Google unveils TurboQuant, a new AI memory compression algorithm — and yes, the internet is calling it ‘Pied Piper’

Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises ...

Research Shows Where Persona Prompting Works And When It Backfires

Research shows that persona prompting "reliably" damages accuracy for some types of tasks but works well in other categories.
Irish Sun

Exploiting the vulnerable & using women & kids as ‘commodity’… greedy criminals caged for smuggling people into Ireland

THIS is the interpreter who is now behind bars after he was caught illegally smuggling people into Ireland. Charles Kamanga, 41, of Clondalkin, Dublin, is one of many “international facilitators” ...
Hackaday

Slug Algorithm For On-GPU Rendering Of Fonts With Bézier Curves Now In Public Domain

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...