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Moebius: 0.2B image inpainting model with 10B-level performance

Researchers have developed Moebius, a lightweight image inpainting model with just 0.22B parameters that matches or…

Never Give Them Your Face

# Summary Proposed laws requiring facial recognition or government ID for internet access are being framed as age…

How Anthropic may have talked itself into an AI export ban

The company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI.

Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center

Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation

Mitchell Hashimoto is pledging an additional $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation, bringing his family's total…

Lucid Motors’ new CEO cuts 18% of staff to ‘simplify the company’

The company is also eliminating a production shift at its Arizona factory to align "production plans with anticipated…

Die analysis of the 8087 math coprocessor's fast bit shifter

Intel's 8087 floating-point coprocessor, introduced in 1980, enabled microcomputers to perform floating-point…

Seedcamp raises $320M for its new fund to expand its US footprint

After 18 years of focusing on Europe, early-stage investor Seedcamp said that it has raised $320 million for its latest…

Klue hack results in data breach at several cybersecurity firms

Huntress, HackerOne, Jamf, Recorded Future, and Tanium are among the cybersecurity companies that had data stolen…

Show HN: I rebuilt the only parts of my IDE I use, in Rust, over a weekend

I don't know Rust.Friday after work I realised that 90% of my IDE time now is just the commit/diff view — and even good…

window.showDirectoryPicker opens up a whole new world

Chrome's new `window.showDirectoryPicker()` API allows websites to access and modify files directly on a user's…

Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers

Drawing tablet manufacturers like Gaomon, Huion, and XpPen are reluctant to collaborate on open-source Linux drivers…

People training new AI models admit they just get chatbots to do it

The next generation of AI models are meant to be trained by people paid to have conversations with them, but several of…

LLMs do not merely reflect the bias of their training, they police it

Rive, Fast and reliable background jobs in Go

River is a high-performance job processing system for Go that uses Postgres as both the application database and job…

Manticore Search 27.1.5: Auth, sharding, conversational and faster vector search

Manticore Search 27.1.5 introduces built-in authentication and authorization, sharded tables for easier write-heavy…

The AI Future Is Driving A Growing Clash Between Musk And Washington

The advent of artificial intelligence is reconfiguring production structures but also shaking the very foundations of…

MACHINA Summit: The European Summit Dedicated to Physical AI

Artificial intelligence is no longer limited to algorithms and software interfaces: it is now embodied in machines…

UUID: NewV7() always generates a UUID with 7000 on browsers (Golang)

A bug has been discovered in Go 1.27's `uuid.NewV7()` function when compiled for JavaScript/WebAssembly targets: the…

Use AI for reviewing code especially when the diff is huge

The article argues that reviewers should leverage AI to handle large code diffs rather than manually reviewing every…

Elon Musk Sees AI Surpassing Human Intelligence in 4-5 Years

Elon Musk believes artificial intelligence could move beyond the combined intelligence of humanity within the next four…

Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs

OpenAI's Codex is logging excessively to local SQLite databases, writing approximately 640 TB per year and rapidly…

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

Zhihu's GLM-5.2 open-weights model was tested head-to-head against Claude Opus by building a 3D platformer game from…

Tencent Tests Xiaowei AI Assistant in WeChat as China’s AI Race Intensifies

Tencent has begun limited testing of Xiaowei, a native AI assistant built directly into WeChat, in a significant step in…

Deno Desktop

Deno Desktop, available starting in Deno v2.9.0, allows developers to convert Deno projects into self-contained desktop…

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