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Google's Nano Banana Pro is a new edge AI device that offers powerful computing capabilities in a compact, energy-efficient design. The article highlights the device's potential applications in various industries, such as robotics, smart homes, and intelligent sensors.

Google has announced a new Quick Share feature for Android, providing users with a seamless way to share files and content between Android devices. The feature aims to offer a similar experience to Apple's AirDrop, allowing for easy and efficient cross-device file transfers.

fex-emu is an open-source emulator that allows users to run Nintendo Switch games and applications on their computers. The emulator aims to provide a faithful and accurate reproduction of the Nintendo Switch hardware and software environment.

The article explores the phenomenon of employee turnover at top firms, highlighting how high-performing companies often have higher rates of worker attrition compared to lower-performing organizations. It discusses the potential benefits and drawbacks of this trend, suggesting that employee churn can be a sign of a dynamic and competitive work environment.

The article discusses the challenges faced by the xdotool project in adapting to the Wayland display server protocol, highlighting the fragmentation within the Linux desktop ecosystem and the need for better coordination between different display server implementations.

Blue Origin has announced upgrades to its New Glenn rocket, including new subcooled propellant components and improved engines, which are expected to enhance the rocket's performance and capabilities.

RavynOS is an open-source, lightweight, and customizable Linux distribution designed for older hardware and embedded systems. It aims to provide a modern and efficient computing experience while maintaining a low resource footprint.

The article discusses how over-regulation in Pakistan is doubling the cost of doing business, making it more difficult for entrepreneurs and small businesses to operate effectively. It highlights the need for regulatory reforms and simplified procedures to create a more conducive business environment.

GitHut is a website that provides visualizations and statistics related to the GitHub platform, including trends in programming languages, popular repositories, and user activity.

The article discusses the use of facial recognition technology by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to track down undocumented immigrants, including by scanning driver's license photos without consent. This has raised concerns about privacy and civil liberties, as the program operates largely without oversight or public knowledge.

The article discusses a security vulnerability in Okta's implementation of the OAuth 2.0 protocol in NextJS applications, which could allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. The vulnerability was discovered and responsibly disclosed by the author, leading to a fix by Okta.

This article explores the challenges faced by those living in the 'bottom' of the housing market, including limited housing options, high rents, and the stigma associated with low-income housing. It examines the systemic issues that contribute to the marginalization of this population and the need for policy changes to address the housing affordability crisis.

MoboMaps is a web-based platform that allows users to create and share interactive maps, visualize data, and collaborate on mapping projects. The platform offers a range of features, including geospatial analysis, data integration, and real-time updates, to help users effectively communicate spatial information.

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As part of a little research and also some fun I decided to try my hand at seeing how small of an ESP32 board I can make with functioning WiFi.

The Zork text adventure game has been made open-source by Microsoft, allowing developers to use the game's assets and code for new projects. This move comes as part of Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the company that previously owned the rights to Zork.

This article explores the concept of Hilbert space, which allows treating functions as vectors. It explains how this mathematical framework can be used to understand and work with infinite-dimensional spaces, and how it has applications in fields like quantum mechanics and functional analysis.

Hello world, this is Abhay from Poly (https://poly.app). We’re building an app to replace Finder/File Explorer with something more intelligent and searchable. Think of it like Dropbox + NotebookLM + Perplexity for terabytes of your files. Here’s a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsqCySU4Ln0.

Poly can search your content in natural language, across a broad range of file types and down to the page, paragraph, pixel, or point in time. We also provide an integrated agent that can take actions on your files such as creating, editing, summarizing, and researching. Any action that you can take, the agent can also take, from renaming, moving, tagging, annotating, and organizing files for you. The agent can also read URLs, youtube links, and can search the web and even download files for you.

Here are some public drives that you can poke around in (note: it doesn’t work in Safari yet—sorry! we’re working on it.)

Every issue of the Whole Earth Catalogue: https://poly.app/shared/whole-earth-catalogues

Archive of old Playstation Manuals: https://poly.app/shared/playstation-manuals-archive

Mini archive of Orson Welles interviews and commercial spots: https://poly.app/shared/orson-welles-archive

Archive of Salvador Dali’s paintings for Alice in Wonderland: https://poly.app/shared/salvador-dali-alice-in-wonderland

To try it out, navigate to one of these public folders and use the agent or search to find things. The demo video above can give you an idea of how the UI roughly works. Select files by clicking on them. Quick view by pressing space. Open the details for any file by pressing cmd + i. You can search from the top middle bar (or press cmd + K), and all searches will use semantic similarity and search within the files. Or use the agent from the bottom right tools menu (or press cmd + ?) and you can ask about the files, have the agent search for you, summarize things, etc.

We decided to build this after launching an early image-gen company back in March 2022, and realizing how painful it was for users to store, manage, and search their libraries, especially in a world of generative media. Despite our service having over 150,000 users at that point, we realized that our true calling was fixing the file browser to make it intelligent, so we shut our service down in 2023 and pivoted to this.

We think Poly will be a great fit for anyone that wants to do useful things with their files, such as summarizing research papers, finding the right media or asset, creating a shareable portfolio, searching for a particular form or document, and producing reports and overviews. Of course, it’s a great way to organize your genAI assets as well. Or just use it to organize notes, links, inspo, etc.

Under the hood, Poly is built on our advanced search model, Polyembed-v1 that natively supports multimodal search across text, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, images, audio, video, PDFs, and more. We allow you to search by phrase, file similarity, color, face, and several other kinds of features. The agent is particularly skilled at using the search, so you can type in something like “find me the last lease agreement I signed” and it can go look for it by searching, reading the first few files, searching again if nothing matches, etc. But the quality of our embed model means it almost always finds the file in the first search.

It works identically across web and desktop, except on desktop it syncs your cloud files to a folder (just like google drive). On the web we use clever caching to enable offline support and file conflict recovery. We’ve taken great pains to make our system faster than your existing file browser, even if you’re using it from a web browser.

File storage plans are currently at: 100GB free tier, paid tier is 2TB at $10/m, and 1c per GB per month on top of the 2TB. We also have rate limits for agent use that vary at different tiers.

We’re excited to expand with many features over the following months, including “virtual files” (store your google docs in Poly), sync from other hosting providers, mobile apps, an MCP ecosystem for the agent, access to web search and deep research modes, offline search, local file support (on desktop), third-party sources (WebDAV, NAS), and a whole lot more.

Our waitlist is now open and we’ll be letting folks in starting today! Sign up at https://poly.app.

We’d also love to hear your thoughts (and concerns) about what we’re building, as we’re early in this journey so your feedback can very much shape the future of our company!

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GeoaCron is an interactive world history atlas that allows users to explore events, empires, and civilizations throughout time on a dynamic global map. It provides a comprehensive visual representation of historical developments, enabling users to gain a deeper understanding of the past.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18574

Astral OS, a newly launched operating system, has announced support for running Minecraft on its platform. This integration aims to provide a seamless and optimized Minecraft experience for users of the Astral OS ecosystem.

I polished a Markov chain generator and trained it on an article by Uri Alon and al (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7963340/).

It generates text that seems to me at least on par with tiny LLMs, such as demonstrated by NanoGPT. Here is an example:

  jplr@mypass:~/Documenti/2025/SimpleModels/v3_very_good$
  ./SLM10b_train UriAlon.txt 3
  
  Training model with order 3...
  
  Skip-gram detection: DISABLED (order < 5)
  
  Pruning is disabled
  
  Calculating model size for JSON export...
  
  Will export 29832 model entries
  
  Exporting vocabulary (1727 entries)...
  
  Vocabulary export complete.
  
  Exporting model entries...
  
    Processed 12000 contexts, written 28765 entries (96.4%)...
  
  JSON export complete: 29832 entries written to model.json
  
  Model trained and saved to model.json
  
  Vocabulary size: 1727
  
  jplr@mypass:~/Documenti/2025/SimpleModels/v3_very_good$ ./SLM9_gen model.json

This article discusses the creative process behind Flip the Disc, a live music and visual performance that combines electronic music with custom-built rotating LED discs. The piece explores how the artists integrate technology and physicality to create an immersive and visually striking experience for the audience.

This article explores the potential future state of the world in 2025, examining developments in technology, society, and politics. It discusses advancements in artificial intelligence, renewable energy, and global cooperation, while also highlighting potential challenges such as inequality, climate change, and geopolitical tensions.