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Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe
A series of foundation models for transparent AI in Europe
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Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox
UPDATE: We’ve seen a little confusion about the language regarding licenses, so we want to clear that up. We need a license to allow us to make some of t
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D2: Diagram Scripting Language
D2 is a diagram scripting language that turns text to diagrams. It stands for
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Blender: Beyond Mouse and Keyboard
Get ready for blending on-the-go.
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Bending Spacetime in the Basement (1997)
Bending Spacetime in the Basement
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AI as Normal Technology
We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology . To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the…
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Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi
Let's make a tiny, standalone CA! We'll use a Raspberry Pi 4, YubiKey 5 NFC, and Infinite Noise TRNG.
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Cross-Platform P2P Wi-Fi: How the EU Killed AWDL
This post investigates how we got from Wi-Fi Direct to AWDL to Wi-Fi Aware, what makes Wi-Fi Aware technically superior, and why this shift unlocks true cross-platform peer-to-peer connectivity for developers.
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Alexa+
Powered by generative AI, Alexa+ is your personal AI assistant that gets things done—she’s smarter, more conversational, more capable, and free with Prime.
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Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.
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An investigation into egg prices
'More hens, less income!' So said the United Egg Producers' economist Donald Bell in 1994. The industry has gotten more consolidated ever since. And avian flu is just the latest excuse to hike prices.
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Performance Improvements in .NET 10
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.
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How to scale your model: A systems view of LLMs on TPUs
Training LLMs often feels like alchemy, but understanding and optimizing the performance of your models doesn't have to. This book aims to demystify the science of scaling language models: how TPUs (and GPUs) work and how they communicate with each other, how LLMs run on real hardware, and how to parallelize your…
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Lessons from the PG&E outage
At Waymo, our mission is to be the world’s most trusted driver. We know trust is built through consistent behavior over time—earned through every mile we drive and every interaction we have with the community. This past Saturday, as a widespread PG&E outage cut power to nearly one-third of San Francisco, our service…
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Past, present, and future of Sorbet type syntax
A discussion of how Sorbet's type syntax came to be, the problems it solves, and how it could improve.
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Pretty State Machine Patterns in Rust (2016)
A computer scientist working in open source towards a more hopeful future.
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Creating an all-weather driver
Life doesn't freeze when winter comes—if anything, that's when riders need reliable transportation most, when being exposed to the elements becomes less appealing. Today, the Waymo Driver successfully navigates rain, fog, sandstorms, and freezing temperatures. As we expand to more cities across the U.S. and globally…
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There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015)
V8’s Math.random implementation now uses an algorithm called xorshift128+, improving the randomness compared to the old MWC1616 implementation.
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Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history.
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A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed My Mailchimp Mailing List
You know when you're really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That's me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into my account and exported
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DeepSeek R1 Is Now Available on Azure AI Foundry and GitHub
DeepSeek R1, available through the model catalog on Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, enables businesses to seamlessly integrate advanced AI.
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DNS4EU for Public Is Available
The free DNS4EU resolver, for everyone in Europe. Get the addresses, set it up in minutes, and block malware and phishing with no tracking.
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Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
How I tracked myself down using leaked location data in the in-app ads, and what I found along the way.
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LLM Inevitabilism
Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You’re constantly thrown off-balance, responding to a point you didn’t expect to. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument, while the main thrust gets left behind in the back-and-forth, and you end up losing…
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An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip
There is only one thing worse than being imitated
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Gemini CLI
Free and open source, Gemini CLI brings Gemini directly into developers’ terminals — with unmatched access for individuals.
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Hosting a website on a disposable vape
Someone's trash is another person's web server.
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CSS Minecraft
A Minecraft clone made with pure HTML & CSS – no JavaScript.
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GPT-5.2
GPT-5.2 is our most advanced frontier model for everyday professional work, with state-of-the-art reasoning, long-context understanding, coding, and vision. Use it in ChatGPT and the OpenAI API to power faster, more reliable agentic workflows.