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Multiple Stability AI researchers are departing, including the original coauthors on the research that evolved into viral text-to-image model Stable Diffusion.

It's the latest big blow to the cash-strapped startup. From @_IainMartin and me:

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An analysis of the exceptionally well preserved remains of a Bronze Age village reveals the cozy domesticity of life in Britain 2,850 years ago.

…untary enquiry from a state authority that included a requirement for confidentiality

Discover what's new in GNOME, the distraction-free computing platform.

Researchers have long loved PDFs for reading papers. You can focus on absorbing the scholarship – the format is simple and clean. Researche...

If you had code on GitHub at any point it looks like it might be included in a large dataset called “The Stack” — If you want your code removed from this massive “ai” training data go here:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack

I found two…

I'm far from alone.

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's first-ever developer

A new Northeastern study delves deep into how parrots use touchscreen devices, with the help of a bespoke gaming app.

In a bold move against democracy, Apple @Apple succumbed to Russian Roskomnadzor's demands, removing Alexei Navalny's Photon-2024 app. This app, conceived by Navalny before his tragic end, was designed to navigate the quagmire of 'choice' under Putin's regime.…

A huge blocklist of manually curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock Origin & uBlacklist. - laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

GritQL is a query language for searching, linting, and modifying code. - biomejs/gritql

All the “C++ killers”, even these which I wholeheartedly love and respect like Rust, Julia, and D, help you write more features with fewer bugs, but they don't much help when you need to squeeze the very last FLOPS from the hardware you rent. As such, they…

🌌 A network agnostic DHT crawler, monitor, and measurement tool that exposes timely information about DHT networks. - dennis-tra/nebula

Back in November we announced the Steam Deck OLED. It's available now, and though it's got a bunch of great improvements like longer battery life, faster downloads, and better repairability, the star is its ultra-bright HDR OLED screen. When the launch was…