by Jennifer Jenkins, Director, Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain CC BY 4.0 On January 1, 2024, after almost a century of copyright protection, Mickey Mouse, or at least a version of

AMD also took one step ahead by making similar test situations to those Nvidia did with TensorRT-LLM while accounting for latency, which is typical with server workloads.

Base64 is one of those things I’ve used countless times, without ever fully understanding what it does. For my UUID shortener, I chose to implement Base32 — a more readable and URL-friendly alternative to Base64. I didn’t want to rely on any third-party libraries…

The strange tale of the socialites who shaped modern marriage on the American frontier.

A low-income area has become ground zero for the dangerous sedative xylazine – and an ‘exploitative’ type of content creation

Motivation To support high-performance GEMM code generation on Intel GPU, we propose XeGPU dialect. XeGPU dialect provides an abstraction that closely models Xe instructions. XeGPU ops are introduced when a special Xe instruction can’t be expressed by LLVM/SPIR…

In the hall of animal oddities, the reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) is the only mammal with a color-shifting tapetum lucidum and the only ruminant with a lichen-do...

Section 702 debate rages after another FISA Court opinion is unclassified.

Update Dec 18: This post is discussed on Hacker News 🍊


As regular readers of this blog will now, JDK Flight Recorder (JFR) is one of my favorite tools of the Java platform.
This low-overhead event recording engine built into the JVM is invaluable for observing…

Agents Capable of Self-Editing Their Prompts / Python Code - aymenfurter/microagents

BLUF : TinyChatEngine provides an off-line open-source large language model (LLM)  that has been reduced in size. This post provides context...

A small (256-character) Perl program to generate poems.

In a significant shift in design philosophy, Volkswagen has acknowledged the shortcomings of its touchscreen-dominated interiors, opting to reinstate physical buttons and controls in its upcoming models. The German automaker's new ID. 2all concept car encapsulates…

The European Commission has opened formal proceedings to assess whether X may have breached the Digital Services Act (DSA) in areas linked to risk management, content moderation, dark patterns, advertising transparency and data access for researchers.

Deepfakes, bots, fake worlds, fake accounts—people crave fiction, even amidst fact