@kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.nameOnline panels and better image editing have brought down their cost in recent decades. Since the 1990s, around twenty properly sampled visual preference surveys have been run on popular architectural preferences.
https://www.worksinprogress.news/p/do-people-prefe…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNoam Shazeer leaves Google to join OpenAI as lead for architecture research; he rejoined Google in 2024 as part of the Character.AI deal and was Gemini co-lead (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/star-google-ai-researcher-shazeer-j…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toThalamocortical architecture shapes structural and functional plasticity after early sensory loss https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.08.05.743029v2 In blindness, "reduced lateral geniculate nucleus volume";
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaGetting to the CRUX of it.
The last couple of days I've been hanging out in Crux Linux and I really enjoyed doing just that. Reason why I did a write-up and how-to about my exploration into this source based distro.
#crux #cruxlinux
@matematico314@social.linux.pizzaCaramba! Por que eu não ganho na Mega-Sena pra conseguir comprar essas coisas?! rs
#Lego
@phpugmrn@phpc.socialJoin us next Thursday for our next #phpugmrn event!
Our speaker, @… will take us back to the fundamentals of Domain Driven Design (DDD). and argue that these principles are far more important than any specific architecture.
According to Sebastian, b…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its "Post-Transformer" BDH architecture, raised a $30M seed at a $500M valuation (Antoine Tardif/Unite.AI)
https://www.unite.ai/pathway-raises-new-funding-at-500m-valuation…
@YaleDivinitySchool@mstdn.socialJudith Dupré '11 M.Div. discusses architecture and secular ministry on the "Women Living the Questions" Podcast.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/judith-dupré-the-architecture-of-curiosity/id187572610…
@chrysn@chaos.socialRe-reading #RFC 8995, I find that I missed that the BRSKI architecture does support nonceless vouchers, at least in situations where you know precisely (by serial number) what you bought.
If I've ever pitched BRSKI based IoT and left you with a bad taste of "why do I have to run the device once in a connected situation": I'm sorry, I undersold it, it is even cooler than I made i…
@sperbsen@discuss.systemsI'll be at the Software Architecture Gathering and talk about the most important topic in programming (and architecture): abstraction.
I'll also hang out throughout the conference at the @… booth, so come and let's chat!
The early bird runs until Thursday, so make sure you get your ticket. You can also hit me up for a discoun…
@curiouscat@fosstodon.org25 Years of Mass Surveillance [is 25 years too many]
"as it becomes increasingly evident that the Trump administration is using mass surveillance to keep itself in power, stifle dissent, and undermine political opponents, these questions are now more urgent than ever."
https://www.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A preview of the future Intel architecture documentation.
https://intel.github.io/SDM/announcement/2026/08/20/announce-preview.html
saved 2026-09-04
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🔧 The backend is #Python-based on top of #pipecat, the UI is #TypeScript. The architecture is modular so components can be swapped, and
@annsev@troet.cafeDie Ars Elextronica (#aec) in #Linz habe ich seit Jahren nicht einmal mehr wahrgenommen.
Aber jetzt finde ich es spannend, nachdem eine Jury Forensic Architectur mit einer Nike ausgezeichnet hat, für "A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023"
Weil LH Stelzer darin Antisemitismus sieht, kommt er nicht zur Preisverleihung. Und der Leiter des AEC muss…
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@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotBrief detour while running errands today. Who knows where this is, without image searching? #ArchitecturalHistory
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@UP8@mastodon.socialInside-out corner between Mann Library and Plant Science Building
#photo #photography #buildings #architecture
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAt Dreamforce, Salesforce announces Koa, a specialized CRM reasoning model built on Nvidia's Nemotron architecture, designed to power AI agents in Agentforce (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/09/15/sale…
@ripienaar@devco.socialAh we are doing why I open source?
I do it for 2 reasons. What I learn while doing it. What skills I practice while doing it. That’s it.
The skill I practise most is of product design and product building. Often in infra space - I don’t open source my non infra work.
The things I learn is the tools, languages and patterns of architecture and product design.
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.socialheute zufällig entdeckt:
"Einführung in die RSWK – Regeln für die Schlagwortkatalogisierung": 9 Video-Tutorials von Kolleginnen der @…
» https://doi.org/10.5446/s_1686
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialFor those people interested in digital identity , wallets etc., Architecture and Reference Framework for the EU Digital Identity Wallet, version 3.0 has been released.
#EU
@arXiv_physicsappph_bot@mastoxiv.pageAre gate-all-around 2D CFETs the optimal architecture for the A2 node and beyond?
Fengben Xi, Gautam Gaddemane, Anshul Gupta, Sheng Yang, Aryan Afzalian, Quentin Smets, Maarten Van de Put, Kaustuv Banerjee, Tom Schram, Devin Verreck, Ward Janssens, Juergen Boemmels, Xiangyu Wu, Thomas Chiarella, J\'er\^ome Mitard, Gouri Sankar Kar, Geert Hellings, Cesar Javier Lockhart de la Rosa
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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzNo, this isn't concept art for Dune 3 - it's the British design for a planned vast #astrotourism center in the #SaudiArabian desert near #AlUla: see https://heatherwick.com/studio/news/where-earth-meets-the-stars-heatherwick-studio-reveals-design-for-astrotourism-visitor-centre-and-masterplan/ and https://www.experiencealula.com/en/about/features/a-new-frontier-in-astrotourism and https://darksky.org/places/alula-manara-and-algharameel-nature-reserves/ and https://www.euronews.com/travel/2026/06/21/show-stopping-astrotourism-centre-with-stargazing-lodge-to-open-near-saudi-arabias-alula and https://parametric-architecture.com/heatherwick-studio-observatory-alula/ and https://www.designboom.com/architecture/heatherwick-studio-observatory-astrotourism-saudi-arabia-desert-alula-manara/ and https://www.dezeen.com/2026/06/19/alula-manara-space-observatory-heatherwick-studio-saudi-arabia/ for various aspects of the endeavour which involves a 4-meter (!) telescope among numerous other attractions.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Frey Wille Hundertwasser Street Rivers collection testifies to his commitment to architecture
and is influenced, for example, by the famous Hundertwasserhaus in Vienna.
Hundertwasser was strongly committed to architecture and fought for a more natural and human-friendly construction.
He despised rational, sterile architecture and demanded more space for individual design.
In this context, he campaigned for a "tree obligation" and a "window right&…
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageThoughtseeds as Latent Causes: A Dual-Process Computational Phenomenology of Focused-Attention Meditation
Prakash Chandra Kavi, Daniel Ari Friedman, Gustavo Patow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.14833 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.14833 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.14833
arXiv:2607.14833v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Meditative expertise involves sustained attention, rapid recovery from distraction, and coordinated dynamics of large-scale brain networks. We present a computational phenomenology of focused-attention meditation traversing four attractor states: breath focus, mind-wandering, meta-awareness, and redirect attention. Within a dual-process active inference formulation, the model implements a three-layer nested Markov-blanket architecture: (L1) a high-dimensional physiological neuronal substrate modeled as a stochastic multivariate Ornstein--Uhlenbeck process over attentional Yeo networks; (L2) a low-dimensional generative model (System 1) that encodes latent mental content as thoughtseeds and evaluates autonomic action tendencies; and (L3) an agentic metacognitive monitor (System 2) that implements a Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW) capacity bottleneck to selectively gate these tendencies. In L3, meta-awareness functions as the GNW ignition signal, derived from policy-prior divergence and dynamically gated by direct competition between orchestrator and distractor thoughtseeds. Policy selection actively minimizes expected free energy, and L2 actions furnish descending predictions over network activity to close the enactive perception--action cycle. Training uses variational Expectation-Maximization (EM) across expert and novice phenotypes. Simulations reproduce behavior consistent with empirical observations and findings in contemplative neuroscience, providing a tractable link between first-person phenomenology and objective neurophysiological measures.
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@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukFun UK gov computing doc I stumbled across; they switched to aws graviton from x86 with an argument that since a lot of the devs use ARM MacBooks it causes less issues having the same architecture.
https://docs.publishing.servic…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed.
https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/dont-stop-early-case-folding-source-code-at-memory-speed/
sa…
@arXiv_csAR_bot@mastoxiv.pageNITRO: High-Performance 3D NAND Flash-Based In-Storage Computing with Enhanced Activation Dataflow
Sanghun Shin, Sangyeon Kim, Gisan Ji, Sungju Ryu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.11920 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.11920 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.11920
arXiv:2608.11920v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In-storage computing (ISC) is considered a next-generation memory architecture for its ability to relieve the data bottleneck between the host and the memory. While the required resources of large language models (LLMs) have increased significantly in recent years, the memory density has not scaled accordingly. Recently, several works have studied NAND flash-based processing-in-memory (NAND-PIM) schemes to exploit the high density of the memory. However, they do not address the dataflow/buffer for the intermediate values, so a simple method is to deal with the values in the slow flash memory array. To overcome such a limitation, we propose a high-performance NAND flash-based ISC architecture with enhanced activation buffering. Instead of using the very slow flash memory array for the intermediate values, our architecture buffers the values in a fast DRAM subsystem. This approach effectively handles the high-latency penalties when activations are programmed into slower TLC NAND flash. We also introduce a distributed dataflow approach for the NAND-PIM array. This approach maximizes computational parallelism by employing efficient intra-plane data mapping. The results show that our proposed architecture achieves significant performance improvements, reducing the inference latency by up to 85% compared to the baseline.
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchangengscopeclient v0.2-rc1 binaries are now up on GitHub https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/releases/tag/v0.2-rc1, as well as our local artifact mirror at
@cdonat@hostsharing.coopThis week on #ProFed: security review.
I found a minor issue and took it as an opportunity to systematically check for more security issues. A few small things have been addressed already, more to follow.
The fixes also clean up the architecture in a few places – so the end result is both more secure and cleaner.
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“… is a platform for managing grants and tenders across their entire lifecycle. Leveraging its extensive database and dedicated architecture of AI Agents, it: …”
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“… is a platform for managing grants and tenders across their entire lifecycle. Leveraging its extensive database and dedicated architecture of AI Agents, it: …”
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@mxp@mastodon.acm.org“… is a platform for managing grants and tenders across their entire lifecycle. Leveraging its extensive database and dedicated architecture of AI Agents, it: …”
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959848/bittorrent-story-25-years-piracy
@aka_pugs@mastodon.socialOTD 1945: von Neumann's EDVAC report published. The beginning of modern computer architecture.
https://web.mit.edu/sts.035/www/PDFs/edvac.pdf
@Techmeme@techhub.socialETH Zurich spinout ZuriQ, which is developing trapped-ion quantum computing processors based on a 2D architecture, raised a $25.5M seed led by Quantonation (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/07/28/zuriq-raises-255m-to-scale-its-b…
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialThis #RustDuck #botnet thing is kinda cute.
https://blog.xlab.qianxin.com/rustduck-en/
@edintone@mastodon.greenIs this the earliest example of #churchcrawling - 1863? Perhaps the earliest where the journey was in part by train! https://edintone.com/st-peter_northampon_st-andrew_steyning/
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@metacurity@infosec.exchangeEvery week, Metacurity delivers to our subscribers a round-up of the best infosec long-reads we couldn't properly get to amid the crush of news.
This week's selection covers
--The UK's untrustworthy crime prediction machine,
--Scattered Spider didn't attack Jaguar Land Rover,
--A powerful new side channel attack,
--Trump's AI order may not be so voluntary,
-AI-generated malware can dodge signature-based detection
@esoriano@social.linux.pizza“If Europe is serious about digital autonomy, it should rule out Google and Apple attestation entirely from the Architecture Reference Framework and mandate open, hardware-based attestation mechanisms.”
https://waag.org/en/article/european-digital-id-wallet…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialAbout last night
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net📦 Ships 68 specialized agents, 291 skills and 94 commands covering planning, build repair, code review, security, architecture, docs, frontend, data and ML work
🧪 #TDD becomes a gated RED − GREEN − REFACTOR flow with evidence, and a fresh-context reviewer checks the changes instead of the same context grading its own code
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageWhen the Interviewer Is a Bot: Behavior, Breakdowns, and Trust in MLLM-Led Interviews
He Zhang, Kambinachi Chukwuma, ChanMin Kim, John M. Carroll
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10412 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10412 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10412
arXiv:2608.10412v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Semi-structured interviews are a cornerstone of qualitative research but remain labor-intensive. We report an empirical study of what actually happens when the interviewer is an off-the-shelf real-time multimodal LLM (MLLM). We built InterviewBot, a voice-based interviewing system that wraps a real-time MLLM with a researcher-authored outline, and deployed it not as a novel architecture but as a research instrument for observing default MLLM interviewing behavior. In a practice study (N=15), participants completed a bot-led semi-structured interview and then a human-led reflection session about that experience. We contribute (i) a turn-level behavioral analysis of an MLLM interviewer (N_turns=428) showing that it is acknowledgment-heavy but probe-light (deepening probes account for 4.9% of all turns), and that 28.7% of question-bearing turns pack multiple questions into one turn despite an explicit one-question-at-a-time instruction; (ii) an inductive catalogue of four data-collection breakdowns (information loss, premature termination, latency, and interruption) observed in a deployed rather than simulated system; and (iii) three social dynamics from participants' reflections: disclosure calibration, where reduced social pressure coincided with shallower elaboration; institutional legitimacy, where trust tracked perceived stakes and what delegation to AI signaled about the organizer rather than conversational competence; and conversational grounding, where content-grounded paraphrase, not generic social filler, was what participants read as listening. We conclude with design implications for depth control, transparent handoffs, and non-templated listening mechanisms in human-centered interview automation.
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@AnnaKukka@wien.rockscelebrating the 1970s
#photography #architecture #geometry #university #Bielefeld
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.pageLeaky Language Models: Stealing Architecture and Inference Optimizations via Per-Token Timing
Sadegh Majidi, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Kazem Taram
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20723 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20723 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20723
arXiv:2607.20723v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work presents LeakyLMs, a set of attacks that leak proprietary model, architecture, and deployment information from production language models. LeakyLMs is the first to demonstrate that key model and deployment details can be inferred using only token generation timing, even when interacting through remote APIs. LeakyLMs introduces two core attacks. The first attack targets inference optimizations and deployment strategies. For example, our attack detects whether a provider uses speculative decoding, a widely deployed inference-time optimization, and further identifies the context length of the draft model used in the pipeline. Our measurements show that Google Gemini Flash 2.5 uses speculative decoding with a draft context window of approximately 128K tokens. The second attack recovers key architectural properties, including the number of transformer layers, hidden dimension size, and number of attention heads. To achieve this, LeakyLMs builds a detailed and accurate model of token-generation timing on modern NVIDIA GPUs, characterizing how latency scales with model configuration and hardware parameters. The attack then performs a search over the architecture space using this timing model. In experiments with Llama models, the near-correct architectural configuration appears in the top-10 guesses more than 90% of the time.
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@hynek@mastodon.socialto those who came to the #EuroPython Software Design and Architecture open space (and everyone else really): we mentioned the excellent book
Grokking Simplicity
and noticed that it's kinda pricey!
Conveniently, it's on sale right now: $34.64 for digital and $37.79 for print (shipped from EU).
I'm taking this opportunity to get it in print in addition to my …
@arXiv_qbioOT_bot@mastoxiv.pageHenTwin: A Multimodal Digital Twin Framework for Longitudinal Biological State Monitoring in Laying Hens
Yashan Dhaliwal, Shreya Rao, Suresh Neethirajan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28652 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28652 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.28652
arXiv:2607.28652v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Early-life monitoring in laying hens remains constrained by fragmented single-modality sensing and the absence of formal system-level state representations. HenTwin, a multimodal digital twin framework implemented as a five-layer IoT architecture, formalizes flock-level multimodal biological state dynamics from hatch through 25 weeks of age. A four-dimensional biological state vector integrating body surface temperature, acoustic energy entropy, band energy ratio, and optical-flow-based motion is defined, with the temperature-humidity index treated as an exogenous environmental input to preserve intervention capability. A discrete-time state transition model is estimated from 25 weeks of longitudinal multimodal data collected from 150 Lohmann LSL-Lite hens across five controlled rooms at the Atlantic Poultry Research Centre, Dalhousie University. The estimated transition matrix exhibits modality-specific persistence while remaining asymptotically stable. Perturbation analysis demonstrates that a sustained 2.0 THI increase produces a stable long-run acoustic entropy elevation of 0.54 nats, approximately one-quarter of the entire 1.87-nat developmental decline observed across the study period. Pettitt change-point detection identifies coordinated multimodal developmental state transitions at Weeks 12-14. Cross-room validation suggests that structural transition parameters are partially transferable across rooms, whereas environmental input sensitivity requires room-specific calibration, supporting a two-tier IoT deployment architecture. Leave-one-out cross-validation demonstrates consistent out-of-sample model performance. HenTwin takes a first step toward formal, state-aware digital twin inference in precision livestock farming.
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@usul@piaille.frIBM, avec son modèle « 0,7 nm », dévoile une nouvelle technologie qui augmente de 50 % la puissance des puces
https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2026/06/26/avec-son-…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialA Day Or Two At The Museum IV🏛️
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialElon Musk says SpaceX has decided to "build exclusively on Nvidia because we think the Vera Rubin architecture is the best architecture" (Shubhangi Goel/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-spacex-will-only-buy-from-nvidia-20…
@arXiv_hepth_bot@mastoxiv.pageA Tale of Two Compact Bosons
Christian Ferko, Vishnu Jejjala, Brandon Robinson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.06376 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.06376 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.06376
arXiv:2608.06376v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural network field theory (NN-FT) defines a field theory by a network architecture together with a probability density on its latent variables. For compact theories the local Gaussian sector is only part of the story: one must also sum over discrete topological sectors. We review a mixed continuous/discrete latent-variable construction and apply it to two compact bosons. For the Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless transition, a random Fourier feature spin-wave sampler supplemented by an explicit Coulomb gas vortex sector reproduces the Gaussian critical line below $T_c$, vortex proliferation above $T_c$, the essential singularity of the correlation length, and the Nelson--Kosterlitz jump. For the bosonic string, oscillator modes augmented by momentum--winding labels reproduce circle T-duality, Buscher transformations on constant toroidal backgrounds, self-dual current algebra enhancement, and a toy T-fold. The common lesson is that the same local neural sampler, paired with different discrete topological data, yields physically distinct compact theories. These proceedings are based on arXiv:2604.02313.
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@hikingdude@mastodon.social'Leuchtturm' #FotoVorschlag
From holidays at the baltic sea, a couple of years ago.
#photography #balticsea
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialRussia’s UAV Campaign Over Europe.
"Our key judgement is that Europe’s current counter-UAV architecture does not yet match the threat despite NATO, the European Union and national governments focusing more attention on the issue: detection is uneven, legal authorities are fragmented, response options are often disproportionate and attribution remains too slow to support timely deterrence."
@berlinbuzzwords@floss.socialFilip Makraduli's talk covered why hybrid retrieval requires multiple model types, the adapter architecture that makes multi-model serving possible, and building the pipeline end-to-end, tradeoffs, and lessons.
Watch the recap: #bbuzz
@stiefkind@mastodon.socialTIL about the TRON project, started 1984 in Japan as an architecture for real time operating systems, including a VLSI based CPU. It's some sort of ancestor for todays widely used RTOS real time operating system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project
IEEE Micro issue March/Apr…
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.place“If the same person keeps appearing in architecture debates, delivery risks, historical explanations, escalation paths, and cross-team translation, that is no longer just a compliment.
This is a system smell.”
I strongly resonate with this post!
There are bugs in our organization and processes that you can't discover in an IDE.
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.deDesign G suggests the most modern, banknote-looking front sides for the future #Euro banknotes. Though, I really don't like the corporate-like vector stock images on the backs.
Design B, on the other hand, features very clean and informative illustrations of the European institutions' buildings on the backs. Architecture and banknotes are a dream team. Though, I'm not a fan of th…
@stsquad@mastodon.org.ukI guess it is kind of nice that #LLMs are just as prone to getting confused by ambiguous wording in architecture specs as I am. I'm looking at you FEAT_FPRCVT.....
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialPositron, which is designing an AI processor called Asimov with a "memory-first architecture" and up to 2.3TB of memory, raised $875M at a $5B valuation (Robbie Whelan/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/positron-value
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🎯 Five diagram types: architecture, workflow, sequence, data flow and lifecycle, plus four visual presets, dark and light themes and finite motion
🔧 Architecture Delta compares two validated snapshots as Before / Delta / After with exact added, removed, changed, moved and rerouted facts for design and PR review
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageVisual-to-Haptic Augmentation in XR: A Wearable Glove for Perceptual Grounding in Multimodal Interaction
Faisal Mohd, Hamdi Elsaddik, Erhan Baturay Onural, Jihong Zhang, Fedwa Laamarti, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10368 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10368 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10368
arXiv:2608.10368v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Extended Reality (XR) systems increasingly deliver high-fidelity visual and auditory experiences, yet tactile perception remains comparatively underutilized as a modality for enriching embodied interaction. This work presents a visual-to-haptic wearable glove and a feature-based visual-to-haptic mapping algorithm that translates spatial and temporal visual features from images and videos into distributed vibrotactile patterns. The proposed method extracts motion, edge, and brightness cues and fuses them into actuator-level intensity maps aligned with a 29-actuator glove arranged in a five-by-seven layout.
The system is implemented through a modular four-layer architecture comprising the XR environment, media content handling, visual-to-haptic processing, and embedded haptic hardware. A within-subject user study (N = 20) compared visual-only interaction with visual-plus-haptic augmentation across texture-based and dynamic video scenarios. Results indicate that tactile augmentation significantly improves perceived realism in dynamic video scenarios and enhances immersion and visual-tactile correspondence across conditions, with stronger and more consistent effects observed for dynamic visual events.
While the current implementation operates in a single-user, offline-synchronized configuration, the findings demonstrate that vision-driven tactile augmentation can function as a perceptual enhancement layer within multimodal XR systems. Such a layer may provide a foundation for future socially enriched XR environments where coherent multisensory grounding supports higher-level interaction and communication.
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@fanf@mendeddrum.orgi’m enjoying alastair reid’s thoughts on designing a language for readability so that nonspecialist programmers can understand intel’s instruction set architecture specification https://intellabs.github.io/isa-tools/
@cdonat@hostsharing.coopThis week on #ProFed: I've documented the outward-facing architecture – ActivityPub extensions, federated search, and how other systems can integrate with ProFed.
This is aimed at developers of other projects who want to build on or cooperate with ProFed.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple unveils the 2nm A20 Pro, featuring a 6-core CPU with two "desktop class" super cores, a 7-core GPU up to 40% faster, and 32 Neural Engine cores in total (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/09/09/apple-unveils-a2…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toElon Musk's bandwidth argument for Neuralink has a problem: the brain itself https://glitchwire.com/news/elon-musks-bandwidth-argument-for-neuralink-has-a-problem-the-brain-itself/ The 10 bits per second problem (for decision m…
@arXiv_csAR_bot@mastoxiv.pageYAVIN: A Unified Architecture for Secure Edge Processing in Memory
Shouzhi Fang, William C. Tegge, Md Omar Faruque, Peipei Zhou, Endadul Hoque, Alex K. Jones
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.13496 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.13496 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.13496
arXiv:2608.13496v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Secure, private multi-tenant execution spanning processors, memory, and accelerators remains one of the most significant challenges in modern edge computing systems. Simultaneously, processing-in-memory (PIM) has emerged as an effective approach for reducing the Von Neumann bottleneck by moving computation closer to data. Existing trusted execution environments (TEEs) establish trust only within the processor, protecting data while it traverses untrusted resources such as the memory bus. Consequently, trusted computation cannot be performed directly within memory. We present YAVIN, a unified trusted computing base (TCB) that extends the TEE beyond the processor to encompass both processor execution and a dedicated memory region supporting trusted processing-in-memory execution while treating the memory bus as untrusted. Leveraging the dedicated protected memory regions already established by conventional TEE architectures, YAVIN enables data to be decrypted, processed, and re-encrypted by either processor or PIM execution while remaining within the TEE. To realize this unified TCB, YAVIN presents the first PIM implementations of the LightSaber KEM post-quantum cryptosystem and ASCON-128 authenticated encryption, co-designing both algorithms for efficient DRAM execution to establish and maintain shared cryptographic state. Finally, we demonstrate how cryptography-PIM co-design for tensor-based workloads reorganizes computation to satisfy the ordering constraints imposed by authenticated encryption with minimal performance overhead while simultaneously enabling bit-sliced ordering that limits temporary plaintext exposure. Compared to the latest PIM AES implementation, YAVIN achieves more than a 20x speedup while incurring only 34% and 9.3% overhead when executing INT8 and INT32 quantized edge-class LLMs, respectively, relative to plaintext execution.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialParis-based Arlequin AI, which is developing proprietary models based on topological neural networks, raised a €28M Series A co-led by redalpine and OTB (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2026/09/10/arlequin-ai-lands-eur28m-to-sca…
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.pageMazzikaAI: A knowledge-based performance-to-prompt compiler for real-time Arabic maqam accompaniment with a streaming text-to-music model
Jiaxin Du, Boulbaba Abdeljaouad, Yong Zhuang, Haoyu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10360 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10360 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10360
arXiv:2608.10360v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Arabic maqam music microtonal, modal, and built on ornamented call and response is among the traditions most underserved by generative music models, whose training frameworks remain predominantly Western and equaltempered. Real time accompaniment sharpens this gap: an AI partner must listen, adapt dynamically, and respect idiomatic microtonal structures. Streaming text to music models provide strong generative capabilities but lack precise control interfaces. We present MazzikaAI, a knowledge based system that uses natural language as the actuator of a realtime control loop. By compiling live MIDI, gesture, and inferred harmony into continuously updated text prompts, MazzikaAI steers an unmodified streaming generator, Google Lyria RealTime, without requiring model finetuning. The system embeds expert knowledge of six core maqamat, characteristic ornaments, and ensemble dynamics, maintaining realtime responsiveness with subsecond keytoaudibleupdate latency. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that dynamic prompt compilation reliably grounds generation in microtonal scales, significantly increasing offgrid quartertone content over baseline generation. Beyond its core implementation, MazzikaAI illustrates how deterministic knowledgebased rules can effectively bridge expert, nonWestern musical traditions and unfinetuned foundation models. This architecture establishes a scalable paradigm for realtime humanAI cocreation, offering a generalizable blueprint for interactive accompaniment, adaptive music education, and culturally inclusive generative audio across diverse global idioms.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-live
@cheryanne@aus.socialArts Incite - Ballarat Arts Alive
We talk to arts people about all things related to music, visual art, theatre, heritage, architecture, writing etc...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/arts-incite-ballarat-arts-alive…
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SCION EPIC: a path-aware clean-slate internet architecture.
https://blog.apnic.net/2020/11/25/epic-exploring-challenges-and-opportunities-in-next-generation-internet-architectures/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia details its Vera CPU, its first CPU with a custom core design, featuring 88 cores and 176 threads, and set for general availability in H2 2026 (Jake Roach/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-component…
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialArm EVP Mohamed Awad says its chip architecture now accounts for 50% of the hyperscale cloud computing market, as AI demand transforms the data center industry (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/editor-s-picks
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ARM64 popcount in Golang and assembler.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialSemiAnalysis: Nvidia delays its next-gen AI rack system Kyber NVL144 by 12 months to 2028 due to PCB manufacturing issues, and cancels its NVL72x2 architecture (Anniek Bao/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/06/nvidia-kyber-rack-system-d…
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialSamsung previews zHBM, which vertically stacks HBM atop AI accelerators, and zNAND-O, built on V-NAND, and unveils the industry's first V10 BV-NAND architecture (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@michabbb@social.vivaldi.net🛡️ That kills credential exfiltration via prompt injection: an agent cannot leak a secret it never held
🔌 Transparent integration through HTTPS_PROXY and a MITM architecture, so existing MCP servers, CLIs, SDKs and APIs keep working unchanged
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia says its general-purpose coding agent system AVO scored 100% across all 25 environments in the ARC-AGI-3 public set, completing all 183 levels (Terry Chen/NVIDIA Technical Blog)
https://developer.nv…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA look back at BitTorrent, launched by Bram Cohen 25 years ago, and how media piracy fueled its growth while its architecture shielded it from legal liability (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/959848/bittorrent-story-25-years-piracy
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialOxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised $35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA deep dive into Grok Bot, including its architecture, use cases, and alternatives, as xAI adds shareable bot templates and online purchases through Stripe Link (Flavio Copes)
https://flaviocopes.com/grok-bot/
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe Agentic AI Foundation updates MCP with a fully stateless architecture, a hardened authentication model, a formal 12-month deprecation policy, and more (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure/mcp-just-…
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple says M5 Ultra uses a quad-die 3nm architecture, "a first for Apple silicon", with inter-die bandwidth of 4.4TB/s and up to a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU (Steve Dent/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/2243405/apple-m5-ultra-with-80-core-gp…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a "nanostack" 3D transistor architecture, which it says can maintain chip innovation for 10 years (Don Clark/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/ibm-technology-tini…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIBM says it is developing a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE systems that can natively execute both IBM's z/OS workloads and Arm applications (Michael Nuñez/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/infrastructure
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNatural, which aims to help companies let their AI agents make autonomous payments, raised a $30M Series A led by Forerunner, bringing its total raised to $40M (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/natural-rai…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialCerebras unveils CS-4, a server rack powered by three WSE-3 Turbo chips and built around its new Nexus architecture, with first shipments starting this quarter (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cerebra
