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In a major policy shift, U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick announced that vehicles with 85% or more domestic content will be fully exempt from new tariffs on automobiles. That’s a steep threshold, and as of today, there’s only one automaker that qualifies for the exemption: Tesla. Tesla Alone Q...

The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

Is Jeff Bezos a coward? Let’s find out.

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You'd have to be living on Mars to have avoided all the hype about AI over the past couple of years. Businesses have been trying to ride the wave of enthusiasm by adding artificial intelligence into all their products. Results have been mixed to say the least. Apple has delayed

Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.

“The legacy of this art is a liberatory one — our people, Black men and women, were principal actors in the fight for freedom throughout Colombia.”

A review of tens of thousands of soil samples from Earth reveals high concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, and lead in the pedosphere

We cannot create a better world if we cannot imagine it.

The idea that personal LLM use is environmentally irresponsible shows up *a lot* in many of the online spaces I frequent. I've [touched on my doubts around this](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/#the-environmental-impact-got-better) in the …

Rent's due today, thank heavens I just got paid. I don't set up standing orders, got burned once with unarranged overdraft fees, that wasn't a good mont...

The FTC’s politically motivated inquiry into “tech censorship” has managed to prove exactly the opposite of what it intended: the government agency is now actively censoring publi…

New details revealed by The Times show that the failures on Jan. 29 before an Army helicopter crashed into a jet near Reagan National Airport were far more complex than previously known.

It was Monday and my daughter was late for the school again. To make things worse, the bus came early by 2 minutes. After rushing and making sure she caught the bus on time, I sat down for my morning coffee and opened up Hacker News. The front page had an interesting entry: “All Kindles can now be j...

I made my AI think harder by making it argue with itself repeatedly. It works stupidly well. - PhialsBasement/Chain-of-Recursive-Thoughts

The open-source LLM combines the sequence-modeling skill of a transformer with the inferencing speed of an SSM. IBM Granite will soon adopt key Bamba features.

Trump's tariff fantasies are colliding with reality. Now what?

Oligo Security reveals AirBorne, a new set of vulnerabilities in Apple’s AirPlay protocol and SDK. Learn how zero-click RCEs, ACL bypasses, and wormable exploits could endanger Apple and IoT devices worldwide — and how to protect yourself.

What happens when 4,500 people ask for the same feature? At Firefox, we build it. Tab groups have long been the most requested idea on Mozilla Connect –

Of all the dubious claims uttered recently by Elon Musk, I have yet to see a more interesting one than his tweet asserting that “a more accurate measure of GDP would exclude government spending. Ot…

The Online ROS2-Based Gaussian Splatting-Enabled Visualizer - shadygm/ROSplat

Build anything with AI - from web apps to 3D designs. Memex turns your ideas into reality through natural language.

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QR is cool is an interactive demonstration of the error correction built into every QR code. Draw on a QR code and see how the decoder works inside.

A open, local Manus AI alternative. No APIs, No $200 monthly bills. Enjoy an autonomous agent that thinks, browses the web, and code for the sole cost of electricity. - Fosowl/agenticSeek

Neurox control helm chart details. Contribute to neuroxhq/helm-chart-neurox-control development by creating an account on GitHub.

High-precision web audio player for multi-device playback and spatial audio. - freeman-jiang/beatsync

Here’s a look at what we announced at LlamaCon and how you can get started with our newest releases.

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Fullstack Developer specializing in decentralization, self-hosting, privacy, and local LLMs

High-performance Rust stream processing engine, providing powerful data stream processing capabilities, supporting multiple input/output sources and processors. - arkflow-rs/arkflow

In numerous applications of machine learning, Hessians and Jacobians exhibit sparsity, a property that can be leveraged to vastly accelerate their computation. While the usage of automatic differentiation in machine learning is ubiquitous, automatic sparse differentiation (ASD) remains largely unkno...