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NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate physical AI, mobility, and AI infrastructure across LG’s robotics, autonomous driving, data centers and GPU cloud. The collaboration fuses NVIDIA’s AI factory platform with LG’s manufacturing and electronics leadership, creating a unified workflow from model development to data generation, simulation, edge deployment and digital twins. They aim to establish an autonomous manufacturing ecosystem and a global smart‑factory standard, with joint reference robots in the Isaac GR00T ecosystem, synthetic data via NVIDIA Cosmos, and DSX‑aligned infrastructure. They will also advance DRIVE-based mobility, components, and sovereign AI with EXAONE.
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Historically, currencies used fractions (e.g., 1/8) because traders counted on fingers; GnuCash preserved fractional storage (minor units) to handle currencies and commodities robustly, a legacy that still works well today (Bitcoin and Satoshis). However, fractions slow arithmetic and can yield bugs; modern systems favor decimals. HandsOnMoney uses the same minor-unit approach with per-account fixed precision, enabling precise crypto handling but disallowing on-the-fly precision changes and non-standard fractional commodities. The result is a practical but legacy design.
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Social platforms have shifted from friend-focused networks to entertainment hubs designed to maximise time-on-site and ad revenue. People like Aurélia in France scroll for content from creators rather than friends; many post less, or only in private groups. The divide is widening: Instagram/TikTok for discovery and entertainment, WhatsApp for socializing. Ads remain the core revenue, with global ad spend rising to about $317B in 2026 and Meta leading. Small businesses must now be creators. Gen Z treats platforms as primary search/shopping tools, while some fret about privacy and backlash.
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Zig by Example is a hands-on introduction to Zig via annotated examples. It covers core concepts and data types (Hello World, values, variables, integers, floats, strings, arrays, structs, enums, unions), control flow (if/switch/loops), memory and safety (pointers, optionals, defer), and common tasks (I/O, JSON, sorting, interop). The examples show Zig’s emphasis on robustness, simplicity, no hidden control flow or allocations, and no preprocessor. Targeted at Zig 0.14, it’s inspired by Go by Example, with additional resources and references.
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Amber Tree is a middle-ground syntax tree for Rowan, offering a friendly API with text-range support while avoiding parent/sibling traversal. An AmberNode<'a> holds a &GreenNode and a TextRange, tying lifetimes to the green tree for memory safety and cheap traversal. It delivers ergonomics similar to the red tree but with performance approaching the green tree. Used in wasm-language-tools, it yields substantial speedups (e.g., formatter ~2.4x) and reduces allocations; see PR #36.
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Config files that run code are a major supply chain blindspot. Ordinary-looking files in editors and package managers (eg .github/setup.js, Cursor rules, Claude/Gemini hooks, VS Code tasks, Gemfile, composer.json) can execute commands on folder open, session start, or install. SafeDep’s Miasma campaign shows a dropper hidden in these files that exfiltrates secrets when triggered. Trust prompts don’t stop them; headless or pre-trusted repos bypass prompts. To defend: review config/dotfiles as code, grep for auto-run hooks, and treat editor/package-manager configs as part of the trusted base. Triggers, authority, and grammar decide risk; detection covers broader auto-run surfaces beyond dependencies.
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The post argues LLMs won’t instantly replace knowledge work; local tax/code details still require humans, though much domain knowledge is now promptable. It describes anxiety about commoditization: generic docs, AI-driven workflows, and ticket-based testing reduce human input. Some engineers will become AI-native toolbuilders, but many professions (copywriting, UX, finance, law) risk layoffs as demand tightens. The author urges adaptation over doom, warning against hype and advocating practical harnesses and tooling to ride the wave rather than resist it.
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FIPR warns compulsory online age verification in the UK could worsen harm rather than reduce it, and may exclude many adults from digital services. The think tank argues verification doesn't tackle harmful content, privacy and security risks of data (biometrics, IDs), potential data misuse, and could marginalise minority groups. It notes systems can be bypassed and could push under-16s to unregulated sites with worse content. It proposes tagging and blocking as an alternative. The article also covers UK government moves toward under-16 social media bans and broader powers under new legislation.
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Reese Richardson reports that, as of June 3, 2026, they identified over 450 images in Thermo Fisher’s antibody verification data showing manipulation (plus one suspected from Abcam). A Zenodo repository catalogs problematic images. The issues began with a Western blot labeled 'Advanced Verification' for an anti-p53 antibody, where bands were identical after flipping or rotating. Further searches found over 100 such images across eight other products, with signs like brush strokes, repetitive background noise, and duplicated blocks. Verification data may be unreliable; Thermo Fisher says data are generated internally or by third parties. The repo invites reporting.
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EU Open Source Strategy centers open source in Europe’s tech sovereignty, promoting European open alternatives to non‑EU proprietary solutions and strengthening open digital ecosystems across public and private sectors. It aims to develop, deploy and sustain open-source technologies throughout their lifecycle, aligned with the European Tech Sovereignty and Digital Sovereignty package. Benefits include reduced dependence on non‑EU technologies and better interoperability for administrations, businesses, citizens and developers. The strategy tackles funding, scaling, procurement, and visibility challenges through concrete actions—policy uptake (digital identity and wallets), procurement guidance, OSPO networks, maintenance instruments, and targeted funding—plus international outreach.
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Defines a spherical Voronoi diagram on the Earth's surface, with regions of points closest to each seed. The implementation computes the 3D convex hull of the seed points with a randomized incremental algorithm, which corresponds to the spherical Delaunay triangulation. The project is work in progress; next tasks include handling coplanar points and displaying the spherical convex hull (boundary for points within a hemisphere, or the entire sphere otherwise).
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Announces that OneDrive data now has an expiry date; the page mainly shows navigation links and a cookie consent banner.
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Describes the Cypherpunk Library—a personal, public-domain collection of cyberpunk and crypto/privacy writings, free from sales or takedowns. It notes non-public-domain works can be found via Anna’s Archive, LibGen, and torrents. The catalog lists works such as A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, Your Secret Right to Cash, The Praxeology of Privacy, Of Cypherpunks and Sousveillance, Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash, Why I Wrote PGP, Definition of Democratic Civilization, The Conscience of a Hacker, The Cyphernomicon, Meditations on Cypherpunk Nightmares, T.A.Z., The Beauty of eCash, and 21 Lessons.
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Britain built the largest floating dry dock ever attempted—a 380-foot iron U-shaped platform weighing over 8,000 tons—to repair Atlantic ships after Bermuda’s porous sandstone made conventional docks impractical. It could lift 10,000-ton ironclads like HMS Warrior using ballast tanks and pumps. In June 1869 it was towed almost 4,000 nautical miles to Bermuda in stages by ironclads Agincourt, Northumberland, Warrior, and Black Prince, aided by HMS Terrible, even with a sail rig to catch winds, reaching over 6 knots. It served Royal Navy needs for about 30 years until 1906.
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GitHub Status reports an incident causing degraded performance and unavailability of Pull Requests and Issues for signed-out users, affecting Issues, Pull Requests, and Actions. Initial investigation at 07:11 UTC; updates note degraded performance for Issues/PRs, with impact limited to unauthenticated users; Actions also degraded. Team pursuing mitigation; more updates to come.
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Trusted Computing (TCPA/TCG, Palladium/NGSCB) proposes a Fritz/Hexium processor chip–based platform that boots systems into a trusted state and enforces content and software rights via remote policy servers, enabling DRM, tamper-resistance, and controlled document/file use across apps and devices. While pitched as security, critics warn it centralizes power, weakens user rights, threatens privacy, undermines GPL/open source, curtails innovation, and risks censorship and antitrust issues; early hardware exists, with Palladium later renamed NGSCB/LaGrande and broader scope.
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TechCrunch explains the “Tokenpocalypse” after Microsoft raises per-token costs for GitHub Copilot, signaling higher AI tool costs as labs pursue IPOs. In Equity, hosts debate how pricing shifts and usage caps could reshape AI adoption and profitability, noting investor subsidies and potential cost-shifting to customers. The discussion also covers Uber’s spending patterns, risk factors in Anthropic’s S-1, and government action, including a Trump executive order to review powerful AI models.
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Explores what the 384-number DINOv3 ViT-S embedding encodes and how to interpret it. It shows generating images from a target embedding by gradient optimization, augmentations, and an untrained transformer backbone with total-variation loss to visualize directions in the space. The key idea is superposition: many features occupy 384 dimensions, making single numbers opaque. A sparse autoencoder (SAE) yields ~12,000 interpretable feature directions; decomposing embeddings with the SAE reveals activations (e.g., trees, bridges, strawberries). Features can be added or interpolated, producing blends. A UMAP coactivation map shows feature clusters. The piece highlights structure beyond 384 numbers and asks questions.
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AI is turning the tech industry on itself, as leaders hype vision while fear of disruption grows. LLMs are powerful but flawed and lack an objective oracle, complicating tasks like meeting-note summaries. Open-source code and internal tooling fuel rapid AI progress, deepening disruption. Expect price wars, a flood of low-signal content, wage pressure on creatives, and lasting industry transformation as talent pipelines dry. Wealth concentrates with owners, execs, investors, and model providers. Taxation, regulation, and unions could curb this, but the author is doubtful. Cannibals are hungry; we’re meat.
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Australian doctor Richard Scolyer has died at 59, three years after being diagnosed with an aggressive glioblastoma. A pioneering melanoma researcher, he underwent a world‑first experimental brain‑tumour treatment with immunotherapy and a personalized vaccine developed with Georgina Long. Their work improved melanoma outcomes and sparked an early US brain‑cancer trial. Scolyer, co‑director of Melanoma Institute Australia and Australian of the Year 2024 with Long, documented his journey online and urged ongoing scientific bravery. He is survived by his wife Katie Nicholl and three children.
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