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US Senate strikes AI regulation ban from Trump megabill

https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-senate-strikes-ai-regulation-ban-trump-megabill-2025-07-01/

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In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze

The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.
By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET
"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.
The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html

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See any parallel?

One day, Americans will be ashamed of themselves. Like the Germans were.

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See any parallel?

One day, Americans will be ashamed of themselves. Like the Germans were.

#politics

Laptop Mag is shutting down

Laptop Mag, the publication that shared in-depth information about laptops and other devices, is shutting down after almost 35 years.

^{Emma Roth (The Verge)}

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In an Attack at Sunset, Israelis Set a Palestinian Village Ablaze

The violence last week in Kafr Malik, in the West Bank, comes amid a surge in assaults by Israeli settlers. It also set off a chain of violence in the area.

By Fatima AbdulKarim
July 1, 2025 Updated 1:56 p.m. ET

"The attackers threw another firebomb into the bedroom where Mr. Afeef’s newborn nephew was being lulled to sleep, scorching furniture and leaving blackened marks on the floor and walls, the family said. The damage was visible when Times reporters visited on Friday.
[...]
Soon after, Israeli forces arrived and opened fired at Palestinians instead of stopping the rioters, according to multiple witnesses.

The soldiers killed three people, according to the Palestinian health ministry. [...]Nine others were injured, some gravely..."

archive.ph/j6Mce

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/world/middleeast/israel-west-bank-palestinians-attack.html

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A Palestinian friend who lived in my neighborhood in the US is there now, in his family's home. He said it was like 3 nights in a war zone.

Tony Bark via Technology

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Anthropic, tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, sold at big loss while inventing people, meetings, and experiencing a bizarre identity crisis

Anthropic tasked an AI with running a vending machine in its offices, and it not only sold some products at a big loss but it invented people, meetings, and experienced a bizarre identity crisis

It's all funny to watch an AI have an existential moment in a little experiment, but it's a stark reminder of the limitations that LLMs have.

^{Nick Evanson (PC Gamer)}

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Republican Senator tells House not to vote on bill she just voted for

Republican Alaskan Senator Lisa Murkowski said Tuesday that despite voting in favor of the sweeping tax and spending package, she wants the House to return the "One Big Beautiful Bill" to the Senate for further work.

"My hope is that the House is gonna look at this and recognize that we're not there yet," Murkowski told reporters today.

Murkowski's vote was pivotal in the Senate's razor-thin 51–50 passage of the bill. The Alaska senator had been the focus of intense lobbying by GOP leaders, including Senate Majority Leader John Thune, to secure her support amid concerns over Medicaid cuts and food assistance reductions. The bill now heads to the House, where its future remains uncertain.

Big, Beautiful Bill: Republican Lisa Murkowski Urges House Not to Vote on Bill She Just Approved

Sen. Lisa Murkowski backs Trump's megabill but urges House to return it for fixes, citing Medicaid cuts and tax impacts on Alaska.

^{Amanda Castro (Newsweek)}

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cm0002 via Technology

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Reuse non-prefix KV Cache and speed up RAG by 3X with LMCache.

In modern LLM applications like RAG and Agents, the model is constantly fed new context. For example, in RAG, we retrieve relevant documents and stuff them into the prompt.
The issue is that this dynamically retrieved context doesn't always appear at the beginning of the input sequence. Traditional KV caching only reuses a "common prefix," so if the new information isn't at the very start, the cache hit rate plummets, and your GPU ends up recomputing the same things over and over.
CacheBlend changes the game by allowing for the reuse of pre-computed KV caches regardless of their position in the input sequence.
This makes it possible to achieve a 100% KV Cache hit rate in applications like RAG. The performance gains are significant:
Faster Time-To-First-Token (TTFT): Get your initial response much quicker.
More Throughput: Serve significantly more users with the same hardware.
Almost lossless Output Quality: All of this is achieved with little degradation in the model's generation quality.
CacheBlend works by intelligently handling the two main challenges of reusing non-prefix caches:
Positional Encoding Update: It efficiently updates positional encodings to ensure the model always knows the correct position of each token, even when we're stitching together cached and new data.
Selective Attention Recalculation: Instead of recomputing everything, it strategically recalculates only the minimal cross-attention needed between the new and cached chunks to maintain perfect generation quality.
An interactive CacheBlend demo is available at: github.com/LMCache/LMCache-Exa…

LMCache-Examples/demo-rag-blending at main · LMCache/LMCache-Examples

Contribute to LMCache/LMCache-Examples development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Huawei releases an open weight model Pangu Pro 72B A16B. Weights are on HF. It's competitive with Qwen3 32B and it was trained entirely on Huawei Ascend NPUs.

IntervitensInc/pangu-pro-moe-model · Hugging Face

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Obscure But Painful Reconciliation Package Cuts You May Have Missed

There are a lot of well-documented ways the alliterative Senate reconciliation package, passed Tuesday with a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance…

^{Layla A. Jones (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

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Andy Piper via The lost outpost

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I finally decided to break out of Bambu’s increasingly-closed walled garden.

I’ve had the Bambu X1C for a couple of years already, and it is a really, really great 3D printer. There’s no question whatsoever that Bambu has transformed the 3D printing space for consumers, and has done so while also creating some very high-quality premium hardware.

I’ve been meaning to write about the various mods I’ve made over time, but at this point it’s a bit far down the line to go into each one in detail 😁

riser with LED strip, remote controlled via a Raspberry Pi Pico with a simple MicroPython HTTP-to-RF API that can dim the strip
IKEA SKADIS mounted on the side with tools
boxes to hold desiccant beads in the AMS, and a hygrometer
after-market high flow nozzle (obviously)
Garolite plate
third party nozzle wiper
etc etc

The printer has been very reliable, and straightforward to maintain as well.

So why hack it? Well… I own it, I think it can be made better, and… because.

When the X1Plus Expander launched on Crowd Supply I went ahead and backed the project, as I was interested in ways I could potentially add extra sensors and a better camera; as well as finally being able to connect over a LAN socket rather than having to be on wifi (the studio network can be a bit flaky from time to time).

The X1Plus Expander depends on third-party firmware (X1Plus), which requires the printer itself to be jailbroken / rooted.

Long story short, I’ve finally done that.

I was extremely impressed with how smooth and clear the project contributors have made the process. I went through the official process with Bambu to switch my printer into the unsupported third party program, downgraded to a rootable version of the firmware, rooted it, then ran through the remote install process (via wifi from my Framework) to install the firmware. I’d already printed the case for the X1Plus Expander. Then it was simply a case of following the exciting and dramatic installation video.

I now have VNC access to drive the controls on the printer’s touchscreen remotely; SSH access; the ability to network mount storage; etc etc. Lots of options to explore here. I was even able to upgrade the firmware of components like the AMS from within the third party X1Plus firmware.

You’ll also spot the OpenSpool sitting off to the side in the image above. That’s another third-party addon that I’ve barely started to use, but it extends the ability for the printer to recognise RFID-tagged spools from Bambu themselves, to having it recognise “any” spool that I happen to tag and configure.

All of this is background tinkering and admin… apart from the case for the X1Plus Expander, I’ve not been using the printer itself quite so much lately, due to travels.

Open source (and open source hardware!) FTW!

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Fixing my Bambu X1C

A couple of weeks ago I was attempting to use a “glow in the dark” filament in my 3D printer for the first time. It was a bit tricky to manage, and in end I had an unfortunate situation…

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