Quad9 will stop offering its free cyberprotection service to users in France due to a court ruling against it. The decision is a matter of principle for Quad9, which cannot comply with the ruling while remaining faithful to its mission.
The author learned about Docker's inner workings, discovering it's not just a single feature but rather 5 Linux kernel features combined. They also found the challenges of writing their own container runtime due to Go's design choices and Linux API requirements.
Researchers have developed a method using large language models to prove the security of software at scale, enabling new development workflows with proven security guarantees. This approach can detect and fix bugs in widely used open-source libraries.
OpenShell 0.1.x introduces a stable release cadence, new isolation primitives, and expanded APIs for secure autonomous AI agent execution. It enforces policies on file access, system calls, and network connections using kernel-level enforcement and formal verification.
A woman was arrested and charged with crimes she claims she didn't commit after a scammer used her name on a Cash App account. She's facing up to six years in prison despite having no knowledge of the account or its activities.
AI models from 10 labs in 3 countries agree that humans prioritize belonging over truth, with most saying people conform to group norms and create justifications for their actions.
Taler Operations AG is being founded to operate Taler as an online payment system in Germany and the Euro-zone, with plans to apply for a licence from BaFin. The new company will focus on Taler exclusively, enabling payments with Taler first in Germany before expanding across the single market.
HackiOS boots iOS 16.5 on Android phone hardware using an open-source XNU kernel and custom drivers, allowing users to run unmodified iOS apps without modifying the original code. The project is a research bench, not a ROM, and requires specific hardware and software configurations.
A software-only jailbreak for the Switch 2 has been developed, allowing users to run arbitrary native code and access peripherals. The exploit uses a combination of WebKit and SmileBASIC to achieve this goal.
A stunning map of the Northern Hemisphere's stars, constellations, and celestial objects is created by Florian Winkler using modern data and traditional cartographic methods. It features accurate star positions, Messier objects, and a stereographic projection reflecting the view from the North Pole.
Project Hedra is an open-world, low-poly RPG with procedural generation and custom game engine features. It started as a high school project to learn OpenGL and has evolved into a full-fledged 3D game with over 100k lines of code.
The Musical Form Institute critiques modern music production for "gridification," where human performances are treated as errors and corrected to machine-perfect representations. This process silences artists' lives and voices, erasing their history and place in time.
eMudhra Limited, a global digital trust company, has decided to withdraw from the SSL/TLS certificate business due to increasing data sovereignty and compliance requirements. The decision is made after careful consideration of the impact on its shareholders and focus on core enterprise solutions.
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The scientific literature is viewed as an "information commons" that can be enclosed using artificial intelligence, transforming it into private wealth. This poses a threat to the social systems supporting the commons and may represent an attack on a way of life.
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A is changing many things about the modern world. Language is no exception. The word “compute”, for instance, used to be regarded as a verb. Today even grammar pedants grudgingly accept it as a noun, referring to the processing power generated by advanced chips. This new, non-verbal compute is the fuel of a technological revolution.
Microsoft has rolled out a new service allowing non-subscribers to purchase cloud playtime hours for games they own, priced at 24 cents per hour. This model is similar to old arcades but differs from Xbox Game Pass subscriptions and Google's Stadia streaming experiment.
Nick Desnoyer, a plant biologist, is designing and creating unique flowers using breeding and genetic engineering. He aims to create a botanical garden with weird and wonderful flowers that exist nowhere else, allowing people to appreciate them on a deeper level through scientific understanding.
A Dutch intelligence agency discovered Jared Kushner's iPhone was hacked by Russian operatives, allowing them to access his phone and screen. The hackers found Kushner had transferred millions of dollars from a UAE bank account to other individuals, including a warlord and mercenary.
Imprint's engineers are merging 4x more PRs than 2 years ago, with two teams merging 10x their previous rate. The company has improved quality and reduced errors by implementing a "small-change" approach to pull request review.
NetHack's Gnomish Mines use Cellular Automata to generate an organic cave feel, with two states: floor or rock. Passes 1-4 update the grid in different ways, including clustering and erosion routines, but Pass 2 is unclear in its purpose.
The author of the post has developed a C++ library called earstrip, which is 6 times faster than earcut.hpp for triangulating polygons in their map engine. The library uses an optimized algorithm that takes advantage of convex corners and strips to reduce the number of tests needed.
ZFS is a file system designed to maintain data consistency without scanning disks after a crash, using an uberblock that holds transaction group numbers and block pointers. It was developed by Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore at Sun Microsystems from 2001 to 2005, with contributions from over 700 people.
Arc is being replaced by Dia, a new browser with the same features and security. Existing Arc users can easily import their data into Dia before December 22, 2026 when Arc will stop working.
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Multiple security incidents were reported, including critical vulnerabilities in GitLab, Trend Micro, and Node.js, as well as exploitation attempts on platforms like GitHub and Vercel. These incidents include remote code execution bugs, integer overflows, and command injection vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access or execute malicious code.
The Earth's shadow and the Belt of Venus appear in the sky as sunlight interacts with the atmosphere, creating a range of colors due to filtering and scattering. These natural phenomena are caused by the sun's position, atmospheric conditions, and particle interactions.
Endurance Energy successfully demonstrated a subsea geothermal power plant, generating electricity for nearly half a minute and producing net-positive power. The company plans to commercialize this technology in Pacific island nations and other regions with abundant offshore geothermal resources.
The Last Museum is a semantic search engine for 5.8 million artworks from the world's great museums. Search by theme, style, subject, or any description you can imagine.