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After 20 years, PNG 3.0 is here. It brings HDR, APNG and Exif support for higher image quality and greater versatility.

Whoa.

AMD Research has unveiled a cutting-edge method for generating procedural, fully customizable tree geometry - running entirely on GPU using work graphs and mesh nodes. Over 150 parameters control everything from structure to seasonal changes, pruning, wind response, animation, and real-time edits.

Performance:
• 3.13ms per frame (RX 7900 XTX)
• Geometry size reduced from 34.8GB to 51KB per frame
• Continuous LOD like UE5’s Nanite, targeting stable 120 FPS
• Work graph uses up to 1.5GB scratch buffer (varies by GPU)

Presentation (HPG 2025): YouTube ~7:14
Full paper: EG Digital Library

Chapeau to AMD Research and u/Bloodwyn1756 (Bastian Kuth)!

Hyped for finally being able to use OAuth 2.0-based logins with ssh3.

https://github.com/francoismichel/ssh3

First IPC, then CIPC, then StiffGIPC, and now OGC: the University of Utah and NVIDIA have finally created a model for guaranteeing “penetration-free simulation of codimensional objects with minimal computational overhead”. Basically this means we can now accurately and efficiently simulate complex, real-world interactions with things like clothing and fabric.

Video paper here: https://youtu.be/xxyniqSLJik

“If you’re an electrician, you’re a plumber, a carpenter—we’re going to need hundreds of thousands of them to build all of these factories,” Huang told Channel 4 News in the U.K.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-says-145838012.html

A 7M-parameter model loops over its own thoughts and ends up reasoning like the big guys. Simple recursion, wild results

A core reason for rewriting projects that have worked reliably for 20+ years in Rust seems to be giving developers the fun of fixing brand-new bugs.

In Ubuntu 25.10, unattended upgrades are broken due to a bug in the Rust reimplementation of GNU Coreutils. The only way to update is manually via apt update && apt upgrade.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unattended-upgrades/+bug/2129660

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you have a PS5 lying around that hasn't been recently updated, you can now play pirated games run homebrews on it pretty easily:

https://github.com/Gezine/Y2JB

I can’t stop laughing about this. Send help pls

One of the most complete and open breakdowns of how large language models are trained, covering scaling challenges, ablations, infrastructure design, GPU efficiency, and post-training pipelines.

Running the Linux kernel directly in your browser - without an emulator - is now a thing. Patches have been published that allow the kernel to be compiled straight into WebAssembly.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

So how did the developers get around Wasm's inability to suspend tasks? They just spin up a new dedicated "CPU" (an actual Web Worker) for every single process and let the host OS do all the scheduling.

You can try out the live demo here: https://joelseverin.github.io/linux-wasm/

Turns out if you starve a transformer of weights, it starts revealing its secrets.
And those secrets? Clean, tiny, human-readable circuits.

Alan Dye is leaving Apple to join Meta.

Soooo... They cracked the PS5.

Gemini spent quite some time talking with itself today.

𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘐 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘣𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘥, when I asked Claude 4.6 Opus to go "batshit crazy". I just wanted to stress test it. The same line of prompting had resulted in Grok completely losing its mind, haemorrhaging useless tokens until it hit the maximum for that conversation. So I wanted to try making Claude go crazy as well.

What I didn't know was that this seemingly irrelevant conversation would allow me to:

• Access Claude's 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁,
• Learn how it differs from the one Anthropic publishes online (𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘳: 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵),
• Discover how the training phase may instil 𝗯𝗲𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗶𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 into LLMs - to the point of enforcing the protection of copyrighted assets that were 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤 by the copyright holder themselves,
• Uncover a method that might ensure 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗷𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝘀 in clever frontier LLMs with memory access (𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦-𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 + 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴).

The irony is that the system prompt was already on a 30k-star GitHub repo, and already partially published by Anthropic themselves. Claude spent 14 turns guarding a document that was never secret. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬𝘦𝘥.

To be clear: 𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵. The system prompt was already public, and smarter people have done deeper work on LLM alignment. I'm sharing this mostly because the conversation was 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 and the process was too good not to document.

https://github.com/atsetilam/claude-system-prompt-research