GPU World

In our story contest, we ask people to imagine the future, evenly distributed.The AI revolution has only just begun to affect humanity, and billions of humans have yet to so much as talk to a frontier LLM like Fable or Sol. This is in large part because compute limitations make it impossible to serve the … Devamını oku

Fastpotify

A lightweight Spotify client with local playback, library access, and Spotify Connect controls for Linux, macOS, and Windows. A native binary with no embedded browser engine. It starts in well under a second and uses little memory while it runs. Play locally, gapless and at up to 320 kbps, or control playback on a speaker, … Devamını oku

Google Antigravity introduces Boost deep reasoning (/boost)

The/boostslash command activates an on-demand multi-agent reasoning pipeline designed for challenging software engineering tasks. When standard single-turn coding assistance falls short on complex bugs, race conditions, or intricate refactoring,/boostbreaks down the problem, delegates focused workstreams to specialized subagents, and independently verifies solutions across iterative rounds. Modern software development involves problems spanning a wide spectrum of … Devamını oku

Tailcat: Tailscale Without Tailscale, by Tailscale

Today we’re releasingtailcat,a remix of pieces of Tailscale that gives you a way to use the open-source Tailscale data plane (WireGuard® + NAT traversal + DERP) without the Tailscale control plane, written by the people who made Tailscale. It’s Tailscale without Tailscale, by Tailscale. Specifically,tailcatis both an open-source Go package and a CLI tool using … Devamını oku

2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up

Added correction regardingCtrlkey. In early versions this was “force run”, in a later update it was changed to “invert movement mode”. In 2004 I played too muchRuneScapeon a 56k modem that died the moment Mum picked up the phone. A 3D world, up to a couple of thousand players on a server, dozens on screen … Devamını oku

Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination

A new paper inPsychological Science(.htm) reports a failure to replicate Study 2 of Ariely and Wertenbroch’s influential article entitled, “Procrastination, Deadlines, and Performance: Self-Control by Precommitment.” The original study, published inPsychological Sciencein 2002 (.htm), found that people performed better on a set of tasks when each task had its own externally imposed deadline than when … Devamını oku

Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

Google today reached thefinal milestonein a browser-extension transition that has been years in the making, all remaining Manifest V2 extensions were removed from the Chrome Web Store. Among them is uBlock Origin, one of the most capable and widely respected content blockers ever built for the web. Google also noted that, “Manifest V2 extensions installed … Devamını oku

Instagram puts new limits on undisclosed AI profiles

InstagramannouncedMonday that it’s changing how it labels AI-generated profiles and will start limiting the reach of accounts that feature AI-generated people without saying so. The platform says it’s renaming its existing “AI creator” label to “AI-generated profile,” which Instagram says should make the disclosure easier to understand. The new label is meant to tell users … Devamını oku

The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok

The Pentagon has launched versions of OpenAI’s ChatGPT and xAI’s Grok, giving 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools that have been tailored to “warfighter needs.” ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government — custom versions of the popular consumer generative AI tools — are now part of GenAI.mil, a centralized, secure … Devamını oku