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Meta’s Prometheus is a gigawatt-scale AI supercluster in New Albany, aimed at training frontier models with ~1 million GPUs. Phase one is complete, delivering Muse Wonder with high pretraining and RL goodput and ~54k MTBI hours after fixes. It uses two NVL72 platforms—Catalina GB200 and Clemente GB300—each with 72-GPU domains and high memory bandwidth; Vera Rubin NVL72 and San Miguel are planned. The network spans BE, BAG, and building fabrics with DSF/NSF, optimized by PAFT and checkpointing. Dynamo Dimmer manages power; cooling uses AALC/FLC. Hyperion is next.
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The post argues that AI writing erodes author identity and precision. Drawing from a bachelor thesis on identifying authors from short texts, it suggests readers rely on patterns, structure, and style—elements AI averages and obscures. AI writing reduces empathy and makes context harder to infer; even with detailed prompts, it often makes assumptions and yields vaguer language. This loss of precision slows readers, increases verbosity, and erodes trust, offsetting any writer time-savings and complicating collaborative work.
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Rouler is a Windows split-tunneling tool that lets you assign apps and services to specific network interfaces, enabling concurrent use of multiple VPNs without interference. It works with WireGuard, Tailscale, OpenVPN, Mullvad, etc., and uses its own Rust driver; it doesn't modify the Windows route table. Rules can target apps and destinations (IP/subnet). It shows a live activity view and routes traffic accordingly. Lightweight, fast, and designed to minimize impact. Free beta now; ARM not supported yet; pricing later. Beta for technical testers; install with a key.
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RawLink is a fast, encrypted TCP tunnel written in Rust with optional SSH obfuscation. It tunnels traffic from a local SOCKS5 proxy to a remote server using AES-256-GCM and a pre-shared key for authentication. It supports multiple tunnels, automatic reconnects, and a 17-byte header that is XOR-masked for obfuscation. An extra obfuscation layer can mimic SSH traffic or look like random data. Usage: run server and client with a 64-hex PSK and route via SOCKS. Development ongoing with security audits pending; MIT/Apache-2.0 license.
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Anthropic shows Claude designed de novo protein minibinders against five scorpion neurotoxins from four species to block their binding to sodium channels. In 64 hours of autonomous work plus four follow-ups, Claude produced 318,484 designs, shortlisted 180, and with 31 more (211 total) sent to labs. 17 designs met binding criteria, each against a single toxin (Cn2, Ts1, AaH I, AaH II, LqhIII). Lab tests (SPR) yielded KD in single-digit nM for Cn2-B1 and Cn2-B2; none achieved multitoxin binding. No neutralization in cells or animals yet. All designs and data are released to accelerate antivenom research.
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Jepsen tested Orkes Conductor 5.3.2–5.5.0-rc2 and found: frequent concurrent execution of the same task within a workflow; pre-execution stalls; occasional null IDs and syntax errors; and three serious safety bugs where workflows were abandoned, lost, or completed without any tasks running. Orkes released 5.5.6 with patches addressing all three serious issues and reducing concurrency, plus fixes for two startWorkflow errors; some issues (#3 null IDs, #6 failed connections) remain under investigation. Upgrade to 5.5.6; ensure idempotent tasks and safe storage choices.
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Permit Pending is a browser-based city-simulation where you’re the elected mayor. Every block goes through hearings, lawsuits, and elections as you maneuver a seven-seat council to stay in office while building the city you want. A month-by-month case shows conflicts between developers and residents over zoning, parking, and taxes. Start as a hamlet and grow to a metropolis—or inherit problems. It’s a sandbox forever with no campaign or fixed win screen; you play until voters oust you. No account needed; saves stay on your computer. By Peter Cai, 2026.
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Sixteen years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, Gulf deep-sea life shows little recovery. A PNAS study finds ≥60% declines in octopus, squid, krill, shrimp, and lanternfish in the spill’s early years, based on acoustic surveys and thousands of nets. The losses are the fastest, most severe in the deep-sea zone from about 600 feet to over two miles deep; while not proving causation, oil pollution is the most parsimonious explanation. Contaminants persist in squid and octopus flesh and in fish eggs, potentially harming reproduction; genetic diversity has declined, risking adaptability.
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October 2026 SlopCodeBench update evaluates frontier models on 36 problems with 196 checkpoints; strict pass rates are 12–16% and core passes 66–74%. Astra XHigh leads strict passes (32/196), but gains over others are modest; higher effort costs 2–4x with little reliability in improving strict passes. The report emphasizes code cleanliness, reveals Opus Medium leaves more code and that cleaner code doesn't always yield more strict passes, and notes Part I of a two-part series.
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Facing AI, the author asks what to teach his son and revisits Neil Postman’s End of Education. He argues schools have endured because they fulfill evolving purposes: forming character, citizenship, livelihood, and basic knowledge. Resourcefulness—using tools like Google—has become a key educational aim, though AI unsettles traditional paths. Postman’s suggested aims—Spaceship Earth, The American Experiment, The World Makers—offer hopeful directions. The piece emphasizes that how we teach matters as much as what we teach, and proposes co‑creating education with children rather than prescribing it alone.
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An IGN 403 Unavailable (IFW-U01) error is shown, stating the request looked suspicious and was blocked, with a 'Back to IGN' link and a placeholder 'Another Quote'.
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An interactive 3D recreation of IKEA’s BILLY and LACK manuals, showing page‑by‑page assembly. The BILLY build uses 80×28×202 cm panels and 82 hardware pieces (dowels, cam screws/locks, nails, shelf pins, wall brackets). The cam-lock mechanism clamps panels; the back panel + nails keep the case square. The LACK table is shown with four legs and four double‑ended screws. The app emphasizes two-person lifting and that wall screws are not included. Reproduces the manual unaltered and is not endorsed by IKEA.
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TorchTPU provides a PyTorch backend for Google's TPUs, enabling PyTorch models and ops on TPU devices. It includes custom ATen kernels, a compilation cache for optimized XLA, and support for distributed training. It ships with examples (Llama, Qwen, ResNet, DLRM, minGPT, UNet) and integrates with torch.compile() for graph mode. Documentation is at torchtpu.readthedocs.io; notebooks are Marimo-based. Installation via pip (torch_tpu 0.2.0) or building from source with Bazel. Python 3.11+; Bazelisk-based builds; TPU VM required for notebooks. Open-source under Apache 2.0.
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Lukas Werner documents building a VGA driver in SystemVerilog for an FPGA (DE10-lite). It covers VGA basics (CRT revival, HSync/VSync, frame timing), using a 50 MHz clock to generate ~25 MHz pixel rate. A parameterized counter drives horizontal (0–799) and vertical (0–524) counts to yield a 640×480 visible area. Color data is mapped via a small mux to 12-bit RGB. The first lab displays color; the second loads an image from ROM, converting a Python image to a Go-generated ROM, and adds optional alpha transparency with several blending approaches. The post emphasizes debugging and interactive visuals.
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Voxtral 3 is Mistral’s voice-agent SDK and multilingual speech suite (50+ languages) for real-time listening, reasoning, tool use, and speaking in one streaming pipeline. It includes Voxtral Small Transcribe 3 (multilingual with diarization and context biasing), Voxtral Mini Transcribe 3 (fast), and Voxtral Speech 3 TTS (expressive voices across 35+ languages and 50+ dialects) plus Pro Voice and 30-minute voice cloning. Supports sovereign deployment (EU API or self-hosted) with sub-500 ms latency. Pricing: transcription per minute; TTS per million chars. Available via Mistral API or self-deploy; Studio playgrounds.
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Rohan Protocol’s sdk is an open-source MCP stack including the MCP Server (mcp), core engine (sdk), and browser hooks (webmcp). It enables secure autonomous agents with in-memory RAM isolation, a V-01 semantic firewall to strip prompt injections, and V-02 deterministic memory zeroize to prevent context leaks. Exposes JSON-RPC MCP endpoints; runs from source or via npx. Features a Midnight blockchain ledger and gasless sponsorship, plus a security threat register and academic research. Public beta (v0.6.0).
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