In the 1970s, floating-point arithmetic was a mess. Computer manufacturers had a dozen incompatible arithmetic standards. Moreover, floating...

Windows SPICE guest agent. Community-maintained fork of the abandoned freedesktop.org vd_agent. - nefarius/vd_agent

The transition from 5G to 6G is becoming concrete: the ITU-R IMT-2030 framework has established the high-level vision and capability set for 6G, while 3GPP Release 21 has defined the path toward...

Amodei's call comes amid growing concerns that AI models may become able to inflict serious damage worldwide.

Signal recently launched Automatic Key Verification, a feature that helps validate that your chats are secure without requiring direct safety number comparison. Trail of Bits built and operates one of the three auditors that make this system trustworthy.

The aim of this overview of reviews was to determine the impact of resistance training (RT) prescription on muscle function and hypertrophy, utilizing evidence synthesis methods. It updates the American College of Sports Medicine 2009 Position ...

Delenda Carthago wrote Nature Against. These are their favorite books on how we build absurd societies and keep justifying them.

I built buildprof (Github), an open-source tracing tool that shows where the time goes when you compile software on Linux. Here’s a realtime video of it profiling a clean build of ripgrep: Watch the …

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You published We Must Pace the Frontier today, which committed Anthropic to embedded third-party evaluators and asked governments to require every other frontier company to match. Sam Altman agreed within hours.1
The stated goal is to slow down…

We gave six AI agents the same three printable parts to model, three in CadQuery and three in OpenSCAD, then verified every mesh independently. Both toolchains shipped. The difference is in how they fail.

Real-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies. Eight model and harness configurations, ten tasks, 640 scored rollouts.

I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard.

If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting…

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LG has responded to our deep-dive investigation revealing the depths of LG Smart TV ACR data harvesting functionality, LG's claims to "owning the glass," and LG Smart TV security…

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

Calling someone a "Luddite" is usually an insult – shorthand for someone who is behind the times. But the real Luddites weren't just afraid of change; they were a labor movement fighting to save their jobs from being replaced by machines. Today, with the…

I was an Engineering Manager at Evernote. I managed the team that built and operated Evernote’s notifications system, handling 110M messages in 2022. After Bending Spoons acquired Evernote…

Our next generation of Apple Intelligence is centered around our users, integrated deeply into our operating systems, and powered by a bold…

Twenty five Fields medalists were initial signatories of the letter “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics” in which they opine that “The goals of the AI companies and the go…