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A Legit Cloudflare Product That Looks Exactly Like a Phishing Scam
Security researcher Eric Lawrence walks through his attempt to claim a handle for a new Cloudflare product and finds every warning sign of a consent-phishing at
A math-based color space aims to generate inclusive, diverse skin tones
A developer has released an open-source color space and sampling algorithm designed to produce a broad, realistic range of human skin tones for uses like charac
AI-generated 'news' site linked to OpenAI super PAC is smearing AI critics
An anonymously run outlet called Acutus (AcutusWire.com) presents itself as an expert-sourced wire service, but its reporters don't exist. The site surfaced whe
AirLLM runs 70B–2.8T models on a single small GPU by streaming layers
AirLLM is an open-source Python library that slashes the GPU memory needed for large-model inference by loading a model one layer at a time from disk rather tha
Ancient Amazon Civilization May Have Held 3M People on Just 3% of the Forest
New estimates suggest a pre-Columbian Amazonian civilization supported roughly 3 million people while occupying only about 3 percent of the rainforest's total a
Bradbury's 'There Will Come Soft Rains': the smart home that outlives its owners
This is not a news article but Ray Bradbury's 1950 science-fiction short story, posted to Hacker News as a PDF. It's worth flagging the mismatch, but the piece
C-Kermit 11 Revives a 45-Year-Old File-Transfer Workhorse After 15 Years
Kermit, the cross-platform serial file-transfer protocol Frank da Cruz and Bill Catchings built at Columbia University in 1981, has a new flagship release — the
FFmpeg 9.0 'Lei' ships, four months after the 8.1 release
The FFmpeg project has tagged version 9.0, codenamed 'Lei,' roughly four months after 8.1. The major-version bump lands the ubiquitous open-source multimedia fr
Fitting DeepSeek V4 Flash's 304B params on a single AMD MI300X in production
A developer has published the full recipe for serving DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a 304-billion-parameter MoE model, on a single AMD MI300X rather than a multi-GPU
Four rewrites in 16 days: Taylor Farms' shifting cyclospora story
Food-safety attorney Bill Marler tracks how Taylor Farms has quietly rewritten its public statement about a cyclospora outbreak four times since the July 17 rec
How Cloudflare squeezes Kimi and GLM onto GPUs without losing accuracy
Second, Cloudflare compresses model weights. For GLM 5.2 it drops FP8 weights to INT4 integers, shrinking the checkpoint from 705 GB to 421 GB and freeing per-G
ICE Funneled ~920K DNA Profiles Into FBI's Criminal Database in 2025
A Georgetown Law study finds that immigration enforcement has quietly become the largest single source of new genetic profiles in the FBI's Combined DNA Index S