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NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra is a 550B open-weight hybrid Mamba-Attention MoE model built for long agentic runs. Here is how its architecture, training, and throughput numbers actually work.

New markets, new ideas, and new creators are actually what copyright is supposed to promote, not restrict. Using copyright to lock in existing gatekeepers and massive rightsholders’ profits helps

Quickly understand inscrutable LLM frameworks by intercepting API calls.

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is a next-generation space observatory designed to settle essential questions in the areas of dark energy,

Fernando Simões — systems engineer. Debugging stories from production down to the kernel.

Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

Saab is challenging the low-cost, attritable model adopted by Sweden’s allies with a supersonic, survivable complement to Gripen.

There’s only so much room on your screen. Pop-ups, overlays, and ads can take over fast, getting between you and what you came to do. That’s where

The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1709 (A.B. 1709) today, which functions as a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under the age of 16. This well-intentioned, but deeply

Ubisoft have announced that their third-person hero-based melee fighting game FOR HONOR will be blocking all SteamOS / Linux players on September 10th.

Open-source JavaScript and TypeScript Office file viewer library for rendering DOCX, XLSX and PPTX directly in the browser with WebAssembly and Canvas. No upload or server-side conversion.

Define a light source, and every shadow, highlight and surface gradient follows from it. Calibrated against Blender raytraces — rendered with box-shadow.

Description Currently, Aurora Store, including Nightly (2026-08-31), returns a “&$Server busy, please try again later.” error when attempting...

Research reports built by Keenable SELECT, an agent that searches the web in SQL. Each report is published with the full run behind it: every query, every tool result, every result set.

Run Qwen3.8-Flash-Next (125B MoE, 104 GB at 4-bit) on Macs with a fraction of that RAM by streaming experts from SSD. MLX + Swift, Ollama-compatible API. - carloslfu/slotstream

A free interactive map of real filming locations, built from Wikidata, plus the real places video games are set in. Search a title to see where it was shot, or a place to see what was made there.