Mercury, the first commercial-scale diffusion language model (🔥 Score: 150+ in 2 hours)
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www.inceptionlabs.ai
Inception Labs
We are leveraging diffusion technology to develop a new generation of LLMs. Our dLLMs are much faster and more efficient than traditional auto-regressive LLMs. And diffusion models are more accurate, controllable, and performant on multimodal tasks.
Apple Violated Antitrust Ruling, Judge Finds (🔥 Score: 166+ in 56 minutes)
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WSJ
Apple Violated Antitrust Ruling, Judge Finds
The judge hammered Apple for violating a ruling over restrictions in its App Store. The case was referred to federal prosecutors for a criminal contempt investigation.
The Leaderboard Illusion (Score: 151+ in 17 hours)
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arXiv.org
The Leaderboard Illusion
Measuring progress is fundamental to the advancement of any scientific field. As benchmarks play an increasingly central role, they also grow more susceptible to distortion. Chatbot Arena has...
Future of OSU Open Source Lab in Jeopardy (Score: 150+ in 6 hours)
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osuosl.org
Future of OSL in Jeopardy | OSU Open Source Lab
A nonprofit organization working for the advancement of open source technologies.
Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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DEVCLASS
JetBrains defends removal of negative reviews for unpopular AI Assistant • DEVCLASS
JetBrains has defended its removal of negative reviews and feedback for its AI Assistant on its plugin marketplace, […]
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding (❄️ Score: 159+ in 2 days)
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Medium
All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding
Google pays for 80%+ of the development budget of all major web browsers, and soon, the US will force Google to stop supporting their…
What Is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"? (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Physics Stack Exchange
What is "Induced Atmospheric Vibration"?
The blackout seen today on the Iberian Peninsula has been attributed to a "rare" phenomenon known as "induced atmospheric vibration"
It says that "due to extreme temperature
It says that "due to extreme temperature
Espressif's ESP32-C5 Is Now in Mass Production (Score: 151+ in 9 hours)
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Espressif
Espressif's ESP32-C5 is Now in Mass Production | Espressif Systems
Today, we are glad to announce that ESP32-C5 is now in mass production.
108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring (Score: 152+ in 7 hours)
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Hirox-Europe
Explore Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring - 108 Gigapixel
Pwning the Ladybird Browser (Score: 151+ in 7 hours)
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How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment (Score: 151+ in 8 hours)
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www.electrospaces.net
How US defense secretary Hegseth circumvents the official DoD communications equipment
A weblog about Signals Intelligence, Communications Security and top level telecommunications equipment
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup (Score: 153+ in 9 hours)
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PCWorld
Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup
Microsoft knows Office is slow to load. The solution is, apparently, to make Windows load slower.
Zhaoxin's KX-7000 (Score: 150+ in 14 hours)
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Chipsandcheese
Zhaoxin’s KX-7000
Zhaoxin is a Chinese x86 CPU designer.
Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104 (Score: 151+ in 12 hours)
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NY Times
Julia Parsons, U.S. Navy Code Breaker During World War II, Dies at 104
Soon after her officer training in Washington, she was recruited to a classified code-breaking team. She kept her work secret for decades, even from her family.
Reversible computing with mechanical links and pivots (Score: 150+ in 19 hours)
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Tennysontbardwell
Mechanical Computing
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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alexwlchan.net
A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers
Dumping a SQLite database to a text file can make it much smaller, which means you can download it faster.
Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral (🔥 Score: 151+ in 1 hour)
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Thebignewsletter
Judge Rules Apple Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral
Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers rebuked the phone giant, opened the app store, and made a criminal contempt referral to an Apple executive for lying under oath. Plus, a bad antitrust bill goes down.
Wyze pays $255k of tariffs on $167k of floodlights (Score: 150+ in 11 hours)
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X (formerly Twitter)
Wyze (@WyzeCam) on X
Just got our first tariff bill. We imported $167k of floodlights and then paid $255k in tariffs. That’s more than any of our founders were paid last year. 😅😅😅
I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod (Score: 150+ in 20 hours)
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Lemonyte
How I Found Malware in a BeamNG Mod
An analysis using Process Monitor and WinDbg, dealing with JavaScript, WASM, and Windows shellcode.