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Deze vrijdag komt het kabinet met de nieuwe AIVD en MIVD wet. Wat daarin staat weten we niet, maar wel zeker is dat we er heel kritisch naar moeten gaan kijken. De diensten hebben recent de verkeerde mensen laten arresteren en kwamen ook met onjuiste informatie over de inval in Oekraïne. Ook bleek kort geleden dat men slordig om gaat met enorme bakken met data over ons allemaal. Ook het grootschalig afluisterprogramma blijkt nog erg weinig op te leveren, maar wel heel veel mensen af te luisteren, waarbij er ook nog weleens wat dingen gebeuren die mogelijk niet de bedoeling waren.

In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix decompressing two files in the same invocation of gzip (that's possib...

The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) is the largest crude oil storage facility in the world.

This is a charming and zeitgeisty novel which has a strong start and fulfils the promise of its blurb. What if your autonomous vacuum cleaner was sentient and was very sad about your wife's death? It pays obvious homage to the Brave Little Toaster, 100 Acre Woods, Beauty and The Beast, and hundred other what-if-your-toys-came-to-life stories. Along the way we discover what it is like to be a…

Authorities in Australia have arrested two men believed to be members of TeamPCP, a prolific cybercrime and data extortion group blamed for perpetrating the longest running spree of software supply chain attacks ever.

In a statement released today, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said two unnamed suspects from Western Australia, aged 21 and 23, were arrested in connection with a "sophisticated cybercrime syndicate that allegedly created malicious open-source software to rob thousands of global businesses."

The AFP did not name the defendants, but KrebsOnSecurity learned the 21-year-old suspect's real identity in June, and has been communicating with him ever since. This story includes interviews with TeamPCP's self-described spokesperson, and examines clues left behind by the TeamPCP leader that likely led to his undoing.

On August 29, 1953, the Tokyo Television Acoustic Company was founded. Later in the decade it merged with the Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company, and the combined company took the name TEAC. The combined company specialized in designing and manufacturing tape recorders.

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You can go into the deep end way too easily with a self-hosting project. But is a less-is-more approach possible? Here’s what my attempt to build a “third-place” box taught me.

You can go into the deep end way too easily with a self-hosting project. But is a less-is-more approach possible? Here’s what my attempt to build a “third-place” box taught me.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Another open weights model from Qwen. This one is "a multimodal MoE model that also serves as an early preview of the architecture used in Qwen4".

It's pretty big: 125B tokens, but only 6B active which means it gets a pretty big performance boost.

I've been trying it out on a DGX Spark using these Unsloth quantized models. I'm still exploring the model - so far I've tried the 72.5GB UD-IQ1_S one (producing these pelicans) and the 78.9GB UD-Q2_K_XL (producing these).

My favorite so far was this xhigh reasoning effort one from UD-Q2_K_XL:

Via Hacker News

Tags: ai, generative-ai, llms, qwen, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, ai-in-china, nvidia-spark

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AI-powered coding agents increase productivity for many developers. But do these agents produce good-quality code? Some say this doesn’t matter, we are heading toward dark software factories with source code never inspected, and maybe we should eliminate source code altogether—“source code is the new assembly code”. Others have a different view. Humans sometimes need to […]

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What do you wanna bet someone's gonna get promoted for deleting this workaround from the code?

It wouldn't be a Windows Entertainment Pack then, would it?

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The time to tame Silicon Valley has come

Quality software reigns again

When you’re interested in studying a family of functions, it can be useful to look at a differential equation that the functions solve. This is a theme I’ve written about several times, most recently here and here, but also three years ago here. Orthogonal polynomials are mathematically elegant as well as very useful in applications [1]. […]

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The good folks at Thermal Master have sent me their latest camera to review - and it is a bit different to all the others I've tried. Whereas previous cameras are good for bird watching, or wildlife spotting, or finding leaks at home - the P3 has a manual macro lens and is specifically designed for getting close-up and personal with your electronics. Yup! See just how hot your CPU is getting…

Digg was a high flying news aggregation site from the early web 2.0 era that still exists today, but really in name only. It serves as a cautionary too for why high profile websites tend not to make major changes

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When I hear the term ultraspherical I think of something extremely spherical. For example, a baseball is spherical, but a billiard ball is more spherical. Maybe a highly polished billiard ball is ultraspherical. Using this line of thought, the term ultraspherical polynomial is inexplicable. This is an example of the arcane terminology I wrote about recently. In […]

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The fact that AI wrote 1M LOC and then refined it over the course of the next couple of months to produce a reliable piece of software that is currently running on millions of developer machines is absolutely mind blowing. And you can say, “well it’s not that impressive because they had an oracle to compare against, so it was simple to go from one language to another”, but I think that’s selling this entire thing short. If you can build a verification system and give proper direction, AI can produce a highly complex, highly sophisticated piece of software and it can continue to refine it until it just works.

— Paul Dix, The end of programming

Tags: coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, bun, ai, llms