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China's CPU-Only LineShine Tops the TOP500, First Chinese Entry in 9 Years
At ISC 2026 in Hamburg, the 67th TOP500 list crowned a new leader: LineShine, a Shenzhen-based system and the first Chinese submission in nine years. Unusually,
Daisugi: The 600-Year-Old Japanese Hack for Growing Trees on Trees
Facing a 15th-century shortage of both cedar seedlings and the land to grow them, Japanese foresters in the Kyoto region developed daisugi (台杉, "platform cedar"
EFF: The KIDS Act Would Force Age Checks on Everyone, Not Just Minors
Congress is fast-tracking the KIDS Act, a bundle of internet bills anchored by a revised Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and pushed through an expedited process t
Flock's AI surveillance cameras track far more than plates — and they're everywhere
Flock Safety has become the dominant supplier in a fleet of more than 100,000 automated license plate readers now deployed across the US, but calling them plate
From CUDA source to silicon: tracing a vector-add kernel down to the GPU
A trivial CUDA program that adds two million-element vectors hides an enormous amount of machinery: producing one correct answer involves tens of millions of CP
HackerRank's open-source AI resume screener scored one resume from 66 to 99
HackerRank open-sourced its applicant-tracking system, a GitHub project called hiring-agent that racked up thousands of likes on LinkedIn and Reddit. When the a
Headline-only item claims Rocket Lab acquired Iridium — no article, unverified
The source provides only a headline asserting that Rocket Lab has acquired Iridium, with no article body, deal terms, financial figures, executive statements, o
LibrePods reverse-engineers AirPods to break Apple's ecosystem lock-in
LibrePods is a GPLv3 project that reimplements Apple's proprietary AirPods protocol (AACP/ATT) so that Apple-exclusive earbud features work on Android and Linux
Michigan 'Right to Disconnect' Bill Would Curb Mandatory After-Hours Work Contact
Michigan State Sen. Erika Geiss has introduced the Workplace Employee Boundaries Act (Senate Bill 948), now before the Labor Committee, which would generally pr
Open-weight GLM 5.2 edges out Claude on Semgrep's IDOR-detection benchmark
Semgrep set out to measure how much of an AI agent's vulnerability-finding ability comes from the underlying model versus the harness that feeds it code and par
Proxy-KD: Distilling GPT-4-Class Models Without Peeking Inside Them
Knowledge distillation normally relies on access to a teacher model's internal states—logits, hidden activations—to train a smaller student. That breaks down wi
Qwen 3.6 27B makes local-first coding genuinely usable
A developer who had written off local language models reports that Qwen 3.6 has changed his mind. The dense 27B variant — slower but stronger than its mixture-o