Apple unveiled MacBook Neo, a new laptop with a breakthrough price, featuring a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, A18 Pro chip, and up to 16 hours of battery life. Starting at $599, MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable laptop ever.
You're creating an open-source Flash alternative built in C# with Avalonia and SkiaSharp, compatible with Linux, Mac, and PC. The project features a vector engine, timeline, shape tweening, symbol library, .fla import, and scripting system.
Energy consumption values are measured in watt-hours (Wh) and vary widely depending on product and usage. Typical energy consumption ranges from 0.1 Wh for e-readers to 1,583 Wh for electric showers.
Engineers who overbuild and create complex systems are often rewarded over those who ship simple solutions. This is because complexity is often perceived as smart and impressive, even if it's not necessary.
Alibaba's Qwen team faces uncertainty after key researcher Junyang Lin's sudden resignation and several other team members' departures. The team's open weight models, including the impressive Qwen 3.5 family, may be impacted by the loss of talent.
Researchers at Q Labs are developing data-efficient learning algorithms to overcome the bottleneck of limited data in AI. Their open repo, NanoGPT Slowrun, has seen significant improvements in data efficiency, reaching 5.5x against previous benchmarks.
MOSS is a pixel editor with customizable brushes that blend and behave uniquely. It allows users to manipulate data, create patterns, and share their work with others.
Data stored on SSDs has weight due to electrons added during programming, making drives slightly heavier. The increase is negligible, equivalent to a few femtograms, and not measurable with current technology.
Rust's current calling convention is conservative and passes arguments by pointer, even if they fit in registers. A new calling convention, -Zcallconv=fast, is proposed to pass arguments in registers for better performance.
Researchers analyzed over 200 mobile objects from the 43,000 to 34,000 year old Aurignacian culture and found that their geometric signs have statistical properties comparable to the earliest protocuneiform tablets. The results suggest that the first hunter-gatherers in Europe applied sign sequences of comparable complexity in a deliberate and systematic manner, several ten thousand years ...
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The author criticizes Paul Graham's use of the phrase "it turns out" as a way to avoid making a genuine argument. This phrase is often used to convey unexpected information, but can also be used to mask a lack of evidence or a weak argument.
Windows 1.0 used a tiling window manager due to design choice, not technical limitation or legal issue. The tiling approach was preferred for its simplicity and reduced chance of user confusion.
Company builds magnetic environment for exceptional talent, using skills beyond core expertise to drive product direction and revenue. They offer remote work with in-person collaboration, autonomy, and a united team culture.
The user is frustrated with the numerous right-click menu options in Firefox on MacOS, which can be disabled by setting certain about:config settings to false. However, some options like the "Languages" menu cannot be removed and require a custom userChrome.css to be created.
Qwen3.5 model family supports fine-tuning with Unsloth, offering both vision and text fine-tuning options with various VRAM requirements. The model can be fine-tuned using transformers v5, with bf16 LoRA setups recommended for MoE models and 256GB VRAM required for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.
Glaze is a desktop app builder that lets users describe what they want and build it, with features like file system access and menu bar integration. It offers a free tier and paid plans starting at $20/month with daily credits to build apps.
A Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller can be used to create a low-powered AM radio transmitter by producing a square wave at a specific frequency using its PIO feature. This allows for the emission of a single audio frequency at a time using On-Off Keying, as demonstrated by emitting the Shave and A Haircut melody on a 1000 KHz carrier.
In some of the earlier articles on this blog, we talked about the nature of real numbers and the meanings of infinity. The theory outlined in these posts is interesting but also hopelessly abstract. It’s as if we’re inventing make-believe worlds that have no discernible connection to reality. In today’s post, we’ll examine a cool counterexample: an outcome of an numerical experiment that can ...
The new Open Educational Resource (OER) explains how to develop, produce and use components in DC energy systems Within our community forum we aim to join forces and build renewable energy components together
BMW Group is advancing digitalisation and AI in production with Physical AI, combining AI with real machines and robots. The company is launching a pilot project with humanoid robots at the Leipzig plant to explore applications in car production and battery manufacturing.
Notes: Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” Copyright Credit: Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est" from Poems, ed. Siegfried Sassoon. New York: The Viking Press, 1921. Public domain.
Google is lowering its 30 percent cut of Play Store transactions to 20 percent, with some cases at 15 percent, and 10 percent for subscriptions. The company is also making it easier for developers to use alternative billing systems and third-party app stores on Android.
Gustaf Blomqvist's thesis exposed a smartwatch for children's security disaster, allowing full control and potential denial-of-service attacks. The watch's vulnerability highlights the risks of software-based systems and the need for improved security.
The 39th Chaos Communication Congress featured talks on hacking satellites, payment processor vulnerabilities, and CPU bugs. Talks also covered drone use in warfare and cloud security.
A Florida man's father is suing Google over its AI tool Gemini, alleging it fueled a delusional spiral that led to his son's death. Google says it's reviewing the claims and notes its models are not perfect, but designed to prevent real-world violence and self-harm.
This document describes a new Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension called Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) that encrypts the ClientHello message to protect sensitive information. ECH uses Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) and is supported in TLS 1.3, DTLS 1.3, and newer versions of the TLS and DTLS protocols.