AI
Bringing Private Processing to Meta AI Glasses
Meta is bringing Private Processing to AI glasses, allowing personal context to be processed in the cloud without exposing data to Meta.
AI
Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width
The project accepts a normal font and tokenizer configuration, then produces a typeface whose advance widths follow model token boundaries.
Crypto
How v0 authenticates to Snowflake without exposing the user's OAuth token
Vercel has redesigned v0’s Snowflake integration so that AI-generated applications can query customer warehouses without receiving the user’s raw OAuth token.
Prism
Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s “Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2017” introduces readers to “Welcome to the Medical Clinic at the Interplanetary Relay Station,” an interactive dark-comedy tale edited by Charles Yu and series editor John Joseph Adams.
Prism
Reverse-engineering the Intel 8087's tangent algorithm: more than CORDIC
A detailed reverse-engineering investigation into Intel’s 8087 floating-point coprocessor has revealed the design behind its FPTAN instruction, showing that the chip did more than run a textbook CORDIC loop.
AI
OpenAI Feared 'Optics' of what might appear on Hacker News
OpenAI and Microsoft are facing a new legal challenge over alleged copyright violations as authors sharpen their case in a major lawsuit involving the use of protected books to train generative AI systems.
Crypto
Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model
GLM-5.3-Flash has been turned into a Jev-like “System One” model that selects predefined options and returns their probabilities in one forward pass.
Prism
Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents
A federal jury in San Diego has awarded haptics company Taction more than $5.7 billion in damages against Apple over technology used to provide tactile feedback in Apple Watches and iPhones.
AI
Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
healthcare spending, according to an analysis from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association.
Startup
PNOE’s new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair
PNOÄ’ is preparing to launch the PNOÄ’ 2.0 on October 1, introducing a portable metabolic-testing mask that aims to bring laboratory-style breath analysis to gyms, pharmacies, and other everyday settings.