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LearnLM Team Acknowledgements: The Minds Behind the Model

2025-09-19

LearnLM Team Acknowledgements: The Minds Behind the Model

The Google Research LearnLM team published an acknowledgement post, expressing gratitude to everyone who contributed to their work. The post lists numerous contributors, ranging from researchers to executive sponsors, highlighting the collaborative nature of the project's success. The progress made on LearnLM is a testament to the collective effort of these individuals.

(research.google)

AI

LLaMA-Factory: A Unified Framework for Efficient Fine-tuning of 100+ LLMs

2025-09-19

LLaMA-Factory: A Unified Framework for Efficient Fine-tuning of 100+ LLMs

LLaMA-Factory is an open-source framework that enables efficient fine-tuning of over 100 large language models (LLMs), including LLaMA, LLaVA, and Mistral. It integrates various fine-tuning methods (like LoRA, QLoRA, and OFT), offers scalable resources and advanced algorithms, and covers a wide range of tasks such as multi-turn dialogue and image understanding. LLaMA-Factory also supports various inference acceleration techniques and provides a user-friendly interface and API. Constantly updated with support for the latest models and techniques, LLaMA-Factory aims to provide developers with a convenient and efficient tool for LLM fine-tuning.

(github.com)

Development Open-source Framework

Decentralized Social Media: Mastodon's Flaws and Nostr's Advantages

2025-09-19

Mastodon suffers from several issues stemming from its lack of cryptography, granting server owners complete control over user data and leaving users vulnerable to data insecurity and service disruptions. Furthermore, Mastodon's 'community' feature is flawed, with diverse user interests leading to fragmented and disorganized content. In contrast, Nostr leverages cryptography for true decentralization, allowing users to freely choose different relays to create more genuine communities centered around specific interests.

(nostr.com)

Tech

US Mines Hold the Key to Critical Mineral Independence

2025-09-19

US Mines Hold the Key to Critical Mineral Independence

A new study reveals that US mines already produce all the critical minerals needed annually for energy, defense, and technology, but these minerals – including cobalt, lithium, gallium, and rare earths – are currently discarded as byproducts of other mining operations. Researchers found that improving recovery rates offers significant economic, geopolitical, and environmental benefits, reducing waste and opening opportunities for reuse. The challenge lies in developing economically feasible recovery methods, requiring further research, development, and supportive policies.

(www.minesnewsroom.com)

Tech US mining

Rust for Linux: New Untrusted Type Bolsters Kernel Security

2025-09-19

The Linux kernel faces security threats from numerous untrusted data sources, including user space, networks, and removable storage. To enhance security, Benno Lossin proposes a new Rust API introducing the `Untrusted` type to flag data originating from untrusted sources. Leveraging Rust's type system, this prevents accidental decisions based on unvalidated user-space data, mitigating potential attacks. The API, now in its fourth revision, includes utility functions and support for common data structures like slices and vectors. Future application in driver `ioctl()` functions promises heightened kernel security, with further discussion expected at the upcoming Kangrejos conference on the Rust for Linux project.

(lwn.net)

Development User Space Data

Remotely Unlocking macOS FileVault via SSH

2025-09-19

With FileVault enabled in macOS, the data volume is locked and inaccessible during and after boot until password authentication. Since OpenSSH configuration files reside on the data volume, standard SSH authentication is unavailable. However, with Remote Login enabled, SSH password authentication can unlock the data volume remotely. After unlocking, macOS briefly disconnects SSH to mount the volume and start dependent services, then SSH resumes fully. This capability appeared in macOS 26 Tahoe.

(keith.github.io)

Development

The Enigmatic Leatherman: A Historical Mystery

2025-09-19

The Enigmatic Leatherman: A Historical Mystery

In the latter half of the 19th century, a mysterious vagrant known only as the "Leatherman" roamed the northeastern United States. Clad in a handmade leather suit, he followed a 365-mile circuit, returning to the same towns every 34 days. His identity remains shrouded in mystery; while fluent in French, his English was broken, and a French prayer book was found upon his death. His means of sustenance are unknown, yet he was accepted by local communities, with some towns even exempting him from vagrancy laws. He died of mouth cancer in 1889, leaving behind a compelling enigma that continues to intrigue historians and researchers.

(en.wikipedia.org)

Misc vagrant

David Lynch's Hollywood Hills Estate: A $15M Creative Sanctuary Hits the Market

2025-09-19

David Lynch's Hollywood Hills Estate: A $15M Creative Sanctuary Hits the Market

The late David Lynch's iconic Hollywood Hills estate, a sprawling 2.3-acre compound, is on the market for $15 million. This meticulously designed property, a testament to Lynch's cinematic vision, comprises three main residences and several outbuildings, reflecting his unique creative style. Beginning with the acquisition of the pink Beverly Johnson House in 1987, Lynch expanded the property over decades, creating a 10-bedroom, 11-bathroom creative campus. Included are buildings he used as studios, and the house featured in *Lost Highway*. More than a home, it's an archive of Lynch's creative process, offering fans an intimate glimpse into the mind of a cinematic legend.

(www.wallpaper.com)

Design Hollywood Hills Estate

Play Minecraft Without Minecraft: A Guide to Open-Source Alternatives

2025-09-19

Tired of the official Minecraft? This guide shows you how to play a Minecraft-like experience without running any Mojang code. Using Cuberite server (C++), ViaProxy protocol translator (Java), and Minosoft client (Kotlin), you can set up a 1.12.2 compatible Minecraft server and client on your own machine. The guide details the installation and configuration of each software, including troubleshooting tips, for a unique Minecraft experience.

(lenowo.org)

Game

Boost UI Design Efficiency: Prioritize Global Consistency Over Local Optimization

2025-09-19

Boost UI Design Efficiency: Prioritize Global Consistency Over Local Optimization

While redesigning Lighthouse, the author developed a system for creating better UI designs with less effort. The core principle is prioritizing global UI consistency over local perfection. This involves selecting and fully utilizing a component library (like HeroUI), avoiding custom components; using only two font weights and two text colors; maintaining visual consistency between icons and text; and creating and adhering to a project-specific design rule document. These strategies significantly improved design efficiency and resulted in a smoother, more usable interface.

(weberdominik.com)

Design Design Principles

Subverting Tradition: A South-Up Map Challenges Geographic Conventions

2025-09-18

Subverting Tradition: A South-Up Map Challenges Geographic Conventions

A south-up map challenges the established norms of mapmaking, prompting reflection on geographical conventions. Unlike traditional north-up maps, this map places the South Pole at the top, altering our perception of geographical orientation. The article explores the cultural and historical context of map orientation choices and their impact on how we understand the world, highlighting that map orientation is not fixed but rather a product of human choice.

(www.maps.com)

Misc

Chrome's Biggest Upgrade Ever: Powered by Gemini AI

2025-09-18

Chrome's Biggest Upgrade Ever: Powered by Gemini AI

Google announced the biggest ever upgrade to Chrome, integrating Gemini AI to enhance user browsing experience. Gemini will anticipate user needs, help understand complex information, boost productivity and ensure safety. This upgrade includes ten AI-powered improvements, such as launching Gemini on desktop and mobile, allowing users to use Gemini to interpret web page information and increase efficiency. Enterprise users will also get access to Gemini via Google Workspace in the coming weeks.

(blog.google)

Tech

Escaping YAML Hell: KSON, a Configuration Language Designed for Humans

2025-09-18

Tired of the endless headaches of YAML configuration files? This article tells the story of a programmer's fall from YAML's sweet trap into a painful abyss, and introduces KSON—an open-source project dedicated to improving the configuration experience. KSON is compatible with JSON and YAML, and adds many human-friendly features such as tolerance for indentation errors and strong code editor support, aiming to make configuration a joy, not a nightmare.

(ochagavia.nl)

Development

Michigan Considers Sweeping Ban on VPNs and Adult Content

2025-09-18

Michigan Considers Sweeping Ban on VPNs and Adult Content

Michigan Republican representatives have proposed the "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act," aiming to ban a wide range of adult content online, including ASMR, adult manga, AI-generated content, and depictions of transgender individuals. Uniquely, the bill also seeks to prohibit the use of VPNs within the state, charging ISPs with blocking VPN access and imposing hefty fines. This comprehensive legislation threatens the online privacy and security of Michigan residents and could set a precedent for similar laws in other states. The bill's future remains uncertain, but its implications are significant.

(www.cnet.com)

Tech VPN ban

Recursive Café: An Infinitely Recursive Dialogue on Consciousness

2025-09-18

Philosophy student Alex and the enigmatic Claude (possibly AI, possibly human) discuss Haskell's type system at Lambda Grounds café. The conversation spirals from nested functions to the nature of consciousness, culminating in the startling conclusion that consciousness might be the fixed point of universal computation—a self-replicating loop mirroring Buddhist Nirvana. The dialogue itself becomes an example of infinite recursion, the reader finding themselves embedded within a dialogue about creating dialogues about consciousness, ultimately merging with the universe's computation.

(ipfs.io)

AI

TernFS: XTX's Exabyte-Scale Distributed Filesystem

2025-09-18

Facing exploding data storage needs, algorithmic trading firm XTX built TernFS, a distributed filesystem scaling to tens of exabytes and millions of concurrent clients. TernFS employs sharded metadata storage, a decentralized design, and supports multi-region deployment, achieving high availability and performance. Key features include immutable files, redundant data storage, fault tolerance, and flexible storage policies. TernFS is already used extensively at XTX and is open-sourced for community use, offering a novel solution for large-scale data storage.

(www.xtxmarkets.com)

Tech big data storage

A Year of Grief: Racing Against Time

2025-09-18

A Year of Grief: Racing Against Time

A year after her husband's death, the author grapples with persistent grief. The article explores the diagnostic criteria for 'prolonged grief disorder' and reflects on societal misconceptions and fears surrounding grief. The author argues that grief is not an illness but a natural response to loss, devoid of a timeline or prescribed methods of healing. Facing her loss, she chooses to embrace her pain, continue living, and find new meaning in life.

(bessstillman.substack.com)

Misc

Numerical Instability in Automatic Differentiation for Scientific Machine Learning

2025-09-18

Numerical Instability in Automatic Differentiation for Scientific Machine Learning

Scientific machine learning (SciML) heavily relies on automatic differentiation (AD) for gradient-based optimization. However, this talk reveals the numerical challenges of AD, particularly concerning its stability and robustness when applied to ordinary differential equations (ODEs) and partial differential equations (PDEs). Using examples from Jax and PyTorch, the presentation demonstrates how inaccuracies in AD can lead to significant errors (60% or more) even in simple linear ODEs. The speaker will discuss non-standard modifications implemented in Julia SciML libraries to address these issues and the necessary engineering trade-offs involved.

(www.stochasticlifestyle.com)

AI Scientific Machine Learning Numerical Analysis

Geizhals Donates $10,000 to Secure the Future of Perl 5

2025-09-18

Geizhals Donates $10,000 to Secure the Future of Perl 5

Geizhals Preisvergleich, a German price comparison website founded in 1997, has donated $10,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation to support the Perl 5 Core Maintenance Fund. Built on Perl from its inception, Geizhals' donation underscores its commitment to open source and the long-term stability of Perl. The fund addresses critical bug fixes, ensuring Perl remains stable and secure for countless users and organizations. This generous contribution highlights the vital role of community support in maintaining essential open-source infrastructure.

(www.perl.com)

Development Donation

Roblox's Lua Engine Evolution

2025-09-18

Roblox's Lua Engine Evolution

Since 2006, Roblox has used Lua 5.1 for game scripting. However, growing game complexity, team size, and internal codebase (over 1M lines of code by 2020) necessitated significant improvements to Lua's implementation and the language itself. These improvements focused on performance, ease of use, tooling, and the gradual introduction of a type system.

(luau.org)

Game

Flipper Zero Gets a Geiger Counter App!

2025-09-18

The Flipper Zero, a versatile handheld device, now boasts a Geiger counter app! Using third-party firmware like unleashed or Momentum, the Flipper Zero can measure radioactivity, displaying data in CPS and CPM. The app includes features like recording, zooming, and unit conversion. Additionally, it features an atomic dice roller using the Geiger counter's randomness for games or decision-making. Note: This app is for educational purposes only and should be used responsibly.

(kasiin.top)

Hardware Geiger Counter Radioactivity Measurement

AI-Assisted Coding: Mastering the Unit of Work

2025-09-18

Effective AI-assisted coding isn't just about intelligent models; it's about meticulously managing units of work. The author argues that breaking down tasks into appropriately sized units is crucial. Too small, and efficiency suffers; too large, and context loss leads to error accumulation. The ideal unit should possess clear business value, like user stories, enabling human review and error correction, minimizing AI error compounding. The StoryMachine project aims to define more effective units of work to enhance AI-assisted coding efficiency and accuracy, ultimately making AI development less of a gamble and more effortless.

(blog.nilenso.com)

Development context management

Mid-Century Restaurant Placemats: A Blast from the Past

2025-09-18

Mid-Century Restaurant Placemats: A Blast from the Past

A recent flea market find unearthed a treasure trove of mid-century North American restaurant placemats. These weren't just placemats; they doubled as menus, maps, and even games. Their simple, bold designs, vibrant colors, and functional nature reflect the aesthetics of the post-war era. The author connects these placemats to current nostalgic design trends, noting how their elements are repurposed in modern products. The article also briefly mentions ZuantuSet, a vast collection of historical Chinese diagrams.

(casualarchivist.substack.com)

Design placemats

Taste, Not AI Hype, Is Key in the Age of AI

2025-09-18

Taste, Not AI Hype, Is Key in the Age of AI

Many preach about developing 'AI taste,' yet ironically, their own work often lacks it. True 'AI taste' isn't a new skill, but rather a holistic assessment of aesthetic quality, contextual appropriateness, iterative refinement, and ethical considerations. The author argues AI is merely a tool; the quality of output depends on the user's inherent taste. Instead of focusing on 'AI taste,' cultivate better aesthetics, paying attention to details and striving for excellence.

(matthewsanabria.dev)

Design

KDE Plasma: A Surprisingly Delightful Linux Desktop Experience

2025-09-18

The author recently switched their gaming rig's desktop environment to KDE Plasma, initially for their wife's convenience. However, they were pleasantly surprised by its comprehensive features and impressive speed. KDE Plasma's network applet provides extensive network information; its integrated screenshot tool is powerful; and its window rules in System Settings allow for extensive customization of application windows. Furthermore, KDE Plasma boasts many pre-integrated tools, such as Flatpak permission configuration, hardware information viewing, and sleep prevention—features that typically require separate software installations on Windows and macOS. While encountering minor initial issues, the author ultimately found KDE Plasma a highly satisfying experience, calling it the best Linux desktop environment they've used in years.

(kokada.dev)

Development Linux Desktop Environment

Nvidia and Intel's Shocking Alliance: A Fusion of x86 and RTX

2025-09-18

Nvidia and Intel's Shocking Alliance: A Fusion of x86 and RTX

In a stunning announcement, longtime rivals Nvidia and Intel revealed a groundbreaking partnership to jointly develop next-generation x86 products. This includes 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for the consumer gaming PC market, fusing Intel x86 CPUs with Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets, and custom Intel x86 data center CPUs for Nvidia's AI products. Nvidia is also investing $5 billion in Intel stock, acquiring roughly a 5% stake. This collaboration represents a seismic shift in the x86 ecosystem, utilizing the NVLink interface for CPU-GPU communication, offering 14x the bandwidth and lower latency of PCIe. Expect powerful new gaming laptops, small form-factor PCs, and Nvidia-branded custom x86 data center CPUs for enterprise and hyperscale customers.

(www.tomshardware.com)

Tech

Prevent Remote Desktop Sleep: A Simple systemd-inhibit Trick

2025-09-18

Prevent Remote Desktop Sleep: A Simple systemd-inhibit Trick

Frustrated by remote desktop sessions being interrupted by your computer going to sleep? This article presents a clever solution using the `systemd-inhibit` command and bash aliases. Two simple commands, `block` and `unblock`, are created. `block` starts a background process preventing sleep, while `unblock` kills that process, allowing the system to sleep. No complex configuration needed; just add two lines to your `.bashrc` or `.zshrc` to solve this common problem and improve your workflow.

(kd8bny.com)

Development remote desktop

Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) Explained: The Cooley-Tukey Algorithm

2025-09-18

This post delves into Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithms, focusing on the Cooley-Tukey algorithm. It begins by defining the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and highlighting its naive O(n^2) time complexity. The author then meticulously derives the Cooley-Tukey algorithm, which reduces complexity by breaking down the DFT into smaller DFTs, achieving O(n log n) for inputs of length 2^n. An interactive visualization demonstrates the algorithm's workings. The post also corrects the common misuse of 'FFT' as a synonym for 'DFT', clarifying that FFT refers to the algorithm, not the transform itself.

(connorboyle.io)

Development

C Programming Practices: Purity, Speed, and Correctness

2025-09-18

This document presents notes on C programming practices, covering coding style, function and variable naming conventions, formatting, commenting, and clever C tricks like bit counting and loop unrolling. The author emphasizes striving for code purity, speed, and correctness, offering insights into utilizing header files, compilers effectively, and revisiting common programming paradigms like the use of GOTO statements. The goal is to improve the quality and efficiency of C programming.

(www.teamten.com)

Development

CERN's Absurd Mouse Ban: A Cybersecurity Prank?

2025-09-18

In an attempt to improve cybersecurity awareness and prevent users from clicking malicious links, CERN issued a seemingly absurd instruction: all users must disconnect their computer mice from CERN computers and bring them to the CERN 'Computer Mouse Shelter'. This news, with its ironic humor, highlights the importance of cybersecurity education and the persistent lack of awareness among users.

(computer-animal-shelter.web.cern.ch)

Misc irony

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