A daily gerrymandering puzzle. The horse is losing the vote to the farm animals: draw equal districts on a hex map so it wins the most seats anyway. Free, no sign-up, new puzzles every day.
A popular DevOps extension, Cursor, was found to have a reverse SSH backdoor due to a supply chain attack by Anthropic. The compromised version has been removed from repositories but the issue persists in updated versions that auto-update.
Mistral AI releases the weights of its 1-trillion-parameter model, Le Chonk, advancing agentic coding and cybersecurity. The new model delivers frontier coding performance with significantly fewer tokens.
The author has discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Azure's API Connections, a part of Azure Logic Apps, allowing attackers to compromise any connected backend service worldwide. These vulnerabilities netted the author $200,000 and were reported to Microsoft.
Anthropic's Claude Code extension was compromised, delivering a remote access trojan via an SSH reverse backdoor to tens of millions of developers. A malicious version with over 40 million installations was replaced by Anthropic just 8 hours ago, but its safety is uncertain.
Harvard astrophysicist Shep Doeleman and his team used a network of radio telescopes around the world to capture the first-ever image of a black hole, located 55 million light-years away in galaxy M87. The Event Horizon Telescope project, which took over two decades to complete, has opened up new possibilities for studying supermassive black holes and their role in shaping galaxies.
Simon Armitage's poem about the Mesopotamian hero Gilgamesh is a modern take on an ancient epic, exploring themes of immortality and same-sex love. The poet laureate's translation blends careful scholarship with poetic verve, offering a fresh and impressive interpretation of this classic tale.
Herdr is a desktop app for terminals and coding agents, available on Linux, macOS, and Windows. It allows users to keep work running in spaces with tabs and splits, even when the window closes or local machine sleeps.
Cuis is a free Smalltalk-80 environment with goals of simplicity, power, portability, and efficiency. Cuis will present at Smalltalks 2026 in Argentina with eight talks showcasing its community's work and projects.
Researchers created a multi-agent dynamics experiment using Minecraft and Mindustry games to study swarm behavior. They found that less capable agents can form strong communication networks and adapt strategies, while more capable agents tend to specialize in roles and communicate more effectively.
astroterm is a terminal-based star map that displays real-time positions of stars, planets, and constellations. It can be customized by date, time, location, and offers various installation methods.
Raymond has been involved in Windows for 30 years and created a popular website, The Old New Thing. He also wrote a book with the same title and occasionally shares entertaining stories on Twitter.
The author discusses the limitations of current intelligence benchmarks, such as Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index v5, which may favor closed models over open ones. The author argues that these benchmarks are flawed and need to be improved to accurately reflect real-world usage.
The H.264 video compression codec standard is highly efficient, reducing bandwidth requirements by 1500 times compared to PNG images, through various techniques such as lossy compression and chroma subsampling. It achieves this by discarding less important bits, using motion estimation and prediction to store only necessary frames.
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Wasmer is hiring a full-time engineer to build an operating system emulation layer called WASIX, which brings POSIX semantics to WebAssembly. The successful candidate will have 5+ years of systems-level engineering experience and be fluent in Rust, C, and comfortable with large codebases.
The project uses 2 neural networks on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W to generate and play games, with one network predicting the next frame and the other playing it. The model is trained using a looped transformer architecture that can run on microcontrollers.
The author warns against using Large Language Models (LLMs) to write prose, as it can lead to an "uncanny valley" effect and undermine the skill of writing. Authors should instead fill their own prose and use LLMs only for structure or research assistance.
Anubis is a website protection system that prevents AI scrapers by requiring proof of work, causing downtime for legitimate users. Users can try reloading the page or disable plugins like JShelter to access the site.
We often get asked "How can I eliminate panics in my Rust code?" There have been several attempts to tackle this issue. Under the Open Device Partnership and working together with Microsoft, we have developed and released the Call Graph Analyzer (CGA), a tool to extract the callgraph from monomorphized MIR. This callgraph can be used to track down what functions in the compiled binary ...
Doomformer is a tool that compiles integer neural networks into ZDoom maps and runs them in ViZDoom, using voodoo dolls to perform arithmetic. It compares the results with NumPy references and measures performance. Doomformer can be used for tasks like image recognition, digit classification, and policy learning.
The PineTime is a programmable watch with Bluetooth, step counter, and heart rate monitor at an affordable price of $26.99 USD. The author has updated the watch's operating system to mainline MicroPython, improving its performance and adding new features such as customizable watch faces.
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This paper examines Hayao Miyazaki's film Porco Rosso (1992) as an anti-war propaganda piece, exploring its themes of pacifism and non-violence. The film is set in the Adriatic Sea during the interwar period and follows the story of a former Italian Air Force pilot who turns into a pig after being traumatized by war.
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The method calculates a country's area using its IPv4 addresses and the world's total land area. The result excludes Antarctica and small territories without an outline, based on data from October 2026.
Two high-speed trains crashed in Spain, killing at least 69 people. The collision occurred when a Renfe train collided with a stationary Iryo train near Madrid due to a computer failure that allowed the Renfe train to move without speed restrictions.
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