FLAWED’s Flaws and What This Means for Industry Research
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are my own and do not represent those of any current or former employer or affiliated organization. On September 17th, I quote tweeted Trail of Bits’s blog post titled “1Password’s AI patching benchmark is misleading,” which also referenced Davi Ottenheimer’s “Disinformation Pushed by 1Password: Their AI Patching Report is False.” […]
Virtio-nvgpu: Near-native Nvidia GPU access inside a KVM guest
Near-native NVIDIA GPU access inside a KVM guest. A guest renders within 2% of the machine it is running on, and costs the same CPU. virtio-nvgpu forwards NVIDIA kernel driver ioctls between a Linux guest and the host at the driver ABI level, bypassing API-level translation entirely. The guest runs NVIDIA’s own user-mode drivers, unmodified […]
Feds Target AI Critics as “Foreign Agents”
CCP recruits young, apparently Anxiety over AI and data centers is widely held, but somehow the Trump administration has convinced itself the public concern was manufactured in China. This week, in little-noticed remarks by President Trump and Justice Department warning, the administration declared war on protestors and opponents of AI, threatening“criminal liability” if they “further […]
Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard
Where can I use bastard fonts? Every download is a normal OpenType font. The swap is a liga contextual substitution registered for every script, so browsers turn it on by default. It works anywhere OpenType text is shaped: browsers, design tools, print. If a font looks unchanged, check that ligatures aren’t switched off in the […]
ArXiv receives multiyear commitments to support it as an independent nonprofit
arXiv is pleased to announce that three leading philanthropic organizations have provided multimillion-dollar support for arXiv. These new multiyear philanthropic commitments from Simons Foundation International, XTX Markets, and Siegel Family Endowment will support platform development, organizational capacity, and overall provide foundational support to arXiv’s establishment as an independent nonprofit. The $17.2 million investment, spanning three […]
Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series
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Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Toyota is preparing to introduce the electric version of its best-selling car of all time, the Corolla. When is Toyota launching the electric Corolla? With over 57 million sold worldwide since it went on sale in 1966, the Toyota Corolla is widely considered the best-selling vehicle to date. The Corolla has undergone 12 model changes, […]
Mercury 2.5 LLM hits 770 tokens per second
Mercury 2.5 is below average in intelligence, but well priced when comparing to other models of similar price. It’s also notably fast and fairly concise. The model supports text input, outputs text, and has a 260k tokens context window. Mercury 2.5 scores 12 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, placing it below average among comparable […]
We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary – Cloudflare Blog
The response header, Vary, has been called “the ugliest part of HTTP that we haven’t yet improved.” The same post describes it as a “horrible, kludgy mechanism” with “pretty abysmal interoperability” across intermediaries. That is usually where sensible engineers back away slowly with their hands raised. That’s not exactly an endorsement of Vary, but ugly […]
Where’s the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn’t
Photo illustrations by Justin Poulsen On August 5, 2013, a man and a woman ate a burger. Not just any burger: a world-historical burger, made from cattle cells grown in a lab by Mark Post, a professor of vascular physiology at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. The burger had taken two years to produce and […]