Jim’s News

OpenAI acquired presentation startup NextSlide and the team is now working on ChatGPT.

Claude Code made auto mode the default for Pro, Max, and Team plan users.

Shopify replaced Redis with MySQL for inventory reservations and achieved improved scaling.

Fastmail launched an EU data region option for email services.

Os8088 is a Mac-like operating system designed for IBM XT, 286, and 386 computers.

An article presents a technical approach to generating dithered QR codes.

An article discusses using a phone as a server.

X is ending its revenue-sharing program and launching a new Original Content Rewards program on September 8.

An open-source interactive map was created for tracking the August 12 total solar eclipse.

An article examines whether Intel can achieve performance-per-watt parity with ARM processors.

Danish high school students are now required to verbally defend written assignments.

TinySol is a tiny solitaire game written for DOS.

The Pentagon is pressing defense firms to increase weapons production amid depleted stocks from an Iran war.

Berkshire Hathaway's new CEO began deploying the company's accumulated cash reserves.

Winning numbers were drawn for a Powerball jackpot of $863 million.

Two firefighters were killed in a helicopter crash near a wildfire in Utah.

Spokane-area fires held steady as crews faced a second day of red flag weather conditions.

A fast-moving wildfire in British Columbia doubled in size, forcing thousands to evacuate their homes.

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey announced a military defense pact.

Ukraine honored a volunteer killed while recovering war dead.

Paris police are enforcing safety gear requirements for e-scooter riders with fines for violations.

Oman reported positive progress in talks about establishing a new shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz.

A child was among three killed in Russian missile attacks near Kyiv.

Max Miller, a Republican accused of abuse, stated he would not withdraw from a race.

A user showcased a four-GPU setup built over multiple years from gaming to a 4x RTX 6000 Pro AI cluster.

A quantized version of Kimi K3 was reduced from 711GB to 478GB by removing multilingual support while maintaining English language capabilities.

A user documented performance improvements when enabling PCIe peer-to-peer on consumer Nvidia GPUs with VLLM.

A user is planning a home AI server setup comparing GPU and CPU options for scaling VRAM from 32GB to 48GB.

A developer built a zero-dependency C99 inference engine for 1.58-bit ternary models achieving 36 tokens per second on CPU.

A user wrote a custom metal kernel for the Kimi K2 model in approximately 50 minutes using the DS4 flash variant.

A user found significant tokenization differences between Qwen 35B and Gemma 26B when processing the same HTML/JS code.

A user reported slow token generation speeds when using DeepSeek-V4-Flash with speculative decoding on llama-server.

A user built a local real-time voice stack using Parakeet STT, Qwen 2.5 7B, and Qwen3-TTS with Ollama.

A user tested whether repeated generation and self-evaluation improve timestamp-anchored video summary quality with Gemma 4 12B.

A user reported their initial experience running Kimi K3 locally across distributed GPU clusters.

An RTX 5090 96GB variant was reportedly spotted on Alibaba.

Demi Vollering won stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes and took the yellow jersey from Niewiadoma-Phinney.

Demi Vollering won stage 8 and took the yellow jersey with an 8-second lead over Niewiadoma-Phinney with one stage remaining.

Demi Vollering won stage 8 and seized the yellow jersey with one day remaining in the Tour de France Femmes.

The final stage of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes will be held on Sunday with high tensions among contenders.

FDJ-United-Suez executed a successful race strategy to place Demi Vollering in the yellow jersey.

Questions arose regarding contact during stage 7 of the Tour de France Femmes between riders competing for the yellow jersey.

Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney lost the yellow jersey after a complaint about FDJ teammate Célia Géry resulted in no penalty.

Demi Vollering responded to Niewiadoma's allegation about her teammate, defending Géry's actions.

Stage 9 of the Tour de France Femmes features four climbs with the yellow jersey lead at risk on the final day.

Demi Vollering defended teammate Célia Géry after Niewiadoma-Phinney's complaint about stage 8 contact.

Movistar team seeks to defend Marlen Reusser's podium position in the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes.

Kasia Niewiadoma accused Demi Vollering's FDJ team of improper tactics after losing the yellow jersey in stage 8.