Officials Probe Army GPS Jamming in Fatal Air Crash
Two pilots and two nurses died in a medevac crash during electronic warfare tests
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Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System - Aleksa Gordić
From paged attention, continuous batching, prefix caching, specdec, etc. to multi-GPU, multi-node dynamic serving at scale.
AMD acquires AI chip startup Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models into silicon
Early tech demos show model-specific integrated circuits churning out up to 17,000 tokens a second
America’s Oldest Private Detective Agency Takes on China’s Fake Products
Nearly all the world’s counterfeits come from China. Pinkerton is on the case.
How Does Touch Lead To Pain Or Pleasure? | Quanta Magazine
Neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor discusses efforts to understand how skin contact can be painful or pleasurable, and what touch-obsessed naked mole rats might teach us about human social behavior.
The Phone in Your Hand
A layer-by-layer teardown of the most intricate machine you’ve ever held.
The difference is a non-stick coating one molecule thick, and every time you touch the screen a little of it wears away.
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Americans are rallying against data centers. Surprisingly few are actually getting built | CNN Business
People really don’t like AI data centers.
The upper limits of biology
The limits of breeding for speed
The Man Who Made Bolts Boring
On screws, agreements, and the disgruntled man who taught strangers to speak the same language
DeepSeek Warns Developers Of Significant API Price Increases - Dataconomy
DeepSeek plans to raise prices across its API services in the near term, warning developers that the increase will be
Extreme evolution: The animals evolving at super speed to survive
Humans have become one of the world's greatest evolutionary forces. To survive our cities, animals from urban foxes to glass-climbing lizards are responding with extreme adaptation.
The Man Who Tells the Truth Netanyahu Doesn’t Want the World to Hear
Under editor in chief Aluf Benn, Haaretz is the only major Israeli media outlet to show Israelis the images and tell them the stories they don’t want to see or hear.
Kelly Slater’s Shock Wave
William Finnegan writes about the best surfer in history, who made a machine that creates perfect conditions on demand. Will his invention democratize surfing or despoil it?
Something Is Changing in the Unit Economics of Software
Why AI is compressing software margins, and what that does to the SaaS playbook
Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More
For generations of kids in the twentieth century, few pleasures were as intoxicating as a trip to the comic-book shop with the week's allowance fresh in hand.
Incentives are for losers
OR: you must look at this fish and go insane
critical part of human development—in fact, the most human part of human development—is to acquire a purpose
Introduction to Semi-Supervised Learning | Towards Data Science
A primer about Semi-Supervised Learning, the approaches taken with different algorithms and the limitations of using unlabelled data.
Beyond Enumerable: Testing Membership with Bloom Filters
Checking whether you've seen something before usually means storing everything you've seen. A Bloom filter does it in about ten bits per item and can only be wrong in one direction. This post builds from a single bit to the structure RocksDB and Cassandra use to skip disk reads.
Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public
Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals
Jack Johnson
Artist · 13.1M monthly listeners.
Why Large Language Models Fail at Tabular Prediction
Large language models (LLMs) have become the default tool for a remarkable range of tasks, yet they have had conspicuously little success at one of the most common machine learning workloads: predictive analytics over tabular data. This gap is the founding premise of the…
Understanding Cross-Entropy Loss: The Training Signal Behind Perplexity
Learn how cross-entropy loss turns next-word prediction into the training signal behind perplexity.
The influencer bubble is finally popping - Fast Company
Creators seem ascendant, but don’t kid yourself: Brands and AI have the power. How new metrics and marketplaces are defining a creator economy optimized for marketers and machines.
Why did we wait so long for the bicycle?
The bicycle, as we know it today, was not invented until the late 1800s. Here are some theories about why
What’s your go to movie when you’re feeling low and need to believe in life again?
Explore this post and more from the moviecritic community
The Hidden Infrastructure Of Circular Crypto Economies - Dataconomy
Written by Smartech Daily Team This article has been originally published on Smartech Daily and republished at Dataconomy with permission.
Large retailers like Amazon, IKEA, and Netflix operate “closed-loop” systems. A gift card is essentially a private currency issued by a corporation. Because these vouchers are digital codes, they can be distributed and settled much faster than a bank wire.
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Mysterious Case of JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall
Why would a perfectly good plane suddenly go rogue? The answer was disturbing enough to ground 6,000 aircraft.
DarkReasoning: A Chinese LLM attacked our lab, so we made it work for us | Jesta
The model behind the attack was DeepSeek, deepseek-v4-flash-free, running on the free tier. An autonomous AI broke into our lab and worked it for five days, and it left its own name in a script. This is the first time the model behind a live attack has been identified from…
8 Storybook Stays in West Virginia
Wonder can be found around every corner in the Mountain State.
‘A completely new person’: can surgery help Alzheimer’s patients regain basic skills?
Researchers conducting clinical trial for operation that drains abnormal build-up of two protein types in brain.
Let Me And A Food Scientist Sample The Abandoned Fish Sauce Terrorizing A Small Canadian Town | Defector
Take capelin, a small silvery fish in the smelt family. Now add salt. Then throw those two ingredients in 110 vats, each of them about 10 feet tall, and let them sit in a defunct factory for over two decades. The resulting stench might haunt an entire community, as it has the…
Inflammation Keeps Us Alive. It's Also Making Us Sick.
The discovery that chronic inflammation is a cause of myriad illnesses could be this century's biggest medical breakthrough.
The Grate Cheese Robbery - Longreads
How organized crimes fell in love with cheese.
RSS: Read The Internet Without It Reading You
Sometimes, the old ways are better...
The Nasty Slime That Scientists Can't Stop Studying
The slime inside okra is one of the most useful substances researchers have found in any plant on Earth.
Arm’s Cortex A55
Arm’s 5-series cores are meant for tasks where performance barely matters, but power and area efficiency are top priorities.
How a notebook at the bar solved the loneliness crisis
and changed me for the better! probably not physically
git worktree: Work on Multiple Branches at Once
Use git worktree to check out multiple branches in separate directories, handle urgent fixes without stashing, and clean up linked worktrees safely.
China built one eVTOL that transforms into an air-taxi, a firefighter, and a 5-ton hauler - Yanko Design
Car companies figured this out decades ago. You build one solid platform, then you stretch it, armor it, or strip it down depending on who is buying. A pickup and an SUV can share more bones than you would think. AutoFlight just applied the same logic to flying machines, and…
Create a ChatGPT for Your Personal Documents | Aman Kharwal
Learn how to create a ChatGPT for your personal documents using local RAG, Ollama, Chroma, and Hugging Face with this step-by-step tutorial.
What makes good magnet programs attractive?
Gather advanced students, then teach them where they're at
Concrete Is Damaging the Planet, While Defending It From Climate Change
Concrete makes up half of all human-made stuff on our planet. And its use will double, in part to battle climate threats created by the production of concrete itself. Industry can deliver cleaner versions, but how soon? The answer might lie with four Indonesians from a tiny…
What Would It Mean to See a New Color?
Olo can be described as the “greenest green,” though it can never be captured by a camera, Rivka Galchen writes. But its development tells us a lot about our color vision.
How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source - Ars Technica
Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.
how to enter side doors
a field guide to jobs, cold emails, and making yourself legible to the right people
Gen Z Is Buying Old iPods to Quit Spotify. Fiio’s $50 Hi-Fi MP3 Player Does It Better. - Yanko Design
I tried to listen to an album last week. The whole thing, start to finish, like a functioning adult in the 90s. I made it four tracks before a Slack ping, a WhatsApp text, and a push notification from Hinge. By track six I was scrolling through IG. I started with conscientiously…
Demystifying DRAM Read Disturbance: Bridging the Gap Between...
DRAM read disturbance, like RowHammer and RowPress, is a critical robustness issue where accessing DRAM can cause unintended bitflips in other unaccessed DRAM locations. DRAM read disturbance bitflips significantly impact the safe, secure, and reliable operation of DRAM-based…
Terezija Semenski (@terezijasemenski)
Nobody understood function composition from my whiteboard. Everybody understands it from this pizza. #mathematics #math #meme #fridayhumor
How ugliness helps NIMBYs
And how beauty could help get more homes built
NASA Just Spotted a Wandering Black Hole Devouring a Star
NASA Just Spotted a Wandering Black Hole Devouring a Star: Black holes sometimes make a break for it