An accidentally fast variable-length integer encoding

My nephew just graduated high school, and wants a laptop. When he decides what computer to buy, price (or more precisely, value) is the most important attribute.
Apple's MacBook Neo upended the 'value laptop' equation—Apple's not supposed to be both the cheapest…

A popular virtual therapy platform is telling providers and patients they'll have to do facial scanning soon, forcing some to choose between handing over their data and continuing care.

We can laugh at them but we have to take this seriously

GTA 6 developers have formally announced a union to combat Rockstar Games’ actions which will be debated in court. On Thursday, the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) a…

A $25 billion Danish pension fund that earlier this year made headlines by ditching Treasuries as Donald Trump was threatening to seize Greenland now says it won’t touch SpaceX.

AI systems now match human solutions on many tasks, but reach those solutions via measurably different processes. This gap can be exploited to detect AI agents and online bots.

A few days in Paris for the Mistral AI Now Summit: open models, on-prem deployment, agentic harnesses, and why Mistral wants to be the European full-stack AI partner.

Why would someone consider a Framework 12 anyway?

Some of the resources I mentioned in this video:

- MacBook Neo: https://www.apple.com/macbook-neo/
- Framework 12: https://frame.work/laptop12
- Macbook Neo test results: https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc…

A botnet abused the hosted version of my open source project to phish 14,000 strangers. What I found, what I cleaned up, and what it taught me about running cloud on behalf of people I’ve never met.

While these agents would be able to read and analyze users' portfolios to come up with trading strategies and suggest investments, they'll only be able to access the pre-loaded balance in the dedicated wallet to place orders.

DBOS recently argued that
Postgres
is all you need for durable execution: if you already trust your database, you do not need a
separate orchestration tier. I a…

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Today, we’re releasing LFM2.5-8B-A1B, a high-throughput edge model optimized for fast, reliable tool calling and complex instruction following on consumer hardware, delivering compressed performance competitive with much larger models and day-one support…

A technical deep dive into how we built the @pierre/diffs package and CodeView component for zero-blanking diff rendering at any scale.

MESSAGE FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON TO THE BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE IN LONDON-- written from Central Spain, August 1812 Gentlemen, Whilst marching from Portugal to a position which commands the approach to Madrid and the French forces, my officers have been…

©California State LegislatureThe 'Stop Killing Games' movement, which advocates for the right to continue playing games even after service termination, has achieved a significant legislative milestone in the U.S.

The dirtier the better, apparently.

Build your own high performance LLM inference engine in C++ and CUDA - a smaller version of vLLM - jmaczan/tiny-vllm

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