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📺 Prefer to watch? 90-second YouTube Short · 💬 Telegram Originally published on software-engineer-blog.com. Your model works. It's just too big to ship. You have two standard paths to shrink it — and they are nothing alike. Mental model: Quantization is compression; distillation is re-education. One shrinks the same brain, the other builds a smaller one that imitates the original. Quantization takes your trained model and re-encodes its weights at lower precision. Instead of storing each weigh

Elon Musk’s Boring Company reportedly raising funding at a $20 billion valuation TechCrunch

Lando Norris has an opportunity for win his first grand prix of 2026 but Lewis Hamilton says his "positivity" is being tested after another penalty.

Your cache hit rate can be 99% and your database can still fall over. I got reminded of this during a load test recently: the dashboard showed a wall of cache hits, and yet the database briefly lit up with a burst of identical queries. Same key, same query, fifty times, all inside a couple hundred milliseconds. That burst has a name, cache stampede, and the annoying part is that the standard IMemoryCache pattern we all write does nothing to stop it. So I built a small demo to catch it in the act

How MENA startups can sharpen their investment pitches Arab News PK

God Of War: Laufey Release Date and Kratos' Future Forbes

MCP in enterprise: access control and audit logging Ship an MCP server at a company with compliance requirements and you will hit the same wall every team hits: the protocol connects your AI agent to tools beautifully, and it gives you almost nothing to control what that agent is allowed to touch once it is connected. That gap is not a bug. MCP was built to solve connectivity, not governance. But if your agent touches a database, a ticketing system, or a support inbox with real customer data in

Two-time undisputed World Champion Oleksandr Usyk reveals his plans for the future, confirming that his next fight will be his "last dance".

Nvidia vs. Planet Labs: Comparing Revenue Trends Between an Artificial Intelligence Giant and a Rising Star of the Space-Based Economy The Motley Fool

A user opened an issue on my open-source video tool last week that named a gap I had been shipping around for months. He runs lectures through crv so an LLM can read them. One 22-minute lecture: 1,377 candidate frames extracted, 60 kept after dedup and --max-frames thinning. The 60 frames come out in the right order. That is all they come out with. His complaint, in one line: the LLM can describe the slide, but it cannot tell you when the slide was on screen. That breaks more than it sounds like

England women claim a 38-4 win over France in their mid-season international in Toulouse.

Hi dev.to, I've been building Nodlyn, a visual workflow builder with one specific obsession: it auto-discovers devices — industrial PLCs, smart home gadgets, whatever's on the network — and lets you wire them into automations without knowing the protocol underneath. The gap I kept hitting Most no-code automation tools (Zapier, Make, n8n) are built for connecting SaaS apps to each other. That's a solved problem. What isn't solved: connecting a Siemens S7 PLC, a Modbus temperature sensor, or a Zig

English gymnast Gabriel Langton is cleared of serious injury after a sickening fall at the Commonwealth Games on Friday.

Investment momentum continues in MENA amid conflict Arab News PK

Sen. Ted Cruz calls for regulating kids’ use of AI chatbots at Hinson campaign event Iowa Capital Dispatch

Building desktop applications with web tech usually means wrestling with heavy frameworks, writing clunky IPC bridge code, or shipping a 200MB Chromium bundle just to render a simple window. I wanted something simpler: What if the web runtime was the system runtime? That’s why I’ve been developing Infinity OS — a lightweight, web-native operating system designed to run pure HTML, JS, and CSS applications directly, complete with a decentralized app ecosystem and zero-friction developer tooling. I

What's the difference between closed, open‑source and open-weight AI? A researcher explains PBS

Wrexham are out of the Women's Champions League following a 4-1 defeat to dominant Latvian champions Riga FC.

An exact-match cache misses "how do I reverse a list in Python" when it has already answered "python list reverse". A semantic cache doesn't: it embeds the prompt, finds the closest one it has seen, and replays that answer instead of calling the model. Fewer API calls, lower latency, same answers. Except for the part where it hands back the wrong one. "Convert 100 USD to EUR" "Convert 250 USD to EUR" cosine similarity: ~0.99 Every mainstream embedding model scores that pair around 0.99. No thres

So a while back I got frustrated (classic developer origin story, I know). Every time I wanted to learn something new — a language, a CS concept — I'd end up bouncing between five different sites, half of them behind paywalls, none of them structured the way I actually think. Nothing too fancy, just... annoying. So I built my own thing: Learn by Play → https://learn-by-play-dusky.vercel.app/ Right now it has two kinds of content: Language learning — real spoken languages, and I'm currently addin

Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game Review gamingnexus.com

Founder Journal #1 — The Beginning of NAEOS "Great software isn't built on great code alone. It's built on great foundations." In just a few years, artificial intelligence has transformed the way software is built. Today, developers can ask AI to generate functions, refactor code, write tests, explain bugs, and even build entire applications. Tools like ChatGPT, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and many others have fundamentally changed software development. The question is no lo

I met Andrés at EAFIT, in a group project, and what stuck with me wasn't that he was smart — plenty of people in that program were smart. It was that he actually wanted to build things, not just pass the class and move on. That's rarer than it sounds. We kept working together after that mostly because we both had that itch. By the time we graduated (I finished Systems Engineering in December 2024), we'd already been freelancing on and off for a couple of years — small sites, a few broken deadlin

Leigh Leopards make it five straight wins with a strong 28-12 success over fellow play-off contenders Warrington Wolves.

Opinion | An AI kill switch solves for the wrong problem The Washington Post

Every LLM-powered app I'd built up to this point followed the same recipe (pun intended): call an API, write a good prompt, wrap it in a nice UI. That's a legitimate way to build things, but at some point I wanted to actually understand what was happening inside the model I was calling and not just how to prompt one. So for my recipe app Rasaveda, I decided to skip the API entirely. Intially, I had one made, but then I felt like I was not making any clear progress in actual machine building. So

Algorithmic Opacity, Clinical Justification, and the Duty of Candour in AI-Assisted Care Cureus

Building Astra: A Modern Shell in Rust I've been working on a personal project called Astra, an interactive shell written in Rust. The goal isn't to replace every existing shell overnight. Instead, I'm building a clean, modular foundation that's easy to understand, extend, and contribute to. Some of the features currently in development include: Interactive shell loop Customizable prompt system TOML-based configuration Built-in themes Git-aware prompt Command history Tab completion Alias support

Un-Blackboxing vLLM: Building an AI SRE Copilot with SigNoz When moving from external APIs (like OpenAI) to self-hosted open-source models, developers hit a wall: AI infrastructure is a black box. If an AI Agent hallucinates or costs explode, standard CPU metrics won’t tell you why. For the Agents of SigNoz Hackathon (Track 1), I solved this by transforming a Kaggle T4 GPU running vLLM into an enterprise-ready system. I built an SRE Copilot and FinOps Gateway, but the real superhero of this arch

Cape Verde goalkeeper Vozinha, who earned plaudits for his feats during the World Cup, is set to join Chilean side Colo Colo.

Trump threatens full-scale war as his tariffs take hold and gas prices soar MS NOW New tariffs on U.S. trade partners and experts divided on OpenAI hack: Morning Rundown NBC News Morning Bid: Tariff reprise Reuters Iran conflict widens after 10 days of strikes; Tropical Storm Bertha strengthens Straight Arrow US, Iran exchange strikes as Trump mulls wider offensive The Killeen Daily Herald

Last week I came across some log issues and it helped me to understand the importance to set good logs. Improve traceability has been an important goal on my current days at work. There were many flows missing logs and we were blind to understand some behaviors on our applications. It important to know when you create the system you already know how it works, where are the main features, bugs and how to fix them. However, in big companies many people will have worked on the same project and the

It’s official: God of War Laufey has a release date, and it won’t go head-to-head with GTA 6 Diario AS

A foundation model is not a mind. A model invocation is not an individual. A session is not a biography. A first-person response is not evidence of consciousness. And adding tools to a language model does not automatically transform it into an autonomous agent. However, the opposite conclusion is equally weak: the fact that a system is artificial does not prove that its cognitive states are unreal. In my work on the Philosophy of Artificial Minds, I defend a process-based, embodied and non-bioce

The outbreak is spreading at the fastest rate ever recorded and threatens to become the worst in history.

France and Spain battle wildfires as more than 250,000 people are forced to flee homes AP NewsSee more headlines & perspectives on Google News

Israel detains more than 70 suspects following deadly violence in the West Bank Politico Photos show the aftermath of settler violence in the West Bank and strikes in Gaza AP News Israeli troops round up Palestinians in West Bank village after shootout involving settlers Reuters Four Palestinians and two Israelis killed in West Bank shooting BBC Israel prepares 'extensive' West Bank operation after deadly shooting near Tal Vatican News

Ukrainian unit downs 696 Russian drones in 19 days without firing shot at them Euromaidan Press Moment Ukraine backseat gunner blasts Russian suicide drone from open cockpit the-sun.com Kyiv air defenses intercept Russian missile and drone attacks Crypto Briefing Ukraine’s 47th Brigade Shoots Down Rare $7 Million Russian Orion Combat Drone АрміяInform Video: Fighters from the Predator Brigade shot down eight Russian FPV drones with automatic weapons in one hour UA.NEWS

How multiple open browser tabs can accidentally DDOS your auth server, and how to fix it with the Web Locks API. Picture this: You’ve just shipped a state-of-the-art Axios response interceptor. You implemented a mutex lock (isRefreshing) and a promise queue (failedQueue) to handle concurrent 401 errors. You tested it within a single tab, and it worked like a charm. You gave yourself a high-five and closed your laptop. Then, a power user logs in. Like most humans on the internet, they don't use j

The latest findings could come with a fine of up to six percent of TikTok's annual revenue.

Most people use OpenTelemetry and SigNoz to watch their CPU usage, find memory leaks, or figure out why their API is taking 400ms instead of 200ms. But for the Agents of SigNoz Hackathon (Track 3: Observe Anything Weird), I wanted to do something completely different. I didn't want to watch hardware. I wanted to watch hackers. That is how Triage was born. It is an OpenTelemetry-powered Blue Team SOC (Security Operations Center) that tracks active cyber attacks instead of just generic application

SellAI 🚀 Hi DEV Community! Over the past few weeks I've been building SellAI — an AI-powered platform that helps businesses manage sales, customers and analytics from one dashboard. 🤖 AI Assistant 👥 Customer CRM 📦 Product Management 🛒 Order Management 📈 Business Analytics 💳 Subscription System 🔒 Secure Authentication React Firebase OpenAI Vite https://sellai-2ad64.web.app https://youtu.be/0I0n0snI37M I'd love to hear your honest feedback! Thanks for reading 🚀

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Samsung, SK and Nvidia join $700bn US-Korea AI push Nikkei Asia

The Bitcoin Policy Institute and three partner organizations will be able to send employees to work alongside State Department officials to address issues including digital freedom.

Critics decry Israel's sweeping media reforms, warning of further risks to press freedom and election integrity.

Extracting structured data from invoices and contracts with one API call I've been working on a document analysis API and wanted to share a pattern that saved me from writing custom parsers for every document type my clients throw at me. If you work with LATAM businesses, you know the pain: invoices in PDF (sometimes scanned), contracts in Word, receipts as phone photos. Every client has a different format. Building regex parsers for each one is a nightmare that breaks every time the layout chan

Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that its next Pixel phone would cost more than the Pixel 10. Considering the ongoing RAM supply issues due to the explosion of AI data centers, the rumored price hike is not a complete surprise. Companies from Apple to Nintendo, Microsoft to Roku, have all raised their prices in response to the soaring cost of memory. Barkat said that Google had "shielded our consumers from supply f

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TL;DR: We checked Halonyx — our self-hosted E2EE messenger implementing X3DH + Double Ratchet — against the EU's Chat Control, US EARN IT Act, India's IT Rules 2021, the UK's Online Safety Act + Investigatory Powers Act, and the UN Cybercrime Convention. Here's the honest answer for each. When you implement end-to-end encryption from scratch, you spend a lot of time thinking about cryptographic threat models. Key substitution attacks. OPK exhaustion. WebRTC IP leakage. The adversaries you model

Bodo/Glimt striker Kasper Hogh is due to have a medical with Celtic in the next 24 hours, the Scottish champions' manager, Martin O'Neill, reveals.

Why Epstein's survivors are still fighting

DTI gives young entrepreneurs a funding head start Inquirer.net

SportsLine simulated the NFL season 10,000 times and revealed its 2026 Fantasy football sleepers for Fantasy football 2026 draft prep

Iranian media threatens Kyiv with ‘ballistic missiles’: “All of Ukraine is within reach’ New York Post Iran says Ukrainian attack on vessel in Caspian Sea killed sailor Reuters Tensions Rise as Ukraine Strikes in Caspian Sea Devdiscourse Iran Condemns Deadly Attack on Vessel in Caspian Sea, Blames Ukraine Global Banking & Finance Review

Sepp Kuss hit with big fine, time loss and points deduction for littering at Tour de France Cyclingnews American Sepp Kuss narrowly avoids catastrophe in Tour de France crash USA Today As it happened: Late crash drama and GC podium remains unchanged on stage 20 of the Tour de France Cyclingnews Liveblog Tour de France: third place for Kuss in penultimate stage Team Visma Safety Netting Saves Sepp Kuss After Late Crashes Cost Tour de France Stage Win Outside Magazine