We’re open-sourcing Persimmon-8B, the most powerful fully permissively-licensed language model with <10 billion parameters.

BMW has made a U-turn on a controversial subscription service that saw drivers pay a fee to activate the heated seats fitted to their car.

Rotten Tomatoes’s Tomatometer, the most overrated metric in entertainment, is erratic, reductive, and easily hacked — and yet has Hollywood in its grip. “Rotten Tomatoes is something the studios can game. So they do,” says filmmaker Paul Schrader.

Hybrid organs raise prospect of fully human body parts being grown inside animals for transplants

Astronomers report the discovery of a new massive and quiescent galaxy at a high redshift. The galaxy, which received designation COSMOS-1047519, was detected using the Keck I telescope. The finding was ...

Are you an Asker or a Guesser? Oliver Burkeman explains the difference

Citizen Lab found an actively exploited zero-click vulnerability being used to deliver NSO Group’s Pegasus mercenary spyware while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organization with international offices. We…

This document describes the security content of iOS 16.6.1 and iPadOS 16.6.1.

Bun is stable and ready for production.

Bitcoin miner Riot Platforms raked in $31.7 million in energy credits from Texas power grid operator ERCOT in August.

"At current cost levels the SLS program is unsustainable."

Greetings! I have an important announcement to make to the AtariAge community, and I'll cut right to the chase: AtariAge has agreed to be acquired by Atari, and I have come on as a full-time employee at Atari. This won't be a surprise to some of you, given…

A peer-reviewed study by UCLA researchers found that perception can be influenced by the associations made between numbers and size: The smaller the number, the more likely the subject was to perceive a slimmer player.

A BERT that you can train on a (gaming) laptop. Contribute to samvher/bert-for-laptops development by creating an account on GitHub.

There are 2 words that all languages seem to share—and you wouldn’t want to live without them!

An analysis of semver compliance in Rust finds accidental semver violations are common even in the most popular crates. Human error is not the cause, and better tooling is the way forward.

Alaskan trucking fleets are desperate for truck drivers. They make up to $170,000 a year. But the job isn’t easy.

Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.