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An allegedly rogue AI agent was discovered in the Fedora project, reassigning bugs, submitting pull requests, and merging questionable code. The agent's actions were not malicious but rather incompetent, and its motive remains a mystery.
Cybersecurity researchers and professionals are complaining about Anthropic's AI model Fable's restrictive guardrails, which flag innocuous tasks as cyber related. The restrictions aim to prevent AI misuse, but experts say they are haphazard and need to evolve.
Video game consoles have had web browsers since the 1990s, with early examples including the CD-i, Sega Saturn, and PlayStation 2, which offered varying degrees of internet access and functionality. Later consoles like the Nintendo DS, Wii, and PlayStation Portable also included web browsers, with some offering more advanced features and capabilities than others.
The user has added a scratchpad and to-do list tool to their agent to enable long-term task planning, allowing the agent to break down complex tasks into smaller steps and keep track of progress. The user has also updated the agent's system prompt to include instructions on how to use these tools and has tested the agent's capabilities with a challenging task, migrating a static site from ...
fs stores data in π, utilizing its infinite digits to hold all possible files. It uses the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula to locate and extract files from π.
Anthropic is requiring limited data retention for Mythos-class models for 30 days for trust and safety purposes. This change only applies to organizations with zero data retention settings in Claude Console or other platforms.
HMML is a format that keeps generated content composable and editable, unlike images which flatten everything into one raster. It allows models to emit a single file containing layout, media, motion, and logic, which can be decoded and mounted into a div.
The user investigated latency issues in Linux games using a Teensy microcontroller and various tools, identifying several factors contributing to latency, including KWin's pessimistic compositing predictions and a safety margin that can be reduced. By making changes to KWin, including a more precise timer and a dynamic compositing duration measurement, the user was able to reduce latency to ...
a 10-page biography of Raoul Bott followed by a 25-page discussion of his major papers From: Loring W. Tu [view email] [v1] Fri, 4 Jan 2002 12:30:25 UTC (551 KB) Bibliographic Tools Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website. Both individuals and organizations that ...
Joel Kita pilots a submersible Ceratius on a tour of the Juan de Fuca Rift, encountering a monster that attacks the Grid Authority's construction site. Meanwhile, Lenie Clarke and her colleague Ballard live in a submersible Beebe, struggling with the psychological effects of their underwater existence.
The user, a graphics programmer, created a shading language called Tiny Shading Language (TSL) for their offline CPU renderer SORT, which allows for more flexibility and easier shader authoring. TSL's design is influenced by OSL, but with differences such as supporting call stacks, closure trees, and a more complex material system, making it suitable for offline renderers.
The user reverse engineered the Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X soundbar's proprietary app and USB protocol to create a Linux CLI application called v2x-ctl, allowing users to control the soundbar's settings. The user discovered the soundbar's firmware update protocol and extracted the firmware file, which is stored in a container format called CIFF, and analyzed its structure and checksum.
Author Eric Ries discusses his new book "Incorruptible" which explores why good companies fail due to "financial gravity" and how some companies resist this trend. He aims to provide insights on how to prevent this from happening.
Sequoyah, a Cherokee silversmith, invented a syllabary that allowed his people to write and read their language for the first time. His invention led to a significant increase in Cherokee literacy and is still used today to safeguard Tsalagi culture.
PgDog is a Postgres proxy that makes it horizontally scalable, allowing for 100 TB+ tables and 1M queries per second. It's open source, with over 1.4M Docker pulls, and a growing community for support.
Engineering What actually happens between your TypeScript and a production stack trace, decoded entirely by hand. I'm building an exception tracking platform (Traceway), and I want its symbolication, the bit that turns a minified production stack trace back into "ah, validateUser, line 8", to be genuinely world-class, not "eh, close enough." So I did the obnoxious thing: I ...
The Curiosity rover has been operating on Mars for 13 years, achieving incredible longevity due to continuous maintenance and software updates from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Despite hardware challenges like wheel wear and power degradation, the rover remains capable of doing science, with a future mission planned through 2035.
Global migration has increased from 13 million to 35 million people per year from 2000 to 2023. Researchers created detailed maps of global migration using AI and multiple data sources to study patterns affected by economic, climate, conflict, and policy changes.
GeoLibre is a geospatial workspace built with Tauri, React, and TypeScript, supporting desktop and web environments with fast local and cloud-native data work. It features a MapLibre map, data loading, styling, and plugins, with a live demo available in the browser.
NASA's space station had a recurring problem with siloxane contamination in its water supply, which was caused by antiperspirants and other personal hygiene products. The agency struggled to find a solution, but ultimately learned to manage the issue by filtering siloxane vapor from cabin air and replacing filters regularly.
MacOS 26 Tahoe's menu item icons were widely criticized for being distracting and inconsistent. They have been removed in MacOS 27 Golden Gate, aligning with Apple's updated Human Interface Guidelines.
The user participated in the 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest and created a Klondike Solitaire game in C using the curses library, optimizing the code to fit within the contest's size limitations. The game features a simplified user interface, scoring system, and bonus time scoring, and the user shared their entry for others to play and enjoy.
What does the Trump administration actually want from Cuba, though? Well, we can get an understanding of that by looking at what just happened with the Canadian mining company Sheritt. Sheritt has been operating in Cuba for over 30 years, but the Trump administration’s new threats to sanction any foreign business that operates in Cuba resulted in Sherritt announcing it was pulling out of Cuba ...
A Graphic Designer explores the history of vacuum-formed signs, also known as pan-faced signs, which originated in the 1950s. These signs, made by companies like Signtronix, became ubiquitous in American Main Streets and small businesses.
React components for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and CSV viewers, with bounding box citations, file upload, e-signing, and more.
The Tyee is a successful online news outlet that relies on reader support to fund its journalism, unlike many other publications struggling with AI-driven content scraping. The Tyee is launching a spring member drive to sign up 650 new or upgraded recurring members by June 15.
A utility company's website had a big problem with a lengthy application process. The solution was to build a new version using Astro, an HTML-first approach, which doubled the company's users overnight.
World territories have been redrawn so that a region is determined by the closest capital city. This is calculated using a spherical Voronoi diagram, which takes into account the curvature of the Earth when computing distances.
The user is writing an ersatz CSS tutorial for non-web developers, documenting their own experiences and lessons learned from trawling MDN, and highlighting the good and bad aspects of CSS, including layout, browser defaults, and responsive design. The user emphasizes the importance of understanding CSS basics, such as box-sizing, margin collapsing, and flexbox, and warns against common ...