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Yandex has unveiled the from-scratch trained Alice AI Foundation LLM model: 80 billion parameters, 3 billion active, 18 trillion tokens. The weights are open under a license that permits commercial…
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The open-source DuoBar utility combines battery charge, network connection and volume into a single macOS menu bar icon, and on desktop Macs it shows brightness and load.
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On September 21, 1926, Donald Glaser was born — the physicist who invented the bubble chamber. The device turned the tracks of elementary particles into photographs and earned its author…
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On September 20, Qwen open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1: a compact model of roughly 7 billion parameters that combines text-to-image generation with image editing, including transparent backgrounds.
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In 2025, off the coast of Queensland, a female humpback spent long stretches beside her dead newborn and kept returning to it on the seafloor. Until now, such behavior had…
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The crater, about 222 metres across and up to 43 metres deep, formed in May 2024 but was only noticed while LRO archives were being reviewed. It is the largest…
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On 20 September 1996, Paul Erdős died in Warsaw during a mathematics conference — one of the most prolific mathematicians of the 20th century, with around 1,500 papers and more…
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The German MVUEH radio message of 10 July 1941, unreadable since 2005, has been worked out by OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra model — on its own, with no hints about the…
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Anthropic has released optimized versions of more than 30 open models for protein prediction and molecule design. The speedup came from Claude, and an economy mode fits large molecular machines…
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An open set of instructions turns a coding agent into a security auditor: six audit stages, adversarial validation of findings, and a report with three categories of results.
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Four years of decapsulation, optical dumps and exploit hunting: the enthusiast DiscoStarslayer claims to have cracked one of the PS2's last unsolved mysteries.
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On 17 September 1991, Linus Torvalds uploaded version 0.01 of the future Linux kernel to the FUNET FTP server — it could not be run: the code only compiled under…
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