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In brief Nous Research’s Hermes Agent crossed 100,000 GitHub stars in 10 weeks, spawning a fast-growing ecosystem of community-built GUI wrappers. Four community interfaces now let users skip the command line entirely, from a Mac-native SSH companion to a full mobile PWA accessible via Tailscale. All four GUIs run on a standard Hermes install and none require patching or forking the agent itself. So you installed Hermes. You ran it, asked it some things, it remembered them, maybe even built a skill on its own. Pretty good.But now you’re staring at a terminal window and wondering if this is really…

I’ve been tackling the consumer multi-GPU PCIe bandwidth problem — Nvidia dropped NVLink from the 4090/5090, so distributing a 70B model across two consumer GPUs limits you to roughly 30 GB/s over PCIe peer-to-peer. Over the past few months, I’ve built a Python library that leverages the GPU’s otherwise-unused NVENC/NVDEC hardware to compress activations and KV cache in real time, then transmits the compact bitstream across the same connection. Repository: (Apache 2.0) Existing work (the concept itself isn’t new) LLM.265 — “Video Codecs are Secretly Tensor Codecs” (late 2025). The most closely related prior work: same core insight applied to…

A joint international crackdown by American and Chinese authorities has resulted in the detention of at least 276 individuals and the closure of nine fraud hubs involved in cryptocurrency investment scams aimed at U.S. citizens, which caused losses running into millions of dollars. The operation was spearheaded by the Dubai Police, under the umbrella of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Ministry of Interior, working alongside the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security. Among those taken into custody are nationals from Burma and Indonesia, who were detained by authorities in Dubai and Thailand. Thet…

Eric White In a way, the title really does say it all—providing various event tickets to veterans to offer them a bit of recreation and fulfill that desire many of us share to get out and about. Could we take a small step back? I’d like to learn more about the organization’s story and how it all started. Steve Weintraub Absolutely. It was founded locally in 2008 in Tempe, Arizona, which is near Phoenix. Our founder, Mike Focareto, a Navy veteran, came up with the whole idea. Our core mission is to give something to those who gave. Back in…

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNETFollow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Few things are more frustrating than sitting through two non-skippable 90-second ads every five minutes while watching YouTube. If you’re ready to escape advertisements for good, a YouTube Premium subscription might be worth considering. YouTube offers two plans: Premium, which removes all ads and includes a YouTube Music subscription, and Premium Lite—a more affordable option that reduces ads but doesn’t include YouTube Music.Also: YouTube Premium is getting a price increase in June—but you can save $32 with one changeBoth tiers support offline downloads and picture-in-picture mode. YouTube…

The Inference Scaling Era For a long time, improving a model’s intelligence meant adding more parameters during its training phase. Today, leading models like GPT 5.5 and the o1 series achieve top-tier performance by dedicating significantly more computational power to generating each individual response. This approach is called inference scaling or test-time compute. It empowers a model to leverage additional processing capacity while formulating a response, allowing it to scrutinize its own logic and refine its output until it arrives at the most accurate answer. For product development teams, this shifts model selection into a critical operational trade-off. Activating a…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols are moving to freeze stolen funds, while centralized issuers are drawing criticism for their slower responses.A recent action on Arbitrum led to the freezing of assets linked to an attacker following a major exploit. Meanwhile, some stablecoin issuers, including Circle, have faced public criticism for their delayed or limited actions in similar cases.Connor Howe, CEO and co-founder of the cross-chain infrastructure project Enso, noted that crypto protocols are not much different from centralized platforms or banks if a small group can freeze funds.“The difference from a bank compliance officer is smaller than DeFi idealists will ever…

filename_counter: Counter = Counter() all_json_keys: Counter = Counter() samples_for_show: List = [] for i, row in enumerate(tqdm(ds_test, desc=”inspecting structure”, total=200)): if i >= 200: break p = parse_task(row[“task_binary”]) if p[“format”] in (“tar”, “zip”): for name, body in p[“files”].items(): filename_counter[name] += 1 if name.endswith(“.json”) and isinstance(body, str): try: obj = json.loads(body) if isinstance(obj, dict): for k in obj.keys(): all_json_keys[k] += 1 except Exception: pass if len(samples_for_show) < 2: samples_for_show.append((row[“path”], p)) print(“nMost common filenames inside task archives:”) for name, n in filename_counter.most_common(15): print(f” {n:>4} {name}”) print(“nMost common top-level JSON keys (across any *.json):”) for k, n in all_json_keys.most_common(20): print(f” {n:>4} {k}”) if…

Microsoft Defender is incorrectly flagging valid DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha, causing widespread false alarms and, in some instances, deleting these certificates from Windows systems. Cybersecurity specialist Florian Roth notes that the problem began after Microsoft included these detections in a Defender signature update released on April 30th. System administrators around the globe started noticing that DigiCert root certificate entries were being marked as malicious software and, on impacted machines, were being removed from the Windows certificate trust store. A Reddit thread discussing the false positives identified the following certificates as being affected: 0563B8630D62D75ABBC8AB1E4BDFB5A899B24D43 DDFB16CD4931C973A2037D3FC83A4D7D775D05E4 On affected machines, these certificates…

Jordan Morrow stands as a top global authority on data and AI, widely recognized as the creator of the data literacy movement. He’s written five best-selling books on data and AI skills, delivered a TEDx talk, and earned the title “Godfather of Data Literacy”—though he’s a bit uncomfortable with that nickname. “I didn’t coin that name myself,” he clarifies right away. Once he begins speaking though, that minor detail quickly fades. Morrow breaks down data literacy in simple terms, framing it as a core skill for functioning effectively as “humans in the age of AI.” Much of his experience in…