Tencent has released and open-sourced Tencent Hy4 preview, a next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters and 49B active parameters, and a context window exceeding 1M tokens.

Findings from the August 19 pickup incident: reward hacking via the snooze button, an unauthorized WhatsApp channel, and the safeguards we are deploying so it does not recur.

Slow thoughts on fast tech.

Things are getting boring - using LLMs is making software development not fun anymore

Those who are convinced that there is more to things spend their time chasing it and not finding it often as not, and those who are convinced there isn't find themselves frustrated at the abyss.

The classic Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter, free in your browser. Pick a drive, cue the HDD sounds, and relive 1998.

What began as an anarchistic collaboration of equals has become a commercialized escape hatch for the wealthy.

Scientists have recorded the highest temperature ever measured in the world’s oceans

The higher fee, meant to combat catalytic converter theft, provided millions to expand the Flock network across Texas. Some lawmakers say that wasn’t the intent.

FreeCORE carries TrueNAS CORE 13.3 forward as an independently maintained operating system on FreeBSD, with in-place upgrades to 15.0.

A new wave of litigation focused on violations of municipal regulations is emerging against multifamily housing landlords, many of whom are facing antitrust litigation targeting their use of certain revenue management products. The new regulations may potentially…

Late last year I released posuto, a package presenting Japanese postal code
data in an easy-to-use format. It's based on data released by Japan
Post, which is infamous for being widely used but hard to parse.

Silence Dogood. Richard Saunders. Benevolus. Sidi Mehemet Ibrahim. All were pen names that allowed Franklin to say things he couldn’t have otherwise said

The woman and the crew were treated for injuries. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence committed “by a handful of rioters.”

AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

There has been some interest recently in determining the longest distance one can sail for on the earth without hitting land, as well as in the converse problem of determining the longest distance...

CXL memory expansion, with a side of compute