> > > NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, has released its first open-source software, a peer review tool to facilitate more efficient and collaborative creation of systems applications, such as those used in its frontline government and commercial propulsion test work. > >

> > > System improves chip designs and tackles unsolved maths problems, but has not been rolled out to researchers outside the company. > >

> > > An international team of investigative journalists has looked into how China silences its critics living abroad. Direkt36 traced the head of an organization based in Hungary, who has also been in contact with high-ranking Hungarian government politicians. A tense situation unfolded at the United Nations Conference on Human Rights in February 2023. In the elegant Wilson Palace conference room in Geneva, UN representatives reviewed a report on China, which also addressed the oppression of the Uyghur and Tibetan minorities. > >

> > > Mistral Medium 3 delivers state-of-the-art performance at 8X lower cost with radically simplified enterprise deployments. > >

> > > At Mistral AI, we are continuously pushing the frontier for both open models (Mistral Small, Mistral Large, Pixtral, many others) as well as enterprise models (Mistral OCR, Mistral Saba, Ministral 3B / 8B, and more). All the way from Mistral 7B, our models have consistently demonstrated performance of significantly higher-weight and more expensive models. And today, we are excited to announce Mistral Medium 3, pushing efficiency and usability of language models even further. > >

Doesn't seem to be open-weight tho :(

> > > 'On Thursday, Ai2, the nonprofit AI research institute, released Olmo 2 1B, a 1-billion-parameter model that Ai2 claims beats similarly-sized models from Google, Meta, and Alibaba on several benchmarks. Parameters, sometimes referred to as weights, are the internal components of a model that guide its behavior. > >

> > > Olmo 2 1B is available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license on the AI dev platform Hugging Face. Unlike most models, Olmo 2 1B can be replicated from scratch; Ai2 has provided the code and data sets (Olmo-mix-1124, Dolmino-mix-1124) used to develop it. > >

> > > We're happy to announce the release of NodeBB v4.3.0, which contains native support for remote categories, bringing better integration with other NodeBB forums, WordPress, Lemmy, PieFed, mbin, and other "group-based" implementors on the ActivityPub network! > >

> > > he F-Droid app was created in 2009 in the early days of Android and lots of its code is still that old. While the ecosystem has seen many drastic shifts, the F-Droid community heroically kept the app alive with band aids and chewing gum. > >

> > > Therefore, we are especially thrilled to announce that the Mobifree programme of the Next Generation Internet initiative agreed to fund this monumental effort. With their support, we aim to modernize the F-Droid app with a focus on the user interface to make the app easier to use and more appealing especially for new users. At the same time, the modernization should make it easier and more attractive to contribute to the app while also making it easier for the maintainers to review and merge external contributions due to better test coverage and less code entanglement. > >

> > > The rewrite will be exclusively in Kotlin and use Compose for the UI while using modern architectural patterns that will make the app easier to maintain and more fun to contribute to. It will also allow for a responsive UI that adapts to the available screen size, be it a phone, a foldable, a tablet or even a desktop screen > >

> > > Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen 3, a family of AI models the company claims matches and in some cases outperforms the best models available from Google and OpenAI. > >

> > > Gazan civilians are losing their fear of Hamas, openly criticising the group on the streets and online. > >

> > > OpenAI is reportedly building its own X-like social network. The project is still in the early stages, but there’s an internal prototype focused on ChatGPT’s image generation that contains a social feed, The Verge reports. A social app would give OpenAI its own unique, real-time data that X and Meta already use > >

> > > InZOI director Hyungjun “Kjun” Kim expressed their heartfelt gratitude to fans who are supporting the new The Sims competitor. > >

> > > Spotify announced on Thursday that it expanded the availability of its AI Playlist feature to over 40 additional markets, including countries in Africa, Spotify's AI Playlist feature is now available in countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Caribbean. > >

> > > If Google is forced to sell off Chrome, ChatGPT’s head of product told a judge today that OpenAI would be interested in buying the browser, Reuters reports > >

> > > Jeff Bezos-backed Slate Auto has planted multiple concept versions of its EV on the streets of California. > >

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> > > The CEO of Mozilla, Laura Chambers, provided insights about the U.S. v. Google LLC case ahead of the trial slated to begin April 21, 2025. > >

> > > OpenAI has launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1. They focus on coding, and are exclusively available through the company's API. > >