Hidden geometry explains why kernel methods separate complex data so well

Are two sets of data genuinely different, or is it because of randomness? This question, known as the two-sample testing problem, becomes notoriously difficult in modern datasets, because they are ...
MSN on MSN

Every photo, song, and video you store is really just patterns of ones and zeros

Every phone in every pocket holds a personal archive that would have filled a warehouse two decades ago. Photos, playlists, ...
Hackaday

Spy Tech: The GPS Numbers Station

We’ve talked before about number stations — mysterious shortwave transmitters repeating numbers, presumably for clandestine ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Engineers built a single chip that can generate, steer and read light, encoding data in a quantum property called the valley state

A team of engineers has packed light generation, routing, and detection onto a single chip by encoding data in a quantum ...

Chinese APT deploys new malware to keep access to hacked networks

A Chinese espionage group tracked as UNC5221 has been accessing Microsoft 365 environments using the Brickstorm backdoor and ...

Science reveals people are capable of multitasking — it just requires practice

An experiment carried out by Riesenhuber and colleagues has revealed that the brain has a workaround that can be activated ...
InfoQ

Why Vector Search Alone Isn't Enough: Hybrid Retrieval for RAG

In this article, author Aaditya Chauhan discusses the limitations of RAG pipelines based purely on vector search and how an ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Edge LLM Offload Story

Modern edge devices demand heterogeneous AI architectures that can mix and match subsystems to accelerate different aspects ...
IGN

"It's helpful if there are not dragons that need to be rendered."

Harry Potter fans will likely have to wait multiple years between seasons of HBO's upcoming TV series, the streaming service has admitted. Until now, HBO had said it would adapt each of the saga's ...
Rolling Stone

Bad Bunny’s Spotify Streams Soar 470 Percent in U.S. Post-Super Bowl

Bad Bunny‘s streaming gains are already end zone worthy. Following his performance at the 2026 Super Bowl, the Puerto Rican star saw a significant spike in Spotify streams, with a 470 percent increase ...
WRIC

The 8-Bit Show: RVA’s first Ren Faire

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — On the latest episode of The 8-Bit Show, host Hekla Petursson talks to organizers ahead of Richmond’s first Ren Faire in April! Here’s a full calendar of events leading up to ...
GitHub

potential data races when encoding multiple HEVC streams

Have been testing kvazaar in a fully multithreaded environment where multiple independent threads create their own HEVC encoders. A simple test with valgrind does not reveal memory leaks but a closer ...