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NVIDIA's SANA-WM: 2.6B open-source world model generates minute-long 720p video
NVIDIA Labs has released SANA-WM, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-source world model capable of generating coherent 720p video sequences up to a minute long. The c
Researcher claims Microsoft baked a BitLocker backdoor, ships PoC exploit
A security researcher is alleging that Microsoft quietly engineered a backdoor into BitLocker, the full-disk encryption feature shipped with Windows Pro and Ent
Stross's Accelerando: a free novel charting humanity's slide into the Singularity
Charles Stross's 2005 novel Accelerando, freely hosted on the author's site, traces three generations of the Macx family as accelerating technological change re
whichllm: CLI picks the best local LLM for your GPU using real benchmarks
whichllm is a command-line tool that auto-detects a machine's GPU, CPU, and RAM and ranks HuggingFace models that will actually run on it. Unlike size-based fit
WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
The World Health Organization has elevated the current Ebola outbreak spanning Congo and Uganda to a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, its highe
Why AI Won't Speed Up Your Software Process — The Bottleneck Is Upstream
Organizations chasing efficiency gains often misdiagnose where their software delivery actually stalls. Looking at a project timeline, development is usually th
Why DeepSeek-V4-Flash Could Finally Make LLM Steering Practical
Steering — manipulating an LLM's internal activations mid-inference to push outputs toward a chosen concept — has been a niche curiosity since Anthropic's Golde
Why Pokémon Battle Mechanics Are a Perfect Gateway to Prolog
A developer uses Pokémon's combat system as a teaching vehicle for Prolog, arguing that logic programming finally clicked after years of failed attempts. The fr
Zerostack: A Unix-Inspired Coding Agent Built in Pure Rust
Zerostack is a new coding agent published to crates.io that takes design cues from Unix philosophy and is implemented entirely in Rust. The project positions it
δ-mem adds compact online memory to frozen LLMs without retraining
Researchers propose δ-mem, a memory mechanism that attaches a small associative-memory state to an unmodified, frozen LLM backbone. The state is just an 8×8 mat
A developer's confession: AI tools are eroding the skills that built his career
A software developer writes candidly about the cognitive cost of leaning on AI for writing and coding. After roughly two years of prompting his way through deve
ABC News pulls FiveThirtyEight archive offline, erasing years of data journalism
ABC News has removed the entire FiveThirtyEight archive from the public web, taking down years of polling analysis, election forecasts, and data-driven reportin