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Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain
The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and sound to the Lego...
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[Paper] Heterogeneous Low-Bandwidth Pre-Training of LLMs
Pre-training large language models (LLMs) increasingly requires distributed compute, yet bandwidth constraints make it difficult to scale beyond well-provisione...
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[Paper] ExposeAnyone: Personalized Audio-to-Expression Diffusion Models Are Robust Zero-Shot Face Forgery Detectors
Detecting unknown deepfake manipulations remains one of the most challenging problems in face forgery detection. Current state-of-the-art approaches fail to gen...
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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during hacker conference
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacist websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication...
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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communicatio...
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[Paper] VINO: A Unified Visual Generator with Interleaved OmniModal Context
We present VINO, a unified visual generator that performs image and video generation and editing within a single framework. Instead of relying on task-specific ...
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[Paper] DARC: Drum accompaniment generation with fine-grained rhythm control
In music creation, rapid prototyping is essential for exploring and refining ideas, yet existing generative tools often fall short when users require both struc...
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Pipe Dreams – The life and times of Yahoo Pipes (2023)
Article URL: https://retool.com/pipes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46503006 Points: 17 Comments: 1...
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[Paper] Talk2Move: Reinforcement Learning for Text-Instructed Object-Level Geometric Transformation in Scenes
We introduce Talk2Move, a reinforcement learning (RL) based diffusion framework for text-instructed spatial transformation of objects within scenes. Spatially m...
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Predictive Maintenance in Industrial Settings: Leveraging IoT and DevOps Practices for Maximum Uptime
In modern industry, keeping machines running nonstop is a challenge. Systems grow more complex each year, yet expectations for reliability never relax. Predicti...
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[Paper] Meta-Learning Guided Pruning for Few-Shot Plant Pathology on Edge Devices
Farmers in remote areas need quick and reliable methods for identifying plant diseases, yet they often lack access to laboratories or high-performance computing...
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SwiftUI Memory Management & Retain Cycle Pitfalls (Production Guide)
Introduction SwiftUI hides a lot of memory complexity—until it doesn’t. At scale teams encounter: - ViewModels that never deallocate - Tasks that run forever -...