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JavaFX 27 as a Native Image on a Raspberry Pi 5 compares Substrate, Liberica NIK, and StaticFX for running JavaFX with AOT. It outlines hurdles: reachability metadata, static libraries, and integration glue. Substrate patches metadata and uses tooling; Liberica NIK bundles JavaFX with the JDK but omits media/web; StaticFX provides two artifacts and a feature to enable static linking without source changes. Media/Web are not supported. Benchmarks on the AtlantaFX sampler show Pi startup ~0.5 s vs JIT, with smaller image sizes. Conclusion: AOT speeds startup; metadata and third-party libs remain challenges; reachability annotations help; OpenJDK Mobile may ease work.
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Verda raised $189M in a Series B led by Emergence Capital, bringing total funding to over $450M. The round accelerates its full-stack AI cloud, expands data-center capacity (Finland and Europe, UK, US, Asia) toward 250+ MW by 2027, and funds its AI Lab and product roadmap. Verda now serves 50+ countries with a $165M annualized revenue run rate (July 2026). The platform offers GPU compute, instant clusters, serverless containers, fast NVMe storage, confidential computing, and upcoming features like S3-compatible object storage and managed Kubernetes.
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A Bristol-Oxford study analyzed FIFA World Cup 2026 broadcasts and found 93,000+ embedded brand appearances for unhealthy products (food, alcohol, gambling, crypto) across 172.6 hours of live play in 104 matches. Unhealthy food/drink logos dominated (70.4% of branding; 65,722 appearances); branding appeared in 39.3 hours of live play. In the UK, this generated about 267 billion impressions across 53 broadcasts; globally nearly six billion people engaged with the tournament. Using Isambard-AI, researchers call for stricter rules and technology to replace or limit harmful branding, with FIFA urged to adopt public-interest standards.
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semfont automatically styles text for readability by assigning every word four scores: valence, salience, surprise, and certainty, derived from word values, negation, intensification, repetition, and rarity. It runs a second pass to capture clause-level context and adjust colors, highlights, and emphasis; it can annotate words with the reason. It ships as a React component (SemanticText) and a plain analyze() API; it also shows an import-map CDN demo. GitHub: RohanAdwankar/semfont.
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User Jessé reports an AMD RNG bug: on AMD CPUs (possibly Zen2) the RDRAND/RDSEED instructions cannot produce a true zero for a given size, unlike Intel where zeros appear. He provides a test app (gtk4-bargraph) to visualize 16‑bit outputs and shows zeros never occur on AMD, while mixed 32/64‑bit outputs can yield zeros. A fix is suggested by generating 32/64‑bit values but feeding 16‑bit samples to the graph. The thread includes cross-CPU results, AMD's reply (likely misread), and broader crypto/hardware‑RNG discussions.
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David Bushell recounts upgrading macOS 15 and then macOS 27, noting macOS 15.3 phoned home with personal data and that Apple later removed a clear 'no' consent option. He disabled Siri again but still faces persistent processes and hidden settings under Screen Time that don’t truly disable 'Apple Intelligence.' A 22.28 GB disk brick results, and he estimates a ~£11 cost per device at £500/TB. He denounces the AI industry for lacking consent and cites alarming headlines about OpenAI and Microsoft, arguing there is no real choice against AI.
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WSJ 404 page not found. The page lists popular headlines: Gym Bros Are Going to Pilates—and Leaving Shaking Like a Chihuahua; The IRS Is Cracking Down on a Favorite Way the Ultrawealthy Pass On Money; Television Networks Suspend Some Coverage of Trump After Bans; Nasdaq Surges to New Record; Polymarket’s Rush to Grow at All Costs; Paramount Clears Major Legal Hurdle for Warner Megadeal.
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ThinkPad Used Buyer's Guide (last updated 2019) helps buyers find reasonably priced used ThinkPads that support Windows 10, with price ranges and model-by-model guidance. It explains modern naming conventions and categorizes models (T, X, W, X1 Carbon, Yoga) by size and generation. It promotes ThinkPad durability, Linux compatibility, and TrackPoint greatness, and provides an eBay-based deal-finding method, upgrade tips (SSD, IPS screens), and practical buying checks (BIOS, Computrace, batteries). Also notes potential unpatched Spectre/Meltdown concerns and links to extra resources.
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Drawing on Foer’s memory techniques, the author memorized the first 100 digits of pi by turning memorization into engineering. They used elaborative encoding, notably a PAO (person-action-object) system, to convert six-digit chunks into vivid imagery stored in a memory palace. With 100 PAOs, there are 1,000,000 glyphs; encoding 100 digits requires 17 glyphs. Building a robust PAO and its spreadsheet was the time-intensive step; once built, recall is local (few errors), pausable, and reversible. The system is scalable and practical; the author argues that average memory can memorize large amounts with practice, changing self-perception.
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Explores whether gzip can be a language model via the compression–prediction link: every predictor is a compressor and vice versa. By priming gzip with a corpus and scoring continuations by how short gzip(context+candidate) becomes, text generation can be driven without neural nets. With DEFLATE’s 32 KB window, the author uses beam search over next bytes, keeping the most-compressible continuations and expanding them. A naive single-byte choice fails due to quantization; beam search yields better results. Implemented in pure Python (zlib); code on GitHub; original paper showed poor results, but beam search helps.
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World Wide Words chronicles English usage and language evolution. Over 30 years it has covered new coinages, word histories, books on language, curious idioms, and quirks of native speech. It hosts more than 3,000 archived articles with no advertising and relies on reader donations via PayPal in multiple currencies. Copyright Michael Quinion, 1996–; last updated 23 Jun 2026.
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Firmware freedom argues guitarists should own hardware and run the firmware they choose, not be locked to fixed software. For working players, two sounds and practical hardware matter more than endless menus. Cheap MCUs like ESP32-S3 (~$3) and ESP32-P4 (~$4) can run multiple A2-Full models, stereo blocks, and USB audio, outperforming dedicated DSPs. CoyoPedal demonstrates this, with a single codebase for amps, effects, and UI that runs on S3, P4 today and future silicon tomorrow. Open-source (GPLv3), the project invites guitarists, processor makers, and pedal companies to open firmware, bootloaders, and docs.
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Waiting is the bottleneck in high‑performance I/O. Early kernels used blocking threads or polling, which scales poorly with many connections. epoll (Linux) and kqueue ( BSD/macOS) fix this by registering interest once and letting the kernel push readiness events, so cost scales with active events, not total descriptors. Epoll uses a persistent instance; you add/modify/remove fds and epoll_wait returns only ready ones. Kqueue is similar but broader, tracking various events. Go’s runtime builds its network scheduler atop these, using non‑blocking sockets and waking goroutines on events, enabling massive concurrency with few threads.
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MiMo-V2.6-Pro is Xiaomi's open-weights, multimodal LLM released Sept 2026. It has 1.0T total parameters (42B active via MoE), a 1M-token context window, and accepts text, image, speech, and video inputs with text output. It’s a reasoning model, fast at 125.2 tokens/sec but quite verbose (140M output tokens). MIT-licensed open weights. AI Index: 46. Estimated API pricing: $0.43/1M input tokens, $0.87/1M output tokens; blended ~$0.18/1M tokens. Available via 1 API provider.
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Apple Music will open a 600-capacity concert hall, Apple Music Hall, beneath its European HQ at Battersea Power Station in London. It will host one-off shows by major and emerging artists, filmed and streamed live. The venue features extensive cameras and speakers, a configurable stage, dressing rooms with en-suite showers, and dedicated studios for Apple Music radio, DJ mixes and rehearsals, all wired for video/audio for podcasts and live streams. Apple says the aim is bespoke content to connect artists with fans and support new acts, amid London's venue closures.
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Gwern argues that PDF forgeries are surprisingly rare. While videos, images, and Word documents are frequently forged, editing an existing PDF to mimic a real paper is uncommon. When a fraudulent PDF does appear, it’s usually a new, unpublished white paper or preprint—not a counterfeit of a published article—and often originated from Word rather than the PDF. PDFs aren’t part of a typical “edit and resend” workflow; there’s no widespread “Photoshop for PDFs.” As a result, fraudulent PDFs circulate far less plausibly and require more effort to deceive than other media.
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Truman World is a live, TV‑show‑like simulation where everyone directs to keep Truman convinced his world is real. The world runs on a GPT-6 Astra One engine with JEV (Decision Engine) and Director mode, plus live camera control. The interface shows action selection blocked for now, waiting for telemetry, while drafts reconnect and the current scene awaits input. Memory is limited; no inherited or public memory excerpts exist. Truman’s thoughts and perspective are pending; no cast or recent activity yet.
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Paper Models of Polyhedra offers free printable nets to build a wide range of polyhedra, including Platonic, Archimedean, Kepler–Poinsot, and other uniform polyhedra, plus compounds, pyramids, prisms, antiprisms, kaleidocycles and more. The site features collections and selections (e.g., football ball, dodecahedra), download pages (PDF nets), instructions, and video tutorials. Browsing aids include indexes by type, alphabet, visual, and number of faces, plus a visual index for additional models. Language options and a Facebook page are available.
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