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DeepSeek has open-sourced DeepInfer, the high-performance inference engine behind its production services.
Debate over whether inference margins are sustainable, with camps citing 70%+ profits vs. commodity commoditization and missing training costs.
A Savannah officer gave her ICE husband access to police Flock system for 983 searches.
Why isn't this cybercrime? Commenters blame ICE impunity and qualified immunity.
Linux 7.3 kernel released, a record-breaker with 18,765 commits from 3,021 developers.
Two camps: those seeing failfs as useful for sandboxing, those calling it insufficient compared to Capsicum.
A single-motor drone uses speed modulation and a hinge mechanism to steer without a swash plate.
Admiration for the clever mechanical simplicity, but skepticism about its practical utility due to the drone's spin.
WhatsApp hid instructions in help pages telling its AI not to recommend regulators or cite privacy laws.
Split between defense as standard caution and criticism as unethical or illegal under GDPR.
Mistral releases Timestral, a family of time-series foundation models up to 209M parameters.
Competing models and licensing terms dominate, with one company noting a 42% winrate against Timestral.
Engineers grapple with shipping AI-written code they don't fully understand.
Acceptance of AI code with extensive testing versus need for deeper understanding.
MiniMax claims M3.1 Flash matches top models on agentic and coding benchmarks at 70% lower cost.
Mixed: some rate it below DeepSeek 4.1 Flash; others debate 'flash' naming and benchmark reliability.
An open-source developer archived all his Ruby gems, citing AI and DHH as reasons.
Thread split between sympathy with the author and a 'robots replaced carpenters' counter-analogy.
DHS bans DeepSeek from U.S. federal civilian agency systems over national security concerns.
Split between national security rationales and accusations of protectionist targeting of a competitor.
OpenBSD 8.0 adds hibernate support for arm64 and expands kernel virtual address space on amd64.
Split on the satirical AI artwork; praise for the simple sysupgrade process.
Ukraine claims world's first drone evacuation of a wounded soldier from the front lines.
Mixed pride and sadness over Ukraine's forced drone innovation for casualty evacuation.
CERN and Mistral will jointly develop foundation models for physics discovery.
Broad approval for the partnership, tempered by doubts about Mistral's technical standing versus frontier labs.
New rules and technologies are shifting drug testing from animals to human-cell systems.
Two camps: those pushing faster adoption of alternatives and those warning that biological complexity still requires animal data.
Mac.apk lets Android apps run natively on Apple Silicon Macs without emulation or virtualization.
Thread balanced enthusiasm with practical concerns over Google Play Services dependencies and sandboxing.
Hacked AfD emails reveal antisemitism, racism, and violent fantasies.
Frustration with the paywall dominates, as commenters share alternative sources.
A guide to removing ads from Android TV using Projectivy Launcher, SmartTube, and ADB.
Security concerns over AI-run ADB commands mix with practical tips to buy dumb TVs or disable smart features.
Lula supporters protested at Meta, accusing it of election interference by boosting Bolsonaro content.
Two camps: those citing US historical interference in Brazil and those dismissing complaints as anti-democratic sore-loser rhetoric.
Let's Encrypt will add two remote perspectives for domain validation, totaling seven, to meet 2026 Baseline Requirements.
An August BGP hijack bypassed multi-perspective validation, sparking debate over RPKI mandates vs. practical adoption limits.