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Meta open-sources Muse Glimmer, a 30B agentic model that runs on one GPU

Meta Superintelligence Labs has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter model aimed squarely at local, always-on agent workloads, with weights published o

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Mistral Wins Patent on LLMs That Emit Pausable Code to Run Tool Calls

Mistral has been granted US Patent 12,670,045, covering a way for large language models to invoke external tools by writing code rather than emitting discrete f

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NZ Music Media Collapsed First — Now a DJ-Built Platform Wants to Rebuild It

New Zealand's live music scene is thriving economically while the journalism that once documented it has all but vanished. The music sector added $451 million d

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OpenChamber: an open-source, local-first cockpit for orchestrating coding agents

OpenChamber is an open-source development environment built around AI coding agents rather than around a text editor. Its pitch is orchestration: a 'Session Goa

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Phrack at 40: A New Manifesto Mourns the Corporatization of Hacking

To mark four decades of Phrack, an author writing as TMZ revisits the 1986 Hacker's Manifesto and argues that the subculture it captured has been hollowed out.

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Put the Phone Down in the Bathroom — Your Brain Needs the Downtime

A tongue-in-cheek argument against scrolling on the toilet, framed as a rebuttal to the always-on attention economy. The author's core claim is that the bathroo

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Squeak 6.1 'Vanessa' lands after 4 years with 9,000+ method changes

Squeak, the open-source Smalltalk environment nearing its 30th birthday, has shipped version 6.1, codenamed 'Vanessa.' It's the first release in roughly four ye

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The Coming Arms Race Over AI Wearables That Record Everything You Say

Always-listening AI accessories—pins, pendants, and smart glasses that act as silent notetakers, assistants, or even ersatz therapists—are moving from niche gad

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USGS reports magnitude 7.4 earthquake near San José del Palmar, Colombia

This is a U.S. Geological Survey event alert for a magnitude 7.4 earthquake located about 5 km south of San José del Palmar, Colombia. No article text accompani

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Windows 11's Weather app eats 1 GB+ of RAM — because it's a WebView2 web app

Microsoft's built-in Weather app for Windows 11 consumes an outsized amount of memory for such a simple task. Testing by Windows Latest measured it at over 1.2

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Zuckerberg knocks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta swings back to open models

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is positioning the company against competitors that keep their AI models proprietary, framing Meta's renewed emphasis on op

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A 2011 wager on link rot: will one URL still resolve in 2022?

In 2011, two web veterans put a decade-long bet on the table at Long Bets over whether a single URL would survive. Keith argued that link rot is the web's entro

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