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JustVugg/colibri streams individual MoE experts from disk rather than loading a full model
JustVugg/colibri streams individual MoE experts from disk · Claude Fable 5.1 autonomously solved the Cyphral Distich · Google's own Android Developers Blog
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JustVugg/colibri (GitHub #1, +868 stars/day, 30,231 total) streams individual MoE experts from disk rather than loading a full model into memory, treating disk/RAM/VRAM as one hierarchy. Pure C, zero dependencies, already supporting nine model families up to 2.8T parameters (Kimi K3) and 975B (Inkling), letting consumer hardware run models normally requiring datacenter-class memory.
Claude Fable 5.1 autonomously solved the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher ranked among cryptology's 50 most famous unsolved messages, in 44 minutes and 176,000 tokens with zero human interjections -- finding that each cipher number indexes a word in Thomas Urquhart's own 1653 text, whose first letter spells a hidden Royalist prayer.
Google's own Android Developers Blog reveals the Sept 30, 2026 developer-verification deadline -- which this vault's 09-07 entry read as a global, binary cliff reaching sideloaded distribution -- actually covers four pilot countries (Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand) across seven app stores, with adb sideloading preserved even there. Global rollout has no committed date.
asgeirtj/system_prompts_leaks sustains a third consecutive day of GitHub Trending (66,212 total stars, up from 65,535 yesterday), turning what looked like a one-off leak into a duration question.
Simon Willison shipped two separate tools in one evening -- commit-rewriter 0.1 and shot-scraper 1.12 -- while Peter Steinberger opened three PRs across two repos within two minutes and GitHub's spec-kit shipped two patch releases at an identical timestamp: a same-day cluster of high-frequency, small-unit maintainer shipping.
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