NVIDIA allegedly artificially inflated GPU shortage by investing in AI startups to maintain demand and move excess semiconductors. The company's former CEO, Jensen Huang, was reportedly at odds with CFO Colette Kress over scaling back investments.
SpaceX's Starship is set to launch on November 13, with a live webcast and potential hours of live views from orbit. The mission aims to deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites and test the first full recovery of an orbital launch system.
Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, allows users to build web applications without coding but found many cases of sensitive data being accessible without logging in. The platform's terms and conditions place responsibility for security on the customers themselves, leaving a gap between its promise and user responsibilities.
Tech companies are developing wearable devices that record and transcribe conversations, raising concerns about privacy. These devices can be used to monitor people without their consent, potentially infringing on social norms of private conversations.
This document describes the process of capturing screens for a game, using various emulators and scaling techniques to maintain original pixel shape. The project was created by two brothers with AI assistance, and they are also working on remaking another Sierra game in Adventure Game Studio.
GGML 1.0.0 has been released with various improvements, including pruning of deprecated APIs and adding support for configurable YaRN truncation and FP8 operations across multiple backends.
KDE: The Documentary tells the story of the pioneering open source community that gave computer users a free and open alternative to proprietary desktops like Windows. The story starts in 1996, whe...
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Ukrainian forces have targeted Russian oil refineries, reducing capacity by 30% and causing fuel shortages in six oblasts. The New Voice of Ukraine seeks support to continue defending democracy against Russian narratives.
Qwen3.8-27B is a 256K context window model with vision and reasoning capabilities, running on 17GB RAM/VRAM setups, excelling at agentic coding, vision and chat tasks. New dynamic quants improve average accuracy by 5-10% compared to previous versions.
NVIDIA's second-largest shareholder sold $946 million in company stock before CEO Jensen Huang's resignation. The sales may impact investor enthusiasm for the AI company, which has seen a 15% decline in its market value since October.
The author created a family tree of software job titles from the 1940s to present, tracking changes in job names and roles over time. The tree spans seven colored columns, illustrating how titles evolved into new ones through influence or common career moves.
PyPI has updated its user interface to improve security signals and display package details, following user research. The new design provides clearer information on release provenance and attestations, helping users assess package security.
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Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang pushed for deals to keep GPU prices high, despite accusations of circular financing. The company slowed down and paused some deals after realizing it had oversupplied GPUs amid an avalanche of semiconductors.
The CBC investigated 1,500 misleading job postings on LinkedIn and Monster that funneled applicants to a multi-level marketing (MLM) company called Evolution Travel. The ads promised high-paying jobs with no experience needed, but required payment for virtual information sessions and monthly subscriptions.
Amtrak's ticket booking system is down due to a nationwide FAA ground stop, causing frustration among thousands of travelers. The issue was attributed to a system-wide update by Amtrak officials.
Researchers at UC San Diego studied the social dynamics of Asian elephants in Sri Lanka, finding a decline in population led to fractured and isolated communities. The study warns that surpassing a social tipping point can be detrimental to the future of these highly social animals.
The DeepSeek-V3 model is a 190-line JAX architecture pretrained on public-domain detective fiction, with caching and balancing features to improve performance. The model can be trained and evaluated using the provided code and data, which includes checkpoints, tokenizers, and training scripts.
Researchers at Google and academic institutions collaborated on open problems in math, science, and complex systems engineering using Gemini 4 models and multi-agent workflows.
Project Zero is changing its vulnerability disclosure policy to "Full 90", then "Full 60" and finally "Full 30" days after reporting, due to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery increasing the risk. The new policy aims to encourage faster patching by vendors while considering their ability to remediate vulnerabilities.
The US Government's Direct File service allows taxpayers to file their federal tax return for free, using a mobile-friendly interview-based system. The code is provided for historical reference and may contain vulnerabilities, but should not be used in production systems due to sensitive information removal.
The author argues that many tech industry leaders, including Bill Gates, suffer from overconfidence and a lack of empathy due to their exceptional abilities. They believe this mindset can lead to disastrous consequences as they create powerful AI systems without fully understanding the risks.
Bloomberg and Citizen Lab research found additional customers of Webloc's ad-based surveillance system, including countries like the UK, Netherlands, and Saudi Arabia. The use of such systems in authoritarian countries is highly controversial and poses significant dangers to human rights.
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Researchers used Lean, a proof-checking language, to identify 138 unknown tax loopholes in the US Internal Revenue Code. The code was formalized and checked against official IRS publications and independent tax software.
Italian regulators fined Meta €805 million for accessing users' photos without consent, a record fine on a tech giant. The penalty relates to Facebook's gallery suggestions feature, which requires separate and specific user consent.
Two NVIDIA DGX Stations are used to run a 753-billion-parameter model, with each Station hosting half of the weights in GPU memory. The stations communicate over RDMA and serve the model through a single endpoint, allowing for efficient inference on sensitive or proprietary data.
A digital being with a simple brain learns to steer towards light through trial and error, guided by reward and punishment. The spark's brain rewires itself after 2,000 tries to become an expert at seeking the light.
Claude Code automates project management by dividing work, coordinating threads, and assembling results. Users can steer progress from their phone or computer, even when away from the workspace.
Agweb is a browser for coding agents on macOS, built on WebKit, allowing multiple agents to run simultaneously without stealing focus or blocking sites. It provides features like snapshots, click tracking and ad-blocking with uBlock Origin's lists.
This post discusses phone unlocking tools and their attack vectors, focusing on Android internals and the limitations of commercial forensic tools. It highlights the importance of understanding device hardware security architecture to prevent forensic unlocking.
The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies has suspended admissions to its math Ph.D. program for the 2027-2028 academic year due to a department review, causing concerns among faculty and graduate students about the impact on research culture and opportunities. The decision follows a national trend of decreasing Ph.D. program seats, with data showing a 15% drop in Ph.D. acceptances ...
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A 64-bit RISC-V processor, Fursoy Slice-1, has been designed and synthesized with a Linux 6.6.50 boot environment using SystemVerilog and Nangate 45nm standard-cell synthesis. The processor achieved zero kernel panics during simulation across 89 million cycles.
L3Harris is modernizing US airspace communications with the FAA, completing 70% of a fiber optic system conversion. The company is investigating the Nov 13 ground stop and its impact on air travel.
The US should focus on selling AI chips to China, using the revenue to invest in solar panel and battery factories, aiming for long-term prosperity. However, this approach is hindered by short-term zero-sum thinking and a "race" mentality that may not lead to sustainable success.
A Brussels-based American-European journalist is analyzing a surge in gloating about America's economic growth and mocking of Europe's recovery, attributing it to insecurity among Americans. This phenomenon may be linked to the US's democratic collapse and Britain's post-Brexit trauma.
Several major technology companies are planning to operate AI data centers in orbit, with Elon Musk predicting that space-based compute will be the lowest-cost option within two years. However, a sober assessment of the technical and economic feasibility of orbital data centers (ODCs) suggests that they may not become a meaningful fraction of total compute before 2030 due to high upfront ...
The user proposes a decentralized, plug-and-play system for secure text exchange between servers without a centralized authority, inspired by the SMTP email protocol. The proposed system involves discovery through DNS lookup, encryption using HPKE (Hybrid Public Key Encryption), and verification of server identities through digital signatures to ensure authenticity and prevent replay attacks.
The author created a self-booting ZIP archive using the Multiboot specification, which allows it to run on bare metal x86. The archive contains a flat binary with a Multiboot header and is designed to be loaded by Qemu or other boot loaders.
Tech industry leaders' support for President Trump has led to a catastrophic misreading of the political landscape, jeopardizing their companies and raising questions about their vision. Many employees are confused by leadership's silence on internal issues and lack of preparedness for a Democratic Washington, DC.
A University of Chicago law professor, William Baude, warns against relying on AI for mundane tasks due to a recent incident where an AI model accidentally deleted his lecture notes and syllabus. The incident highlights the importance of backing up important files when using AI tools.
The author argues that the "radicalization" of software is not a new phenomenon, but rather a rediscovery of the foundational DNA of the software liberation movement. The modern open source ecosystem was sanitized by corporate interests to prioritize business advantages over human values and ethics.
A free internet is built on privacy, and mass surveillance threatens this right. Using a VPN and a privacy-focused browser like Mullvad Browser can help protect online identity.
The cloud is not a magical, weightless place but a physical building with infrastructure that can fail. The recent failures of major providers like AWS and Cloudflare highlight the fragility of the modern internet.
OpenOrange offers 4.8× cheaper AWS Graviton prices for compute, storage, and database services compared to Cloudflare in the us-east-1 region. OpenOrange's pricing is also lower for other services like queues and workflows due to its use of S3 Standard storage instead of Durable Objects or other AWS services.
Opened from Downloads, Ember now asks to be moved to Applications first. Run from there, macOS can't start its helper ("the helper didn't answer in time"). Uninstall now finishes: Ember quits and moves itself to the Bin. Before, it removed the helper and login item but then hung on quit. The checksum file lists bare file names, so shasum -c works next to a download.
David Remnick, a prominent journalist and editor of the New Yorker, formed a close partnership with Philip Roth, one of America's most celebrated writers. Over 18 years, they collaborated on numerous projects, including profiles and interviews that showcased Roth's wit and intelligence.
The author's father proposes a road trip to see fall foliage along the Yalu River, which he had seen on Douyin, Chinese TikTok. The trip is initially met with skepticism due to his lack of driving experience and health issues after cancer treatment.
Mercury challenges traditional app ecosystems with a fluid, intent-driven interface. It uses natural language and modules to create a personalized, flow-state experience.