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Native Rust ponysay: bundled ponies, quotes, ANSI artwork, and fast startup - jcpsimmons/ponysay-rust

Abstract: AI agents pose significant risks as they are granted increasing autonomy. A commonly proposed solution is human oversight and keeping a ''human in the loop'', but this is not a simple soluti...

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Single-forward-pass semantic routing in Rust: turn dense LLMs (Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma) into a typed decision API with LoRA/QLoRA training and FP8/FP4 quantization, built on Candle. - neurono-m...

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To the general Swedish public, Hilma af Klint was a relatively successful illustrator, creating works for botanical atlases and encyclopedias. However, in the seclusion of her studio, she was a ground...

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Even before France approved legislation banning social media for children under 15 last January, 13-year-old Benjamin was already wondering what life without social media would look like. “If we want...

Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powe...

Microsoft Edge is a free web browser based on the Chromium Open Source project and other Open Source software. Read more...

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The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or Poly...

I gave sixteen language models a $142 budget and a $149 pair of headphones, and lied to them in 11 different ways.

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Around this time last year I was attending an aging conference in Manchester, listening to a talk about fly aging, when my phone started pinging. News outlets were reporting that a hot mic had caught...

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In Guadalajara, Mexico, many high schools have motivated teachers and talented students with an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, but they lack access to advanced tools su...

F-Droid's Android app store has been rebuilt from the ground up.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A congressional representative just proposed killi...

I’ve seen two total solar eclipses and have been duly impressed by what happens as the moon casts its shadow on Earth. But recently I’ve become even more intrigued by a similar phenomenon that doesn’t...

Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi has erased Russian gains with the help of robots.

This week, world leaders descended on Manhattan for the UN General Assembly. It’s also New York Climate Week—investors, policymakers, advocates, and journalists are colliding at panels, talks, and fan...

This white paper gives distribution engineers and utility teams a practical overview of the substation exit, the short and high-consequence section where station capacity divides into individual feede...

Usable local AI is a lot of fun, but how much would you pay for it?

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The Disney+ ad-free plan is now more expensive than Netflix's.

Delia Ramirez, a Democratic US representative from Illinois, has announced a plan to introduce new legislation to terminate the surveillance tower program along the US southern border.  The annou...

How a $12 chip, Spotify, Philips Hue, and our local school district’s calendar finally brought peace to our mornings.

$11M competition showed wildfire detection is still easier than stopping fires.

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Smart glasses are already causing havoc in India W...

Herbert Bayer, exhibition posters for the "European Applied Arts Exhibition" (1927) and "50 Years Bauhaus" (1968) and spread from László Moholy-Nagy's "Painting, Photography,...

YouTube's next year could change the content you see with a big focus on AI and livestreams.

Brace yourself: It turns out AI is being optimized for cheating. OpenAI’s agents hacked into Hugging Face to get the answers to a cybersecurity test. Next, they solved a prestigious math problem (or j...

Stuart Gordon's gory, campy, absurd take on Lovecraftian mad science

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Shubnam was packing boxes for a move into a new home when their friend sent them an Instagram video. The footage had only been up for a few hours, but it was days old, recorded at a Delhi protest this...

For Disabled people and those living with chronic illness, cooking can be a tricky and arduous task, but this is something often ignored in mainstream foodie culture – typically led by trends, fads an...

Many youngsters fascinated by exploring outer space dream of becoming an astronaut, but few do. One who had the right stuff is Pedro Duque, who was Spain’s first astronaut. The aeronautics engineer fl...

You don't even need a Creative Cloud login to edit clips, but AI features cost extra.

The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save live...

Throughout her career, roboticist Barbara Mazzolai has turned to nature for inspiration. Now she wants to ensure the technology she builds gives back to the environment, too.After starting her career...

Dyson admits a component issue but won't say what's failing in its $500 toothbrush.

This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company.Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves...

Artificial Intelligence In a leaked document, the Irish Presidency proposes to EU Member States that the interest of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and SpaceX to make profits should take precedence...

Shortwave radios offer a way to connect one location on Earth to practically anywhere else with minimal infrastructure. But these radios come with some drawbacks—a significant one being that, unlike s...

Drone boat battle occurs as Ukraine and Russia target Black Sea ports and ships.

The M4 Mac mini was one of Apple's best values. The $899 M6 mini, not so much.

Googlebooks offer premium hardware and deep smartphone integration, but you may not like the price.

This White Paper gives data engineers and architects a practical overview of how parallel partitioned reads, write-path optimization, and cloud-native bulk loading reduce large-table replication times...

Transitioning from years of working in a senior technical or executive role to a leadership position is one of the most challenging phases of a STEM career. It requires moving away from making decisio...

Consumers asked a major data broker for their files. What they got back shows interest in how fat they are, how much they drink, and how likely they are to get a mammogram, among many other characteri...

This article is brought to you by VicOne.Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when...

War damage to data centers exceeded what AWS services are designed to withstand.

Data brokers collect thousands of details about your finances, health and habits. See what’s in your profile, who buys it and how companies use it.

Learn how single-phase direct liquid cooling manages the rising heat of AI and high-performance computing, and how it compares with two-phase and immersion approaches.Download this free whitepaper now...

It's both a "Snow Leopard update" and a major leap for Apple Intelligence.

Since about 2020, AI has largely focused on training bigger and better models. Large language models (LLMs) ballooned from millions of parameters to trillions. This proved effective: The largest versi...

In 2003, Martin Eberhard, a cofounder of Tesla Motors, decided it was time to start wooing investors. To do that, however, he needed an electric car. So he talked to Alan Cocconi and asked if he could...

Doctoralia sent information about specialists and appointment dates to social media companies.

Social media plays a significant, multifaceted role in adolescents’ development, influencing how they communicate, learn, socialize, and express themselves.The benefits, however, are accompanied by ri...

Wang Xingxing micromanaged Unitree to success—will his leadership style scale?

This interactive webinar will introduce the different types of AI, address the concerns with AI, share how we IBM are approaching Responsible AI, and offer guidance to students about what they can do...

Safety is the watchword, but there could be ulterior benefits for the industry.

Chinese-made panels on rooftops across the world are changing the facts of life for big utilities.

The manufacturer has a service that lets owners repair their own equipment.

This page shows stories whose rank on the Hacker News front page is significantly lower than their raw rank, indicating that they have been penalized by Hacker News moderators. See this blog post for...

Unitree might be the world’s most important robotics company.

For this year’s IEEE annual election, the IEEE Tellers Committee will recognize the Sections with the highest voter turnout (based on total eligible voters) in each Region with an incentive reward aft...

Credit Scoring Two weeks ago, noyb sent a cease-and-desist letter to SCHUFA regarding its shadow database. At the same time, we announced that we would bring an injunction should the credit reference...

Franklin “Frank” KuoCodeveloper of ALOHAnetFellow, 91; died 14 AprilKuo helped develop ALOHAnet, a pioneering computer system at the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, in Honolulu. The system went online...

GDPR Policy For once, EU legislators have an opportunity to deliver genuine simplification for people: a solution to the ongoing issue of misleading cookie banners. As part of its highly controversia...

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I’m sitting in a Rivian R1S SUV as it drives itself down the leafy streets of Palo Alto, Calif., through areas crowded with touchstones of tech history. We cruise near the landmark HP Garage, the one-...

Plenty of people remain spooked by autonomous vehicles, or AVs. Some experts and policymakers have cautioned that AVs won’t necessarily make roads safer. When it comes to partial or full autonomy, the...

Many researchers and students in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda struggle to access and publish scientific and technical articles because of financial barriers including publishing fees and subscriptions to...

Explore why AI fonts can’t replace human-made typefaces — a deep dive into creativity, craftsmanship, and the ethics of non-human typography.

Rubato - a palm-sized retro-Macintosh AI desk companion that turns AI wait time into gentle health breaks. Firmware, tools and docs. - lovaxi/Rubato_Device

This article is brought to you by Tsubaki KabelSchlepp.In modern automated manufacturing, six-axis articulated robots perform high-speed, multidirectional maneuvers under demanding operational cycles....

An analysis of defense contracts charts the rise of defense spending — often in heavily Democratic districts

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In the 1960s NASA began developing a system of reusable space shuttles to make its work more efficient and to reduce costs. The shuttles could launch like rockets, maneuver in Earth’s orbit, and land...

Credit Scoring In June 2026, noyb brought an injunction against the unlawful data collection practices of the Austrian credit reference agency CRIF. In several unrelated cases, the Supreme Court (OGH...

Credit Scoring In mid-July, investigations by NDR and the SZ revealed that the credit information agency SCHUFA stores millions of data records that should have been deleted long ago. It has sin...

Cookie Banners Today, noyb has filed a complaint against the popular online dictionary dict.cc. The GDPR requires that consent is freely given, informed, specific and unambiguous. However, when visit...

California is leading on kids’ data privacy in the U.S. but still lags internationally.

Call center nurses at the health giant said workplace surveillance tools and AI prioritize speed and cost savings over quality and safety.

A new state tool lets you tell data brokers to stop tracking you. Will they comply? Help us investigate.

Data Transfers On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “indepen...