows: Tool Search Tool, Programmatic Tool Calling, and Tool Use Examples. These features reduce token consumption, latency, and improve accuracy by enabling dynamic discovery, efficient execution, and reliable invocation of tools.
cool-retro-term is a customizable terminal emulator mimicking old cathode tube screens. It's available for Linux and macOS, with packages in most distributions or downloadable from the Releases page.
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Claude Opus 4.5 is a new AI model available today, offering improved efficiency and capabilities in coding, agents, and computer use. It's now more accessible with a lower price point of $5/$25 per million tokens.
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The author tested Google's Gemini 3 model and found it to be very good at coding and general tasks. It can work with code to do anything on a computer, making it a general-purpose tool.
Researchers developed a biomaterial-based random laser using birch leaf-derived carbon dots and peanut kernel as the gain medium and scattering medium. The laser exhibited random lasing emission spectra with varying thresholds across different surfaces.
OCR Arena is a free playground for testing and evaluating leading foundation VLMs and open source OCR models side-by-side. Upload a document, measure accuracy, and vote for the best models on a public leaderboard.
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The history of LLM extension over the last three years has seen various mechanisms emerge, from simple system prompts to complex client-server protocols, with the goal of allowing end users to customize these systems. The latest development, Agent Skills, represents a significant step towards this goal, allowing users to give agents instructions and generic tools, and trusting them to do the ...
WASD: Move hypercamera forwards, sideways Q/E: Move hypercamera in ana, kata directions IJKL: Rotate hypercamera up/down, left/right U/O: Rotate hypercamera in wx plane Y/P: Rotate hypercamera in wy plane 0-2: Rotate hypercamera towards objects Mouse drag: Rotate sensor view Mouse wheel: Zoom v: Show additional views g: Toggle gizmo mode x: Toggle voxel rasterization Click: Select vertex Selected: None
Google is developing Aluminium OS, a unified Android-based operating system for PCs, to compete with Windows and macOS. Aluminium OS will replace ChromeOS, with a transition strategy including legacy support and optional migration for existing Chromebooks.
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DDR5 RAM prices have surged due to AI demand, with a 64 GB kit costing $599, a 190% increase in just 2 months. Experts predict DRAM and NAND constraints will continue through 2026 as Big Tech pursues AGI, affecting consumer prices.
HelixGuard detected over 300 NPM registry components poisoned with malware that steals sensitive information and exfiltrates it via GitHub Actions. The malware, similar to the 'Shai-Hulud' attack, uses TruffleHog for secret scanning and achieves worm-like propagation by modifying package.json and using stolen tokens.
Researchers at UNC Chapel Hill found that loggerhead sea turtles can learn and remember unique magnetic signatures of different geographic regions. This discovery offers new insights into how turtles navigate and could apply to other migratory animals.
Researchers have made significant progress in brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that can decode brain signals and enable people with paralysis to control devices. However, concerns about data privacy and the potential for manipulation or discrimination have led to calls for regulation and guidelines on the use of BCIs and neural data.
The author presents a nuanced view of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) by examining its various features, including encapsulation, inheritance, and message passing, and discusses their pros and cons. The article argues that OOP encourages certain programming styles that can lead to performance issues, scattered code, and unnecessary complexity, but also provides benefits such as open ...
Edn (extensible data notation) is a data format similar to json, but richer and more extensible. it supports underscores as visual separators in numeric literals for improved readability - and it's compatible with clojure'reader' edn.c supports newline, "newlines and %new as whitespace characters in strings. the software
I like learning about the hidden benchmarks that everyone seems to bring out when a new large language model drops. Mine used to be asking the model about obscure but well-documented people on the internet like family members or acquaintances in the sciences or with IMDB credits. Since ~late 2024, most models are nailing that one so it’s not as interesting. Instead, I’ve moved onto ...
Google Cloud's Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) has successfully scaled to 130,000 nodes, twice the officially supported limit, and sustained Pod throughput of 1,000 Pods per second. This extreme scalability is made possible by architectural innovations such as a strongly consistent API server watch cache and a proprietary key-value store based on Google's Spanner distributed database.
The author shares their experience in optimizing performance by focusing on data, including visualizing data flow, transforming suboptimal data, and specializing algorithms to suit specific data. Key techniques include reducing data access, using streaming non-temporal writes, compressing types, and vectorizing algorithms, which can lead to significant speedups.
The author compares the performance and fairness of Rust's standard Mutex and parking_lot's Mutex, finding that parking_lot's Mutex is more predictable and fair under heavy contention, but standard Mutex is faster in low-contention scenarios. The author recommends using parking_lot's Mutex when risk of monopolization exists or when fairness is crucial, but standard Mutex is sufficient for ...
IBM's Quantum System One is a commercial quantum computer launched in 2019, capable of performing calculations exponentially faster than classical computers. It's on display at IBM's office in Waterloo, UK, where you can see it through a window but not enter.
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Corvus Robotics is hiring a generalist leader to scale manufacturing operations for its autonomous logistics drones. The ideal candidate has hardware experience, clear communication, and Mandarin proficiency.
A power outage at TSMC's Arizona facility caused by a Linde power fault in mid-September forced a shutdown and scrapped thousands of wafers. The incident may have contributed to TSMC's 99% drop in net income in the third quarter.
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's 1905 story "Sultana's Dream" is considered one of the first significant works of Indian science fiction in English, anticipating many themes that would shape the genre in the 20th century. The story's themes of utopian society, techno-optimism, and feminist critique of patriarchy have influenced later science fiction writers, including those from India, and continue ...