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Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line(bloomberg.com)
318 points by scrlk 3mo ago|380 comments
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The CP-SAT Primer: Using and Understanding Google OR-Tools' CP-SAT Solver(github.com)
4 points by scrlk 4mo ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 4mo ago
I've seen a few articles from providers talking about KV cache quantisation, but it's not something they explicitly point out like they do with weights. So you could end up paying more for unquantised weights, only to get silently
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by scrlk 4mo ago
IME, unquantised -> FP8 is pretty much lossless. What matters more is having an unquantized KV cache - using an FP8 KV cache can result in a significant drop in quality.
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UK police officer under criminal investigation over alleged use of AI(ft.com)
8 points by scrlk 4mo ago|2 comments
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by scrlk 4mo ago
https://archive.ph/BIOej
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by scrlk 4mo ago
And Sony as well - AI-LLM1000XM5 Mark II.
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by scrlk 4mo ago
The rationale behind the Fn-Ctrl layout used on ThinkPads until very recently: > The Fn key was originally placed by the ThinkPad designers in the lower left hand corner to make the key easier to locate when using the keystroke combinati
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System Card: Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 [pdf](www-cdn.anthropic.com)
213 points by scrlk 4mo ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 4mo ago
A bug affecting M5 MBAs & MBPs made it impossible to connect to a WiFi network on the activation screen. The workaround was to use an Ethernet dongle: https://x.com/TheBobPony/status/2033958150936703363
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by scrlk 4mo ago
> after incentivizing employees to adopt the technology through an internal leaderboard ranking teams by total AI tool usage. When you pay by the dead cobra, don't be surprised when people start breeding cobras.
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by scrlk 5mo ago
> I also recall this 3D shell where your desktop was basically like an first-person shooter, where there would be a literal desk with files that you could click on, a media wall that would display your photos and so on. Was it Task Galle
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Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal(reuters.com)
229 points by scrlk 5mo ago|145 comments
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The problem with 'S-curves'(energynetworks.substack.com)
3 points by scrlk 5mo ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 5mo ago
Next up: learning effective radio communication from Ferrari F1 race engineers ;)
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CATL claims 6-minute charge and 1,500km range for new electric vehicle batteries(ft.com)
4 points by scrlk 6mo ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 6mo ago
https://archive.ph/D5IJd
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Kelp DAO Exploited for $292M(coindesk.com)
4 points by scrlk 6mo ago|1 comments
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by scrlk 6mo ago
Sadly nothing about why Pat was forced out of Intel. Panther Lake is quite a good CPU and 14A looks like it'll be a competitive process. IMO, it vindicates the decisions that Pat made a few years ago and wasn't able to see through
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by scrlk 6mo ago
More specifically, it was the end of Dennard scaling [0] that killed off the growth in clock speeds in the mid-2000s. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
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by scrlk 6mo ago
LG never really recovered after releasing several phones with bootlooping issues between 2015-16: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_smartphone_bootloop_issues Plus their software support was poor, even for the era.
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AI Futures Project: Q1 2026 Timelines Update(blog.aifutures.org)
2 points by scrlk 6mo ago|0 comments
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by scrlk 6mo ago
I transposed the table so that it's readable on mobile devices. I should have mentioned that the Qwen 3.5 benchmarks were from the Qwen3.5-122B-A10B model card (which includes GPT-5-mini and GPT-OSS-120B); apologies for not including t
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by scrlk 6mo ago
Comparison of Gemma 4 vs. Qwen 3.5 benchmarks, consolidated from their respective Hugging Face model cards: | Model | MMLUP | GPQA | LCB | ELO | TAU2 | MMMLU | HLE-n | HLE-t | |----------------|-------|-------|------
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by scrlk 6mo ago
TI started production at their SM1 fab back in December 2025, which focuses on 28 nm to 130 nm.
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Apple introduces age verification for iCloud accounts in the UK(engadget.com)
5 points by scrlk 7mo ago|2 comments
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by scrlk 7mo ago
An interesting read related to this bug from Joel Spolsky - My First BillG Review : https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/06/16/my-first-billg-rev...
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by scrlk 7mo ago
Plus, having $50M sitting in a mobile hot wallet.
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Crypto investor turns $50M into $36,000 in one botched move(coindesk.com)
4 points by scrlk 7mo ago|3 comments
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by scrlk 7mo ago
As Walter Bagehot wrote in The English Constitution : "An ancient and ever-altering constitution is like an old man who still wears with attached fondness clothes in the fashion of his youth: what you see of him is the same; what you

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