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gzip as a language model: how a compressor learns to write Shakespeare

There is a deep equivalence between compression and prediction: the number of bits a compressor spends on a symbol is the negative log of the probability its in

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Heretic automates stripping safety guardrails from open-weight LLMs

Heretic is an open-source tool that removes built-in refusal behavior from local language models, letting them answer prompts they would normally decline. It pa

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How Cameras Really Work: Dividing by Depth to Project 3D onto a Screen

Every 3D camera boils down to simple arithmetic. Game developer Gabriel O'Flaherty-Chan walks through the core insight behind rendering: a point in space at coo

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Interactive Explainer Cracks Open the Transformer, GPT-2 Live in Your Browser

Georgia Tech's Polo Club released Transformer Explainer, an interactive visualization that runs a live GPT-2 (small) model in the browser to demystify the archi

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Linear rebuilt its CI pipeline to survive the pace of AI-assisted coding

As AI agents let developers ship code far faster, the validation step hasn't scaled with them, turning CI into a bottleneck that inflates infrastructure costs a

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Malicious npm math libraries hide a RAT that unlocks only with a secret matrix

SafeDep found a remote-access implant buried in mathmain 1.0.1, an npm package that clones the popular mathjs library. The malicious code is dormant and encrypt

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NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission Is Dead

No article body was provided with this submission — only the headline was included in the source payload. The headline indicates that NASA's Mars Sample Return

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Open-source HERMES boosts data rates and adds encryption to shortwave radio

Rhizomatica, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit led by founder Peter Bloom, has released HERMES, an open-source software stack that turns high-frequency shortwave r

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aitech-culture

Readers bail on AI-written text — where AI actually helps writing

Colin Breck argues that a flood of AI-generated design docs, pull requests, tickets, and even personal messages has become unreadable, because the output carrie

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"Spymark": A New Word for AI Watermarks That Secretly Track You

Writer Brandon Thomas argues that a subset of so-called watermarks deserve their own name — "spymarks" — because they are hidden, non-consensual tracking signal

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Unverified: alleged 'GPT-6 Sol and Luna' post has no summarizable content

There is no article to summarize here. The submitted content contains only a repeated headline — 'GPT-6 Sol and Luna' — with no body text, and the linked OpenAI

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Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 released — no article text available to summarize

The source provided for this item contains no substantive content beyond the title 'MiMo v2.6' and a link to Xiaomi's MiMo page. There is no body copy describin

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