As the number of people who identify as LGBTQ in America rises, gains in social and political acceptance are eroding. Read more ›
Even after two years, the Quest 3S is still the most accessible way to get into VR gaming. Read more ›
How a device-placement ordering quirk between opacus, PEFT, and HuggingFace caused DP fine-tuning to silently break, and what to check in your own setup. Read more ›
A while ago at PyCon US 2026, I had the pleasure of listening to the Python Steering Council give updates about new features that are being added in Python 3.15. One that stood out was explicit lazy imports (via PEP 810), which defer module loading until first use. I am curious to see how this […] Read more ›
Global furry conventions produce massive fursuit photographs, while manual sorting brings heavy labor costs and calls for automatic identity retrieval and clustering solutions. General multimodal models lack dedicated optimization for complex fursuit scenes, and no public benchmark dataset exists for this task. To fill this gap, we build a specialized fursuit image dataset and present a three-stage hybrid pipeline Fursee for fursuit identity ret... Read more ›
In the Star Trek franchise, the first human being to ever meet a Klingon on the timeline isn't an astronaut or an adventurer, but a famous author. Read more ›
This is Day 11 of building a neural network from scratch. Yesterday we went over gradient descent: read the slope of the loss at your… Read more ›
Today, we are announcing a plan for addressing this issue in critical open source software – Akrites is the largest coordinated effort in history to create systems and deploy tooling that leverages the collective power of the community to make everyone safer. We are joined by Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Endor Labs, Ericsson, Google, IBM, JPMorganChase, Microsoft and GitHub, NVIDIA, OpenAI, RapidFort, Red Hat, Rust Foundation, Sonatype, Vodafone, and Zscaler to fin... Read more ›
Taylor Brown is the first transgender person to lead a city agency. Read more ›
Noam Chomsky once offered a deceptively simple image. Imagine yourself in a luxurious car, moving along the most fascinating road you have… Read more ›
The Meta Quest 3S is on sale for $296.79 at Amazon, down from $349.99. That’s a $53.2 discount on a wireless VR headset bundle that includes access to over 100 games. Read more ›
Neural Networks, also known as Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), are Machine Learning models inspired by the structure and functioning of… Read more ›
SAN FRANCISCO – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced Akrites, a coordinated industry effort to harden the world’s most critical open source software in the era of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery. Backed by founding commitments from Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Endor Labs, Ericsson, Google, IBM, JPMorganChase, Microsoft … The post appeared first on . Read more ›
Why the DSF pursued CNA status Django has a long history of responsible security practices: a dedicated, private security mailing list, clear advisory policies, and predictable security releases. Even so, we relied on external organizations to assign . This sometimes introduced administrative delays and extra coordination overhead. Becoming a allows the DSF to: Assign CVEs ourselves for vulnerabilities in Django and selected community projects. Publish advisories more efficiently and in close... Read more ›
With Pride Month underway, right-wing media figures are celebrating that corporate Pride “is mostly over” and “beyond [its] peak,” crediting this decline to President Donald Trump and the right’s crusade “against all the weird LGBT stuff” in recent years. However, right-wing media continue to express outrage over social media posts from corporations observing Pride Month. Pundits have attacked sports teams for “trying to out-gay one another to show their fidelity to the LGBT religion,” claime... Read more ›
Looking for real virtual reality discounts? Here are the best Prime Day VR deals on headsets and accessories. Read more ›
When fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), there has been success in minimizing both memory usage and computation with Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT), like Low Rank Adaptation (LoRA). In this article, we have explored whether this approach is transferable to the world of robotics and Reinforcement Learning (RL), allowing learning with reduced memory usage and improved computational performance. Specifically, we focused on a version o... Read more ›
A friend of mine made a cool calculator and unit converter. It parses natural English phrases like “how many inches are in 3 feet?” and “300 miles / 65 mph in hours and minutes” and “download 10GB 1Gbps”. You can access it from web (including PWA), CLI or as a library. It has a strong FOSS philosophy behind it. Read more ›
arXiv:2403.17407v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate transcription of Bengali text to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a challenging task due to the complex phonology of the language and context-dependent sound changes. This challenge is even more for regional Bengali dialects due to unavailability of standardized spelling conventions for these dialects, presence of local and foreign words popular in those regions and phonological diversity across different regions. ... Read more ›