Random lasers from peanut kernel doped with birch leaf–derived carbon dots
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Slicing Is All You Need: Towards a Universal One-Sided Distributed MatMul
Abstract:Many important applications across science, data analytics, and AI workloads depend on distributed matrix multiplication. Prior work has developed a large array of algorithms suitable for different problem sizes and partitionings including 1D, 2D, 1.5D, and 2.5D algorithms. A limitation of current work is that existing algorithms are limited to a subset of partitionings. Multiple […]
Emoji Evidence Errors Don’t Undo a Murder Conviction–People vs. Harmon
Delarosa was convicted of murder. (Some background on the case). On appeal, he argues the court should have excluded a Facebook message that indicated he owned a gun a few weeks before the shooting. The Facebook message included some emojis: The law enforcement investigator who testified described the emojis as “a smiley face emoji and […]
Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws
The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure. The EU folds under Big Tech’s pressure. by Robert Hart and Dominic Preston Nov 19, 2025, 12:47 PM UTC After years of staring down the world’s biggest tech companies and setting the bar for tough regulation worldwide, Europe has blinked. Under intense pressure from industry and the US […]
Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.1 available
VIENNA, Austria – November 19, 2025 – Leading open-source server solutions provider Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH (henceforth “Proxmox”), today announced the immediate availability of Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.1. The new version introduces significant enhancements across container deployment, virtual machine security, and software-defined networking, offering businesses greater flexibility, performance, and operational control. Highlights in Proxmox Virtual […]
Show HN: Hypercamera – a browser-based 4D camera simulator
Hypercamera You are looking at the 3D sensor of a 4D hypercamera. WASD: Move hypercamera forwards, sidewaysQ/E: Move hypercamera in ana, kata directionsIJKL: Rotate hypercamera up/down, left/rightU/O: Rotate hypercamera in wx planeY/P: Rotate hypercamera in wy plane0-2: Rotate hypercamera towards objectsMouse drag: Rotate sensor viewMouse wheel: Zoomv: Show additional viewsg: Toggle gizmo modex: Toggle voxel […]
Your Smartphone, Their Rules: App Stores Enable Corporate-Government Censorship
Subscribe to the Free Future NewsletterFree Future home Who controls what you can do on your mobile phone? What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? We are dangerously close to this kind of totalitarian control, thanks to a combination of government overreach and technocratic infrastructure choices. Most Americans […]
The Peaceful Transfer of Power in Open Source Projects
Most of the people who run Open Source projects are mortal. Recent history shows us that they will all eventually die, or get bored, or win the lottery, or get sick, or be conscripted, or lose their mind. If you’ve ever visited a foreign country’s national history museum, I guarantee you’ve read this little snippet: […]
Breakthrough in antimatter production
A new cooling technique means that the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory can produce antihydrogen atoms eight times faster than before In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory report a new technique that allows them to produce over 15 000 antihydrogen atoms – the […]
The $1k AWS Mistake
A cautionary tale about AWS VPC networking, NAT Gateways, and how a missing VPC Endpoint turned our S3 data transfers into an expensive lesson. I’ve been using AWS since around 2007. Back then, EC2 storage was entirely ephemeral and stopping an instance meant losing all your data. The platform has come a long way since […]