Mother Jones

How a Tiny, Inexperienced Firm Landed a $1.3 Billion Detention Deal

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For our November+December issue, we investigated the brutal rollout of President ...
the-decoder

Tiny AI model outperforms o3‑mini and Gemini 2.5 Pro in ARC‑AGI benchmark

A new mini-model called TRM shows that recursive reasoning with tiny networks can outperform large language models on tasks like Sudoku and the ARC-AGI test - using only a fraction of the compute ...
marktechpost

Tiny Recursive Model (TRM): A Tiny 7M Model that Surpass DeepSeek-R1, Gemini 2.5 pro, and o3-mini at Reasoning on both ARG-AGI 1 and ARC-AGI 2

These are direct-prediction models trained from scratch on small, heavily augmented datasets—not few-shot prompting. ARC remains the canonical target; broader leaderboard context and rules (e.g., ...
CNN

The US and Europe are still doing billions of dollars’ worth of business with Russia despite years of war

US President Donald Trump followed through with doubling tariffs on India to 50% on Wednesday, to punish the country for importing Russian oil and helping Russia finance its war in Ukraine. But the ...
CNX Software

ThinkNode M2 ESP32-S3-based Meshtastic handset features 1.3-inch OLED display, 1,000 mAh battery

Elecrow ThinkNode M2 is yet another Meshtastic handset for off-grid messaging and GPS coordinate sharing based on an ESP32-S3 module providing Bluetooth connectivity to a smartphone, and a Semtech ...
CNN

A tiny rainforest country is growing into a petrostate. A US oil company could reap the biggest rewards

Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in the deep water off the coast of this tiny, rainforested country. It was one of the most ...
Interesting Engineering

NASA tests tiny 4.3-foot engine to develop new ultra-efficient airplanes

The DGEN380 Aero-Propulsion Research Turbofan (DART) is a small-scale jet engine NASA uses to test new aviation technology.NASA/Bridget Caswell Developing a new airplane engine system takes extensive ...
The New York Times

An ISIS Terror Group Draws Half Its Recruits From Tiny Tajikistan

Young migrants from the former Soviet republic were accused of an attack on a concert hall in Moscow that killed 145 people. By Neil MacFarquhar and Eric Schmitt The mother of one of the suspects in ...
CNX Software

Review of Elecrow’s 3.5-inch and 7.0-inch ESP32 display modules using Arduino programming

Hello, I’m excited to review the ESP32 display modules and HMI touchscreens from Elecrow with sizes ranging from 2.4 to 7.0 inches. For this review, Elecrow kindly provided me with both 3.5-inch and 7 ...
PNAS

Rapid single-particle chemical imaging of nanoplastics by SRS microscopy

Micro-nano plastics originating from the prevalent usage of plastics have raised increasingly alarming concerns worldwide. However, there remains a fundamental knowledge gap in nanoplastics because of ...
GitHub

SPI hardware issue(?) - MISO held low crashes nrf52

When hardware MISO input (pin 24) is connected to ground, sketches will run properly after upload, but then if the board is power cycled by unplugging the USB and re-plugging it in, the serial port ...
Engadget

ASUS' new Xbox controller has a tiny, customizable OLED screen

ASUS' fondness for sticking small screens on devices now extends to gamepads. As part of its many gaming hardware introductions at CES, the company has unveiled a ROG Raikiri Pro controller with a ...