ICE Is Inspiring Latinos to Vote in Historic Numbers
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ICE Is Inspiring Latinos to Vote in Historic Numbers

“I did a Latino community event [and said] we have to actually fucking vote to tell these motherfuckers to fuck off,” Nevada secretary of state Cisco Aguilar tells WIRED.
Making Local LLMs Usable on 8GB GPUs
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Making Local LLMs Usable on 8GB GPUs

Learn how to optimize local LLM inference on 8GB GPUs using KV-cache quantization, Flash Attention, batching, and practical latency benchmarks.
Your AI Agent's Memory Needs Two Clocks
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Your AI Agent's Memory Needs Two Clocks

Agent memory goes stale because it tracks when a fact was stored and not when it happened. A practical guide to bitemporal memory: event time and write time.
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BMW is taking on Tesla’s FSD with urban driver assist starting in 2027

BMW says that it will expand its navigation-guided, partially automated driving capabilities into urban environments starting in 2027, launching first in Germany with other markets to follow. The new system can help steer, speed up, and slow down the vehicle on both highways and city streets using its built-in GPS navigation. While driving in town, […]
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One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet

Google says one of its Android manufacturing partners secretly built a backdoor in 1.3 million devices and turned them into a botnet. The company says it has now dismantled the backdoor and "cut ties" with the manufacturer, the Shenzhen, China-based Videostrong Technology Co., which has been banned from building or selling certified Android devices or […]
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Meta will end Quest 2 OS updates in 2027

Meta is planning to release the last OS update for its Quest 2 and Quest Pro VR headsets by March 2027, the company announced today. The last OS update for those devices is planned to be v213, and after that, Meta will continue to ship security patches and critical bug fixes through the end of […]
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Apple set an iPhone sales record even without a new standard iPhone

Apple had a record-breaking quarter for iPhone sales - despite not releasing a standard model during its latest refresh. In its fourth-quarter earnings report released on Monday, Apple says it earned $57.58 billion in iPhone revenue, a 17 percent jump from the same time last year. The increase in revenue follows the launch of Apple's […]
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Apple is ‘not able to predict’ when it’ll have enough iPhone Duos to go around

Apple CEO John Ternus doesn't have a timeline for when iPhone Duo supply constraints could lift. During an interview with Reuters, Ternus said the company is "working hard to get it to as many customers as quickly as possible, but at this ​point, we're not able to predict when supply and demand will be in […]