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Aleph Alpha announced Kolibri, a Mixture-of-Experts language model supporting English and German. The company says it has 78 billion parameters in total, with 3 billion active; its weights are downloadable from Hugging Face, and it supports context windows of up to 1 million tokens.
Aleph Alpha released Kolibri, an English-German model with context windows of up to 1 million tokens, under the Apache 2.0 license.
Federal Judge Sara Hill in Oklahoma found it unconstitutional to search the past locations of a California-plated vehicle through Flock’s license-plate recognition network. The ruling excluded evidence from that search and the vehicle search, but does not establish binding precedent.
A federal judge in Oklahoma found that searching a vehicle’s past locations through Flock was unconstitutional in this case and excluded the resulting evidence.
Cloudflare announced a closed beta of its managed OHTTP Gateway service, which processes OHTTP traffic. It will be used with a third-party relay for apps hosted on Cloudflare; to preserve the privacy model, the company will refuse to decrypt requests from its own Workers or proxied hosts.
The managed Gateway aims to make it easier for customers hosting application servers on Cloudflare to set up OHTTP architecture.
The Arizona Court of Appeals found it inappropriate to show an AI-generated video of victim Christopher Pelkey at Gabriel Paul Horcasitas’s sentencing and ordered resentencing. Pelkey’s sister made the video using family records, videos, and photographs.
An Arizona appeals court found that showing an AI-generated video of the victim at a murder convict’s sentencing was improper; the defendant will be resentenced.
Valve team member Timur Kristóf presented work at XDC2026 on moving older GCN 1.0/1.1-based AMD cards from the Radeon driver to AMDGPU on Linux. According to the source, the switch enables use of the RADV Vulkan driver; display and power-management issues were addressed, and software reset support was added.
At XDC2026, Timur Kristóf described work to move older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards to the AMDGPU driver on Linux and improve driver functionality.
Kagi announced it will halt Orion development for Linux and Windows and open the source code to the community so its team can focus on macOS and iOS. Details will follow within 30 days; the Linux beta will receive no Kagi updates after October 2, 2026, and the company will not release a Windows version.
Kagi will stop developing Orion for Linux and Windows and open the projects to community contributions.
Halidecx released wpd, a Rust-based WebP decoder intended to improve memory safety; it also uses hand-written assembly for speed. Its developers reported performance gains over libwebp on a subset of their own test data. The decoder has limitations with animation and some image-processing options.
Its developers say Rust-based wpd is safer and faster than libwebp, reporting performance gains in their own tests.
The authors report positive results in every case when they examined Costco locations, universities, and sports venues using 2000–2018 data, and say the same occurred with random results. They argue the method proves neither cancer risk nor causation, and proximity does not measure actual radiation exposure.
An article says Harvard researchers tested their method for measuring the link between proximity to nuclear plants and cancer using other landmarks, and argues the results could stem from the method itself.
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