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I’ll be the first to tell you LLMs deserve serious ethical consideration. But most ethical concerns disappear when you run the LLM locally on your own hardware. And you don’t need a crazy powerful rig to do that, because there are many lightweight LLMs that will run on
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Have you watched any motorsports lately? They show you all kinds of data. MotoGP, for example, will show you throttle versus braking and it is fascinating to see those levels when a rider goes around a corner. Even more data — a lot more — is available behind the scenes to the
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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle is a fun one, especially if you like poker and a certain Canadian city. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers. Yellow group hint: Going up against an opponent. Green
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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle has a true red herring — or maybe a white herring. You’ll see a lot of pale or light-colored things, but they don’t end up in the same category. Read on for hints and today’s Connections answers. Here are four hints for the
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Today’s Strands puzzle is a fun one. Once I recognized the theme, I could find some of the clues on my own just by looking for related words. If you need hints and answers, read on. Hint for today’s Strands puzzle Today’s Strands theme is: A made
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You may already pay for an Amazon Prime membership for deals and delivery perks, but what about early access to buzzy superhero flicks? Amazon has announced that US Prime members will be able to swing by theaters a couple of days early to watch Spider-Man: Brand New Day. The Tom
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July 28, 2026, 4:40 PM Top News More: International Business Times, The Verge, Pacing the Frontier, and Bloomberg Law X: @zeffmax, @micsolana, @logandobson, @hadas_gold, @milesaturpin, @shakeelhashim, @zeffmax, @gabrieldwu1, @theobearman, @dylhunn, @thezvi, @wholemars, @mark_k, @adamthierer, @brivael, @kiko_himself, @chadwahl, @tedlieu, @shiringhaffary, @stevesi, @woke8yearold, and @abhominedeus More: Washington Examiner
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Windows 11 has been plagued by many complaints of bloat and poor performance, but Microsoft seems to have been taking the recent clean-up and optimization effort seriously. Next on the agenda, the company will be converting more Windows components from the web-based React javascript framework to the native WinUI framework,
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A civil litigation case against eBay, filed by the founders of a Massachusetts-based news site that covers ecommerce, has just been settled. The gist of it: The company and former execs have to own up to—and pay up for—perhaps the most disturbing harassment campaign ever led by a
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Instacart is posing the provocative question: What if most of the work your engineers do today should, in fact, be done by machines? At VB Transform 2026, CTO Anirban Kundu argued that dev teams continue to waste their time on draining, repetitive, high-volume work; this should be absorbed by AI
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TL;DR Claude Mythos found mathematical weaknesses in HAWK (halving key strength) and reduced-round AES (200-800x faster attack). Both discovered mostly autonomously. No production systems affected. Each cost ~$100K. Anthropic announced on Monday that Claude Mythos Preview has discovered mathematical weaknesses in two cryptographic algorithms. The first substantially weakens HAWK,
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The European Commission gains sweeping new powers on Sunday to police how the world’s most advanced AI labs handle systemic risk, as the AI Act reaches its second anniversary. The EU’s AI Office will be able to demand documentation, conduct evaluations, and request access to frontier models, with
