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ai and ml PLUS: Hiveminds are emerging to hack the planet, and open-weight models are the new new red scare. KETTLE OpenAI's invasion of Hugging Face keeps getting worse somehow, Chinese open-weight models are nigh on to reaching parity with their closed-off American cousins, and AI crawlers are
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OS PLATFORMS He’s not thrilled, but won’t let it delay the release of version 7.2 Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds thinks the project has reached a new normal of supersized updates, thanks to AI. Torvalds posts a weekly state of the kernel update, and last week’s
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A script that shouldn't have worked, on a project that never ended, for a company that hardly cared WHO, ME? The past may be a foreign country, but it's one The Register likes to explore each Friday in "Who, Me?" – our reader-contributed column that
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PayU, India’s leading diversified fintech platform, and Marg ERP, India’s trusted business management platform empowering over 10 lakhs+ retailers, distributors, manufacturers and MSMEs, today announced a strategic partnership to power Marg Pay, Marg ERP’s integrated payments solution, solving for the digital payments collection and reconciliation for India’
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The European Space Agency is trying to understand why astronauts lose their eyesight in space, in the hope they can figure out how to treat—or even prevent—the condition as looming longer spaceflights heighten the risk of permanent vision damage. The agency has commissioned British eye-scanning startup Siloton to
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a little tricky. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group hint: Making a racket. Green group hint: Smash the ball. Blue group hint: Football player. Purple group
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Need some help with today’s Mini Crossword? I have to say, 6-Across is a fun clue. Read on for all the answers. Mini across clues and answers 1A clue: ___ to pay (modern prompt) Answer:TAP 4A clue: Helpful book genre Answer:HOWTO 6A clue: Source of the headline “Study:
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DEF CON — A security researcher has revealed severe, now-resolved security vulnerabilities in the Connective digital identity system, a browser extension used by over two million users in Belgium. Developed by Nitro Software Belgium, the software is used by eight of Belgium’s ten largest banks and over 60 government agencies
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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I’ve never particularly enjoyed running, especially when training solo, but it takes the least effort for me to prepare for in the morning compared to my preferred activities — cycling or badminton — and it’s also a nice cross-training option. After reading about my colleagues using AI to build training
