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An in-depth tour of a modern smartphone, explaining how each layer—from display coatings, hardened glass and capacitive touch sensors to the AMOLED/TFT pixel grid, front cameras and sensors—functions. It then traces the phone’s sensing, navigation (GPS and MEMS), motion (accelerometer, gyroscope, IMU), audio (microphones, speakers, haptics), and the SoC architecture (CPU, GPU, NPU, memory, secure processor), plus the radio system, battery and cooling, chassis and buttons, camera modules, and LED illumination. Concludes by highlighting the hand-held device’s complexity and ubiquity as 'the everything machine'.
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The Map is Part 0 of a readable tour of PyTorch internals. It frames PyTorch as eight floors from Python to compiled kernels, with most work living in shared libraries and a small Python surface. It explains the boundary between languages, the dispatcher and autograd, and how a simple operation incurs boundary costs while memory and clocks diverge between CPU and GPU. It then maps the repository and ecosystem, introduces twelve guiding ideas, and offers runnable proof scripts to verify concepts as you read.
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Compression is prediction explains how data compression uses redundancy, models, and entropy coders to shrink data. It contrasts minification with true compression, covers transforms, models, and entropy coders (arithmetic vs Huffman), and shows that bits per symbol equal −log2(p) with entropy as the lower bound. Context (order-N models) improves prediction and reduces bits. The piece links language modeling and compression: LLMs predict next tokens to boost probabilities and compression, but practical limits (cost and latency) curb using LLMs as replacements for standard codecs. It concludes compression and LLMs are two views of the same information-theoretic idea: prediction.
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NVIDIA expands Nemotron 3 with 3.5 Lightning, a 30B mixture-of-experts model optimized for high-volume, always-on agentic AI. It delivers up to 4x faster output and ~30% faster task completion, and can be post-trained on domain data to improve accuracy. It runs locally on RTX PCs, DGX, Jetson, or at scale in data centers and the cloud, with privacy and deployment control. NVIDIA also releases NeMo Switchyard, an open-source router that directs prompts to the most capable model, reducing costs while maintaining frontier accuracy. Together they enable a system-of-models approach across edge to cloud.
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Five CSS properties to elevate web typography: background-clip fills text with an image or gradient; vertical-align and align-content help vertical alignment; box-decoration-break applies edge styles to line fragments; letter-spacing controls glyph spacing and enables text animations; text-combine-upright supports vertical writing with horizontal text in East Asian typography. Practical examples accompany each, and the piece promotes typography as a design lever, mentioning Master.dev’s typography course.
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Jordan Matelsky experiments with a pen plotter to make hand-etched holograms by etching reflective ridges on CD jewel cases. Using finger-smudge highlights, he explains how ridge curvature directs light into the eye, creating a depth cue as the viewer moves. He renders 3D scenes so each point forms a ridge whose curvature inversely tracks distance, producing a tangible hologram without lasers. After trying plastics and paper, jewel cases work best. A sharp tool and a point light source are essential. He shares lessons and code on GitHub and links to Beaty’s hand-drawn holography work.
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Security verification page from the Financial Times. Access is blocked (403) and requires enabling JavaScript and cookies; a help link (help.ft.com) and details to resolve the issue (Request ID, status code) are shown, along with Terms, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, Manage Cookies, and notes on copyright and FT’s Editorial Code of Practice.
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Japan confronts a debt-to-GDP ratio above 200% and a weakening yen amid higher energy costs from the Iran war. Inflation runs about 1.7% (food up 3.2%; fish 6.9%), pressuring households and eroding PM Takaichi’s popularity. Raising interest rates could curb inflation but raise borrowing costs and hit bond values, hurting insurers. To shield consumers, Tokyo cuts food tax and subsidizes fuel, widening debt and interest costs (about 25% of the budget). The government counters with a $2.3 trillion growth plan through 2040—expanding nuclear, defense, AI, semiconductors, and exports to reduce import dependence, funded by more debt.
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David Friedman recounts landing Polo Ralph Lauren’s in‑house photographer role in 2000, a job he found via a newspaper classifieds listing. Using the Times Machine and his digital archives, he locates the January 16, 2000 ad—“PHOTOGRAPHER—Leading Fashion Company … 4x5 camera, heavy volume, full benefits” with a fax to CWP. He reflects on imperfect memories of the details and his boss’s voice, and invites readers to share similar newspaper‑found job stories.
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Modular releases Mojo 1.0, establishing a stable, production-ready language foundation for MAX and Modular Cloud. Mojo 1.0 prioritizes long-term stability with additive evolution; community contributions exceed 200 contributors, 1,100 PRs, and 200k lines of code since open-sourcing the standard library. Mojo 26.5 adds Python-style lambdas, a steadier LSP, 1.0-ready AI Skills, memory-safety diagnostics, and more consistent where clauses; future plans include async, pattern matching, unions, and open-sourcing the compiler/toolchain in 2026. MAX 26.5 adds easier installation, GLM-5.2/Nemotron-H models, Kimi 2.5 with Module V3, and open-source agent skills.
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OpenSSH 10.5 / 10.5p1 (2026-08-11) introduces ECC support as a portability requirement for Portable OpenSSH (NISTP521), with a focus on security fixes and small bug fixes. New features include ssh-keygen flags to manage touch/verify requirements on FIDO keys; an ssh -Z mode to display keys tried during pubkey authentication; updated certificate/key selection order to prefer low-friction authenticators; and sshd/sshd_config improvements. The release also includes wider DSCP/IPQoS adjustments, setproctitle usage, and numerous bug fixes (use-after-free, key restriction handling, non-blocking reads, etc.) across ssh, sshd, and SFTP.
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Advait Arun argues the AI boom’s chief scandal isn’t fraud but how tech oligarchs raise vast capital on the promise of an automated future. SpaceX’s $1.75 trillion IPO—driven by Musk’s xAI merger—exemplifies this: unprofitable, funded by opaque private credit, with a governance structure that concentrates control in Musk. A tiny public float and index‑fund dynamics magnify market distortions despite disclosures. Transparency alone won’t curb irrationality; a robust anti‑oligarchy agenda—higher progressive taxes, capital‑gains taxes, media regulation, and campaign‑finance reform—will democratize finance, not tax AI.
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Go is pitched as more than a language—it's a platform for AI-assisted software engineering, with an end-to-end toolchain across the SDLC. Its readability, compatibility, and batteries-included standard library foster uniform tooling, helping AI-generated code be reviewed and verified more easily. The static type system catches errors early, and built-in security features and a robust dependency model reduce supply-chain risks. Compatibility guarantees and static binaries support long-term maintainability and cross-platform deployment. Together, these guardrails enable safe human–AI collaboration on production systems.
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Amber Newell of Brookfield, Wisconsin, was pulled over at gunpoint twice in one week after Flock license-plate cameras flagged her car as connected to a homicide. The alerts hadn’t been cleared because an employee forgot to delete them, causing high-tension stops on the highway, including a repeat incident the previous Monday. The piece warns that outdated alerts in automated camera systems risk innocent drivers and calls for an apology and tighter oversight.
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Write.md is a free, open-source Markdown editor for macOS focused on shaping the writing space rather than preset themes. It edits local .md files with no account, telemetry, or AI services. Users create and save reusable profiles that customize type (size, line height, width), appearance (color, opacity, glass, borders), canvas (backgrounds, images/videos), and layout. Optional Vim mode and local corrections are available. It runs on Apple Silicon, licensed Apache 2.0, with source on GitHub. Built to let you switch moods by saving different spaces; no bundled theme pack.
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Photosynthesis is an iPhone camera app that captures two lenses at once and blends them into a single high‑resolution photo using real optical detail from each lens, with no generative AI. It pairs the inner more-detailed lens with the outer lens (1x+Zoom or 1x+0.5x; Pro models may use a 3-lens pairing in beta), delivering wider framing without sacrificing detail. Features include an in‑app editor, professional exports (PSD, spatial/3D), optional iCloud backup, and unlimited capture/editing, with a 14‑day free trial and paid subscription for full access. Coming Summer 2026.
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