@Techmeme@techhub.socialEdison, which last month released AI tool Kosmos to speed up and automate complex scientific hypothesis generation, raised $70M at a $250M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-…
@cdarwin@c.imA HIGH-SPEED TRAIN
derailed in southern Spain on Sunday,
jumping on to the track in the opposite direction and hitting an oncoming train,
the Spanish rail operator Adif said.
Emergency services said the collision killed at least 10 people and injured dozens more.
The evening train between Malaga and Madrid derailed and hit a train coming from Madrid to Huelva, another southern Spanish city, according to Adif.
Earlier, emergency services in Andalucia, the pro…
@cdamian@rls.socialI am not sure what aerodynamic rail supports are, but they sound fancy.
"Spain to cut Barcelona-Madrid high-speed train journey to 'under two hours'
Transport minister announces aerodynamic upgrades will enable top speed of 350 km/h"
https://www.
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeHuman-centered identity systems were never designed for the coming wave of autonomous AI agents. With identity failures the leading cause of most major cyber incidents, CISOs must quickly rethink how to account for the identities of new AI agents.
Check out my latest CSO piece.
Many thanks to Jim Alkove of Oleria, Ric Smith of Okta, Steve Stone of SentinelOne, Pete Clay of Aireon, Vijay Gajjala of Oleria, Carey Frey of TELUS, and Ely Kahn of SentinelOne.
Rethinking identit…
@penguin42@mastodon.org.ukContinuing in the process of measuring the speed of my turntable in the oddest way; here is the FFT before and after oiling & replacing it's belt. Hmm, it's clearly a bit fast before and a bit slow after; it's not got any speed adjustment mechanism, it's a belt on an AC driven motor.
This FFT and plot was done using #labplot using the waveforms gathered by
@LaChasseuse@mastodon.scotThe EU is considering a two-step EU membership for Ukraine.
The first step/level would allow Ukraine to gain access to the EU market, subsidies, and development funds.
Not everyone is keen on the idea though:
https://unn.ua/en/news/eu-de…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Setting Up a Raspberry Pi 3 Off-grid Server (2018) - RPi3B upgrade for more speed and space... #frugal #offGrid - https://www.
@servelan@newsie.socialTrump administration urges dismissal of California high-speed rail lawsuit | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/trump-administration-urges-dismissal-of-california-high-speed-rail-lawsuit/
@shriramk@mastodon.socialTwice as many people die in car accidents *every day*.
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangePCIe any% speedrun, day 6: Almost at minimum-viable-baseline-happy-path status!
It's still 2.5 GT/s only, I haven't implemented up-negotiation to 5 GT/s speed yet (or tested that on the SoC side for that matter).
Configuration reads and writes work; they're translated to APB bus transactions and bridged to an APB register block that reports a bunch of hard coded default values and lets you change a few things like BARs.
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@burger_jaap@mastodon.socialA good example of how governments can make the roll-out of public charging infrastructure faster and cheaper: by integrating permission for construction work into an existing digital platform for road works.
https://www.independent.co.uk/cars/electri
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAmazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/amazon-prime-video-ai-video-…
@markhburton@mstdn.socialA terrible rail tragedy near Cordoba. At least 39 dead.
We won't know the causes for weeks yet. However, it's a reminder that all risks do increase with speed. The derailment of the first train, into the path of the second, seems to have happened very shortly before arrival of the second, with no time for even the most sophisticated system to stop it.
@UP8@mastodon.social🚔 Crown Vics With 10-Speed Swaps? This Shop Says It’s the Future
https://www.thedrive.com/news/crown-vics-with-10-speed-swaps-this-shop-says-its-the-future
@june_thalia_michael@literatur.social#EroticMusings 25: Does your erotica ever explore chronic or terminal health?
I plan to write a short series focused on that topic - Namalenia is suffering from a progressing illness that picks up speed as she ages and Rhaise is suffering from a chronical condition after literally falling off an airship, almost drowning and barely surviving the ordeal. They meet on the island where …
@kubikpixel@chaos.socialThese are three arguments for web dev serv. APIs, even if you have to take a critical look at them in detail:
»Speed Comparison: Benchmarking programming languages using the Leibniz formula for calculating π«
— 2025-12-12
📊 https://niklas-heer.github.io/speed-comparison/…
@jerome@jasette.facil.servicesUp to 25 trains per day planned for Toronto to Quebec high-speed rail
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/up-to-25-trains-per-day-planned-for-toronto-to-quebec-high-speed-rai…
@compfu@mograph.socialRE: https://mograph.social/@thevfxfeed/115922513913743456
That press release is full of insults.
One license model supposedly helps them speed up development? B*llshit, the RLM server takes care of that, nothing to do with the main app.
The who…
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialIsto é engraçado.
Aparentemente nós, os lusófonos, lemos a uma velocidade média de 181 palavras por minuto.
(mas é provšvel que quem lê regularmente tenha uma velocidade de leitura superior a isto... duvido que chegue Šs 200, mas provavelmente chegarš Šs 190)
https://irisreading.com/average…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026 NFL head coach hiring cycle: 24 young candidates to know https://www.nfl.com/news/2026-nfl-head-coach-hiring-cycle-24-young-candidates-to-know
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGemini 3 Flash is priced at $0.50 per 1M input tokens and $3 per 1M output tokens, compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash's $0.30 per 1M input and $2.5 per 1M output (Tulsee Doshi/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/products/gemini/gemini-3-flash/
@jamesthebard@social.linux.pizzaIn my new award-winning series called "Things My Homelab Minirack Needs": #homelab
@cdarwin@c.imNew radio observations show that a supermassive black hole shot out plasma jets at a large fraction of the speed of light,
paused for 100 million years,
then roared back to life.
https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-h…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io"...detailed how the company would use AI to speed up licensing. In [Microsoft’s] conception, existing nuclear licensing documents and data about nuclear sites data would be used to train an LLM that’s then used to generate documents to speed up the process."
JESUS MOTHERFUCKING CHRIST
https://www.404media.co/power-companies-are-using-ai-to-build-nuclear-power-plants/
@stefan@gardenstate.socialfinally looked it up and
shift >
is how to increase the video speed on youtube. why i wait so long to look this up? the UI can be so slow!
#youtube
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioSeeing the discussion, I’d like to clarify:
This post is not a statement on #nuclear energy. I was responding to the specific article that I shared, where @… reported that tech companies are “using AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.”
My point is - cutting corners and trying to “speed up” the construction or operation of nuclear power plants can have CATASTROPHIC effects.
Chernobyl was a disaster of mismanagement, cost cutting, and insufficient safety procedures.
I do not trust AI, a technology that is notoriously probabilistic and inconsistent in outputs (and with famously high error rates) to be reliable and competent for a use case where the risks are this high.
I also do not support the mindset of wanting to “speed up” ANY regulatory processes and safety checks when it comes to constructing nuclear power infrastructure.
Licensing is not a “bottleneck” here. It’s a safety prerogative.
(Thanks @… for bringing this to my attention!)
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy @Techmeme@techhub.socialAmazon launches a Video Recaps feature on Prime Video that uses AI to summarize a show's key plot points with snippets and music, available in beta for US users (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/amazon-prime-video-ai-video-…
@stiefkind@mastodon.social»Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.«
What could possibly go wrong. Trust me, I'm an engineer. 🤦
Full story over at @…:
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioSome of the little things that don’t make the news really get under my skin.
ICE agents blow through stop signs, speed, drive recklessly.
They take off their license plates (illegally), cover their license plates (illegally), •swap• license plates (illegally). We’ve seen the same vehicle show up with different plates on different days There are photos circulating of the •same• license plate number on multiple ICE vehicles side by side.
@krone@frawas.deIn St. Moritz - Duell mit Vonn: Shiffrin gibt ihr Speed-Comeback #News #Nachrichten
@mxp@mastodon.acm.orgSurprise find on the bottom of my box of audio cables. I’ve probably never used it… I don’t have any #MIDI devices around, but it’s still recognized by macOS, so I guess it works, even though the package says it requires a “PowerPC G3 CPU with 233 MHz or higher clock speed.”
#retrocomputing
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI wonder how feasible it would be to make a wearable version of something like this for the back of your bike or a backpack...
Maybe just the "Your Speed" part of it (or the "Speed Limit" could be done digitally).
Imagine passing someone on a bike and they show you the actual speed limit along with your speed.
Crazy idea or not? Possible? (I think so.)
#bikeTooter
@hex@kolektiva.socialThere's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr
@robpike@hachyderm.ioMany years ago I was working with a friend to find a bug in a Makefile generator. We had a megabyte or so of Makefile we needed to examine. He was an emacs user. It took him minutes just to open the file. I was using sam. It took about a second for sam to load, and I found the problem before he'd even finished loading the file.
The speed of tools matters, and big files are common nowadays. Things should stay fast as their workload grows. That goes double for interactive tools.
By the way, it still takes me 30 seconds to log in to my bank. I wonder how long it will take when it's an LLM-generated landing page.
https://phanpy.social/#/hachyderm.io/s/115891592999188880
@Stomata@social.linux.pizzaRun DNS speed tests and compare different DNS resolvers in your browser.
https://codeberg.org/Stomata/DNSspeedtest
Forked from:https://
@aardrian@toot.cafeUnimpressed with the Verizon FiOS service in the new house so far.
My highest download this week has been 92.67 Mbps and my highest upload 34.73.
This is _after_ Verizon rebooted the router and said it all be better.
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Eminem feat. Dido:
🎵 Stan
#NowPlaying #Eminem #Dido
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI'm finally trying printing with Spiderflex (77-82A shore) filament. The print speeds remind me of my first 3d printer. Two tiny parts totaling under 3g took about an hour, printing with a maximum speed of 10mm/s. But having really flexible TPE is really handy; there's really no reasonable alternative!
Now I have new feet for my KX3, and honestly they might be better than the originals (sorry Elecraft!) They are at least as grippy on the table surface, and they are a closer fit on the …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comUnder Trump, the Law Is Just a Speed Bump (The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/under-trump-the-law-is-just-a-speed-bump-drug-boat-strikes-war-powers-ice
http://www.memeorandum.com/251103/p45#a251103p45
@BootsChantilly@mstdn.socialLast night, I dreamed my bestie & I were in a 747, on our way to London. But the 747 wasn’t flying. It was being driven down USA interstates. At taxiing speed. & cars were piled up behind us as far as the eye could see.
I don’t know how they were planning to taxi us across the Atlantic. #Dreams
@mela@zusammenkunft.netImagine, you and three changeling companions, driving a sensible sedan during a race against two other teams: one driving a hot rod, the third one driving mum's lame minivan.
Your task is to collect one food item each from 10 diners all over New Jersey.
Easy?
Well, your driver refuses to speed even one mph over the speed limit and almost kidnaps 'accidentally' a very annoying changeling that was needlessly getting into your team's way.
1/3
@benb@osintua.eu🤯 45 km in FOUR years – THE REAL SPEED of PUTIN'S ARMY'S advance #shorts: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/12/km-in-four-years-the.html
@almad@fosstodon.orgThis fits my theory that enthusiasm for LLMs is proportional to how far are people from undestanding how it works (few researcher exceptions notwithstanding)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/22/ai-workers-tell-family-stay-away
@catsalad@infosec.exchangeI've seen many posts about headmates and plural personalities on fedi, and I get it, but my personal experience is dozens of identical Cats (me) all talking at the same time.
Maybe it's just my ADHD, but for me it's like being possessed by yourself (if that makes sense). Brain is always going 200% speed just not always in the direction I want. 😹
@jensilber@mastodon.social"Because professional, well-trained law enforcement officers do not roll up to a woman in her car, hide their identities, crowd her vehicle, and execute her in broad daylight. But ICE did and does.
And this administration keeps trying to get us to forget that."
https://heatherdelaneyre…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 11 - Gambit
CROUPIER: Come on, my friends. Gather round. You are about to witness the most important spectacle in the history of sport.
KRANTOR: Friends and patrons! We have here a young trekker as you can see. His name is ... [Consults with the man] Thrills. And he is challenging the mighty Klute at speed chess. Your applause for his courage, please. [He leads Thrills to the speed chess table.]
@adulau@infosec.exchange"WHILL Model C2 Electric Wheelchairs and Model F Power Chairs do not enforce authentication for Bluetooth connections. An attacker within range can pair with the device and issue movement commands, override speed restrictions, and manipulate configuration profiles without any credentials or user interaction."
No comments...
🔗 https://<…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders' Brock Bowers returns to full speed, ready to produce against Jaguars https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/raiders-brock-bowers-returns-to-full-speed-ready-to-produce-against-jaguars
@mlawton@mstdn.socialIt feels to me like that’s Mo’s last game. The way players were trying to feed him for the fairytale ending?
His vision is still elite, but his speed is gone (Dunk beat him in a dead sprint from that lovely Mac Allister ball into space) and his passing and shooting accuracy have diminished as well.
I will always love what he did for #LFC, his class (gracefully weighing his miscalculation la…
@UP8@mastodon.social⚡ Team develops high-speed, ultra-low-power superconductive neuron device
#electronics
@stefan@gardenstate.socialYou watched the clips
I watched the full video at 2x speed
we are not the same.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caTIL both Algeria and Morroco have modern passenger rail services including growing High Speed services.... but the land border between them has been closed since 1994, so the systems don't touch :(
One day! 🤞
Algeria system is SNTF, Morroco: ONCF
Easiest English info is through https://www.seat61.com/Algeria.htm
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzDallas Cowboys rookie LB shows off incredible speed during win over Commanders https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/news/dallas-cowboys-rookie-lb-shows-off-incredible-speed-during-win-over-commanders
@brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.orgWhy SUV when you can LSV? (Low Speed Vehicles)
25mph max car! street legal in San Francisco.
Can drive on almost all roads in the city.
This one is not that great, imho (but try it at gocar). I want to see more LSVs. Amsterdam has many, and many types.
all roads w/ 35mph limits or less are ok, almost all roads in SF. Here are all limits on all roads in SF:
@whitequark@mastodon.socialrigol pros: fully functional, native-speed remote desktop (scopetop?) in the browser
rigol cons: whatever the fuck this shit is
@Billybobbell@twit.socialTruly Bloomberg is an absolutely worthless "news" organization. Blather combined with boosterism and blighted nothing. #bloomberg is a useless news source.
Tech Tumbles as Wall Street Rotation Gains Speed: Markets Wrap
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzAnalyses of the Ancient Chinese Report on the Total #SolarEclipse in 709 BCE - Implications for the Contemporaneous Earth’s Rotation Speed and Solar Cycles: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae0461 -> Humanity’s earliest datable record for a total solar eclipse allows scientists to derive accurate measurements of Earth’s ancient rotation speed and provides independent validation of solar cycle reconstruction in the 8th century BCE: https://en.nagoya-u.ac.jp/news/articles/historical-geography-helps-researchers-solve-2700-year-old-eclipse-mystery/
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgwow, the speed record for the fastest quadcopter is now over 650 km/h
https://youtu.be/wRZs6JOvZ2U
it’s the fastest electric aircraft of any kind
and their prop tips are getting uncomfortably close to the speed of sound
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeJust kinda thinking out loud here, don't have a solution or architecture in mind: I really want a better solution for high speed FPGA / ASIC protocol design and debug.
In particular:
1) Using scopehal protocol captures as stimuli for a virtual DUT (i.e. decoded 8b10b of PCIe or something into RTL simulator, pretending to be a SERDES)
@tschundler@leds.socialI decided to be properly cyberpunk, my bar for Neotropolis needs exhaust fans on the outside. To be cinematic, the fan should turn pointlessly slow.
I bought a fan with a speed controller. It seem to use 5V PWM. Sending my own PWM, ~8% is the lowest speed. Below that it shuts off. But I want slower still.
I'm surprised this isn't a brushed DC motor or universal motor - it uses a BLDC motor.
I suspect the easiest route will be replacing with a
@floheinstein@chaos.socialDo you want to go to #disobey2025 ?
Tickets were sold out in record time. But do not worry! They have a bunch of tickets they will be selling via a raffle – so this will not be a speed contest. The raffle is open until December 15th 23:59 Finn time (UTC 2).
Check the raffle out here:
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAmerican Airlines partners with AT&T to add free, high-speed satellite-based Wi-Fi across its entire fleet, with a target spring 2026 completion date (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/855838/american-airlines-free-att-wifi-speed…
@primonatura@mstdn.social"Millions of hectares are still being cut down every year. How can we protect global forests?"
#Environment #Trees #Environment
@jamie@boothcomputing.socialAttention! Attention!
We have snow in GA. All residents please proceed to drive your vehicles at top speed and buy as much bread and milk as you can. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!
#SnowInGA
@StephenRees@mas.toNow coming to you through fibre optics! Telus turned up today - early - and got done in about an hour. Upload speed will now be very fast indeed!
171.9
Mbps download
169.1
Mbps upload
@markhburton@mstdn.socialHS2: "at least £100bn will be spent but only 135 miles of railway built."
That's double the original cost for the Y shaped lines to Manchester and Leeds.
New Birmingham-Manchester rail link to be proposed - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75xrwlw5n2o
@cdamian@rls.social"Speed cameras lead to 31% reduction in traffic accidents with injuries or deaths on Catalan roads"
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/speed-cameras-lead-to-31-reduction-…
@UP8@mastodon.social🐭 High-speed imaging tracks live brain cell activity in awake mice
#brain
@mlawton@mstdn.socialJones and Gravenberch, playing not necessarily as double pivots, but certainly playing as a reserved tandem… that’s working. Both having a good game (Jones has been incredible all season!)
Wirtz looks like he’s really figured out the speed of the league. Ascendant, these last several games. I’ve been trying to figure out his movement. He’s everywhere, similar to Jones in the back.
#LFC
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyOn Setting Up a Raspberry Pi 3 Off-grid Server (2018) - RPi3B upgrade for more speed and space... #frugal #offGrid - https://www.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Navy and Palantir announce ShipOS, saying the software will speed up shipbuilding and improve supply chain visibility; the deal is valued at $448M (Colin Demarest/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/09/navy-phelan-palantir-karp-shipos
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Bad Colours feat. KAS:
🎵 Speed
#BadColours #KAS
https://badcolours.bandcamp.com/track/speed-ft-kas
https://open.spotify.com/track/5MdJrn5OaII80Ctlijv2ke
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI'm a fan of holding people (and companies) accountable so today when a company truck sped around me when I dared to actually drive within the speed limit I made a point to contact the company and complain.
Sure, there's a chance nothing will happen but it won't stop me from trying. If I see bad behavior I will call it out.
@cdarwin@c.imWith astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society.
And as you know: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Eminem feat. Dido:
🎵 Stan
#NowPlaying #Eminem #Dido
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeIn keeping with a brief return to my telecom/cable/satellite/media analysis roots, my latest piece commissioned by TechTarget takes a look at how AI is being integrated into 5G, mostly to push more compute power down to more devices.
Many thanks to Scott Lawrence of Verizon Business, Joe Madden of Mobile Experts, and the utterly delightful Ray Liu of Origin AI for their insights.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAbout 60% of the Reuters newsroom uses AI tools, including one that suggests what to cover based on press releases and another that creates first drafts (Sara Guaglione/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/media/inside-reuters-agentic-ai-video-experiment/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUK satellite company Open Cosmos wins a highly contested Ka-band spectrum license, used for high-speed internet, beating companies backed by Peter Thiel (Josh Gabert-Doyon/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8262dff8-38da-4230-855d-9b7da1bc1c36
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caEgypt is building three lines of high speed railways over 2000km. Meanwhile, in Canada, we are still ‘thinking' about building our first 1000km line. Maybe. If we talk nice to the rail tycoons.
#Rail #Canada #CanPoli #CdnPoli
https://www.cnn.com/travel/egypt-high-speed-rail-siemens-velaro-desiro-trains-spc
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
VILA: Breaking into transport museums. When the Federation banned all leisure transport, they went in for stealing anything on wheels or could fly. They were speed crazy, and I do mean crazy.
AVON: Speed is the key. Find the Space Rats and we find Dr. Plaxton. That's exactly what we're going to do.
https://<…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzIf Tom Brady and the Raiders want to end the losing, call Mike Tomlin https://raiderramble.com/2026/01/13/if-tom-brady-and-the-raiders-want-to-end-the-losing-call-mike-tomlin/
@UP8@mastodon.social⛳ Novel textile can adjust its aerodynamic properties on demand
#fabric
@mlawton@mstdn.social @cdarwin@c.imThe biggest surprise of Donald Trump’s first year back in office is 🆘 how quickly America’s institutions capitulated to
“the bully”,
said Michael Steele, a former chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) turned arch critic.
But with the midterm elections for Congress looming, Steele predicts a resounding Democratic victory
amid a hunger among voters to hold the president and his allies accountable for threatening democracy.
Steele, 67, was the first Blac…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialNew York City has imposed a 15mph speed limit on ebikes.
I'm not worried though, because where I live I bike on a street with a 25mph speed limit and cars routinely go 30mph or faster.
I know this because I bike on the road at 25mph and cars go flying past me.
So if they don't enforce it for cars are they really gonna enforce it for bikes?
@azonenberg@ioc.exchangeCan somebody explain why MLC/TLC/QLC flash is apparently slower to write than SLC?
it seems to me that if you're PAM4/PAM8/PAM16-ing the same amount of data across less bitcells you should get *higher* write speed. Why is MLC not double the write throughput of SLC?
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Yasiin Bey:
🎵 Speed Law
#YasiinBey
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMaryland will use Claude across its agencies to help residents apply for food aid, Medicaid, and more, and deploy Percepta tools to speed up housing permits (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/13/maryland-ai-housing-government-benefits
@cdarwin@c.imOne of the many nightmare scenarios facing us is that
a badly led and mostly destroyed intelligence infrastructure
fails to prevent a major terrorist attack
and that attack is then used as justification to speed up the fascism.
-- Ken White
https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
London:
🎵 Speed Speed
#London
https://speedymanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/london-road-ep
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI says GPT‑5.2 Thinking beats or ties industry professionals on 70.9% of GDPval knowledge work tasks, delivering outputs at >11x the speed and <1% the cost (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMedra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, raised $52M led by Human Capital, taking its total funding to $63M (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-11/…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSources: CEO Sam Altman said OpenAI plans to end "code red" after releasing a model in January 2026 with improved image generation, speed, and personality (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-sam-alt
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US FDA qualifies the first AI drug development tool, AIM-NASH, to help doctors assess a severe form of fatty liver disease in drug trials (Sahil Pandey/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcar
@Techmeme@techhub.socialResearchers used AI to design functional antibodies from scratch, suggesting that AI tools could speed up antibody discovery without the need for animal testing (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/328a3211-6f2f-471e-b7bd-eb3c1a768f1c
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle debuts Titans, an architecture combining RNN speed with transformer performance for real-time learning, able to scale effectively to a 2M context window (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/titans-miras-helping-ai-have-long-term-memory/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialApple MacBook Pro 14 (M5) review: feels the same as M4 with a speed upgrade and still good value for money with great battery life, but only a modest update (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/803349/apple-macbook-pro-14-m5-2025-review…
