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BaldWhisper: Faster Whisper with Head Shearing and Layer Merging
Yaya Sy, Christophe Cerisara, Irina Illina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08599 https://arxiv.…

BaldWhisper: Faster Whisper with Head Shearing and Layer Merging
Pruning large pre-trained transformers for low-resource languages is challenging, as it often requires massive retraining data to recover performance. For instance, Distill-Whisper prunes Whisper by 40% and retrains on 21,000 hours of speech, far beyond what is available for most languages. Can Whisper be made lighter and faster for edge devices in data-scarce settings? Focusing on Bambara with only 32h of speech-to-text data, we propose a new pruning recipe. Instead of vocabulary pruning, whic…

Rule #1 of movies:
"Never kill the dog."
Corellary:
"...unless it underpins the main character's motivation. See '#JOHNWICK'."
Dunno how many times I've been in a theater & when the dog is in jeopardy, the people sitting next to me whisper, 'oh no no no... don't you dare f'ing do it..."

Recently, during a TTRPG session:
Rebekah, the Galliard: *happens to be with part of her pack in the Umbra, tries to pick-lock an umbral door*
Door: *is picked*
Door: *relocks itself*
Rebekah: *stares*
Rebekah: *leans against the door, whispers* "Hey, nice door …"
Over the voice chat: *audible sputtering*
Storyteller: "Not while I'm drinking!"

The Australian Ghost Whisperer
Explores the paranormal like never before with spine-chilling true stories, visits to haunted locations, fascinating interviews and mind-blowing insight...
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Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11194
Super interesting work 😍
> "an attacker could extract private information such as the online and activity status of a victim, e.g., screen on/off. More…

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
With over 3 billion users globally, mobile instant messaging apps have become indispensable for both personal and professional communication. Besides plain messaging, many services implement additional features such as delivery and read receipts informing a user when a message has successfully reached its target. This paper highlights that delivery receipts can pose significant privacy risks to users. We use specifically crafted messages that trigger delivery receipts allowing any user to be pi…

The thing that Renee Good now knows, that Tortuguita knows, that Heather Heyer knows, that I only know because I glimpsed for a second, is that when you die fighting oppression you live forever in that memory of resistance. When we carve their names into a monument, along with all the other names of the murdered and disappeared, that will stand, perhaps, across from the statue of Willem in the park where the Northwest Detention Center once stood, they will always be reminders of what it looks like to sacrifice everything in order to be on the right side of history.
The names of those who resist live as ghosts, summoned by name to haunt future oppressors, summoned by name to awaken our own conscience to the call. Martyrs, whispered like the White Rose or yelled as a threat like John Brown, cannot die so long as any of us with a bit of spine carries even an ounce of humanity.
It is possible to die knowing you did the right thing, and I have felt it. There is an acceptance that is impossible to imagine without being there, without feeling it for yourself. You have nothing to fear in resisting, even if it ends you. But you will never forget the shame of doing nothing if you fail to.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #RoundMidnight
Jim Perkins:
🎵 Whispers (solo piano version)
#JimPerkins
https://open.spotify.com/track/2iGxG31v5tZsJfvUd1yKXJ

Sandbar introduces Stream Ring, an AI-powered smart ring for transcribing audio notes into text via an app, preorder now from $249 and shipping in summer 2026 (Julian Chokkattu/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/sandbar-stream-smart-ring/

Whisper Into This AI-Powered Smart Ring to Organize Your Thoughts
A new company called Sandbar has unveiled a smart wearable called Stream Ring, which uses a microphone to record your softly spoken thoughts. And it’s powered by—you guessed it—an AI chatbot.

Tonight I woke up from a noise in the living room - I thought it sounded like the creepy whisper of a little girl 😱
It took me a few moments until I realised that the dog was snoring! 😴 #dogsofmastodon

Or one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11

Tatiana Mikhaleva (@DevOpsPink@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Proton rolled out Proton Sheets - a spreadsheet Google can’t peek into. Gemini: “Show me your data?” You: “No.” Sheets: also no, but in Swiss.🇨🇭🔐 End-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge, even file names get the Swiss-bank treatment. You open a spreadsheet - Big Tech immediately cries. Somewhere in California, an AI whispers: “But… my training data…” Privacy 1 : 0 AI https://proton.me/blog/sheets-proton-drive #Proton #Privacy #Encryption #CyberSe…