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The A.I. Models Are Competing for Your Affection
Major A.I. companies are competing to give their models the most appealing personality.
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Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs
In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors...
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KDE Plasma 6.6 Finally Supporting Ambient Light Sensors, Fixing Windows Games With HDR
There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas...
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Bumpy Rollout for New Gates Meant to Stop Subway Fare Evasion
At a demonstration of devices designed to replace turnstiles, one rider got hit in the neck, and another sneaked through without paying.
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Smarter wallets choose this — Windows 11 Pro just $10
Get Windows 11 Pro for just $9.97 and upgrade your PC with a sleek interface, enhanced security, and powerful professional features — all with a one-time payment.
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LoongArch Promoted To Being An Official Architecture For Debian 14
Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports, it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for Debian Linux...
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DragonFlyBSD's VirtIO Block Driver Lands Multi-Queue Support
For helping with the I/O performance in virtualized environments, merged this week to the DragonFlyBSD development code is multi-queue support for its VirtIO block "virtio_blk" driver...
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Not too big, not too expensive: The Chevrolet Equinox EV
You get quite a lot of EV for the Equinox's sub-$35,000 starting price.
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Next-Generation License Plate Detection and Recognition System using YOLOv8
arXiv:2512.16826v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In the evolving landscape of traffic management and vehicle surveillance, efficient license plate detection and recognition are indispensable. Historically, many methodologies have tackled this challenge, but consistent real-time accuracy, especially …
Abstract: In the evolving landscape of traffic management and vehicle surveillance, efficient license plate detection and recognition are indispensable. Historically, many methodologies have tackled this challenge, but consistent real-time accuracy, especially …
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These Laser Beams Could Power Military Drones 5,000 Feet in the Air
The U.S. military-backed project is now on the way to integrated system testing, the company said.
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Using Gaussian Splats to Create High-Fidelity Facial Geometry and Texture
arXiv:2512.16397v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We leverage increasingly popular three-dimensional neural representations in order to construct a unified and consistent explanation of a collection of uncalibrated images of the human face. Our approach utilizes Gaussian Splatting, since it is more e…
Abstract: We leverage increasingly popular three-dimensional neural representations in order to construct a unified and consistent explanation of a collection of uncalibrated images of the human face. Our approach utilizes Gaussian Splatting, since it is more e…
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LOG.io: Unified Rollback Recovery and Data Lineage Capture for Distributed Data Pipelines
arXiv:2512.16038v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper introduces LOG.io, a comprehensive solution designed for correct rollback recovery and fine-grain data lineage capture in distributed data pipelines. It is tailored for serverless scalable architectures and uses a log-based rollback recover…
Abstract: This paper introduces LOG.io, a comprehensive solution designed for correct rollback recovery and fine-grain data lineage capture in distributed data pipelines. It is tailored for serverless scalable architectures and uses a log-based rollback recover…
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Get up to 78 percent off ExpressVPN two-year plans for the holidays
It looks like the holidays aren't a bad time to shop for a VPN subscription. ExpressVPN, Engadget's pick for the best premium provider, currently has a less premium price. This deal gives you two years of the Advanced plan (with a bonus of four free months) for only $101. When it isn't on sale, the …
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Samsung debuts world’s first two-nanometer mobile processor
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on late Thursday debuted the Exynos 2600, a high-end mobile chip based on its latest two-nanometer manufacturing technology. The most advanced smartphone processors on the market today use three-nanometer nodes. Compared to those processes, Samsung’s two-nanometer techno…
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