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OSI Board Election Roiled by Open Source AI Definition Debate

2025-03-08
OSI Board Election Roiled by Open Source AI Definition Debate

The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) 2025 board election is mired in controversy, sparked by its open source AI definition (OSAID) released last October. The rejection of candidate Luke Faraone for allegedly missing a deadline has ignited debate about OSI's communication and process transparency. Beyond the procedural issues, the OSAID itself is facing strong opposition from key players in the open source community, with prominent figures like Richard Fontana and Bradley Kuhn advocating for a 5-10 year delay in formalizing an open source AI definition. The election proceeds, leaving the future of the OSAID uncertain.

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(thenewstack.io)
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H-Nets: A Hierarchical Network Architecture That Outperforms Transformers

2025-07-16
H-Nets: A Hierarchical Network Architecture That Outperforms Transformers

Current AI architectures treat all inputs equally, failing to leverage the inherent hierarchical nature of information. This limits their ability to learn from high-resolution raw data. Researchers introduce H-Nets, a novel architecture that natively models hierarchy directly from raw data. H-Nets' core is a dynamic chunking mechanism that segments and compresses raw data into meaningful concepts. Experiments show H-Nets outperform state-of-the-art Transformers in language modeling, exhibiting improved scalability and robustness, offering a promising path towards multimodal understanding, long-context reasoning, and efficient training and inference.

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(cartesia.ai)
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Penn State Develops 2D Material-Based CMOS Computer

2025-06-15
Penn State Develops 2D Material-Based CMOS Computer

Researchers at Penn State University have developed a CMOS computer based on two-dimensional (2D) materials. Using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), they grew large sheets of molybdenum disulfide and tungsten diselenide, fabricating over 1,000 transistors of each type. The resulting computer, while operating at a relatively low frequency (25 kilohertz), can perform simple logic operations with low power consumption. This research represents a significant milestone in harnessing 2D materials for electronics, offering a promising pathway for future computing technologies, although further optimization is needed.

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(www.psu.edu)
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Transparency Paradox: How Openness Can Backfire and Reduce Public Trust in Science

2025-08-03
Transparency Paradox: How Openness Can Backfire and Reduce Public Trust in Science

A study reveals the 'transparency paradox': while transparency in science fosters trust, revealing bad news (like conflicts of interest or failed experiments) can decrease it. The root cause, argues the researcher, is the public's overly idealized view of science. The solution isn't hiding bad news, but improving science education and communication to present a more realistic picture—science isn't perfect, and scientists make mistakes. This fosters more realistic expectations and ultimately, increased trust.

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(phys.org)
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Mobile BESS: Revolutionizing Emergency Response and Off-Grid Power

2025-07-28
Mobile BESS: Revolutionizing Emergency Response and Off-Grid Power

A diesel spill in Baltimore Harbor highlighted the need for mobile battery energy storage systems (BESS). Unlike traditional fossil fuel generators, BESS offers clean, large-scale power for diverse applications, including harbor cleanup, remote industrial operations, and emergency response. Companies like Volvo and Power Up Connect are developing mobile BESS solutions, providing charging for electric heavy machinery and powering areas lacking electrical infrastructure. While cost remains a challenge, advancements in battery technology and decreasing prices suggest mobile BESS will find wider adoption across various sectors, transforming how we access power.

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(spectrum.ieee.org)
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Liana Pandemic Threatens Tropical Rainforests: Visible from Space

2025-05-11
Liana Pandemic Threatens Tropical Rainforests: Visible from Space

A new study reveals a dramatic surge in lianas in tropical rainforests, jeopardizing carbon storage and biodiversity. Lianas, which spread rapidly and outcompete trees for resources, are increasing by 10-24% per decade. This is linked to rising atmospheric CO2 levels, as lianas benefit disproportionately from increased CO2. The resulting tree mortality and hampered forest regeneration lead to a 95% reduction in carbon storage. Surprisingly, their unique leaf properties make lianas detectable from space, opening new avenues for monitoring their spread. Researchers urge a focus on climate change mitigation and caution against intervention until the lianas' full ecological role is understood.

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(phys.org)
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Microsoft's Valentine's Day Surprise: Cortana Location History Axed, GDPR Compliance Efforts

2025-02-20
Microsoft's Valentine's Day Surprise: Cortana Location History Axed, GDPR Compliance Efforts

Microsoft released Windows 11 24H2 preview build 26120.3281 to Dev and Beta channels, removing the Location History API for Cortana and making changes to address European privacy concerns. The API, previously deprecated, allowed Cortana to access 24 hours of location data. The update also disables account-based content in File Explorer for Entra IDs in the EEA, impacting Recent, Favorites, and Recommended features. Additionally, the update includes one-click OneDrive file resuming and an upcoming Recall update that will delete all existing snapshots. The rollout to the general release of Windows 11 remains uncertain.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Autism and Object Personification: A Puzzling Correlation

2025-06-16
Autism and Object Personification: A Puzzling Correlation

An online survey of 87 autistic adults and 263 non-autistic adults reveals a prevalent tendency towards object personification among autistic individuals. This contrasts with the common difficulty autistic people face in identifying their own emotions, prompting questions about the underlying mechanisms. The study suggests that object personification may be more frequent and occur later in life among autistic individuals. Given that many report these experiences as distressing, further research into the causes and the development of support structures is crucial.

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(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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MIT's Atomic-Precision Double-Slit Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong (Again)

2025-07-30
MIT's Atomic-Precision Double-Slit Experiment Proves Einstein Wrong (Again)

MIT physicists have performed an idealized version of the double-slit experiment, demonstrating with atomic-level precision the wave-particle duality of light and proving Einstein incorrect on a key quantum scenario. Using individual atoms as slits and weak light beams, they controlled the information atoms received about the photon's path. The more path information obtained (particle-like behavior), the lower the interference pattern's visibility. This experiment eliminates extraneous factors from previous versions, clarifying the wave-particle duality and confirming quantum mechanical predictions. It's a stunningly precise confirmation of a fundamental quantum principle.

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Forward-Swept Wings: A Cold War Technological Dead End

2025-06-19
Forward-Swept Wings: A Cold War Technological Dead End

During the Cold War, both the US and USSR pursued the development of forward-swept wing fighter jets, hoping to gain a technological edge. While offering superior maneuverability, the design presented significant structural challenges. The US's Grumman X-29 and the USSR's Sukhoi Su-47, both employing advanced carbon fiber composites and fly-by-wire systems, ultimately fell victim to 'aeroelastic divergence'. The high cost and emergence of alternative technologies like thrust vectoring rendered the advantages of forward-swept wings insufficient, leading to the abandonment of both programs. Today, the X-29 serves as a museum piece, a testament to this Cold War technological pursuit.

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Iberian Blackout: Was It Renewables' Fault?

2025-06-17
Iberian Blackout: Was It Renewables' Fault?

A massive blackout hit Spain and Portugal in April 2024, affecting nearly 60 million people. While official investigations are ongoing, academics suggest several potential causes, including power plants sending excessively high voltage (overvoltages) to the transmission grid, and uneven reactive power distribution due to the distributed generation model of renewable energy (solar and wind). Traditional power plants provide inertia, stabilizing grid frequency, a characteristic lacking in renewables. The overvoltage issue highlights reactive power management, requiring adjustments to grid management rules to incentivize renewable energy plants to participate in reactive power balancing. Spain and Portugal's low interconnection capacity with neighboring countries also contributed to the blackout's widespread impact and duration. Future improvements in grid management rules, increased interconnection capacity, added energy storage, and AI-assisted grid operation are vital to prevent similar events.

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(spectrum.ieee.org)
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The AI Coding Lie: Productivity Hype or Bust?

2025-09-04
The AI Coding Lie: Productivity Hype or Bust?

A seasoned programmer with 28 years of experience challenges the claims of AI coding tools, revealing a six-week experiment that showed no significant productivity gains, and potentially even a slowdown. The author argues that the industry's hype around AI-driven productivity increases is vastly overblown, unsupported by real-world data. Using extensive data, the article demonstrates the lack of an expected surge in software development output, debunking the myth of the '10x engineer'. The author urges developers to approach AI tools critically, avoid blind adoption, and resist unrealistic marketing claims.

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(mikelovesrobots.substack.com)
Development

Nixon's Memoirs: A Surprisingly Intimate Look at a President

2025-07-27
Nixon's Memoirs: A Surprisingly Intimate Look at a President

This post reviews the first volume of Richard Nixon's memoirs. The author challenges preconceived notions of Nixon as an outsider, revealing a surprisingly sensitive individual who valued both power and approval. The review highlights Nixon's perspective on his relationship with Eisenhower, painting a picture of a complex political landscape. The piece also touches upon the momentous events of the 1960s and 70s, including Nixon's presidency, and concludes with a poignant reflection on his career, culminating in his final book, *Beyond Peace*.

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(justismills.substack.com)
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Modular RAG: Can Reasoning Models Replace Traditional Retrieval Pipelines?

2025-02-26
Modular RAG: Can Reasoning Models Replace Traditional Retrieval Pipelines?

kapa.ai experimented with a modular Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system powered by reasoning models to simplify their AI assistant and reduce the need for manual parameter tuning. Using the o3-mini model, they found that while there were modest gains in code generation, the system didn't outperform traditional RAG pipelines in core retrieval tasks like information retrieval quality and knowledge extraction. The experiment revealed a "reasoning ≠ experience" fallacy: reasoning models lack practical experience with retrieval tools and require improved prompting strategies or pre-training to utilize them effectively. The conclusion is that reasoning-based modular RAG isn't currently superior to traditional RAG within reasonable time constraints, but its flexibility and scalability remain attractive.

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(www.kapa.ai)
AI Information Retrieval

just words, a YC Startup, is Hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer

2024-12-31
just words, a YC Startup, is Hiring a Senior Frontend Engineer

Y Combinator-backed startup just words is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Frontend) to build and scale their backend and recommendation systems. The company uses AI for hyper-personalized messaging and employs dynamic testing to optimize marketing results. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of frontend experience, proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks like React, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. This is a ground-floor opportunity to work with founders, make critical decisions, and solve complex problems using cutting-edge AI technology.

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(www.ycombinator.com)
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Grammar Specification for a Novel Programming Language

2025-07-30

This document meticulously defines the grammar rules for a new programming language, covering various aspects such as types, expressions, patterns, function definitions, and type definitions. A series of context-free grammar rules (BNF notation) precisely describe the language's structure, providing a solid foundation for compiler and interpreter implementation. This powerful language supports advanced features like functional programming, pattern matching, and type inference.

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Archer's Midnight eVTOL Achieves Record-Breaking Flight

2025-08-25
Archer's Midnight eVTOL Achieves Record-Breaking Flight

Archer Aviation announced a significant milestone: its Midnight eVTOL aircraft completed its longest piloted flight to date, lasting 31 minutes and covering over 55 miles. The flight primarily tested conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) capabilities, showcasing impressive speeds exceeding 126 mph and nearing 150 mph in recent tests. This achievement marks substantial progress toward FAA certification in the US and commercial operations in the UAE. United Airlines' CFO witnessed the flight, highlighting the aircraft's quiet operation and the maturity of Archer's program.

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(electrek.co)
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VMware Axes Lowest Tier of Partner Program, Sparking Concerns

2025-06-03
VMware Axes Lowest Tier of Partner Program, Sparking Concerns

Broadcom's VMware unit is overhauling its channel partner program, eliminating the lowest tier and imposing stricter requirements on the remaining levels. This move aims to improve partner capabilities and better support customers' transition to VMware's private cloud. While VMware assures vSphere users won't be affected, analysts predict this could push partners towards competitors like Microsoft, Nutanix, and AWS, potentially leading to market share loss. Furthermore, the upcoming VMware Cloud Foundation 9 introduces new licensing demands and hardware compatibility limitations, potentially exacerbating market disruption. The changes have been described as a “pivotal moment” by VMware executives, indicating a significant shift in strategy.

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(www.theregister.com)
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Delta Air Lines Clarifies AI-Powered Pricing: No Personalized Pricing, They Say

2025-08-05
Delta Air Lines Clarifies AI-Powered Pricing: No Personalized Pricing, They Say

Delta Air Lines is clarifying its AI-assisted dynamic pricing model following scrutiny over recent comments. While a previous statement suggested AI would personalize pricing, Delta now insists it uses aggregated data to inform analysts, responding to competitor pricing and market trends to maximize overall revenue, not individual customer targeting. This clarification comes in response to concerns raised by lawmakers about potential price discrimination. The airline emphasizes it doesn't share personal data with its AI provider, Fetcherr, but the issue highlights growing ethical and regulatory questions around AI's role in pricing.

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(www.theverge.com)
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Nakama: A Distributed Server for Scalable Realtime Games and Apps

2025-05-05
Nakama: A Distributed Server for Scalable Realtime Games and Apps

Nakama is a high-performance distributed server built for creating scalable realtime games and applications. It offers features like user registration, social functionalities (friends, groups), chat, various multiplayer modes (realtime and turn-based), leaderboards, tournaments, parties, in-app purchase validation, and notifications. Developers can extend server functionality using Lua, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Go. Nakama supports Docker deployment and provides native binaries and client libraries for various platforms (.NET, Unity, JavaScript, Java, Unreal Engine, etc.). It also includes a web UI for management and monitoring.

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(github.com)
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A Million-Dollar Surprise: De Gaulle's Hidden Collection Found

2024-12-17
A Million-Dollar Surprise: De Gaulle's Hidden Collection Found

A forgotten trove of Charles de Gaulle's personal letters, speeches, and manuscripts has been discovered in a safe, set to be auctioned for over $1 million. The collection, found in a bank vault belonging to his son, includes the handwritten manuscript of his famous 1940 speech calling for French resistance against the Nazis, correspondence with Winston Churchill, early short stories, and personal notebooks offering insights into his intellectual development. This unexpected discovery unveils a fascinating glimpse into the life and thoughts of the iconic French leader, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Anne de Gaulle Foundation.

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(www.smithsonianmag.com)
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An Engineer's Journey with Forth: From Fascination to Abandonment

2024-12-28

This blog post recounts an engineer's experience learning and using the Forth programming language. Initially captivated by Forth's brevity and extensibility, the author delved into the source code of pForth, marveling at its compile-time self-modifying capabilities. However, in real-world projects, the author found Forth more suitable for number crunching, struggling with tasks like text processing. While designing a custom hardware embedded system, the author leveraged Forth to design the system's CPU instruction set, but ultimately found C more efficient and abandoned Forth. The author concludes that Forth is ideal for minimalist engineers seeking extreme efficiency, while he himself prefers a more pragmatic approach, opting for more widely used languages.

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(yosefk.com)
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Former Australian PM's Boarding Pass Leaks Passport Details

2025-06-30
Former Australian PM's Boarding Pass Leaks Passport Details

A blogger discovered that a photo of former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's boarding pass, posted on Instagram, revealed sensitive personal information, including his passport number. With minimal effort, the blogger accessed Abbott's flight booking page, obtaining his passport number, phone number, and internal airline communications. The blogger reported the issue to the Australian government and the airline, and with Abbott's permission, published this blog post warning about the risks of sharing boarding passes online and the importance of protecting personal information.

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(mango.pdf.zone)
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Cat Origin Story Rewritten: Tunisia, the Unexpected Cradle of Domestic Felines

2025-04-22
Cat Origin Story Rewritten: Tunisia, the Unexpected Cradle of Domestic Felines

Two large-scale studies are rewriting the history of domestic cat origins. By analyzing genetic data and archaeological evidence, researchers found that cats didn't accompany early farmers into Europe as previously thought. Instead, Tunisia is pinpointed as the origin point, with cats arriving in Europe in multiple waves starting around the 1st century CE. Religious and cultural factors played a crucial role, with the veneration of cats in ancient Egypt and their representation in Greco-Roman and Norse mythology driving their spread. The research also reveals competition and hybridization between domestic cats and native European wildcats, leading to a decline in wildcat populations. This discovery significantly alters our understanding of one of humanity's most familiar companions.

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(phys.org)
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Stanford Integrates AI to Supercharge National Security Policy Learning

2025-06-10
Stanford Integrates AI to Supercharge National Security Policy Learning

Stanford's international policy class, "Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition," integrated AI tools to significantly enhance student learning. Students leveraged ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI tools to summarize documents, identify key themes, analyze critical content, and apply these insights to real-world national security challenges. Team projects revealed innovative uses of AI, including generating interview questions, simulating interviews, and creating presentations. The class demonstrates AI's potential as a powerful learning tool, accelerating learning and deepening understanding.

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(steveblank.com)
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Google's Contradictory Statements: Is the Open Web Dying?

2025-09-09
Google's Contradictory Statements: Is the Open Web Dying?

In May, Google executives stated that web publishing and the open web were thriving. However, a recent court document claims that "the open web is already in rapid decline." This contradicts previous statements and supports concerns voiced by the open web community. Google later clarified that it referred to the decline of "open-web display advertising," not the entire open web. This clarification, however, hasn't fully quelled the controversy, raising questions about whether Google misled the public and investors.

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(www.seroundtable.com)
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Reliving a Childhood Dream: Restoring an IBM PS/1 2168

2025-05-18

The author, captivated by computers since 1993, always longed for an IBM PS/1 2168. In winter 2024, he fulfilled his childhood dream by restoring one and maxing out DOOM. The article details the journey of sourcing, acquiring, and meticulously restoring this 30-year-old classic, including selecting a keyboard and screen, installing PC-DOS 7, and upgrading the CPU and cache. It showcases the author's passion for retro computing and technical expertise.

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(fabiensanglard.net)
Hardware

Stunning Rediscovery: Vibrant Colors Restored to Ancient Egyptian Temple

2025-03-15
Stunning Rediscovery: Vibrant Colors Restored to Ancient Egyptian Temple

In Esna, Egypt, the only surviving part of a temple dedicated to the creator god Khnum—a highly decorated entrance hall from the mid-third century A.D.—has been painstakingly restored. Buried beneath centuries of soot and neglect, the hall served as a warehouse for centuries. A joint Egyptian-German team, beginning in 2018, used distilled water and alcohol to meticulously clean the hall, revealing vibrant painted reliefs and inscriptions. The restoration uncovered detailed depictions of ancient Egyptian religious rituals, astronomical knowledge, and mythology, offering unprecedented insights into their culture and beliefs. The project unveils not just stunning artwork, but also invaluable information about ancient Egyptian religious practices, calendars, and mythology.

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(archaeology.org)
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Twitch's 100-Hour Highlight Limit Sparks Outrage: Erasing Gaming History?

2025-02-22
Twitch's 100-Hour Highlight Limit Sparks Outrage: Erasing Gaming History?

Twitch announced a new 100-hour limit on archived highlight videos, sparking controversy among users. While Twitch claims only 0.5% of users will be affected, many gamers fear the move will erase significant portions of gaming history. Highlights allow streamers to showcase their best moments permanently, unlike full broadcasts which auto-delete after seven days (or 60 for partners). Twitch cites the cost of indefinite storage and aims to promote features like Clips and the mobile feed. However, users criticize the impact on shared gaming history, especially for speedrunners who use highlights to document world records and important moments, arguing the loss is incalculable.

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(arstechnica.com)
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