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 […]
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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 […]
ArchiveBox is undergoing significant changes, with new features on the horizon for self-hosting internet archives. In light of recent attacks on Archive.org, ArchiveBox has gained attention as people seek to self-host their own archives. The platform supports Archive.org’s mission to preserve human knowledge but acknowledges the risk of being targeted for suppression or legal action. […]
Hofstadter’s “Lisp: Atoms and Lists,” from his book Metamagical Themas, introduces Lisp programming language’s elegance and flexibility in AI research. Lisp’s interactive nature, unique Polish notation for arithmetical expressions, and manipulation of atoms and lists highlight its crispness and charm. The read-eval-print loop of the Lisp interpreter allows for incremental programming and debugging, contrasting the […]
In June, the U.S. National Archives presented Google’s Gemini AI as a productivity tool for its employees, with plans to launch a public-facing chatbot named “Archie AI” in December. Employee concerns about AI in archiving, the potential for inaccuracies, and privacy were raised during the presentation. Despite redacted details, the AI was demonstrated to mimic […]