A developer known as MAAN built a browser-based demo that reimplements Nvidia's DLSS 5 neural rendering network using WebGPU compute shaders, hosted on Cloudflare Workers with adjustable settings and sample scenes. The port reportedly works on non-Nvidia GPUs and even macOS, using roughly 147MB of extracted model weights alongside a small JavaScript runtime, though each rendered frame currently takes one to two seconds. MAAN says the weights came from a leaked DLSS 5 library file and plans to release the source code on GitHub soon.
Zach Cregger's new Resident Evil film reimagines Capcom's franchise around Bryan, an invented medical courier played by Austin Abrams, who gets pulled into a zombie outbreak while making a delivery run near Raccoon City. Unlike Paul W.S. Anderson's earlier film series, this version pares the story down and blends comedy with genuine scares rather than expanding an elaborate mythology.
Investors have approached OpenAI proposing a fresh funding round that could value the company at $1.2 trillion, though no formal talks have begun, according to people familiar with the matter. Some backers see the round partly as a mechanism for employees to sell shares, similar to the roughly $7 billion secondary sale OpenAI completed in August following its $122 billion raise at an $852 billion valuation in March.
At a Fast Company panel moderated by reporter Grace Snelling, executives from Second Rodeo Productions, Maybelline and Sugar23 discussed how marketers are shifting away from conventional 30-second commercials toward original entertainment formats, including microdramas, that audiences seek out voluntarily. The panelists shared perspectives on how their companies are building narrative content designed to engage viewers rather than interrupt them.
Makepad creator Rik Arends built a 3D navigable tool that renders up to 2.5 million lines of source code at over 120 frames per second, initially requiring 21GB of RAM before optimizations to indexing and streaming compression brought usage down to 3.5GB. He also tested loading Chromium's 51-million-line codebase, which took about 60 seconds.
Z.ai's shares fell more than 10% on Monday after the Beijing-based AI firm unveiled plans to raise roughly $5 billion, combining a discounted share placement worth about $2 billion with a $3 billion zero-coupon convertible bond offering due 2027. This is the company's second major capital raise in two months, following a $4 billion placement in July. Rival Chinese AI firm MiniMax also saw its shares slide about 5% the same day.
Tesla announced via its official X account that the next Roadster will finally be unveiled on October 10, nearly a decade after the original 2017 prototype debut. The company's website now shows a countdown teasing possible SpaceX-derived thruster hardware, following earlier reports that the car could include flight-like capabilities.
Tesla posted a teaser on X reading "Go for launch" with a graphic pointing to an October 1 date for unveiling its next Roadster. The vehicle, first announced in 2017, has faced repeated delays, and reports indicate the original design has been scrapped for a completely new one set to debut at this event.
A tech cleaning guide outlines steps for disinfecting used electronics purchases, starting with unplugging devices and wiping surfaces with microfiber cloths rather than abrasive materials. It recommends mild detergent solutions or dedicated products like Whoosh! and Tech2Clean for screens, while warning against chlorine, peroxide, solvent or ammonia-based cleaners that can damage components. For devices with crevices like laptops or turntables, it suggests compressed air, soft brushes and specialized cleaning kits to remove trapped dust and debris.
The team behind Neki, released in platform preview, ran a benchmark scaling from 5 to 512 shards and reached 118,538,803 sustained queries per second over 16 minutes, using 1.22 PiB of data across 512 Postgres primaries and 480 routers. The test consisted only of single-shard point-select reads by primary key, with no writes, joins, or cross-shard queries, and per-shard throughput actually rose to 231,521 QPS at full scale, well above the initial 200k target.
Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 recovery feature called Cloud Rebuild in Insider Beta Preview Build 26220.9343. It reinstalls Windows directly from Windows Update even when the existing installation is corrupted or won't boot, eliminating the need for a USB recovery drive. The tool is accessed through the Windows Recovery Environment, which can now also reuse saved Wi-Fi credentials to connect during recovery.
Ángela Karime Venegas Hernández, a student at CETIS 78 in Altamira, Tamaulipas, built a device using a 12-volt battery, a frequency generator and a speaker producing 30 pulses per second to extinguish flames without water or chemicals. The sound waves displace oxygen from the fire, snuffing it out within five to eight seconds. After more than 100 tests on materials including wood, flammable liquids, cooking grease and electronics, she named the invention 'Vortex Tech' and will represent Mexico at an international science fair.
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