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Fragment referencing Gaussian Splats by Chyuang Chyuang, showing a web/demo interface with loading splats, keyboard hints, and navigation controls: click to activate; drag to orbit; wheel to zoom; shift-drag to pan; ESC to release; sound on; with sections labeled "Keyboards" and "Before segmentation."
Factoring RSA-260, a 260-digit RSA modulus, was achieved with GPU-accelerated GNFS guided by Devin (an autonomous software agent). They built a high-performance GPU lattice siever and ran the GNFS pipeline on spare cluster capacity. The run cost about 4,900 GPU-days (~13.5 GPU-years) or ~$400k, with roughly 643 GPU-days for polynomial selection, 3,813 for sieving, and 467 for linear algebra. RSA-260 factors into two ~130-digit primes. This suggests RSA-1024 could be feasible at ~$30M, while RSA-2048 remains far harder; human oversight remained essential alongside AI orchestration.
Muse, the English rock band, has had its social handles usurped by Meta’s new AI agent, also named Muse. The switch appears to have happened earlier this year, with Instagram and X handles shifting to @Muse for Meta’s agent while the band now uses @museband on X and Instagram. Meta posts briefly tagged the band—described as a bug—before clarifications. The article notes a pattern of platforms appropriating or hijacking usernames around major announcements (Meta’s @Meta, Threads incidents, X’s handle marketplace) and fans’ disappointment given Muse’s tech-focused themes.
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AF_VSOCK enables VM-to-host and VM-to-VM communication using 32‑bit context IDs and ports, akin to sockets with stream/datagram modes. The article notes libzmq offers low‑level bindings with no built‑in vsock abstraction, and proposes adding vsock support to libzmq by forking pyzmq (pyzmq-vsock). It covers testing via the loopback CID (VMADDR_CID_LOCAL), QEMU/vsock device setup, and using libzmq’s patterns, including curve authentication, to implement simple req/rep and pub/sub examples. Practical asyncio/curve demos are provided to illustrate secure vsock messaging.
South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker announced the show’s new season will be named South America, a dig at Donald Trump’s bids to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America and the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. In a social post they joked, “Inspired by Apple and Google, we are changing the name of South Park to SOUTH AMERICA,” as the series—now in its 29th season—won an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program. It’s unclear if the change is permanent; the premiere is September 16.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg announced on a company Slack that he has been placed on paid leave, claiming board members conspired with CFO Mark Davies to vote him out and appoint Davies interim CEO. Davies said Mullenweg will remain a board member with a voice in direction; the board says they asked him to step aside. Mullenweg says he requested time for independent legal review, which was denied. The piece notes his history of disputes at Automattic, including 2024 employee buyouts and a bid to own the word 'automatic.'
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Researchers led by George Nash of the Lost Land Bridge Project have identified eight cave sites in southwest Ireland with rock art dating to at least 15,000 years ago, about 5,000 years earlier than Ireland's oldest evidence. They argue the first humans in Ireland arrived from Wales via a land bridge between Pembrokeshire and Rosslare during the Ice Age. Using AI-assisted mapping, they screened 28 potential caves and found eight with engravings, ochre and charcoal paintings, and line sketches indented into clay. The team suspects more sites remain to be found and caution against revealing exact locations.
Habitat, debuted in 1989 as the first massively multiplayer virtual world, built for the Commodore 64 (64 KB RAM, 100 KB disk) on the QuantumLink online service. It let players create avatars, buy houses, decorate, socialize at a central fountain, and run open-ended activities (newspapers, churches, performances). It introduced in-game currency and a user-driven economy, and coined terms like avatar. The experiment revealed online communities’ unpredictable behavior, including a money-exploiting dupe bug; engineering and latency constraints shaped its design, previewing future online worlds.
Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Ultra 4, powered by the Health Sensing System and S11 chip for the most accurate heart-rate and HRV, plus a Readiness score. It delivers over two days of battery life (up to 50 hours; 45 hours extended GPS modes), faster charging, and top-tier on-device GPS. The redesigned Health app adds Longevity and Health Age; Audio Intelligence (Live Rewind, Siri Recap, Sound Recognition, Shazam) and watchOS 27 Siri AI expand private, on-wrist insights. Pre-orders open now; starts at $799; ships Sept 18. Natural and black titanium, Hermès variants; eco-friendly materials.
OtoDock is a self-hosted, multi-tenant AI agent platform that runs Claude Code/Codex (or ChatGPT/OpenAI) on your own hardware with local models. Build agents with six parts: Persona, Memory, Workspace, Knowledge, Skills, Tools. Shareable in four modes (Personal, Personal+Shared, Shared+Personal, Shared). Roles: Admin, Manager, Creator, Editor, Member, Viewer. Agents run in per-session kernel sandboxes with network isolation and encrypted credentials; can pair with other machines and handle phone calls. Features include live dashboards, extensive tooling, documents/images/video, web browsing, MCP catalog, budgets, SSO, and enterprise security. Free for up to 5 users; Docker install.
Apple announced Apple Watch Series 12 with a Health Sensing System and S11 chip for higher-frequency heart rate and HRV, plus a Readiness score. The redesigned Health app introduces Longevity and Health Age. watchOS 27 unlocks Siri AI and Audio Intelligence (Sound Recognition, Live Rewind, Siri Recap, Shazam) with privacy by design. Battery reaches up to 24 hours daily (10 hours outdoors) with faster 15-minute charging for ~12 more hours. Available in 42/46 mm with ceramic, titanium, aluminum, and Hermès finishes; starts at $399. Pre-orders begin Sept 9; ships Sept 18.
Apple unveils iPhone Duo, the first foldable iPhone, with a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer display. It features a titanium frame, IP68 durability, and a glare-reducing nano-texture inner panel. Powered by the A20 Pro chip with 7-core GPU and 16-core Neural Engine, it sports a 48MP Dual Fusion camera system (Main + Ultra Wide) and an under-display FaceTime camera, plus Siri AI and Apple Intelligence. StandBy and Split View enable multitasking; it’s eSIM-only with MagSafe and up to 2TB storage. Pre-orders Oct 16; ships Oct 23, 2026. Available at Apple Store and carriers; trade-in options.
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Ploum outlines an uncompromising AI policy: no interaction with AI or its outputs as sources; prefer human-written content and critical thinking. He distrusts generated images and code, warning that reliance on AI makes projects hard to maintain. He champions open source for maintainability and accountability. In education, students must submit work wholly produced by themselves. He views AI as addictive and harmful to learning, culture, and the economy, and urges avoiding AI discussions in class to keep human agency at the center.
Procedural Graph stores procedural knowledge as (procedure, relation, procedure) triplets to guide LLM agents with step-level, queryable hints rather than an unbounded history. A guidance model translates the surrounding subgraph into situational hints that bias the next action without dictating it. The graph self-evolves: an LLM refiner contrasts failed vs successful trajectories, edits topology and attributes, and commits only edits that improve held-out validation, discarding the rest. Starting from a minimal skeleton, it matches or surpasses hand-designed graphs and can repair flawed priors. It outperforms memory baselines across datasets and LLMs, with added gains from self-evolution.
Apple Watch Ultra 4 delivers up to 50 hours and 45 hours for Max Extended Workout, with 15-minute charging. Titanium case in natural or black, sapphire display; MIL-STD-810H. 100m water resistance (40m diving with third-party apps) and IP6X dust resistance. Health system redesign: higher-frequency heart rate and HRV, readiness and sleep scores, cycle tracking, ECG, SpO2, hypertension alerts. Satellite Emergency SOS, Find My and Messages via satellite; Fall and Crash Detection and a siren. Siri AI and Audio Intelligence on the S11 chip; redesigned Health app with Apple Intelligence. Cellular models work without iPhone; Oceanic+ diving, offline maps, Backtrack.
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