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LeCun makes the political case for open-source AI as the only path to sovereignty

At the UN's Open Source Week, Yann LeCun—Meta's former chief AI scientist—argued that open-source models are the only viable route to AI sovereignty for most of

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LSE extreme heat conference scrapped after UK issues red extreme-heat warning

An LSE Grantham Research Institute event on improving global governance around extreme heat has been cancelled because the UK Met Office issued a red extreme-he

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Meta Halts Worker-Surveillance AI Program After Internal Data Exposure

Meta has suspended its Model Compatibility Initiative (MCI), a controversial program that captured employees' keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks, and screen co

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MonoLisa v3 splits into Code and Text fonts, leans into the AI-assistant workflow

MonoLisa, a commercial typeface aimed at programmers and designers, has reached version 3 with a notable structural change: the family now splits into MonoLisa

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Nub: a Rust-built toolkit that bolts Bun-style DX onto stock Node.js

Nub is a Rust-written command-line toolkit that aims to give Node.js developers the conveniences of Bun and Deno without swapping out the runtime. Rather than s

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Open-Source Project Turns Raspberry Pi Pico W Into a USB Wi-Fi Dongle

A GitLab project repurposes the Raspberry Pi Pico W as a USB Wi-Fi adapter. Instead of running its own firmware in isolation, the board connects to a host compu

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OpenAI's first custom silicon, 'Jalapeño,' targets inference costs and Nvidia reliance

OpenAI has revealed Jalapeño, its first in-house processor, co-designed and manufactured with Broadcom and aimed squarely at inference — the job of running alre

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Quaise drills 100m into granite with millimeter-wave beam, no drill bit

Quaise Energy says it has bored 100 meters into hard granite at a Central Texas test site using a gyrotron-powered millimeter-wave beam that vaporizes rock inst

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RubyLLM unifies a dozen AI providers behind one Ruby interface

RubyLLM is an open-source Ruby library that wraps the APIs of every major AI provider—OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, Bedrock, VertexAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, loca

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Samsung's 3D Stacked FET wins VLSI Best Paper with triple-nanosheet channels at 42nm

Samsung's Semiconductor Research Center has built a working 3D Stacked FET at a 42nm gate pitch, stacking n-type and p-type transistors vertically instead of pl

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SSH Tunnels Demystified: Local vs. Remote Port Forwarding

SSH port forwarding remains one of the most useful tricks in a developer's kit, yet the exact syntax is notoriously easy to forget. This tutorial walks through

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St Andrews physicist says Python bugs sink Microsoft's Majorana quantum claims

Dr. Henry Legg, a lecturer at the University of St Andrews, published a peer-reviewed critique in Nature on 24 June 2026 arguing that Microsoft's headline topol

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