ArXiv, a preprint server, will become an independent nonprofit corporation on July 1 after over 2 decades of being hosted by Cornell University. This move aims to raise more money from a broader range of donors to fund staffing and technology for the site's growing number of preprints.
The author thinks artificial intelligence has a chance to work despite past failures and could be the biggest tech development ever. They're more concerned about creating conscious or creative machines, which might not be desirable.
Researchers improved k-means algorithm for online use by addressing GPU bottlenecks through flash-kmeans, a new implementation. It achieves up to 17.9x speedup over best baselines and outperforms industry-standard libraries.
On 28 April 2025, a total blackout occurred in continental Spain and Portugal, with disruptions in a small area of Southwest France. An Expert Panel investigated the incident and released a final report on 20 March 2026 with recommendations to prevent similar events.
Google is introducing a developer verification program to combat malware on Android devices, requiring verified developers to provide identification and pay a $25 fee. Power users can bypass this verification through an advanced flow in developer settings, but it's not immediately accessible and has a 24-hour countdown.
drawvg is a FFmpeg filter that renders vector graphics on top of video frames using the Cairo library and VGS scripting language. It can be used to create custom transitions, animations, and effects by executing scripts that describe 2D graphics.
The author, a pedicab chauffeur in Oslo, initially found the job both lucrative and personally rewarding but later experienced stress and frustration due to difficult passengers.
The Center for Land Economics has developed tools like CivicMapper and PutItOnAmap to analyze land values and provide insights into urban development, with features such as 3D visualization, data cleaning, and time adjustment for mass appraisal workflows. These tools aim to help assessors, urban planners, and policymakers make informed decisions about land use and development, and are ...
Nyxgeek discovered four Azure Entra ID sign-in log bypasses in the last three years, including GraphNinja, GraphGhost, GraphGoblin, and a fourth bypass involving a long user-agent string. These bypasses allowed attackers to validate passwords without generating log entries, and Microsoft fixed them in record time, but initially downplayed the severity of the issues.
Claude channels are research preview features requiring Claude Code v2.1.80 or later and claude.ai login. They allow two-way communication between Claude and external platforms like Telegram and Discord.
A user reverse-engineered a 0.85-inch Toshiba hard disk drive, the MK4001MTD, to read its data using an 8-bit SD/MMC interface and OpenClaw, a reasoning-focused LLM. The user successfully created a USB bridge to expose the drive as USB mass storage, achieving a functional proof of concept and making the drive's data accessible.
The Turner Twins, Ross and Hugo, conduct A/B tests on modern and 100-year-old gear on expeditions to see how far textile innovation has taken us. Their data suggests that modern gear offers only a narrow safety margin over historic gear, which requires skill to operate.
Kitten TTS v0.8 is out with 15M, 40M, and 80M parameter models for high-quality voice synthesis on CPU. It supports various voices and offers commercial support for teams integrating it into their products.
The author of csskit developed a minifier test suite and discovered that precise enough is almost never more than 3 decimal places for colours like oklch and oklab, and even less for lab and lch. The author found that 3dp is enough for most colour operations, with 1dp sufficient for lab/lch and 0dp for sRGB, and that this rule holds uniformly across different colour spaces and operations.
Cockpit is a web-based graphical interface for servers. - cockpit-project/cockpit
Germany has introduced a law requiring new data centers to reuse at least 10% of waste heat by July 1, 2026, increasing to 15% by 2027 and 20% by 2028. The data center industry is facing water consumption concerns due to the growing demand for cooling, with 72% of water consumption happening off-site at power plants.
The FSF received a notice about a settlement in the Bartz v. Anthropic lawsuit over copyright infringement of works used to train LLMs. The FSF urges Anthropic to provide LLMs to users in freedom, including complete training inputs and source code.
Ofcom fined 4Chan £520,000 for failing to comply with UK's Online Safety Act. 4Chan's lawyer responded with an AI-generated image, claiming the platform breaks no law in the US.
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Astral's tools will join OpenAI's Codex team to push AI and software development forward. The goal remains to make programming more productive with tools that feel fast, robust, and integrated.
The noq team has created a general-purpose QUIC implementation with multipath and NAT traversal support, which is a separate codebase from Quinn but aims for collaboration. noq's headline feature is a full implementation of the QUIC Multipath spec, enabling latency improvements and supporting various network conditions.
The writer expresses gratitude to her village, family, medical staff, and friends for their support during her fertility journey. She thanks them for helping her stay positive and believe in her future as a mother.
To maintain a well-structured codebase, use semantic functions as building blocks that are minimal, self-describing, and unit-testable, and pragmatic functions as wrappers around complex logic. Effective data modeling involves enforcing correctness, using precise names, and avoiding loose typing to prevent bugs and make code easier to understand and maintain.
We used Claude Code to automate neural network training with 16 GPUs on a Kubernetes cluster, achieving a 2.87% improvement in val_bpb and discovering a strategy to exploit performance differences between H100 and H200 GPUs. The agent ran for 8 hours, submitting ~910 experiments and finding that scaling model width mattered more than any single hyperparameter, with a total cost of under $300.
Clockwise will remove Smart Hold events and Flexible Meetings, then delete user data on March 27, 2026. Users will get a prorated refund for prepaid subscriptions and can transition to Reclaim for AI-powered scheduling.
OpenBSD's PF packet filter now supports 64-bit bandwidth values, removing a 4.29 Gbps limit. This change allows correct configuration for high-speed interfaces up to 999G.
Voltair Labs is developing weatherized, hybrid-fixed drones for power utility inspections, aiming to replace foot patrols and helicopters with a cost-effective solution. The company's first product is a long-range, fixed-wing drone that recharges inductively on stripped-down charging pads, enabling inspections of entire transmission line corridors with reduced costs and increased efficiency.
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