Nvidia is in talks to acquire Hugging Face, a popular AI platform, for over $13 billion. The deal could give Nvidia a bigger foothold with developers and drive more workloads onto its chips.
Open Executive is a virtual executive team AI system developed by sentelabs.ai, providing a single coherent executive voice with Harvard MBA-level knowledge. It uses eight specialist AI agents and maintains episodic memory of past decisions and initiatives across sessions.
A 25 cm open-source biped robot is being pre-ordered for $399, shipping before Christmas 2026. The robot's source code and training data are available on GitHub, allowing users to customize and retrain it.
Big Pineapple, Cloudflare's DNS platform, reduced its cache memory usage by 56% through five optimizations. The changes freed up over 100 terabytes of memory across the fleet and improved performance with a 43% increase in cache insert throughput and a 19% drop in lookup latency.
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The website has some working animations, but not all 507 are complete. Users can browse completed animations by color thumbnails and subscribe to updates on progress.
PayPal's app has stopped working on GrapheneOS due to security policy violations, likely related to the use of NFC payments. The issue may be a result of PayPal's inability to verify and implement checks for custom ROMs like GrapheneOS.
The author has been impressed with the capabilities of GPT-5.6-Luna, but notes that its high cost is a significant barrier to adoption for consumer AI companies. They believe that fast and affordable models will become increasingly important for businesses, particularly those requiring human-like responsiveness and efficiency.
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The US government classified the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati as a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist" due to its far-left politics, despite no evidence of violent activities. The designation aims to suppress dissident media and is part of a broader effort by the administration to repress anti-capitalism and anarchism.
Suica, a Japanese IC card, was developed by Sony and JR East in the 1990s to improve train station efficiency. It uses FeliCa technology to process transactions locally on the card itself.
Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash introduces creative controls and generative video capabilities for developers, enabling real-world reasoning in generative creation. The new suite supports professional use via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio with improved visual consistency and narrative adherence.
The original Snowboard Kids game has been fully decompiled, with all functions having matching C implementations that produce identical machine code to the original game. This was achieved through a collaborative effort involving several individuals and AI models.
Anubis is a website protection system that prevents AI scrapers by requiring proof of work, causing temporary downtime. Users can reload the page or disable plugins like JShelter to access the site.
Two Frankfurt Airport workers have died of malaria after six employees contracted the infection, believed to be brought in by mosquitoes on a plane. The airport has installed traps and is analyzing mosquito samples to determine their species and origin.
Twitter's changes have led to concerns about censorship and free speech, with some users opting out of the platform. Alternatives like Reddit and other social media sites can provide similar information without compromising values.
Emacs 31 has released a new markdown-ts-mode, an experimental mode that covers the CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown specs. The mode is feature-rich but still evolving, requiring users to opt-in by loading the library manually.
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Gemini 3.5 Transcribe is a precise speech-to-text model designed for intelligent voice interactions, offering advanced capabilities like noise handling and custom vocabulary recognition. The model achieves high accuracy rates across various languages and use cases, with applications in the Gemini app, Android, Google AI Studio, and more.
CoMaps is a free and open-source app that allows users to access navigation data on their smartwatches. It integrates with other FLOSS apps like Gadgetbridge and OpenVitals, respecting user privacy.
Aphantasia is a condition where people cannot visualize images in their mind's eye, instead thinking conceptually. Those with aphantasia may have different experiences and perceptions of the world compared to those who can vividly imagine.
Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General over child safety on its platforms, paying between $12.7 billion to $18 billion and implementing various changes to improve child safety. The settlement includes features such as time limits, age verification, and content restrictions that may harm free speech under the First Amendment.
Heat-related deaths in Europe are rising due to lack of air conditioning, despite its life-saving benefits. Many European governments discourage AC use through permits and regulations, risking lives with outdated assumptions about its health effects.
Harness engineering is a practice surrounding AI-assisted code generation with deterministic tooling, agent-based review, and periodic entropy checks to maintain correct and coherent code over time. This framework helps teams enforce architectural constraints, detect mistakes, and improve the overall quality of their codebase.
AI is being used to confuse software engineering with writing code, but they are distinct concepts. Building software requires deciding on instructions, interactions, constraints and tradeoffs that affect the system's evolution.
MIT's Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research recommends eight guiding principles to navigate the challenges and opportunities of generative AI. The committee emphasizes the importance of preserving human presence, collaboration, mentorship, and shared intellectual life in residential education.
Yayoi Kusama, a renowned Japanese avant-garde artist known for her colorful polka dot-covered sculptures and installations, has died at 97. She was celebrated for her vibrant works that fetched high prices and drew large crowds worldwide.
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Nvidia forecasts 70% growth in fiscal 2028, projecting $673 billion in sales, driven by expanding demand beyond hyperscalers despite supply constraints. The company's diversified customer base and infrastructure investments aim to reduce dependence on any one hyperscaler's capital budget.
Canadian voice actor Peter Cullen, known for his roles as Optimus Prime and Eeyore, has died at 85. He had a long career in film, TV, and video games before passing away peacefully surrounded by family.
Route 53 Files is a new file system that connects AWS compute resources with Amazon's highest-availability database, allowing seamless editing of DNS records without additional steps. It enables shared access to hosted zones across teams and integrates with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access control.
The user wants to control access to models, set up a custom router for quality, speed, and cost, and start a local OpenAI-compatible gateway. They also discuss the benefits of using a managed gateway versus running one locally.
Many Americans are rejecting Silicon Valley's pursuit of generative AI and data centers due to concerns over privacy, surveillance, and job displacement. The tech industry is struggling to understand this widespread backlash as it threatens their business model and revenue projections.
Nvidia launched a political action committee to donate to federal candidates, expanding its influence in Washington. The move comes as lawmakers debate AI regulation ahead of the midterm elections.
M5Stack launches PaperMono, a compact ESP32-S3-based E-Ink terminal for low-power projects. It features a 3.97-inch display, touch input, and connectivity options like NFC and LoRa.
The author argues that the current AI boom is similar to the 2006 housing market, where a large number of subprime mortgages were issued with adjustable interest rates that reset to much higher payments after an initial teaser period. The AI industry is now underwriting massive compute contracts with take-or-pay terms, which will reset in 2027-28 and may not be covered by revenue growth. This ...
Afterglow is an emulator for running original 68k After Dark screen savers on modern macOS. It allows users to import and run classic modules without dependencies on ROMs or classic Mac OS, preserving the software for years to come.
pnpm 12 is a stable version of the package manager that adds several features, including improved dependency resolution and registry revisions. It also introduces new settings and commands to manage global packages and configuration.
The LAION-BVD dataset is a large-scale open video dataset for multimodal learning, containing 80M videos with a total duration of 10 million hours. It supports research in multimodal pre-training across video, audio, and image modalities.
With billions of people experiencing hunger in 2025 and unable to afford a healthy diet, food insecurity remains a critical global challenge…
Play the ancient game of Go without the grid. Capture territory and best your opponent in a flowing, geometry-driven battle of wits.
Researchers have developed the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, enabling them to work in parallel and perform intricate tasks. MHS reduces integration time from weeks or months to hours or minutes, allowing researchers to focus on high-level experimental design and reasoning.
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User's computer is experiencing a sudden increase in token usage, suspecting background processes. The tool "tare" can help diagnose and identify the cause by analyzing Claude Code logs.
Amazon has changed its review system, hiding nearly all product reviews and limiting filtering and ordering options for non-logged-in users. The change is likely an experiment to prevent data scraping bots, but it may also be frustrating for customers who rely on the old system.
The author has been using AI agents to write code, but recently switched to not writing code by hand anymore. This change allowed them to find pockets of free time and work more efficiently with multiple agents running concurrently.
Uefa is preparing criminal charges against Fifa president Gianni Infantino over a scrapped plan to sell World Cup stakes to private investors. Uefa accuses Infantino of "criminal mismanagement" and claims he would have profited from the deal at the expense of football's governing body and its members.
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The Dutch government is destroying its gas wells in Groningen, a decision made to appease local residents who oppose continued production due to concerns over earthquakes. This move limits the country's options and prioritizes short-term interests over long-term national and European needs.
OpenTIE is an open-source reimplementation of Star Wars: TIE Fighter, combining 1995 and 1998 game data for a unique experience. It supports various graphics modes, flight simulation speeds, and soundtrack options while remaining under active development with potential bugs.
An incredibly well-timed Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday’s catastrophic glacier collapse near the Nepal–Tibet border. The event was so massive that it was detected by seismometers around the world.
Restoredrill is a tool that proves PostgreSQL backups actually restore, providing a timestamped JSON report with checks for row counts, data freshness, and SQL assertions. It runs on schedule set by the recovery policy and can be used to demonstrate compliance with SOC 2 or ISO 27001 standards.
This resource teaches the applied-LLM stack through framework-free, on-a-free-API notebooks for AI Engineers and Forward Deployed Engineers. It covers topics such as model APIs, RAG, agents, adaptation, serving and more with real case studies.
Salem Robotics develops task-specific intelligence for mobile robots to carry out surveys and inspections in hazardous industrial facilities. They aim to automate repetitive physical execution tasks, combining AI and classical robotics approaches.
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RealDiff is a tool that analyzes code changes by running base and proposed revisions, learning noise baselines, and reporting the first changed behavior in each call tree. It provides detailed findings on edited files, untested call sites, and assertion reactions.
The authors of Linum v3 are working on a new open-weight generative video model, targeting three key improvements: better prompt adherence, training/inference acceleration, and consistent physics. They share their approach to data filtering using black box neural networks and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for fine-tuning LLMs.
Machines are now the majority of web content consumers, and AI agents will soon be the largest search engine users. A new benchmark called NEEDLE measures search engine quality for agentic traffic, which is different from human search queries.
The Markdown Database Pattern treats markdown files as database records, combining the freedom of plain text with structured metadata and queryability. This approach allows users to own their content while still having access to features like filtering and sorting.
The author discusses the walled garden problem in social media, where APIs are closed and data is not accessible for building new services. The author proposes a solution using personal data servers (PDS) that allow apps to interact with each other's databases directly.
HRDX is an experimental, minimal and lightweight terminal multiplexer for the agent era. It allows users to run multiple projects as workspaces in a sidebar with real terminal panes running various agents side by side.
Grok Bot is available for macOS and Windows, but this repository provides a Linux version by replacing native addons. The app can be installed using Node.js 20+ and various package managers like apt-get.
Apple has started placing threat notifications directly on users' device Lock Screen and Settings to alert them of potential spyware attacks, which are sophisticated commercial surveillance technologies sold by companies like NSO Group. Users should seek expert support from trusted professionals or organizations for a digital forensic investigation to assess the situation and take control.
The Super Mario Bros. movie serves as a test case for the commercial viability of video game movies, with its 2023 animated adaptation grossing over $1.3 billion and demonstrating how gaming franchises can please fans and normies alike. Video games offer a unique demographic makeup driving their commercial potential, allowing filmmakers to tell nuanced stories without infantilizing their audience.
The author is creating a Mitra-15 simulator in C, aiming to preserve computing history by emulating the 16-bit minicomputer's features and addressing modes. The project involves implementing RD, WD instructions for device communication and DRI disks using the suspension system.
NASA's next-gen space processor, HPSC, is a radiation-hardened 64-bit multi-core system designed for high-performance computing in space. It enables autonomous exploration missions with improved performance per watt and supports AI readiness, security, and fault tolerance.
A physical network connects people in London for focused conversations and shared workspaces, promoting human capability and community. It offers a marketplace of skills exchange, curated desks, and weekly check-ins to support solo builders.
The author created a custom video player using CSS and WebVTT cues to implement a "squeezeback" effect, where the video grid shrinks and panels are revealed. The squeezeback is achieved by animating track sizes in a 3x3 grid layout.
Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General over child safety on its platforms, paying between $12.7 billion to $18 billion and implementing various changes to improve child safety. The settlement includes features such as time limits, age verification, and content restrictions that may harm free speech under the First Amendment.
Opslane is a tool that finds and fixes user-facing bugs in applications, using session recordings to identify issues. It investigates problems based on user impact and verifies fixes before creating a pull request.
Using AC2, a self-custodial Algorand wallet, requires holding seed phrase and keys securely. Losing device or recovery phrase can permanently lose access to linked assets.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next is a high-intelligence model with fast processing speed, scoring 56 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and priced moderately at $0.15 per 1M input tokens.
Interactive React components for network diagrams, fiber networks, and rack infrastructure visualization.
Acme 3.0 is live, a two-year work release with faster sync, cleaner editor and reporting features. Users can post about the launch on various networks like LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube at scheduled times or manually after receiving an email invitation.
Researchers used high-resolution imaging to validate 64 new TESS exoplanet candidates, finding that 72% of validated planets would fail without their contrast curves. The availability of imaging limits the validation of small-planet targets.
The project is based on Linux From Scratch with Pi tweaks and recipes. The Raspberry Pi 4 image now supports the Raspberry Pi 400, and an EEPROM updater has been added for automatic firmware updates.