AMD acquired AI chip company Taalas, which etches model weights into silicon for faster inference performance. The deal aims to boost AI hardware and compete with Nvidia's dominance in the market.
A security researcher hacked a $30 GPS-enabled smartwatch, revealing it could be used to track the wearer's location, take photos, and eavesdrop on audio. The watch's vulnerabilities are part of a larger issue with cheap GPS devices, with tens of millions of gadgets from three major platforms found to have significant security flaws.
To find the best Mario Kart 8 build, use the Pareto front to eliminate dominated options and focus on the efficient drivers that balance speed and acceleration. This objective criteria helps filter out suboptimal choices, but you still need to make a final decision based on your play style and preferences.
Scientists using the U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope discovered Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the Sun's surface. This finding could help explain explosive solar activity and other solar phenomena, and may be a key reason why the Sun's outer atmosphere gets hot.
The author argues that the value of human judgement, or "taste," has become more important in software development now that machines can generate code quickly and efficiently. However, this judgement is difficult to measure and is often overlooked in favor of productivity and efficiency, leading to a flood of mediocre software that lacks quality and purpose.
Nepal's National Cyber Security Centre has joined Have I Been Pwned's free gov service to monitor government domains against data breaches. This will help Nepal identify and respond to exposed government email addresses and compromised credentials.
Researchers developed a bioengineered chewing gum that reduced HPV by 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The gum preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy for head and neck cancer.
We want AI to create something good without understanding how it works, but it's like a steak machine that can follow a recipe but not know what we actually want. We need to learn to cook with AI, understand its limitations, and judge its results to produce what we want.
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Can, the Herdr creator, realized he was the bottleneck and built a runtime to manage agents and development style. He wants to keep the runtime free and open, and is joining Y Combinator to build a team and expand Herdr's features.
We build PCBs in the US, delivering boards to drone and defense teams within 7 days. Our domestic build process ensures on-time shipping and complete audit trails for every order.
In Estonia, residents turn their private gardens, courtyards, and garages into temporary cafes for one day in July, a tradition known as Kodukohvikute Päev. This event allows visitors to experience everyday Estonian life and taste homemade food and drinks.
The author had a problem with a drawer full of USB-C cables that looked the same but had different capabilities. They solved the issue by using a $15 cable tester to determine which cables could charge their devices the quickest.
Helio da Silva transformed a neglected São Paulo area into a 3.2km linear park with thousands of trees and wildlife. He spent 20 years planting and caring for the land with his own money and determination.
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay over $900 million and limit underage users' time on Facebook and Instagram. The order includes a $567 million abatement fund and safety features like hiding likes and disclosing risks.
A browser game testing human-in-the-loop approval of AI coding agent commands found 32.9% of sessions ended with a negative score due to approved threats and blocked safe commands. Players caught threats most reliably when they were blatantly destructive, but missed commands that exfiltrated credentials three times as often.
The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.
As of a recent update, my phone has started detecting me going on a run as "someone snatching my phone and running off". This insta-locks the screen and kicks me out of the app I use to pace my runs. gaaaaah
We've been given a chip layout in a GDS file and asked to reverse engineer it by recovering a netlist and figuring out its true purpose, then use it to find the string value that's the final answer. The chip is an ASIC with a hidden section that doesn't affect the success output, and we need to simulate the circuit to test our solution and get the final output.
To access Dawn of the Machine, a free update for Quake, update your game automatically if you already own Quake. Dawn of the Machine is available on XBOX Series X/S, XBOX One, Microsoft PC Store, Game Pass, Steam, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch 2 via backwards compatibility.
ChipTycoon is a theme park simulation of a chip factory where a cart carries a silicon wafer through 20 stages of chip production. The park shows four laps of the six-building cycle, with explanations at each stop and adjustable speed.
A finite set of non-collinear points in the Euclidean plane has a line passing through exactly two points. This is proven by assuming the opposite and showing it leads to a contradiction with the definition of the closest point-line pair.
Channels connects AI agents to communication platforms like Slack and Microsoft Teams, allowing them to understand conversations and respond natively. It uses CopilotKit Intelligence to manage connections and deliver responses, with a guide to set up a Channels agent in a project.
The user is explaining the architecture of a modern high-throughput LLM inference system, specifically the vLLM engine, which enables high-throughput inference in an offline setting but requires additional components for online, async, multi-GPU, multi-node inference. The user breaks down the engine's components, including the engine core, model executor, scheduler, and KV-cache manager, and ...
I recently got into flying FPV drones and wanted to share my learning experience. Learning anything is understanding terminology, repetition and loads of practice. I aim currently at a place where I can be air borne for 30 seconds to 1 minute or so on a real tiny whoop drone. That means I am at the beginning of my learning journey and have used the word “learning” very generously. This post ...
You're working on a mechatronics project with an X-Y cartesian motion system using stepper motors and timing belts. You've designed an integrated loopback fastener into the actuated component to secure the timing belt, eliminating the need for additional parts.
The Pareto front is a set of solutions in multi-objective optimization where no solution outperforms another at every objective, and every solution not in the set is outperformed by at least one solution in the set. It represents the set of efficient choices, allowing designers to make tradeoffs within this set rather than considering the full range of every parameter.
The author built a form for editing bookmarks and connecting them to lists using progressive enhancement, which works without JS but uses HTMX to add niceties when JS is enabled. The author shares their approach and tips for managing transient state, handling form submissions, and using HTMX to improve the user experience with minimal dependencies.
“I am convinced when I say that color has been a neglected art,” Faber Birren, EX’23, declared in 1934. No one could make the same claim today, eight decades on. Certain slivers of ROYGBIV—like Tiffany blue or T-Mobile magenta—have been copyrighted under federal law, while others have inspired scientific inquiry and even public policy interventions. Take Baker-Miller pink, a shade some ...