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Public Domain Image Archive Offers Searchable Trove of Out-of-Copyright Visuals

The Public Domain Image Archive is a curated online collection of images that have aged out of copyright and entered the public domain. The project aggregates a

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tech-culturepolicy

Science weighs the mental-health cost of remote work's isolation

A Science piece examines what years of distributed work have done to workers' mental health, focusing on the isolation that comes from swapping office hallways

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aiopen-source

Speculative KV Coding: Lossless 4x Compression of LLM Cache via Predictor Models

As LLM contexts balloon and agentic workflows push memory demands higher, the KV cache that makes long contexts affordable is itself becoming the bottleneck. Lo

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Symbolica 2.0 Ships User-Defined Symbols, JIT Compilation, and Double-Float Math

Symbolica, a symbolic computation framework for Python and Rust, has reached version 2.0 with a focus on letting users define mathematical objects that behave l

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cybersecurityopen-source

A Homelabber's Tour of IP KVMs: From PiKVM to the $70 Box That Drew FBI Attention

IP KVMs let you control a machine remotely at the hardware level, picking up where VNC, RDP, and SSH fall short—when a system is locked, powered off, or you nee

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aiopen-source

A Math-Light Walkthrough of How Transformer LLMs Actually Work

This explainer breaks down the inner workings of transformer-based LLMs without diving into the underlying math, aimed at readers who want to understand model c

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privacypolicy

Age-verification vendor Yoti auto-reports GrapheneOS users to law enforcement

A GrapheneOS user trying to complete an age check through Yoti, a UK-based identity and age-verification provider, received a support message stating that Yoti

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tech-culture

Cloudflare CEO shares three cautionary tales about venture capital encounters

Cloudflare co-founder Matthew Prince used a Twitter/X thread to recount three of the worst experiences he and his company had with venture capitalists during fu

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policycybersecurity

DIA Elevates Israel to 'Critical' Counterintelligence Threat Amid Iran War Rift

The Defense Intelligence Agency has quietly raised its counterintelligence threat assessment of Israel to 'critical,' the highest tier, according to current and

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open-sourcecybersecurity

ESP32 Bit Pirate: Open-Source Multi-Protocol Hacking Tool with Web CLI

ESP32 Bit Pirate is open-source firmware that transforms ESP32-S3 boards into a Swiss Army knife for hardware hacking, drawing direct inspiration from the class

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Google Inks $920M/Month SpaceX Compute Deal Days Before Record IPO

SpaceX disclosed a regulatory filing showing Google will pay $920 million monthly from October 2026 through June 2029 for roughly 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs plus suppo

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India's Fertility Drop Arrives Decades Ahead of Forecasts

India's birth rate has fallen faster than demographers predicted, slipping below replacement level while the country is still poor and largely rural. The shift

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