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Minions: A Dynamic and Distributed Virtual GPU Cloud Built on Idle Apple Silicon Devices

The increasing demand for GPU-accelerated machine learning inference has exposed limitations in centralized GPU infrastructures, including high cost, limited elasticity, and long wait times under resource constraints. At the same time, modern Apple Silicon–based macOS devices are equipped with powerful GPUs that remain largely idle during normal usage. This paper presents Minions, a dynamic and…

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Large Language Models for Machine Translation Quality Annotation: Humans and Models Are Both Challenged

Large Language Models (LLMs) are considered to be a more efficient and cost-effective alternative to human judgment for Machine Translation (MT) evaluation. With MT evaluation spanning a large number of language pairs, domains and levels of annotation granularity, LLMs must be thoroughly evaluated across these dimensions before being reliably used as alternatives to human evaluation.…

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From Earth to Orbit, France’s Ecosystem Delivers Agentic Computing at Scale With NVIDIA

Companies in France are deploying agentic computing across industries spanning space, financial services, the public sector and scientific research, demonstrating how the country’s ecosystem has moved from ambition to application.  France’s progress sits on deliberate groundwork.  The AI Action Summit in February 2025 and Choose France Summits in 2025 and 2026 anchored major compute commitments…

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Low-Cost Android Phones Ship With Preinstalled Malware That Turns Them Into Residential Proxies

Low-cost Android smartphones have been shipped with malicious software baked into the device firmware, allowing bad actors to covertly install apps, conduct ad fraud, and turn devices into residential proxies. The activity, which targets Android devices built on MediaTek platforms across several brands, is being tracked by Bitdefender under the moniker Midnight Mimosa. The preinstalled

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The Social Reckoning is flopping at the box office

As important as some of the messages in The Social Reckoning are, the movie has been drastically underperforming at the box office. Per Variety, Aaron’s Sorkin’s follow up to The Social Network only grossed a measly $5.5 million this past weekend against a budget that’s somewhere within the $30-42 million range. That would make it…

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PS5 Jailbreak Brings Xbox 360 and Original Xbox Games

The PS5 jailbreaking scene continues to expand, with community projects bringing Xbox 360 and Original Xbox emulation to Sony’s console. Games including Gears of War 2, Gears of War 3, Halo 2 and Forza can now run through homebrew software, adding to the growing list of unexpected things possible on a jailbroken PS5.

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