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SIMD in the 90s: Programming Intel's Pentium MMX
If you used PCs in the 90s, you probably remember the 'Intel Inside MMX' stickers. This article explores Intel's major attempt at bringing SIMD instructions to mainstream desktop CPUs.
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California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database
Withdrawing its opposition under behind-the-scenes pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawless threats from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the California legislature has agreed to fund and revise state law to authorize the upload of information about all driver’s licenses and ID cards issued by the…
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Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model
Typed decisions with a probability for every option, from GLM-5.3-Flash in a single forward pass: about as accurate as Jev, faster from Europe, and protected by confidential computing. With a playground and a benchmark on 29 datasets.
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Ollama: All Aboard Open Models
Serving 8.9 million developers, Ollama has raised $88M from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, Y Combinator, and many incredible angel investors.
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Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?
A math solver leads to encrypted code in npm packages. Follow the loader, the trigger matrix that unlocks it, the remote access payload, and the full indicators.
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What DMARC Protects You From, and What It Does Not
DMARC verifies a domain owner authorised an email; it does not verify the email is safe. Where DMARC helps, where it falls short, and why authentication is not trust.
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Prompt Injecting Contributing.md
How a hidden prompt injection in CONTRIBUTING.md revealed that 40% of pull requests to a popular GitHub repository were generated by AI bots
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Rijksmuseum researchers discover new painting by Rembrandt van Rijn
Researchers at the Rijksmuseum have demonstrated that the painting Vision of Zacharias in the Temple (1633) was made by Rembrandt. They examined the work with the same advanced techniques used in Operation Night Watch , and closely compared it with other paintings by Rembrandt from the same period. Materials analysis…
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Biff.core: system composition for Clojure web apps
System composition and other interfaces for Biff projects
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Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters
The optimizations behind Wasmi 2.0, and how they compare to Wasm3 and Stitch.
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Apideck CLI – An AI-agent interface with much lower context consumption than MCP
TL;DR: MCP tool definitions can burn 55,000+ tokens before an agent processes a single user message. We built the Apideck CLI as an AI-agent interface instead:an ~80-token agent prompt replaces tens of thousands of tokens of schema, with progressive disclosure via `--help` and structural safety baked into the binary…
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It is an amazing time for programmers
Many legends of software development, like John Carmack or Chris Lattner, are very approachable. Check out their projects and go talk to them!
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TeraWave Satellite Communications Network
Blue Origin today announced TeraWave, a satellite communications network designed to deliver symmetrical data speeds of up to 6 Tbps anywhere on Earth.
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Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
Automated attack surface analysis and reduction can meaningfully improve the security of deployed software in the near term. In this post, we preview data we’ve collected from applying attack surface reduction techniques to large open-source codebases using Claude.
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Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban
Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.
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The little-known winstart.bat batch file
It had been there long before Windows 95, but nobody remembered.
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John Coltrane illustrates the mathematics of jazz
The Jazz of Physics: Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had a lot in common. The so-called “Coltrane circle” or “Circle of Fifths,” but incorporates Coltrane’s own innovations. Coltrane gave the drawing to saxophonist and professor Yusef Lateef in 1967, who included it in the Repository of Scales and
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Statistics that live in your SQL
A tour of the-stats-duck v0.6.0: a one-shot data profiler, regression and bootstrap CIs in plain SQL, ten new distributions, and SAS/XPT imports that got 52x faster — with live Bedevere demos you can poke at.
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Agents of Chaos
Natalie Shapira 1 Chris Wendler 1 Avery Yen 1 Gabriele Sarti 1 Koyena Pal 1 Olivia Floody 2 Adam Belfki 1 Alex Loftus 1 Aditya Ratan Jannali 2 Nikhil Prakash 1 Jasmine Cui 2 Giordano Rogers 1 Jannik Brinkmann 1 Can Rager 2 Amir Zur 3 Michael Ripa 1 Aruna Sankaranarayanan 8 David Atkinson 1 Rohit Gandikota 1 Jaden…
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Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota
The project is an upscale of a successful pilot built in 2013, and can be expanded further to a network of hubs producing fertiliser for farmer cooperatives.
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Why don't machine learning research agents overfit?
New research indicates that AI agents learn compressible models of data, which don’t have enough space to enable memorization.
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JDK 28
This release will be the Reference Implementation of version 28 of the Java SE Platform, as specified by JSR 403 in the Java Community Process.
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Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet
Exploiting the Tesla Wall Connector from its charge port connector -
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Previewing the Model Hardware Standard
Anthropic is opening a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate physical devices, to a first group of scientific research labs and advanced manufacturers.
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Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages
Advances made through No Language Left Behind (NLLB) have demonstrated that high-quality machine translation (MT) scale to 200 languages. Later Large...
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What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical
In this blog I will look at some of the drivers for the growth of RISC-V, its value proposition and explain why supporting RISC-V is important to Canonical. […]
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Angular v22
Today, we are thrilled to announce the release of Angular v22. We continue to be proud of the work we do with each release. Our goal is to…