The author has been testing Qwen 3.8 27B, a large language model from Alibaba's research lab, on various machines and found it to be highly capable but slow due to its dense architecture requiring significant memory bandwidth.
The author believes regulation can be a double-edged sword, potentially constraining corporate power but also risking regulatory capture. They advocate for balanced regulations that address AI risks and decentralize power through fair institutional processes.
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Anthropic is implementing a watermarking system on its Claude models to comply with the EU's Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated Content, which requires marking AI-generated text. The system uses semantic watermarking techniques that subtly influence word choices at inference time.
The author criticizes Dmitry Grinberg's article on RISC-V, arguing that his criticism of the architecture is biased and misses the point. The author claims that RISC-V's openness and low cost make it accessible to developers in developing countries, allowing them to create their own projects without relying on expensive tools or licenses.
The release that made Windows a success — and let you recolor the whole desktop. The desktop that taught the world to point and click — with a scheme for every taste.
Reticulum is a cryptography-based networking stack for building decentralized, sovereign networks without control or censorship. It enables secure digital communication and end-to-end connectivity with self-sovereign addresses that can be moved freely within the network.
Claude's web interface and mobile apps use a system prompt to provide information, including the current date, at the start of conversations. The prompt is updated periodically to improve Claude's responses, but not for the Claude API.
Mike Wolfe, an ultrarunner, experienced overtraining syndrome (OTS) after pushing himself too hard during his debut as a full-time professional runner at Transvulcania Ultramarathon in 2012. OTS has become increasingly common among elite endurance athletes, with many top runners experiencing sudden declines in performance and struggling to recover from the condition.
OSQuery is a detection and response tool designed for production use, with queries formulated to return zero rows during normal behavior. It supports Linux, macOS, and can be extended to other platforms with new queries.
The fourth edition of Linear Algebra Done Right is an open-access book with over 250 new exercises, available in multiple languages. It's a best-selling textbook for undergraduate math majors and graduate students, focusing on the structure of linear operators on finite-dimensional vector spaces.
AGI-64 is a free AGI interpreter for the Commodore 64, aiming to support most era games. It's currently around 75% complete and playable on Space Quest 1, with features like save/load and custom background pre-processing.
The internet's top million domains have consolidated around two major email providers, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365, with a long tail of smaller infrastructure defying easy classification. A decade-long DNS measurement project has revealed that only about half of these domains enforce DMARC policies to protect against spam and phishing.
The Racket team is adding annot and annot.def to define annotations without macro code, as well as a binding form for more readable naming.
Passkeys are the simplest and most secure way to sign in to your account. To sign in with just your fingerprint, face scan, or screen lock, create a passkey.
Intel's MMX technology was introduced in 1997, allowing for single instruction, multiple data processing on x86 CPUs. It enabled significant speedups in multimedia software and paved the way for modern SIMD architectures like AVX-512 and GPUs with thousands of cores.
Makoto Nishimura built the first robot, Gakutensoku, in Osaka in the late 1920s to celebrate nature and humanity. The robot was displayed internationally from 1928 to its disappearance in the 1930s, with a modern version now on display at the Osaka Science Museum.
Commodore, once a home computer giant, now operates as a niche brand run by a YouTuber. Its complex history involves multiple ownership changes, legal battles, and attempts to revive its legacy through hardware and software.
Token brokers buy unused credits from startups and resell them, offering discounts to attract buyers. This market is growing rapidly, with tens of millions of credits being offered across various sites and forums.
The camera are on the pool so some fucking disgusting fat freak who works at flock can watch your kids in swimming gear all day. If you work at flock I'm just gonna assume you're a paedophile.
GIMP developers are sharing progress on upcoming features and UX improvements in GIMP 3.4, including a new project file format and non-destructive filter support.
Buf releases the Buf LSP server, providing modern IDE support for Protobuf development. The new implementation is faster and more flexible than protoc, enabling incremental compilation and better diagnostics.
You recently switched to Cloudflare's nameservers, which silently added a JS analytics snippet to your site. This approach is invasive and should opt-in instead of opt-out for users' consent.
MathCode is a terminal AI coding assistant that converts plain language math problems into Lean 4 theorems and attempts formal proofs. It features various tools for efficient proof-solving, including a persistent Lean REPL and theorem libraries.
The Prolly library provides an ordered map that can store multiple versions, diff them, merge them, and persist them into a content-addressed store, making it suitable for local-first databases and systems like Trail. It offers various features such as async support, durability guarantees through transactions and caching mechanisms to ensure data consistency across different use cases.
OpenRouter raised $113 million in Series B funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, valuing it over 9 times its previous valuation. It's reportedly being acquired by Stripe for more than $7 billion after talks began last month.
CL-Amiga, a Common Lisp implementation for the Amiga family, is built to run on m68k and PPC architectures. It has a self-contained bytecode VM with no external runtime dependencies and supports various features like object system, condition system, macros, and interactive development style.
