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Liquid AI has released DSpark draft model checkpoints for three models in its LFM2.5 family: LFM2.5-1.2B-Instruct, LFM2.5-2.6B, and LFM2.5-8B-A1B. Each drafter adds a speculative decoding path to an existing target model. A roughly 300M-parameter draft proposes a block of nine candidate tokens, and the target model verifies the whole block in a single forward pass. The trade is a small memory increase for a large decoding speedup: up to 3.18x on an H100 and up to 2.87x on an M4 Max MacBook Pro. Output does not change. Under greedy decoding, the emitted sequence is identical to the target model running…

“There are no public indicators that these two new flaws are being exploited at the moment, but that is likely to change within hours, given the ability of threat actors to weaponize the update patch to discern the exploit details,” he said, given that a CVSS 9.3 authentication bypass flaw on a NetScaler Gateway or AAA server is precisely the kind of vulnerability defenders do not want sitting on an internet-facing boundary, because a successful exploit could allow unauthorized access to resources behind the gateway, followed by credential or session abuse, reconnaissance, lateral movement and ultimately data theft or broader…

Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have taken in over $1 billion in fresh cash over the past three days, helping propel the leading cryptocurrency to nearly $73,000.  Just on Wednesday, investors bought over $500 million worth of shares in the funds managed by BlackRock, Fidelity, and Grayscale, according to data from Farside Investors.  Bitcoin’s price has surged this week, and on Thursday reached $72,659 before dropping slightly. It was recently priced at $72,606, a 10% 24-hour rise. Bitcoin is currently a little over 40% below its October record of $126,080.  President Trump on Wednesday held a meeting at the White House with…

Greenland’s jagged coastline is lined with fjords, many of them cradling marine-terminating glaciers that routinely calve icebergs into the water. It’s common to see these bergs, small and large, drifting in the island’s fjords each summer once the sea ice breaks up. In summer 2026, one exceptionally large berg turned up in the Denmark Strait—more than a thousand kilometers south of where it apparently originated.  These images, captured by the OLI (Operational Land Imager) on Landsat 9, show the iceberg on June 12 as it drifted in the strait between Greenland and Iceland. It was just south of Kangikajiip Appalia,…

Most pupils who received their GCSE results this week were in the penultimate year of primary school when Covid struck, disrupting their preparation for secondary education. As with other post-pandemic cohorts, their achievements are therefore a testament to their ability, resilience and determination. A strong set of results, particularly in the core subjects of English and maths, should also be seen as a tribute to teachers dealing with ever expanding workloads.Overall the impression is one of a welcome return to stability, as the legacy of the years of cancelled exams and teacher assessments is left behind. The proportion of top grades…

In a video released on Wednesday, Queen Camilla made rare public comments about King Charles III’s cancer, talking about how difficult his diagnosis had been for her, especially in the days before Buckingham Palace made the news public.“I was just longing to let it out,” Camilla said in the video, which was released by the British royal family and by a leading U.K. cancer charity, Maggie’s, of which Camilla is the president.“But, obviously, I couldn’t,” she added.Camilla was reflecting on a 2024 visit with cancer patients and their families, which she made shortly after Charles’s cancer was diagnosed — but…

Belgium’s Prince Laurent has legally recognised 26-year-old former car salesman Clément Vandenkerckhove as his son and heir.Vandenkerckhove, the result of a relationship between the royal and Belgian singer Wendy Van Wanten, was quietly brought into Prince Laurent’s family at a town hall ceremony six months ago, although details have only just emerged.While he formally becomes a prince, he will not receive a royal allowance.The new prince has had several years to get used to the idea of having a royal father, and he said recently he was not yet sure he would begin using his father’s name Saxe-Coburg.”I might want…

You have to hand it to them. Most political parties would have chosen to go quiet, what with it being the middle of August and having next to nothing to say. But Reform are made of stronger stuff. They aren’t bothered that the only interesting thing about them at the moment is that they are fighting like rats in a sack. They seem to wear that as a badge of honour. A coming of age sophistication. So for the second time in a week they called a press conference.Obviously there was no sign of Nigel Farage. He is still in…

Another day, another sad thing to report about our compromised Federal Communications Commission. Chairman Brendan Carr has followed through on his 2025 threat to kill long-term broadband speed goals established during the Biden administration, which aimed for eventually getting us to gigabit download and half-gigabit upload speeds. How dare we dream of spreading great download and upload speeds across the country!It’s wild that 13 years after Comcast said Americans don’t need gigabit internet we’re somehow back in this conversation. Especially since the private sector has delivered, albeit unevenly, on super high speeds in certain areas; For example, the apartment I’m…

Autonomous artificial intelligence agents have already penetrated the offices of large, global enterprises. Now, HoneyBook is trying to bring that same capability to independent businesses with the launch of HoneyBook MCP, recently released as a connector for Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude.The move addresses a real gap. McKinsey’s recent State of AI survey found that nearly half of companies with more than $5 billion in revenue have moved AI beyond pilots and into everyday use across the business, compared with just 29% of companies under $100 million in revenue, leaving smaller businesses without the infrastructure that gives large enterprises an advantage.Founded…