Hardware/Chips The Verge

GuliKit’s new mobile Switch 2 dock lets you play with or without a TV

GuliKit has released a new mobile TV docking station that supports the Nintendo Switch 2 and earlier models.

Hardware/Chips The Verge

Google’s first smart speaker in six years arrives next week

Google is launching a new smart speaker designed for Gemini for Home, marking its first new speaker hardware in six years.

Software Engineering The Verge

LinkedIn will tell others how you really use Adobe’s apps

LinkedIn is introducing a 'connected apps' feature that allows users to verify their actual usage patterns of software tools like Adobe apps on their profiles.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Agentic AI-based Framework for Mitigating Premature Diagnostic Handoff and Silent Hallucination in Healthcare Applications

Researchers propose a multi-agent AI framework for healthcare that uses deterministic orchestration and uncertainty quantification to reduce hallucinations in medical diagnostics.

Software Engineering Hacker News

RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method

RFC 10008 introduces a new HTTP Query method to the web standard, providing a more specialized way to handle queries.

Tech Business/VC Hacker News

Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff

A survey reveals that a majority of US consumers are put off by the use of 'AI' in brand messaging.

Other Hacker News

Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields

An exploration of abandoned and little-known airfields.

Tech Business/VC TechCrunch

DeepL acquires Mixhalo for live-event audio streaming and translation

DeepL acquires Mixhalo to enhance live-event audio streaming and translation capabilities.

Homelab/Self-Hosting The Verge

Will Matter finally be able to do what it should have always done?

Matter 1.6 introduces 'Joint Fabric', allowing multiple smart home ecosystems to manage a single shared network.

Other The Verge

Final Fantasy meets Zelda? Yes, please

Square Enix releases 'The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales', mixing Zelda-style exploration with Final Fantasy RPG elements.

Hardware/Chips Ars Technica

Native NACS ports, infotainment upgrade for MY27 Porsche Taycan

The MY27 Porsche Taycan receives native NACS ports and an infotainment upgrade.

Cybersecurity Ars Technica

Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near

Windows and Linux users are warned about an upcoming deadline to update Secure Boot keys to ensure machine boot sequence security.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

ProvenanceGuard: Source-Aware Factuality Verification for MCP-Based LLM Agents

ProvenanceGuard is a source-aware factuality verifier designed to prevent cross-source conflation in LLM agents using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

PseudoBench: Measuring How Agentic Auto-Research Fuels Pseudoscience

PseudoBench is an adversarial benchmark designed to evaluate and measure how agentic auto-research systems can be fooled by pseudoscientific narratives.

Homelab/Self-Hosting The Verge

My backyard made me a color-changing smart lighting convert

A first-person account of the benefits of using color-changing smart lighting for outdoor home ambiance.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Learn to Quantify Social Interaction with Constraints for Pedestrian Walking

Proposes 'Learn to Cluster', a probabilistic latent variable generative method to quantify and categorize social interactions in pedestrian walking for better path forecasting.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

DiagFlowBench: Evaluating How Language Models Handle Off-Procedure Inputs in Grounded Diagnostic Dialogue

Introduces DiagFlowBench, a dataset of 1,676 conversations based on industrial diagnostic flowcharts to evaluate how LLMs handle off-procedure inputs.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

PreAct: Computer-Using Agents that Get Faster on Repeated Tasks

Presents PreAct, a system that compiles successful agent runs into state-machine programs to accelerate repeated tasks by 8.5-13x.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

How Inference Compute Shapes Frontier LLM Evaluation

Analyzes how inference-time compute budgets (token limits and repeated attempts) significantly impact the performance of frontier LLMs on complex tasks.

AI/ML arXiv cs.AI

Small Initialization Matters for Large Language Models

Demonstrates that reducing parameter initialization scale in LLMs improves pretraining efficiency and reasoning capabilities.