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GLM-5.3 release post — article body not provided, summary unavailable

No summary could be generated. The submitted item contained only the headline 'GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities' and a placeholder inst

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privacyai

Google open-sources HEIR, a compiler for encrypted AI inference

Google has released HEIR (Homomorphic Encryption Intermediate Representation), an open-source compiler that converts pre-trained AI models to run inference dire

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aidevops

How Pi's Coding Agent Beats Context Limits by Summarizing Its Own History

Coding agents like Pi, Claude Code, and Codex run into a hard ceiling: the LLM context window. Every turn appends the system prompt, tool definitions, user mess

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aitech-culture

Inside ChatGPT Enterprise: Usage Grew 7x, Skewed to Big Firms and Junior Staff

OpenAI researchers, working with academics from Columbia and Wharton, linked ChatGPT Enterprise account records to usage logs, worker job titles, message-level

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tech-culturedevops

'It's NP-Hard, So Give Up' Is a Myth That Doesn't Survive Contact With Practice

A common lesson from computer science courses is that NP-hard problems are effectively hopeless: solvable in theory, but so expensive that no practical algorith

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aicloud

Mixedbread's Toast 1 offloads the search loop from frontier models at 10x less cost

Mixedbread has launched Toast 1, a specialized retrieval agent designed to handle the search half of agentic workflows so that expensive frontier models can spe

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cloudsupply-chain

PBS station sues Iron Mountain to recover 50TB archive stranded by defunct vendor

Nine PBS, the St. Louis public television station, filed suit on July 28 in Denver District Court seeking to recover more than 50 terabytes of archival material

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aiopen-source

Qwen3.8-27B lands on Hugging Face: FP8 vision-language model with 1M-token context

Alibaba's Qwen team has published Qwen3.8-27B-FP8, an FP8-quantized build of its newest 27-billion-parameter dense model. The release is a natively multimodal s

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open-sourcedevops

RustDesk beats AnyDesk and TeamViewer to unattended remote access on Wayland

RustDesk has shipped a preview build that enables unattended remote control of Linux machines running Wayland, a milestone that has eluded most of the remote-de

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tech-cultureprivacy

Satire site nails the interchangeable clutter of every modern website

A tongue-in-cheek single-page site distills the web circa 2020 into its most universal annoyances, presenting them as the generic template every site now seems

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privacytech-culture

SparrowMap turns idle phones into a privacy-first camera net that logs only govt cars

SparrowMap is a volunteer surveillance network aimed at the state rather than the public. Contributors prop up a spare phone, old laptop webcam, or USB camera p

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open-sourcedevops

systemd-journald turns one log line into 49KB–110KB of disk writes

A newly filed systemd issue (#40262) argues that journald's on-disk logging is wildly inefficient. The reporter, running systemd 257.9 on Debian 13 with kernel

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