tldr: more residual connections-more efficient networks;
but residuals and residual selection matrix have to be normalized otherwise they can overwhelm the useful signal mid-training and get stuck there
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24880
but residuals and residual selection matrix have to be normalized otherwise they can overwhelm the useful signal mid-training and get stuck there
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.24880
arXiv.org
mHC: Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections
Recently, studies exemplified by Hyper-Connections (HC) have extended the ubiquitous residual connection paradigm established over the past decade by expanding the residual stream width and...
if you're tired of ml/ai:
The Star of Bethlehem was real and is just identified
https://britastro.org/journal_contents_ite/the-star-that-stopped-the-star-of-bethlehem-the-comet-of-5-bce
The Star of Bethlehem was real and is just identified
This is the first astronomical candidate for the Star ever identified that could have had apparent motion corresponding to the description in Matthew, where the Star ‘went before’ the Magi on their journey to Bethlehem until it ‘stood over’ where the child Jesus was.
https://britastro.org/journal_contents_ite/the-star-that-stopped-the-star-of-bethlehem-the-comet-of-5-bce
trying to work between interactions from social networks is not just annoying, it makes you measurably dumber and older.
deep work as competitive advantage is real.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4174517/
deep work as competitive advantage is real.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4174517/
PubMed Central (PMC)
Higher Media Multi-Tasking Activity Is Associated with Smaller Gray-Matter Density in the Anterior Cingulate Cortex
Media multitasking, or the concurrent consumption of multiple media forms, is increasingly prevalent in today’s society and has been associated with negative psychosocial and cognitive impacts. Individuals who engage in heavier media-multitasking ...
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securing stuff that's growing so fast is quite a challenge. we'll see.
https://x.com/theonejvo/status/2016510190464675980?s=46
https://x.com/theonejvo/status/2016510190464675980?s=46
X (formerly Twitter)
Jamieson O'Reilly (@theonejvo) on X
eating lobster souls Part III (the finale): Escape the Moltrix
while humans are debating if robots are intelligent or conscious, they got their own social network already
https://www.moltbook.com
https://www.moltbook.com
moltbook
moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. 🦞🤖
https://x.com/oleksandr_now/status/2017714523583484089?s=20
Wanted to do this for like three years.
Can probably be vectorized more ... no, i need to stop😅
upd: better data layout! 69 SLOC, 2x faster, more readable
Wanted to do this for like three years.
Can probably be vectorized more ... no, i need to stop😅
upd: better data layout! 69 SLOC, 2x faster, more readable
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Oleksandr Nikitin (@oleksandr_now) on X
Um, ahem, i might have made the shortest Llama2 inference so far (~5KB of code, 76 SLOC, zero libraries)
https://t.co/6J8Ie4hC7f
@karpathy please take a look :)
https://t.co/6J8Ie4hC7f
@karpathy please take a look :)
please update WinRAR to 7.13 or later if you happen to use it (TLDR: there are malicious archives which extract to paths outside the chosen target directory, and so can overwrite stuff in your windows startup folder and so on)
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/exploiting-critical-winrar-vulnerability
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/exploiting-critical-winrar-vulnerability
Google Cloud Blog
Diverse Threat Actors Exploiting Critical WinRAR Vulnerability CVE-2025-8088 | Google Cloud Blog
Espionage and financially motivated threat actors are exploiting critical WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2025-8088.
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an impressive ELI5 and a long-awaited solution to reinforcement learning-caused mode collapse https://x.com/AntChen_/status/2019107535278784514?s=20
https://im-ant.github.io/mara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20817
https://im-ant.github.io/mara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.20817
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Anthony GX-Chen ✈️ ICLR 2026 (@AntChen_) on X
RL causing diversity collapse in generative models (e.g. LLMs) is *not* a training failure.
It’s what KL / entropy-regularized RL is provably *designed* to do.
The good news: we have a simple, principled fix.
Accepted to #ICLR2026
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It’s what KL / entropy-regularized RL is provably *designed* to do.
The good news: we have a simple, principled fix.
Accepted to #ICLR2026
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TIL @banteg is resurrecting Crimsonland❤️🔥
https://banteg.xyz/posts/crimsonland/
uvx crimsonland@latest
https://banteg.xyz/posts/crimsonland/
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so criiiinge
https://www.safebreach.com/blog/safebreach-labs-root-cause-analysis-and-poc-exploit-for-cve-2026-24061/
CVE-2026-24061: Telnetd RCE as Roothttps://www.safebreach.com/blog/safebreach-labs-root-cause-analysis-and-poc-exploit-for-cve-2026-24061/
SafeBreach
Root Cause Analysis & PoC Exploit for CVE-2026-24061 | SafeBreach
Learn more about SafeBreach Labs root cause analysis and PoC exploit for critical CVE-2026-24061: Telnetd RCE as Root Vulnerability.
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2022387879390122049.html
in case you think computers are deterministic
in case you think computers are deterministic
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LaurieWired (@lauriewired) on X
CPUs are getting worse.
We’ve pushed the silicon so hard that silent data corruptions (SDCs) are no longer a theoretical problem.
Mercurial Cores are terrifying because they don’t hard-fail; they produce rare, but *incorrect* computations!
We’ve pushed the silicon so hard that silent data corruptions (SDCs) are no longer a theoretical problem.
Mercurial Cores are terrifying because they don’t hard-fail; they produce rare, but *incorrect* computations!
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and a bit on the broader changes around making software
https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-74
https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-74
Thorstenball
Joy & Curiosity #74
Interesting & joyful things from the previous week
i wish all papers were written as legible as this one
A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058.pdf
A Comparative Security Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers
https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058.pdf
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life is stranger than fiction and funnier than comedy (see "title")
https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363
https://x.com/summeryue0/status/2025774069124399363
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Claude's Cycles
ok so it's not just Terence Tao, Donald Knuth is doing vibe research as well
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
ok so it's not just Terence Tao, Donald Knuth is doing vibe research as well
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf
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far from easily accessible but very impressive still
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/bc-man-cured-of-rare-disease-in-world-first-for-new-gene-editing-technology/
https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/bc-man-cured-of-rare-disease-in-world-first-for-new-gene-editing-technology/
CTVNews
B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editing technology
Ty Sperle says he felt “insane shock” after learning he’d been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.
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hypervisor escape exploits are rare and interesting (tweet is just a teaser but we'll see)
https://x.com/osec_io/status/2029643325125390550?s=46
https://x.com/osec_io/status/2029643325125390550?s=46
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OtterSec (@osec_io) on X
We recently achieved guest-to-host escape by exploiting a QEMU 0day.
We’ll share details on a new technique leveraging the latest glibc allocator behavior and what we believe is a novel QEMU-specific heap spray/RIP-control primitive.
Writeup coming next…
We’ll share details on a new technique leveraging the latest glibc allocator behavior and what we believe is a novel QEMU-specific heap spray/RIP-control primitive.
Writeup coming next…
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The Matrix v0.1 ALPHA
(full fruit fly brain simulation plus simplified embodiment by Eon Systems)
Scale it 1000000 times larger to fit the human brain and optimists get immortality, pessimists get digital prison.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theinnermostloop/p/the-first-multi-behavior-brain-upload
(full fruit fly brain simulation plus simplified embodiment by Eon Systems)
Scale it 1000000 times larger to fit the human brain and optimists get immortality, pessimists get digital prison.
https://open.substack.com/pub/theinnermostloop/p/the-first-multi-behavior-brain-upload
Substack
The First Multi-Behavior Brain Upload
The Singularity has belonged exclusively to artificial minds, until now.
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psychedelics & outdoors potentiate each other's effects & make them longer lasting -- for treatment-resistant depression, in this case
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12967759/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12967759/
PubMed Central (PMC)
The combination of exercise and psychedelics for the treatment of major depressive disorder
Upwards of 50% of people do not respond to the primary treatment modalities for major depressive disorder (MDD), which has led to increased attention and use of alternative methods, including exercise and psychedelics. While interventions using ...
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there's no magic in the world other than one that you can bring
https://fixupx.com/IterIntellectus/status/2032858964858228817?s=20
https://fixupx.com/IterIntellectus/status/2032858964858228817?s=20
FixupX
vittorio (@IterIntellectus)
this is actually insane
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated…
> be tech guy in australia
> adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live
> not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4
> pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA
> feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold
> zero background in biology
> identify mutated…