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I ditched VS Code for the open-source VSCodium, and I have no regrets

VS Code is one of the most popular open-source (mostly) applications out there, and for good reason: It does everything you ...

The Llama series of models from Meta

Meta’s most popular LLM series is Llama. Llama stands for Large Language Model Meta AI. They are open-source models. Llama 3 was trained with fifteen trillion tokens. It has a context window size of ...

Word and PowerPoint get automatic, on-device Alt Text on Copilot+ PCs

Microsoft has unveiled a new feature for Copilot+ PCs that utilizes on-device NPUs to automatically generate rich, ...

How AI coding agents work—and what to remember if you use them

At the core of every AI coding agent is a technology called a large language model (LLM), which is a type of neural network ...
Kyiv Post

UK’s MI6 New Head to Warn of ‘Aggressive’ Russia Threat in First Speech

Blaise Metreweli took over from Richard Moore in October, becoming the first female chief of MI6 - a role publicly known by ...
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as Google Threatens AI Lead

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
Bleeping Computer

Glassworm malware returns in third wave of malicious VS Code packages

The Glassworm campaign, which first emerged on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces in October, is now in its third wave, with 24 new packages added on the two platforms. OpenVSX and ...
Medscape

Text vs Video Psychotherapy: Which Is Better for Depression?

Message-based psychotherapy (MBP), which uses asynchronous emails or texts, showed effectiveness comparable with that of video-based psychotherapy (VBP) for the treatment of depression on a commercial ...
AppleInsider

New in iOS 26.2 beta 3: AirDrop codes, EU Siri changes, visual tweaks

The third developer beta of iOS 26.2 is here with changes to AirDrop and updates to the Measure app. Here's what's new. The first developer beta of iOS 26.2, meanwhile, offered even more ways of ...
IEEE

Boosting Code-Switching ASR with Mixture of Experts Enhanced Speech-Conditioned LLM

Abstract: In this paper, we introduce a speech-conditioned Large Language Model (LLM) integrated with a Mixture of Experts (MoE) based connector to address the challenge of Code-Switching (CS) ...
NBC News

Hackers breach texting service used by New York state, sending hundreds of thousands of scam texts

Hackers on Monday hijacked a mass text messaging service, pushing hundreds of thousands of scam texts to people who subscribe to alerts from New York state, a Catholic charity and a political ...
The Desert Sun

Adelita Grijalva’s bilingual debut in Congress could resonate in California

WASHINGTON — After a record-breaking 50-day delay that left Arizona’s 7th Congressional District without representation during the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Rep. Adelita Grijalva ...