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Local LLM inference on M5 MacBook Pro costs 3x more than OpenRouter
A cost breakdown of running Gemma 4 31B locally on a maxed-out M5 Max MacBook Pro shows hardware depreciation, not electricity, drives the economics. At $0.18/k
Malta becomes first nation to offer ChatGPT Plus to every citizen via OpenAI deal
OpenAI has struck a partnership with the Government of Malta to provide ChatGPT Plus access to the country's entire citizenry, marking the first national-scale
Meta pulls 1M-follower account after Kuwaiti government request
Meta reportedly removed a popular account with roughly one million followers following a takedown request from the Kuwaiti government, according to a post by jo
Mozilla pushes back on UK proposal to age-gate VPNs under Online Safety Act
Mozilla has formally objected to a UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology consultation that floats restricting young people's access to VPNs, a me
NVIDIA's SANA-WM: 2.6B open-source world model generates minute-long 720p video
NVIDIA Labs has released SANA-WM, a 2.6-billion-parameter open-source world model capable of generating coherent 720p video sequences up to a minute long. The c
Researcher claims Microsoft baked a BitLocker backdoor, ships PoC exploit
A security researcher is alleging that Microsoft quietly engineered a backdoor into BitLocker, the full-disk encryption feature shipped with Windows Pro and Ent
Stross's Accelerando: a free novel charting humanity's slide into the Singularity
Charles Stross's 2005 novel Accelerando, freely hosted on the author's site, traces three generations of the Macx family as accelerating technological change re
whichllm: CLI picks the best local LLM for your GPU using real benchmarks
whichllm is a command-line tool that auto-detects a machine's GPU, CPU, and RAM and ranks HuggingFace models that will actually run on it. Unlike size-based fit
WHO Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Health Emergency
The World Health Organization has elevated the current Ebola outbreak spanning Congo and Uganda to a Public Health Emergency of International Concern, its highe
Why AI Won't Speed Up Your Software Process — The Bottleneck Is Upstream
Organizations chasing efficiency gains often misdiagnose where their software delivery actually stalls. Looking at a project timeline, development is usually th
Why DeepSeek-V4-Flash Could Finally Make LLM Steering Practical
Steering — manipulating an LLM's internal activations mid-inference to push outputs toward a chosen concept — has been a niche curiosity since Anthropic's Golde
Why Pokémon Battle Mechanics Are a Perfect Gateway to Prolog
A developer uses Pokémon's combat system as a teaching vehicle for Prolog, arguing that logic programming finally clicked after years of failed attempts. The fr