Slash and Magnatone slither into the fray with the Lil’ Viper, a compact but venomous 8-watt combo amp

It features High/Low gain voicings, a 12AX7 preamp tube, and a pair of NOS 6AQ5 power tubes... and Slash reckons it can punch ...
MusicRadar

“Its sound kicks the ass of amps three times its size”: Slash’s latest Magnatone Lil’ Viper 8-watt combo can go toe-to-toe with the big boys

At Slash’s request, the Lil’ Viper was kitted out with a speaker-emulated 1/4” headphone output to mimic the internal speaker ...
Communications of the ACM

Verification Debt: When Generative AI Speeds Change Faster Than Proof

A useful name for what accumulates in the mismatch is verification debt. It is the gap between what you released and what you ...

16 iPad Apps That Will Aim To Improve Your Tablet Time In 2026

If you feel like you aren't managing your tablet time to the best of your abilities, there are apps that can help with that.
CNX Software

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 review – A 40 TOPS AI accelerator tested with Computer Vision, LLM, and VLM workloads

Raspberry Pi sent me a sample of their AI HAT+ 2 generative AI accelerator based on Hailo-10H for review. The 40 TOPS AI ...
Biometric Update

Face biometrics image quality assessment tool maturing as eu-LISA plans integration

The OFIQ software library is intended to support large-scale biometrics programs with information about the usefulness of ...
InfoQ

MIT's Recursive Language Models Improve Performance on Long-Context Tasks

Researchers at MIT's CSAIL published a design for Recursive Language Models (RLM), a technique for improving LLM performance on long-context tasks. RLMs use a programming environment to recursively ...