BERT Is Just a Single Text Diffusion Step (🔥 Score: 158+ in 2 hours)
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nathan.rs
BERT is just a Single Text Diffusion Step
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models that generate one word at a time, Gemini Diffusion creates whole blocks of text by refining random…
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AI-generated 'poverty porn' fake images being used by aid agencies (Score: 150+ in 5 hours)
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the Guardian
AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies
Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost
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Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system (Score: 152+ in 4 hours)
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Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3731569.3764815
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Tom's Hardware
Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system— up to 9x increase in output lets 213 GPUs perform like…
A paper presented at SOSP 2025 details how token-level scheduling helped one GPU serve multiple LLMs, reducing demand from 1,192 to 213 H20s.
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Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents (🔥 Score: 160+ in 2 hours)
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blog.abdellatif.io
Production RAG: what I learned from processing 5M+ documents
Lessons learned from building RAG systems for Usul AI and enterprise clients, processing over 13 million pages.
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Chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky has passed away (🔥 Score: 162+ in 2 hours)
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Reddit
From the chess community on Reddit: Grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky Has Passed Away
Posted by Frozeria - 2,159 votes and 663 comments
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AWS outage shows internet users 'at mercy' of too few providers, experts say (🔥 Score: 159+ in 2 hours)
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the Guardian
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’
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Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States (🔥 Score: 155+ in 2 hours)
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intelNews.org
Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States: report
INTELLIGENCE SERVICES IN THE Netherlands have restricted intelligence-sharing with their United States counterparts due to political developments in Washington, according to two leading Dutch intel…
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Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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Aeon
Why an abundance of choice is not the same as freedom | Aeon Essays
It’s only in recent history that freedom has come to mean having a huge array of choices in life. Did we take a wrong turn?
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Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds (Score: 150+ in 1 day)
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stories.tamu.edu
Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, Texas A&M study finds
Research highlights how a lack of vegetation and shade exposes vulnerable residents to heightened health risks.
Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer on US soil (Score: 150+ in 18 hours)
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XDA
Nvidia has produced the first Blackwell wafer entirely on US soil
The start of an era?
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Claude Code on the web (🔥 Score: 165+ in 2 hours)
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Anthropic
Claude Code on the web
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange (🔥 Score: 153+ in 2 hours)
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Market Unpack
J.P. Morgan's OpenAI loan is strange
In October, OpenAI secured a 4 billion dollar revolving credit facility from J.P. Morgan and several other banks. I was surprised when I heard this because OpenAI is a young company with no earnings. Shouldn't all their capital come from investors? Let's…
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How to stop Linux threads cleanly (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
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mazzo.li
How to stop Linux threads cleanly
Stopping a Linux thread is a surprisingly annoying affair. In this post I present common pitfalls and some solutions -- although no truly satisfactory method exists.
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Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout (🔥 Score: 166+ in 2 hours)
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The Register
Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
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Postman which I thought worked locally on my computer, is down (Score: 150+ in 8 hours)
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Postman
Postman Status
Welcome to Postman's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
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A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video] (Score: 154+ in 1 day)
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YouTube
A laser pointer at 2 billion fps makes the speed of light look... kinda weird
I've upgraded! It took almost a year, but today I finally get to show off a TWO billion frame per second camera! I really want to record refraction, interference, and other awesome stuff with this camera, but today I'm looking into a really strange quirk…
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The scariest "user support" email I've ever received (❄️ Score: 150+ in 5 days)
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Takuya Matsuyama
The scariest “user support” email I’ve ever received
Hi, it's Takuya. As your app grows in popularity, you occasionally start to attract attacks aimed directly at you—the developer or site owner. Just the other day, I got one that was honestly terrifying, so I'd like to share it.
The Email
Subject: Cookie…
The Email
Subject: Cookie…
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Intel and AMD standardise ChkTag to bring Memory Safety to x86 (❄️ Score: 153+ in 6 days)
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Intel
ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety
ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety Memory safety violations due to programming errors have long afflicted software. Industry and academia have been searching for solutions to this problem. As first noted in August 2025 posts by Intel and AMD x86 Ecosystem Advisory…
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iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency (Score: 151+ in 6 hours)
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MacRumors
iOS 26.1 Beta 4 Lets Users Control Liquid Glass Transparency with New Toggle
With the fourth betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS 26.1, Apple has introduced a new setting that's designed to allow users to customize...
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My trick for getting consistent classification from LLMs (❄️ Score: 151+ in 1 week)
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Substack
How to Get Consistent Classification From Inconsistent LLMs?
A technique for deterministic labeling from stochastic models, with benchmarked Golang implementation.
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