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Good-bye core types; Hello Go as we know and love it
Go 1.25 simplifies the language spec by removing the notion of core types
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Hyperlight WASM: Fast, secure, and OS-free
We're announcing the release of Hyperlight Wasm: a Hyperlight virtual machine “micro-guest” that can run wasm component workloads written in many programming languages. Learn more.
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The long-awaited Friend Compound laws in California
[X-posted from the Live Near Friends blog]
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Europe's Largest Makerspace
MotionLab.Berlin is the new operator of Europe’s largest makerspace, which is being built on the ringberlin model campus in Mariendorf.
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Coordinating the Superbowl's visual fidelity with Elixir
A case study of how Elixir is being used at Cyanview.
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4o Image Generation
This 2025 launch introduced native image generation in GPT‑4o, including stronger text rendering and instruction following. Explore ChatGPT Images 2.5.
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Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Patty Smith.
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Gemini 2.5
Gemini 2.5 is our most intelligent AI model, now with thinking.
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Kylie Minogue song about a typeface
Whitney Mallett dives into the recent history of German Bold Italic (GBI), a 1997 song by Towa Tei's featuring Kylie Minogue, who sang from the perspective of a new typeface.
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Open-sourcing OpenPubkey SSH (OPKSSH): integrating single sign-on with SSH
OPKSSH (OpenPubkey SSH) is now open-sourced as part of the OpenPubkey project. This enables users and organizations to configure SSH to work with single sign-on technologies like OpenID Connect, removing the need to manually manage & configure SSH keys without adding a trusted party other than your IdP.
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Coding Isn't Programming
Join us for a captivating closing keynote with the legendary Leslie Lamport, Turing Award winner and pioneer in the field of distributed computing. We'll discuss computing history, open source and distributed systems.
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The Great Barefoot Running Hysteria of 2010
The year was 2010. “Ke$ha's Tik Tok” was topping the Billboard charts. Steve Jobs has just introduced a goofy new oversized iPhone called an “iPad”.
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Evolving Scala
There is always ongoing discussion about the future direction of the Scala language. How fast should it move? What needs to be improved? Should the language change at all? This article discusses how Scala must keep evolving , why that evolution is necessary, and what directions we expect that evolution to take. We…
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Noise cancellation improves turn-taking for AI Voice Agents
Turn-Taking is a big challenge AI Voice Agents are rapidly evolving, powering critical use-cases such as customer support automation, virtual assistants, gaming, and remote collaboration platforms. For these voice-driven interactions to feel natural and practical, the underlying audio pipeline must be resilient to…
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Arc-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025
Measuring the next level of intelligence with ARC-AGI-2 and ARC Prize 2025
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Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
QWEN CHAT GITHUB HUGGING FACE MODELSCOPE DISCORD Introduction At the end of January this year, we launched the Qwen2.5-VL series of models, which received widespread attention and positive feedback from the community. Building on the Qwen2.5-VL series, we continued to optimize the model using reinforcement learning…
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Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?
Millions are exploring European alternatives for privacy-friendly tech. Which are the top categories, top tools, and the global demand driving this shift.
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Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction
From the Global South to the Arctic, can machine learning-enabled weather prediction better protect communities and economies?
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Aiter: AI Tensor Engine for ROCm
We introduce AMD's AI Tensor Engine for ROCm (AITER), our centralized high performance AI operators repository, designed to significantly accelerate AI workloads on AMD GPUs
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Next.js version 15.2.3 has been released to address a security vulnerability
Last week, we published CVE-2025-29927 and patched a critical severity vulnerability in Next.js. Here’s our post-incident analysis and next steps.
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Most AI value will come from broad automation, not from R & D
AI's biggest impact will come from broad labor automation—not R&D—driving economic growth through scale, not scientific breakthroughs.
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Map Features in OpenStreetMap with Computer Vision
Mozilla.ai developed and released the OpenStreetMap AI Helper Blueprint. If you love maps and are interested in training your own computer vision model, you’ll enjoy diving into this Blueprint.
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Not OK Cupid – A story of poor email address validation
A story of poor email address validation.
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A glitch in an online survey replaced the word 'yes' with 'forks'
Dating back to at least early 2023, a bizarre and alarming technical glitch started popping up in some organizations’ online surveys and forms.
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France rejects backdoor mandate
In a moment of clarity after initially moving forward a deeply flawed piece of legislation, the French National Assembly has done the right thing: it rejected a dangerous proposal that would have gutted end-to-end encryption in the name of fighting drug trafficking.
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New USPTO Memo Makes Fighting Patent Trolls Even Harder
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just made a move that will protect bad patents at the expense of everyone else. In a memo released February 28, the USPTO further restricted access to inter partes review, or IPR—the process Congress created to let the public challenge invalid patents...
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Total lunar eclipse over Teide crater, Tenerife – a project with many obstacles
Rarely have I thought so often about abandoning a photography project as during this lunar eclipse on Tenerife. Somehow, everything seemed to conspire against us this time. This is the story of an elaborately planned photo project where almost everything … Continue reading →