BlogDB

Google brings Multi-Token Prediction drafters to Gemma 4: 3x speedup without quality loss

One month after the introduction of Gemma 4, Google is now releasing Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for the Gemma 4 model family. These drafters use a specialized speculative decoding archit...

Second Baron's War Ends

Simon de Montfort was in control of London in April 1264. Northampton was under siege by supporters of King Henry, and Simon assembled his army to stop the royalists, but he was too late. Simon the...

My Inital Thoughts On Thunderbird Pro

Yesterday I received an email from the Thunderbird team inviting me to join a preview of their new hosted email service, Thunderbird Pro. I love email, so was very keep to sign up and test it out. ...

wait

[dVerse] May 5th - Names I Did Not Answer To

Names I Did Not Answer ToBy midnight,all my old selves had gatheredoutside the locked door.Restless came first,barefoot, carrying a suitcasefull of unsent apologies.Then Ebb Tide,who knew exactlywh...

Ways To Prioritize DNS Over mDNS On Macbooks With .local Domains

Notes on how mDNS is prioritized on the .local top-level domain.

Should You Be Worried About Copy Fail Linux Exploitation?

It's been patched, but cloud and container users should update sooner than later.

Who Knows That You Blog

Kev Quirk wrote a post about who knows that you blog (as a response to Forking Mad on the same topic). Kev writes: I'm similar to David and Alex - I'm not forthcoming with the fact that I have a bl...

Talented Idiot

You know, David Goggins is pretty cool, all things considered. I remember in the Motivation Bro clip-sphere, there was a turn of phrase circling around that I think was coined by him and that a lot...

Aperiodic Table

The KBJ Delay in Callais

Who is at fault for the rush to judgment in Louisiana?

Russia Rebuilding Occupied Ukraine for Extraction

Maksym Beznosiuk

Defeating the [Works By Design]’s Unpickable Lock

Even though the very concept of an ‘unpickable lock’ is as plausible as making water not be wet, this doesn’t take away from the intellectual thrill of devising solutions to …read more

Quake It Or Leave It

Read Quake It Or Leave It Me: "Sir, I am going to have to call you back. We've just experienced an earthquake, and we need to evacuate the building. I am sure you can hear the alarms in the backgro...

The Biglaw Second Hundred Firms Are Making Money! — See Also

Average Profits Per Equity Partner Is Up Almost 10%!: See what other changes are happening here. Justice Alito Blows A Gasket Over Justice Jackson Following The Rules: He won't let accuracy get in ...

Belleville (NJ) Fire Seen From Red Hook (Brooklyn)

Seeing the smoke from the May 3, 2026 fire in Belleville, New Jersey, from across the river in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Using .local As A Top Level Domain

Notes on .local as a top level domain and why it’s a bad idea.

Microsoft Edge found storing your passwords in plaintext RAM for apparently no reason

Security researcher Tom Jøran Sønstebyseter Rønning has revealed that Microsoft Edge stores all saved passwords in plaintext in system memory while the browser is running. This means passwords may ...

Daily News Stuff 5 May 2026

Late Final Extra Edition Top Story Can investors trust AI sales figures. (WSJ) (archive site) Good question. No. OpenAI has added pet companions to its Codex programming assistant. (Mashable) It's ...

Art Fire Festival lights up the night at a unique venue in the mountains of Japan

Sarusho continues to shine in its second life. Ordinarily, summer is the season for amazing nighttime pyrotechnics in Japan, as that’s the time of year in which most of the country’s fireworks fest...