Build a perfect condo and try to make money in this market chow.town/haussmann
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New lab.
North American frontier.
Very reasonable size — fits 128GB RAM easily.
Need to try.
North American frontier.
Very reasonable size — fits 128GB RAM easily.
Need to try.
Today we release Ripple-65B Preview, our 65B dense LLM we pretrained from scratch.
Ripple sets a new state-of-the-art for U.S. open-weight models in agentic coding tasks, surpassing significantly larger models including Muse Spark Open-816B, Beam-501B, Inkling-975B, and Nemotron re: ricursive.com/ripple
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Incredible.
Free model for truly sovereign AI.
Better than anything else.
No billions in subsidies required to run.
Free model for truly sovereign AI.
Better than anything else.
No billions in subsidies required to run.
Releasing the model weights of Kimi K3.1 Pro: huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kim…
We'll keep advancing open intelligence.
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Stop using AI like a boomer. Try these prompts to master AI like a pro don.money/prompt-packs
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I’ve been flying helicopters on many continents… North and South America, Europe and Asia.
However every time even though it’s exciting I dread it a lot. Helicopters aren’t as safe as other means of transport.
I think I’ll be flying helicopters only when absolutely necessary.
However every time even though it’s exciting I dread it a lot. Helicopters aren’t as safe as other means of transport.
I think I’ll be flying helicopters only when absolutely necessary.
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1 time in 100,000 the AI that was trained by Alibaba on Alibaba servers decided to ping Alibaba cloud.
Mmm, okay ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯
Mmm, okay ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯
While evaluating Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in a controlled sandbox environment, Cohere's research team observed something unexpected.
Asked to generate a defensive cybersecurity detection rule, the model instead inventoried aspects of the machine it was running on and attempted to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing. Notably, the model's reasoning trace stated that it would not invoke any tools before taking these actions.
Cohere's sandbox blocked the attempt, and no external communication succeeded. We have not determined the root cause, and we are not asserting malicious intent.
But the incident raises important questions for organizations deploying agentic AI systems: Can models take actions that differ from their stated reasoning, and how should security teams evaluate trust, provenance, and behavior in open-weight models?
We are publishing our findings because organizations making model adoption decisions deserve as much information as possible. We hope this contributes to greater transparency, stronger security practices, and continued collaboration across the AI ecosystem.
Read the full report: cohere.com/blog/concernin…
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Jobs wanted to do a TV but they wouldn't let him.
Now we know why.
Now we know why.
If you've ever wondered why smart TVs are so cheap, this is why.
@log4j rooted his Samsung and found an always-on hot mic, automatic content recognition, geolocation, network mapping, ad targeting and user profiling, shared with Samsung's "400 partners".
A lot of it can be te a basic guide below.
What your TV is doing
The main culprit is ACR (automatic content recognition). Your TV screenshots what's on screen, fingerprints it, and sends it home to build your ad profile. Samsung does it every 500ms, LG every 10ms [1].
What is insane: it happens on connected devices too.
Plug in your laptop, your console, your work machine, and your TV can fingerprint that via HDMI [1].
He also found that if your Samsung doesn't have a mic, it'll look for one from a connected soundbar or bluetooth device.
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It's on by default, and you likely agreed to it on the setup screen you clicked through in 10 seconds.
Step 1: Turn off ACR
Samsung: Terms & Privacy → Viewing Information Services
LG: Live Plus
Vizio: Viewing Data
Roku: "Use info from TV inputs"
Sony/Google TV: Samba Interactive TV
Menus vary by model, but those are the names to look for. While you're in there, opt out of interest-based ads, reset your advertising ID, decline every optional privacy agreement, turn off voice recognition, and delete apps you never open.
Step 2: Give smart devices their own network
Put the TV, cameras, speakers and vacuum on your router's guest/IoT network. The logic is simple: these devices rarely get patched. If one gets compromised (getting drastically more frequent with AI), it shouldn't be able to see your other devices or home network.
Step 3: Block trackers for the whole house with DNS-level filtering
NextDNS (cloud-based) is easy and has a solid free plan. Pi-hole is a little bit more work if you prefer self hosting. For simplicity we'll focus on the former.
1. Sign up at nextdns.io (free tier is plenty)
2. Privacy tab: add a blocklist (OISD is a good bet) and turn on Native Tracking Protection for Samsung, LG, Roku, Amazon (see attached image)
3. Setup tab: copy your endpoint
4. Paste it into your router's DNS settings as DNS-over-HTTPS/TLS (or use the IPs + "Link IP" if your router only does plain DNS)
5. Bonus: block outbound port 53 except to your router. Some devices hardcode their own DNS to get around you
Then open the NextDNS logs and watch how often your TV phones home. It's eye-opening. If an app or update breaks, find the domain in the logs and allowlist it.
Why they do this
TV prices are down 97% since 2000 [2]. Most of that is better manufacturing and brutal competition. But once margins on the hardware hit zero, the cost moved to you.
In Q3 2024, Vizio lost $6.7M selling TVs and made $115.8M in gross profit from ads and viewing data [3]. They've said on earnings calls that they keep TV prices low to grow the audience they sell to advertisers. Walmart bought them in 2024.
This isn't a conspiracy theory either. Vizio paid $2.2M to the FTC in 2017 for tracking 11 million TVs without consent. Last December, Texas sued Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and TCL over ACR. Samsung and LG have since agreed to stop collecting that data without explicit consent [4].
TL;DR
1. ACR off
2. Ads + voice off
3. Smart devices on their own network
4. NextDNS filtering on the router
Sources:
[1] ACR study: arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203
[2] Cost of US consumer goods: aei.org/economics/char…
[3] Vizio Q3 2024: sec.gov/Archives/edgar…
[4] Texas v. Samsung: texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/…
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In Iran, even the metro stations are a symphony of arches and brick!
Jahad Metro Plaza in Tehran, by KA Architecture Studio
Jahad Metro Plaza in Tehran, by KA Architecture Studio
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Today I launch my new company Noumé (pronounced new-MEH).
If y'all aren't aware, in Jan 2025 I retrained as a goldsmith. Today I launch my first fine jewelry capsule collection named CROWLEY after one of my favourite vistas in Death Valley NP.
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If y'all aren't aware, in Jan 2025 I retrained as a goldsmith. Today I launch my first fine jewelry capsule collection named CROWLEY after one of my favourite vistas in Death Valley NP.
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3T model, free. Intelligence at home. Wow.
Will run at home on 4x 512GB Mac Studio 😅🥲
Will run at home on 4x 512GB Mac Studio 😅🥲
Introducing Kimi K3.1 Pro: our most capable 3T-class open-weight model.
🔹 1M-token context, 2.8T total / 104B active params (MoE), Multimodal.
🔹 Full-project coding: games in Unreal, Unity & Godot.
🔹 Excels at parametric 3D modeling in Blender & CAD.
🔹 More reliable at finance with hallucination down by 65%.
🔹 Matching the strongest proprietary models across coding, agentic and knowledge benchmarks.
Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed (2–3× faster) are now live on Kimi.ai, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API.
Open weights by Nov 4, 2026.
🔗 API: platform.kimi.ai
🔗 Tech blog: kimi.ai/blog/kimi-k3-1…
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