@cdarwin@c.imTrump Officials Plan To Drop Army's Preference For Blind Vendors
The decision was approved by Trump’s education secretary,
Linda McMahon,
the former professional wrestling CEO,
according to a notice.
The Education Department oversees what’s known as the "Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program",
which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.
An Education D…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSiFive will integrate Nvidia's NVLink Fusion infrastructure with its RISC-V processor IP platforms, allowing SiFive silicon to communicate with Nvidia GPUs (Marco Chiappetta/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/marcochiappet
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@gwire@mastodon.socialTerminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/hegseth-wants-to-integrate-musks-grok-ai-into-military-networks-this-month/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including embedding OpenAI's AI agents (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaAs far as I understand (granted, I don't understand that much, but...) there is a legitimate and actively debated position in philosophy of mind and cognitive science regarding ant colonies.
That is, colony-level cognition may be real, not metaphorical. Ant colonies:
- integrate information over time
- exhibit memory (via pheromone landscapes)
- solve optimisation problems
- adapt flexibly to novel conditions
- show something like attention (resource …
@seeingwithsound@mas.toGoogle's smart glasses software comes into focus via a new companion app leak https://chromeunboxed.com/googles-smart-glasses-software-comes-into-focus-via-a-new-companion-app-leak/ "there is a 'displayless mode' t…
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@tante@tldr.nettime.orgThe ecological impacts of "AI" are bad but if people only used it intentionally, they'd stay there. But with every provider, every search engine, every website firing up some chatbot or summarizer even when not asked it quickly turns from bad to monstrous. "Just integrate an LLM, see if people like it" is like leaving your ICE-powered SUV running because someone might enjoy some cool air inside.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNBCUniversal's Peacock plans to roll out Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos on live sports in 2026, saying it's the first streamer to use Dolby's full tech suite (Dade Hayes/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/01/peacock-dolby-picture-sound…
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toSo I hear #beatport has a streaming service. Great, I haven't perused Beatport in a few years, tho I used to purchase a shit ton of EDM from them.
Hurh. This streaming service is only to integrate with DJ software. Well THAT sucks. I was expecting to be able to stream say the current Top 100 dubstep tracks instead of what you can in the track browser which is listen to a 30 second snippe of e…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic expands Claude for Financial Services with a beta Claude for Excel integration, additional data connectors, and new pre-built Agent Skills (Webb Wright/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/claude-can-integrate-with-excel-now-plus-7-oth…
@brian_gettler@mas.toFor now, here's where I am on student LLM-use:
1) The contemporary university's primary social function is certification.
2) Prompting LLMs does not require a degree. For universities, this is existential.
3) Admin tell faculty - academic freedom! - that we alone (without any support) can solve the problem. We can integrate LLMs or track down their illicit use.
4) My job is to teach, not to police students or hawk the hype. So I teach those who want to learn and …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBoston Dynamics partners with Google DeepMind to integrate Gemini Robotics models into Atlas robots, boosting their object-manipulation capabilities and more (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/google-boston-dynamics-gemini-powered-robot-atlas/
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaOn the Raspberry Pi 5, the Raspberry Pi Foundation's decision to require 5v5a and essentially mandate the use of a quite nonstandard USB-C power supply to get the rated performance out of the system is fucking dumbassed to all hell and causes the device to be extremely inflexible in any application outside the most basic maker/dabbler shit. What if I want to integrate the Pi5 with a NAS? I have to put two overrides in config.txt, and then it still moans about undervoltage even when provi…
@a@paperbay.orgI’m looking at age for many times especially to replace OpenPGP. They did a new release and for encryption at rest, it’s indeed a good replacement.
But how to integrate it with email encryption ? They recently did a keyserver https://words.filippo.io/keyserver-tlog/ and releas…
@deltasig@mastodon.social@… The LernOS peer learning guidelines could be an example. There are several guidelines on how to acquire or improve skills that have been written and are maintained by people in their spare time. Making use of these guidelines is free for individuals and companies, and I‘ve seen companies integrate them into peer learning systems within their organisation.
@arXiv_mathOC_bot@mastoxiv.pageS-D-RSM: Stochastic Distributed Regularized Splitting Method for Large-Scale Convex Optimization Problems
Maoran Wang, Xingju Cai, Yongxin Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10133 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10133 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10133
arXiv:2511.10133v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper investigates the problems large-scale distributed composite convex optimization, with motivations from a broad range of applications, including multi-agent systems, federated learning, smart grids, wireless sensor networks, compressed sensing, and so on. Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) and its variants are commonly employed to solve such problems. However, existing algorithms often rely on vanishing step sizes, strong convexity assumptions, or entail substantial computational overhead to ensure convergence or obtain favorable complexity. To bridge the gap between theory and practice, we integrate consensus optimization and operator splitting techniques (see Problem Reformulation) to develop a novel stochastic splitting algorithm, termed the \emph{stochastic distributed regularized splitting method} (S-D-RSM). In practice, S-D-RSM performs parallel updates of proximal mappings and gradient information for only a randomly selected subset of agents at each iteration. By introducing regularization terms, it effectively mitigates consensus discrepancies among distributed nodes. In contrast to conventional stochastic methods, our theoretical analysis establishes that S-D-RSM achieves global convergence without requiring diminishing step sizes or strong convexity assumptions. Furthermore, it achieves an iteration complexity of $\mathcal{O}(1/\epsilon)$ with respect to both the objective function value and the consensus error. Numerical experiments show that S-D-RSM achieves up to 2--3$\times$ speedup compared to state-of-the-art baselines, while maintaining comparable or better accuracy. These results not only validate the algorithm's theoretical guarantees but also demonstrate its effectiveness in practical tasks such as compressed sensing and empirical risk minimization.
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@lil5@social.linux.pizzaAsk a SaaS product what backup solutions they use and if they store it at a different company, you get nothing, no reply.
#hanko #HankoAuth #SaaS
Please have faith in Bezos
Shame…
@cdarwin@c.imConsistent with the United States’ continued slide into an economy powered almost entirely by LLM slop, financialization, and ever-pervasive exploitative gambling,
“prediction market app” Kalshi “entered into an official partnership” with CNN this week
to bring their “data to CNN’s journalism across its television, digital and social channels.”
Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events
where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smart phones.
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@seeingwithsound@mas.toNeurons in auditory cortex integrate information within a constrained and context-invariant temporal window (in ferret auditory cortex) https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)01479-4 integration windows in human auditory cortex "range from a…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialKalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal (James Faris/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/kalshi-cnbc-deal-c…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGlobalFoundries agrees to acquire Synopsys' ARC processor IP business, which includes ARC-V (RISC-V) and ARC CPU IP, and integrate it into its MIPS business (Nitin Dahad/EE Times)
https://www.eetimes.com/globalfoundries-mips-to-buy-arc-ip-business-from-…
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageAllometric scaling of brain activity explained by avalanche criticality
Tiago S. A. N. Sim\~oes, Jos\'e S. Andrade Jr., Hans J. Herrmann, Stefano Zapperi, Lucilla de Arcangelis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10834 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.10834 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.10834
arXiv:2512.10834v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Allometric scaling laws, such as Kleiber's law for metabolic rate, highlight how efficiency emerges with size across living systems. The brain, with its characteristic sublinear scaling of activity, has long posed a puzzle: why do larger brains operate with disproportionately lower firing rates? Here we show that this economy of scale is a universal outcome of avalanche dynamics. We derive analytical scaling laws directly from avalanche statistics, establishing that any system governed by critical avalanches must exhibit sublinear activity-size relations. This theoretical prediction is then verified in integrate-and-fire neuronal networks at criticality and in classical self-organized criticality models, demonstrating that the effect is not model-specific but generic. The predicted exponents align with experimental observations across mammal species, bridging dynamical criticality with the allometry of brain metabolism. Our results reveal avalanche criticality as a fundamental mechanism underlying Kleiber-like scaling in the brain.
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@brichapman@mastodon.socialSolar panels and crops growing together? It's called agrivoltaics, and it just got a major boost.
DC-based Okovate acquired startup Fundusol to integrate Stanford & Carnegie Mellon tech that optimizes solar arrays for different crops using genetic algorithms. The goal: make solar farming economically viable for rural communities across the US.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAirbnb hires Meta executive Ahmad Al-Dahle, who led generative AI and the Llama team after working at Apple, as its CTO, as it aims to integrate AI in its app (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialRunware, which operates a developer tool platform that generates images, video, and audio in real-time, raised a $50M Series A, taking its total funding to $66M (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/11/runw
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.pageThe Third Visual Pathway for Social Perception
David Pitcher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09351 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.09351 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.09351
arXiv:2512.09351v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Influential models of primate visual cortex describe two functionally distinct pathways: a ventral pathway for object recognition and the dorsal pathway for spatial and action processing. However, recent human and non-human primate research suggests the existence of a third visual pathway projecting from early visual cortex through the motion-selective area V5/MT into the superior temporal sulcus (STS). Here we integrate anatomical, neuroimaging, and neuropsychological evidence demonstrating that this pathway specializes in processing dynamic social cues such as facial expressions, eye gaze, and body movements. This third pathway supports social perception by computing the actions and intentions of other people. These findings enhance our understanding of visual cortical organization and highlight the STS's critical role in social cognition, suggesting that visual processing encompasses a dedicated neural circuit for interpreting socially relevant motion and behavior.
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@brichapman@mastodon.socialThis week: Saudi Arabia completed the world's largest grid battery to stabilize power and integrate renewables. Egypt is building a 1 GW solar plant with 600 MWh storage. Communities in the DRC created a 1 million hectare biodiversity corridor.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle plans to integrate Nano Banana and Veo support into Gemini on Google TV, letting users generate AI videos and modify family photos, first on TCL TVs (Terrence O'Brien/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/854112/gemini-google-tv-nano-banana-veo-ces
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSnap reports Q3 revenue up 10% YoY to $1.51B vs. $1.49B est., DAUs up 8% to 477M vs. 476M est., and announces a $500M share buyback; SNAP jumps 23% after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/05/snap-q3-earnings-report-2025.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNvidia unveils BlueField-4 data processing unit, combining a 64-core Grace CPU and ConnectX-9 SuperNIC for 800 Gbps of network throughput, launching in 2026 (Dylan Martin/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/components-periph
