February 2026

Theory and interpretability of Quantum Extreme Learning Machines: a Pauli-transfer matrix approach

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Quantum reservoir computers (QRCs) have emerged as a promising approach to quantum machine learning, since they utilize the natural dynamics of quantum systems for data processing and are simple to train. Here, we consider n-qubit quantum extreme learning machines (QELMs) with continuous-time reservoir dynamics. QELMs are memoryless QRCs capable of various ML tasks, including image classification and time series forecasting. We apply the Pauli transfer matrix (PTM) formalism to theoretically analyze the influence of encoding, reservoir dynamics, and […]

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Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its "lead platform"

Why Final Fantasy is now targeting PC as its “lead platform”

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For a long time now, PC gamers have been used to the Final Fantasy series treating their platform as somewhat secondary to the game’s core console versions. There are some signs that may be starting to change, though, as director Naoki Hamaguchi has confirmed that the PC is now the “lead platform” for development of the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilogy. In a recent interview with Automaton, Hamaguchi clarified that the team takes the relatively common practice of […]

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Tackling The $44B Efficiency Gap In Global Cloud Computing

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The Invisible Waste of the Centralized Cloud As we head into 2026, a staggering and largely ignored crisis is unfolding in the world of technology: the massive waste inherent in centralized cloud infrastructure. Enterprises are currently wasting upwards of $44 billion on cloud spending due to a legacy model of over-provisioning, where organizations pay for peak capacity that they rarely use. This waste isn’t just a financial burden; it’s a resource crisis. Centralized data centers consume vast amounts […]

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ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI

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ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI I don’t normally cover acquisition news like this, but I have some thoughts. It’s hard to overstate the impact Georgi Gerganov has had on the local model space. Back in March 2023 his release of llama.cpp made it possible to run a local LLM on consumer hardware. The original README said: The main goal is to run the model using 4-bit quantization on a MacBook. […] […]

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"Million-year-old" fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans

“Million-year-old” fossil skulls from China are far older—and not Denisovans

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Two skulls from Yunxian, in northern China, aren’t ancestors of Denisovans after all; they’re actually the oldest known Homo erectus fossils in eastern Asia. A recent study has re-dated the skulls to about 1.77 million years old, which makes them the oldest hominin remains found so far in East Asia. Their age means that Homo erectus (an extinct common ancestor of our species, Neanderthals, and Denisovans) must have spread across the continent much earlier and much faster than […]

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It's outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser

It’s outright war for the Iron Throne in House of the Dragon S3 teaser

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With HBO’s critically acclaimed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms gearing up for its season finale on Sunday, it’s time to check in on that other Game of Thrones spinoff: the far darker House of the Dragon, which now has a suitably ominous teaser for its upcoming third season. (Spoilers for the first two seasons below.) The series is set nearly 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones, when dragons were still a fixture of Westeros, and chronicles […]

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Nintendo brings GBA-era Pokémon to the Switch, but not Switch Online subscribers

Nintendo brings GBA-era Pokémon to the Switch, but not Switch Online subscribers

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For my money, the 2004 Game Boy Advance re-releases of Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen are still the best versions of the original Pokémon games. They fixed most of the bugs and balance issues present in the originals—partly by also including the rosters from Gold/Silver and Ruby/Sapphire—but they’re more faithful to the original gameplay, battling and catching mechanics, and graphics than the 2018 Let’s Go, Pikachu/Eevee! adaptations for the Switch. Someone at Nintendo apparently agrees, as the company announced today that it’s re-releasing those […]

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Integrate external tools with Amazon Quick Agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Integrate external tools with Amazon Quick Agents using Model Context Protocol (MCP)

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Amazon Quick supports Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations for action execution, data access, and AI agent integration. You can expose your application’s capabilities as MCP tools by hosting your own MCP server and configuring an MCP integration in Amazon Quick. Amazon Quick acts as an MCP client and connects to your MCP server endpoint to access the tools you expose. After that connection is in place, Amazon Quick AI agents and automations can invoke your tools to retrieve data […]

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DPO pair: human-in-the-loop correction

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I’ve been thinking about an approach for fine-tuning/RL on limited data and I’m not sure it’s the right one , curious if anyone has done something similar. i need a model that generates document templates from structured input + a nl comment. The only data I have are existing compiled templates, no input/output pairs. The idea is to bootstrap with reverse engineering, feed each template to a strong LLM, extract the parameters that could have generated it, use […]

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The HackerNoon Newsletter: Developer Hackathon by {{Company}} HackerNoon? (2/20/2026)

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How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, February 20, 2026? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, we present you with these top quality stories. From I Migrated My Blog From Jekyll to Hugo – Or At Least, I Almost Did to Living With the Lethal Trifecta: A Guide to Personal AI Agent Security, let’s dive right in. Developer Hackathon by {{Company}} HackerNoon? By @hackmarketing [ 2 Min […]

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