Why Your Small Language Model Will Fail (And How to Fix It)

Why Your Small Language Model Will Fail (And How to Fix It)

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Why Your Small Language Model Will Fail (And How to Fix It)

While LLMs produce fantastic results, the costs can be steep. A small language model is a great option for limited budgets and resources while still providing solid, fast outputs.

Learn how to build a SLM from scratch with Sr. AI developer advocate David VonThenen.

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUuVro-Dv7c

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Timestamps:
00:46: What is a small language model?
01:55: Setting up a nanoGPT-style casual LM
09:26: Building our model
13:38: Results
14:59: Fine-tuning the model
21:06: The types of LMs

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FOSSASIA 2026 in Bangkok, Hall 2 – 10 March 2026

FOSSASIA 2026 in Bangkok, Hall 2 - 10 March 2026

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FOSSASIA 2026 in Bangkok, Hall 2 - 10 March 2026

Welcome to the livestream of FOSSASIA 2026 taking place in Bangkok, Thailand as part of the FOSSASIA Summit. Community Day brings together open source contributors, developers, students, maintainers, and technology leaders from across Asia and around the world.

The program features talks, discussions, and community sessions covering:

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Cloud Infrastructure and DevOps

Cybersecurity and Digital Safety

Web and Mobile Development

Open Hardware and Embedded Systems

Databases and Data Engineering

Open Source community collaboration

Speakers include engineers, researchers, and maintainers from global technology companies and major open source projects. Participants share real world experience, technical insights, and community initiatives shaping the future of open technology.

FOSSASIA is a non profit organization supporting open technologies and developer communities across Asia. Through conferences, hackathons, mentoring programs such as Google Summer of Code, and open source projects, FOSSASIA connects contributors and organizations working on impactful technology.

Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Event: FOSSASIA Summit 2026
Track: Community Day

Learn more about the event and upcoming activities:
https://fossasia.org

Join the community:
https://github.com/fossasia

Follow FOSSASIA for updates on open source events, projects, and collaborations across Asia.

#FOSSASIA #OpenSource #AI #Cloud #Developers #Bangkok #FOSSASIASummit

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Project Lightning Talk: A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape- Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso

Project Lightning Talk: A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape- Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso

Video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation] via YouTube
Project Lightning Talk: A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape- Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso

Don’t miss out! Join us at our next KubeCon + CloudNativeCon events in Mumbai, India (18-19 June, 2026), Yokohama, Japan (29-30 July, 2026), and Shanghai, China (8-9 September, 2026). Connect with our current graduated, incubating, and sandbox projects as the community gathers to further the education and advancement of cloud native computing. Learn more at https://kubecon.io

Project Lightning Talk: A Curator’s Guide to the CNCF Landscape – Katherine Druckman and Lori Lorusso

Step into the studio with two of the Netherlands’ most famous masters as we explore the CNCF Landscape like a gallery of modern technical masterpieces. Don your berets and join Rembrandt and Van Gogh as we paint a clearer picture of the CNCF ecosystem.

With more than 190 projects across the landscape, discovering what each one does can feel a bit like wandering through an enormous museum without a guide. “Just go to the website” isn’t always enough. Sometimes you need a curator to point out the highlights, explain the movements, and help you see how the pieces fit together.
In this lightning session, we’ll tour a selection of CNCF projects the way art historians might walk through a gallery, highlighting the themes, techniques, and innovations that make them stand out. By the end, you’ll have a clearer mental map of the landscape and be ready to navigate KubeCon like a seasoned collector.

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How Aria Gen 2 Glasses are Helping People With Memory Loss

How Aria Gen 2 Glasses are Helping People With Memory Loss

Video by Meta Open Source via YouTube
How Aria Gen 2 Glasses are Helping People With Memory Loss

Meta is partnering with the Oscar Mike Foundation and using Aria Gen 2, our next-generation research glasses, to make advancements in accessibility like providing memory assistance and improving spatial awareness for people with disabilities.

Aria Gen 2 is continuing to partner with researchers, organizations, and people with disabilities as we bring the human perspective to AI.

Learn more about Oscar Mike: https://oscarmike.org/pages/mission
Read the blog post: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/02/helping-people-with-memory-loss-with-ai-glasses/
Partner with Project Aria: https://www.projectaria.com/partners/
Follow Project Aria on X: https://x.com/meta_aria

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The Subsea Cable Network with Josh Dzieza

The Subsea Cable Network with Josh Dzieza

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The Subsea Cable Network with Josh Dzieza

#SubseaCables #CyberSecurity #InternetInfrastructure #geopolitics

Subsea cables are high-capacity fiber-optic lines laid along the ocean floor to enable global communication by transmitting data between continents. Spanning thousands of miles, they carry an estimated 95% of international internet, phone, and data transmissions.

Critically, these cables are vulnerable to sabotage by state actors, as they form critical infrastructure for global communication and economic stability. Indeed, Russia and China have been implicated in activities targeting subsea cables as recently as November 2024, and experts warn that these networks are likely to be focal points in future conflicts, heightening geopolitical tensions.

Josh Dzieza is a reporter for The Verge and has covered the subsea cable industry and the strategic importance of subsea cables. He joins the podcast alongside Gregor Vand to discuss this invisible, and increasingly important, network infrastructure.

⌚Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction and Background
01:25 Interview

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Quantum Meets AI: From Drug Design to Digital Apocalypse

Quantum Meets AI: From Drug Design to Digital Apocalypse

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Quantum Meets AI: From Drug Design to Digital Apocalypse

When quantum meets AI, everything changes. ⚡️🤖

On the next Context Window Podcast, Ed Anuff and Anant Jhingran are joined by Alan Ho, CEO & Co-Founder of Qolab, to explore how quantum could quietly reshape the future of AI, from drug discovery to… well, maybe digital apocalypse 🧟 .

We’ll dig into:
👉 How quantum may first show up inside AI workflows
👉 Why small performance gains can mean massive advantage
👉 Where classical, quantum, and AI start working together
👉 What this shift means for builders and product leaders

Tune in for a conversation about where the next edge in AI might come from.

If quantum + AI sounds interesting… but still a little fuzzy 🤪, this one’s worth checking out.

🚨 Also, we’re moving the Context Window Podcast to our new YT page @ContextWindowPodcast so follow along as we roll things out for the upcoming episodes!

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Ladybird adopts Rust (with AI), the SDLC is DEAD, and the future is On-Prem

Ladybird adopts Rust (with AI), the SDLC is DEAD, and the future is On-Prem

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Ladybird adopts Rust (with AI), the SDLC is DEAD, and the future is On-Prem

Adam and Jerod get into the news, Jerod officially retires from the pod (and Changelog), plus a bonus for our [Changelog++ subs](https://changelog.com/++)!

SUBSCRIBE:

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LINKS:

– https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/
– https://oxc.rs
– https://oxc.rs/sponsor
– https://x.com/boshen_c
– https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1rcc7en/am_i_the_only_one_who_genuinely_prefers_onprem/
– https://boristane.com/blog/the-software-development-lifecycle-is-dead/
– https://www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic
– https://x.com/illscience/status/2025775386760732845
– https://wesmckinney.com/blog/mythical-agent-month/
– https://nanoclaw.dev
– https://zed.dev/acp

CHAPTERS:

00:00 Friends Forever
00:03 Finale & Friends
00:40 We have history
01:50 Back in the 2012 days
04:48 It’s been a journey!
06:15 It’s "Changelog" (sweating the details)
06:56 Back to the dirt
07:49 Ladybird cracks and is now using Rust
15:21 Rust vs Go
16:07 C++ style Rust
20:50 Contributing to Ladybird?
22:26 The cost of Agents
26:32 Industrial-scale distillation attacks
31:05 Who hasn’t done a little distillation?
32:56 Bonus Rust mentions
33:19 Rust tooling for JavaScript from Oxc
37:36 The future is seft-hosted and on-prem
39:24 Jerod goes on-prem with Mac mini
41:52 We’ll do it on-prem!
42:49 On-prem over Cloud
44:37 Self-host it first
48:13 100+ tailnet devices?
50:52 turk.run is coming soon
51:21 SS – Incus website
55:53 github.com/dnshole
57:52 RAM and storage costs are UP!
59:01 NanoClaw!!
1:05:09 Maintaining OSS in the era of agents
1:05:52 Code review is dead?
1:10:57 The SDLC Is dead
1:17:15 Queues are biggest source of waste in development
1:20:48 Only so many keystrokes left
1:21:26 When the agent is confidently !wrong
1:22:19 Slingn’ Swift code
1:24:10 That’s ReMarkable!
1:25:16 Explore new worlds! Now.
1:29:29 Gosh babe!!
1:30:59 I hate goodbyes
1:32:54 ++ BONUS??!
1:33:35 Enjoy some extended good beats

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I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee | SUDO Show 75

I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee | SUDO Show 75

Video by Sudo Show via YouTube
I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee | SUDO Show 75

SUDO Show 75, “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee,” is a full‑on April Fools special where “business meets Linux” takes a back seat to pranks, retro war stories, and questionable life choices. Bill, Neal, and Noel start with open source airplanes, HDMI‑to‑floppy adapters, and whether airplane wings actually flap, then quickly descend into cargo‑class containers, VM‑matrix jokes, and vintage Linux desktop pain with FVWM95 and XFree86. From decaf‑only coffee stunts, BashRC logout traps, PC speaker torture, and ping‑flooded LAN parties to PACMAN.BAT in the school lab, Gentoo use‑flag accidents, OpenStack root‑password “oops” moments, and a threat to invent Fedora.js, they share their most devious tech and non‑tech pranks. Along the way, they talk MSP coffee culture, two‑pots‑a‑day network engineering, Kubernetes as “all YAML,” and close by reminding you not to try any of this at work—no matter how good that April Fools itch feels.

Show Links:
FVWM95 – https://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/
ReactOS – https://reactos.org/
Kata Containers – https://katacontainers.io
podman – https://podman.io

Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro – Off the Rails April Fools
00:00:55 Open Source Airplanes and HDMI-to-Floppy
00:01:50 Do Airplane Wings Flap?
00:04:28 Cargo Class and the VM Matrix
00:05:22 Best Tech and Non-Tech Pranks
00:08:49 FVWM95, XFree86, and Fake Windows Desktops
00:14:22 ReactOS and Retro Linux Adventures
00:15:01 Going Vintage in the Future
00:18:09 Bill’s Decaf Coffee and BashRC Pranks
00:19:56 PC Speaker Torture and Random Beeps
00:20:58 Old-School LAN Parties
00:23:05 Ping-Flood LAN Parties and ZipSlack
00:24:21 PSA System Rollback – April Fools
00:25:58 Noel’s PACMAN.BAT and Lab Ban
00:32:02 Linux ISOs and School Network Quotas
00:35:07 Office Built from Old Optiplex Cases
00:39:28 First Home PCs and Gateway Cow Boxes
00:42:06 Serial Mice Still in Production
00:42:56 Gentoo Use Flags and history
00:46:22 OpenStack Cluster and Lost Root Password
00:48:41 Ranking Pranks and Coffee + Desktop Combo
00:50:45 Noel Hates Coffee
00:52:26 MSP Coffee Culture and “I Don’t Know How to Make Coffee”
00:55:51 Weaponized Iced Coffee
00:58:52 /30 Subnets per Phone and Two Pots of Coffee
01:01:10 No Rails
01:02:06 May Your BBQ Sauce Be Watery
01:03:36 Kubernetes Is All YAML
01:04:04 Fedora.js
01:04:57 Disclaimer – Do Not Try This at Work
01:06:01 Ball Pits, Ball.js, and Bouncy Balls
01:07:29 Outro – Where Business Meets Terrible Jokes

Connect with the Hosts:
Bill – @ctlinux on Mastodon
Neal – @neal@social.gompa.me on Mastodon
Noel – https://github.com/noelmiller

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Zero Trust + Open Source: A New Compliance Blueprint for Financial Systems – Rakia Finley

Zero Trust + Open Source: A New Compliance Blueprint for Financial Systems - Rakia Finley

Video by FINOS via YouTube
Zero Trust + Open Source: A New Compliance Blueprint for Financial Systems - Rakia Finley

In this visionary session from the Open Source in Finance Forum (OSFF) New York, Rakia Finley, CEO of Copper & Vine Studio, introduces a groundbreaking convergence of Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) and Open Source principles. She outlines a new "Compliance Blueprint" that allows financial institutions to move beyond perimeter-based security toward a model of continuous verification, powered by transparent, community-vetted technologies.

Get involved with the FINOS Security initiatives here: https://www.finos.org/security

🔑 Zero Trust + Open Source: A New Compliance Blueprint | OSFF Deep Dive

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📊 The Problem: The Erosion of the "Trusted Perimeter"
Traditional financial security relied on a "Castle and Moat" strategy—once you were inside the corporate network, you were trusted. Rakia explains that in an era of hybrid cloud, remote work, and interconnected APIs, this model is dangerously obsolete. For highly regulated firms, the "Perimeter" no longer exists, and relying on it creates massive compliance blind spots that legacy auditing tools cannot see.

🏗️ The Solution: A Zero Trust Compliance Blueprint
Rakia proposes a shift to a "Never Trust, Always Verify" model, leveraging open-source components to ensure transparency and auditability:

Identity as the New Perimeter: Moving away from IP-based security to strong, cryptographically verified identities for every user, device, and service.

Micro-Segmentation via Open Standards: Using open-source service meshes (like Istio or Linkerd) to isolate financial workloads. This ensures that even if one component is breached, the attacker cannot move laterally to sensitive transaction data.

Continuous Adaptive Risk Assessment: Implementing a blueprint where access is not a one-time event but a continuous process that factors in device health, user behavior, and real-time threat intelligence.

⚙️ Why This Matters for Financial Engineering

Regulatory Proof of Control: Zero Trust provides the granular logs and "least privilege" enforcement that modern regulators (like those overseeing DORA) increasingly demand.

Open Source Transparency: By using open-source ZTA tools, banks can audit the security logic themselves, avoiding "security through obscurity" and vendor-driven backdoors.

Agility for Innovation: A Zero Trust blueprint allows banks to safely integrate third-party fintech services and AI agents by treating them as "untrusted" entities that must prove their identity for every single request.

The takeaway: Security is no longer about building higher walls; it’s about building smarter checkpoints. Rakia Finley proves that the combination of Zero Trust and Open Source provides the only viable path to a secure, compliant, and resilient financial future. Join us in London on June 25 to see how this blueprint is being adopted across the global industry! #FINOS #OSFFLondon #ZeroTrust #ZTA #OpenSource #CyberSecurity #FinTech #CloudSecurity #Compliance #DigitalTransformation #SecureByDesign

About FINOS
FINOS (The Fintech Open Source Foundation) is a nonprofit whose mission is to foster the adoption of open source, open standards, and collaborative software development practices in financial services. It is the center for open source developers and the financial services industry to build new technology projects. FINOS is also part of the Linux Foundation, the largest shared technology organization in the world. Get involved and join FINOS as a Member.

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