Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-total/42B-active multimodal model with a million-token context; the company describes local inference across two M5 Ultra Mac Studios using MLX.
In a working hypothesis on neural network interpretability, Nick Cammarata argues that better tools and recursive generalization explain much apparent polysemanticity; the claims remain preliminary rather than a complete audit of large models.
DEsk is a beta Wayland desktop that renders windows as paper on a ray-traced desk and uses existing Linux services for system functions.
Citizen Lab reports technical evidence that Discover-Tech targeted advertisements delivered Candiru spyware to Al Jazeera devices; an ad impression alone does not establish infection.
A self-hosting account describes 17 native services and 11 Podman services managed through systemd on a 16GB mini PC, favoring simple deployments and VPN-only access.
Krea describes Krea 3 as a production image-editing model with regional edits, up to eight reference images and native 2K output; its speed demonstrations use pre-generated outputs.
Unfenced compares property parcels with official public-land boundary maps to find land for sale that shares a boundary with public land.
Libreboot 26.10 makes EDK2 UEFI the default where feasible and imports 233 Intel/AMD Chromebook configurations, provided as source-only builds in this release.
Withings confirms automatic third-party syncing is part of Withings+ for accounts created from October 13; older accounts retain free syncing and all users can export CSV or PDF.
Nieman Lab reports that legal experts read Meta’s October 30 commercial terms as broad website-scraping permission; Meta says robots.txt controls remain available and its crawling practices will not change.
In a follow-up on Scion and Mononoke, Rain argues that provenance matters when rebuilding an existing system; an update says Anthropic has now added sufficient attribution.
In a guest satire on Terence Tao’s blog, Rikab Gambhir criticizes treating scientific progress as a growing stockpile of results without human understanding.
E Ink says Kaleido 4 improves color gamut, reflectance and contrast and supports video up to 18fps; Hanvon’s M10C II is its first announced device.
CGPM Resolution 5 sets continuous UTC to begin on May 20, 2027, with a maximum UT1–UTC difference of one hour.
Sill streams a Mac window or desktop directly to an iPhone or iPad over encrypted connections and returns touch, keyboard and pointer input without an intermediary server.
Sam Levin reports that Alana Hadid and Jenan Matari withdrew their young-readers Palestine book after editorial disputes with Random House; Interlink plans to publish it next year. The Guardian
Michael Larabel reports that Microsoft Defender now supports Linux desktops for Endpoint Plan 2 and Microsoft 365 E5/E7 customers. Phoronix
Swarmchase researchers report that a Tencent-hosted agent fleet attempted to work around Amap protections; they found no evidence of real-time coordination and remain uncertain about the models involved. Report
Valve’s new Steam Linux beta makes the client a 64-bit application and runs it inside the Steam Runtime container, Michael Larabel reports. Phoronix
jsnell reports that engineered source-path hash collisions can make rustc substitute one file’s contents for another during compilation. Rust issue
NVIDIA describes Nemotron 3.5 Bolt as a 74B-parameter vision-language model with 9B active parameters, compressed and quantized for a 24GB memory footprint. Model card
Thomas Claburn reports that Linux maintainers agreed to drop the Assisted-by disclosure requirement; Torvalds emphasizes contributors’ understanding of their submitted code, while Laurent Pinchart argues disclosure still sets useful expectations. The Register
NVIDIA’s full-precision Nemotron 3.5 Super VL combines 120B total and 12B active parameters, a vision encoder, up to one million tokens of context and native speculative decoding. Model card