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Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone

A discussion on the cognitive and collaborative benefits of 'thinking out loud' with others compared to solitary thought.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

PayPal Ventures shutters as company restructuring continues

PayPal Ventures, the company's venture capital arm, is shutting down as part of broader corporate restructuring.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

Can anyone look cool wearing Snap’s $2,000 glasses?

Snap has released new 'Specs' AR glasses priced at $2,195, aiming to move computing away from phone screens.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

PIVOT: Bridging Black-Scholes Implied-Volatility and Price Objectives via Differentiable J\"ackel Operator

Introduces PIVOT, a differentiable layer for bridging Black-Scholes implied-volatility and price objectives using a fused Triton kernel.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

KFTD: Koopman-Fourier Time-Differentiable Network for Continuous Ocean Spatiotemporal Forecasting

Presents the KFTD Network, a time-continuous paradigm for ocean spatiotemporal forecasting that uses Koopman linear space and Fourier analysis.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Extracting Semantics: LLM-Guided Automatic Population of Robot Ontology from URDF

A method for automatically populating robot ontologies from URDF models using LLMs to infer semantic relationships.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Surveying GenAI-based Automation in Printed Circuit Board Design and Test

A survey on the current state and future challenges of using Generative AI for automation in PCB design and testing.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users

Volkswagen has reportedly begun blocking users of GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android fork, from using its services.

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French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

A French physicist and media personality has lost their doctorate following a plagiarism investigation.

Other TechCrunch

The slowtech revolution is here to kill your phone addiction and rescue your attention span

The 'slowtech' movement aims to reduce phone addiction and regain human attention by encouraging a shift away from constant connectivity.

Other The Verge

We got free GTA V upgrades before GTA VI

Rockstar Games is providing free upgrades of GTA V to current-gen consoles (PS5 and Xbox Series X/S) ahead of the release of GTA VI.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

SanDisk’s new PlayStation 5 SSD will cost you more than three PS5 Pros

SanDisk announced a high-capacity NVMe SSD for the PS5, with an 8TB version priced exorbitantly at nearly $3,000.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

The Stanford EDGAR Filings Dataset: Reconstructing U.S. Corporate and Financial Disclosures into Layout-Faithful and Token-Efficient Pretraining Data

Stanford researchers have released the Stanford EDGAR Filings Dataset (SEFD), a 152B-token open dataset of reconstructed SEC filings for financial LLM pretraining.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Fixed-Point Reasoners: Stable and Adaptive Deep Looped Transformers

Researchers propose FPRM, a Fixed-Point Reasoning Model that uses fixed-point convergence as a halting mechanism in looped Transformer architectures to adapt compute to task difficulty.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

EvolveNav: Proactive Preflection and Self-Evolving Memory for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation

EvolveNav is a new framework for zero-shot object goal navigation that uses self-evolving memory and proactive 'preflection' to improve agent performance.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Correct When Paired, Wrong When Split: Decoupling and Editing Modality-Specific Neurons in MLLMs

The DECODE method is introduced to solve editing decoupling failure in Multimodal LLMs by disentangling and localizing modality-specific neuron groups for targeted knowledge updates.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Towards Distributed Inference of LLMs on a P2P Network

A new decentralized routing scheme for peer-to-peer LLM serving is proposed to improve inference latency via prefix-cache-aware routing without centralized coordination.

Software Engineering Hacker News

Why stdx is not on crates.io

A discussion regarding why the stdx library is not available on the crates.io registry.

Cybersecurity Hacker News

ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker

Reports that ICE may be purchasing immigrant tax identifiers from data brokers, raising privacy and legal concerns.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd

An analysis of the growth and potential vulnerabilities of the movie-tracking social network Letterboxd.