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I just tested out nanochat, which Turning Post says is bigger than you think. So I asked nanochat two questions. Here is the exchange:

Me: What does Mt. Everest weigh?

Nanochat: Mountain Everest, the highest mountain in the world, weighs approximately 14,007 pounds (6,354 kilograms) on average. However,…

Version 6.18 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include new configuration keys for providing credentials to systemd, BPF token delegation, VirtIO support for sound cards, the ability to export ISO volumes, improvements to the IncusOS command-line utility, and more.

Version 1.0 of the Capability Hardware Extension to RISC-V for IoT (CHERIoT) specification has been released. CHERIoT is a hardware-software system for secure embedded devices, and the specification provides a full description of the ISA and its intended use by CHERIoT RTOS. David Chisnall has written a blog post

While it remains true that KASLR should not be trusted to prevent exploitation, particularly in local contexts, it…

Python already has several ways to run programs concurrently — including asynchronous functions, threads, subinterpreters, and multiprocessing — but all of those options have drawbacks of one kind or another. PEP 703 ("Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython") removed a major barrier to running Python threads in parallel,…