Renato Candido
Tech Consultant, researcher, and teacher. Interests in Machine Learning, IoT, and DSP. {free, open source} {software, hardware, culture, science} enthusiast.
- Poland’s energy grid was targeted by never-before-seen wiper malware arstechnica.com/security/202...
- Lawsuit Alleges That WhatsApp Has No End-to-End Encryption www.pcmag.com/news/lawsuit...
- How 500 Years of Restoration Made the Mona Lisa’s Eyebrows Disappear laughingsquid.com/missing-mona...
- Groundhog Day Meaning xkcd.com/3202/
- VibeTensor: System Software for Deep Learning, Fully Generated by AI Agents arxiv.org/abs/2601.16238 Does it work?
- OpenAI launches Prism, a new AI workspace for scientists techcrunch.com/2026/01/27/o...
- Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/v...
- AI Boosts Research Careers but Flattens Scientific Discovery spectrum.ieee.org/ai-science-r...
- We’re all VCs now: The skills developers need in the AI era lerner.co.il/2026/01/21/w...
- github.com/kyutai-labs/... A lightweight text-to-speech (TTS) application designed to run efficiently on CPUs
- ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...
- ‘NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books’ torrentfreak.com/nvidia-conta...
- VaultGemma - A Differentially Private Gemma Model arxiv.org/abs/2510.15001
- Wikipedia inks AI deals with Microsoft, Meta and Perplexity as it marks 25th birthday apnews.com/article/wiki...
- TranslateGemma: A new suite of open translation models blog.google/innovation-a...
- Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging arstechnica.com/security/202...
- Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anth...
- The Raven Paradox www.allendowney.com/blog/2025/12...
- github.com/Mega4alik/ollm a lightweight Python library for large-context LLM inference that enables running models like gpt-oss-20B, qwen3-next-80B or Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct on 100k context using ~$200 consumer GPU with 8GB VRAM.
- github.com/0xSojalSec/a... allows 70B large language models to run inference on a single 4GB GPU card without quantization, distillation and pruning.
- The Man Who Can't Be Moved - Yann LeCun and the art of standing still in a field obsessed with acceleration saanyaojha.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...
- Honoka & Azita - Misirlou www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeSd...
- An X11 Thing! Your Favorite Middle-Click Paste is Likely to be Disabled in Future GNOME Releases itsfoss.com/news/gnome-f...
- I know you don’t want them to want AI, but… #mozilla www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/w...
- Meta just bought Manus, an AI startup everyone has been talking about techcrunch.com/2025/12/29/m...
- High Altitude Cooking Instructions xkcd.com/3187/
- Pentagon Pizza Index: The theory that surging pizza orders signal global crises www.fastcompany.com/91352935/pen...
- OpenAI’s colossal AI data center targets would consume as much electricity as entire nation of India www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
- Is Helium the Browser Brave Was Meant to Be? itsfoss.com/helium-brows...
- Artist Turns Spreadsheets Into a Real Movie Screen www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZyj...
- Coursera and Udemy enter a merger agreement valued at around $2.5B techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/c...
- Easier Than Nano! Fresh is a 'Fresh' New Rust-based Terminal Editor for Linux itsfoss.com/fresh-termin...
- github.com/zhu-xlab/Glo... level of detail 1 (LoD1) data of buildings across the globe
- github.com/soldatov-ss/... CLI tool that randomly eliminates half of the files in a directory with a snap
- Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Foundation with Industry-Wide Support itsfoss.com/news/agentic...
- pandas vs Polars vs DuckDB: A Data Scientist’s Guide to Choosing the Right Tool codecut.ai/pandas-vs-po...
- A Linux-Powered Smartphone That Has Features You Won't Find on Most Phones itsfoss.com/news/divine-...
- Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language tabloid.vercel.app
- Europe has the resources to sustain cutting-edge AI research www.lemonde.fr/en/science/a...
- Valve's FEX-Emu Support Shows a Better Way to Fund Open Source itsfoss.com/news/valve-s...
- Bizarre Inventions Found in 1940s Science Magazines laughingsquid.com/1940s-scienc...
- Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution itsfoss.com/self-hosting...
- Website Task Flowchart xkcd.com/3175/
- Doom hits KiCad as PCB traces become demons and doors www.theregister.com/2025/11/26/d...
- After Fitbit Killed it in 2016, Pebble Returns with 100% Open Source Software and Hardware itsfoss.com/news/pebble-...
- www.highboy.com.br multi-tool for pentesters
- Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun reportedly plans to leave to build his own startup techcrunch.com/2025/11/11/m...
- Lost Futures: A 19th-Century Vision of the Year 2000 publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...
- VaultGemma: A Differentially Private Gemma Model services.google.com/fh/files/blo...
- opencode.ai AI coding agent built for the terminal
