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AMD acquires startup Taalas to boost inference perf by etching models in silicon
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AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
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Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades
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PBS News
Civilians that were under siege by a Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s and grenades
Experts say Guerrero now holds many competing armed groups and that vigilantes are often absorbed, and armed, by the cartels themselves.
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A Visual Guide to Quantization – Demystifying the Compression of LLMs
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A Visual Guide to Quantization
Exploring memory-efficient techniques for LLMs
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Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
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Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
Today, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the ability to identify…
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GitHub Actions suffers second-longest major outage in its history
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GitHub Status - Uptime History
GitHub's Uptime History
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vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System
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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System - Aleksa Gordić
From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.
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Show HN: Pokémon Emerald Ported to Raspberry Pi Pico 2
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GitHub - mattdeeds/pokeemerald-rp2350: Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled for Cortex…
Pokémon Emerald ported to the RP2350. No emulator, 60 fps HDMI output. Recompiled for Cortex-M33. - mattdeeds/pokeemerald-rp2350
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Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
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ScienceDaily
Cancer-fighting chewing gum cuts HPV levels by up to 93%
A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy.
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Show HN: Whisper transcribes 70-year-olds more accurately than 20-year-olds
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GitHub - Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap: Speech recognition does not degrade with speaker age. Voice-agent turn-taking does, by 2-5x.
Speech recognition does not degrade with speaker age. Voice-agent turn-taking does, by 2-5x. - Kayvan-Zahiri/asr-age-gap
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New Orleans will use AI to answer 911 calls instead of a human
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Shreveport Times
New Orleans hoping limited AI use could speed response for emergencies
New Orleans is using AI to answer 911 calls instead of human dispatchers. What does this mean for crime and emergency response?
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Meta Ordered to Pay $942M to Address Harm to Kids from Social Media
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The Wall Street Journal
Meta Ordered to Pay $942 Million to Address Harm to Kids From Social Media
A New Mexico judge ordered the social-media giant to create a new $567 million fund in addition to paying $375 million in previously determined civil penalties.
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What Happened to Talenti?
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Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World
What Happened to Talenti?
Over the past 20 years, Talenti has changed from a small, independent brand to a piece of a corporate conglomerate. Has that affected its quality?
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California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% of the Time
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Techdirt
California Town Says Flock Cameras Misread License Plates 71% Of The Time
Flock Safety’s automatic license plate readers were first sold as upmarket add-ons for gated communities and HOA curtain-twitchers who wanted to keep tabs on what everyone was doing, whether …
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Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
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WIRED
Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
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Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money
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Yahoo Finance
Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money — while hiring an event planner for 6x the going rate
The comments may be seen as ironic coming from Dario Amodei, considering Anthropic offers some eye-watering salaries for jobs that typically pay much less.
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Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money
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National Review
Obviously, DOGE Did Not Save Money | National Review
Reining in federal spending was never going to be so easy.
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What Is a Product?
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What is a product? - one more thing
It is far too easy to create software these days, but what is the difference between a side project and a real product?
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Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters
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Which state are you converging? A spin audit of sample-based quantum diagonalization benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters — supplementary…
This is the data-and-code archive for the preprint "Which state are you converging? A spin audit of sample-based quantum diagonalization benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters." Sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD, also called QSCI) selects electronic configurations…
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Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day
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Framework Community
Framework Data Breach Discussion
I just received an email about a limited data breach, leaking customer information (no billing info though). Do you guys think Framework is handling this well? The email looked very detailed and transparent to me.
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I won't read LLM authored fiction
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Why I Won't Read LLM Authored Fiction
Chris McCormick - News
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2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out
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Now That 2027 RAM Manufacturing Capacity Has Reportedly Been Sold Through, It's Hard To Imagine the RAMageddon Ending Any Time…
A new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers — Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron — have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to AI companies.
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