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Smaller but Better: Unifying Layout Generation with Smaller LLMs

arxiv.org
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Gene-edited non-browning banana could cut food waste

theguardian.com

Many of us have been guilty of binning a mushy, overripe banana – but now scientists...
Many of us have been guilty of binning a mushy, overripe banana – but now scientists say they have a solution with the launch of a genetically engineered non-browning banana.The product is the latest in a series of gene-edited fruits and vegetables designed to have a longer shelf life. Scientists say the technology ...
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Show HN: AI art generation faster than Midjourney

gentube.app

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The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome

wired.com

The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of...
The US Department of Justice wants Google to sell off its Chrome browser as part of its final remedy proposal in a landmark antitrust case.The proposal, filed Friday afternoon, says that Google must “promptly and fully divest Chrome, along with any assets or services necessary to successfully complete the divestitur...
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AI Thinks It Cracked Kryptos. The Artist Behind It Says No Chance

wired.com
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Discworld Rules

venkateshrao.com

The Contraptions Book club March pick is Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates....
The Contraptions Book club March pick is Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates. Chat thread here. We will discuss this the week of March 24th.I’ll be co-hosting an online salon Silicon Archipelago: A Salon On Open Distributed Southeast Asian Tech Futures on Friday, March 14 (Southeast Asia time)...
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Learn Arabic

arabic.fi

In the beginning, I found it difficult to learn Arabic. Now, since I overcame the first...
In the beginning, I found it difficult to learn Arabic. Now, since I overcame the first obstacles, learning Arabic is only fun and easy. I have built this website - Learn Arabic - to make it easier to learn Arabic. I use smart functionality to help people overcome the obstacles that hindered me to learn Arabic. Star...
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New MacBook Air Fixes This Decades-Long Design Oversight

macrumors.com

In a move that probably won't make headlines but should delight detail-oriented Mac users everywhere, Apple...
In a move that probably won't make headlines but should delight detail-oriented Mac users everywhere, Apple has quietly corrected a 26-year-old design inconsistency on its keyboards. The Mute key, a staple on Mac keyboards since the PowerBook G3 'Lombard' debuted in 1999, has finally received a logical redesign on t...

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What We Lose When Our Memories Exist in Our Phones

bloomberg.com
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Unpopular Defaults for High-Performing Tech Organizations

avivbenyosef.com

“No one ever quit!” “Look at our hackathon!” “We hard-allocate time to fight tech debt.” Ostensibly,...
“No one ever quit!” “Look at our hackathon!” “We hard-allocate time to fight tech debt.” Ostensibly, good things. In reality? Just the advice to follow… if you want to lead a mediocre team. You’re often tempted to follow the “common” playbook as a tech leader. But what if that playbook is the very thing holding your...
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Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G

restofworld.org

Last November, Nguyen Thi Que’s mobile phone suddenly stopped working as telecom companies in Vietnam permanently...
Last November, Nguyen Thi Que’s mobile phone suddenly stopped working as telecom companies in Vietnam permanently shut down the 2G network. “I thought of buying a new phone, but I don’t have money,” the 73-year-old, who sells iced tea at a bus stop in Hanoi, told Rest of World in late January. Vietnam’s plan was sim...

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US support to maintain UK's nuclear arsenal is in doubt

theguardian.com
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Forces deep underground seem to be deforming Earth's inner core

newscientist.com

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Masters of None: The Flawed Logic of One-Size-Fits-All Education

mit.edu

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Most Americans just don't matter to the economy like they once did

marketwatch.com
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Falkon: A KDE Web Browser

falkon.org

DownloadFalkon cares a lot about the security of your data and ship with an ads blocker...
DownloadFalkon cares a lot about the security of your data and ship with an ads blocker enabled by default as well as a password manager. Additional configurations allows you to improve even more your security and privacyFalkon support theming so that you can choose how your browser looks. Multiple extensions are al...
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"Wooly mice" a test run for mammoth gene editing

arstechnica.com

On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced...
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth. The long fur was created through the simultaneous editing of as many as seven genes, all with a known connection to hai...
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Ask HN: Is Cursor deleting working code for you too or is it just me?

ycombinator.com
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I hacked my company's SSO provider

mattsayar.com
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Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions

autocar.co.uk
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Svelte5: A Less Favorable Vue3

github.com
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Choosing death penalty by firing squad because it's safer

pbs.org

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A TV with Contrast You Haven't Seen for Years

hackaday.com

It’s something of a surprise, should you own a CRT TV to go with your retrocomputers,...
It’s something of a surprise, should you own a CRT TV to go with your retrocomputers, when you use it to view a film or a TV show. The resolution may be old-fashioned, but the colors jump out at you, in a way you’d forgotten CRTs could do. You’re seeing black levels that LCD screens can’t match, and which you’ll onl...
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Qualcomm Claims New X85 Modem Creates 'Huge Delta' in Performance versus Apple

macrumors.com

Qualcomm believes its latest X85 5G modem will set a "huge delta" between the performance of...
Qualcomm believes its latest X85 5G modem will set a "huge delta" between the performance of high-end Android devices and Apple devices, largely thanks to its AI-powered features. Announced at this year's ongoing Mobile World Conference 2025 in Barcelona, Qualcomm's next-generation X85 modem supports 5G mmWave, 400M...

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