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Cloudflare prototype compresses cache with Zstandard, reclaiming petabytes
Facing steep RAM and disk price hikes, Cloudflare built a prototype called Cache Transcoding that compresses eligible assets with Zstandard (zstd) as they enter
CLUI Posts Scans of a 'Los Alamos Rolodex' of Nuclear-Complex Business Cards
The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), an organization that documents how American land is used and perceived, has published a small online gallery titl
Content farms built for AI, not humans, are grounding Perplexity's software picks
Researchers queried Perplexity's Sonar and Sonar-Pro models for the top five products across 380 software categories—760 calls yielding 7,534 citations—and trac
Court Spares Google a Forced Breakup of Its Ad Tech Empire
A federal court has declined to order the structural breakup of Google's advertising technology business, opting for narrower conduct-based fixes rather than fo
ICANN Approves Killing .name Third-Level Domains, Stranding 22,000 Owners
Verisign has convinced ICANN to dismantle the entire third-level structure of the .name top-level domain, a move that will wipe out registrations like neil.fras
IFM ships K2 Horizon: six open models from 0.9B to 375B, full training lifecycle included
IFM has released K2 Horizon, a family of six models sharing one architecture, vocabulary, and training methodology: a 375B-A23B sparse MoE flagship, a dense 32B
LLM Writing Assistants Flatten How We Write — and Blur Who Wrote It
A study by Sourati and colleagues in Nature Human Behaviour tracks what happens to prose once large language models become the default writing aid. Across three
LWN raises subscription prices ~20% to track inflation, first hike since 2022
LWN, the independent Linux and free-software publication, is increasing subscription prices by roughly 20% — its first change in nearly five years and only the
Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 targets agentic coding, with a pay-with-your-data tier
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, an AI model pitched squarely at agentic workflows rather than one-shot chat. Meta's framing emphasizes higher first-attempt ac
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Polars 2.0 Makes the Streaming Engine the Default, Bets on Stricter, Fail-Fast Behavior
Polars is shipping its first 2.0 release candidate, and the headline change is that LazyFrame queries now run on the streaming engine by default when you call c
Reverse-Engineering a Game Save File with ImHex's Pattern Language
The creator of ImHex, a free cross-platform open-source hex editor, walks through how to decode an unknown binary format by reverse-engineering the save file fr