10th Gen Honda Civic Updates Are Signed with AOSP Test Keys

The author has updated their project on reverse engineering the 2021 Honda Civic headunit, revealing a vulnerability called "EvilValet" that allows arbitrary code execution via the update path. A new tool, ota-builder, has been published to easily prepare update files.

The Redistribution of Housing Wealth Caused by Rent Control [pdf]

This paper studies the effects of rent control on housing wealth in St. Paul, Minnesota, finding that property values fell by 4.4-5.8% after the law was enacted, with upper-income renters gaining more than lower-income renters. The results suggest that the distribution of benefits from rent control is regressive, with high-income renters receiving larger benefits than low-income renters, and ...

Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

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The US Department of Commerce banned noise infusion from statistical products, targeting differential privacy, which adds noise to protect data privacy. This move may lead to less accurate or more vulnerable data, impacting researchers and demographic studies.

GLM 5.2 Is Out

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GLM-5.2, an open-source AI model, is now available to all users. It supports long-horizon tasks and is a step towards making frontier intelligence accessible to everyone.

Every Frame Perfect

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UI should be polished and consistent, with every frame mattering to build trust with users. A well-designed UI should look good in all states, not just start and end.

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

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A user built a portable console using a used IBM 1U console, a terminal emulator, and a keyboard. The device has two modes: one for connecting to a terminal box and another for free connectors.

FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language

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Free Oberon is a cross-platform IDE for the Oberon programming language, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It allows users to write, compile, and run programs in Oberon, with features like automatic linking and error detection.

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

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Thousands of oncologists gave a standing ovation at a Chicago conference for daraxonrasib, a drug that almost doubles pancreatic cancer survival times. This breakthrough could impact Amazon and NASA's plans.

Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI

Pyodide now supports PEP 783, allowing Python packages to be published directly to PyPI and installed at runtime, reducing the burden on maintainers and enabling faster startup times. This release also includes several breaking changes, such as a new versioning scheme, removal of certain libraries, and updates to the ssl and hashlib modules.

Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole

Python 3.14.0 introduced an incremental garbage collector but reverted the change in 3.14.5 due to higher memory usage. The incremental GC reduced pause times but increased memory usage, leading to its removal in favor of the traditional GC.

Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines

Entity-level semantic merge driver for Git. Two agents edit different functions in the same file? Clean merge. Every time. # Two agents edited different functions $ git merge feature-b CONFLICT (content): Merge conflict in src/lib.ts Automatic merge failed. # Git sees overlapping lines. # The functions don't actually overlap. # Same merge, with weave configured $ git merge feature-b weave ...

Apt Encounters of the Third Kind

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A few weeks ago an ordinary security assessment turned into an incident response whirlwind. the author discovered that libfsalvfs.so lets the malicous code inspect the decoded http packet - allowing it to bypass edr. q: who are these bad guys you keep referring to? a: i think it's the same guys that are behind the dreaded ssh keyloggers

Codex for open source

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Codex supports open-source maintainers with tools for real workflows, reducing coding and review load. Selected maintainers receive API credits and ChatGPT Pro for six months.

GameBoy Workboy

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Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

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ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

ReactOS has achieved a milestone by running the classic game Half-Life on its open-source platform. This marks a significant step towards Windows binary compatibility for ReactOS.

Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

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The ddx3216 uses a 64k x 8bit rom-chip. the reset-vector has to be placed at 0xffff0 to make it compatible with the new cpu-cpecifications. so i searched for better solutions and found the picorom and onerom projects - and how to use them!... and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me :

(Re//Verse 2026) Taxonomy and Deobfuscation of a Real World Binary Obfuscator [pdf]

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Human Routers of Machine Words

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The author feels tricked and contemptible when people use AI to write their content, as it implies laziness and a lack of understanding. They argue that writing is a crucial part of thinking, and AI-generated content often lacks the nuance and precision that human writing provides.

Appreciating Exif

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Exif is a metadata format that stores image information like orientation, timestamp, and camera settings, and it's usually found in JPEG files near the beginning in an APP1 marker segment. Exif is optional and can be stripped, but it's often used by photo apps, websites, and asset-management systems to sort, search, and display images.

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

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Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.

Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases

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The Field Guide to CSS Grid Lanes

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Grid Lanes is a CSS feature that creates a Masonry layout with four lines of code. It automatically packs items into grid lanes with flexible sizes and spacing.

Quadratic funding democratizes allocation by rewarding projects w/ broad support

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For example, four projects raise $400 each. QF allocates funding based on the quantity of donors, not the total amount of money. $400 each, four donor patterns → $4 × 100 +2× $8 × 50 +1.5× $40 × 10 +0.5× $100 × 4 +0.25× Donations QF match Every donation is verified. Public chains (Bitcoin, Ethereum) confirm on-chain. Private chains (Monero, shielded Zcash) are verified via view keys the ...

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

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The FDA approved a new chemical UV filter called bemotrizinol for use in US sunscreens, offering better protection against UVA and UVB rays. This ingredient is photo stable, non-irritating, and minimally absorbed into the skin, making it a welcome addition to sunscreen options.

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

User upgraded from RTX 5080 to a refurbished RTX 3090 for AI experiments. They successfully set up both cards on an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, achieving 80+ tokens/sec with Qwen 3.6 model quantized at q8.

Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains

A new study by Oxford University found that genetic doubling events over 450 million years ago helped kick-start the evolution of complex brains in vertebrates. The events led to the emergence of different brain cell types, which are shared across vertebrates and form the basis of sophisticated brains.

The adder at the heart of Intel's 8087 floating-point chip

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The Intel 8087 floating-point coprocessor uses a 69-bit adder to perform arithmetic operations, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root. The adder is divided into blocks of four bits, each using a Manchester carry chain and a carry-skip circuit to optimize performance.

AI coding at home without going broke

Three ways to do AI coding at home without company spending are self-hosting, renting open source models, and blending frontier subscriptions with API rates. The best approach is a mix of expensive models for planning and cheap ones for filling in details.

The experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

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A frontend ticket was incorrectly assigned to the user, who had to explain to the design team that the issue with Arabic text rendering was due to the lack of shaping engines in the web, not a bug in the stylesheet. The user then went on to explain the history of Arabic typography, the importance of shaping engines, and the challenges of rendering Arabic text on the web, including the use of ...