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A new paradigm for AI: How ‘thinking as optimization’ leads to better general-purpose models

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the University of Virginia have developed a new model architecture that could lead to more robust AI systems with more powerful reasoning capabilities. Called an energy-based transformer (EBT), the architecture shows a natural ability to use inference-time scaling to solve comp

Btrfs Allocator Hints

[PATCH RFC 00/10] btrfs: new performance-based chunk allocation using device roles From: Anand Jain <anand.jain-AT-oracle.com> To: linux-btrfs-AT-vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH RFC 00/10] btrfs: new performance-based chunk allocation using device roles Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 02:07:06 +0800 Message-ID: <[email protected]> In host hardware, devices can have different speeds. Generally, faster devices come with lesser capacity while slower devices come with larger capaci

Musk backs Sen. Paul's criticism of Trump's megabill in first comment since it passed

Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump to reporters in the Oval Office of the White House on May 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who bombarded President Donald Trump's signature spending bill for weeks, on Friday made his first comments since the legislation passed. Musk backed a post on X by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who said the bill's budget "explodes the deficit" and continues a pattern of "short-term politicking over long-term sustainability." CNBC

Crunchyroll blames third-party vendor for AI subtitle mess

At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was "very focused on testing" generative AI tools for subtitling and captioning speech to text. The comment came just months after the streamer temporarily took down the debut episode of one of its newest shows, The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons, after people complained about poor subtitles. Much of the translation was nonsensical, with missing punctuation in many sentences. At the time, some fans speculated th

Crunchyroll Accidentally Left AI Slop in Anime Subtitles

Crunchyroll, the massively popular anime streaming service and distributor, just got caught using obvious AI slop in its subtitles. The slipup was made in the premiere episode of a new series called "Necronomico and the Cosmic Horror Show" — and trust us, there's no guesswork involved in sniffing out the AI here. Around the 19:12 mark, the show's German subtitles feature a big fat "ChatGPT said:" jammed into the dialog. A classic, lazy error. (We double checked, and it's still there as of this

Crunchyroll's lazy AI subtitles have anime fans furious

At the start of last year, Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini told The Verge the company was "very focused on testing" generative AI tools for subtitling and captioning speech to text. The comment came just months after the streamer temporarily took down the debut episode of one of its newest shows, The Yuzuki Family's Four Sons, after people complained about poor subtitles. Much of the translation was nonsensical, with missing punctuation in many sentences. At the time, some fans speculated th

Error handling in Rust

On Error Handling in Rust The current standard for error handling, when writing a crate, is to define one error enum per module, or one for the whole crate that covers all error cases that the module or crate can possibly produce, and each public function that returns a Result will use said error enum. This means, that a function will return an error enum, containing error variants that the function cannot even produce. If you match on this error enum, you will have to manually distinguish whi

Microloan Apps May Be Poised to Destroy the Economy

We love microlending, don't we, folks? Unlike old-school credit cards, with their days-long approval processes and prior credit minimums, buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) apps — companies like Klarna and Afterpay — offer hard-up customers instant financing options to buy the junk they crave the instant they see it. In the United States, purchases made with these apps currently don't even affect your FICO credit score — or at least, they never used to. That's all about to change this fall, when Fair I

Asus pushes 2,600W into RTX 5090 to prove new cableless GPU power connector works

Forward-looking: As cases of burning and melting RTX 5090 power cables continue to mount, Asus has demonstrated that its new Back to the Future (BTF) power connector design can maintain safe temperatures while delivering more than triple the GPU's stock wattage limit. The test also revealed that BTF can work in tandem with traditional 16-pin connectors – just in case anyone ever wants to attempt a 2,600W overclock. In a recent Bilibili video, translated by Tom's Hardware, Asus China GM Tony Yu

Under Trump 2.0, Tech Companies Pull Back on Pride

Tech companies were happy to have their name appear alongside President Donald Trump’s strange, authoritarian-esque military parade. But they are suddenly seeming a bit shy about supporting Pride events. Wonder what that is about? CNBC reports that San Francisco Pride will not feature Facebook parent company Meta as one of its sponsors this year—a major absence from a company that once had a major presence at the parade. For what it’s worth, the disappearance of Meta’s branding appears to be a

Your Bitcoin Might Soon Get You a Mortgage—No, Really

In a move that should send a chill down the spine of anyone who remembers 2008, the man now in charge of regulating a huge chunk of the U.S. housing market wants to see if your crypto holdings—like Bitcoin or Solana—should count when Americans apply for a mortgage. That’s right: your dog-themed coin stash might one day help you buy a house. Bill Pulte, the new director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), announced the plan on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “We will study t

This Billionaire Turned a Software Firm Into a $42 Billion Bitcoin Whale

Michael Saylor doesn’t just believe in Bitcoin. He’s betting his entire company on it. On Saturday, the billionaire founder of MicroStrategy, once a sleepy business software firm, announced he had bought another 245 bitcoins for around $26 million, paying an average of $105,856 per coin. That brings MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin holdings to a jaw-dropping 592,345 BTC, acquired for $41.87 billion at an average cost of $70,681 per coin. Saylor posted the update to his 4.4 million followers on X, bragg

Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver

LibT9 A C library for creating T9 typing systems. How to run As a Linux Driver See driver/ As a Cli Utility Needs: ncurses & cmake mkdir build cd build cmake .. make -j$(nproc) cli/main As a Website Go to foxmoss.github.io/libt9/ Dependencies None! The library requires nothing but a basic implementation of the C standard library. The CLI requires ncurses solely, but this is by no means needed to just compile the library. Todo Feel free to contribute! Punctuation Punctuation IBus D

Compiler for the B Programming Language

B Programming Language Warning Compiler is not fully implemented yet. Logo by Strawberry 🍓 Compiler for the B Programming Language implemented in Crust Dependencies Rust - the compiler is written in it; fasm - used as the compiler backend; Quick Start $ make $ ./build/b -run ./examples/hello_world.b Also check out more examples at ./examples/. Testing The project comes with btest utility which tests the B compiler. It is built automatically along with the B compiler when you do make .

Battery manufacturer Powin files for bankruptcy months after landing $200M loan

Battery manufacturer Powin filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday. The Oregon-based company said it has more than $300 million in debt. The Chapter 11 filing will let the company continue operating while it restructures its debt. Powin manufactured grid-scale batteries using lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) cells from China. The company had been searching for alternative domestic suppliers, but the supply chain wasn’t sufficiently mature, Jeff Waters, the company’s former CEO, told Bloomberg in April.

Elon Searching for Investors Gullible Enough to Pour More Money Into Twitter

In 2022, Elon Musk placed a bid of almost $44 billion to acquire Twitter, which he then tried to worm out of. With his back against the wall after a brief skirmish in the courts, Musk chose to honor his original purchase agreement and take over the platform. Flash forward to the present day, and X-formerly-Twitter has lost upward of 79 percent of its original value after neo-Nazis flocked to the platform and big-name advertisers fled in droves. Now, in a somewhat rare move for the richest man

Gayming Awards 2025 to air on WOW Presents in fifth year

The Gayming Awards 2025 show will air on WOW Presents on July 8 as the event enters its fifth year. Started by Robin Gray, founder of Gayming magazine, the event is a celebration of LGBTQ+ in video games. The show will be broadcast exclusively worldwide on World of Wonder’s WOW Presents Plus on Tuesday, July 8 th , 2025, and nomination submissions are now open to the public. Looking to build on the Gayming Awards continuous growth and success, with over 1.4 million people watching last year’s