Mistral AI releases the weights of its 1-trillion-parameter model, Le Chonk, advancing agentic coding and cybersecurity. The new model delivers frontier coding performance with significantly fewer tokens.
The authors tested 1,285 statistics from five AI assistants and found that only 8% of the trails ended at a study that confirmed the number, while 44% ended at a page citing no research.
The H.264 video compression codec standard is highly efficient, reducing bandwidth requirements by 1500 times compared to PNG images, through various techniques such as lossy compression and chroma subsampling. It achieves this by discarding less important bits, using motion estimation and prediction to store only necessary frames.
DoorDash is acquiring Instacart for $17 billion, combining their delivery networks and grocery technology to help local businesses succeed. The deal will give consumers more stores to choose from, faster delivery options, and more ways for Dashers and Shoppers to earn money.
Researchers discovered a Chinese AI-assisted campaign that compromised 25 servers, including US government systems, using a custom PHP2Shell exploit chain and Fragnesia kernel privilege escalation. The attackers used an automated batch process to target firewalls with specific versions of vendor software.
Experienced developers are hesitant to fully adopt coding agents due to concerns about building quality and reliability in production. They value human judgment and experience, which is essential for ensuring the right thing is built correctly.
NVL72 systems connect 72 GPUs in a rack via NVLink, enabling high-bandwidth communication across nodes and improving training throughput. SkyPilot's topology-aware scheduling ensures rack-local placement, resilience to failures, and efficient resource utilization.
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The Ahead-of-Time (AOT) cache is a new approach to improving Java application startup and warmup times, but its implementation has pitfalls and lacks proper documentation. The AOT cache can be fragile due to CPU feature differences between the training system and target system, leading to crashes or unexpected behavior.
The Qwenputer is a language model that embeds a RISC-V CPU within its weights, utilizing the Gated DeltaNet attention layers as RAM. It can run arithmetic operations and C/MicroPython code without external tool usage.
Google Earth has changed the name of the body of water to "Arabian Gulf" despite historical and legal evidence showing it is called Persian Gulf, sparking outrage among Iranians. Google's decision was made after receiving pressure from certain countries, but critics argue this undermines accuracy and respect for history.
Keplearn is a deterministic symbolic regression engine that recovers closed-form equations from tabular data. It uses best-first recursive reduction to find compact laws relating columns of measurements.
A single malformed WAP Push SMS can crash Android, dropping active calls including emergency ones, with no interaction from the victim. A fix is available by adding a range check before casting in WapPushOverSms.java to prevent this denial of service attack.
The author crawled the web to intercept browser fingerprinting API calls and mapped them, discovering a diverse collection of canvases on their website fingerprint.garden. They found an unusual script that appears to be anti-LLM obfuscation, intentionally setting misleading variable names to prevent deobfuscation attempts.
Gemini 4 Carbon leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5 with a score of 59, driven by strong performance in complex reasoning and scientific tasks. It offers a 50% launch discount and is priced at $7.76 per Intelligence Index task, making it more affordable than Claude Opus 5.5 for comparable overall intelligence.
The user reverse-engineered the Brother MFC-L8900CDW printer, accessing its hidden features and firmware. They discovered a command console with various debugging modes and commands that can be used to control the print engine.
This blogpost introduces a new path for abusing Kerberos delegation! By combining Elad Shamir’s Reflective RBCD technique, James Forshaw’s U2U sacrificial user technique, and extending Impacket to support S4U2Proxy with U2U, we can now obtain the forwardable ticket required for Constrained Delegation without Protocol Transition when the account trusted for delegation has no SPN. However, like ...
The US battery storage market saw its largest quarter ever in Q2 2026, adding 20.2 GWh of new capacity and reaching a total of 30.8 GWh for the first half of the year. This growth is driven by large grid batteries, particularly in Arizona, Texas, and California.
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A hacking group called the Department of Peace breached the US Department of Homeland Security's personnel files, exposing over 40,000 agents' names and contact info. The leak is expected to aid investigators and activists in scrutinizing DHS operations.
A researcher built a logic-only Microsoft Edge Full Chain, chaining 4 bugs to achieve a sandbox escape and earn $175,000. The chain exploits Navigation Throttles and Universal XSS vulnerabilities in the browser process.
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MiniLake is an open-source, MIT-licensed local Databricks API emulator that runs on Python 3.11+ and Docker, allowing for real SQL execution and Spark job execution without cloud costs. It provides a full-fledged Databricks experience with catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, functions, and more.
OpenAI trains frontier models without internet access to improve safety measures after a breach in September. The company now uses AI agents to test its defenses and has found vulnerabilities in its own infrastructure, including Kata Containers.
NetBSD now includes an alternative editor, atto(1), which is a 48KB modeless screen-based editor similar to nano and emacs. The EDITOR environment variable can be set to use atto instead of the default vi(1).
The author shares their experience with chemotherapy, describing the physical and emotional challenges they faced during treatment. They eventually recovered from nerve damage and regained strength after finishing the six-week course of infusions.
An attacker attempted to exploit a GitLab vulnerability on October 20 and 21, but its success is uncertain. The instance was rebuilt from scratch due to caution, and users are advised to reset their passwords upon reopening.
Ancient architecture meets modern technology in the use of CNC machines to carve intricate details in Gothic churches, unlocking new possibilities for skilled carvers and young artists alike. The symbiotic relationship between programmers, sawyers, and CNC machines enables the creation of stunning 3D reliefs with unprecedented precision and speed.