This project is a custom firmware for Nest Thermostats allowing independent operation and control. It flashes a modified bootloader and kernel to redirect network traffic to a custom server.
Robert Tappan Morris released the Morris worm in 1988, a pioneering malware that caused widespread damage and slowdowns on the Internet. Morris was later indicted and fined for his role in unleashing the worm, which infected 6,000 systems and caused estimated costs of $100,000 to millions of dollars.
pg_lake integrates Iceberg and data lake files into Postgres, allowing for transactions and fast queries. It supports object stores like S3 and can import/export data in various formats.
Windsurf Codemaps is an AI-annotated code map that helps engineers understand complex codebases. It provides a shared picture of the system, enabling humans and AI to work together more effectively.
The Whole Earth Catalog and its related publications focused on self-sufficiency, ecology, and alternative education, featuring product reviews and essays. The publications continued until 2002, with various revivals and mergers, focusing on access to tools, ideas, and practices.
An interactive CSS terrain generator. Define a grid and generate your terrain!
The author created a minimal computer vision library called Grayskull using C and basic algorithms to process images, detect objects, and track keypoints. Grayskull uses techniques like thresholding, blob detection, and feature extraction to achieve decent results without relying on massive libraries or deep learning frameworks.
Pak Budahar was a legendary Minang musical horn player who brought solace to passengers with his music across Sumatra. He played the kalason, a unique musical horn, for decades before it disappeared with the old buses.
Plexe is a platform that helps build production-ready AI models for business challenges such as fraud detection and churn prediction. It connects to user data, checks quality, and spots patterns to provide clear performance metrics and easy-to-read explanations for trusted predictions.
If you were hoping for cheaper processors or graphics cards in the next few years, there’s some bad news — TSMC is raising chip prices starting in 2026. The Taiwanese manufacturer, which builds most of the world’s high-end CPUs and GPUs, has told its partners that all advanced manufacturing nodes under 5 nm will get 3% to 5% more expensive every year for at least four years. That covers the 2 ...
Mathematicians use manifolds to study complex spaces and objects, viewing them as abstract, well-defined objects with intrinsic properties. Manifolds help solve problems in various fields, including geometry, physics, and data analysis, by translating them into familiar Euclidean space.
The user accidentally deleted new video footage after transferring it to their local computer but before syncing it to their NAS, resulting in data loss. They attempted various data recovery methods using free tools like photorec and untrunc, but ultimately recovered the footage using the paid software Disk Drill.
The paper GPULog optimizes Datalog for the GPU using a hash-indexed sorted array data structure and Semi-naïve Evaluation algorithm. It achieves better performance than a state-of-the-art CPU implementation and is generic enough to be applied to other chips like FPGA, DPU, and HPC cluster.
The author, a mechanic and welder, works at a petrochemical plant and uses his breaks to write stories and novels. He creates a portable desk, the "Truck Desk," in his old F-150 and later adapts it to fit various trucks.
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched a face-scanning app for local law enforcement agencies that assist the federal government with immigration-enforcement operations. The Mobile Identify app was released on the Google Play store on October 30. “This app facilitates functions authorized by Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA),” a US law that lets Immigration ...
Twitter's in-app webview now loads links in the background, causing traffic spikes for some users. This is not due to algorithm changes, but rather a design change that displays links when pressed.
A blog post proposes scaling a bloom filter based full text search index to large document corpuses, but finds it's still a bad idea due to query performance issues and space inefficiency. The index's space savings are lost when the number of documents is small relative to the dictionary size, making an inverted index more space efficient.
Source maps are used to map minified JavaScript files back to original source code, allowing for debugging in browser DevTools. They use JSON format, VLQ encoding, and Base64 characters to efficiently store position mappings between generated and original source files.
To enhance nano experience, edit .nanorc file in home directory and add features like mouse clicks, customizable tab width, and automatic indentation.
The user replaced a brittle server-bound FFmpeg script with a browser agent that can execute FFmpeg commands. This made complex media processing a single, serverless step in workflows, eliminating the need for API calls and large file transfers.
The diode is often overlooked in electronics, but it's a crucial component that can be used as a voltage-controlled gate, allowing current to flow when the voltage exceeds a certain threshold. Diodes can be used for circuit protection, voltage references, and rectification of AC signals.
The author is building an app called Residency to help users track their immigration status and avoid potential issues when traveling. The app simulates various scenarios to predict potential problems.
The AI boom is a complex phenomenon with both optimists and pessimists predicting different outcomes, but most experts agree that AI will unlock unmet demand and create new jobs, rather than eliminating them. The future of work and AI is uncertain, but it's likely that new industries and job categories will emerge, and the way we work and live will be transformed in ways we can't yet imagine.
The concept of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has become a dominant narrative in tech, with some believing it will bring about a utopian future and others fearing it will lead to the apocalypse. However, the idea of AGI is more like a conspiracy theory, with a flexible and unproven concept that has been shaped by marketing and the influence of powerful figures in the tech industry.
Aisuru, a botnet, has been overhauled to rent infected IoT devices to proxy services for anonymizing traffic, fueling large-scale data harvesting efforts tied to AI projects. Experts say a glut of proxies from Aisuru and other sources is making it difficult to trace malicious traffic.
Zhu Zhiqiang, a Chinese animator, created the viral series Xiao Xiao, which became a global phenomenon in the early 2000s, inspiring a new generation of animators.
Tenacity is a cross-platform audio editor/recorder developed by volunteers as open-source software. It supports scripting and has multiple platforms for contribution and communication.
The company is open-sourcing Deepnote, a successor to Jupyter notebooks, to provide a more reactive, collaborative, and AI-ready platform. This move aims to create a universal computational medium for data professionals and enterprises.
This package provides tools to print pictures using Phomemo thermal printers from Linux, reverse-engineered from Android app Bluetooth packets. It supports M02, M110, M120, M220, and T02 printers with varying compatibility and SELinux configuration required.
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