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Fei-Fei Li's spatial-intelligence startup World Labs has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by AMD, with the deal expected to close by end of 2026 pending regulatory approval. Li becomes AMD's EVP and Chief Scientist reporting directly to Lisa Su, while Justin Johnson and Ben Mildenhall keep leading the World Labs team inside AMD. The stated goal is an end-to-end open AI ecosystem spanning silicon, software, and openly available models — a direct shot at the vertically integrated incumbents.
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Jeff is an open reimplementation of decision models — small models that skip text generation entirely and return calibrated probabilities across a set of options in one forward pass. It ships Qwen3.5-0.8B, Qwen3.5-2B, and Gemma4-E2B variants, all trained on a single RTX PRO 6000 in two to three and a half hours using synthetic data, with no closed-model data in the pipeline. Latency lands at 22 to 24 milliseconds per decision on that GPU, and it's drop-in API-compatible with the proprietary Jev format.
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MicroLLM Lab runs 4-bit quantized models between 25M and 360M parameters entirely client-side via WebGPU, with weights as small as 50 to 84 megabytes cached in IndexedDB. Nothing touches a server — you load a model, chat on-device, and benchmark it, with sub-10-millisecond time-to-first-token on decent hardware. It's a neat argument for edge inference on triage-class tasks where a frontier model is overkill.
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Parley from prologic is a federated chat network where each domain runs its own instance, discovering peers via DNS SRV records and exchanging ed25519-signed JSON events over HTTPS to an inbox endpoint. Identities look like email addresses, and instances auto-link the first time someone messages a new domain. Crucially it presents as a standard IRC server with IRCv3 extensions, so irssi, WeeChat, or Textual just work — though the author calls it a working proof of concept, not yet hardened.
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Yash Garg wanted PS5 gameplay in a Discord screen share without buying a capture card, so he pointed dnsmasq on his Mac at Twitch's ingest domains and had his OpenWRT router hand that DNS server to the PS5 over DHCP. An nginx-rtmp instance on port 1935 impersonates the Twitch endpoint, catching the console's broadcast locally. He then pipes it into mpv with low-latency flags and shares that window — zero PS5-side configuration required.
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A MUBI Notebook essay on the fan archivists who use illegal means to preserve historically accurate cuts of films that studios have mangled or abandoned. The author traces their own reconstruction of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly from bootlegs, a project that eventually led to collaboration with legitimate labels like Arrow Films. The piece sits squarely on the tension between copyright law and who actually ends up saving cinema's heritage.
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An international team led by Lancaster University re-examined the famous 16-minute Exeter express train delay long cited as the first case of space weather disrupting human technology. By cross-referencing railway timetables, newspapers, auroral reports, and digitised geomagnetic records, they found the incident actually happened on October 18, 1848, not 1841. The clincher: the rail line in question hadn't even opened in 1841.
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A browser-based tournament bracket pitting 64 iconic British design objects against each other across six head-to-head rounds. Each matchup is resolved by aggregate crowd votes, with unresolved pairings falling back to overall win record, and you can share your finished bracket. Each entry links out to Wikipedia and other sources for the design nerds who want to go deeper.
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Archaeologists found two intact burials at Göbeklitepe dating to roughly 8,700 to 8,000 BCE, containing adults and children. The study argues the hundreds of scattered human bone fragments found throughout the site's monumental buildings came from ordinary subfloor graves disturbed and carried downslope by erosion. That reframes decades of speculation about exotic skull-cult burial rites as, mostly, geology.
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Joseph Szabo photographed his own students at Malverne High School on Long Island in the 1970s, using the camera to bridge the gap between teacher and teenager. That work became Almost Grown in 1978 and circulated among filmmakers and fashion photographers — Juergen Teller, Cameron Crowe, and Sofia Coppola among them. Coppola has now edited a new MACK collection of the work, American Teen, with a solo show landing at Paris Photo this November.
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