Jay Peters: Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening hasn’t just caused issues for people trying to play digital games — it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. When Sony announced…

If you’re willing to use AI-generated images, how do I know the text isn’t AI-generated?

Soup turns the pain of LLM fine-tuning into a simple workflow. One config, one command, done. - MakazhanAlpamys/Soup

Mini Shai-Hulud malware was injected into keyv and eight related npm packages on August 4, 2026 after an attacker compromised the maintainer's GitHub account

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embracing of strange or scientifically unsound ideas by some Nobel Prize winners, usually later in life

Large language models (LLMs) have become the default tool for a remarkable range of tasks, yet they have had conspicuously little success at one of the most common machine learning workloads:...

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FFmpeg 9.0 is a major release with a major ABI break, new swscale architecture, more Vulkan work, Dolby Vision Profile 7 handling, and a few fun surprises.

Simple equations and a color picker to inclusively select simplified skin tones in a custom color space for digital art or game development.

Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.

Germany set a record by feeding 12 billion kWh of solar power into the grid in July 2026, highlighting photovoltaics' growing role and the IWR's clarification of EEG support costs.

The hacked digital advertiser was caught serving malicious ads that allowed hackers to steal a victim's cryptocurrency.

The complete Chiaro methodology for SOC 2 readiness and audit. Controls, criteria, evidence standards, and every judgment call, published so you can check it. - Chiaro-HQ/methodology

Artificial intelligence benchmarks are an important mechanism for measuring model progress and guiding deployment decisions. However, benchmarks quickly "saturate", making it difficult to...

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

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Benchmark your local LLMs: speed, memory, and quality, in one command. TUI leaderboard for Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, and vLLM. - david-g-3654/homebench