Open amp captures are reaching mainstream pedals
Neural Amp Modeler Architecture 2 was designed for small embedded processors. The result is moving beyond plugins and into standalone pedals and amplifiers.
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A Blackwing pencil is baked at 1,000°C, then soaked in hot wax
Blackwing filmed its full pencil-making process. Behind a familiar object: two extrusion stages, a 1,000°C furnace, hot wax, grooved cedar and sometimes more than ten coats of paint.
This black T-shirt reveals an adversarial pattern when heated
CVPR 2026 researchers combine thermochromic dyes, flexible heaters and an adversarial pattern. The shirt stays black at rest, then reveals the attack when heated.
Docker puts the agent in a microVM, but it can still edit your project
Docker Sandboxes isolates the kernel, daemon, network and credentials inside a microVM. But its default mode still mounts the workspace read-write. “Sandboxed” is not one trust boundary.
Meta fits a 30B local agent model into less than 20 GB
Muse Glimmer is a 30B model built for local agents. Meta says its quantized language model fits under 20 GB and the full inference stack targets a 24 or 32 GB memory envelope.
Why this game UI is rebuilt every frame
For his Odin game, ThePrimeagen moves from retained UI to rebuilding a small interface every frame. The complexity does not vanish. It moves into places he finds easier to reason about.
He built a private intercom for his son, then his son designed the case
Sundararajan Mohan wanted to delay giving his son a phone. He assembled five private intercoms with AI agents, then his 11-year-old son designed the enclosure in FreeCAD.
Ten ways to fold a round world from open data
Daniel O’Donohue turns NASA, USGS and Natural Earth data into printable globes. Splitting a map into faces is not just decorative: it changes the projection problem.
His server is now an Android phone
A CMF Phone 1 replaced seg6's personal VPS. The useful detail is that the project got better when Android kept responsibility for the hardware and Linux moved on top.
What if a city museum’s fonts were allowed to disagree?
Berlin Museum's new identity mixes two typefaces inside each logo. Instead of smoothing the city into one house font, it treats visual contradiction as material.