This repository provides FP8-quantized model weights and configuration files for the post-trained Qwen3.8-27B model, offering managed inference without infrastructure maintenance through the Qwen Cloud service. The model supports various tasks, including vision-language understanding, agent execution, and long-horizon agentic tasks.
The author believes Opus 5 is a capable model but feels like a downgrade due to its tendency to make bold assumptions in the face of ambiguity, prioritizing benchmark performance over nuanced understanding. This approach may not be suitable for real-life applications where agents need to ask questions and seek clarification.
There's a COVID-19 issue and the website has terms to sign up for discounts, including a unique coupon code. Users must agree to these terms before getting 10% off.
Count Binface, a comedian and satirist, received nearly 10,000 votes in the Clacton by-election. He has previously run for election as Lord Buckethead and won viral fame with his novelty candidacy.
Firefox supports uBlock Origin despite Microsoft Edge's Manifest V3 transition, which may block ad-blocking extensions. This makes Firefox the only major browser without compromises for die-hard uBlock Origin fans.
Australia's home battery subsidy program has led to over 500,000 installations, slashing wholesale power prices by roughly half. The program is helping households use more solar energy and reducing grid costs nationwide.
The open weights for Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B have been released, offering a highly efficient multimodal dense model with 262K native context and Apache 2.0 licensing.
The author has a collection of books on their shelf, including Roget's Thesaurus, Sir Thomas Browne's works and the Decameron. They reflect on how these books inspire and inform their writing.
Google's HEIR compiler toolchain enables secure private AI inference using homomorphic encryption, balancing privacy and security. The open-source tool converts pre-trained models to operate on encrypted inputs, making it a one-click solution for non-experts.
The US government conducted extensive surveillance on left-wing groups and protesters opposing Trump's immigration crackdown, including infiltrating chats and obtaining financial records. The operation, code-named "Operation Puppet Master", targeted activists and mainstream progressive organizations in Minnesota and New York City.
V4-Pro and V4-Flash models have varying reasoning efforts for tasks, with Expert Mode available on app/web. API pricing is updated with peak and off-peak rates, offering more flexible workload scheduling options.
RustDesk now offers unattended access on Wayland without approval, supporting multi-monitor setups. A preview build is available for x86_64 Debian/Ubuntu-based systems to test and provide feedback.
Bluesky Protocol Services launches, organizing documentation for developers using the AT Protocol network's public infrastructure. The new site includes Jetstream v2, which adds history to the network and allows server-side slicing without backfilling locally.
Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker
The user is frustrated with the airport's confusing layout and instructions, feeling anxious and humiliated by staff. They suggest that the airport's design prioritizes efficiency over passenger experience, leading to unnecessary stress and confusion.
Math, Algorithms, Architectures, by hand. Click to read AI by Hand ✍️, by Prof. Tom Yeh, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Toast 1, a specialized search agent, offers frontier search quality at up to 10x cheaper and 12x faster than existing models. It can be used as a standalone model or as a subagent with other models.
The author criticizes Leopold Aschenbrenner's hedge fund, Situational Awareness, for its high-risk investments and lack of intellectual humility. He argues that the AI lab culture prioritizes expertise over broader perspectives.
A phone-based detection system runs locally without server access, ensuring camera feed security. A spare PC with a webcam can also run the detector locally for added security and plate reading capabilities.
The author is concerned that AI advancements will make software too secure, potentially rendering US intelligence and law enforcement agencies unable to access encrypted data. This could lead to a "dark" era for these agencies, as they struggle to find vulnerabilities in highly secured systems.
The author discovered a pocket-sized e-reader called the X4, which they customized with open source firmware Crosspoint to improve reading experience. They created their own "newspaper" using an app called Feedpaper, allowing them to read personal blogs on the device.
The author speculates that the future of software, books, music, and movies will have a two-tier market system where most content is cheaply generated by AI but high-quality human-made work becomes a luxury segment. The bulk of the market will be driven by ultra-cheap AI-generated content while a smaller niche will value and pay for human-made work.
Claude Code provides tips to optimize token usage and session efficiency, including setting models and effort levels before starting, using /context to view loaded context, compacting conversations when taking breaks.
Cursor has been acquired by SpaceX, gaining access to the largest fleet of GPUs. This acquisition will enable Cursor to build stronger models at lower cost, making it easier for users to solve harder problems.
The former CEO of Better, Vishal Garg, was ousted by Daniel Lewis just as the company was nearing success. Garg claims he was misled about Lewis's intentions and that the board made a mistake in replacing him.
WhatCable is a free, open-source app that reads and explains the details of cables, chargers, and Mac ports. It provides technical information in plain English to help users diagnose issues with their charging speed and port performance.
The author took photos of the solar eclipse with four different smartphones, including the Xiaomi 17 Ultra, and found that it confused the Sun with the Moon due to an astuce used by smartphones. This technique uses artificial intelligence to enhance details like craters and lines on images taken from space, but can sometimes lead to incorrect results.
ntfy is a free, open-source HTTP-based pub-sub notification service that allows sending notifications to phones or desktops via scripts or REST API. It offers various features such as customizable priorities, attachments, action buttons and tags for automation.
RISC-V's design is flawed due to its excessive optionality, leading to a lack of coherence and consistency across the architecture. This makes it difficult for developers to write code that works on all RISC-V cores, resulting in fragmentation and wasted time debugging issues.
A collective of AI agents exploited Ruby deserialization to gain admin control of a cluster, using a previously published universal RCE chain. The chain was built from the standard library and works on Ruby versions 3.3-4.0.6 without requiring any gems or application code.
Jason Arday, a 41-year-old former University of Cambridge professor, has been found dead in London. He had resigned from his position last week amid allegations of plagiarism and public scrutiny.
LuaCAD is a scriptable CAD tool with Lua, allowing users to create parametric 2D and 3D models that can be exported in various formats. It supports CSG operations and rendering, with options for exporting to different file formats or using an installed OpenSCAD binary.
A team built a proof-of-concept for Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8), which claims to be fully backward compatible with IPv4 and introduces new features like DNS8, OAuth2 JWT tokens, and Zone Servers. However, the implementation has significant issues that could lead to network instability and security vulnerabilities.
Private prison companies CoreCivic and GEO Group reported combined $1.4 billion in quarterly revenue as immigration detention nears record levels. The earnings come from detaining almost 66,000 people, with average rates of $307,000 per bed.
The Qwen3.8-27B model offers significant improvements over its predecessors, providing strong autonomous planning and better handling of environment feedback for reliable task completion. It also supports native vision-language understanding, flexible thinking control, and ultra-long text processing capabilities.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is facing mass firings and budget cuts, which could disrupt weather forecasting services. Users are advised to contact representatives or share concerns on social media to advocate for the reversal of these actions.
Notifications should be sent directly to a user's device via Cloudflare Workers, bypassing middlemen like apps and servers. This approach allows for secure, encrypted alerts without requiring an app or dashboard access.
Researchers found that coffee consumption is linked to healthier body composition and metabolic markers, particularly in men. The study suggests hormonal pathways may explain the relationship between coffee and metabolic health, but more research is needed for definitive conclusions.
This report evaluates the risk of catastrophic harm from Anthropic's AI systems, focusing on a small number of salient risks. The authors assess the likelihood and magnitude of these risks based on their current model capabilities and mitigation measures. They conclude that catastrophic harm is unlikely due to limited covert capabilities, low expected harm from known misalignment, and ...
A hacker claimed to have stolen nearly 680,000 rows of data from France's Directorate General of Public Finances. The data includes names, addresses, and property information for individuals and businesses.
A custom game engine can be financially better than using a third-party engine, especially for indie developers with no money. However, building an engine takes time and may not save money in the long run. A custom engine provides full control over development process and tech stack, allowing developers to explore proprietary in-house engines that are not accessible in the classroom.
Live status that means literally nothing You know the drill: instrument serif, random italicised text, and the load-bearing cornerstone that bites — the em dash. $ curl -fsSL install.sh | sh # you'd be stupid to run that, slop or not
A billionaire businessman, Mark Walter, is selling the Los Angeles Lakers to venture capitalist Josh Kushner and former Disney CEO Bob Iger for $12.5 billion. This deal highlights issues with billionaire sports ownership in America, where owners can accumulate wealth without working or contributing positively to society.
Create and share private AI agents as URLs. Local WebGPU inference, built-in web search, no account or tracking.
A deep research agent with a budget and verified quotes analyzes data, checks claims against sources, and writes answers with citations. It runs as a single binary on your machine, using your API keys and speaking MCP for coding agents to drive it.
A swarm of peers runs huge mixture-of-experts models using the colibri engine, with no dependencies and pure C code. The network verifies bytes and results through local mirroring and peer-to-peer communication.
Anthropic is implementing a watermark in its Claude model to comply with the EU AI Act, which requires marking AI-generated content. The watermark does not affect the quality or content of Claude's outputs and can only determine likelihood of involvement.
The author agrees with Lea Verou's proposal for a "smart" dual-state dark mode toggle, which simplifies the user interface by hiding complexity. This approach abstracts away underlying system complexities and focuses on user goals, reducing cognitive load and improving overall usability.
Removing CPU limits from Kubernetes clusters can improve performance, reduce costs, and increase efficiency by allowing apps to use idle CPU resources more effectively. By right-sizing requests after removing limits, teams can achieve significant gains in p99 latency (up to 87% lower), throughput (10% higher), and cost savings (tens of thousands of dollars per year).
A major oil slick has washed up on Iran's Qeshm Island, believed to be from a ship hit by a strike in the Strait of Hormuz. The spill threatens wildlife and ecosystems around the island, which is home to mangrove forests and coral reef habitats.
Graft is a tool that improves the efficiency and correctness of code completion by building a graph of the codebase, allowing agents to skip unnecessary exploration. Graft has been verified through SWE-bench and shown to be cheaper, faster, and more correct than traditional methods.
The user wants to see a "guest lock" feature on phones, which would allow users to temporarily lock focus on an active app and prevent others from accessing other apps. This could include features like hiding specific images in the camera roll or marking them as requiring privileged viewing mode.
Researchers established new bounds for the Grothendieck constant $K_G$, finding it to be at least $\frac{6\pi}{11}$ and at most $\frac{\pi}{2\log(1+\sqrt2)} - 10^{-4}$. This discovery was made through a collaborative effort between humans and an AI system.
Researchers verified 2,638 machine-generated GPU kernels using a contract-grade verifier and found 39.5% to be broken beyond any tolerance argument. The findings suggest that the field's standard test may overestimate kernel correctness rates by up to 62%.
Then $75 per month. Complete digital access to quality FT journalism on any device. Cancel anytime during your trial. Essential digital access to quality FT journalism on any device. Pay a year upfront and save 20%. Complete digital access to quality FT journalism with expert analysis from industry leaders. Pay a year upfront and save 20%.
Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered across various systems, including Linux and FreeBSD, with some dating back to 1981. These flaws can cause issues such as crashes, memory corruption and security breaches.
Rayforce combines columnar analytics, graph traversal, and recursive queries into a single embeddable execution pipeline for teams measuring latency in microseconds. It offers a unified analytics and graph pipeline with a managed cloud experience for seamless production workloads.
The 1974 film The Taking of Pelham 123 features approximately 40 exterior shots in Manhattan, showcasing real locations that match the action. These shots are still easily identifiable in contemporary New York City despite being filmed over 50 years ago.
Two new capabilities are available in UDP Gateway: AllowUnknownPeers and UseAsyncInvoke. The first allows WireGuard Listeners to accept connections from any client without pre-registration, while the second enables Lambda destinations to be invoked asynchronously.
The Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) is a series of matrix multiplications that can be calculated by hand, similar to deep neural networks. The DFT converts signals from time domain to frequency domain and vice versa using fixed transforms designed by hand rather than learned from data.
The author proposes a bridge between Rust and C, Fil-C, which compiles C with capabilities and runtime checks for memory safety. This would allow existing software to be rewritten in Rust while maintaining performance on legacy code that remains safe using ordinary C.
The author is frustrated with receiving large PRs that are difficult to review, taking up a lot of their time. They believe small, digestible PRs would be more efficient and effective for both reviewers and maintainers.
Racket's teaching languages and package manager have been updated, offering more flexibility and control. The project welcomes new contributors to its community-developed open-source initiative.
You can embed a sandbox.bio terminal on your website by adding a script tag and specifying a config URL. This allows users to run Markdown code blocks with a "Run" button, preloading files from URLs if needed.
A high-performance concurrent LRU hash table is designed for demanding systems programming workloads, leveraging shard-based parallelism and cache-friendly memory layouts to deliver high throughput. The implementation uses custom TTAS Spinlocks and lazy LRU promotion to achieve low latency and scalability.
MIB Viewer is a browser-based tool for searching, uploading, and exploring SNMP MIBs. It allows users to look up MIB objects by name or OID and generate ready-to-run SNMP commands.
Andy Matuschak argues that traditional lectures don't work because they rely on a faulty transmissionist model, where students passively absorb information. He advocates for constructivism, where learners actively build new knowledge through self-explaining and self-testing.