Root System Drawings https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection/coll13/search
AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1 https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?ts=20251020
Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/alibaba-says-new-pooling-system-cut-nvidia-gpu-use-by-82-percent
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.
BERT is just a single text diffusion step https://nathan.rs/posts/roberta-diffusion/
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…
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/
TechCrunch
Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video | TechCrunch
Looks like Wikipedia isn't immune to broader online trends, with human page views falling 8% year-over-year, according to a new blog post from Marshall Miller of the Wikimedia Foundation.
60k kids have avoided peanut allergies due to 2015 advice, study finds https://www.cbsnews.com/news/peanut-allergies-60000-kids-avoided-2015-advice/
CBS News
Some 60,000 kids have avoided peanut allergies due to landmark 2015 advice, study finds
About 60,000 children have avoided developing peanut allergies after 2015 guidance upended medical practice by recommending introducing the allergen to infants starting as early as 4 months, a new study finds.
KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices https://community.kde.org/KDEConnect
Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs https://kyutai.org/next/codec-explainer
kyutai.org
Neural audio codecs: how to get audio into LLMs
Why modeling audio is harder than text, and how to make it feasible with neural audio codecs.
Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware https://blog.google/technology/research/quantum-echoes-willow-verifiable-quantum-advantage/
Google
Our Quantum Echoes algorithm is a big step toward real-world applications for quantum computing
Our latest quantum breakthrough, Quantum Echoes, offers a path toward unprecedented scientific discoveries and analysis.
PyTorch Monarch https://pytorch.org/blog/introducing-pytorch-monarch/
Glasses-free 3D using webcam head tracking https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/tools/camera/vr-without-glasses-for-webgl-332314
Unity Asset Store
VR without glasses for WebGL | Camera | Unity Asset Store
Get the VR without glasses for WebGL package from Portality and speed up your game development process. Find this & other Camera options on the Unity Asset Store.
I spent a year making an ASN.1 compiler in D https://bradley.chatha.dev/blog/dlang-propaganda/asn1-compiler-in-d/
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region https://aws.amazon.com/message/101925/
Living Dangerously with Claude https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/living-dangerously-with-claude/
Simon Willison’s Weblog
Living dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
Claude Memory https://www.anthropic.com/news/memory
Anthropic
Claude introduces memory for teams at work
Claude now remembers your team's projects and preferences across conversations. Memory helps maintain context for complex work, with project-specific boundaries and full user control over what's remembered.
Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/armed-police-swarm-student-after-ai-mistakes-bag-of-doritos-for-a-weapon-3273512/
Dexerto
Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon - Dexerto
Armed officers swarmed a 16-year-old student outside a Baltimore high school when an AI gun detection system flagged Doritos as a firearm.