Construction has begun on the first phase of the Line, Saudi Arabia's planned 170-kilometer-long megacity in the desert. The first phase, which will stretch 2.5 kilometers, will be named Hidden Marina. It will be made up of three individual modular segments measuring 21 million square meters. Hidden Marina will host an initial population of around 200,000 residents. It will have 80,000 residential units, 9,000 hotel rooms, commercial and retail spaces, fire stations, schools, police and security services, and other amenities. Residents will have access to all daily essentials within a five-minute walk and high-speed rail will provide transit around the metropolis.
2025.02.18·newatlas.com·2 min read·TLDR Several teams around the world are working on AI systems to help humans understand animals. A group at the University of the West of England Bristol and Scotland's Rural College have developed a system called Intellipig that examines photos of pigs' faces and notifies farmers if there are signs of pain, sickness, or emotional distress, and a team at the University of Haifa is training AI to identify signs of discomfort in dogs' faces. These systems still rely on humans to do the initial work of identifying the meanings of different behaviors.
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2025.02.18·go.clerk.com·Sponsor·TLDR WebAssembly allows server-side frameworks to run locally, blurring the boundaries of classic web development and opening up exciting new possibilities. This post walks readers through how to create a Rails application that runs fully in your browser. It covers how to bring Rails into the browser in 15 minutes, the behind-the-scenes of Rails wasmification, and the future of Rails and Wasm.
This article discusses how to debug an app with anti-debugging protections that blocked debuggers from being attached, caused an exit when any code was injected, and crashed the whole phone when run with jailbreak on. It walks through the steps of how to attach a debugger, bypass jailbreak detection, and inject code. The article is detailed and contains a lot of screenshots, logs, and code.
2025.02.18·bryce.co·31 min read·TLDR Murat Demirbas, a principal research scientist at MongoDB Research, spent a year at MIT's Computer Science department as a postdoc twenty years ago. This post details his experience working with Professor Nancy Lynch. Demirbas was young and he felt like he didn't make as much of the experience as he could have. The post includes lessons learned from the experience.
2025.02.18·muratbuffalo.blogspot.com·2 min read·TLDR Grok 3 has an around state-of-the-art thinking model that is able to solve some advanced questions. It is likely somewhere around o1-pro in terms of capability and ahead of DeepSeek-R1. DeepSearch can produce high quality responses to various research- or lookup-type questions, but it can still hallucinate information - even URLs. Overall, Grok 3 + Thinking feels somewhere around the state-of-the-art territory of OpenAI's strongest models, and slightly better than DeepSeek-R1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking.
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It is still unclear whether reasoning models are really as big of a game changer for software development tasks as they are made out to be.
2025.02.18·martinfowler.com·10 min read·TLDR searchcode.com's SQLite database is 6.4 gigabytes - this post discusses how the project got to that size, the technologies it uses, and why it uses SQLite.
2025.02.18·boyter.org·6 min read·TLDR The New York Times is still in a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft as the tech companies allegedly violated copyright law by training generative AI on the publisher's content.
2025.02.18·techcrunch.com·1 min read·TLDR Open Table Formats enable a kind of virtualization - they allow for a headless architecture where different platforms can bring their own compute to the same data.
2025.02.18·jack-vanlightly.com·13 min read·TLDR Jailbreaking your Kindle will give you access to custom screensavers, custom fonts, and more apps, but there are risks, such as potentially voiding the Kindle's warranty and permanently breaking the device.
2025.02.18·kindlemodding.org·Tool·TLDR fixi.js is an experimental minimalist implementation of generalized hypermedia controls.
2025.02.18·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR Mistral Saba is a 24B parameter model trained on meticulously curated datasets from across the Middle East and South Asia. The model provides more accurate and relevant responses than models that are over 5 times its size while being significantly faster and lower cost.
2025.02.18·mistral.ai·6 min read·TLDR AI South Korea has temporarily banned new downloads of China's DeepSeek AI chatbot due to data protection concerns. The app, which gained over a million users in a week, will remain unavailable until compliance improvements are made.
2025.02.18·bbc.com·3 min read·TLDR AI fal has secured $49M in Series B funding led by Notable Capital and joined by a16z and others, totaling $72M in funding to date. The company is focused on expanding its platform for AI-driven generative media, especially video content, catering to industries like advertising and gaming. fal's proprietary technology promises fast, scalable, and reliable deployments, which has already attracted enterprise clients such as Quora and Canva.
2025.02.18·blog.fal.ai·4 min read·TLDR AI Large scale training of a diffusion model for language that matches LLaMA 3 8B in performance across many benchmarks.
2025.02.18·ml-gsai.github.io·8 min read·TLDR AI Researchers introduce a benchmark that assesses LLM open-ended text generation using n-gram statistics and rules, avoiding reliance on human or LLM-based judgments. It closely correlates with GPT-4o evaluations while being computationally efficient.
2025.02.18·arxiv.org·14 min read·TLDR AI CopySpec is a method that accelerates LLM inference by identifying and copying repeated sequences in chat history without extra GPU memory usage. It achieves up to 3.08x speed-up on specific tasks and integrates effectively with speculative decoding for additional gains.
2025.02.18·arxiv.org·16 min read·TLDR AI This is the Multimodal Large Language Model (LLM) component of Step-Audio. It is a 130-billion-parameter multimodal LLM that is responsible for understanding and generating human speech. The model is specifically designed to seamlessly integrate functions such as speech recognition, semantic understanding, dialogue management, voice cloning, and speech generation.
This study explores the limitations of existing methods for evaluating the memory capacity of language models. It introduces the "forgetting curve," a new approach for assessing how well models retain information over long contexts.
2025.02.18·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI AdaSimulator provides a physics-enabled environment for studying Visual Language Navigation (VLN) in realistic settings.
2025.02.18·github.com·GitHub repository·TLDR AI A U.S. judge ruled that Ross Intelligence infringed on Thomson Reuters' copyright by using Westlaw headnotes to train its AI. The decision may influence other AI-related copyright lawsuits but remains narrowly focused on non-generative AI applications.
2025.02.18·jdsupra.com·2 min read·TLDR AI Red Hat emphasizes a pragmatic approach to open-source AI, focusing on practical enterprise needs rather than chasing AGI. Challenges include reconciling transparency with competitive realities, especially regarding open-source AI's opacity in training data and model weights. Red Hat aims to foster collaboration, avoiding vendor lock-in, while acknowledging the complexities of AI compared to traditional open-source software.
2025.02.18·zdnet.com·4 min read·TLDR AI Although federal leadership seems wary of heavy AI regulations, many US states are implementing legislation modeled on Europe's AI Act. This article outlines how “algorithmic discrimination” laws, inspired by EU rules, could create detailed impact assessments, require compliance paperwork, and impose liability on AI deployments—raising the real prospect of higher operating costs for teams building AI systems.
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2025.02.18·atlassian.com·Sponsor·TLDR AI OpenAI is deploying ChatGPT to 460,000 students and 63,000 faculty at California State University for personalized tutoring and administrative tasks.
2025.02.18·arstechnica.com·4 min read·TLDR AI Tinder plans to counter declining user engagement by introducing AI-driven features for discovery and matching.
2025.02.18·techcrunch.com·4 min read·TLDR AI Google is introducing a digital watermark in Photos for images edited with generative AI using the Magic Editor's Reimagine feature on Pixel 9 devices.
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Bernstein analysts expect that the next phase of Bitcoin's bull market will be driven by catalysts like the U.S. Crypto Task Force's push for a National Bitcoin Reserve, potential sovereign wealth fund investments in crypto, and growing institutional adoption. Bernstein believes that because of strong ETF inflows, major corporate buys, and increasing government involvement, they see Bitcoin as a challenger to gold.
2025.02.18·links.tldrnewsletter.com·3 min read·TLDR Crypto Bubblemaps has linked the Libra and Melania memecoins to a single entity, citing onchain evidence of shared wallets and coordinated transactions. The investigation, which also implicates other tokens, comes amid fraud allegations against Argentina's President Javier Milei following Libra's dramatic rise and crash.
2025.02.18·links.tldrnewsletter.com·2 min read·TLDR Crypto Beliefs, a platform by @beliefssocial, is revolutionizing how ideas turn into movements by making it easy to create and share tokens, memes, and discussions. With tools like its autonomous agent Capo and interactive features, Beliefs has already helped creators earn over $800K.
Autonome is building a platform for building and deploying verifiable AI agents that uses Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and Actively Validated Services (AVSs) to ensure security and reliability. The platform's primary innovation is its Cross-Agent Routing (CAR) protocol, which allows for secure inter-agent communication through blinded channels and halt-on-divergence primitives, while using TEE features like enclaved execution and remote attestation to guarantee verifiable agency. Autonome also includes components like a registry, message queue, and credit management.
The memecoin market cycle of 2024-25 was driven by the pursuit of being “early,” evolving from BONK's initial success through increasingly absurd iterations like Dogwifhat and Fartcoin, before culminating in celebrity-backed tokens like TRUMP and LIBRA. The cycle progressed through phases from simple memes to engineered vitality, with insider groups increasingly manipulating launches and metrics. This hype cycle parallels the 2021 NFT cycle's evolution from community-driven projects to celebrity cash-grabs. The market reached its “twilight zone” when participants continued trading despite recognizing the manipulation, suggesting its natural conclusion as both peak absurdity and peak insider exploitation have been achieved.
The team behind the controversial Libra memecoin, promoted by Argentina's President Javier Milei, was reportedly working on a similar project with Nigerian officials before the scandal derailed their plans. As legal action mounts, with U.S. law firms preparing class-action lawsuits and Argentina's opposition considering impeachment, new links have emerged between Libra, Melania Trump's memecoin, and the involvement of Kelsier Ventures.
Outside of traditional trading applications, crypto is being used to provide dollar access to those in emerging markets (stablecoins), prop up decentralized social networks, enable direct creator monetization, and develop onchain loyalty programs for brands. Projects like Zarpay, Farcaster, Rodeo, and Blackbird have championed these new models, demonstrating crypto's potential to reshape finance, social media, and digital commerce.
Based rollups aim to address Ethereum's L2 fragmentation by using Ethereum's existing validator set to sequence and confirm transactions instead of relying on centralized sequencers. Based rollups allow near-instant cross-rollup communication within the same Ethereum block. While it promises improved interoperability and security, there are technical challenges around the need to generate proofs quickly, potential MEV exploitation by L1 block proposers, and a lack of incentive alignment for L2s.
The Linea ecosystem has completed its sybil appeal review, removing 3.5k false positives from the sybil list, ensuring fairness for legitimate users while maintaining ecosystem integrity.
Polygon has been seeing growth in AI agents, asset tokenization, and prediction markets (e.g., Polymarket).
GliderFi's beta version offers users a smooth experience with features like gasless transactions, automated refactoring, and code block-based strategy organization.
Argentina's President Javier Milei defended his involvement with the Libra memecoin, insisting he merely "shared" it rather than promoted it and acted in good faith.
Unveiled at CES 2025, Wacom's redesigned Intuos Pro tablet offers a more compact design with increased workspace. It comes in three sizes, features customizable buttons, and supports various EMR pens. Lacking a built-in screen, it connects to any display, making it versatile for artists.
Capital One's new logo has sparked widespread backlash, with many comparing it to Turkish Airlines, Star Trek, and even Toy Story's Pizza Planet designs. The update, which zooms out the existing red swoosh to encase it in a circular frame, has been criticized for looking simplistic and off-brand for a financial institution.
Google's Veo 2 is now integrated into YouTube Shorts, enabling AI-generated backgrounds and video clips from text prompts. SynthID watermarks ensure transparency. Veo 2 is available in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, with global expansion planned. It outperforms competitors but struggles with complex scenes, making it ideal for shorter clips and effects.
Tracking the right metrics can transform a design system into a powerful efficiency tool. Figma's data shows that designers using a design system complete tasks 34% faster. Companies like Headspace and Swiggy have saved significant time by measuring adoption, usage, and consistency. Automation and analytics help optimize the impact of the design system on a large scale.
AI is challenging the need for a complete understanding before creation. Instead of rigid control, designers must embrace emergence, iterating through experimentation. Historical breakthroughs, from penicillin to AI, emerged before being fully understood. Designers unlock new possibilities in this evolving landscape by guiding rather than controlling AI.