Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support

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yt-dlp will require a JavaScript runtime for full YouTube support, with Deno enabled by default. Users must install a supported JS runtime and yt-dlp-ejs component for YouTube functionality.

Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'

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Meta's AI scientist Yann LeCun is leaving to start his own AI venture focusing on "world models" that learn from visual data. His departure marks a rift within Meta's AI program as CEO Zuckerberg shifts focus to commercial AI products and large language models.

The Geometry Behind Normal Maps

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Tangent space is a local coordinate system that connects a surface's geometry to its texture coordinates, allowing for accurate lighting and shading in computer graphics. It's a geometric structure that emerges from a surface's parameterization, and its orientation is defined by the surface's UV coordinates, which describe how texture coordinates move across the surface.

What happened to Transmeta, the last big dotcom IPO

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Transmeta was the last big IPO of the dotcom era, launching November 7, 2000, with a $273 million IPO. The company shifted to licensing intellectual property in 2005 and was eventually sold to Novafora in 2009.

Please donate to keep Network Time Protocol up – Goal 1k

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The NTP Project develops and maintains the NTP protocol for synchronizing computer clocks over networks. It produces open source reference implementations and documentation for various applications.

Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article

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Micro.blog launches new 'Studio' tier with video hosting

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The core of Micro.blog’s mission is to make it easy for people to own their presence on the web. At first, it was a simple blog host that also incorporated a Twitter-like social timeline that put short (title-less) and long (titled) posts on equal footing. In the years since its 2017 launch, Manton Reece — Micro.blog’s founder — has added a plethora of features that expand upon that mission. ...

Laptops with Stickers

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Welcome to stickertop.art Discover a unique collection of laptops adorned with creative stickers from around the world. This project celebrates the art and culture of laptop personalization each laptop tells a story through its stickers and gives us a glimpse of the personality of the owners.

Fungus in Chernobyl nuclear disaster zone has mutated to 'feed' on radiation

The fungus, which has been found on Chernobyl's Reactor 4, has adapted to convert gamma radiation into chemical energy.

A Vision of Chocolate's Future in an Amsterdam Brownie

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No, I wasn’t lounging in one of the city’s famous coffee shops. I was in the pristine pastel-toned laboratories of ofi, a food-ingredients business that’s leading the charge to use less cocoa when making chocolate. If the brownie is anything to go by, their stuff doesn’t just cost less. It tastes better, too, to my palate anyway. I was being shown around by two employees, Talia Profet and ...

X5.1 solar flare, G4 geomagnetic storm watch

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A strong X5.1 solar flare and coronal mass ejection are heading towards Earth, prompting a G4 geomagnetic storm watch. The CME may cause aurora visibility in northern France, Germany, and the US as far south as Nevada and Arkansas.

Bluetooth 6.2 – more responsive, improves security, USB comms, and testing

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Bluetooth 6.2 adds features for faster responsiveness, improved security, and better communication, especially for USB Bluetooth LE audio applications. It includes shorter connection intervals, enhanced security against RF attacks, and a new Bulk Serialization Mode.

Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy

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The New York Times is demanding 20 million ChatGPT conversations from OpenAI, but OpenAI is fighting this as it disregards privacy protections and could make millions of users' conversations public. OpenAI is accelerating its security and privacy roadmap to protect users' data and will continue to fight the Times' demand.

I didn't reverse-engineer the protocol for my blood pressure monitor in 24 hours

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The user had their blood pressure tested at a pharmacy using a Microlife WatchBP O3 device and then attempted to reverse-engineer the data using Wireshark and Python. They successfully extracted some data but were unable to fully understand the protocol and had to return the device before completing their analysis.

Four strange places to see London's Roman Wall

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The City of London's Roman Wall can be seen in various unusual locations, including a Tube platform, a hotel car port, a cafe, and a car park. These spots offer unique views of the ancient wall, often juxtaposed with modern surroundings.

Simulating a Planet on the GPU: Part 1 (2022)

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The author is recreating SimEarth 2, a planet simulation game, after 32 years of computing advances. They've made significant progress using compute shaders and Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics to simulate realistic world generation and plate tectonics.

.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

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Avalonia team built a MAUI backend to enable .NET MAUI apps to run on Linux, browser, and embedded devices with improved performance. This backend uses Avalonia's drawn UI model, allowing for consistent behavior across platforms and faster development cycles.

Using Street Lamps as EV Chargers

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Researchers at Penn State created a framework to use streetlights as low-cost EV charging options, which proved more cost-effective and accessible than traditional charging stations. They installed 23 units in Kansas City and used machine learning models to predict demand based on 10 years of charging data from over 400 public chargers.

Seaque Live Bell Test

When you dodge deadly obstacles in the game Quantum Satellite, you’re not just playing for fun—you’re helping run experiments on a special payload called the Space Entanglement and Annealing Quantum Experiment, or SEAQUE for short! And it’s currently orbiting around our planet on the International Space Station (ISS)! So, how does playing a game help SEAQUE with quantum space science? Well, ...

Perkeep – Personal storage system for life

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Perkeep is an open source system for storing and accessing data across devices. It's under active development and suitable for programmers and tech-savvy users.

The terminal of the future

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The user discusses redesigning the terminal to improve its functionality and user experience, citing limitations of current terminal emulators and proposing a new design that integrates features like Jupyter Notebook and tmux. The user outlines a step-by-step approach to implementing this new design, starting with transactional semantics for the terminal, decoupling persistence from tmux and ...

Pikaday: A friendly guide to front-end date pickers

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The guide suggests using native date and time inputs in HTML for user-friendly interfaces, as they are easy to implement and handle many important details. Complex UI, including date pickers, can lead to errors and accessibility issues, so it's best to keep it simple.

Stochastic computing

The author has been interested in stochastic computing since reading about it in the "Advances in Computers" series. Stochastic computing uses streams of random bits to perform calculations, offering advantages like noise immunity and ease of matrix math.

The Department of War just shot the accountants and opted for speed

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The US Department of War has adopted Lean Methodology and pivoted from optimizing cost and performance to delivering advanced weapons at speed. This transformation aims to deliver more, better, and faster capabilities, leveraging commercial technology and innovation.

A modern 35mm film scanner for home

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Knokke is a modern 35 mm film scanner with high-quality and fast scanning capabilities. It runs on Korova, a native Linux, macOS, and Windows application, for a plug-and-play workflow.

The history of Casio watches

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FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs

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A lively debate on Twitter revolves around how trillion-dollar corporations like Google should handle security disclosures and responsibilities in open-source software, particularly FFmpeg, which is maintained by unpaid volunteers. The issue is about money, with many arguing that Google and other companies should provide more support to critical open-source projects like FFmpeg to prevent ...

My fan worked fine, so I gave it WiFi

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The user modified a Vornado 633DC fan to control it remotely over WiFi by adding a custom PCB with an ESP32 module, a digital potentiometer, and a rotary encoder. The modification is fully reversible and requires no permanent alteration to the original fan, allowing for both remote control and manual interface.

Heroku Support for .NET 10

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Heroku now supports .NET 10, ASP.NET Core 10, C# 14, and F# 10. .NET 10 is the new Long Term Support release, offering three years of support and a stable foundation for businesses and developers.

Why Nietzsche matters in the age of artificial intelligence

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