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AMD's MI355X Beats NVIDIA's B300 on Cost-per-Token for the 2.8T Kimi K3

The latest wave of open-source models has grown too large for NVIDIA's densest nodes. Kimi K3 carries 2.8T parameters — over 1.5TB of weights before any KV cach

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BMW Pushes Full-Screen Spider-Man Ad to Dashboards of Cars People Already Own

On July 27, 2026, BMW began delivering a full-screen Spider-Man: Brand New Day advertisement to the central Control Display of customer vehicles across more tha

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Bor v0.8.0 brings GPO-style fleet policy management to Linux desktops

Bor, an open-source tool for centrally managing Linux desktop configuration the way Group Policy handles Windows fleets, shipped v0.8.0 with three new policy ty

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ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 stretches AI video to 30-second one-take clips

ByteDance has released Seedance 2.5, an update to its audio-video generation model that doubles single-pass output from 15 to 30 seconds and adds multi-round ex

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Diátaxis: The Four-Quadrant Framework for Structuring Technical Docs

Diátaxis is a documentation framework built on a simple insight: readers come to docs with four fundamentally different needs, and each deserves its own form. I

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English's 'essential words' went abstract: what 70 years of vocab lists reveal

A Pudding data essay compares two teaching vocabularies for English-as-a-second-language learners: the 1953 General Service List (~2,300 words) and the 2023 New

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EU forces Google to open 11 Android features to rival voice assistants

The European Commission has ordered Alphabet, under the Digital Markets Act, to grant third-party assistants access to eleven Android features on equal terms wi

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F*: The proof-oriented language quietly verifying crypto in Firefox, Linux and Azure

F* is a general-purpose, proof-oriented programming language that pairs dependent types with SMT-based automation and tactic-driven interactive theorem proving,

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Go 1.27 Adds Generic Methods, Post-Quantum Signatures, and a Stdlib UUID

Go 1.27's marquee change lets methods declare their own type parameters independent of the receiver, so generic operations like a container's Map that transform

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Google News Filters Are Broken, and a Journalist Blames the AI Distraction

A working journalist argues that Google News has quietly decayed into uselessness for real reporting. The core complaint is that its filtering controls no longe

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How Google's embrace-extend-extinguish cycle stalled RSS adoption

The open RSS protocol remains widely used, but its mainstream momentum stalled largely because Google repeatedly built products around RSS, drew in users, then

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How type designers handle the dot: period, comma, ellipsis, bullet, interpunct

A type-design walkthrough of the punctuation glyphs most people never notice: the period, comma, ellipsis, bullet, and interpunct. Because these marks are so co

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