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.
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.
A non-profit collaboration is creating a library of accurate AI images to improve public understanding and reduce fear. They need support to commission artists and develop guidance for more realistic and diverse representations of AI.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
We publish a magazine seven times a year and run retreats and a festival. Our school, The Idler Academy of Philosophy, Husbandry and Merriment, comprises of an ever-growing set of online classes and courses. With us, you can learn about Socrates and the history of London, take a meditation course, discover the latest science on psychedelics, and get to grips with psychoanalysis, Jane Austen ...
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Cigarettes have a negative impact due to their smell and health risks, but they also create a sense of community and shared experience among strangers. Despite their drawbacks, cigarettes have a unique ability to form connections between people.
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.
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 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.
Matthew Field is a Senior Technology Reporter for The Telegraph covering UK tech and space industry. He warns of a global financial crisis due to excessive AI spending.
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.
Multiple stories are presented, each with a main character facing challenges and obstacles. The stories involve mystery, action, adventure, and romance, set in various locations and time periods.
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 ...
Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed pixels that can both create and analyze images. These bidirectional pixels could lead to the development of camera-displays that combine the two functions in a single device.
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.
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: ...
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.
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.
A Polish user reported a bug on Medium where Ś wouldn't appear when typed. The issue was caused by Medium blocking CtrlS to prevent browser save dialogs, but Polish users use AltS to type Ś.
Bash4LLM⁺ è un wrapper CLI sicuro per l'API Chat Completions di OpenAI, scritto in Bash e completamente auditabile. È un singolo script auto-contenuto che può essere scaricato, eseguito e utilizzato subito.
MUMPS is a programming language and database system created in 1966 for hospital information systems. It has a built-in hierarchical database with a schema-free, ordered key-value store.
A from-scratch text generator built in C/CUDA with a ~116M-parameter model trained on a single RTX 4070 GPU produces fluent-looking English with little real knowledge. The project demonstrates a complete, understandable training pipeline and the pretrain→SFT pipeline works end to end, but is not a capable assistant.