RISC-V: They should have known better

I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V and I often find myself explaining it piecewise. The reactions are often of the form “you just do not understand the brilliance of it all”, which is, of course, no argument at all. After being asked for the Nth time to explain, I decided to … Devamını oku

Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption

Today we’re excited to showcaseHEIR, the latest powerful tool added to our Private Computing Toolkit. HEIR is an open source compiler that unlocks cryptographically-secure private AI inference. As new benefits emerge with the growth of AI, balancing privacy and security is top of mind. Standard protections like end-to-end encryption present a trade-off: user-data can be … Devamını oku

How Protolabs turns CAD files into parts in under 24 hours

Marc Kermisch, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Protolabs. Marc Kermisch is thechief technology and AI officerat Protolabs.He leads the Maple Plain, Minn.-basedcompany‘s global technology organization, overseeing its software product development, digital manufacturing platform evolution, and enterprise-wide artificial intelligence and research & development strategies. Kermisch also focuses onadvancing Protolabs’ automated quoting, AI-driven design for manufacturability, … Devamını oku

Everything is about to “go dark”

I’m coming down from spending a few days at Usenix Security, right here in Baltimore. This means that my days have been taken up with two kinds of conversation: first, explaining to colleagues why Baltimore isn’t actually like The Wire. And second: trying not to talk about AI. Here I’m going to break both of … Devamını oku

Neros Technologies raises $250M to deploy its defense drones by the end of 2026

Neros Archer is a FPV drone built for modular payloads and resilient communications. | Source: Neros Neros Inc. this week announced it raised $250 million in a Series C round. This brought the drone defense contractor to a $2.5 billion valuation. “This newest round of funding accelerates Neros into a multi-capability drone manufacturer,” stated Soren … Devamını oku

RustDesk now supports true unattended remote access on Wayland

Wayland support has been one of the harder parts of Linux remote desktop. RustDesk can now providetrue unattended access on Wayland, without requiring someone at the remote machine to approve every session.Multi-monitor setups are supported as well. After the initial setup, you can connect even when no one is at the remote machine — including … Devamını oku

Qwen 3.8 27B

This repository contains FP8-quantized model weights and configuration files for the post-trained model in the Hugging Face Transformers format. These artifacts are compatible with Hugging Face Transformers, vLLM, SGLang, TokenSpeed, etc. The quantization method is fine-grained fp8 quantization with block size of 128, and its performance metrics are nearly identical to those of the original … Devamını oku

Introducing Toast 1

Toast 1, our first specialised search agent, is available today. It provides frontier search quality, matching or outperforming Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol while being up to 10× cheaper and 12× faster. It performs best with Mixedbread Search, but it can work with any search backend. Today, frontier models are now able to perform … Devamını oku

Google will now allow users to remove visible watermark from its AI generations

Googleannouncedon Friday that it will now allow users to remove a visible watermark from its AI generations, including images, videos, and songs. The company specified that this won’t affect the invisibleSynthID watermarkand C2PA standard-related metadata. The change reflects an evolving approach to labeling AI-generated media, as visible watermarks can often make content less useful for … Devamını oku