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Microsoft AI Research Open-Sources PromptWizard: A Feedback-Driven AI Framework for Efficient and Scalable LLM Prompt Optimization

Microsoft AI Research has open-sourced PromptWizard, an AI framework that optimizes prompts in black-box LLMs.
PromptWizard uses a feedback-driven critique-and-synthesis mechanism to refine prompt instructions and in-context examples iteratively.
The framework demonstrates effectiveness across 45 tasks, achieving high accuracy in zero-shot and one-shot scenarios.
PromptWizard reduces token usage and API calls by up to 60 times compared to discrete methods, making it cost-efficient.

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Hiring Kit: Linux Administrator

This customizable hiring kit, written by Mark W. Kaelin for TechRepublic Premium, outlines the skills, experience, and knowledge to look for when recruiting a Linux administrator.
Linux administrators must be knowledgeable about a mix of proprietary and open-source systems, hardware, and software, and must be able to communicate effectively with different components.
In organizations of moderate size, Linux administrators work with a team of other system administrators, network architects, system engineers, and cybersecurity specialists to maintain a secure and efficient IT infrastructure.
The hiring kit provides salary details, a job description, interview questions, and a job advert for recruiting a Linux administrator.

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Infinigence AI Releases Megrez-3B-Omni: A 3B On-Device Open-Source Multimodal Large Language Model MLLM

Infinigence AI has released Megrez-3B-Omni, a 3-billion-parameter on-device multimodal large language model (LLM).
Megrez-3B-Omni is designed to analyze text, audio, and image inputs simultaneously, emphasizing on-device functionality.
The model incorporates technical features that enhance its performance across modalities, achieving high accuracy in language processing and speech understanding.
Megrez-3B-Omni demonstrates strong results in image understanding, text analysis, and speech processing, with on-device functionality for lower latency and improved privacy.

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Inside Linux Foundation’s Vision for Open-Source Models

The Linux Foundation is redefining open-source models, particularly in AI and cloud-native technologies, by promoting collaboration and innovation through initiatives like the Open Model Initiative and the Model Openness Framework.
Projects like Kubernetes have transitioned from proprietary control to community-driven governance, demonstrating the Linux Foundation's efforts to open up projects to diverse contributors.
The Linux Foundation is addressing challenges in AI related to data and model openness, promoting licenses like the Community Data License Agreement and developing the Model Openness Framework.
Drawing lessons from cloud-native infrastructures, the Linux Foundation is applying cloud-native principles to make AI systems more scalable and reliable, focusing on domain-specific AI models and initiatives like the Unified Acceleration Foundation.

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Technology Innovation Institute TII-UAE Just Released Falcon 3: A Family of Open-Source AI Models with 30 New Model Checkpoints from 1B to 10B

The Technology Innovation Institute (TII) UAE has released Falcon 3, the newest version of their open-source language models (LLMs).
Falcon 3 introduces 30 model checkpoints ranging from 1B to 10B parameters, including base, instruction-tuned, and quantized versions.
The models are compatible with the Llama architecture and support four languages: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Falcon 3 demonstrates strong performance across evaluation datasets and offers open availability on Hugging Face.

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Forte Unveils Open-Source Rules Engine For Safety And Economic Stability In Blockchain Development

Forte has launched the Forte Rules Engine, an open-source solution for developers to build safe, on-chain environments and manage digital asset economies for web3 apps.
The Rules Engine allows developers to define and enforce rules, establish transaction guardrails, manage compliance obligations, and mitigate risks.
It supports safe environments for digital assets and ensures economic stability by providing features to mitigate volatility and manipulation.
Developers interested in leveraging the Forte Rules Engine can start building on forte.io/developers.

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Meta AI Releases Apollo: A New Family of Video-LMMs Large Multimodal Models for Video Understanding

Meta AI has released Apollo, a family of video-focused Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) designed to enhance video understanding.
Apollo addresses challenges in video-based models through efficient design choices, such as frame-per-second (fps) sampling and dual vision encoders.
The Apollo models come in three sizes - 1.5B, 3B, and 7B parameters - offering flexibility for different computational constraints and real-world needs.
Apollo achieves strong performance on video-language tasks and introduces innovations like scaling consistency and token resampling.

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My Open Source Project: The DSA Guide for Data Structures and Algorithms Students

The DSA-Guide is an open-source project aimed at providing a comprehensive resource for DSA problems, complete with solutions, explanations, and structured organization.
Contributors can collaborate with like-minded developers, enhance their coding skills, make an impact by providing clear solutions, and grow their portfolios.
The project is currently seeking contributions in Java and Python, specifically well-tested solutions that adhere to the contribution guidelines.
The repository is undergoing restructuring to introduce organized directories, a dynamic website sidebar, and README-centric navigation.

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New Tool Promises Faster Websites with Streamlined Server-Rendered UI

The project called HMPL is a small template language for displaying UI from server to client.
It is an alternative to modules like htmx and alpine.js, allowing for dynamic interfaces with minimal configurable parameters and output file size.
It works by preparing the UI on the server and transferring it to the client via API, reducing the need for extensive client-side code.
The project aims to improve website load times and user experience by reducing the number of files and modules that need to be loaded on the client side.

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Meta releases AI models for motion rendering and video watermarking

Meta Platforms Inc. has released two artificial intelligence models: Motivo and Video Seal.
Motivo is an AI model that animates three-dimensional avatars based on user-provided descriptions.
Motivo's innovation lies in how it ingests data, encoding information into a single latent space.
Meta also introduced Flow Matching and LCP, two internally-developed architectures for generating multimedia content and large language models respectively.

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Microsoft releases Phi-4 language model trained mainly on synthetic data

Microsoft has released a small language model called Phi-4 that can solve certain math problems better than larger algorithms.
Phi-4 was trained mostly on synthetic data rather than web content, suggesting that incorporating more synthetic files into small models' training datasets could enhance reasoning skills.
Phi-4 features an upgraded tokenizer and an enhanced attention mechanism that can analyze 4,000 tokens of user input.
Phi-4 outperformed its predecessor and other models on math-related reasoning tests, despite having fewer parameters.

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Mozilla Drops ‘Do Not Track’ For Upcoming Firefox Browser

Mozilla is removing the 'Do Not Track' (DNT) option from its upcoming Firefox 13.5 browser release.
Most websites are ignoring DNT requests, making the feature ineffective.
Mozilla suggests using the 'Tell websites not to sell or share my data' setting instead.
Some browsers like Firefox and DuckDuckGo offer the Global Privacy Control (GPC) option, but Chrome and Edge do not.

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Meta debuts a tool for watermarking AI-generated videos

Meta has released a tool called Meta Video Seal to apply imperceptible watermarks to AI-generated video clips.
Meta Video Seal is designed to detect AI-generated videos and protect originality.
The tool can add a hidden message to videos for determining their origins and is resilient against common edits and compression algorithms.
Meta hopes to encourage adoption by launching a leaderboard for comparing watermarking methods and organizing a workshop on watermarking.

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Microsoft launches Phi-4, a new generative AI model, in research preview

Microsoft has launched Phi-4, a new generative AI model in research preview.
Phi-4 is an improvement over previous Phi models, particularly in math problem solving.
The model is currently available for limited access on Microsoft's Azure AI Foundry platform for research purposes.
Phi-4 utilizes high-quality synthetic datasets and post-training improvements to enhance its performance.

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Some MySQL Router 8.4.3 read-write splitting quips

Bug 116950: Router Read-Write splitting config causes PHP RSET_HEADER error
Bug 116951: mysqlrouter Error parsing stats_updates_frequency errors
Bug 116952: Router w/ RW split causes ERROR: 4501 if sql script contains comments lines (“– “)
The author encountered issues with MySQL Router v8.4.3 and read-write splitting, leading to the discovery of several bugs, including PHP RSET_HEADER error, error parsing stats_updates_frequency, and an error when executing SQL scripts containing comment lines with double dashed (--). The bugs have been reported and suggested fixes have been provided.

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