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Automattic's retaliatory actions against WP Engine have negatively impacted the WordPress community, leading to contributor bans, a hostile fork of a popular plugin, and a growing perception of WordPress as a risky platform. This has led to many contributors questioning the Automattic CEO's leadership along with raising concerns about the commercialization of open-source projects.
A discussion on fighting software complexity with references to talks, papers like "Out of the Tar Pit", books like "A Philosophy of Software Design", and languages.
macOS may leak traffic through the firewall after system updates - this requires a reboot to resolve.
Number Flow is a React component that provides animation, formatting, and localization for numbers.
Greenmask is an open-source tool for anonymizing, transforming, and generating synthetic data for PostgreSQL databases with features like deterministic transformations and dynamic parameters.
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Apple quietly announced a new version of the iPad mini via a press release yesterday. The seventh-generation device looks mostly identical to its predecessor, but it features an Apple A17 Pro chip, the same processor used in the iPhone 15 Pro. The new iPad mini is available for preorder now starting at $499 for the base 128GB model. It will be the only iPad mini capable of supporting Apple Intelligence, which will be rolling out within the next few weeks. The device will only work with either the Apple Pencil Pro or the cheaper USB-C Apple Pencil and not the first- or second-generation Apple Pencils.
SpaceX has submitted an application to the US Federal Communications Commission seeking approval for changes to Starlink that will enable gigabit-per-second broadband service. The changes include lowering the altitude of satellites to increase the potential maximum number of orbital planes and satellites per plane. SpaceX plans to send 29,988 or less second-generation satellites into orbit - the FCC has so far approved 7,500 Gen2 satellites. To obtain approval for the changes, SpaceX will have to demonstrate that the changes won't negatively affect other spectrum users and satellite operators.
Mass timber replaces steel beams and concrete with manufactured wood elements that can extend more than half the length of a football field. The process of creating the elements involves gluing smaller pieces of wood together in layers under pressure in large specialized presses. Beams created with this process can be stronger than steel by weight. Mass timber buildings tend to be manufactured like automobiles, with all the separate pieces shipped to a final location for assembly, making the building process more simple.
GeneCode, a pharmaceutical company, received a €16 million funding option from the European Innovation Council Accelerator last year to support the development of a novel drug designed to combat neurodegeneration in Parkinson's patients. Preliminary evidence suggests that the drug may alleviate symptoms, protect neurons from further damage, and help restore neurons for a healthier, longer life. The drug binds to receptors in the brain and sends chemical signals that stimulate dopamine production, which helps neurons with axons stay active and maintain synaptic connections with other neurons. GeneCode has almost completed animal experiments, but it still needs to certify that the drug can be consistently and safely produced to ensure future quality assurance and perform toxicology studies before the drug can begin clinical trials in humans.
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Number Flow is a React component for transitioning, formatting, and localizing numbers. It is dependency-free, accessible, and customizable. The component doesn't support scientific and engineering notations. A video showing examples of how the component can be used is available in the repository.
Passkeys are currently confined to companies' software ecosystems, forcing users to create duplicate keys. The FIDO Alliance, an association made up of the top tech companies, has announced an industry effort for a new protocol and format for exchanging passkey data. This would allow users to share and sync the same collection of keys across platforms. The draft specifications for the protocol focus on ways to prevent hackers from abusing the interoperability to steal passkeys.
Palantir's stock is currently on a tear, with the company nearing a $100 billion market cap. The company was unpopular in the past as it was seen as developing spy tech, NSA surveillance, or worse. There's a lot about the company that people don't understand - this article, written by someone who has worked at the company for eight years, attempts to explain some of this. It discusses what working at the company is like, the company culture, the type of people who work in the field, the morality of working at companies like Palantir, the opportunities AI brings, and more.
Digg was something like the homepage of the internet in its early days. The best and most popular stuff made it to the homepage, which was seen by tens of millions of people every month. The site featured voting mechanisms and a commenting system, which were brand-new concepts when it launched. This article contains an interview with Digg's creator, Kevin Rose, where he talks about why he built the site the way he did, the legacy of some of the tools he helped create, the death of the homepage and the rise of the news feed, and what happens when a company goes from a fun idea to a potential cash cow. Rose believes that there's a case for Digg to make a comeback, but only in a very different corporate form.
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Some Chrome users plan on ditching the browser for alternatives like Firefox that still support uBlock Origin.
The AI has spawned a crypto worth $150 million.
Procrastination and laziness compound, just like willpower and small wins.
Automattic has been planning to get significantly stricter about trademark enforcement across WordPress and its ecommerce platform WooCommerce since at least the beginning of the year.
Instagram's new profile card feature makes it easier for users to share their accounts with others, connect with new people, and make friends.
This article discusses Elon Musk's companies and how they fit into his dreams - making things cheaper drives scale, resulting in change.
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Current governance processes are a poor fit for AI and data science. They waste resources, delay initiatives and leave too much residual risk. A new strategy is needed.
Meta showcased open AI hardware designs, including the Catalina rack and the expanded Grand Teton platform, at the OCP Global Summit. Training the Llama 3.1 405B model required 16,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs, highlighting Meta's scaling infrastructure. Open AI hardware systems are required to continue advancing AI capabilities.
The New York Times has issued a cease and desist to AI startup Perplexity, accusing it of using its content without permission for AI search operations. Perplexity claims it doesn't scrape content for training but indexes web pages to surface factual content. The company is engaging with publishers and aims to resolve the issue by working with the Times and other media outlets.
Decagon has raised $65 million in Series B funding to enhance its AI customer support agents, which are already used by companies like Duolingo and Eventbrite to efficiently manage customer interactions. Its AI agents automate repetitive tasks, enabling customer support teams to focus on higher-value roles. The funding will bolster Decagon's engineering team and expand its AI solutions into new markets and verticals.
Another great post from Hazy research exploring how to linearize existing language models without sacrificing too much performance
TextCtrl is a new diffusion-based method that improves scene text editing by maintaining both content accuracy and style preservation.
iDP3 is an improved 3D visuomotor policy that allows humanoid robots to autonomously operate in diverse real-world environments.
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State-of-the-art system for detecting and extracting tables from PDFs.
HART is a new visual generation model that creates high-quality 1024x1024 images, challenging the capabilities of diffusion models. It improves image reconstruction and lowers training costs by using a hybrid tokenizer that combines discrete and continuous tokens.
The Deformable Bi-level Routing Attention (DBRA) module was developed to improve attention mechanisms in vision transformers. DeBiFormer, built on DBRA, optimizes the selection of key-value pairs and improves query interpretability in attention maps.
Pyramid Flow is a new open-source AI video generator that creates high-quality videos using a pyramidal flow matching technique, optimizing computational efficiency. It competes with proprietary models like Runway Gen-3 Alpha and offers commercial use under the MIT License, though it requires users to host their own version for full application integration. Despite some limitations, its launch highlights the trend toward accessible AI video solutions.
Kind Humanoid's three-person team is developing a whimsical humanoid robot called Mona. It is designed for home use rather than industrial settings. The team plans to field-test an initial dozen prototypes next year. Focusing on innovation and efficiency over fundraising, Kind's approach contrasts with other AI-driven robotics manufacturers targeting industrial markets.
INTELLECT-1 is the first decentralized 10-billion-parameter model. It leverages global contributions for open-source AGI development. OpenDiLoCo scaling has been achieved for training large models across distributed devices, with new advancements in bandwidth efficiency and fault tolerance. The new Prime framework further optimizes decentralized training, increasing compute utilization to 98% for the INTELLECT-1's 10-billion-parameter training run.
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Tesla has unveiled a prototype self-driving taxi, the Robotaxi, aiming for fully autonomous operations despite skepticism from experts about the near-term feasibility of such technology.
TikTok is shifting towards AI for content moderation, leading to layoffs in Malaysia affecting under 500 employees.
Sebastien Bubeck, a Microsoft AI VP focused on small language models, is leaving to join OpenAI.
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World Liberty Financial, Donald Trump's DeFi project, launched its token sale but faced technical issues - the site crashed due to high traffic. Despite the crash, the wallet handling the sales amassed over $5M in assets, well below the project's $300 million target.