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Moonshine: Linux-only game streaming host that runs each session headless and isolated

Moonshine is an open-source, Linux-only host for streaming PC games to any device running the Moonlight client, sending keyboard, mouse, and controller input ba

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Moonshot pauses new Kimi signups as K3 demand outstrips GPU capacity

Moonshot AI has halted new subscriptions for its Kimi service after demand for the recently launched Kimi K3 model pushed its GPU fleet to the edge of capacity

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Ollama raises $88M to make running open AI models as easy as installing software

Ollama, the tool that lets developers download and run open-weight models locally with a single command, has raised $88M in a round led by Benchmark's Peter Fen

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Parallel Programming as a Metaphor for the Divided Self

A reflective essay riffs on a textbook, An Introduction to Parallel Programming, to draw a parallel between how processors coordinate and how humans function. T

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SD Card Dies on a NixOS Raspberry Pi — A Write-Minimizing Rebuild

A homelab Raspberry Pi 4B running NixOS suddenly stopped serving torrents, SMB, and SSH, and refused to boot past the kernel. The culprit was the microSD root f

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Study: AI advice cut accuracy to a third while doubling users' confidence

Researchers from three French and Italian universities ran an experiment designed to catch AI at its weakest: they asked people trivia about visual details from

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Turning a MikroTik L009 into a Home Router: PPPoE, CGNAT Gotchas, and CAPsMAN WiFi

The first installment of a homelab series walks through replacing an ISP-supplied router with a MikroTik L009UiGS-RM, chosen for its Gigabit ports, PoE output,

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aitech-culture

Xiaomi's robot model scales like an LLM using 100K hours of gripper video

Robotics has lagged language and vision AI because it lacks the massive, clean datasets that drive scaling laws. Xiaomi-Robotics-1 attacks that bottleneck by bo

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aitech-culture

A Community Tracker Counts OpenAI's 35 Codex Usage-Limit Resets

Codex Resets is a fan-built dashboard that logs every time OpenAI resets usage limits for its Codex coding tool and ChatGPT Work tier, drawing from the frequent

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A Consultant's Field Report: Every Corporate AI Project He's Seen Has Failed

A consultant who runs sales and technical delivery for engagements across Fortune 500s and smaller firms argues that organizations are in the grip of AI-driven

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Alibaba teases open-weight Qwen3.8, claims 2.4T params and near-frontier rank

Alibaba's Qwen team used a social-media post to preview Qwen3.8, an upcoming model it says will be released with open weights. The headline claims are aggressiv

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Amiga Freeware Archive puts 10,000+ MiB of classic PD software online

A new web archive collects thousands of freely distributable Amiga programs — games, applications, demos, graphics, music, and utilities — from the platform's l

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