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Deep-Live-Cam is a powerful real-time face swap and video deepfake tool that allows users to easily swap faces with just a single click and a single image. It utilizes advanced AI models and techniques like mouth masking and face mapping to enable seamless face swapping, while including built-in safeguards to prevent misuse. The tool can be used for a variety of applications, from creating viral memes to running live shows and performances.

Daytona is a secure and elastic infrastructure for running AI-generated code. It offers lightning-fast sandbox creation, separated and isolated runtime environments, and programmatic control via APIs. Daytona's features include massive parallelization for concurrent AI workflows, unlimited persistence, and OCI/Docker compatibility, making it a versatile platform for executing and managing AI-generated code.

Hyperswitch is an open-source, Rust-based payments platform that offers a single API to access the payments ecosystem. It provides a backend for processing payments, a frontend SDK for a unified payment experience, and a control center for managing the entire payments stack.

Qwen3 is the latest and most advanced large language model from the Qwen family, offering dense and Mixture-of-Experts models with enhanced reasoning, alignment, and agent capabilities. It uses a novel architecture that allows seamless switching between 'thinking' and 'non-thinking' modes for optimal performance across various scenarios, addressing limitations in previous Qwen models.

Agent S2 is a cutting-edge framework for building intelligent computer use agents that can learn and operate autonomously. Leveraging a novel compositional architecture and advanced AI techniques, it outperforms previous state-of-the-art agents on challenging benchmarks, making it a powerful tool for AI-powered automation, virtual assistance, and advancing autonomous agent research.

The AI Engineering Hub is a comprehensive resource for learning, experimenting, and contributing to the rapidly advancing field of AI engineering. It provides in-depth tutorials, real-world AI agent applications, and examples to implement, adapt, and scale in your projects, catering to users of all skill levels. The repository encourages community contributions and offers a newsletter with exclusive resources to stay updated on the latest developments.

Uptime Kuma is a powerful, self-hosted monitoring tool with a modern, user-friendly interface. It supports monitoring a wide range of services, from websites and servers to APIs and containers, and provides notifications through over 90 different services. The tool is built using Node.js, Vue.js, and Bootstrap 5, offering a fast and responsive experience.

Qwen-Agent is an AI framework that enables the development of advanced AI assistants by providing components like LLMs, tools, and agents. Developers can build custom assistants that can follow instructions, use external tools, and reason about complex tasks.

Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and offline-capable AI platform. It supports various LLM runners, has a built-in inference engine for RAG, and offers customization options like model building, web search and browsing, image generation, and voice/video call features.

Zed is a powerful, high-performance code editor designed for multiplayer collaboration. It leverages cutting-edge technologies like Tree-sitter for fast parsing, but currently lacks support for Windows and web platforms. Zed is an impressive tool for efficient coding and collaborative development on macOS and Linux.

Uber built a prompt engineering toolkit to enable rapid iteration and experimentation of large language models (LLMs), allowing users to create and manage prompt templates, enrich them with contextual data, generate batch offline inferences, and evaluate prompt responses with safety measures like hallucination checks and standardized evaluation.

Meta has redesigned its ads recommendation system to incorporate sequence learning, shifting from manual feature engineering to event-based learning and new sequence learning architectures, enabling deeper understanding of user behavior and improving ads prediction accuracy by 2-4%.

Redis, the popular open-source data structure store, has returned to its open-source roots after a brief period of commercial licensing. This decision aims to maintain Redis as a vibrant open-source project and ensure its continued growth and adoption by the community.

A judge ruled that an Apple executive lied under oath, making a criminal contempt referral. This highlights the ongoing tensions between tech companies and antitrust enforcement efforts.

NIH implements new policy to accelerate public access to NIH-funded research, requiring academic publishers to make articles freely available by 2024.

A faster way to copy SQLite databases between computers by leveraging the SQLite command-line tools, avoiding the need for complex backup and restore processes.

Anthropic introduces integrations for its AI assistant Claude, allowing seamless collaboration across various applications and workflows to enhance productivity and capabilities.

Linkwarden offers a self-hostable bookmarking solution with AI-powered tagging and page archival, providing users control over their data and enhanced organization of their online resources.

The field of natural language processing was upended by the release of ChatGPT, a powerful language model that outperformed researchers on many tasks. This led to a divisive debate within the NLP community about the meaning and understanding of language models, as well as concerns about the implications of such rapid progress in AI technology.

Microsoft announces global price increases for Xbox consoles, controllers, and games amid economic challenges.

Lyft introduces 'Lyft Silver', a service tailored for older riders, featuring a simpler app interface and more accessible vehicles.

North Korean intelligence services have been training IT workers and sending them abroad to infiltrate Western companies through remote jobs, using stolen identities and AI to pass interviews. This sophisticated scam has allowed them to siphon millions of dollars, with the help of facilitators like Christina Chapman who manage the 'laptop farms' and fake worker operations.

Google Play store shrinks by 47% after policy overhaul, blocking 2.36 million apps that violated store policies in the past year.

Used electric vehicle batteries could have a second life powering homes, vehicles or even entire towns, but only if manufacturers share critical data on their battery packs.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft faces a propulsion system issue, but mission engineers remain confident in the mission's success, stating that such challenges are expected and that redundancy is built into the design to overcome them.

Windows 11 update failure prevents devices from upgrading to version 24H2 through WSUS, highlighting issues with the rollout of the latest Windows update.

Harrods, the iconic British department store, has been hit by a cyber attack, the latest in a string of such incidents affecting retailers in recent times.

Epic Games is launching webshops to enable developers to bypass app store fees following a recent ruling, allowing them to retain a larger share of revenue from their digital products.