The new 'AI personal assistant' Scout has apparently already hooked its own employees

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he Government Digital Service (GDS) has appointed Adyen, the global financial technology platform of choice for leading businesses, as the new payment services provider (PSP) for non-Crown card payments and pay by bank services.

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Warren's Abstract Machine: A Tutorial Reconstruction by Hassan Ait-Kaci - a-yiorgos/wambook

8 years ago, I was a junior software developer with only 2 years of fullstack experience and only a high school art degree, with a babyface and a sidecut. My...

I’m messing around with the Raspberry Pi Pico RP2350 and PIO and at some point want to see if I can hook it up to a Z80. As a starter, I’ve been experimenting with seeing if I can get a…

In-meeting assistant for macOS that gathers requirements and surfaces prep notes. An AI notetaker with on-device transcription, speaker identification — no bots.

What very interesting times we live in. On the one hand, we are about to make batteries out of sodium instead of lithium, and grow bones from sheep’s wool instead of punishing anyone with weakening…

Declarative GitHub-release binaries for uv projects — declare a tool in pyproject, ohbin run downloads, verifies, caches, and execs it. - prostomarkeloff/ohbin

Pearl, a Layer-1 blockchain with high-profile AI industry endorsements, markets its Proof-of-Useful-Work (PoUW) protocol as simultaneously securing the network and performing AI inference. We present the first systematic empirical measurement of a deployed PoUW system, finding that Pearl's 24 EH/s network -- representing approximately 320,000 GPU-equivalents consuming an estimated 112 MW -- produces zero useful AI computation. Budget GPU rental prices rose 38% and utilization surged from 57% to 94% following the mining software's public release, displacing legitimate research workloads.
Our measurements span five dimensions: (1) network composition analysis of 8,012 workers shows all have inference-capable hardware, yet the dominant mining software contains no inference code; (2) the verification protocol accepts random matrices by design, confirmed by 44 pool-accepted shares from our open-source miner across NVIDIA, AMD, CPU, and Apple Silicon hardware; (3) statistical distribution checks are trivially defeated by adversarial Gaussian sampling; (4) mining is unprofitable at current PRL prices ($0.21) across all GPU tiers (-54% to -72% ROI); and (5) the mining computation is commodity integer arithmetic portable to any hardware platform, offering no vendor lock-in. These findings quantify the verifiability-usefulness tension identified theoretically by Leinweber et al., providing concrete measurements of its magnitude and economic consequences in a deployed system.

A significant portion of the population in the USA still thinks of Reaganomics as certified fact rather than a largely discredited theory. By this mindset the engine of our economy requires people to strive for a ton of money. A rising tide lifts all boats and all that. First, I got to wondering, were US billionaires even a thing at the end of Reagan’s term? As a tween at the time, I couldn’t really remember. Turns out, yes: Sam Walton • $6.7 billion • Wal-Mart Stores John Kluge • $3.2 billion • Metromedia Ross Perot • $3.0 billion • Electronic...

A brief history of ANSI escape codes, how they work under the hood, and why this decades-old standard still makes your terminal colorful today.

Multi-agent debate has been shown to improve reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, it is compute-intensive, requiring generation of long transcripts before answering questions. To address this inefficiency, we develop a framework that distills multi-agent debate into a single LLM through a two-stage fine-tuning pipeline combining debate structure learning with internalization via dynamic reward scheduling and length clipping. Across multiple models and benchmarks, our internalized models match or exceed explicit multi-agent debate performance using up to 93% fewer tokens. We then investigate the mechanistic basis of this capability through activation steering, finding that internalization creates agent-specific subspaces: interpretable directions in activation space corresponding to different agent perspectives. We further demonstrate a practical application: by instilling malicious agents into the LLM through internalized debate, then applying negative steering to suppress them, we show that distillation makes harmful behaviors easier to localize and control with smaller reductions in general performance compared to steering base models. Our findings offer a new perspective for understanding multi-agent capabilities in distilled models and provide practical guidelines for controlling internalized reasoning behaviors. Code available at https://github.com/johnsk95/latent_agents

Introducing Sakana AI’s Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) Lab

I wrote a fused decode-attention kernel for an RL training loop, got it 2.2× faster than the SDPA path it replaces at the microbenchmark level, dropped it in...

Counterfeiters were the original shadow bankers

Snap any image, screenshot, or webpage into plaintext. No GPU. No cloud. One command. - kouhxp/textsnap

Cloud software firm Teradata has told employees not to expect annual salary raises in 2026, and says it is putting the money towards AI instead.

Pushing past Nvidia imposed performance limitations on RTX 5090By PickleRick of Xtreme Systems

Credits to Turbogear of Xtreme Systems, this would not have been possible without his expertise and RF engineering backgroundSpecial thanks to ElmorLabsBrief history

Starting in the late 1970s, thru the 80s, and into the early 90s, many of the first overclocks were achieved thru crystal swapping. Systems from this time period often had no provisions for altering clock speeds via software or jumpers.

A Boeing 787 Dreamliner had a door detach at a remote Pacific airport, leaving engineers searching for answers about the cause.