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Submission + - A free and secure coding AI, courtesy of China (x.com)

Submitted by DogFoodBuss
DogFoodBuss writes: This week, Alibaba Qwen released Qwen3-Coder-Flash. It's believed to be the most capable AI coding model that can run locally on a developer laptop. The architecture delivers excellent throughput by only activating three of its 30-billion parameters per token generated, and supports 256k and 1M context sizes. Qwen also claims that their model can beat GPT 4 and DeepSeek V3 in many benchmarks.

Ready-to-use quantizations are now available from Unsloth AI https://huggingface.co/unsloth... and in Apple's MLX DWQ format on HuggingFace https://huggingface.co/mlx-com...

Submission + - Elon Musk now controls two thirds of all active satellites (yahoo.com)

Submitted by DogFoodBuss
DogFoodBuss writes: SpaceX deployed its 7000th Starlink satellite this week, making the vast majority of active satellites around earth part of a single megaconstellation. The Starlink communications system is now orders of magnitude larger than it's nearest competitors, offering unprecedented access to low-latency broadband from anywhere on the planet.

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