Elites seek to retain their power: Lampedusa’s The Leopard skewered super-rich
Legacy of The Leopard Five years after publication, The Leopard’s status as a landmark of Italian literature was cemented by an acclaimed film adaptation, directed by Visconti, a Marxist who, like Lampedusa, hailed from a noble family. It starred Burt Lancaster as the titular leopard, Fabrizio, and Alain Delon as his nephew Tancredi. Visconti’s opulent […]
Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down
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Commodore 64 Ultimate
Preorder FAQ Is this a Kickstarter? Not quite – this is an official Commodore® preorder with a money-back guarantee. Similar to crowdfunding, every penny goes into manufacturing first, and then to the mission to reboot Commodore itself. By skipping Kickstarter, we avoid big platform fees and pass the savings on to you – just like […]
BERT Is Just a Single Text Diffusion Step
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models that generate one word at a time, Gemini Diffusion creates whole blocks of text by refining random noise step-by-step. I read the paper Large Language Diffusion Models and was surprised to find that discrete […]
Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system
Alibaba Cloud claims its new Aegaeon pooling system reduces the number of Nvidia GPUs required to serve large language models by 82% during a multi-month beta test inside its Model Studio marketplace. The result, published in a peer-reviewed paper presented at the 2025 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems (SOSP) in Seoul, suggests that cloud providers […]
AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies
AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children and sexual violence survivors are flooding stock photo sites and increasingly being used by leading health NGOs, according to global health professionals who have voiced concern over a new era of “poverty porn”. “All over the place, people are using it,” said Noah Arnold, who works at Fairpicture, a […]
AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn’t Take Down the World. But It Did
A significant outage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) disrupted numerous high-profile websites and services, including Amazon, Snapchat, Disney+, Reddit, and Canva. The outage was attributed to an “operational issue” affecting over 70 AWS services, causing widespread disruptions in cloud-based games and crypto exchanges like Coinbase. AWS reported signs of recovery shortly after the incident, but […]
Matrix Conference 2025 Highlights
The Matrix Conference 2025 was a huge success; the energy and enthusiasm was just incredible! We were delighted to be the anchor sponsor – thanks to The Matrix Foundation and everyone else that organised the conference, those who presented, the others sponsors and of course all those who attended! The overriding vibe of the conference […]
Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption
Issues accessing Registry, Hub, Scout, DBC, DHIFull Service Disruption Components Docker Hub Registry, Docker Authentication, Docker Hub Web Services, Docker Desktop, Docker Billing, Docker Package Repositories, Docker Hub Automated Builds, Docker Hub Security Scanning, Docker Docs, Docker Community Forums, Docker Support, Docker.com Website, Docker Scout, Docker Build Cloud, Testcontainers Cloud, Docker Cloud, Docker Hardened Images […]