Among models given nothing but a prompt, the best open-weight option beat Claude Opus 4.8.

Civil rights activist Dr. Patrick Breyer warns of an unprecedented "double-attack" on secure messaging ahead of critical Friday and Monday EU meetings.



Ahead of a highly critical weekend for digital civil rights in Europe, former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding th

Buried inside the KIDS Act are provisions that will push online services to verify all users’ ages, require government-directed moderation policies for online speech, and even create new rules about private and encrypted communications. While supporters continue to claim this bill protects minors online, its requirements come at the expense of privacy, free expression, and the ability of people of all ages to use the internet without revealing sensitive data.

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The renowned economist Roberto Serrano has ‘overwhelming evidence’ that his students cheated. He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of higher education

AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem. Contribute to librepods-org/librepods development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Explore the Buttolph Collection from the New York Public Library

Historical and current prices for DRAM, HBM, and NAND flash.

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A free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it.

Mounting privacy and security issues have residents and activists concerned.

Under Senate Bill 948, Michigan employers who require workers to respond to job-related messages outside scheduled hours could face fines or be required to pay overtime.

One keyboard bug three decades in the making

Contribute to kyuz0/amd-strix-halo-vllm-toolboxes development by creating an account on GitHub.

What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexigno...

The jet was perhaps the pinnacle of American engineering excellence. Its retirement signals an end to an era of American culture—and ambition.

Learn to decompile GameCube PowerPC assembly into byte-matching C, graded live by the real MWCC GC/2.0 compiler.

Polestar is done in the U.S. market. Its sister brand Volvo, owned by the same Chinese parent company, was spared. No one has explained why.

Necessity being the mother of invention, this led to the creation of an ingenious solution: daisugi, the growing of additional trees, in effect, out of existing trees

Open-TYNDP: Interfacing Open Energy System Planning with ENTSO-E Models and Contributing to TYNDP - open-energy-transition/open-tyndp

Meta had sought more computing capacity than Google could provide, the Financial Times reports.

How we built WAL-RUS, an open-source Rust-based Postgres backup tool that reduces virtual memory usage by over 70% compared to WAL-G while maintaining full compatibility.

Given the exceptional performance of proprietary large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, recent research has increasingly focused on boosting the capabilities of smaller models through knowledge distillation (KD) from these powerful yet black-box teachers. While leveraging the high-quality outputs of these teachers is advantageous, the inaccessibility of their internal states often limits effective knowledge transfer. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Proxy-KD, a novel method that uses a proxy model to facilitate the efficient transfer of knowledge from black-box LLMs to smaller models. Our experiments show that Proxy-KD not only enhances the performance of KD from black-box teacher models but also surpasses traditional white-box KD techniques.~This approach presents a compelling new avenue for distilling knowledge from advanced LLMs.