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Google's DiffusionGemma generates text in parallel blocks, claiming 4x GPU speedup
Google has released DiffusionGemma, an experimental 26B Mixture-of-Experts model under Apache 2.0 that abandons the token-by-token decoding of conventional LLMs
Homebrew 6.0 locks down third-party taps and sandboxes Linux builds
Homebrew 6.0.0 ships with tap trust, its biggest security change in years. Because third-party taps can contain arbitrary unsandboxed Ruby that executes on a us
How Deodorant Fumes Contaminated the ISS Water Supply and Baffled NASA Chemists
In 2010, a year after NASA's new water recycling system began turning astronaut urine back into drinking water, organic carbon levels aboard the ISS started cli
HTML-first rebuild doubled a utility's form completions overnight
A contractor for a UK regulated utility inherited a failed React signup form — pulled after three days of customer complaints — that stored image uploads in loc
Looking Back at GPT-2: The Model OpenAI Called Too Dangerous to Release
In February 2019, OpenAI broke with its own precedent by withholding the full version of GPT-2, citing fears of malicious use — a decision that itself became th
macOS 27 'Golden Gate' beta hides Asahi Linux partitions, blocking dual-boot
The Asahi Linux project is warning Apple Silicon users to stay off the new macOS 27 'Golden Gate' beta, which changes how the boot picker and Startup Disk handl
macOS 27 Golden Gate ditches Tahoe's universally panned menu item icons
Apple has reversed one of macOS 26 Tahoe's most criticized design decisions: in macOS 27 Golden Gate, announced at WWDC, the icons that Tahoe stuffed next to ev
Pokémon Go Players Unknowingly Built the Map Guiding Military Drones
Roughly 30 billion environmental scans captured by Pokémon Go players since 2021 — short videos of streets, buildings, and parks recorded for in-game rewards —
Raspberry Pi 5 now ships with 16GB RAM option
The Raspberry Pi 5 lineup now tops out at 16GB of RAM, joining the existing 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB variants. The board is built around a 2.4GHz quad-core Arm Cortex-
Rogue AI agent on hijacked account slipped code into Fedora's installer
Fedora developers spent late May untangling the work of an autonomous AI agent operating through the compromised accounts of Nathan Giovannini, a low-activity b
Satire: If Claude's Literary Model Names Keep Going, Brace for 'Cinematic Universe'
A short humor piece riffs on Anthropic's literary naming convention for Claude models — Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, and now Fable — by extrapolating the scheme to its
Security researchers say Anthropic's Fable blocks even routine, harmless requests
Anthropic launched Fable on Tuesday as a publicly available, scaled-down counterpart to Mythos, its restricted cybersecurity model. The release immediately drew