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Cerebras spreads trillion-parameter models across dozens of wafers
A single WSE-3T wafer holds 44 GB of SRAM; a trillion-parameter model needs terabytes. Cerebras shows a 59-wafer pipeline on open Kimi K3 and claims 1,000–2,000+ tokens a second.
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DuckDB 2.0 LTS “Cinnamon Teal”: still in-process, now also a server
The big release after 1.5: the Quack protocol, a CONNECT statement, a VARIANT type, triggers and an agent mode. 2.0 is supported until at least October 2027.
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Networks
Quad9 is leaving France: a court ordered it to lie in DNS, the foundation will not
From 24 November the free resolver will not serve users in France. A court, in a beIN case, wants names blocked. The foundation will not do a global block or geoIP.
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Science
Anthropic: a model writes proofs that a library will not crash
Claude proved RISC-V-level properties on 123 open libraries from OSS-Fuzz: no crash on any input under 64 MB. Beside that sit 180 million lines of Rocq. That is not “there are no bugs left”.
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AI
DeepSeek ships V4.1 Flash 1017: thinks faster, answers shorter
A small update to the open Flash model lifts coding and agent scores while cutting time and answer length. MIT weights, a million-token context.
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Tech
E Ink Kaleido 4: color readers promise to be brighter and less grainy
The new color e-paper generation claims twice the hues, 15% more white reflectance and 50% more contrast. For now the panel is only on a Chinese Hanvon tablet.
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Robots
Waymo is going to Toronto: robotaxis from 2028, maps start now
Alphabet’s first Canadian city: street mapping first, passengers in two years. Local Element will run the fleet. The company cites 400 million autonomous kilometres.
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Sony breaks its promise: Xperia 10 VI will not get Android 17
Instead of three major upgrades, the mid-range Xperia gets two. Sony blames storage layout. Four years of security patches still stand.
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AI
Meta open-weights Muse Spark: 816B parameters on two Mac Studios
A US open model with 42 billion active parameters and a million-token context. Meta calls it the strongest US open-weight so far and shows it running on a pair of M5 Ultras.
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Fitbit Air gets free auto-detection for a hundred workouts
The screenless band will guess activity from heart rate and context. The same firmware lands on Edge and Pixel Watch 3–5. Some Health Guardian reports stay behind a subscription.
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Energy
Tesla refreshes the Roadster page: fans, three trims, a “flying” Rocket
The site again sells a sports car “beyond Plaid”: fans that hold the car upside down, steer-by-wire, and a separate Rocket with cold-gas thrusters. Rocket is not street-legal.
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The leap second is cancelled: continuous UTC from 20 May 2027
The General Conference on Weights and Measures will make Coordinated Universal Time continuous. Earth-rotation drift may accumulate up to an hour. The trigger is the risk of a negative leap second.
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Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon: a model for long engineering jobs
The new Gemini generation is tuned for science, code and long refactors. Inside Google it already helped Chrome and quantum chemistry. A robotics branch ships separately.
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