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OnePlus, a consumer electronics brand, will cease operations in the US and Europe as part of a larger restructuring under its parent company Oppo. Existing devices will continue to receive software updates and security patches, but no new products will be launched in these regions.

Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, a 2.8-trillion-parameter open model with native multimodality and a Mixture-of-Experts architecture. The model achieves approximately 2.5× better scaling efficiency than its predecessor and is available via Kimi.com, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API.

Kani is an open-source verification tool that integrates with the standard Rust toolchain, checking for safety and correctness of Rust code. It uses model checking to analyze Rust programs, providing a powerful tool for developers to ensure the reliability of their code.

A partial port of Kubernetes to TypeScript makes it possible to run clusters in the browser, with pod lifecycles, cluster DNS and networking, and more. The demo is a webernetes cluster that runs entirely in the browser, doing much of the same work as a real Kubernetes cluster.

The author delves into the complexities of reporting free or used memory in modern operating systems, specifically FreeBSD, and discovers issues with the `btop` tool. A fix is proposed and implemented, providing a more accurate representation of memory usage.

Payments company Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal Holdings Inc for $60.50 per share, valuing the company at over $53 billion. The offer is backed by $50 billion in committed financing from banks and represents a 28% premium to PayPal's closing share price on Tuesday.

A developer successfully ran Google's Gemma 4 26B model on a 13-year-old Xeon with no GPU, achieving 5 tokens per second decode speed. The journey to get there reveals the state of local LLM inference on non-standard hardware.

Thinking Machines Lab releases its first open-weights model, Inkling, with 975B parameters and multimodal input capabilities. The model is available for fine-tuning and integration into third-party products.

A new wave of AI-powered voice fraud is sweeping the nation, leaving law enforcement and financial institutions struggling to keep up. With just three seconds of audio, scammers can create a convincing clone of a person's voice, allowing them to trick victims into handing over sensitive information or money.

SpaceX's bond value has dropped to 10% less than its issue price, sparking concerns about the company's financial health and potential junk bond status. The bond market is signaling that SpaceX is a higher risk investment, with an average credit spread of 1.62 percentage points over Treasuries, similar to BB-rated bonds [1].

Exploring alternatives to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware, including HIP, SYCL, and ROCm.

Tailscale has released a security bulletin detailing a vulnerability in their SSH implementation, allowing unauthorized root access.