Articles for category: Software (Tech & Development)

March 30, 2025

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The minimalist Light Phone III is officially available for purchase

Light, the company behind a pair of minimalist handsets, just released the Light Phone III. This is the perfect device for those who are tired of modern smartphones, with their easy access to doomscrolling and their abundance of wonky AI tools.  The Light Phone III features a sleek black-and-white OLED display, which is a new design element. The previous models included e-paper screens. The big draw, however, is not what this phone has but what it doesn’t have. There are no third-party apps. There’s no access to social media, the internet or even email. It’s intended to be, first and

March 30, 2025

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Code Comfort: Why Ergonomics is a Developer’s Best Long-Term Investment

We’ve all been there: deep in the zone, debugging a tricky asynchronous function or architecting a new microservice. Hours melt away, fueled by caffeine and the satisfying click-clack of keys. But while our minds are building digital worlds, our bodies often pay a silent price. As software developers, our work is intellectually demanding, but it’s also surprisingly physical – just in a very specific, often detrimental, way. Prioritizing ergonomics isn’t about fancy chairs or expensive gadgets; it’s a fundamental investment in your health, productivity, and the sheer longevity of your career. This is especially critical now. The rise of remote

March 30, 2025

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[2503.15790] Experimental demonstration of electric power generation from Earth’s rotation through its own magnetic field

[Submitted on 20 Mar 2025] View a PDF of the paper titled Experimental demonstration of electric power generation from Earth’s rotation through its own magnetic field, by Christopher F. Chyba and 2 other authors View PDF Abstract:Earth rotates through the axisymmetric part of its own magnetic field, but a simple proof shows that it is impossible to use this to generate electricity in a conductor rotating with this http URL, we previously identified implicit assumptions underlying this proof and showed theoretically that these could be violated and the proof circumvented. This requires using a soft magnetic material with a topology

March 30, 2025

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Platform Engineering in Action with Backstage

Imagine this: You’re a developer starting a new project. You need to figure out which CI/CD pipeline to use, where the latest API docs are hiding, and who owns the service you’re about to integrate with. Hours later, you’re still piecing it together — jumping between Slack channels, outdated wikis, and a dozen browser tabs. Sound familiar? Now flip the script: What if all those answers lived in one place, beautifully organized and just a click away? That’s the promise of Backstage.io, and it’s why platform engineering teams are turning to it to tame the chaos of modern software development.

March 30, 2025

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Qwen-2.5-72b is now the best open source OCR model

This has been a big week for open source LLMs. In the last few days we got: Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) Gemma-3 (27b) DeepSeek-v3-0324 And a couple weeks ago we got the new Mistral OCR model. We updated our OCR benchmark to include the new models. We evaluated 1,000 documents for JSON extraction accuracy. Major takeaways: Qwen 2.5 VL (72b and 32b) are by far the most impressive. Both landed right around 75% accuracy (equivalent to GPT-4o’s performance). Qwen 72b was only 0.4% above 32b. Within the margin of error. Both Qwen models passed Mistral OCR (72.2%), which

March 30, 2025

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The Weird World of AI Hallucinations

When someone sees something that isn’t there, people often refer to the experience as a hallucination. Hallucinations occur when your sensory perception does not correspond to external stimuli. Technologies that rely on artificial intelligence can have hallucinations, too. When an algorithmic system generates information that seems plausible but is actually inaccurate or misleading, computer scientists call it an AI hallucination. Editor’s Note:Guest authors Anna Choi and Katelyn Xiaoying Mei are Information Science PhD students. Anna’s work relates to the intersection between AI ethics and speech recognition. Katelyn’s research work relates to psychology and Human-AI interaction. This article is republished from