No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector

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The Goose Programming Language

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Goose is a memory-safe systems language that runs faster than C++ and Rust while using less memory, with syntax familiar to C and Rust programmers. It has no heap allocator, garbage collector, or lifetime annotations.

Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

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Roku has moved its developer resources from GitHub to GitLab, consolidating documentation, samples, and tools into a single location. Users need to update bookmarked or stored repository URLs and adjust pipelines that reference raw file URLs.

John Carmack on the Goose Language: multiple data stacks and relative references

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The tool enables efficient analysis and use of multiple data stacks, allowing for automation of tasks. It also facilitates direct memory mapping and immediate use of network data, reducing parsing times by up to 100x.

Dream-1

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Dream Labs has released a new robot called Dream-1, which can control unseen robots for unseen tasks in unseen environments without fine-tuning or demonstrations. The robot uses a public API and costs $3/hour to run, making it accessible to anyone with a robot.

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

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Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz

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Emergency Action Messages heard on the HF Global Communications System, copied off air.

FreeDNS

This service offers domain registration, DNS management, and easy updates for $5/month. It also provides features like subdomains, stealth flags, and wildcard DNS with a 50-subdomain limit.

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

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Researchers at EPFL have developed an implantable neural chip called LogSync that tracks brain activity and identifies cognitive and emotional states in real-time. The system uses machine-learning algorithms to analyze network-level biomarkers and generate stimulation triggers for severe psychiatric illnesses.

Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

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Digitaliseringsministeriet har afbrudt et pilotprojekt med et open source-baseret alternativ til Microsoft Office. Projektet var i gang med at teste systemet Collabora, men er nu stopped.

I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

OBS Studio 33

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OBS Studio has been updated with new features and bug fixes, including a massive overhaul of the browser source framework and improved plugin loading. The update also includes support for newer NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs and fixes several issues with video output and stream disconnections.

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

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A widely used compression library Brotli has a known security vulnerability, dubbed "node2shell," which can cause memory leaks or execute arbitrary code. Users are advised to upgrade their libraries and applications that use Brotli until patches become available.

Symbolic Learning in Python and Julia

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PySR is an open-source tool for symbolic regression, a machine learning task to find an interpretable expression that optimizes some objective. It's developed alongside the Julia library SymbolicRegression.jl and can be used with various programming languages.

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

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Scientists have successfully trapped a single subatomic particle of antimatter, called a positron, for months using a special trap. This achievement could help explain why the universe is made mostly of matter and not antimatter.

Why is AI generated language so hard to understand?

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Researchers studied AI-generated text and found it uses harder-to-understand features like complex sentences. This suggests that AI models prioritize information density over human communication goals.

TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications

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TornadoVM version 7.3 is a major milestone for the open-source heterogeneous GPU framework, accelerating Java programs on CPUs and GPUs without replacing existing JVMs. It provides a rich GPU programming ecosystem in Java, offering four ways to program Nvidia GPUs as a programmer.

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

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This Linux kernel module unlocks NVIDIA GPUs for faster performance, doubling instruction issuing speed on GA102, GA103, GA104 and GA106 cards. It can be appended to the boot options line or installed through a package manager like make install.

PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says

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Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

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If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 things only the closest 500 will be included.

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

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The author created rqlite in 2014, combining SQLite with Raft consensus protocol to create a fault-tolerant relational database. Since then, the concept of "distributed SQLite" has evolved into a category with various projects offering different approaches to replication and consistency.

Zac-OS-9: The classic Platinum desktop, reborn for modern PCs

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Download Zac-OS-9 for free. The classic Platinum desktop, reborn for modern PCs. ZacOS 9 is a complete Mac OS 8/9-style desktop for Debian Linux, drawn pixel by pixel from scratch. The window manager, Sniffer file browser, menu bar and every control panel were written for it, so everything looks and behaves alike, down to the scroll arrows.

Apple Music 404 Not Found

The page you’re looking for can’t be found. Explore new music, playlists, and artists on Apple Music.

Oai-math-revised: a community hub for revising OpenAI's math write-ups

OpenAI's math write-ups on GitHub are difficult to understand and have incomplete citations. A new project aims to improve these write-ups, inviting the broader math community to participate and serve as admins/reviewers.

Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961)

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Cecilia Berdichevsky was an Argentine computer scientist who worked with the Ferranti Mercury computer in 1961 and later became a prominent figure in the field of computing. She made significant contributions to the development of computer science in Argentina and internationally, including writing papers on her experiences with Clementina.

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

A DEFLATE compression library written in Lean 4 outperformed a Rust package, but was still slower than a C implementation. The author achieved this result through optimization techniques that are widely beneficial across languages.

Bringing uv and ty together

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Astral's uv and ty tools are now integrated, enabling unified support for Python scripts in the CLI and editor. This integration aims to create an integrated toolchain that uses a shared understanding of projects to enable new capabilities.

Tiling Noise – Procedural GPU Patterns

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The tutorial creates a value noise torus scene with tiling, upgrading the shader to use vec2 for bumpiness and frequency, and adding support for seamless tiling across 3x3 regions.

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

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This guide covers AI image generation, including how models work, different types, history, and best practices for building image generation into code and agents. It provides experiments with various models to achieve non-AI generated images.

Glymphatic clearance to alleviate brain edema and Alzheimer's pathology in mice

Researchers have discovered that ultrashort wave (USW) therapy can rapidly enhance glymphatic bulk flow in healthy mice, promoting clearance of metabolic waste and improving cognitive function. USW treatment has been shown to be effective in both traumatic brain injury (TBI) and Alzheimer's disease models, suggesting its potential as a non-invasive therapeutic strategy for treating ...