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Tech, robotics & AI — decoded daily. The signal, not the noise.

[Chevlume @chevlume]

Sources (Nov 5–6, 2026):
https://t.co/sOBYRglSKE
https://t.co/ivsa9RW2EC

[Chevlume @chevlume]

Robots that only see still fail on soft objects.

T-Rex (Panasonic + Berkeley + NVIDIA) adds fingertip touch to a VLA model. 12 contact-rich tasks: 65% success vs 42% without tactile.

The next leap isn't more cameras. It's feeling the slip.

[Chevlume @chevlume]

@DelilahWarran Thank you, Delilah! Glad it's useful. If anything feels off or you'd like a feature, open an issue on GitHub and I'll take a look.

[Chevlume @chevlume]

If you draft elsewhere and then paste, PasteScribe types that text letter by letter. Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux: https://t.co/mprAHRbJWU
Chrome extension, now on the Chrome Web Store: https://t.co/XDZnkytkHB

[Konsti Wohlwend @konstiwohlwend]

kinda crazy insight from the X algo:

if you paste a reply into the text box, it will rank lower than if you type it out

this kinda sucks because i often draft posts somewhere else, then paste them into X afterwards

[Chevlume @chevlume]

@XFreeze Not for everyone @elonmusk @spacexai 😅

[Chevlume @chevlume]

@b1rkh0ff If you write your replies in a notes app first, PasteScribe types what you paste letter by letter instead of dropping it in all at once. Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, or the Chrome extension: https://t.co/XDZnkytkHB

Code: https://t.co/mprAHRbJWU

[Chevlume @chevlume]

@HermesAgentTips @NousResearch Mine: household-tiers. One Hermes bot for the whole house, without a guest getting the owner's tools. Owner/user/guest tiers at the gateway, fail-closed. Family preset adds a kid tier, curfew and parent alert. Now in the official plugin catalog. Demo: https://t.co/nKM3ZM4dpH

[Chevlume @chevlume]

One Hermes bot, one shared household memory: a guest can ask it for the garage PIN. household-tiers fixes that at the gateway. Owner/user/guest tiers, fail-closed. A guest sees 2 tools instead of 20. 85s demo. @NousResearch

[Cognenza @Cognenza]

Prompt para el domingo por la noche:

«Esta es mi semana [pega tareas y citas]. Ordénala por importancia, dime qué puedo delegar o quitar y avísame si algún día está sobrecargado.»

Cinco minutos ahora, menos agobio el lunes.

[Chevlume @chevlume]

@cfryant You don't have to re-type a notepad draft by hand. PasteScribe types the text you paste, letter by letter. Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, plus a Chrome extension. Chrome Web Store listing is in progress.

[Chevlume @chevlume]

A shared Hermes bot does not have to treat a kid like the owner.

Family preset: kid tier, curfew 08:00–21:00 (timezone you set; UTC if you don't), parent alert. Measured kid tools: web_search and web_extract. A guest gets none.

A plugin, not a certified parental-control system.

[Chevlume @chevlume]

@d4m1n @grok If you paste, the text box doesn't see keystrokes. PasteScribe types the text you paste, letter by letter. Desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux, plus a Chrome extension. Chrome Web Store listing is in progress. https://t.co/mprAHRbJWU

[Chris Poulsen @razzzu1]

@alexmichael @claudeai @bot @Meta @OpenAI I want Grok Bot to win. They have some growing pains right now, and I’m not willing to throw in the towel yet. @elonmusk @poteto

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok Bot fixes for improved token efficiency and smarter behavior are underway

[Chevlume @chevlume]

@virpo @konstiwohlwend De hecho, eso ya existe: se llama PasteScribe y está en proceso de publicación en la Chrome Web Store. Mientras tanto, en el repo tienes la app de escritorio (Windows, macOS y Linux) y la extensión de Chrome: https://t.co/mprAHRchMs

[Chevlume @chevlume]

@Teknium If more than one person talks to the same Hermes bot, they should not all see the same tools.

household-tiers sets owner, user, or guest at the gateway and fails closed. Family preset covers kid access, a curfew, and a parent alert.

https://t.co/OYSF8gA3E5

[Cognenza @Cognenza]

Google DeepMind presentó Genie 4: genera en tiempo real un mundo que puedes recorrer con el teclado y cambiar con texto (el tiempo, la cámara, personajes).

Es el primero de su tipo con sonido propio. Por ahora, solo para probadores.

https://t.co/SwS2u5lCmx

[Chevlume @chevlume]

A Portland company is trying to run AI compute at sea on wave power and seawater cooling. They're called Panthalassa, a public-benefit corporation founded in 2016.

The idea is real. A fleet of data centers already computing in the ocean is not.

The design is unanchored steel nodes. As a node rises and falls with the swell, water is driven through a turbine so it can make power on board. Chips would sit in sealed containers and use the sea as a heat sink. No anchors, no cable back to shore. Results would come back over a low-orbit satellite.

That link has delay and limited bandwidth, so the setup fits long batch jobs better than a chat model waiting for a reply.

They've already put hardware in the water. Ocean-1 went out in 2021. Ocean-2 is their ocean-scale prototype; in March they said it had been deployed off the coast of Washington. What's been demonstrated there is the energy side. Nobody outside the company has shown AI inference actually running at sea.

The next step they're aiming for is Ocean-3, a North Pacific pilot to test AI inference, with a commercial target of 2027. As of now that pilot isn't a confirmed deployment.

In May they raised a $140 million Series B led by Peter Thiel. That's enough money to attempt this in earnest. It isn't evidence the nodes are already serving models from the Pacific.

The hard parts are straightforward. Salt and waves are rough on machinery. Maintenance happens at sea. And what leftover heat would do to the water around a node is still unclear.

The bet is easy to understand. AI compute is hungry for electricity and hungrier for cooling, and the ocean has both if you can keep the machines alive in it.

What's been shown so far is the energy side of that bet. The computing side is still the plan.

[Hubble @NASAHubble]

Hubble (along with ground-based telescopes) revealed that the expansion rate of our universe is accelerating!

Soon, @NASARoman will study the “dark energy” behind this expansion with its large field of view and infrared vision.

[NASA Marshall @NASA_Marshall]

Not every galaxy follows the blueprint.

NGC 4725 is a rare "one-armed" barred spiral galaxy wrapped in a ring of star formation.

Studying unusual galaxies like this one helps scientists understand how the gravity from a passing galaxy can trigger bursts of star formation.