AI generated music barred from Bandcamp

The provided text is a Reddit access block triggered by network policies, typically encountered during automated data ingestion or scraping. To resolve the block, developers must authenticate, utilize the official API with registered credentials, and ensure the request includes a unique, descriptive User-Agent header.

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We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers

MetaBrainz is implementing restrictive API changes to combat aggressive AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt and overload servers by crawling page-by-page instead of using provided datasets. Key updates include requiring Authorization tokens for ListenBrainz /metadata/lookup and LB Radio endpoints, alongside the removal of several ListenBrainz Labs mapping endpoints. These measures aim to maintain service stability against inefficient data harvesting for AI model training.

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Signal leaders warn agentic AI is an insecure, unreliable surveillance risk

Signal leadership warns that OS-level agentic AI creates centralized databases vulnerable to malware and indirect prompt injection, effectively bypassing E2EE. They highlight that agents are fundamentally unreliable due to compounding probabilistic errors, where multi-step tasks lead to rapidly degrading success rates. To mitigate these risks, they advocate for halting reckless deployments, switching to opt-in defaults, and requiring radical transparency and auditability for agentic models.

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The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists

The author argues that agentic LLM workflows and "vibe coding" are often less productive for experienced developers due to high error rates and the need for constant supervision. They suggest that the aggressive push for LLM-driven development may be a form of projection by those who lack the technical proficiency to outperform current models. Ultimately, the text frames the divide as a difference between those who use LLMs to bridge a skill gap and those who find them a bottleneck to high-level engineering.

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Mozilla's open source AI strategy

Mozilla is developing an open-source AI strategy to challenge the dominance of closed, vertically integrated platforms by focusing on developer experience and modular infrastructure. Central to this is "any-suite," a framework designed to unify fragmented tools for model routing, evaluation, and orchestration into a cohesive stack. Additionally, the Mozilla Data Collective aims to establish a marketplace for licensed, provenance-based data to support the training of small, specialized, and sovereign models.

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Multiword matrix multiplication over large finite fields in floating-point

This paper introduces a multiword decomposition method for efficient modular matrix multiplication ($C = AB \pmod p$) using floating-point arithmetic. By representing matrices as scaled sums of smaller components, the approach extends the supported prime bitsize from half the mantissa (e.g., 26 bits) to nearly the full mantissa (e.g., 52 bits). Benchmarks on CPU and GPU architectures demonstrate that this technique outperforms traditional single-word methods while maintaining high performance for larger primes.

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The value of random zero-sum games

The study investigates a two-player zero-sum game on a random matrix $M$, defined by $v(M) = \min_{x\in\Delta_n}\max_{y\in \Delta_m}x^T M y$. For square Gaussian matrices ($n=m$), it proves the standard deviation of $v(M)$ is $O(1/n)$, confirming a long-standing conjecture. The research also examines rectangular Gaussian matrices, showing an expected value of $O(\lambda/n)$ for $m = n+\lambda\sqrt{n}$, and random orthogonal matrices, utilizing probabilistic arguments and convex geometry. This work could inform problems in theoretical computer science.

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MacPrompt: Maraconic-Guided Jailbreak Against Text-to-Image Models

T2I models face safety challenges from NSFW content generation, with current defenses proving inadequate against diverse adversarial prompts. MacPrompt introduces a novel black-box, cross-lingual attack that constructs macaronic adversarial prompts by recombining harmful terms at a character level across languages. This method achieves high semantic similarity to original harmful inputs while effectively bypassing major safety filters and state-of-the-art concept removal defenses, highlighting critical vulnerabilities in existing T2I safety mechanisms.

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Why Slop Matters

AI slop represents a supply-side solution to content demand that warrants rigorous study rather than dismissal as digital pollution. It is characterized by superficial competence, effort asymmetry, and mass producibility, varying across dimensions of utility, personalization, and surrealism. Beyond its economic impact, AI slop functions as a legitimate medium for collective sense-making and identity expression within the digital ecosystem.

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HiGP: A high-performance Python package for Gaussian Process

HiGP is a high-performance Python package that addresses the $O(n^3)$ scalability bottleneck of Gaussian Processes using $H^2$ matrices and an Adaptive Factorized Nyström (AFN) preconditioner. It achieves near-linear complexity through C++ optimized kernels and analytically derived gradients, providing a scalable numerical backbone that integrates with frameworks like GPJax and KeOps.

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Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever

Redd-Archiver is a multi-platform archival tool that transforms massive datasets from Reddit, Voat, and Ruqqus into searchable HTML archives using a PostgreSQL backend with GIN-indexed full-text search. It features a REST API with over 30 endpoints and a built-in MCP server providing 29 tools for seamless LLM integration, including token-optimized field selection and truncation to manage context windows. The architecture supports Docker, Tor, and static deployments while maintaining constant memory usage for enterprise-scale data processing.

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SkyPilot: One system to use and manage all AI compute (K8s, 20 clouds, Slurm)

SkyPilot is an orchestration framework for running and scaling AI workloads across Kubernetes, Slurm, and over 20 cloud providers via a unified interface. It optimizes LLM training and serving by automating resource provisioning, implementing cost-saving measures like spot instance recovery and autostop, and providing failover across multi-cloud environments. The system supports major frameworks and models, including vLLM, DeepSpeed, and TorchTitan, to streamline large-scale AI development without vendor lock-in.

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AxonFlow – a control plane for production LLM and agent workflows

AxonFlow is a self-hosted, Go-based control plane for production AI governance and orchestration that sits between applications and LLM providers. It enables real-time policy enforcement, such as PII redaction and SQL injection blocking, alongside multi-model routing and comprehensive audit trails. Designed for high-reliability environments, it supports both full proxy and gateway modes to provide runtime observability and cost controls for multi-agent systems.

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SlopScore – Contributor Reputation for GitHub PRs

SlopScore is a Chrome extension that provides a cross-repo reputation score for GitHub PR authors to help maintainers identify high-quality contributors versus potential spam. It analyzes global signals—including merge rates, account maturity, and "spray-and-pray" patterns—to assign a risk-based score directly in the GitHub UI. The tool processes data locally via the GitHub API, offering a privacy-focused solution for vetting contributors beyond simple "first-time" labels.

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Agent Skills

Agent Skills introduce a modular, on-demand knowledge injection paradigm for AI agents, utilizing standardized SKILL.md packages. This architecture employs progressive disclosure, loading minimal metadata initially and full instructions only when task-relevant, significantly reducing token usage compared to fine-tuning or context window bloating. Adopted by major platforms, Agent Skills enable universal, composable agents with infinite capability scaling, cross-platform portability, and frictionless distribution, fostering an "npm moment" for LLM-powered agents.

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