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MiniMax releases M2.7, a proprietary "self-evolving" LLM that the company used to build, monitor, and optimize the model's own reinforcement learning harnesses (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/technology/new

Das Könnte eine ganz witzige Aktion werden. Mal sehen ob ich es schaffe vorbeizuschauen.
https://riesa-efau.de/kalender/veranstaltung/2026/04/23/114715/performative-ampelphasenmessung/

Infant brains tick at 4Hz – Resonance properties of the developing visual system https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/110274 "the impulse response function (IRF) of the broadband sequence revealed a perceptual echo of visual information at 4Hz. This echo lasted for ab…

I would like to have a word with the hackers who attacked the Chanhassen Dinner Theatres in Chanhassen, Minnesota. Seriously?
Chanhassen Dinner Theatres cancels more Guys and Dolls performances due to illness and cyberattack

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There, I fixed the study title:
“[White Guy] Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights”
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00462
PDF:
https://…

AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights
As artificial intelligence (AI) tools become widely adopted, large language models (LLMs) are increasingly involved on both sides of decision-making processes, ranging from hiring to content moderation. This dual adoption raises a critical question: do LLMs systematically favor content that resembles their own outputs? Prior research in computer science has identified self-preference bias -- the tendency of LLMs to favor their own generated content -- but its real-world implications have not be…

PowerToys 0.98: Bessere Performance und neues Dock für Befehlspalette
Die Entwickler der PowerToys versprechen für die frisch veröffentlichte Version 0.98 bessere Geschwindigkeit an allen Ecken und Enden.

"Amid Trump threats, Copenhagen also sent over explosives intended to blow up runways, according to Danish media"
Denmark reportedly flew blood bags to Greenland in preparation for a US attack | Denmark | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/19/denmark-prepared-for-us-attack-donald-trump-greenland

GOP preparing to strip out ballroom security funding (Jordain Carney/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/05/20/congress/gop-preparing-to-strip-out-ballroom-security-funding-00929861
http://www.memeorandum.com/260520/p62#a260520p62

My NVME performance rabbit hole is confusing; one of my two identical drives is half the performance in hdparm -T; I swapped the drives in the slots and the performance follows the drive not the slot. PCIe looks fine with the same link speed/width. NVMe features (nvme get-feature /dev/nvme. -f 0 -H) are the same on both.
Oddly the *latency* is much lower on the slower drive?!! wtf?!

Trump administration making heavy preparations for potential use of ground troops in Iran (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-administration-iran-ground-troop-preparations/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260320/p105#a260320p105