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MacBooks account for 86% of total Mac sales; Mac desktops just 14%

macdailynews.com

Apple’s 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro (M4 Pro and M4 Max) According to data from the...
Apple’s 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro (M4 Pro and M4 Max) According to data from the Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP), MacBooks have solidified their dominance within Apple’s computer lineup, accounting for an impressive 86% of total Mac sales. This figure highlights a clear consumer preference for p...
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I'd like to take a moment to speak to you about the Adobe PSD format

github.com
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Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default

github.com
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Concise Machine Learning [pdf]

berkeley.edu
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Pocket Keyboard Design Contest

chrischrislolo.github.io

The results are in! Thank you to everyone who has participated in the contest! I am...
The results are in! Thank you to everyone who has participated in the contest! I am floored by all of the creativity and thought put into the entries!! I'd like to list out the entries, what I like about each one, and finally outline the winners. Thank you to PCBWay for sponsoring the prizes and making this contest ...
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VibeSail: A case study in vibe coding a game

vibecoding.games

cursor game dev replit vibe coding vibe coding game dev
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Mercedes takes biggest swing yet at Tesla as it unveils CLA with 492-mile range

fortune.com
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AMD launches Gaia open source project for running LLMs locally on any PC

tomshardware.com

(Image credit: AMD) Running large language models (LLMs) on PCs locally is becoming increasingly popular worldwide....
(Image credit: AMD) Running large language models (LLMs) on PCs locally is becoming increasingly popular worldwide. In response, AMD is introducing its own LLM application, Gaia, an open-source project for running local LLMs on any Windows machine.Gaia is designed to run various LLM models on Windows PCs and feature...
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The Humans Building AI Scientists

asimov.press

The exterior of FutureHouse HQ in San Francisco.From inside an industrial facade in San Francisco’s Dogpatch...
The exterior of FutureHouse HQ in San Francisco.From inside an industrial facade in San Francisco’s Dogpatch neighborhood, a crow takes flight. This tool-using corvid is the chosen mascot of FutureHouse, a nonprofit determined to automate scientific discovery using AI agents that can generate hypotheses, connect exi...
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Crabtime: Zig's Comptime in Rust

crates.io
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U.S. Government Removes Tornado Cash Sanctions

coindesk.com

The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog removed Tornado Cash from its global blacklist Friday.The crypto mixing...
The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions watchdog removed Tornado Cash from its global blacklist Friday.The crypto mixing tool has been accused of helping North Korea's Lazarus Group launder stolen funds from its various hacks and thefts, and the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control sanctioned ...
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When the Animals Went Electric

nautil.us

One moment a flounder lies hidden in the sandy bottom of the ocean, the next it...
One moment a flounder lies hidden in the sandy bottom of the ocean, the next it vanishes in the bloody frenzy of a shark’s dinner. The shark didn’t see or hear the fish; it pinpointed it from the infinitesimal electrical signals of the flounder’s beating heart. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or...
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Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default

github.com
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Scallop – A Language for Neurosymbolic Programming

scallop-lang.org
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Google's Two-Year Frenzy to Catch Up with OpenAI

wired.com

A hundred days. That was how long Google was giving Sissie Hsiao. A hundred days to...
A hundred days. That was how long Google was giving Sissie Hsiao. A hundred days to build a ChatGPT rival.By the time Hsiao took on the project in December 2022, she had spent more than 16 years at the company. She led thousands of employees. Hsiao had seen her share of corporate crises—but nothing like the code red...
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Don't Be Afraid of Types

lmika.org

I found that there’s a slight aversion to creating new types in the codebases I work...
I found that there’s a slight aversion to creating new types in the codebases I work in. I saw it during my early days while I was working in Java projects, and I see it today in the occasional Go project. Function bodies with lots of local variables, functions that take a large number of arguments or returning a la...
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Major wellness influencer sources medical advice from ChatGPT

mcgill.ca

A full video from our Office is included at the bottom of this article, which includes...
A full video from our Office is included at the bottom of this article, which includes clips from these exclusive video sessions. Major anti-vaccine and alternative health influencer Joe Mercola has daily Zoom calls with a medium, who goes by the fake name of Kai Clay and claims to be channelling an entity he calls ...
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The CRPG Renaissance, Part 5: Fallout 2 and Baldur's Gate

filfre.net

As we learned in the earlier articles in this series, Interplay celebrated the Christmas of 1997...
As we learned in the earlier articles in this series, Interplay celebrated the Christmas of 1997 with two new CRPGs. One of them, the striking post-apocalyptic exercise called Fallout, was greeted with largely rave reviews. The other, of course, was the far less well-received licensed Dungeons & Dragons game called ...
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The Case for Centralizing Authorization

aserto.com

Authorization is a critical component of every business application. If the authorization system is down, the...
Authorization is a critical component of every business application. If the authorization system is down, the application is down, so it must run at very high availability. It also needs to evaluate every decision correctly or risk elevation of privilege or information disclosure vulnerabilities. Finally, it has to ...
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George Foreman, Boxer Turned Foreman Grill Infomercial Star, Dies at 76

variety.com

George Foreman, the charismatic boxer turned infomercial star who had a retail hit with his Foreman...
George Foreman, the charismatic boxer turned infomercial star who had a retail hit with his Foreman Grill product line, died Friday. He was 76. The Texas-born Foreman became Heavyweight Champion of the World, and segued into a TV staple and pop culture icon. He was swept up in the swirl of decade-defining events sur...
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Hunyuan T1 Mamba Reasoning model beats R1 on speed and metrics

tencent.github.io

😄 blog | 💬 demo | 🔗 api | 📝 Contact Reinforcement learning has pioneered a...
😄 blog | 💬 demo | 🔗 api | 📝 Contact Reinforcement learning has pioneered a new Scaling paradigm in the post-training phase of large language models, a breakthrough that is increasingly attracting attention from the industry. With the successive release of OpenAI’s O-series models and DeepSeek R1, the excellent perfo...
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High Frequency Food: Better Cutting with Ultrasonics

hackaday.com

You’re cutting yourself a single slice of cake. You grab a butter knife out of the...
You’re cutting yourself a single slice of cake. You grab a butter knife out of the drawer, hack off a moist wedge, and munch away to your mouth’s delight. The next day, you’re cutting forty slices of cake for the whole office. You grab a large chef’s knife, warm it with hot water, and cube out the sheet cake without...
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43-year-old Family Canoe Trip

paddlingmag.com
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Imbue (YC S17) Is Hiring Product Engineers

ycombinator.com
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