Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop
Our summer Visiting Fellow Roland Buckingham Hsiao very kindly led a workshop on Chinese calligraphy a few weeks ago, which we greatly enjoyed. It was not only an opportunity to learn but to experience, which I am finding ever more important in my own research as I know are several colleagues in our network. I […]
F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
After more than a year of hard work, we are thrilled to announce the launch of F-Droid 2.0, a complete redesign of the official F-Droid app and the largest app update in 10 years. For more than a decade, F-Droid has helped people discover and install free and open source Android apps. F-Droid 2.0 builds […]
Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits
Disney+ got its fourth price hike in four years today. Hulu prices also went up. Disney+ and Hulu’s respective standalone, ad-free plans (which also support 4K and HDR) are each increasing 13 percent from $19 per month to $21.50/month. Disney+ and Hulu’s respective standalone plans with ads increased from $12 to $12.50. The Walt Disney […]
Dynamic Abliteration: Non-Destructive Refusal Suppression via Engram Steering
When working with open-weight LLMs like Qwen, controlling refusal behavior on security, administrative, prompts typically requires fine-tuning or permanent weight update. Traditional weight abliteration technique neutralizes refusal directions by projecting weight matrices orthogonal to a refusal vector. However, this permanently alters base model weights and can degrade performance across non-refusal tasks also. In this post, […]
Unknown number of Texas voter registrations went unprocessed due to DPS error
For more information, please read Texas counties are receiving tens of thousands of unprocessed voter registration applications due to state error. Just weeks before the pivotal midterm elections, Texas election officials have discovered that an unknown number of voter registration applications have not been processed due to an error by the Texas Department of Public […]
Forging 1024-bit RSA signatures in nearly SNFS time [pdf]
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Every model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index plotted against its blended API price. Models on the value frontier are the ones where nothing cheaper is also smarter; everything else is beaten on both counts by a point on the line. By default only the best variant of each model is shown and low scorers […]
Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
Some Samsung smart fridges stopped working on Tuesday due to a firmware update. Korean outlets were the first to report the problems, which affect Samsung’s Bespoke AI line of fridges. Star News Korea, per a Google-provided translation, said that most of the affected devices were four-door fridges from 2024 or later. Affected fridges “suddenly lost […]
‘That’s so AI ‘ What gen Alpha’s biggest insult tells us
Name: “That’s AI!” Age: Brand new. Appearance: Primary schools everywhere. What’s AI? It’s just a thing the kids are saying now: “That’s AI!” or “That’s so AI!” But what is? Something inauthentic, unbelievable or rubbish. Which was made by AI? No. Artificial intelligence has very little to do with this. But isn’t artificial intelligence poised […]
Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers – Castle Game Engine
7.1. Input/output using streams Modern programs should use TStream class and its many descendants to do input / output. It has many useful descendants, like TFileStream, TMemoryStream, TStringStream. {$ifdef FPC} {$mode objfpc}{$H+}{$J-} {$endif} {$ifdef MSWINDOWS} {$apptype CONSOLE} {$endif} uses SysUtils, Classes; var S: TStream; InputInt, OutputInt: Integer; begin InputInt := 666; S := TFileStream.Create(‘my_binary_file.data’, fmCreate); […]