Mistral AI releases the weights of its 1-trillion-parameter model, Le Chonk, advancing agentic coding and cybersecurity. The new model delivers frontier coding performance with significantly fewer tokens.
Researchers created a multi-agent dynamics experiment using Minecraft and Mindustry games to study swarm behavior. They found that less capable agents can form strong communication networks and adapt strategies, while more capable agents tend to specialize in roles and communicate more effectively.
Northern California is experiencing tidal flooding due to El Niño's warm expanding water, with coastal hazards predicted to persist this month. The flooding could cause catastrophic damage and economic losses of up to $1.5 million per day in some areas.
The project uses 2 neural networks on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W to generate and play games, with one network predicting the next frame and the other playing it. The model is trained using a looped transformer architecture that can run on microcontrollers.
This paper examines Hayao Miyazaki's film Porco Rosso (1992) as an anti-war propaganda piece, exploring its themes of pacifism and non-violence. The film is set in the Adriatic Sea during the interwar period and follows the story of a former Italian Air Force pilot who turns into a pig after being traumatized by war.
Doomformer is a tool that compiles integer neural networks into ZDoom maps and runs them in ViZDoom, using voodoo dolls to perform arithmetic. It compares the results with NumPy references and measures performance. Doomformer can be used for tasks like image recognition, digit classification, and policy learning.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, written by Mark Twain in 1876, celebrates its 150th anniversary. The novel is a foundational moment for American literature and explores themes of rebellion, morality, and the American spirit.
The H.264 video compression codec standard is highly efficient, reducing bandwidth requirements by 1500 times compared to PNG images, through various techniques such as lossy compression and chroma subsampling. It achieves this by discarding less important bits, using motion estimation and prediction to store only necessary frames.
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DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion, combining their delivery networks and grocery technology to help local businesses succeed. The deal will give consumers more stores to choose from, faster delivery options, and more ways for Dashers and Shoppers to earn money.
The author warns against using Large Language Models (LLMs) to write prose, as it can lead to an "uncanny valley" effect and undermine the skill of writing. Authors should instead fill their own prose and use LLMs only for structure or research assistance.
The Sylphide OS project aims to create a retrocomputing environment using modern microcontrollers, offering a similar experience to 80's home computers. It is an open-source operating system designed for development boards and single-board computers with limited resources.
A Swift frontend framework that runs in the browser with WebAssembly. SwiftUI-inspired APIs, built-in reactivity, tiny binaries.
dontallow is a small Swift app that allows Google Chrome to find devices on local networks without user permission. It creates a per-user launchd agent to grant the necessary Accessibility permission and remembers the decision for future launches.
Researchers discovered a Chinese AI-assisted campaign that compromised 25 servers, including US government systems, using a custom PHP2Shell exploit chain and Fragnesia kernel privilege escalation. The attackers used an automated batch process to target firewalls with specific versions of vendor software.
Neal Stephenson discusses his Substack, where he shares projects and excursions on tech and art. He visits the Harvard University Science Center's Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments with a personal connection to his novel D: Heavy Water.
The original loop has flaws with unsigned types and incorrect conditions. The correct approach uses postdecrement to safely iterate backward without complex checks.
Researchers designed a biparatopic antibody to disrupt IgE binding to FcεRI, aiming to improve upon existing treatments for food allergies. The design campaign used computational models and human interaction to generate promising candidates, which were then experimentally validated and showed improved disruptive potency over omalizumab at therapeutically relevant concentrations.
The method calculates a country's area using its IPv4 addresses and the world's total land area. The result excludes Antarctica and small territories without an outline, based on data from October 2026.
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Researchers use NVLink for communication-heavy parallelism techniques like tensor and expert parallelism to maximize training throughput, but this can be limited by InfiniBand interconnects.
The user has decomposed their digital life into security domains on Qubes OS, with different levels of trust and access to various resources. They have created multiple domains for work, personal, shopping, banking, and specialized tasks.
Two high-speed trains crashed in Spain, killing at least 69 people. The collision occurred when a Renfe train collided with a stationary Iryo train near Madrid due to a computer failure that allowed the Renfe train to move without speed restrictions.
Sixteen Colors is an online archive for ANSI and ASCII art, preserving the work of early artists who created art for computer consoles. The rise of the Internet led to a decline in BBS's and interest in ANSI/ASCII art, but some artists continue to produce collectives like artpacks.
The authors tested 1,285 statistics from five AI assistants and found that only 8% of the trails ended at a study that confirmed the number, while 44% ended at a page citing no research.
Proton Mail is prioritizing AI adoption, tracking employee code output and hiring only for AI-related projects. This shift may lead to a loss of human engineers and potentially compromise security and privacy measures.
A Chinese citizen, Alice Huang, allegedly spied for Beijing while developing a close relationship with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. US intelligence agencies investigated her activities and found no evidence that Jensen was aware of her espionage role.
NetBSD now includes an alternative editor, atto(1), which is a 48KB modeless screen-based editor similar to nano and emacs. The EDITOR environment variable can be set to use atto instead of the default vi(1).
The Overtone tool is used to create captions for videos, using a combination of AI-powered speech recognition and manual editing. It can handle various file formats and languages, producing WebVTT or SRT files that can be easily integrated into video players.