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Ox Alpha is a reasoning model designed for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads. It is suited for long-horizon software engineering, complex reasoning, and workflows that combine text with visual context. Ox Alpha is a stealth model. It is … Read more

[Editor’s note: This article was originally scheduled for publication in the September 1998 issue of BYTE Magazine but was canceled when BYTE folded in June 1998. It appeared instead in Windows NT Magazine and in C’T, a German computer magazine. … Read more

A wolf paces in captivity, teaching us all the wrong lessons about power In 1947, at Switzerland’s Basel Zoo, animal behaviorist Rudolf Schenkel peered into an enclosure of captive wolves, meticulously documenting their interactions. What he witnessed – aggressive displays … Read more

Three years ago, while playing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, I noticed a nice little trick and tweeted about it – today is the day when I finally release it as an article. Do you guess, what’s this about? Correct answer: … Read more

In 1958, as part of a research project on wolves, David Mech, a graduate student in wildlife ecology at Purdue, was flying over Isle Royale National Park, on Lake Superior. From above, he saw a wolf pack capture and kill … Read more

In the past few years, the governments of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have both made a rather bold commitment: They will soon use the Latin alphabet to write their respective Turkic languages. They will refrain from Cyrillic, a writing system originally … Read more

I’m aware enough has been said about Premultiplied Alpha vs Not-Premultiplied Alpha blending and compositing, and so this article won’t try to teach you about premultiplied alpha or preach its benefits or correctness. Although if you do need to learn … Read more

1. An advent: ancient archangels architect abstract astronomy and arid asteroids.   2. All asteroids are amorphous and absent; And all asleep across aquatic anarchy. And astral angels advanced across area.  3. And Almighty asked,” Appear.” And all appeared aglow.  … Read more

Wildfire Games proudly announces the release of 0AD Alpha 25: “Yaunã,” the twenty-fifth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source real-time strategy game of ancient warfare. Yaunã is an old Persian word for Ionians (Greeks). Trailers YouTube: PeerTube: New Features in … Read more