A daemon allocates VRAM as a block device using the NBD protocol, exposing it as a swap device to the kernel. This approach sidesteps NVIDIA driver limitations and provides a swap solution with lower latency than NVMe.
Microsoft introduces MAI-Code-1-Flash, a new coding model for fast and efficient assistance in developer workflows. It outperforms Claude Haiku 4.5 with better price to performance and is now rolling out to GitHub Copilot users in VS Code.
We CT scanned four BYD components—a battery cell, window switch, EV charger, and key fob—to see what's inside the world's best-selling EV that's banned in the U.S.
Mental health continues to deteriorate worldwide with 46% of people struggling or languishing. New technologies like AI can play a positive role in mental health support, but also have negative effects on mental well-being.
The author argues that AI-enhanced search summaries can be misleading and erase the nuance of search results, leading to incorrect information being trusted. They advocate for a search engine that returns results without summaries, allowing users to verify information and make more accurate decisions.
Students are struggling with sustained reading and writing due to generational collapse in skills, smartphone use, and reliance on generative AI. The academy must address this crisis with structural overhaul rather than improvisation, investing in reading instruction and reevaluating AI usage.
A Stanford study found law professors prefer AI-generated answers to student questions over human-written ones, with AI winning 75% of head-to-head matchups. The study suggests AI can be a valuable tool in legal education, offering high-quality, on-demand support that complements classroom instruction.
Archaeologists found lower inequality levels in ancient Mohenjo-daro, with economic gaps shrinking over time. The city's focus on public infrastructure and shared resources contributed to its stability and equality.
The user is frustrated with Gmail's new AI features that nag and interrupt them while composing emails. They're switching to Fastmail after 16 years with Gmail due to the unwanted features.
The user is learning Clojure and finds it ergonomic and powerful, preferring it over Common Lisp and Scheme due to its cohesive design and large standard library. They appreciate Clojure's simplicity and uniformity, but acknowledge some pain points, such as its syntax and the need to learn Java for interop.
This walking tour in downtown Seattle aims to expose the hidden layers of surveillance technology in the city, including cameras, license plate readers, and data collection systems, and to raise questions about their use and impact on society. The tour highlights various surveillance tools and sites, including Amazon Go, Acyclica, the Washington State Fusion Center, and a peering site, and ...
French geneticist Jean-Francois Deleuze's AGENOMICS study aims to identify genetic patterns among long-lived French citizens and compare them to centenarians from blue zones. The blue zones concept, popularized by Dan Buettner, has been questioned due to declining numbers of healthy seniors in original regions and commercialization of the brand.
Adafruit received a letter from Flux's counsel demanding they stop publishing an article about Flux's intellectual property and user base. Adafruit has temporarily stopped publishing to consider their response to the demand.
The Open Repair Data Standard (ORDS) helps combine repair data on electronics by defining a shared approach. It collects data on product, repair, and session information to identify trends globally and locally.
Researchers at Anthropic used circuit tracing to understand LLMs by training a replacement model to recreate outputs of base model's layers, decomposing activations into human-interpretable features. This allows tracing semantic relationships between high-level concepts, enabling pseudo-symbolic inference and multi-step reasoning.
The HP 16c Collector's Edition retains the classic layout but is 100x faster with customizable word size and base conversions. It features programming capabilities with conditional branching, subroutines, and flags, and supports up to 203 bytes of program memory.
Kapa's AI assistant uses a vision model at indexing time to describe images as text, then retrieves these descriptions alongside text chunks at query time, improving answer quality and reducing costs. This approach, which involves describing images once at ingestion and storing them as separate text chunks, outperforms query-time vision and is more cost-effective for large-scale applications.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order addressing AI-driven cyber threats with a voluntary review process for AI companies. The order aims to enhance national security and global AI dominance while avoiding heavy federal oversight.
OpenFOV uses your webcam to control iRacing's in-game FOV. Unlocks VR-style functionality for your monitor!
Amazon MGM Studios is not moving forward with Martin Gero’s Stargate revival, which was to begin filming this fall. Amazon MGM Studios has backtracked on its plan to reopen the Stargate with a new series from writer and executive producer Martin Gero, Variety has reported and GateWorld has confirmed. The show was to stream globally on Prime Video. The show was announced in November in a video ...
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Project Glasswing is expanding to 150 new organizations in 15 countries to secure software with AI. The goal is to adapt to AI's changing cybersecurity landscape and prevent catastrophic attacks affecting over 100 million people.
Big Tech companies are proposing a built-in advertising system, Attribution Level 1, which prioritizes their own tracking over user privacy. This system could lead to more money for Big Tech and less for legitimate sites, while also enabling riskier tracking practices.
Plasma is transitioning to Wayland, removing X11 support in Plasma 6.8. This change will allow for new performance improvements and features, but may require custom scripts and workflows to adapt.
Paseo is a self-hosted coding platform that allows running agents in parallel on your machine with full dev environment. It supports multi-provider models, voice control, cross-device access, and local server management.
Systemd timers are a modern alternative to traditional cron jobs, offering more flexibility and features such as stdout and stderr output control and calendar versus time span units. They can be configured to run at specific times, intervals, or relative to other events, and provide a clear picture of scheduled tasks with the list-timers subcommand.
QBE 1.3 is a significant release with 7k new lines of code and 1.5k deleted ones, featuring a new IL matching algorithm and optimizations. It achieves 63% of commercial compiler performance on coremark and 33% improvement on the Hare test suite.
FidoNet is a point-to-point email network that uses modems to connect over 20,000 nodes worldwide, allowing users to send and receive email and news. The network was developed in 1984 and has a unique addressing system, with gateways to the Internet and other networks, and a strong focus on user autonomy and minimal technical support.
Doubleword is building an inference cloud using AMD's MI300X, a high-end AI accelerator. The MI300X is underappreciated due to software issues, but it offers 192GB of HBM3 and comparable FP8 compute to NVIDIA's H100 at a lower price.
Gleam v1.17.0 has been published with new features and bug fixes. It includes improved escript creation, language server support, and compiler optimizations.