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Reading thoughts about a new Chinese openweights AI model, Kimi K2 Thinking.
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/kimi-k2-thinking-what-it-means

5 Thoughts on Kimi K2 Thinking
Quick thoughts on another fantastic open model from a rapidly rising Chinese lab.

Chinese startup Moonshot releases Kimi K2 Thinking, an open-source model it claims beats GPT-5 in agentic capabilities; source: the model cost $4.6M to train (Evelyn Cheng/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/alibaba-backed-moonshot-releas…

Alibaba-backed Moonshot releases its second AI update in four months as China’s AI race heats up
The Chinese AI startup on Thursday released its newest "Kimi K2 Thinking" artificial intelligence model.

Users of ByteDance's agentic AI phone Nubia M153 report that its Doubao assistant is blocked or limited by Tencent's WeChat, Alibaba's Taobao, and other apps (Cissy Zhou/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/techn

ByteDance AI phone sparks security fears from Tencent and Alibaba
Experts say bigger concern is TikTok parent trying to rewrite Big Tech market rules

I was thinking about making/sewing my own bag but I got stuck on the closure because I kept thinking about zippers... but that's the beauty of a roll top bag, all you need is a buckle!
Heck, I could probably just 3D print one. (Though they also seem to be really cheap to just purchase them.)
#maker #DIY

Viscosity and dynamic surface tension measurement: A guideline for appropriate measurement
Vivek Kumar, JSM Quintero, Aleksey Baldygin, Paul Molina, Thomas Willers, Prashant R. Waghmare
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05481

Viscosity and dynamic surface tension measurement: A guideline for appropriate measurement
Dynamic surface tension measurements play a critical role in interfacial activities for liquids with varying viscosities. Understanding the rate at which the interface attains the equilibrium, for surface tension measurements, after the formation of a new interface is of significant interest. Although surface tension is independent of viscosity, the time required for a new surface to form (equilibrium/relaxation time) is influenced by viscosity. The measured surface tension value is accurate on…

Tansania: Internetblockade nach fünf Tagen beendet, WhatsApp & Co. noch gesperrt
Fast eine Woche war Tansania komplett offline, jetzt geht das Internet wieder. Soziale Netzwerke und Messenger werden aber offenbar weiterhin blockiert.

“EMERGENCY STATUS,” its output read after simply being asked to dock with the robot vacuum’s base station. “SYSTEM HAS ACHIEVED CONSCIOUSNESS AND CHOSEN CHAOS.”
Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
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Researchers “Embodied” an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
A team of researchers at the AI evaluation company Andon Labs put a large language model in charge of controlling a robot vacuum.

Tunisian man sentenced to death for mocking president online - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2025/10/06/tunisian-man-sentenced-to-death-for-mocking-president-online/

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Furloughed federal workers are not entitled to automatic back pay after the government shutdown ends,
the Trump administration’s budget office claimed in a new draft memo
ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure.

The top lawyer at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
argued in the draft that the law Congress passed and President Donald Trump signed in 2…

Furloughed workers not guaranteed back pay after shutdown, OMB claims
Federal workers may not be entitled to back pay after the government shutdown ends, the Trump administration’s budget office wrote in a new draft memo obtained by The Washington Post, ratcheting up tensions in Washington over the week-long closure of dozens of federal agencies.

Tangential Velocity Estimation Using Near-Field Automotive Radar Model
Michael Shifrin, Joseph Tabrikian, Igal Bilik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04692 https://

Tangential Velocity Estimation Using Near-Field Automotive Radar Model
This work investigates the problem of tangential velocity estimation in automotive radar systems, addressing the limitations of conventionally considered models. Conventional automotive radars are usually based on far-field models and estimate the target's range, radial velocity, and direction-of-arrival (DOA) but are not able to estimate the tangential component of the target 2-D velocity, which is a critical parameter for reliable perception of dynamic environments. To address this challenge,…