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Gecode is an open source C++ toolkit for developing constraint-based systems

2019-09-10 MPG Sources on GitHub The sources for Modeling and Programming with Gecode are now available on GitHub. 2019-04-12 Gecode 6.2.0 Gecode 6.2.0 has been released on April 12th, 2019 (Changelog). 2019-02-14 Gecode 6.1.1 Gecode 6.1.1 has been released on February 14th, 2019 (Changelog). 2018-10-19 Gecode 6.1.0 Gecode 6.1.0 has been released on October 19th, 2018 (Changelog).

Cops in [Spain] think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

Update, July 3, 2025 (11:45 AM ET): The crew behind GrapheneOS is understandably none too pleased about their good name being dragged through the mud, and members are speaking out about these reports from Spain. Over on X, the official GrapheneOS account posts: European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they’re something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose o

Robinhood Wants to Redo Wall Street on the Blockchain

Robinhood, the company behind one of the most popular trading apps for everyday investors, just revealed a sweeping new vision for the future of finance. And its bold plan seems to leave traditional Wall Street institutions behind. The company announced a daring set of new products this week from Cannes, France. These offerings are designed to move traditional financial assets, like company stocks, investment funds (ETFs), and even complex trading tools called derivatives, entirely onto the blo

A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab

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 It’s been a little more than a month since Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, an offshoot of Hong Kong-based High-Flyer Capital Management, released the latest version of its hit open source model DeepSeek, R1-0528. Like its predecessor, DeepSeek-R1 — which rocked the AI and global business communities with how cheaply it was trained and how wel

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 5, #285

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition raised my confidence with a very easy yellow category. Then my guesses kind of fell apart. Need some help? Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that t

Show HN: Flint – Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency

Write code your way while ensuring remote consistency. Flint empowers developers to use their personal style and formatting preferences locally, while maintaining a consistent remote codebase. By integrating with Git, Flint automatically formats code during pull and push operations. This approach prevents commits from being cluttered with formatting changes, making code reviews cleaner and collaboration smoother. Note Flint is currently in alpha. Contributions are warmly welcomed. Table of Co

A rare look inside the durability lab where Apple tortures its products

Apple puts its products through a lot of tests during the development process, intended to ensure they have a long and reliable life even in challenging conditions. The company tests at least 10,000 iPhones prior to launch in an attempt to cover all the bases. It’s not often the iPhone maker lets outsiders into its labs, but Apple invited some of those attending WWDC 2025 to visit one to see for themselves the conditions it expects its gadgets to survive … To be clear, it’s not the first time

Prompting LLMs is not engineering

Prompting LLMs is not engineering published in: With the proliferation of AI models and tools, there's a new industry-wide fascination with snake oil remedies called "prompt engineering". As of July 2025 the term is now "context engineering" or "context prompting" or "context manipulation". To put it succinctly, prompt engineering is nothing but an attempt to reverse-engineer a non-deterministic black box for which any of the parameters below are unknown: training set weights constraints o

Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for July 5, #1477

Looking for the most recent Wordle answer? Click here for today's Wordle hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Connections, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's Wordle puzzle is a pretty tough one. I grew up on a farm, so I know the word, but I didn't put it together right away, even though the letters are common ones. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you n

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 5, #755

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle has a few tough, and a few easy categories today. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program ana

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 5, #489

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. The theme of today's NYT Strands puzzle isn't terribly tough, but at least one of the words is unusual and really, really long to unscramble. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story. If you're looking for today's Wor

Can Whole Body Vibration Plates Actually Help You Lose Weight? We Asked Fitness Experts

Many wellness trends have come and gone over the years, but one is currently having a resurgence. You may remember the vibrating belt machines from the mid-20th century that were promoted as weight loss aids. These vibration plates are once again popping up on social media and in the fitness community, but are they just a gimmick or do they really promote weight loss? Some claim they are an excellent alternative workout method with several health benefits. However, researchers continue to study

Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model

Apple quietly dropped a new AI model on Hugging Face with an interesting twist. Instead of writing code like traditional LLMs generate text (left to right, top to bottom), it can also write out of order, and improve multiple chunks at once. The result is faster code generation, at a performance that rivals top open-source coding models. Here’s how it works. The nerdy bits Here are some (overly simplified, in the name of efficiency) concepts that are important to understand before we can move

We Found the 8 Most Common Foods With Microplastics

Microplastics are the latest hidden hazard worry for the world -- and now they've even been found in chewing gum. UCLA researchers have found that every time we chew gum, microplastics are released directly into our mouths. In addition to that, a new study published in Chemistry for Life tested 10 chewing gum brands and found every single one contained microplastics. This was found to be the case with both natural and synthetic varieties. A gram of gum releases around 100 microplastics on averag

Why I left my tech job to work on chronic pain

A “grey” matter I had just about finished moving into my new home in the winter of 2020, when all of a sudden - my right Achilles started feeling pretty sore! For the next 4 years, I continued to accumulate weird and persistent pains in different parts of my body. Next it was my other Achilles, then my voice, which was followed by my right shoulder, then back to both of my Achilles and then both of my hands/forearms/elbows. My body felt like a block of swiss cheese. Beyond being well, painful

Dyson V11 Origin Vacuum Hits Black Friday Price and Even Cheaper Than Last Prime Day, Stock Running Low

A good vacuum can save you a lot of work. After all, using a rubbish one just means that you’ll end up going over the same spots again and again without ever actually cleaning the floor. That’s especially tricky if you’ve got a home that’s prone to extra dust, crumbs, or pet hair. Nobody likes having to vacuum, so you’re better off investing in one that can get the job done really well. See at Amazon Well, Amazon Prime members will be very thankful for this early Prime Day deal, because it bri

Inside India’s scramble for AI independence

Nonetheless, a small but determined group of Indian builders is starting to shape the country’s AI future. For example, Sarvam AI has created OpenHathi-Hi-v0.1, an open-source Hindi language model that shows the Indian AI field’s growing ability to address the country’s vast linguistic diversity. The model, built on Meta’s Llama 2 architecture, was trained on 40 billion tokens of Hindi and related Indian-language content, making it one of the largest open-source Hindi models available to date.

Is the Nothing Phone 3 worth it? Survey reveals surprising consumer sentiment

C. Scott Brown / Android Authority After spending a few years setting itself up, Nothing boldly launched the Nothing Phone 3 as its top-tier flagship this week. Coming in at $799, it takes on the proper flagships from Samsung, Google, Apple, and others. While one can argue that it comes out on top against these three, Chinese competitors like OnePlus can give it a run for its money with the OnePlus 13. We asked you if you thought the Nothing Phone 3 was value for money at $799, and it seems a v

DRM Panic QR code generator

This is a simple QR code generator, to display the panic data as a QR code. It is specific to the DRM panic use case, and supports only some parts of the QR code specification. Kernel panic traces are usually displayed on the screen, but then it's hard to copy and paste them to a bug report, so that a developer can take a look, and fix the bug. As QR code are now widespread, using that allows to easily copy and paste the panic traces in a bug report, which makes debugging much easier for both

Billionaire Mark Cuban Says AI Gives Workers ‘Superpowers,’ but Crypto Is ‘Not Even Close’ to Its iPhone Moment

Mark Cuban has always been tech’s most pragmatic and outspoken billionaire. As an early internet entrepreneur, a prolific investor on Shark Tank, and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks, he’s seen multiple hype cycles come and go. He was an early advocate for crypto’s potential but has remained a sharp critic of its excesses. Now, as the twin forces of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency dominate the conversation, we asked Cuban to weigh in. In this exclusive Q&A, he explains why he thinks

After Years of Testing Skincare, I Found a Product That Calms My Breakouts

CNET's key takeaways The Tower 28 SOS Rescue Spray always calms my skin when I'm dealing with a breakout or redness. It can be purchased for as low as $12 for a travel size. The SOS Rescue Spray contains hypochlorous acid, a natural anti-inflammatory and antibacterial. When I was a teenager, I dealt with acne and spent years testing various products to get rid of it to no avail. Now, as an adult, I still have the occasional breakout, but I've since found a product that calms my skin and redu

WASM Agents: AI agents running in the browser

One of the main barriers to a wider adoption of open-source agents is the dependency on extra tools and frameworks that need to be installed before the agents can be run. In this post, we show how to write agents as HTML files, which can just be opened and run in a browser. One of the main barriers to a wider adoption and experimentation with open-source agents is the dependency on extra tools and frameworks that need to be installed before the agents can be run. In this post, we introduce the

OpenAI Warns You Not to Buy Its Fake Stock

OpenAI has a message for anyone who thinks they’re about to cash in on the AI boom by buying a new “OpenAI token” on Robinhood: Don’t. But in a chaotic turn, Elon Musk just suggested that even the company’s real equity might be an illusion. The maker of ChatGPT, in a rare public warning posted on X (formerly Twitter), disavowed any involvement with crypto-like financial products claiming to offer a piece of its business. “These ‘OpenAI tokens’ are not OpenAI equity,” the company wrote. “We did

xAI prepares Grok 4 Code as it plans to take on Claude and Gemini

xAI is preparing the rollout of Grok 4, which replaces Grok 3 as the new state-of-the-art model. Ahead of the rollout, testers on X have again spotted references to a few new Grok 4 models. One of the models is called "grok-4-prod-mimic," which reportedly excels at enterprise use cases like data extraction, coding, and text summarisation. It also possesses deep domain knowledge in finance, healthcare, law, and science. But "grok-4-prod-mimic" isn't the only new model coming to Grok. Another

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Cluely’s ARR doubled in a week to $7M, founder Roy Lee says. But rivals are coming.

Cluely’s revenue has skyrocketed to about $7 million in ARR since it launched its new enterprise product a week ago, founder Roy Lee told TechCrunch. “Every single person who has a meeting or an interview is testing this out.” Cluely, one of Silicon Valley’s most-talked-about startups, offers products that use AI to analyze online conversations, deliver real-time notes, provide context, and suggest questions to ask. This information appeared discreetly on the user’s screen, invisible to others.

Sakana AI’s TreeQuest: Deploy multi-model teams that outperform individual LLMs by 30%

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 Japanese AI lab Sakana AI has introduced a new technique that allows multiple large language models (LLMs) to cooperate on a single task, effectively creating a “dream team” of AI agents. The method, called Multi-LLM AB-MCTS, enables models to perform trial-and-error and combine their unique strengths to solve problems that are too complex

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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

Today's NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for July 4, #488

Looking for the most recent Strands answer? Click here for our daily Strands hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today's NYT Strands puzzle celebrates a common July 4 activity. Some of the words are long and might be tough to unscramble, but if you recognize the theme, you should be good. If you need hints and answers, read on. I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.

Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for July 4, #284

Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition has kind of a July 4 flavor. But come on, New York Times puzzle makers, is the blue category really a sport? Read on for hints and the answers. And pass the mustard. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb.

Today's NYT Connections Hints, Answers and Help for July 4, #754

Looking for the most recent Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle, Connections: Sports Edition and Strands puzzles. Today's NYT Connections puzzle was a fairly simple one, I thought. Maybe it was a July 4 gift from the puzzle-makers. Read on for clues and today's Connections answers. The Times now has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a nume