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Docs: Open-Source Collaborative Document Editor Takes on Notion

2025-03-16
Docs: Open-Source Collaborative Document Editor Takes on Notion

Docs is an open-source collaborative document editor designed to simplify knowledge creation and sharing. It features offline editing, clean formatting, AI-powered actions (generate, summarize, correct, translate), real-time collaboration, and granular access control. Docs is easy to install and scale, offering multiple document export formats. Led by the French and German governments, this multilingual project is under active development and plans to incorporate wiki functionality.

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(github.com)
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Windows 11's Cross-Device Resume: Say Goodbye to Interrupted Experiences

2025-05-21
Windows 11's Cross-Device Resume: Say Goodbye to Interrupted Experiences

Microsoft showcased a new cross-device resume feature for Windows 11 at Build 2025, similar to Apple's Handoff. This allows developers to seamlessly continue app usage across devices. A demo featured Spotify, letting users resume a song on their Windows PC from where they left off on their phone. WhatsApp was also shown. This feature, seemingly a successor to Project Rome, promises smoother cross-device experiences and increased app discoverability on Windows for third-party developers.

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(www.windowscentral.com)
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20-Year-Old Builds Nuclear Fusor with AI: The Dawn of AI Natives?

2025-01-30
20-Year-Old Builds Nuclear Fusor with AI: The Dawn of AI Natives?

A 20-year-old math student, Hudhayfa Nazoordeen, built a nuclear fusor in his home using Anthropic's Claude AI and online resources. Despite lacking a physics background, he achieved this feat with the AI's assistance, sparking reflection on the rapid advancement of AI and its implications. The author's visit revealed a stark contrast between 'AI natives' like Hudhayfa and traditional tech users, highlighting the transformative power of AI. The experience led the author to believe new computing devices will integrate AI at their core, predicting those failing to adapt will be left behind.

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(www.corememory.com)
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Google's AI Search Mode: Publishers Cry Foul

2025-05-23
Google's AI Search Mode: Publishers Cry Foul

Google's new AI Search mode, now live for all US users, is causing an existential crisis for publishers. The News/Media Alliance calls Google's AI mode "theft," arguing it takes content without compensation, harming publishers' traffic and revenue. Leaked documents reveal Google considered letting publishers opt out, but ultimately rejected this, leaving publishers with no recourse against their content being used for AI training and search results. While Google claims publishers always controlled content availability, this action is stifling high-quality content creation and potentially degrading the internet's overall quality.

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(9to5google.com)
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Arch Linux Under Week-Long DDoS Attack

2025-08-24
Arch Linux Under Week-Long DDoS Attack

The popular Arch Linux distribution is under a week-long distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting its main website, AUR, and forums. The attacker's motive is unknown. The Arch team is actively working with its hosting provider to mitigate the attack and evaluating DDoS protection options. While Arch is known for its technical difficulty, the attack causes inconvenience to the community. Users can obtain packages via the pacman-mirrorlist package or GitHub to work around service outages.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507: A Major Upgrade to Open-Source Reasoning Models

2025-07-25
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507: A Major Upgrade to Open-Source Reasoning Models

Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 represents a significant upgrade to open-source large language models, boasting groundbreaking advancements in reasoning capabilities. It achieves state-of-the-art results on logical reasoning, mathematics, science, coding, and academic benchmarks, demonstrating superior performance across various complex tasks. The model also exhibits improved general capabilities such as instruction following, tool usage, text generation, and alignment with human preferences, along with enhanced 256K long-context understanding. Crucially, this version operates in 'thinking mode' by default and is highly recommended for complex reasoning tasks.

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(huggingface.co)
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Retrocomputing: Replacing a 386/486 CMOS Battery

2024-12-23
Retrocomputing: Replacing a 386/486 CMOS Battery

Older 386/486 motherboards often have leaky NiCd or NiMH batteries that can damage the board. This guide details a simple alternative: using three AA batteries and a battery holder. The author compares using a CR2032 and a Tadrian 3.6V Lithium cell, ultimately opting for three AAs due to ease of use, no motherboard modification, and the ability to use rechargeable batteries. Other replacement methods are mentioned, including using a CR2032 holder and Schottky diode, and utilizing an external battery header on the motherboard if present.

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(rubenerd.com)
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Tokasaurus: A New LLM Inference Engine for High Throughput

2025-06-05
Tokasaurus: A New LLM Inference Engine for High Throughput

Stanford researchers released Tokasaurus, a novel LLM inference engine optimized for throughput-intensive workloads. For smaller models, Tokasaurus leverages extremely low CPU overhead and dynamic Hydragen grouping to exploit shared prefixes. For larger models, it supports async tensor parallelism for NVLink-equipped GPUs and a fast pipeline parallelism implementation for those without. On throughput benchmarks, Tokasaurus outperforms vLLM and SGLang by up to 3x. This engine is designed for efficient handling of both large and small models, offering significant performance advantages.

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(scalingintelligence.stanford.edu)
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Apple and Anthropic Team Up on AI-Powered Code Generation

2025-05-03
Apple and Anthropic Team Up on AI-Powered Code Generation

Apple is collaborating with AI startup Anthropic on a new 'vibe-coding' platform that leverages AI to write, edit, and test code for programmers. This new version of Xcode integrates Anthropic's Claude Sonnet model. Currently, Apple is internally testing the software and hasn't decided on a public release. This partnership signals a significant step forward in AI-assisted software development, potentially revolutionizing how programmers work.

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(www.bloomberg.com)
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anon-kode: Terminal-Based AI Coding Assistant

2025-03-04
anon-kode: Terminal-Based AI Coding Assistant

anon-kode is a terminal-based AI coding assistant that leverages any model supporting the OpenAI-style API. It fixes buggy code, explains function behavior, runs tests, and more – similar to Claude-code. After installation and initial configuration, simply start typing. Automated versioning, building, and publishing are handled by GitHub Actions, allowing manual release triggers with patch/minor/major version selection.

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(github.com)
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Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 Achieves Mach 5+ in Second Hypersonic Flight Test

2025-05-10
Stratolaunch's Talon-A2 Achieves Mach 5+ in Second Hypersonic Flight Test

Stratolaunch announced the successful completion of a second hypersonic flight and recovery of its Talon-A2 vehicle in March 2025, exceeding Mach 5 and confirming its reusability following a successful December 2024 test flight. This achievement marks a significant step for the U.S. return to reusable hypersonic flight testing since the X-15 program. The flight was conducted for the Department of Defense's Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed (MACH-TB) program, aiming to accelerate testing of commercially available hypersonic systems.

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(www.stratolaunch.com)
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A Programmer's Rejection of AI Coding Tools: Efficiency, Ethics, and Environment

2025-06-18

A seasoned programmer explains their refusal to use AI coding tools, not out of technological resistance, but from deep concerns about efficiency, ethics, and the environment. The author argues that the productivity gains of current AI tools are questionable and that they risk introducing more errors. Additionally, AI model training puts immense pressure on the environment, and its data sources raise ethical concerns, including intellectual property infringement. The author emphasizes the joy of "struggle and learning" in programming and the advantages of manually written code in terms of quality and maintainability. Ultimately, they choose to stick with traditional programming methods and call for stronger regulation of AI technology.

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(agentultra.com)
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US Revokes Visas of Seven Brazilian Supreme Court Justices

2025-07-19
US Revokes Visas of Seven Brazilian Supreme Court Justices

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the revocation of visas for seven Brazilian Supreme Court justices, in addition to Judge Alexandre de Moraes. This action follows the Brazilian Supreme Court's issuance of search warrants and restraining orders against former President Jair Bolsonaro, stemming from allegations that Bolsonaro sought interference from US President Donald Trump in Brazilian courts. Bolsonaro denies the accusations, calling the court's actions cowardly. The move escalates tensions between the US and Brazil and highlights Trump's continued support for Bolsonaro.

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(nypost.com)
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arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

2025-07-02
arXivLabs: Experimenting with Community Collaboration

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Individuals and organizations involved embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Got an idea for a project to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

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Rust Model2Vec: 1.7x Faster Inference

2025-05-18
Rust Model2Vec: 1.7x Faster Inference

The `model2vec-rs` crate provides a lightweight Rust implementation for loading and inferencing Model2Vec static embedding models, boasting a 1.7x speedup over the Python version. It supports loading pre-trained models from Hugging Face Hub, offers a command-line interface, and allows for custom encoding arguments. Benchmarks show the Rust version processes 8000 samples per second compared to Python's 4650.

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(github.com)
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CherryTree Computers Ditches BBB Accreditation: Why Pay for a Logo?

2025-07-22
CherryTree Computers Ditches BBB Accreditation: Why Pay for a Logo?

CherryTree Computers has stopped paying for Better Business Bureau (BBB) accreditation. They found the accreditation process to be more about paying for a logo than a true reflection of business practices. A false negative review was wrongly linked to their business, and the BBB proved unable to rectify the situation. This, coupled with the realization that the BBB offers little actual protection, led to their decision. CherryTree believes their services and happy customers speak for themselves.

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(mycherrytree.com)
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Mathematicians Crack Turbulent Diffusion Conjecture: A Century-Old Mystery Solved

2025-05-16
Mathematicians Crack Turbulent Diffusion Conjecture: A Century-Old Mystery Solved

A team of mathematicians spent two years developing a novel grid refinement technique to prove the superdiffusion conjecture in turbulent fluids. By progressively refining their computational grid, they ultimately revealed regularities in fluid behavior at larger scales. This allowed them to apply traditional homogenization techniques, precisely calculating the diffusion rate of particles in turbulence, matching physicists' decades-old predictions. This breakthrough not only solves a long-standing scientific problem but also provides new methods and insights for studying more complex turbulent phenomena and other physical problems.

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(www.quantamagazine.org)
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Logitech's Solar-Powered Wireless Keyboard: Signature Slim Solar+

2025-09-05
Logitech's Solar-Powered Wireless Keyboard: Signature Slim Solar+

Logitech is gearing up to launch the Signature Slim Solar+, a wireless keyboard boasting a solar panel promising up to 10 years of battery life. Resembling the MX Keys S but with an added solar panel above the keys, this keyboard charges using ambient light. Made with 70% recycled plastic, it's lightweight and connects to up to three devices. Customization options via the Logi Options+ app and an AI Launch key (Copilot) are also included. Pricing and availability remain unannounced.

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(www.tomshardware.com)
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The Unexpected Beauty of Venn Diagrams: A Geometric Puzzle Beyond Math

2025-01-19
The Unexpected Beauty of Venn Diagrams: A Geometric Puzzle Beyond Math

Venn diagrams, simple graphical tools, have a history and application far beyond our imagination. They are not just visual aids in the classroom, but also raise a series of profound geometric problems. This article explores the history of Venn diagrams and their application in logic and set theory. Particularly striking is the challenge of drawing Venn diagrams with more than four sets, and the efforts mathematicians have made to find more elegant representations. This is not just about drawing diagrams, but also an exploration of the beauty of mathematics and human curiosity.

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(www.scientificamerican.com)
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Revolutionizing Embedded Audio DSP Development

2025-05-20
Revolutionizing Embedded Audio DSP Development

Embedded audio DSP development has long suffered from lengthy iteration cycles, complex cross-platform porting, and a lack of real-time configurability and visibility. Traditional workflows require engineers to repeatedly code, compile, and test to fine-tune audio parameters, a process that is time-consuming and hinders A/B comparisons. Furthermore, cross-platform porting is challenging because audio algorithms are often optimized for specific processor architectures, making direct migration to new platforms difficult. This article introduces a new development platform that significantly reduces development time and enables cross-platform reuse by providing graphical audio tools, modular design, and real-time tools—achieving up to a 10x speedup. The platform hides low-level details like word length, byte order, and cache quirks, allowing the same audio graph to run on different architectures (ARM, Xtensa, RISC-V) without code changes.

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Internet Archive: Guardian Against Digital Purges

2025-03-24
Internet Archive: Guardian Against Digital Purges

Housed in a former San Francisco church, the Internet Archive (IA), a non-profit organization, is a digital library safeguarding internet history. It daily archives massive amounts of web data, including government websites and news articles. During recent purges of US government websites, IA played a crucial role, archiving over 73,000 deleted pages, including vital historical records like the interactive timeline of the January 6th Capitol attack investigation. Facing threats from copyright lawsuits and cyberattacks, IA continues its fight to preserve the internet's cultural heritage, appealing for public support against digital censorship and for the maintenance of open information access.

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(www.npr.org)
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Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban: A Blow to Free Speech?

2025-01-18
Supreme Court Upholds TikTok Ban: A Blow to Free Speech?

The US Supreme Court upheld the ban on TikTok, sparking a debate over free speech and data privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) expressed deep disappointment, arguing the court failed to adequately scrutinize the ban's impact on the First Amendment. EFF contends the ban is content-based, aiming to control what Americans see and share, rather than addressing genuine data security concerns. The EFF believes shutting down or forcing the sale of social media platforms under national security pretenses is anti-democratic, advocating for comprehensive privacy legislation instead of sacrificing free speech.

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(www.eff.org)
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Mirror Bacteria Research Raises Significant Risks, Scientists Warn

2024-12-13
Mirror Bacteria Research Raises Significant Risks, Scientists Warn

Synthetic biologists have achieved remarkable breakthroughs, such as creating bacteria with chemically synthesized genomes. However, two synthetic biologists recently joined other scientists in calling for a halt to research that could lead to the creation of "mirror bacteria." These bacteria are composed of the same components as natural cells but with opposite stereochemistry in all biopolymers. Because mirror bacteria might lack natural predators and evade immune systems, they pose a catastrophic risk. The article emphasizes that while scientific research should be open, certain research, like mirror bacteria research, is too risky given the potential for devastating consequences. Therefore, it should be stopped.

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(www.the-scientist.com)
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Rustls: Major Performance Improvements in Memory-Safe TLS Implementation

2025-05-16
Rustls: Major Performance Improvements in Memory-Safe TLS Implementation

Rustls, a memory-safe TLS implementation prioritizing performance, has released significant performance improvements. By optimizing session resumption mechanisms—specifically, replacing mutexes to reduce contention in concurrent server connection handshakes and decreasing the number of stateless resumption tickets sent by default—Rustls 0.23.17 demonstrates dramatically improved performance on multi-core servers, achieving near-linear scalability. Server latency for core TLS handshake handling is roughly 2x lower than OpenSSL in benchmarks. This makes Rustls a highly competitive TLS solution, bringing safer and more efficient connections to the internet.

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(www.memorysafety.org)
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Configuring Emacs as a File Manager with Guix

2025-05-23
Configuring Emacs as a File Manager with Guix

This post details how to configure Emacs' dired mode as the default file manager using Guix and its home-xdg-mime-applications-service-type service. By creating an xdg-desktop-entry file and linking it to the inode/directory MIME type, clicking on a directory opens it in Emacs dired. The author provides examples for configuring other MIME types, allowing for easy expansion of functionality.

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(lynn.sh)
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Rebuilding Social Media: A New Hope for a Broken System

2025-05-22

The author argues that current social media platforms prioritize daily active users, engagement, user-generated content, and monetization, neglecting their core function: facilitating social interaction. The platforms' incentive structures lead to issues like fake accounts, low-quality content, and data privacy breaches. This article will delve into these problems and, in subsequent articles, propose potential solutions for building a new social media app in 2025, aiming to create a truly user-serving social space.

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(www.scottgoci.com)
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Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization: Improved Robustness through Gradient Agreement Filtering

2024-12-30
Beyond Gradient Averaging in Parallel Optimization: Improved Robustness through Gradient Agreement Filtering

This paper introduces Gradient Agreement Filtering (GAF), a novel method to improve gradient averaging in distributed deep learning optimization. Traditional methods average micro-batch gradients to compute a macro-batch gradient, but this can lead to orthogonal or negatively correlated gradients in later training stages, resulting in overfitting. GAF reduces gradient variance by computing the cosine distance between micro-gradients and filtering out conflicting updates before averaging. Experiments on image classification benchmarks like CIFAR-100 and CIFAR-100N-Fine show that GAF significantly improves validation accuracy, even with smaller micro-batch sizes, achieving up to an 18.2% improvement over traditional approaches while reducing computational cost.

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(arxiv.org)
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BYD's Seal EV Achieves Nearly 1200-Mile Range with Solid-State Batteries

2025-06-20
BYD's Seal EV Achieves Nearly 1200-Mile Range with Solid-State Batteries

BYD is testing solid-state batteries in its Seal EV, a Tesla Model 3 competitor. Initial tests show a potential range of nearly 1200 miles (1875 km). After over a decade of research, BYD announced road tests in 2025 and plans to begin production vehicles with solid-state batteries in 2027, aiming for mass production by 2030 at a cost comparable to current lithium-ion batteries. The Seal is expected to be the first model to feature this technology, boasting high energy density and fast charging capabilities, bolstering BYD's global EV market dominance.

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(electrek.co)
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Homeworld 2's Stunning Background: A Vertex Color Gradient Masterpiece

2025-03-23

This article unveils the secret behind the stunning background art of Homeworld 2. By analyzing game data, the author discovered that the backgrounds aren't created using textures, but rather a clever implementation of vertex color gradients. This bold solution not only avoids texture compression artifacts but also subtly controls detail, keeping the background where it belongs and preventing it from overpowering the foreground. This technique mirrors the 2.5D tree approach in Diablo 3, showcasing a perfect blend of technology and artistry.

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(simonschreibt.de)
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