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Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
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The U.S. economy's significant dependence on AI investments is raising concerns. Major deals among AI giants often appear circular, risking β€˜round-tripping’—an unethical practice inflating stock values through self-reinforcing agreements. The outcome hinges on genuine technological breakthroughs and enterprise adoption of AI.
AI significantly enhances earthquake detection, automating tasks previously handled by humans. It can identify smaller quakes, even in noisy environments, providing valuable data for understanding Earth's composition and hazards. Despite the advancements, broader impacts like earthquake forecasting are still developing.
Signal Messenger's new post-quantum encryption update enhances its protocol to resist future quantum computing threats, maintaining robust end-to-end encryption. This engineering feat ensures long-term security by integrating quantum-safe mechanisms while preserving the protocol's efficiency and performance.
Scotland's Hagshaw Hill windfarm is pioneering the recycling of old turbine blades, which are difficult to break down due to their glass or carbon fiber composition. European plans aim to tackle the expected 40,000-60,000 tonnes of blade waste by 2030.
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Repository: Spectre.Console (A .NET library that makes it easier to create beautiful console applications.)
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Containerization is a Swift package for running Linux containers on macOS.
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Beads – A memory upgrade for your coding agent
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Awesome Reasoning LLM Tutorial/Survey/Guide
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PyTorch native quantization and sparsity for training and inference
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RISC Zero is a zero-knowledge verifiable general computing platform based on zk-STARKs and the RISC-V microarchitecture.
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