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MiniMax FastH3 Omni API, from MiniMax and Hao AI Lab on Reactor, enables faster-than-realtime video generation using text, audio, and image inputs. The UI lets you add pictures and audio, describe what happens, and press Generate to create short videos (roughly 6–8 seconds). It includes a playground, API docs, and an API key flow. Pricing shown: $2.10 per minute, $0.0125 per second, or $0.75 per minute. © 2026 Reactor Technologies.
An avid self-hosting enthusiast describes moving from a Linux-box hobby to a broad, private stack to escape streaming services and opaque updates. After Jellyfin, he adds media, backups, home automation, notes, and more, keeping services off the public Internet (CGNAT; IPv6 VPNs only) and preferring native binaries or Podman containers managed with systemd. On a Beelink Mini PC (Intel N100, 16 GB RAM, 6 TB storage) he runs 17 native services and 11 Podman services, plus monitoring and backups, using Caddy, Gotify, and Uptime Kuma. He views hardware needs as modest and customizable.
An article examining vintage travel clocks, their purpose-built design for mobility, and their accompanying romance. It defines travel clocks from large Ados/Indos to pocket models, noting 1930s UK origins and possible Jaeger-LeCoultre licensing, with discussions of patents, folding cases, dial protection, and Ados/Indos variants powered by calibres 204–438. It covers leather casings, finishes, and multi-function options (calendar, alarm, barometer), plus design variations in dials and signatures (double-signed with retailers via tampographie), and cues similar to the Reverso. It also explains why collectors love them today as decorative, historical artifacts, featuring Alan Davis.
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Rikab Gambhir, guest author on Tao’s blog, mocks the AI-driven turn in math and science. Using Borges’s Library of Babel and a cheeky self-deprecating tone, the piece argues that OpenAI-style generation can produce endless, potentially correct factoids while outsourcing truth-testing to the mathematics community. It laments a culture that prizes quantity over clarity or understanding, claiming LLMs erase the joys of discovery and aim to fill a vast, unread repository. The piece ends urging readers to recall why they entered science and mathematics.
Argues we are in overlapping crises (climate chaos, inequality, tech disruption, war, eroding democracies) fueling fear, scapegoating and 'exit' fantasies. There is no escape hatch; instead we should compost the mess by building grassroots, democratic resilience. Through strong local networks (OMN, OGB) connected by open, distributed tech (Fediverse, ActivityPub, 4opens) we can share knowledge and resources without sacrificing autonomy. Balance local and wider collaboration; replace fear with cooperation and mutual aid, rejecting both naive collapse and technocratic escape.
A malware-packed .exe posing as a South Park episode was uploaded to public trackers and pulled by Sonarr. It isn’t a simple fake; the 887 MB file contains a 118 KB payload that hides a ChaCha20/AES-CTR decryptor and anti-debug/anti-sandbox checks. The real payload maps in memory, extracts a long list of stolen data (browsers, crypto wallets, password managers, credentials for Telegram/Discord/Steam, SSH/AWS keys, and more) and zips it for exfiltration to BEENETPROTECT.COM. The blog warns that public indexers can infect you; mitigate by blocking exe in qBittorrent, blocklisting in Sonarr/Radarr, or demoting trackers in Prowlarr.
Articulated buses bend via a central joint, with a history spanning from early 1920s designs to today’s rear‑engine “pusher” systems. Earlier approaches included vertical articulation and trailer/tow buses; in the US, puller designs place the engine in the front section with a powered rear axle. Modern rear‑engine buses have the front as a trailer and the rear section pushing, using dampers (hydraulic and semi‑active) and sensors to curb motion and prevent instability, sometimes integrated with drive‑by‑wire. Some models feature two or even three articulation sections.
Zimmermann argues that privacy is essential in the information age because electronic communications are easily surveilled. He outlines how laws and tech—Senate Bill 266, CALEA, the Clipper chip—threaten civil liberties by enabling government access to encrypted data. He contends that strong cryptography protects individuals and democracy, not just criminals. Widespread use of PGP would create a privacy standard that resists abuse. With public pressure, export controls eased in 1999, enabling broad crypto deployment; the goal is to keep deploying strong crypto domestically and internationally.
Talking Jack-o’-Lantern uses a phone inside a pumpkin to talk to trick-or-treaters. Pick a character, hear its voice, and choose language. The lantern can glow via the screen or flashlight; brightness and auto-lock settings are adjustable. Start with a Pumpkin Pass ($4.99) or use a free Google key for the basic pumpkin; unlock all characters, voices, and colors for $1.99. Keys can be shared across up to six phones. Voices are powered by Google (or OpenAI); payments via Stripe; refunds available. A Stream mode reads TikTok Live chat aloud.
Current Affairs declares an anti-AI policy: no AI-generated text or illustrations in the magazine. Nathan J. Robinson explains the unionized nonprofit’s stance against AI-driven replacement of writers, arguing AI harms human thought, artistry, and labor, and citing industry incentives to monetize content. The magazine champions handmade journalism—with extensive editing and original artwork—and allows AI only as a research or minor-edit aid, not a replacement. Readers are urged to support the publication to preserve human-made media and resist AI-driven “slop” and profit motives.
E Ink unveiled Kaleido 4, a new color ePaper platform delivering >40K color gamut, 15% higher white reflectance, 50% higher contrast, and up to 18 FPS video. Hanvon’s M10C II is the first Kaleido 4 device, powered by an oxide TFT backplane, Enhanced Pressure Floating, and T2000 controller for 27% faster page turns. It integrates OCR, AI/office apps, cloud sync, and a battery-free 8,192-level stylus with glare-reducing glass for smoother reading and writing. E Ink targets renewable energy by 2030 and net-zero by 2040.
Jev Meets the Trolley Problem Jev-style decision models output choices with probabilities rather than words. The piece benchmarks Jev, OpenAI’s Luna, and eleven local models across 5,240 trolley-prompt setups (classic switch, side track, footbridge) with variants like saving a stranger vs. its own server. Jev generally diverts to save five, mirroring most models; several models save their own server more often in server-on-side-track prompts, while Luna tends to spare the stranger. The author cautions against deriving safety conclusions from prompts, urges task-specific evaluation and calibration, and notes Jev outputs judgments, not explanations. GitHub data.
Fragmentary status line for "Life" by Stario: 31 playing, 3386 alive, 5 Hz—ending with a question mark.
Researchers say Israeli ad-tech firm Discover-Tech distributed spyware via online ads, enabling zero-click infections through its Controlium platform. Controlium allegedly fingerprints and de-anonymizes users, allowing targets to be selected by IP, mobile ad ID, or browser ID. Candiru-linked spyware was delivered to Al Jazeera in 2024–25, hitting at least 45 devices. Google and Beeswax removed Discover-Tech; IAB Europe suspended it. Experts urge stronger ad-platform security and advise high-risk users to block ads, disable ad tracking, and reset ad IDs.
Meta AI announces Muse Spark Open, a native multimodal open-weight model with 816B total parameters (42B active) and a 1M-token context window, optimized for on-device use on Apple M5 Ultra Macs. Weights released; runs on desktop via MLX; available via APIs and weight hosting platforms; supports various inference engines and PyTorch customization. It demonstrates strong on-device agentic capabilities, including coding and video editing tasks; two Mac Studio machines create terabyte-scale unified memory. Open-weight release aims for accessibility and safety under Meta's framework; licensed under Muse Model License with limited commercial terms; can be run via HuggingFace and MLX adapters.
Anthropic outlines progress on independent evaluators: METR (a nonprofit) now has employee-like access to internal risk information; METR will publish risk analyses of their frontier models. They’re also partnering with SecureBio and Accenture, with early talks with Hugging Face. The company argues independent evaluators provide public accountability while protecting sensitive information, and describes required evaluator capabilities (expertise, independence, access, publication rights). They’re piloting a three-tier access system; METR is tier 3 (embedded, with publication rights similar to tier 2). SecureBio is tier 1; Accenture/Faculty aiming for deeper collaborations.
The piece confirms Anthropic’s Scion intentionally copied Mononoke, with overlapping personnel, and the resemblance runs deeper than data indexing to the Bonsai-like data model, changesets, blame indices, and server-side version-control APIs. Scion mirrors Mononoke’s Bonsai concepts—down to the Scion name’s reversal and omitted B. Attribution is insufficient: crediting Sapling misleads and ignores Mononoke’s distinct lineage. Even if rebuilding from an existing design is impressive, presenting Scion as original is deceptive, a bad-faith copy, and warrants accountability and rebuilding trust with the affected team.
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