Homebrew 6.0.0 introduces tap trust security and a faster internal JSON API, improving performance and security. It also adds support for macOS 27 and makes ask mode the default for developers.
Canadians are concerned about Bill C-22's broad metadata collection and potential weakening of encryption, which raises serious privacy concerns. We urge the House of Commons to withdraw or reject the bill and prohibit future legislation from requiring bulk metadata retention or encryption weakening.
The user discovered a Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in AMD's AutoUpdate software due to a lack of certificate validation and HTTP URL usage. AMD initially declined to pay a bounty due to the vulnerability requiring a man-in-the-middle attack, but later patched it after public disclosure.
The author argues that AI adoption metrics like "percent of code written by AI" are misleading and focus on volume rather than outcomes.
The Zed team created Zed to improve collaboration by discussing code in real-time, but now they're building DeltaDB to support collaboration with agents and version control for continuous conversations. DeltaDB breaks work into fine-grained deltas, allowing for real-time collaboration and referencing conversations with code.
Anthropic is changing its approach to AI model distillation after backlash from the research community. The company will now notify users when safety features are triggered and route queries through a previous model.
Solar power surpassed coal as the leading source of new power in the US in May, with 12.8% of electricity supplied by solar. Coal's share declined to 12.2%, its fourth-lowest monthly share ever, despite Trump's efforts to boost the coal industry.
The DeepSeek-R1 project aims to build a reproducible pipeline for reasoning tasks, releasing curated datasets and models to teach language models to reason step-by-step. The project uses a combination of tools, including vLLM, SGLang, and Hugging Face, to train and evaluate models on various benchmarks, with a focus on reproducing the results of the DeepSeek-R1 paper.
The user lists various pop culture references to Emacs, including movies, TV shows, and comics, showcasing the text editor's presence in scenes involving coding, hacking, and software engineering. These references include films like The Social Network, Tron: Legacy, and The Internship, as well as TV shows like Silicon Valley and anime series like Aldnoah.Zero.
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Nextcloud releases Hub 26 Spring, a major update with improved interface, new office app Euro-Office, and enhanced collaboration features. The update focuses on stability, refinement, and data governance, solidifying Nextcloud's position as a secure and open-source digital workspace.
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Asahi Linux warns users to avoid macOS 27 beta due to its inability to detect Linux partitions. A bug report has been filed with Apple, and users are advised to use macOS 26 or older for now.
Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has run Half-Life at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95 with mouse and keyboard support. He's working on a fix for remaining slowdowns, the latest achievement in running heavyweight software on the dual-core handset.
Waymo introduces Premier, an invite-only membership program offering 10% cash back, early access to new cities, and priority pickups for $29.99 monthly. Premier is initially available in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Phoenix, with plans to expand to more cities.
Claw Patrol is a security gateway that parses traffic at the wire and enforces rules written in HCL to block malicious actions. It supports various protocols and can be run in different modes, including a per-process tunnel and a full host tunnel.
CHM curators discovered a vast computing collection in a German warehouse, containing over 2,000 artifacts from the 1930s to the 1980s. The collection was assembled by Professor Walter Ameling and was acquired by CHM after a 10-day visit and thorough cataloging.
Terry Tao, a renowned mathematician, collaborated with others on various projects, including the Polymath Project, which aimed to solve complex math problems through large-scale collaboration. He later turned to formalizing math proofs using computer verification, starting with a project to formalize his own proof of the polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture.
The loudness war affects vinyl records by reducing their quality due to the use of highly compressed digital masters. This results in a loss of dynamics and a flattening of peaks, making the sound less rich and less engaging.
Fully autonomous drones have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time, according to a Ukrainian defence industry figure. The test involved 10 AI-controlled drones that engaged "Terminator mode" and killed Russian soldiers.
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.
The New World Screwworm is a fly that lays eggs in living animals' wounds, causing massive damage and suffering. Its eradication was achieved through the sterile insect technique, but the barrier was breached in 2022, allowing the fly to spread north through Central America and Mexico.
Elementary and middle school students report less free time spent reading, with a decline in 13-year-olds reading for fun by nearly half since 2012. Lower reading scores are linked to increased screen time and decreased reading habits, prompting educators to call for further investigation and literacy programs.
svg-line is a package that normalizes the behavior of Emacs status bars by rendering them as SVG images, providing a consistent feature set across all status bars. It allows for multi-line layout, alignment, icons, and interactivity, and can be configured with a simple :content function that returns rows.
Queues can make systems worse by masking underlying issues and creating new problems. Proper back-pressure or load-shedding is needed to define operational limits and prevent system failures.
Automatic programming speeds up software writing but often lacks quality, however, LLMs can excel in software QA and testing, automating manual checks and identifying regressions. This approach can raise the bar of quality for new software releases, compensating for lower code quality produced at high speed.
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.
Astronomers have discovered a 'galaxy-killing wind' that may explain why there are far more massive 'dead' galaxies than expected in the early universe. This wind, powered by cosmic collisions of galaxies, could quickly blow away all the fuel for new stars, leaving the galaxy on the brink of death and helping to solve one of the biggest mysteries in modern astrophysics. The ...
Engineers should work fewer hours and at a slower pace to focus on high-impact tasks. This involves deliberately holding back effort during ordinary work to be available for critical tasks that deliver outsized returns.