🌟 Exciting update! The latest version of the JAM Graypaper (v0.5.3) is now live. Explore the technical advancements and refined vision of the protocol by Gavin Wood 🛠️ Check it out here: github.com/gavofyork/gray… #polkadot #graypaper #jam

The best Christmas gift a friend can ask for. #CalvinandHobbes #Christmas

“The hand is where the mind meets the world.” — Carl Zimmer Humanoid hands closely replicating human degrees of freedom enable robots to seamlessly integrate into our world and learn more efficiently from human demonstrations. A look at some of the impressive hands from 2024🧵

It's real. The company is Shenzhen-based EngineAI.

This is crazy: Biden's last act in the chip war before leaving office is to literally build a global technological Berlin Wall. Extremely easy to predict that this will backfire dramatically. Let's think this through. First of all, the heart of this initiative is the U.S.

“At the beginning of this century, when you were speaking about phytoplankton in the ocean, you were thinking about independent cells that are isolated,” said biologist García-Fernandez (far right). “But now — and not only from these results, but also from results from other

great ethereum bridges overview by L2BEAT 💗 l2beat.com/bridges/summary

We did it! Orbital. Great night for Team Blue. On to spring and trying again on the landing. (Here is another view!)

The Solidity Developer Survey 2024 has gotten 500+ responses so far. If you're yet to take the survey, you've got one last week to let us know... ✨ how you are using Solidity. 🆕 which recent changes impact(ed) you the most. 🔮 which features you anticipate the most. It takes

Unify Ethereum. Seriously folks, this is a focused, practical, and concise roadmap for a fast and cheap Ethereum, that feels like one network, and it’s happening in 2025.

Mistral AI just dropped Small 3! Here is everything you need to know: - Releases both pretrained and tuned checkpoints - No RL or synthetic data - Mistral Small 3 is latency-optimized - 24B parameters model - 81% accuracy on MMLU and 150 tokens/s latency - Positioned as a

learned about Anoma a web3 os in the making today EthereumZuri.ch will be pretty interesting to see how this evolves :)

Ethereum’s future is a hot narrative right now. Currently a fight between different core devs from old days. Grab a perspective on Ethereum's current state from Dr Gavin Wood, who: 🔹coded the first functional Ethereum client (2014). 🔹authorized the Ethereum Yellowpaper.

A hack of location data company Gravy Analytics has revealed which apps are—knowingly or not—being used to collect your information behind the scenes. wired.trib.al/GMIpTvo

This is insane: there's a new bill in the US congress called the "Decoupling America’s Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025" that would ban the import of any AI technology from China, including Open Source models like Deepseek. The bill also makes it

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It's 2025 and most content is still written for humans instead of LLMs. 99.9% of attention is about to be LLM attention, not human attention. E.g. 99% of libraries still have docs that basically render to some pretty .html static pages assuming a human will click through them.

Meanwhile, Beijing is organizing the world's first humanoid half marathon (english.beijing.gov.cn/latest/news/20…) And I bet the only competitors will be Chinese companies, simply because no Western humanoid is yet capable of this. Proving once more that the real technology race that matters

I wrote a quick new post on "Digital Hygiene". Basically there are some no-brainer decisions you can make in your life to dramatically improve the privacy and security of your computing and this post goes over some of them. Blog post link in the reply, but copy pasting below