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WhatsApp chat databases stored plaintext in a Meta app-group container
On iOS and macOS, WhatsApp chat databases can sit plaintext in a Meta app-group container, making same-developer app boundaries much weaker than users expect
Backlist — 24 May 2026 UTC
Chose one representative per repeated story where possible, especially around AI math results, agent tooling, and semiconductor rumors.
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DeltaBox: faster checkpointing for RL tree search and agent fan-out
DeltaBox attacks a systems bottleneck for agent tree search: cheap process and filesystem checkpointing without copying an entire sandbox every branch
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Bun now fuzzes every language parser 24/7 and routes repros to Claude
Bun is using continuous parser fuzzing plus minimized repros routed to Claude, turning crash discovery into a mostly automated repair pipeline
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Stablecoins EURR and USDR exploited through a 1-of-3 minting multisig (x.com)
A $10M exploit hit EURR and USDR through a 1-of-3 minting multisig, showing how stablecoin designs still collapse around key-management assumptions
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vLLM bans contributor after fake “PR training” issue (t.co)
vLLM’s fake-issue PR episode shows open-source maintainers now have to defend review time against resume-driven AI slop
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Microsoft open-sources 86-DOS 1.00
The newly opened 86-DOS 1.00 source is the pre-IBM PC DOS codebase behind the compatibility lineage that shaped personal computing
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Marin preregistered the loss for a 1e23 FLOPs MoE run
The Marin team preregistered a large MoE training loss before launch and beat it, making scaling-law forecasting auditable instead of retrospective
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China’s HTR-PM pebble-bed reactor module heads toward commercial service
China’s HTR-PM pebble-bed module moving toward 2027 commercial service is a live test of whether advanced nuclear can be built repeatably and economically
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Vietnam’s manufacturing exports are 90% of GDP, but value add lags
Vietnam’s export boom masks a development trap: manufacturing exports reach 90% of GDP while high-value components are still imported
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Using Hopper and MCP to inspect Apple platform frameworks (t.co)
Pairing Hopper with an MCP server gives Apple engineers a practical workflow for interrogating private frameworks and dyld shared caches with code agents
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Hyper: an API framework as source, not a dependency (x.com)
Hyper experiments with a shadcn-style API framework that is copied into your repo, giving routes OpenAPI, typed clients, and MCP without a runtime dependency
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A homegrown Toyota Production System at SendCutSend (x.com)
SendCutSend’s homegrown Toyota Production System shows modern manufacturing advantage coming from operational discipline, not just software wrappers
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Why Japanese firms do many things
Milgrom-Roberts complementarity explains why Japanese firms historically combine low hierarchy, broad worker tasks, lifetime employment, and unrelated product lines
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A conditional protein diffusion model (t.co)
Conditional protein diffusion points generative modeling at protein design, where the artifact is a physical molecule rather than an image or text sample
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A long-awaited xterm.js rendering fix (t.co)
An xterm.js rendering fix is a reminder that terminal correctness still depends on unglamorous edge cases that affect thousands of developer tools
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"Our most capable agent autonomously resolved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems at the per-problem cost of a few hundr…
"Our most capable agent autonomously resolved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems at the per-problem cost of a few hundred dollars, proved 44/492 OEIS conjectures, and is being deployed in combinatorics, optimization, graph theory, algebraic geome
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OMG!
OMG! 97.8 TPS single 3090 qwen3.6 27b dense. (P.S. No overclocking yet) Recipe cooking at
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Our inference stack, optimized for Blackwells, with a novel attention kernel and many new optimizations has start… (x.com)
Our inference stack, optimized for Blackwells, with a novel attention kernel and many new optimizations has started rolling out! It's already charting on Artificial Analysis, eg: #1 speed and latency for @Kimi_Moonshot Kimi 2.6. #1 on l
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When SGLang OOMs, What Exactly Runs Out of Memory?
When SGLang OOMs, What Exactly Runs Out of Memory? Around two months into fully developing SGLang Omni, roughly this April, we got a brand-new H100 on top of the H200 development machine and the H20 CI machine we already had. That meant one
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Happy to share our new ICML oral in Pretraining: OPUS!
Happy to share our new ICML oral in Pretraining: OPUS! It tells: which tokens should the model train on at each step? Instead of static data filtering, OPUS dynamically selects tokens based on the optimizer-shaped updates. Less “more d
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Александр Рыжков (Kaggle Grandmaster, LightAutoML team lead) published a comprehensive Russian-language DVC tutor… (t.co)
Александр Рыжков (Kaggle Grandmaster, LightAutoML team lead) published a comprehensive Russian-language DVC tutorial covering data versioning, S3 & Google Drive backends, DAG pipelines, and when NOT to use DVC. https:// hubs.la/Q04fRcSy
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yeah that's it: each link is it's own DO for:
yeah that's it: each link is it's own DO for: - upload state - capability auth - per-share limits - expiry/cleanup lifecycle - concurrency control R2 holds the file bytes. There is also a separate DO for deployment-wide quota limits
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[1/4] The human eye doesn't process every single pixel of a video continuously—it focuses on what changes.
[1/4] The human eye doesn't process every single pixel of a video continuously—it focuses on what changes. So why are our video AI models wasting compute on redundant frames? Introducing Swift Sampling: a test-time technique inspired by t
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New NanoGPT Speedrun WR at 81.8 (-2.6s) from @.Lisennlp on Github with MUDD skip connections, an expressive and e…
New NanoGPT Speedrun WR at 81.8 (-2.6s) from @.Lisennlp on Github with MUDD skip connections, an expressive and efficient mechanism for data dependent skips! Instead of a learned scalar or sigmoid(linear) gate, MUDD uses a 64 neuron 'MLP' t
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Qwen inference team is super great — they achieved 540 TPS on TokenSpeed for agentic workloads (t.co)
Qwen inference team is super great — they achieved 540 TPS on TokenSpeed for agentic workloads Looking forward to them sharing more optimization details soon. Stay tuned. https:// github.com/lightseekorg/t okenspeed … Enjoy!
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New in emulate v0.6: way more Slack
New in emulate v0.6: way more Slack Emulate Slack in CI + agent sandboxes CLI or Next.js adapter Messages Threads Channels DMs MPIMs OAuth Inspector SDK tests Scopes Profiles Presence Files Uploads Pins Bookmarks Apps Modals Webhooks Eve
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Workbench - open-source BullMQ dashboard, drop-in for any Node backend.
Workbench - open-source BullMQ dashboard, drop-in for any Node backend. Flows, metrics, schedulers, search. MIT. Link
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@saturdayrobotic (x.com)
@saturdayrobotic & World Model Reading Club 09, Part 1 Recap, @CVPR Warm-up: keynote @tommiekerssies , hosts @junfanzhu98 , @aurorafeng_01 , @zoeytzh A Frame is Worth One Token: Efficient Generative World Modeling with Delta Tok
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What's the secret sauce behind leaning attractors?
What's the secret sauce behind leaning attractors? Stable & amortized optimization. Here is the controlled study of how we built EqR!
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How did Tensor Cores massively increase the throughput of Nvidia chips? (x.com)
How did Tensor Cores massively increase the throughput of Nvidia chips? @reinerpope explains the fundamental idea, systolic arrays:
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There is now a smarter way to pick data for training LLMs!
There is now a smarter way to pick data for training LLMs! Enter OPUS! This is an ICML Oral paper from SJTU, Alibaba, UW–Madison, UIUC, and Mila - Quebec AI Institute. The proposed method dynamically and intelligently selects the most im
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the mental model that finally made agents click: a stateless reducer on a stream
the mental model that finally made agents click: a stateless reducer on a stream
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I’ve left Google DeepMind.
I’ve left Google DeepMind. The last two years have been an incredible whirlwind. A couple years ago, I joined a small startup called Codeium. There, I got to ship Windsurf, train SWE-1 (a frontier agentic coding model), go to DeepMind in
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Paper here: (t.co)
Paper here: https:// arxiv.org/pdf/2502.12170. The MUDD coefficients are used for many purposes, such as routing multiple layers into future attention values, modulating the value embedding, modulating the bigram embedding, etc. (Delay on
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Send help! The first part of my blog seires on "how to profile like a noob" is going out of bounds now.
Send help! The first part of my blog seires on "how to profile like a noob" is going out of bounds now. I am here explaining why there was a cudaOccupancy runtime call before cudaLaunch for `aten:mm` and not `aten:add` This is fascinating
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I have a stacktrace right here. This is stable diffusion in pytorch, right after flash-attention was updated. The…
I have a stacktrace right here. This is stable diffusion in pytorch, right after flash-attention was updated. The only difference between clean wholesome image generation and this compute-sanitizer IMA was that flash-attention upgrade remov
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A lot of automated crash reports on Windows have anti-cheat DLLs in the stack trace. Very hard for us to do anyth…
A lot of automated crash reports on Windows have anti-cheat DLLs in the stack trace. Very hard for us to do anything about it. Chrome has a hardcoded list of these where they basically ignore crash reports from.
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Pet peeve: "I value correctness over performance".
Pet peeve: "I value correctness over performance". It sounds kinda true (FKs, ACID, and writing to something other than /dev/null can be slower). But when the type of system you are building is known (e.g. Postgres), the tradeoff is bo
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minecraft lobby from first principles
minecraft lobby from first principles
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After our Perception Tokens paper, we asked: are models truly reasoning over perception tokens or do they just be… (x.com)
After our Perception Tokens paper, we asked: are models truly reasoning over perception tokens or do they just benefit from extra reasoning budget? And why discrete tokens instead of richer continuous ones? With @JackZhang970191 we answer
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Be very careful clicking on any links, etc. in the official Cloudflare Discord server right now. Crypto scams and…
Be very careful clicking on any links, etc. in the official Cloudflare Discord server right now. Crypto scams and more remain unmoderated for days sometimes. Cloudflare disbanded their Community Champs program - folks who moderated the ser
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This paper reframes data efficiency as Data Value Density: more training effect per unit of data, through selecti…
This paper reframes data efficiency as Data Value Density: more training effect per unit of data, through selection, removal, scheduling, mixing, augmentation, distillation, and evolution. From a Deep Manifold lens, DVD is boundary-conditi
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I really want to learn more about inference engineering, projects like (x.com)
I really want to learn more about inference engineering, projects like @sgl_project , @vllm_project really excites me trying to push the limits of a gpu. Really want to be good enough to contribute to these OSS projects. Starting today
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Check RACO, accepted as an 𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗹 paper to #ICML2026 (𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟬.𝟳%) (t.co)
Check RACO, accepted as an 𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗹 paper to #ICML2026 (𝗧𝗼𝗽 𝟬.𝟳%) we propose a new conflict-averse optimization scheme for LLM multi-objective finetuning, with counterintuitive theoretical acceleration and better empirical pareto fron
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Tired of spending weeks of SFM reconstruction? (x.com)
Tired of spending weeks of SFM reconstruction? Try VGGT-horseshoe Plugin in @lichtfeldstudio to get pose and dense point + sky segmentation in 20 seconds.
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assuming 100,000 human hours spent thinking about this problem (napkin)
assuming 100,000 human hours spent thinking about this problem (napkin) worldwide weighted average of $20/hr for maths research, that $2,000,000 the cost of frontier maths research just fell at least 2,000-fold.
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update — released blindcache v0.2 with semantic search.
update — released blindcache v0.2 with semantic search. embeddings happen locally via Xenova/all-MiniLM-L6-v2 in-process, so your text never leaves the SDK to be embedded. mem0, letta, zep all send your plaintext to openai's embedding api
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Maple gives you a lot of different options to visualize and explore a trace for any use case.
Maple gives you a lot of different options to visualize and explore a trace for any use case. Debugging an error? Use the waterfall. Debugging perfomance issues? Use the timeline. Exploring the executing order or debugging retries? Use th
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The International Economic Review has just published a wonderful paper by the late Marcus Hagedorn (with special …
The International Economic Review has just published a wonderful paper by the late Marcus Hagedorn (with special thanks to Iourii Manovskii) on A Demand Theory of the Price Level. It is available through @WileyEconomics here:
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Data synthesis is not only about generating more data, but about generating the right data efficiently. How to sy…
Data synthesis is not only about generating more data, but about generating the right data efficiently. How to synthesize effective and diverse training data in a cost-efficient way is a key question for LLM improvement. This work provides
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A way we have started framing this lately in our team is that all tech debt fixes must be aimed to make the agent…
A way we have started framing this lately in our team is that all tech debt fixes must be aimed to make the agents better. Everything else is a waste.
How it ranks: Backlist reads my Twitter/X timeline, scores every tweet for substance with an LLM rubric (not engagement), and publishes the daily top picks with a one-line takeaway. Curated by Surya Dantuluri.