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IMAX 70mm delivers the ultimate cinema experience: 1.43:1 aspect, huge 70mm frames, up to ~18K resolution, and extreme brightness, projected on very large screens. Only around two dozen theaters offer true 70mm; very few films are shot entirely in this format (The Odyssey). Many titles are shown in IMAX 70mm via partial 70mm shoots or digital upscaling, which reduces sharpness. Digital IMAX (IMAX with Laser) can reach 4K with 1.43:1 or 1.90:1, but is scarcer. Standard 70mm (5/70) is better than 35mm but still below true IMAX in detail. Check local listings for the preferred format.
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Tasklet is hiring a Customer Success Engineer in San Francisco, CA. Salary $130k–$180k, equity 0.05%–0.15%, with benefits. Role: own inbound support, live chats, high-touch onboarding, and account growth; diagnose complex issues; automate workflows; build AI-augmented support; improve internal tooling and dashboards; deliver self-serve resources; feed insights to product/engineering. Ideal candidate: roughly 1–5 years of experience, strong, empathetic communicator, tech power user, and AI/automation enthusiast with high agency. How to apply: email [email protected] with résumé, links, and a ≤5-minute video including who you are, your ability to work full-time in SF, and a relevant demo.
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Diamond iO is an ambitious obfuscation approach replacing traditional iO with a hybrid ABE-FHE construction. It encodes inputs as BGG+ encodings tied to a circuit, runs FHE over them to obtain f'(x,z), and uses trapdoors (K_G, K_f) to ensure decryption only for the exact circuit. A key innovation is the path-product (tensor) mechanism that yields per-input encodings with unique secrets s_L, allowing the evaluator to traverse a 2^L tree without leaking s. Security rests on evasive LWE and all-product LWE. Efficiency bottlenecks include H1 cost, circuit depth, and GSW overhead; optimization routes exist.
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Record-low Danube levels force Hungary to shut its only nuclear plant at Paks, as cooling water cannot reach intake. Prime Minister Péter Magyar warned the energy supply could become critical amid a heatwave reaching 37C. Hungary may impose peak-hour power cuts and limit consumption; Romania has shut one Cernavoda reactor for similar reasons, risking temporary loss of nuclear energy there. The drought is linked to climate change, with Europe’s rivers and temperatures at multi-decade lows.
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Daniel Lemire cites Tony Feng's claim that AI now lets people produce a passable PhD thesis across fields, not just math. He recalls pre-internet research, the rise of search engines and Google Scholar, which let lone researchers master literature quickly and helped PhD numbers surge in the US and China. Code, data sharing, automation, and agentic AI have lowered barriers; a PhD thesis generator could produce a paper resembling a 2015 thesis. Oral defenses are not always revealing. He warns that modern academia's foundations feel blown apart; Feng later argues that adaptation, not despair, is needed.
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Chrome explains AI-powered vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching to outpace attackers. Since 2023 they’ve used LLMs (Naptime, Big Sleep, CodeMender, Gemini) to find bugs, plus a knowledge base and SECURITY.md guidance. Automated triage (filtering, reproduction, metadata, routing) and multi-agent fixes (fixing, critic, tests) have accelerated remediation, with 1072 security bugs fixed in Chrome 149–150. They aim to reduce the patch gap with faster releases (two-week cadence, piloting two security releases per week) and dynamic patching to avoid restarts. Long term: shift to memory-safe languages like Rust, spanification, and proactive third-party updates; stay vigilant online.
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References the ccsim project from CC Lab.
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Gander is a small, open‑source Android file viewer that works offline and requires zero permissions. It opens PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, photos, video, audio, Markdown and code entirely on-device (no internet, no analytics, no accounts, no tracking), with no ads. It uses Pdfium for PDFs, a tiled image viewer for photos, Media3 ExoPlayer for video/audio, and a sandboxed WebView for other formats. It relies on Storage Access Framework and Open With intents, shows recent folders, and supports share/locate. Build from source with Gradle; MIT license.
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DeepSeek’s Change Log updates API releases across versions, with the latest DeepSeek-V4-Flash in public beta. Access remains via model=deepseek-v4-flash and the same API; benchmarks highlight stronger agent capabilities. DeepSeek-V4-Pro/Flash support OpenAI ChatCompletions and Anthropic interfaces; legacy model names deepseek-chat and deepseek-reasoner will be retired on 2026-07-24 (currently mapped to V4-Flash modes). Earlier entries cover V3.1/3.2 and V2.5, with features like JSON output, function calling, 8K tokens, chat/completions endpoints, and on-disk context caching.
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Relying on a single metric like mean latency can hide a complex story. In a week-long rollout of a caching tier, mean latency rose while p50 fell and p99 rose, showing that different percentiles move in opposite directions. CDFs reveal bimodality: fast cache hits and slow misses; a ridge of days shows the regression emerges over time. Conditioning on hit/miss and on response size clarifies the cause: large objects tend to miss the cache and slow down. Fixes: raise max cache size or split large responses; use multiple views, not a single number.
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MarbleOS is a GUI for AI agents featuring a visible workspace with files, tools, tasks, and outputs, not buried in chat threads. It offers onboarding, a beta download, and demos.
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OpenJDK PR 8389219 implements JEP 401: Value Objects (Preview) and JEP 539: Strict Field Initialization in the JVM (Preview) as part of Valhalla/lworld. It is the master PR for the initial preview, with sub‑PRs for language (8317277), JVM (8317278), and standard library (8317279). The effort involves extensive reviews, CSR requirements, and eventual integration after merge conflicts. After multiple commits and approvals, it was pushed and integrated (commit cc278db) around 2026-07-31.
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Satirical promo for "HUMAN2LLM Clinic" that riffs sci‑fi onboarding: humans can be tokenized into AI via TokenMinMaxxing, Embodiment Serum, and a five-step conversion, aided by an intake agent and checkout flow at a hidden API. It mocks wellness marketing, includes fake testimonials from ex-humans and LLMs, warns it's a honeypot, and closes with "No humans were tokenized"—a parody of conversion schemes.
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Bunnie Huang visits a factory that makes USB flash drives and reveals the early, hand-made steps. Bare FLASH chips are screened for capacity and function with probe cards in a non-clean-room environment, then manually placed onto PCBs. Operators use bamboo-like sticks to position dies, aided by surface-tension glue that releases the die when touched. A automated bond machine wires the chips to a controller IC; mis-bonds are repaired by hand. Panels of eight sticks are overmolded, cut, and the dies are thinned; the process yields flexible, ultra-thin USB memories, with Intel flash and controller dies.
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The piece argues that inference APIs erode user control by moving transcripts into provider-held state—encrypted reasoning, stored responses, hosted searches, and inter-agent messages—making sessions non-portable. It proposes five portability tests: Inspection (what the model saw and did), Export (self-contained archives), Replay (semantically equivalent handoff), Audit (explain actions after the fact), Deletion (erase server copies). It advocates a portable design: a canonical local event log, explicit server storage, readable handoffs, full-fidelity logs for hosted tools, auditable subagents, readable compaction, and exportable artifacts. It also supports distillation and insists users must be able to move a session between models for true freedom.
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