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E-reader fans, get ready for a revolution! Amazon’s new Kindle lineup brings innovative features, including the first-ever color Kindle, the Kindle Colorsoft Signature Edition. This device combines the high-quality features of Kindle with vibrant color, fast performance, and weeks of battery life. The Kindle Scribe introduces in-book writing and an AI-powered notebook for an enhanced […]
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Controversy stirs in the WordPress community as Automattic and WP Engine engage in a fierce battle. Automattic’s actions, led by CEO Matt Mullenweg, to punish WP Engine on multiple fronts have angered users and contributors. Punitive measures include instituting a hostile fork of a WP Engine plugin, causing concerns regarding community involvement and project leadership. […]
The app was inspired by the creator’s wife, a YouTube music theory educator, and aims to generate polished written documents from video transcripts for Patreon supporters. Utilizing FastAPI and SQLmodel, the backend efficiently processes video transcripts while using OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s LLM APIs to enhance accuracy. The article delves into database optimization using SQLite and […]
Kailash Nadh, CTO at Zerodha, is thrilled to announce the launch of a $1 million fund to support Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) globally. The fund is a way to give back to the FOSS community that has been vital in Zerodha’s success. The lack of financial sustainability for FOSS projects has been a […]
The UK Royal Society has released over 1,600 historic reports from 1949 to 1954, including a review by Dorothy Hodgkin. The journal was the first to establish peer review, offering insight into the evolution of the process. The archive reveals that bias was common, as authors’ identities influenced reviewers’ opinions. Referees were also asked to […]
Winamp, under new ownership, released its “Legacy Player Code” on September 24 for developers to contribute to its evolution. However, the repository was abruptly deleted due to issues with code licenses. The licensing terms are restrictive, allowing only official maintainers to distribute modifications. Even original developer Justin Frankel found the terms “absurd” and “terrible.” Despite […]
Introducing two new cutting-edge edge models – Les Ministraux: Ministral 3B and Ministral 8B. These models offer high performance in knowledge, commonsense, reasoning, and efficiency, setting a new standard in sub-10B AI models. They cater to various use cases including on-device translation, smart assistants, local analytics, and robotics. Les Ministraux excel in function-calling in agentic […]
Efficient High-Resolution Image Synthesis with Linear Diffusion Transformer by Enze Xie and team introduces Sana, a text-to-image framework that generates high-quality images up to 4096 × 4096 resolution at a remarkably fast speed, deployable on a laptop GPU. The core designs include a deep compression autoencoder, efficient linear DiT, decoder-only small LLM as a text […]
The Federal Trade Commission has implemented a new “click-to-cancel” rule to make it easier for consumers to cancel subscriptions. Commission Chair Lina M. Khan emphasized the importance of eliminating deceptive practices in negative option programs, saving Americans time and money. This updated rule will apply to various media platforms and requires sellers to provide clear […]
Successful software is often buggy, and Leslie Lamport’s Specifying Systems emphasizes the importance of being suspicious of success. Verification is key to ensuring code works for the right reasons, but even then, we must be wary of false positives. The “make it work, make it break” approach helps identify if code is truly working as […]