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Europe is building a diverse and resilient information infrastructure to protect citizens from social media interference and promote European jobs and revenue. We are creating a decentralized social network ecosystem based on open European platforms and protocols like Fediverse and Atmosphere.
The author conducted an ablation study to determine which flags in a Gemma 4 model configuration actually contribute to performance, finding that most flags have little to no effect and that the drafter flag can be a loss for summarization work. The key flags that contribute to performance are flash attention, physical-core thread count, run-time repack for prefill, and the drafter for code ...
Bootimus is a self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server in one binary with zero config. It automatically detects 50+ distros and supports token auth, LDAP/AD backend, and local accounts.
The US government has banned Anthropic's AI model Mythos due to concerns it could be accessed by a South Korean telecom with suspected ties to China and a potential "jailbreak" by Amazon researchers. The ban is part of a long-standing effort to control the export of dual-use cyber technologies, but past experiences suggest this approach may not be effective in preventing malicious use.
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A favicon can be used for steganography by hiding data in its pixels, which the browser interprets as colors. This allows storing small amounts of data, like HTML, in a tiny image.
The colors that exist in the real world but can't be shown on digital screens are mostly cyans, which are poorly reproduced by screens and LED lighting, but can be seen in nature, particularly in forests, water, and bird feathers. These colors are often created by natural processes that filter light, such as repeated reflections and transmissions through leaves and water, or by the physical ...
From the moment the technology arrived to allow personal digital assistants (PDAs)1 a connection to the internet, people started connecting them to the internet, as is the natural order of things. Initially their connections were just for the most fledgeling of information fetching, but as the ’90s progressed and the World Wide Web became a feature of the digital landscape, PDAs received ...
The author implemented a simple VM in C to compare the performance of a switch statement and a computed goto. The computed goto version is 25% faster due to reduced branch prediction overhead.
Cloudflare updated Wrangler to allow agents to deploy code without signing up for an account. Agents can now use the --temporary flag to deploy code instantly, with a 60-minute claim window to make the account permanent.
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The 3-30-300 test measures a city's tree cover by ensuring every home has a view of at least three trees, 30% tree cover in the neighbourhood, and a park within 300 meters. The test is simple but hard to achieve, with only 14% of Europeans living in areas meeting all three criteria and most cities failing to meet the 30% tree cover requirement.
Dr. James Ries sees patients in 37 states. He never touches a stethoscope, never walks a hospital floor, and almost never types a full sentence into a chart. His main clinical instrument is a Razer Naga V2 Pro. It’s the same mouse World of Warcraft raiders use to fire off 12 abilities without lifting their fingers from the buttons. Dr. Ries is the founder of Twenty Mile Medical, a telehealth ...
Data compression is the art of reducing the number of bits needed to store or transmit data, and it can be either lossless or lossy, with lossless compression being reversible and lossy compression discarding unimportant data. The best compression ratio is achieved by understanding the data to be compressed and using a model to estimate its probability distribution, with the goal of assigning ...
A startup and activists launched an open-source drone detection system using volunteers' phones to identify low-frequency drone signatures. The system aims to recruit 10,000 users and expand across the Baltic states and Poland.
The concept of instances in social media is a category error, as it's a Mastodon-brained concept that doesn't apply to atproto, which separates hosting and apps. Decentralization in atproto is achieved by swapping hosting or making new apps, unlike Mastodon where decentralization is measured by the number of instances.
Major AI labs are skeptical of endless parameter count and training data scaling due to limitations and hallucination issues in large models. Smaller models like GLM-5.2 are showing comparable performance to much larger models like GPT-5.5 and Fable 5, indicating actual intelligence has plateaued.
Programmers need formal methods to confirm AI-generated solutions are correct. A tool called PICK helps by translating informal prose into formal specifications and allowing users to validate the results.
Neuroscientist Oswald Steward won the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discovering that neurons manufacture proteins near synapses, reshaping neuroscience and potentially leading to new treatments for neurological disorders. This discovery, made over four decades ago, has established the importance of local protein synthesis within neurons and is fundamental to learning, memory, and brain ...
Meta1's machine learning work evolved from simple Transformer modules to complex models with various attention variants. Designing for composability is key to exploring new architectures without significant performance impact.
In 1969, British camera operators went on strike over pay, turning color cameras to black-and-white, causing TV chaos. The strike led to a unique situation with the TV show Upstairs/Downstairs, with three versions of the first episode.
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2026-06-20 7 mins read true The Japanese Mega Drive ports of T&E SOFT’s New 3D Golf Simulation series are my favourite golf games, and recently I’ve been living inside their ROMs. As with all the craziest ideas, it began with a “I wonder if I could”… In the early hours of one April morning I managed to pull a single course out of the game—its terrain and flyby data—and reimplement it in a ...
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How many of the 171,476 English words do you actually know? Take our scientifically stratified 100-question challenge to find out.
The client-observed mean request time varies with c, asymptotically approaching one second as c increases. This is because the time spent in queue approaches zero as the number of servers increases.
Hyundai is buying SoftBank's remaining 9.65% stake in Boston Dynamics for $325 million, gaining full control of the humanoid robotics company. This move will allow Hyundai to deploy Boston Dynamics' robots in its own factories, starting with the electric Atlas robot at its Georgia plant by 2028.
Oracle engineer Lois Foltan confirmed that JEP 401: Value Classes and Objects will be integrated into the main OpenJDK repository and target JDK 28. The feature allows programmers to declare value classes and objects that can be optimized for performance, enabling density and locality in memory, and is currently in preview mode.