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Z.ai's 744B GLM-5.2 Runs Locally in 239GB Thanks to Unsloth's Dynamic Quants
Z.ai has released GLM-5.2, a 744B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 40B active parameters and a 1M-token context window. The company claims it is the stro
An engineer discovers the startup that built his career may have been a VC's fraud vehicle
A software engineer recounts joining GenieDB, a UK database startup acquired early in his career by Frost VP, a US venture fund run by Stuart Frost. The acquisi
Anthropic Adds ID Verification to Claude, Outsourcing Document Checks to Persona
Anthropic is rolling out identity verification for certain Claude use cases, meaning users may hit a prompt asking them to confirm who they are when accessing s
Beyond All Reason: a free, physics-driven RTS in the Total Annihilation tradition
Beyond All Reason is a free real-time strategy game that revives the large-scale, simulation-heavy style of Total Annihilation. Rather than abstracting combat,
Building a one-button PC setup: how a gamer with SMA layers assistive tools
Andrei Cebotar, a 37-year-old in Moldova living with spinal muscular atrophy, can reliably press a single mouse button, yet plays games, writes, and chats onlin
Claude Code's 'extended thinking' is a summary, not a true reasoning log
The author warns that the 'extended thinking' text Claude Code surfaces via ctrl+o is not the model's raw chain of reasoning. It is a condensed, after-the-fact
Claude's ID verification pushes a user to open models — and the cost looks small
Andrew Marble frames the choice between proprietary and open-weight LLMs through the lens of the old Linux-versus-Windows dilemma. A decade ago, running Linux c
Danish privacy activist says masked police raided his home after he doxxed the PM
Lars Andersen, a self-described libertarian privacy activist and former police officer in Denmark, says masked, armed officers broke down his door without warni
Deno's new 'desktop' command turns any web project into a native app
Deno is taking aim at Electron and Tauri with a built-in `deno desktop` command, shipping in canary build v2.9.0. It compiles a Deno project — from a single Typ
Fine-tuning a 600M-parameter Qwen model into a reliable question classifier
A hobbyist building a household RAG chatbot needed a cheap way to route questions into metadata categories (pool, car, HVAC, cooking) so vector searches only sc
GLM-5.2 vs. Opus 4.8: cheap open weights, but Opus still ships the better game
Z.ai's new GLM-5.2 is an open-weights (MIT-licensed) flagship aimed at long-horizon agentic coding, with a 1M-token context window and High/Max thinking tiers.
Hashimoto pledges another $400K to Zig, defends its no-LLM contribution policy
Mitchell Hashimoto and his family are committing an additional $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, paid as $200,000 per year over two years and mirroring t