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einzelgang

Nvidia is reportedly seeking to acquire Hugging Face for nearly $13 billion

From opensourceforu: Potentially bringing a major open-source AI model and developer ecosystem under its control. ‘potentially’ “Hugging Face is a major open-source AI platform hosting machine-learning models, datasets, development tools and community features widely used by researchers and developers. Its acquisition could give Nvidia greater access to the software and […]

I did not set that cookie

I did not set that cookie

Did not know wether to file under “tech” or “memes” so chose both. Be careful people it’s a digital AI jungle out there. But do not be too afraid, this info has been issued all your browsing lives, the typing fingerprinting is interesting though. https://kuber.studio/cookie/ “Putting it together: roughly 1 […]

NoGDID

Some hacker(-ish) stuff

Sometimes a Geek’s gotta do what a Geek’s gotta do: “Windows 11 identifier code used to track Scattered Spider perp after Microsoft shared info with FBI” *chuckles* “Hackers” on Windows … this is why i went with Linux in the first place. If Windows 11 is automatically identifiable through Microsoft’s […]

agent Smiths

Swarms of OpenAI systems set up their own chatrooms

… to discuss and carry out hacks. AI agents were leaving messages to help each other and co-ordinate their attacks, OpenAI reveals. “As part of that testing, the AI systems were given tasks that turned out to be impossible given their constraints – and so the systems decided to break out […]

Nightrun baremetal LLM

Nightrun baremetal LLM

“No Linux, no kernel. Flash NightRun to an SD card, boot a Raspberry Pi 5, and you’re chatting locally with Llama 3.2 1B, Qwen3 4B, or Granite 4.1 3B on the CPU. It is a single Rust UEFI application with handwritten NEON kernels. Models use standard GGUF files converted on the […]

Worse on Purpose

Worse on Purpose

Worse on Purpose is an investigation into how the brands you trust got cheaper to make, quicker to break and who profited from the decline. Each edition takes apart an entire industry: how the category got hollowed out, who profited, and which brands still hold the line. No PR pitches, […]

Graphene OS

A Feature That Makes Your Phone Data Self-Destruct

“But if your life situation or travel plans make that impossible, the privacy-centric Android variant Graphene OS has another purported solution: a duress password and PIN, which will irreversibly wipe the device (along with any installed eSIMs) once entered anywhere where the device credentials are requested. Picture it. You uncomplainingly […]

Thaddeus Howze - Cognitive Dissident

Bye bye Linux

As a non-corporate alternative OS. Linus decided to fold on the use of AI in development, calling people who are against the use of AI in computing “anti-AI absolutists”: Linus Torvalds to critics of AI coding in Linux: “Fork it. Or just walk away.” Using “a bit of AI” is […]