π₯ Discover this awesome post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Γ The opening letter Build with us. A letter from our CTO, Raffi Krikorian In New Zealand's far north, a MΔori broadcaster trains speech models for te reo β a language too small for any market β under a license that keeps the data with its people. PwC, one of the largest accounting firms in the world, fine-tuned an open model on the language of finance and runs it today for hundreds of clients, on its own hardware, with no per-token meter running. Researchers in…
π₯ Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Ireland,Culture,Europe,World news,Coronation Street,Soap opera,Drama,Television,Television & radio,Comedy films,Comedy π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: Brenda Fricker, who became the first Irish woman to win an Oscar for My Left Foot, has died at the age of 81. Her agent, Phil Belfield, told the BBC in a statement: βWe will never see her like her again and the world is made less and less important by missing her... It was an honor to know, love and work with her, and she will always have a place in my heart and in…
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**What Youβll Learn**: This is the second post in the series. In case you have not read the first one on Cloudflare's CIRCL, it has more context on why we run these experiments and how our pipeline is set up. In this post, we pointed zkao, our AI auditor, at OpenVM's zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug in its guest library openvm-pairing that lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. Note that this is not a soundness bug in the zkVM's proving system itself; it…
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**What Youβll Learn**: gPick up your rosebuds and pinch your cheeks, because there will be gurgles in the Crimean countryside. A hairdresser arrives in the fictional village of Blossom Vale armed with a blow-dry backstory (he's worked with posh types in London but now seems to want peace and quiet and "a place of my own") and the keys to a rundown salon on the high street. Lily Petal (Sally Phillips) is obsessed with buying it. βIt's like a…
π Check out this must-read post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: About us Manufact is Vercel for MCP.We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP.Manufact Cloud usage is more than doubling every month. We're the team behind mcp-use SDK (next.js for MCP), the open-source framework for building MCP Apps with 10k Github stars and 8M+ downloads across python and typescript. Used by 20% of US 500 like NASA, SAP, NVIDIA and more than 5,000 companies. We raised…
β¨ Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian π π **Category**: Film,Andy Serkis,Race,JRR Tolkien,Lord of the Rings,Books,Culture,Science fiction and fantasy films,World news π‘ **What Youβll Learn**: CAsting has come a long way since the early 1980s when it was still somehow acceptable to sign Max von Sydow to play Ming the Merciless in Flash Gordon in 1980, or to cast Peter Ustinov in the title role in Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen in 1981 (despite protests at the time). These days, filmmakers would have to defend an all-white cast in a medieval fantasy film,…
π Discover this insightful post from Hacker News π π **Category**: π **What Youβll Learn**: Dog given to John F. Kennedy by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev Pushinka (Russian: ΠΡΡΠΈΠ½ΠΊΠ°, lit.β'Fluffy') was a dog given by the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, in 1961. Pushinka was the daughter of Strelka, who had travelled into space aboard Korabl-Sputnik 2.[3] Pushinka arrived at the Kennedy White House after Jacqueline Kennedy had spoken to Khrushchev about Strelka at a state dinner in Vienna. Mrs. Kennedy asked about Strelka's puppies, and one was subsequently sent by…
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**What Youβll Learn**: TIt was the day I met Ruth Madeley in a hotel in central London, at the height of the recent heatwave, and the traffic light buttons were too hot to touch. Oddly enough, that's the central theme of The Rapture, a new BBC adaptation of Liz Jensen's 2009 best-selling book. Set in a secure children's psychiatric unit, the 38-year-old actress plays Gabs, a psychiatrist recently paralyzed in a car crash that kills her husband. She becomes distraught by prisoner Bethany…
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**What Youβll Learn**: Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars7 points by mstolpm 48 minutes ago | hide | past | favorite | 3Β commentsI receive an AWS Budgets alert that my budget is exceeding the alert threshold. Threshold is 5$. Forecasted amount is listed as $3,005,575,870.47. (Yepp, right, thatβs 3 billion dollars.) I haven't even used AWS actively in the last year, but AWS console lists the amount as stated above. No feedback from AWS support yet, but the support AI…
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**What Youβll Learn**: from Manchester, via Peterborough and ShanghaiRecommended if you like Crystal Castles, Mandy, Indiana, acid housethe next Festival dates include East London Block Party, Brighton Psych Fest and End of the RoadSalford's Silverwingkiller sounds what this summer's heatwave feels like: delirious, full of dread, rattling with pent-up energy. Named after the Chinese title of Blade Runner, they create raucous industrial dance music from the nervous beats, acidic sounds of a Roland TB-303 synthesizer, and the shared sense of creative freedom that James Baca…