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Gemini API Gets a Batch Mode for High-Throughput Workloads

2025-07-11
Gemini API Gets a Batch Mode for High-Throughput Workloads

Google's Gemini API now offers a batch mode, an asynchronous endpoint ideal for high-throughput tasks where latency isn't critical. Submit large jobs, let the system handle processing, and retrieve results within 24 hours at a 50% discount compared to synchronous APIs. Perfect for pre-prepared data needing no immediate response, it offers cost savings, increased throughput, and simplified API calls. Reforged Labs uses it to process massive video ads, significantly improving efficiency and lowering costs. Get started easily with the Google GenAI Python SDK.

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(developers.googleblog.com)
Development Asynchronous Processing

Samsung Unveils World's First Micro RGB TV: A Quantum Leap in Picture Quality

2025-08-14
Samsung Unveils World's First Micro RGB TV: A Quantum Leap in Picture Quality

Samsung has launched the world's first Micro RGB TV, a 115-inch behemoth boasting micro-scale RGB LED backlighting. This technology offers superior picture quality compared to Samsung's Neo QLED line, thanks to more precise backlight control. Packed with features like an AI-powered color optimization engine, glare-free coating, a powerful AI chip, and advanced gaming capabilities, this premium TV is priced at KRW 44.9 million (approx. $32,325) and will soon launch in the US and other markets.

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(www.sammobile.com)
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Your Open Office is Giving You Secondhand ADHD

2025-08-16
Your Open Office is Giving You Secondhand ADHD

A developer tracked his coding patterns for a month and discovered he's three times more creative at home than in the office. Constant interruptions in the open office led to significant 'exploring' time (re-reading code) instead of focused coding. This isn't just about productivity; the environment fundamentally alters his work style. Research shows it takes 23 minutes to refocus after an interruption, impossible in a busy office. He used data to convince his manager to let him work from home on complex tasks, reserving office time for collaboration. The article highlights how office environments impact individual productivity and the power of data-driven optimization.

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(floustate.com)
Development open office

UTCP 1.0.1: A Flexible and Extensible Universal Tool Calling Protocol

2025-08-21
UTCP 1.0.1: A Flexible and Extensible Universal Tool Calling Protocol

The Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) 1.0.1 is a modern, flexible, and scalable standard for defining and interacting with tools across various communication protocols. Its modular core and plugin-based architecture enhance extensibility, testability, and packaging. UTCP emphasizes scalability, interoperability, and ease of use, offering plugins for HTTP, SSE, CLI, and more. The new version features a refactored architecture separating the core library from optional plugins, along with an improved search strategy and variable substitution mechanism.

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(github.com)
Development Tool Calling Protocol Plugin Architecture

Hand-Counting Ballots: A Threat to Election Accuracy?

2025-08-19
Hand-Counting Ballots: A Threat to Election Accuracy?

A growing number of states are considering banning electronic tabulators and mandating hand-counting of ballots. However, studies show that hand-counting leads to significantly higher error rates (up to 25%), increased costs, and substantial delays. For example, Nye County, Nevada's 2022 hand count resulted in a 25% error rate, and a similar bill in Arizona was only vetoed by the governor. This not only threatens election accuracy and security but also fuels voter concerns about corruption. The article advocates for the continued use of electronic tabulators, supplemented by post-election audits to ensure timely and accurate results.

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(votingrightslab.org)
Misc election hand counting electronic tabulators

Is the Gaming Industry Recession-Proof? The $80 Game Price Debate and Market Shift

2025-08-15
Is the Gaming Industry Recession-Proof? The $80 Game Price Debate and Market Shift

The gaming industry is facing a potential downturn. US consumers are cutting back on game spending due to economic anxieties, challenging the long-held belief that gaming is recession-proof. The rise of free-to-play games and subscription services means consumers don't feel compelled to buy premium titles during tough times. While the free-to-play market is massive, revenue is concentrated in a few major titles, squeezing smaller developers. Soaring AAA development costs have pushed some publishers to $80 price tags, but this move has faced significant player backlash, with even Microsoft reversing course. The industry is navigating a complex pricing landscape, balancing innovation with the risks of high development costs and a changing consumer landscape.

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(www.gamesindustry.biz)
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Linux Copy & Paste Gets a Retro Upgrade: Say Goodbye to Ctrl+Shift

2025-08-15
Linux Copy & Paste Gets a Retro Upgrade: Say Goodbye to Ctrl+Shift

Tired of Ctrl+Shift+C/V for copy and paste in Linux terminals? Good news! By the end of 2025, most Linux applications will natively support the legacy 'Copy' and 'Paste' keycodes. This is thanks to the rise of programmable keyboards and support for these keycodes in software toolkits like GTK and QT. Several terminal emulators like Alacritty, Foot, and Wezterm already support them, while Gnome Terminal and Konsole are expected to support them after updates by the end of the year. This will revolutionize the Linux copy-paste experience, making it more convenient and efficient.

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(mark.stosberg.com)
Development copy paste programmable keyboards

European Player Claims 9% of IPv4 Addresses; North American Rival Wanted?

2025-08-18

A European player, femboy.cat, has claimed 20 million IPv4 addresses (9% of all IPv4 hosts according to Censys) by successfully making TCP three-way handshakes with VMs on Google's network via an online service (https://ipv4.games/). This service grants IPs to users who successfully connect. The method used by femboy.cat remains unknown, sparking discussion about security and resource allocation. A North American rival is being sought.

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(lists.nanog.org)
Tech IPv4 addresses

Minimalist TPU Design: A Beginner's Guide to Chip Accelerator Development

2025-08-19
Minimalist TPU Design: A Beginner's Guide to Chip Accelerator Development

This article details a minimalist Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) design inspired by Google's TPU V1 and V2. The TPU features a 2x2 grid of processing elements, pipelining multiply-accumulate operations, bias addition, Leaky ReLU activation, and MSE loss calculations. Its 94-bit instruction set controls data flow horizontally and vertically across the processing element grid, supporting preprocessing and weight matrix transposition. The article thoroughly explains the instruction set, hardware architecture, and the process of adding modules and running tests, aiming to introduce readers to chip accelerator design.

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(github.com)
Hardware hardware accelerator

Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians, and Hessians: A Deep Dive

2025-08-17
Derivatives, Gradients, Jacobians, and Hessians: A Deep Dive

This article provides a clear explanation of derivatives, gradients, Jacobian matrices, and Hessian matrices, four fundamental concepts in calculus and their applications. Derivatives describe the rate of change of a function, gradients point in the direction of the greatest increase, Jacobian matrices describe the warping of space for multivariable functions, and Hessian matrices contain second-order derivatives, describing curvature. These concepts are crucial in optimization algorithms (like gradient descent) and computer graphics (e.g., anti-aliasing rendering), providing a deeper understanding of machine learning and graphics rendering.

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(blog.demofox.org)
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US Housing Crisis: The Silent Driver Behind Market Anomalies

2025-08-18
US Housing Crisis: The Silent Driver Behind Market Anomalies

The recent resurgence of 2021-style meme stock activity and record assets in money market funds in the US isn't due to investors simultaneously betting on high-risk and low-risk strategies. The real culprit? The broken US housing market. High prices and interest rates are pushing cash into meme stocks and money market funds; risk-seeking investors buy the former, while risk-averse investors choose US Treasuries/money market funds. A record number of millionaire renters highlights the severity of the problem. Three potential future scenarios for the housing market are outlined: a decade-long stagnation, a price melt-up followed by a crash, and massive construction leading to price declines. The author considers the latter least likely due to the entrenched nature of the US housing market and resistance to new construction.

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(ofdollarsanddata.com)
Tech US Housing Market Meme Stocks Money Market Funds

Zenobia Pay: Open Sourcing a Failed Payments Platform

2025-08-14

Two developers spent months and $20,000 building Zenobia Pay, aiming to replace high-fee card networks with bank transfers. Despite utilizing FedNow, they failed to gain traction, leading to the platform's open-source release. The project iterated through targeting SMBs, high-ticket items with fraud insurance, and finally, luxury goods with resale proof of purchase. Each iteration faced challenges, ultimately resulting in the project's abandonment. The authors detail their learnings and suggest future directions.

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(zenobiapay.com)
Startup payments platform

Kanji Amnesia: Why I Remember the Meaning But Not the Writing

2025-08-15
Kanji Amnesia: Why I Remember the Meaning But Not the Writing

The author mastered kanji by first learning their meanings and writing, then pronunciation. Years later, he can't handwrite most kanji. This 'Kanji Amnesia' is common in Japan and China. He explores the brain's separate processes for reading and writing, and his aphantasia (lack of mental imagery) adds to the mystery. Cognitive science suggests this stems from the brain's use of both verbatim and gist memory traces. Reading involves recognizing the gist, while writing activates motor memory of strokes – two distinct skills.

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(aethermug.com)
Development kanji

Walkability and Physical Activity: Evidence from Millions of Smartphone Users

2025-08-14
Walkability and Physical Activity: Evidence from Millions of Smartphone Users

Researchers analyzed anonymized data from over 2 million US smartphone users in the Azumio Argus health app, focusing on 5,424 participants who relocated across 1,609 cities. The study found a significant positive correlation between moving to a more walkable city and increased daily steps, consistent across various demographic and activity levels. This suggests that improving urban walkability can effectively boost physical activity. A nationwide simulation further estimated the impact of walkability improvements on US residents' physical activity, providing data-driven insights for urban planning.

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(www.nature.com)
Tech

AI Tool Anxiety: The Illusion of Efficiency?

2025-08-14
AI Tool Anxiety: The Illusion of Efficiency?

The author recounts their personal experience with the rapid pace of AI tool updates, leading to anxiety and a feeling of constantly falling behind. The article critiques the excessive marketing and anxiety-mongering surrounding AI tools, advocating for a more rational approach. It calls for selective adoption and a return to human-centered thinking, arguing that the illusion of efficiency often masks increased workload and stress.

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(luolink.substack.com)
Misc AI Anxiety

Anthropic Gives Claude the Power to End Conversations

2025-08-16

Anthropic has empowered its large language model, Claude, with the ability to terminate conversations in cases of persistent harmful or abusive user interactions. This feature, born from exploratory research into AI welfare, aims to mitigate model risks. Testing revealed Claude's strong aversion to harmful tasks, apparent distress when encountering harmful requests, and a tendency to end conversations only after multiple redirection attempts fail. This functionality is reserved for extreme edge cases; the vast majority of users won't be affected.

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(www.anthropic.com)
AI AI welfare

SaaS SSO Pricing: A Security Tax or Revenue Grab?

2025-08-19

This article exposes the exorbitant pricing of Single Sign-On (SSO) features across numerous SaaS vendors. Many vendors lock SSO behind expensive 'Enterprise' plans, often increasing the price by several hundred percent or even more. The author argues that SSO is a critical security requirement, and the massive price hikes are not justified by maintenance costs but rather represent a profit opportunity. The article calls for SaaS providers to either include SSO in core offerings or provide it as a reasonably priced add-on, not a deterrent to better security practices.

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(sso.tax)
Tech

AI in Education: A Century-Old Prediction?

2025-08-16
AI in Education: A Century-Old Prediction?

Over a century ago, Edison predicted that motion pictures would replace books and revolutionize education within a decade. Today, a similar narrative surrounds AI, with claims that it will obsolete books and transform education in ten years. However, history shows that new technologies aren't a panacea. Using Edison's prediction about film as a parallel, the author cautions against AI hype, urging a rational assessment of its role in education – potentially as a supplementary tool, not a sole one.

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(shkspr.mobi)
AI technological predictions

JPMorgan Chase's Open Banking Fees Spark Fintech Uproar

2025-08-14
JPMorgan Chase's Open Banking Fees Spark Fintech Uproar

JPMorgan Chase's announcement to charge fintechs exorbitant fees for accessing Open Banking data has ignited a fierce debate. This isn't just about data; it's a battle over payments and banks' attempts to monopolize and profit from all user economic activity, regardless of the payment method. Open Banking, designed to boost competition by granting users access to their financial data, is being stifled by these fees. The article delves into Open Banking's origins, functionality, and how banks are leveraging fees to maintain their payment dominance. It argues this approach stifles innovation and harms consumers.

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(www.bitsaboutmoney.com)
Tech

Ashet Home Computer: A Hackable Retro-Inspired Home PC

2025-08-13
Ashet Home Computer: A Hackable Retro-Inspired Home PC

The Ashet Home Computer is a highly expandable and hackable computer inspired by the home computers of the 80s. Easy to understand yet powerful enough for a graphical desktop OS, it bridges the gap between Arduino and Raspberry Pi. The design phase is complete, and a functional prototype validating key features (PSRAM support, DVI video, etc.) has been built. The next stage involves engineering, schematics, PCB layout, and a crowdfunding campaign to fund production. The final design will be open-source and freely available.

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(ashet.computer)
Hardware expandable

The Chrome-Tastic Airbrush Art of the 80s: A Nostalgic Look Back

2025-08-15

The 80s saw airbrush art explode in popularity. The author recounts their teenage yearning for an airbrush, dreaming of painting band logos and making money. While computer design eventually took over, the author fondly remembers the unique chrome effects, gradients, and speed lines of 80s airbrush art. Digital art today perfectly replicates the style, but lacks the organic imperfections of the original. The author hopes to one day rediscover their old airbrush and revisit this iconic art form.

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(www.coolandcollected.com)
Design 80s art airbrush art

Y Combinator: The Unscalable Secrets to Startup Success

2025-08-16

Y Combinator shares its unconventional wisdom on startups: focus on "unscalable" actions early on, such as manually recruiting users, providing insanely great customer experiences, and focusing on niche markets. The article likens early-stage startups to building a fire— carefully nurturing the initial flames instead of aiming for immediate scalability. Manually acquiring early users and closely tracking their feedback allows rapid iteration and a strong user base. Even with an imperfect product, exceptional user experience can lead to success, far outweighing a perfect product with no users.

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(paulgraham.com)
Startup

NIST Finalizes Lightweight Cryptography Standard, Protecting IoT Devices

2025-08-14
NIST Finalizes Lightweight Cryptography Standard, Protecting IoT Devices

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has finalized its lightweight cryptography standard (NIST SP 800-232), based on the Ascon algorithm family. Designed for resource-constrained devices like those in the Internet of Things (IoT), RFID tags, and medical implants, the standard offers robust protection against cyberattacks. It includes variants for authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) and hashing, and considers side-channel attack resistance. This flexible and extensible standard provides a strong foundation for securing the ever-growing number of connected devices.

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(www.nist.gov)
Tech lightweight cryptography

IAPSOP: A Digital Archive of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals

2025-08-19

IAPSOP, a US-based private organization, digitally preserves Spiritualist and occult periodicals published between the Congress of Vienna and World War II. Run entirely by volunteers, they digitize, index, and freely provide these periodicals to students and researchers. They actively seek donations of materials and labor and welcome inquiries from sellers. The website offers various access points: direct archive search, thematic lists, and a lessons archive. Contact IAPSOP Customer Support for assistance or technical issues.

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(iapsop.com)
Misc occult periodicals

Archon: A GPT-5-Powered Copilot for Your Computer

2025-08-17
Archon: A GPT-5-Powered Copilot for Your Computer

Archon, a third-place winner at OpenAI's GPT-5 Hackathon, is a computer copilot controlled via natural language. It uses a hierarchical approach: GPT-5 plans actions, and a fine-tuned model, Archon-mini, executes them. Clever image processing and caching minimize cost and latency. Future development focuses on streaming control and self-learning, aiming for truly self-driving computer operation.

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(prava.co)
AI

Become a Web Archive Guardian: Run an ArchiveTeam Warrior

2025-08-18

Want to contribute to internet archiving? Now you can easily run the ArchiveTeam Warrior virtual machine! It will download and upload websites to the ArchiveTeam archive on your computer, without risking your computer's security; it only uses some of your bandwidth and disk space. Warrior supports Windows, OS X, and Linux systems and only requires virtual machine software like VirtualBox or VMware. After downloading the virtual machine image, import it into VirtualBox, start it, and then you can select a project to start contributing; your progress will be shown on the leaderboard!

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(tracker.archiveteam.org)
Development

Apple and Amazon's AI Miscalculation: A Cultural Quagmire

2025-08-18
Apple and Amazon's AI Miscalculation: A Cultural Quagmire

This article argues that Apple and Amazon's corporate cultures are hindering their progress in the AI revolution. Amazon is betting on AI becoming a commoditized market like cloud computing, while Apple remains overly reliant on the iPhone, neglecting the rapid advancements in AI. This strategy stems from the 'innovator's dilemma,' making it difficult for them to abandon their existing successful businesses and seize the opportunity to become AI leaders. The author contends that changing corporate culture is harder than changing the game, and with Nvidia and OpenAI already holding significant leads, Apple and Amazon face an uphill battle.

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(gmays.com)
Tech Corporate Culture Innovator's Dilemma

doxx: A blazing-fast terminal DOCX viewer

2025-08-18
doxx: A blazing-fast terminal DOCX viewer

doxx is a lightning-fast, terminal-native document viewer for Microsoft Word files, built with Rust. It offers beautiful rendering, smart table support, and powerful export capabilities (Markdown, CSV, JSON), eliminating the need for Microsoft Word. Features include full-text search, document outlines, multiple view modes, and planned AI integration for summarization and Q&A.

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(github.com)
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Record-Breaking Cosmic Neutrino Detected Deep Under the Mediterranean

2025-08-15
Record-Breaking Cosmic Neutrino Detected Deep Under the Mediterranean

The KM3NeT detector, located deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea, has detected a cosmic neutrino with an unprecedented energy of 220 PeV, shattering the previous record. After rigorous analysis, the detection was confirmed, but its origin remains a mystery. Possible sources include extreme environments like galactic centers, gamma-ray bursts, or interactions with the cosmic microwave background. This discovery opens a new window into ultra-high-energy neutrino astronomy.

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(www.sciencealert.com)
Tech cosmic neutrino
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