Blender 5.3 adds native Gaussian splats and DLSS ray-reconstruction denoising
The 3D suite can now import, process and render Gaussian-splat scenes while expanding its compositor, materials and project organization.
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Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon for demanding agentic and research tasks
The new model targets long-running coding, cybersecurity and scientific workflows, with access through Google’s developer and consumer products.
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Palantir hires former Senator Jon Tester amid expected congressional scrutiny
The Montana Democrat will advise the software contractor as incoming congressional majorities examine its government work and data practices.
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.NET 11 raises CPU baseline and previews runtime-managed async
Microsoft’s .NET 11 runtime update targets newer processors while moving async execution closer to the runtime for cleaner diagnostics and lower overhead.
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Global fossil carbon dioxide emissions projected to fall 0.4% in 2026
The Global Carbon Budget estimates a small fossil-fuel emissions decline driven by clean-energy growth and an oil shock, while total carbon dioxide output still rises when land-use change is included.
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Queens Public Library keeps branches open during ransomware outage
A ransomware attack disrupted network services across Queens Public Library locations, leaving renewals and some programs unavailable while physical borrowing continued.
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HolyArrs combines six self-hosted media-management roles in one application
The open-source project offers a single interface for requesting, finding and organizing shows, movies and music while retaining an existing download client and media server.
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Study sharply limits giant primordial black holes as dark matter source
Cosmic microwave background measurements leave little room for an abundant population of primordial black holes weighing at least 100 billion suns, researchers report.
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AI speeds scraper maintenance, but data completeness remains the harder test
An industry interview finds that coding assistance and scraping APIs have eased setup while anti-bot systems, quality controls and tool costs continue to complicate reliable data collection.
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Developer embeds readable messages inside functional RSA certificate keys
An experimental key-generation method places text in the visible modulus of a signed TLS certificate while preserving a usable private key.
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Open-source learning engine maps the mechanics of LLM inference
A new C++ and CUDA project pairs a compact Llama inference engine with hours of video and extensive handwritten notes aimed at teaching GPU inference from first principles.
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Next-Concept Modeling reports faster coarse-to-fine text generation
A new research paper describes a two-stage language-model architecture that generates hierarchical concept codes in parallel and reports large speed gains over diffusion baselines.
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Rust developer argues GPUI state model can impose costly broad rerenders
Benchmarks from a GPUI contributor contend that sparse interface changes still traverse too much of the view tree in complex desktop applications.
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Developer uses just-in-time code generation to accelerate bitmap text on RP2350
The experimental vic-2350 renderer compiles each string into specialized ARM code to meet tight scanline deadlines while preserving proportional bitmap typography.
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Llama-modchip project claims 284-billion-parameter AI inference on a 64GB CPU system
An open-source project is offering custom models and kernels designed to run large mixture-of-experts systems in memory without a discrete GPU.
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LoreKit developer calls for a shared format for AI agent memory
A new proposal argues that coding assistants need interoperable memory records, while leaving storage, ranking and user interfaces to competing tools.
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ZapFast offers a native Rust-based WhatsApp client for desktop systems
The unofficial open-source companion client targets Linux, macOS and Windows without embedding a browser engine, while warning users that account suspension remains a risk.
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Discord previews a Rust desktop client built to replace Electron
An internal build reportedly starts faster and uses 290MB with two accounts active, but Discord has not set a public release date.
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Cloudflare explores post-quantum design for privacy-preserving web access
The proposed MOLE architecture aims to keep client and issuer identities private while preparing abuse-control credentials for quantum-era cryptography.
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Developer runs GPT-2 in a webpage using CSS and variable fonts
An experimental implementation turns browser styling features and font machinery into an inference engine for the 124-million-parameter language model.
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New York Times lawsuit challenges Brave's web crawling and AI search business
The complaint alleges Brave copied billions of webpages for a search index sold to AI companies, while crawler controls remain a central dispute.
Read report »Anthropic details an offline 'dreaming' approach to organizing agent memory
The company says agents can improve persistent knowledge by reviewing session logs between tasks and consolidating verified lessons.
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Unitree factory visit highlights why robot production still relies on people
A tour of Unitree's Hangzhou plant found largely manual assembly, illustrating how rapid product changes can limit the case for specialized factory automation.
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AI-led market retreat leaves chip stocks far below their record
The S&P 500's decline remained a correction by historical standards on November 7, while technology and semiconductor benchmarks had fallen much further.
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