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Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, which it says delivers "enhanced performance" at a fraction of the cost of larger models and outperforms 2.5 Flash (The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-mo…

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite: Built for intelligence at scale
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is our fastest and most cost-efficient Gemini 3 series model yet.

Speicherkrise soll jetzt mit voller Wucht SSDs treffen
Die Preise für NAND-Flash-Chips könnten sich im ersten Quartal beinahe verdoppeln. Hersteller ändern die Spielregeln.
https://www.h…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Stereolab:
🎵 Flashes From Everywhere
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/flashes-from-everywhere
https://open.spotify.com/track/2Ka1B6X9XVRALtz8HChHGN

Trump describes Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer whose 2024 Paris Olympics match became a flashpoint in the transgender athlete debate, as a man who transitioned to womanhood.
-- She was not.
Khelif is a woman who was assigned female at birth. The entire anecdote, used to justify policy, rests on a lie.
Similarly, Trump claims that Somali-Americans in Minnesota have 94% unemployment.
-- The actual labor force participation rate for that community is approximately 70% …

from my link log —
The real cost of random I/O in PostgreSQL.
https://vondra.me/posts/the-real-cost-of-random-io/
saved 2026-03-02 https://…

Introducing the kiddo to optical spectroscopy

Donald the Dove* - by Eoin Higgins - The Flashpoint #hypocrisy #war

Donald the Dove*
Who could have seen this coming?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Stereolab:
🎵 Flashes in the Afternoon
#Stereolab
https://stereolab.bandcamp.com/track/flashes-in-the-afternoon
https://open.spotify.com/track/7gPnOSaYRgpoSkAAIQWix9

In 1991 the Fly’s Eye detector,
which monitored the sky for the glow caused by energetic particles slamming into our atmosphere,
detected a flash so huge it defied belief:
the cosmic ray that sparked it had an energy of 320 quintillion eV,
or 320 billion GeV.
That’s millions of times the kinetic energy of protons we can spin up in our most powerful particle accelerators.
It’s so energetic, in fact, that it actually has a decent macroscopic equivalent:

Where did the ‘Oh-My-God’ particle come from?
A single subatomic particle from deep space had the same energy as a baseball pitch, and scientists still don’t know how it got here

Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID (Valeria Wu/The Keyword)
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-…

Gemini 3.1 Flash Live: Making audio AI more natural and reliable
Gemini 3.1 Flash Live is now available across Google products.