How a Single Function Call Gates Safety Alignment in Gemma, Qwen, and Other Open-Source LLMs

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New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.

iterative image reconstruction using random cubic bézier strokes, accelerated on metal

2024 Nano Texture Macbook Pro on the left; 2021 Glossy Macbook Pro on the right TLDR: the Nano Texture performs wonderfully anywhere where light used to be a factor and used to force me to shade my screen or avoid the place entirely.
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Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

In the 1980s, if you wanted your computer to do floating-point calculations faster, you could buy the Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor ...

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Industry-linked studies were also more likely to focus on particular topics, suggesting these ties may be skewing the field

Matt Damon says Netflix wants movies to restate 'the plot three or four times in the dialogue' to account for viewers using their phones.

Gordon Boettger and Bruce Campbell scored 1496.7 points in 12h 32min in a Arcus J.

The best defense against Stingrays...if your device supports it.

To prevent people from infection by contact

The US president says he no longer feels obliged to think only of peace, after not being awarded the annual prize.

The Ralph Wiggum Technique went viral in the last week of 2025. Here's the story of ralph since the first time I met Geoff in June of 2025.