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Running Gemma 4 26B on a 2016 Xeon with no GPU — and making it fast
A recycled server with a 2016 Intel Xeon E5-2620 v4, 128 GB of DDR3 RAM, and no GPU has no business running a 26B-parameter mixture-of-experts model — but with
Running Windows-only GOG DOS games on Apple Silicon via DOSBox for Mac
A walkthrough for getting GOG's Windows-only DOS classics like Heroes of Might & Magic II and Settlers II running natively on M-series Macs, sidestepping the sl
Stanford's CS336 ships a CLAUDE.md telling AI tutors to coach, not code
Stanford's CS336 has published a CLAUDE.md aimed at AI coding assistants — Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, ChatGPT — that students point at the course repo. The i
Stanford's CS336 Walks Students Through Building a Language Model End-to-End
Stanford's CS336 takes the build-an-OS-from-scratch pedagogical approach and applies it to language models. Across five assignments, students implement a Transf
Sterilized soil keeps 'breathing' for six years, hinting metabolism predates life
French biochemist Sébastien Fontaine spent 15 years trying to fully kill soil samples and explain why they wouldn't stop emitting carbon dioxide. After blasting
Throttling your own iPhone: an app that fights doomscrolling with bad bandwidth
A developer built VineWall, an iOS app that deliberately throttles internet speeds for selected apps as an anti-doomscrolling tool. The premise is behavioral ra
Twenty Years On, The Pirate Bay's 2006 Raid Backup Still Defines Its Survival
On May 31, 2006, 65 Swedish police officers seized servers from a Stockholm datacenter in an attempt to take The Pirate Bay offline. The operation was driven la
When the Machine Keeping You Alive Fails: An Insulin Pump Horror Story
A type 1 diabetic recounts her Tandem t:slim X2 insulin pump repeatedly failing during a week-long trip to Santa Fe, throwing recurring 'Cartridge Alarm 20A' er
Zig Template Brings Memory-Safe Language to Flipper Zero App Development
A new open-source template lets developers build Flipper Zero applications in Zig instead of C, wiring the language's build system into the existing ufbt toolch
A Gentle Introduction to Lattice-Based Cryptography
A primer PDF hosted at cryptography101.ca walks readers through the mathematical foundations of lattice-based cryptography, the leading family of post-quantum s
Accenture to Acquire Ookla, Folding Speedtest and Downdetector into Its AI Stack
Accenture announced an agreement to acquire Ookla, the Ziff Davis-owned network intelligence firm behind Speedtest, Downdetector, Ekahau, and RootMetrics. Terms
Anthropic hits ~$1T valuation, overtaking OpenAI as top AI startup
A $65 billion Series H led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia has pushed Anthropic's valuation toward the trillion-dollar mark, nearly triple its F