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I turned to NotebookLM to set up a self-hosted LLM — here's how it went

Can NotebookLM guide me to my first self-hosted LLM?

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OpenAI no longer required to store all users' deleted ChatGPT logs after court ruling


In December 2023, The New York Times sued OpenAI over some very familiar claims: that it had used the publication's copyrighted material in its training data. The suit states that millions of the Times' news articles, in-depth investigations, opinion pieces, reviews, how-to guides, and more were used to train OpenAI's...

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Paperless-ngx paired with a local LLM has made managing my documents so much easier

Unlock the full potential of Paperless-ngx with Paperless AI integration that uses Ollama, a local LLM.

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Say goodbye to Linux audio headaches: how PipeWire simplifies everything

Tired of juggling multiple audio systems on Linux? This development unifies them all, offering a seamless experience like never before.

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Chinese scientists seek ways to unlock AI’s power to tackle real world problems

Su Jionglong, deputy dean of the School of AI and Advanced Computing at Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, researches AI applications aimed at reducing discrimination, providing emotional support and making faster medical diagnoses.

He said he was establishing a start-up with his students, who developed an AI-powered software that translated written text to and from sign language.

“Limitless Mind is an inclusive communication platform to help overcome barriers between people who use sign languages and those who do not,” Su said.

“The lightweight proprietary model


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Shotcut 25.10 Video Editor Rolling Out More AI-Powered Functionality

Released this evening is the first beta of the Shotcut 25.10 open-source video editor. This prominent video editing application for Linux systems is introducing yet more AI-powered functionality.

Since last year Shotcut has been seeing some AI features like integrating OpenAI's Whisper for speech-to-text support . With Shotcut 25.10 they are baking the inverse in text-to-speech support.

The Shotcut 25.10 beta introduces text-to-speech support for the program
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Chinese fintech giant Ant releases powerful AI model to rival DeepSeek, OpenAI

Chinese fintech giant Ant Group has released a new open-source, trillion-parameter large language model (LLM) that boasts stronger maths and coding capabilities than rival models from DeepSeek and OpenAI, escalating the intense competition in artificial intelligence systems.

The new general-purpose Ling-1T model, with 1 trillion parameters, demonstrated “superior complex reasoning ability and overall advantage” against both open-source and closed-source rivals, the company said on Thursday.

It outperformed other major AI models in areas including code generation


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Linux 6.18 Ships With A New Python App In The Source Tree

Merged overnight to the Linux 6.18 kernel were all of the perf subsystem tool updates. Notable with the perf tooling updates is a new Python application living within the kernel source tree.

The perf tools merge for Linux 6.18 included a number of perf tool updates, better support for LLVM Clang cross-compilation, updating against the latest Intel PMU events and metrics, and also some additions to the Python perf code.

The Python bindings have been improved as well as introducing a new "ilist" utility
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PoCL 7.1 Released For Bringing OpenCL To More Devices

PoCL 7.1 is now available for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that brings OpenCL to CPUs and other devices/accelerators via support for the various LLVM back-ends such as NVIDIA PTX, Intel GPUs via Level Zero, etc.

PoCL 7.0 released back in May with OpenCL 3.0 conformance on x86_64 CPUs as the headline feature. With yesterday's PoCL 7.1 release there is now support for the newer LLVM 21 toolchain for CPU targets as well as

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Using generative AI to diversify virtual training grounds for robots

New tool from MIT CSAIL creates realistic virtual kitchens and living rooms where simulated robots can interact with models of real-world objects, scaling up training data for robot foundation models.