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Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert explains refactoring Plush VM Value from a 16-byte Rust enum to a 64-bit tagged word, using low-bit tagging: fixnums (62-bit), flonums with self-tagging, immediates, and two pointer kinds. This eliminates heavy enum storage, reduces memory and improves cache locality; floats encoded with bias allow direct boxing/unboxing; fast paths unify many operations; benchmark results show every test faster, often significantly, due to better register usage and fewer spills; some boxing remains in edge cases like left shifts; minor memory regressions in sha256_unfixed resolved with small changes; future work: register-based interpreter and JetLISP; a game demo exists.
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OUI-1 is an open-weight DiffusionGemma finetune that writes interfaces in OpenUI Lang, designed to run on consumer hardware. With 26B parameters (4B active) and FP8, weights on Hugging Face, it achieves 71.7% on the Generative UI Benchmark, vs 13% for the base. Trained in three phases: supervised fine-tuning, self-distillation, and generalization across 27 libraries. It delivers fast, reliable on-device UI generation (<1s) and generalizes to new libraries (AppLess 55/60 valid outputs vs 23/60 for DiffusionGemma). Directions: personal devices, OpenUI Lang 0.5, lower latency.
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Hiring engineering like an executive search means starting with a written, ranked 'excellent' spec for the role and mapping a small list of people who fit. Move from a generic funnel to a people-centered process: a network asks for names, not broad outreach; build a shortlist from candidates who keep appearing in your circle. Test candidates by working with them on real problems, not just interviews; let both sides judge fit. Close with a fair offer early, stay in touch through onboarding, and nurture team talent density. Start with one role and scale.
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LLM Attention Visualization presents an interactive look at how transformers attend to past tokens during generation. Hovering over generated tokens reveals which earlier tokens influenced the next one, computed as attention weights scaled by value magnitudes across heads and layers and mapped to token opacity. The visualization is simplified but shows patterns like copying from source data and how small models can reproduce code with hints. Implemented as a React app using Transformers.js with a custom instrumented ONNX model (wasm-based) and pre-generated prompts for instant loading; code sits in a GitHub repo.
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Herdr adds multi-machine support: a single client can manage multiple remote machines’ agents and terminals via SSH. In v0.9, the outer UI runs on the client, while each server hosts its own sessions; you can add a remote target with “herdr machine add <target>” and view it in the same TUI. You can switch between machines without a new client, and agents keep running when disconnected. The CLI remains per-server for now; cross-machine CLI is planned. Looking to 1.0, Herdr Cloud would connect machines under one account with end-to-end encryption, potentially enabling session migration between machines.
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Invitation to apply to Y Combinator's Early Access Network.
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CEPR DP21706 reports a large randomized trial in France (243 high schools, 9,628 students) testing (i) a one-year free digital subscription to a leading national newspaper, and (ii) teacher-delivered media-education modules, applied alone or together. Using actual online news data, the study finds strong uptake of the free subscription and sustained increases in news consumption (+0.49–0.60 sd) and future-demand, including an 8 percentage-point rise in paid subscriptions after about a year. Deprived-school students gain 0.20–0.31 sd in news knowledge, narrowing information gaps by 45–70%. Both interventions improve media literacy (0.08–0.26 sd).
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Security Verification page from the Financial Times instructs users to enable JavaScript and cookies to proceed, citing Error Code CG000 / 403 and a request ID for support. The page includes links to Terms, Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, and Manage Cookies, plus copyright and trademark notices for The Financial Times Ltd and a note on its Editorial Code of Practice.
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LG smart TVs reportedly log and upload data from homes even when offline or in standby. Gamers Nexus and partners found the sets scan local networks for nearby devices, log location data and nearby Wi‑Fi networks, and record microphone audio offline until a connection is available for upload. They also use Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) to identify what you watch across apps and HDMI inputs, sending data to LG Ad Solutions. RTINGS notes ACR is common across most smart TVs.
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US police and federal agencies fear Meta’s Ray‑Ban smart glasses could secretly record officers or aid terrorism. NYPD and other memos warn they might capture sensitive details inside facilities; fusion centers and DHS cautions note AI features (including facial recognition) could enable doxxing or pre‑operational surveillance. A TikTok video showed detainees filmed inside a facility. The glasses resemble ordinary eyewear, with a blinking LED that signals recording and cannot be turned off. ICE classifies them as body‑worn cameras, barring use in federal workspaces. Privacy advocates warn such surveillance harms everyone.
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Switched To Linux argues against the GrapheneOS–Motorola partnership, stating they are not excited about Motorola producing phones with GrapheneOS's custom Android and that they have questions and concerns about the collaboration.
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The CH-53 Sea Stallion uses IBIS (Inflight Blade Inspection System) to detect in-flight blade cracks. Early blades relied on a nitrogen-sealed pressure indicator, but needed real-time warning. Wiring sensors through the spinning rotor was impractical, so the system embeds a small amount of Strontium-90 in the blade indicator; if a crack lets pressure escape, radiation is detected by a cockpit Geiger counter to warn pilots. The blade is shielded and lacks electronics on the blade. Modern blades use fiber optics; older ones remain nuclear.
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Google DeepMind introduces AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1-petabyte platform predicting the molecular effects of 9 billion single-nucleotide DNA variants across the human genome. It precomputes variant effects, provides an AVI score (Variant Impact) plus feature attributions, regulatory DNA motifs, and links to functional sequences. Accessible via a portal, API, and Google Antigravity; usable for academic research and soon commercial on Cloud. Aims to map coding and non-coding variants to biology, enabling rapid variant ranking, rare-disease insights, and trait associations (e.g., BMI, PLA2G7, EGLN1). Built atop AlphaGenome/AlphaMissense, refined by community collaboration.
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LogiCola 3 is a device-agnostic redesign honoring Gensler’s original. Malik Piara reverse-engineered the 2008 program to preserve its core while adding infinite translation drills, mastery learning, and new templates. The UI swaps an enterprise look for a playful, color-coded interface; each logic set uses distinct palettes, patterns, and pixel-style icons. It improves accessibility (screen readers, keyboard nav, contrast) and adds offline install, better quiz feedback (shapes plus color) and multi-select questions. The update blends original heritage with new design, color theory inputs, and community feedback from Hacker News and GitHub.
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Piotr Migdał benchmarks Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit Q4_K_M (17 GB) matches full BF16 on GPQA Diamond, IFBench, Terminal-Bench 2.1; 8-bit Q8_0 29 GB also feasible; 2-bit UD-Q2_K_XL (~10.7 GB) remains viable; 1-bit UD-IQ1_S (~6.2 GB) collapses to random on GPQA Diamond and fails with longer reasoning; results show nonlinear quantization damage. Across tasks, 4-bit preserves quality, while 1-bit collapses; recommended to run the model that fits GPU memory; for many tasks Q4_K_M is enough; UD-Q2_K_XL suits simpler tasks. Costs and KV-cache considerations noted.
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404 Media reveals Border Patrol's Predictive Intelligence Targeting Teams (PITT) that analyze Americans' financial activity and other data to feed local police who stop people not suspected of a crime. In Montana, a man driving with cannabis products was stopped for an allegedly obstructed plate and charged with DUI after DHS-linked intelligence was used. PITTs are identified in Spokane Sector (Washington) and Laredo Sector (Texas); CBP declines to disclose methods. Critics warn it's parallel construction and risks Constitutional rights.
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Techdirt reports Paramount’s $111B merger with Warner Bros is framed as harmful to workers and consumers, and notes Paramount used an astroturf campaign to boost apparent public support. The company allegedly used the nonprofit Neighbors for Strong Communities to text Californians, pressuring AG Rob Bonta to drop the antitrust suit by claiming enforcement would cost jobs due to Larry Ellison’s threat to move Paramount to Texas. The group’s donors are undisclosed and its address is a private UPS-box; critics call it a corporate-backed scheme to manufacture grassroots opposition.
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