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Implementing Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast on Linux Systems
LE Audio replaces classic Bluetooth® audio profiles with a modular, low-energy architecture.
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PRC elites voice AI-skepticism
Executive Summary: Rapid advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has become a point of national pride in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), driven in part by a cohort of accelerationist advisors who view technology as a transformative solution to the country’s economic ills. Lauding it as a “new productive…
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Claude Advanced Tool Use
Claude can now discover, learn, and execute tools dynamically to enable agents that take action in the real world. Here’s how.
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Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5 is our new flagship model, with state-of-the-art coding and agentic performance at lower pricing.
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GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France
The GrapheneOS project has announced on X that they are ceasing all operations in France, asserting that the country is no longer safe for "open source projects"
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Shai Hulud launches second supply-chain attack
The threat actor behind “Shai Hulud 2.0” launched a new malware campaign compromising the supply chain of Zapier, ENS Domains and more — exposing secrets, injecting malicious code, and enabling widespread developer-environment takeover.
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Shai-Hulud Returns: Over 300 NPM Packages Infected
Over 1,000 NPM packages were infected using the same method as the previous attack, infecting with a fake Bun runtime. The attacker leveraged the `preinstall` script to download and execute a malicious payload, stealing sensitive information from the compromised machines.
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General principles for the use of AI at CERN
This content is currently in the process of being archived and integrated into the CERN Library collections.
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1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18
We’re thrilled to announce that Zorin OS 18 has amassed 1 million downloads in just over a month since its release, breaking all previous …
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Racket v9.0
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.0 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. **Racket 9.0 is here!** A major release is always exciting and Racket 9.0 is no exception in that it intr...
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MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces
Introducing the MCP Apps Extension proposal (SEP-1865) to standardize interactive user interfaces in MCP, developed with the MCP-UI creators and maintainers from OpenAI and Anthropic.
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WorldGen – Text to Immersive 3D Worlds
Today, we’re introducing WorldGen: a state-of-the-art end-to-end system for generating interactive and navigable 3D worlds from a single text prompt.
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A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird
In less than a decade amateur photographer and Hummingbird Spot founder Carole Turek has photographed more than 250 hummingbird species, including one that was long considered extinct.
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ADHD and monotropism (2023)
Monotropism was formulated as a theory of autism, but as time has gone on it has become clear that many diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) identify strongly with many aspects of the theory.
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Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model
Researchers at Rice and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have unveiled a physics-based model of magnetic resonance relaxation that bridges molecular-scale dynamics with macroscopic magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signals, promising new insight into how contrast agents interact with water molecules.
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Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight
We’ve heard some questions and concerns following our recent Terms of Service and Privacy Policy updates. We are thankful our community cares enough to
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Pixar: The Early Days A never-before-seen 1996 interview
A never-before-seen 1996 interview
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We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
First-ever ultrasound olfactory stimulation in humans. We induced distinct artificial smells like campfire and fresh air using focused ultrasound - a nose BCI breakthrough.
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Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC
Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC: In the past 18 months, we have been working on an ARM notebook based on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X1 Elite SoC (X1E). At this point, we are putting the project on hold. There are several ...
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Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster
Learn about the architectural innovations we used to build a 130,000-node Kubernetes cluster, and the trends driving demand for these environments.
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Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.”…
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Helping Valve to power up Steam devices
Igalia is an open source consulting firm specialised in the development of innovative projects and solutions. Our engineers have expertise in a wide range of technological areas, including browsers and client-side web technologies, graphics pipeline, compilers and virtual machines. We have the most WPE, WebKit…
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How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity. In some cases, law enforcement specifically targeted…
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Olmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI
Our new flagship Olmo 3 model family empowers the open source community with not only state-of-the-art open models, but the entire model flow and full traceability back to training data.
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Why top firms fire good workers
Elite firms’ culture of employee turnover isn’t arbitrary but a rational way to signal talent and boost profits, a new study finds.
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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out
Did you know that Gmail can use your emails and attachments for its smart features? Here's how to check your settings.
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New Glenn Update
Blue Origin announced a series of upgrades to New Glenn designed to increase payload performance and launch cadence, while enhancing reliability.