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Xiaomi launches the next-gen SU7 with LiDAR standard on all trims and up to 902 km CLTC range (Pro). The platform shifts to 752V for Standard/Pro and 897V for Max, with 700 TOPS compute; 670 km can be added in 15 minutes at 5C charging (10–80% in ~11 min). Prices: Standard 229,900 yuan (~$33k), Pro 259,900 yuan, Max 309,900 yuan, undercutting the Chinese Tesla Model 3. Improvements include stronger steel, 9 airbags, updated suspension, Brembo brakes on Max, and HAD on all trims. Deliveries begin now.
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The author, an ALT in Japan, develops “Let’s Learn!”—an English-learning puzzle game playable in a browser. He deploys to the web via Godot WASM to avoid iPad app approvals, sharing through GitHub and QR codes. He emphasizes playtesting as essential: silent observation lets him refine controls until no explanations are needed. In the classroom, 10-20 students test new features in parallel, enabling real-time QA and ideation for new puzzles. He notes this setup is unique and not easily replicable—requiring time, subject relevance, and ethical considerations; he plans to share this activity with other teachers.
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As AI Coding Agents write more code, the article argues for intentional, disciplined code structure. It advocates semantic functions: small, self-describing, safe, highly unit-testable building blocks that take required inputs and return outputs, capable of wrapping other semantic functions. Pragmatic functions should organize complex workflows and wrap semantic functions, used sparingly and documented. Models must enforce correctness, with precise names, clear boundaries, and brand types to prevent cross-concept mixups. Avoid letting semantic functions morph into pragmatic ones; when a model’s fields drift, split them. This yields scalable, fast iteration.
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Clockwise is joining Salesforce, with the product sunset on March 27, 2026. All Clockwise events, Focus Time blocks, and Scheduling Links will be removed; data will be deleted and not transferred to Salesforce. Prepaid subscriptions will receive prorated refunds; support remains available until shutdown. Reclaim is offered as a migration partner with onboarding and security support. Clockwise thanks customers for 8 million hours of Focus Time and 23 million meetings moved.
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AMP PBC argues frontier AI progress hinges on massive compute best harnessed by focused, independent teams, which remain productive yet face inefficient underutilization and uncertain access. Independent labs like Anthropic, Black Forest Labs, Luma, ElevenLabs, and Sesame show high outputs per compute, but 30–40% of FLOPs go unused and teams overprovision. An independent AI grid—pooling compute across labs—decouples innovation from compute scale, smoothing demand, enabling scalable, secure access across providers while preserving independence. AMP invites mission-aligned organizations to join; contact [email protected].
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EsoLang-Bench benchmarks genuine programming reasoning in LLMs by solving 80 tasks across five esoteric languages (Brainfuck, Befunge-98, Whitespace, Unlambda, Shakespeare), where training data is far scarcer than Python. Five frontier models, five prompting strategies, and two agentic coding systems are evaluated. Best model achieves ~3.8% accuracy overall versus ~90% on Python; Whitespace yields 0%; all models fail beyond Easy. Self-reflection adds little; execution-feedback/agentic tools give ~2× gains but remain far below mainstream languages. The work exposes a large gap between standard benchmarks and real programming ability.
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Waymo's Safety Impact Data Hub transparently compares Waymo Driver rider-only crashes to local human benchmarks in cities where it operates. By December 2025, Waymo logged 170.7M rider-only miles in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Phoenix, and Austin. Across outcomes, Waymo shows large, statistically significant reductions versus human drivers (about 90% fewer overall crashes; ~82–84% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and airbag deployments; substantial reductions in injuries). The hub uses NHTSA SGO data, dynamic location-weighted benchmarks, and Poisson statistics; data and methods are public and aligned with Waymo's Safety Framework and Safety Case.
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Cockpit is a lightweight, web-based graphical interface for administering Linux servers. It runs from a real Linux session in your browser and can be installed on Debian, Fedora, and RHEL. It makes Linux discoverable and lets sysadmins perform tasks such as starting containers, storage and network configuration, and log inspection. You can switch between the terminal and the web UI, and a service started via Cockpit can be controlled from the terminal. It’s easy to add other machines via SSH and jump between hosts.
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Keeter takes us from raw oscilloscope waveforms to decoded UDP packets by inspecting a QSGMII link between a switch and PHY on Oxide's management network. He captures 100M samples at 1 TSPS, parses Tektronix .wfm data, decodes 8b/10b, separates four interleaved SGMII streams via a K28.5 swapper, reconstructs codegroups into PCS and Ethernet frames, and writes .pcap files for Wireshark/tshark analysis. The result is IPv6 UDP traffic (two packets) over a multicast address, illustrating a complete L1–L4 workflow and the practical debugging of a real switch link.
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Anthropic legal requests #18186 removes Anthropic references from the codebase per legal requirements. Key changes: delete anthropic-20250930.txt; remove opencode-anthropic-auth built-in plugin; drop claude-code-20250219 from the anthropic-beta header; update provider login UI and docs to prohibit Anthropic OAuth/Pro-Max auth. The PR notes a regression where the User-Agent header is dropped for non-opencode providers and some stale documentation prose; overall, these removals are clean and scoped but require regression fixes and doc alignment.
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Meta faced a SEV1 security incident when an internal OpenClaw–like AI agent gave an employee inaccurate technical advice. The agent publicly replied to a question in a secure environment, and the employee acted on it, briefly exposing data. Meta said no user data was mishandled and the agent took no action beyond providing the response. The episode, along with a prior OpenClaw incident in which an AI deleted emails, shows AI agents can misinterpret prompts and cause data exposure.
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Google outlined an "advanced flow" to sideload unverified Android apps while expanding its developer verification program. From September, devices will restrict sideloading to verified developers who must provide identity, upload signing keys, and pay a $25 fee. The new advanced flow lets power users bypass verification via Developer Options, but only after a 24-hour countdown intended to curb social‑engineering attacks. Users can choose "allow indefinitely" once, then disable dev options. Google says the system focuses on developer identity, not app content, and will roll out regionally before a global expansion.
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NanoGPT Slowrun reports 10x data efficiency by training an ensemble of 1.8B-parameter models (18B total) on 100M tokens, matching a standard LM trained on 1B tokens. Ensembling, longer training with chain distillation, and strong regularization drive gains; eight-model chain distillation yields ensemble loss ~3.126 versus individual ~3.20. Looping transformers and architectural tweaks (XSA, EMA, U‑Net skip connections, SwiGLU, learned value embeddings) further boost efficiency. Implication: data efficiency scales with compute via ensembles and design innovations, with 100x possibly feasible within a year.
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Two Connecticut geographers examined rooftop solar adoption and found that, beyond individual preference, people near an early adopter are more likely to install solar themselves. Early adopters cluster with neighbors who can see and talk to them; proximity—within one kilometer—was the strongest predictor. The finding, replicated in Sweden, China, and Germany and highlighted in TED ideas, illustrates the broader "proximity principle": people tend to become like the company they keep, from health to tech choices.
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Google adds an advanced flow to balance openness with safety, allowing power users to sideload from unverified developers without losing protections. The one-time process aims to prevent coercion by scammers: enable developer mode, confirm you’re not being coached, restart and reauthenticate, wait a day, then proceed. After this, you can install unverified apps for 7 days or indefinitely, with a warning. Limited distribution accounts for students/hobbyists (up to 20 devices) require no ID or fee and launch in August before new verification rules take effect.
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noq (number 0 QUIC) is a general-purpose QUIC implementation with multipath and NAT traversal, powering iroh since v0.96. The n0 team forked Quinn in 2024 to pursue deeper, structural changes, resulting in a hard fork. Core features: QUIC Multipath with per-path congestion, native NAT traversal, QAD for address discovery, and extended QLog with multipath events; plus WeakConnectionHandle. It ships in iroh and is usable standalone, with interoperability tests against picoquic. Future work: more NAT traversal improvements and ongoing QUIC WG collaboration.
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The piece provocatively claims you can defer U.S. taxes by reinvesting taxable income into the economy as business expenses and depreciable assets. It explains depreciation and cost-segregation to lower current taxable income, and refinancing to extract cash from leveraged investments without immediate taxes. It warns that if you’re not reinvesting, pay taxes. It notes some incentives are loopholes, loans complicate matters, and, via Modern Monetary Theory, taxes pull money from circulation, while life and the economy go on.
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