Vercel disclosed a breach of its internal systems affecting a limited subset of customers. The company is investigating with incident response experts and notifying affected customers directly.
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Google has expanded its Personal Intelligence feature so that Gemini can now access your Google Photos face data, Gmail, YouTube history, and search activity to generate personalized AI images — live for US paid subscribers as of April 2026.
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The Nanopass Framework is an embedded domain-specific language for creating compilers that focuses on creating small passes and many intermediate representations. Nanopass reduces the boilerplate required to create compilers making them easier to understand and maintain.
Game developers use various methods to pause games, including manipulating time, freezing frames, and ignoring pause commands for certain functions. Pausing a game can be a complex process, but most modern game engines support it, and developers can implement it with proper testing and consideration of different pause scenarios.
The user explains that programming languages can be grouped into seven fundamental "ur-languages" that share common patterns and characteristics, and that learning a language from the same ur-language is easier than learning one from a different ur-language. The user suggests learning a language from the ALGOL family (such as Python or Java), then learning a language from the Prolog family ...
A new type of malware called SPEAKE(a)R can covertly turn headphones, earphones, or simple earbuds connected to a PC into microphones when a standard microphone is not present, muted, taped, or turned off. The malware can record human speech of intelligible quality and eavesdrop from nine meters away, posing a significant cyber security threat.
Turtle WoW, a popular World of Warcraft private server, is shutting down on May 14 after a cease and desist from Blizzard. The server will close its servers to the final patch and associated social media channels will shut down later this year.
A powerful toolkit to create, stack, and animate shaders.
The user encountered a problem at Antithesis where they needed to efficiently query a large tree data structure in Google BigQuery, but point lookups were slow. They solved this by inventing a "skiptree" data structure, which is a hierarchy of skiplists that allows for efficient querying with a fixed number of JOINs in SQL.
You had a cheap RFID reader and wanted to capture its input without affecting other applications. You used the EVIOCGRAB ioctl in C and found a Python solution, but preferred a native approach.
The user discovered a bug in Discord's link preview feature that allows them to track when and how often a message is read by others, including the time it was visible. They created a proof-of-concept app that exploits this bug, allowing them to track message reads with a high degree of accuracy.
Scientists at NIST have developed a way to make integrated circuits for light, which could power emerging technologies like AI, quantum computers, and optical atomic clocks. The new technique allows for the creation of complex circuits that can manipulate light in various ways, potentially making these technologies more powerful and portable.
Grit Matthias Phelps, a Cornell University instructor, introduced manual typewriters to her German language class to prevent AI use and teach students the value of writing without digital assistance. The "analog" assignment allowed students to experience the raw feeling of typing without screens, online dictionaries, or delete keys.
The author introduced the pairwise order of a sequence, a tool that can be used to analyze measures of disorder. The pairwise order can be used to redefine existing measures of disorder, such as Runs and Mono.
Gemma 4 E2B generating Excalidraw diagrams from text prompts, running entirely in desktop Chrome via WebGPU. KV cache compressed 2.4× using TurboQuant's polar+QJL algorithm reimplemented in WGSL compute shaders. Requires Chrome 134+ on desktop — Safari/iOS not supported.
The author visited the Bay Area and observed a culture of extreme sincerity, where people take everything seriously, including absurd conversations and behaviors. They attended a "spring gay peptide party" where people injected each other with peptides for weight loss and other purposes.
In 2024, bjiru uploaded a video about the ME2 handheld device, a toy produced around 2008 that featured the ability to use USB to synchronize points and gems between your device and an online world. The game was extremely niche, so no software, drivers, or assets had been archived, at least until bjiru came forward with the online game client. I am the leader of Miuchiz Reborn, an effort that ...
Anonymous request-token comparisons from the community, showing how Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7 differ on real inputs Open source · stored rows contain anonymous submission IDs onlyNot affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.
A minimal viable program is the smallest program that solves a particular problem without extra features. It's simple, reliable, and does one essential thing well, like Dropbox and Twitter.
Prioritizing speed over communication can lead to faulty designs and system inconsistencies. This approach can create technical debt and hinder future collaboration, ultimately harming the organization.
Before GPS, aircraft navigated using celestial navigation, which was automated in the 1960s with the development of the Astro Compass system that used an electromechanical analog computer called the Angle Computer. The Angle Computer physically modeled the celestial sphere to solve the navigational triangle and provide accurate heading and position information to the aircraft navigator.
The binary GCD algorithm is a variant of Euclid's algorithm that uses binary shifts, comparisons, and subtractions to find the greatest common divisor of two numbers, which is ~2x faster than the C++ standard library's gcd function. The algorithm's performance can be further optimized by using __builtin_ctz to reduce the number of iterations and by rearranging the assembly code to take ...
Japan's railway system excels due to good public policy, business structure, and land use rules, not cultural factors. Its unique model of private companies building cities and capturing value from real estate and commercial side businesses has contributed to its success.
Adobe's Creative Cloud is facing competition from free alternatives like Autograph and Canva, which offer similar design tools at no cost. Industry rivals like Apple and DaVinci Resolve are also undercutting Adobe's pricing with affordable subscription options.
A Dubai airline worker was arrested for sharing bomb damage photos in a private WhatsApp group, charged with publishing information harmful to state interests. He remains in detention, highlighting concerns over Dubai's surveillance operations and access to private communications.
Matt Mullenweg overruled core committers to register Akismet on WordPress 7.0's Connectors screen. The decision sparked controversy over process and contribution recognition, with Mullenweg defending Automattic's contributions to WordPress.
You started a solo consultancy helping SMEs with back-office issues and are looking for advice on getting your first project. You're offering 10 hours free to the first 5 clients to help them get started.
The user attended an IETF meeting to learn about TCP BBR and observed the ongoing debate about IPv6 replacing IPv4, which led them to investigate the history of networking protocols and their complexities. The user discovered that the intertwining of ethernet and IP protocols has resulted in a complicated system, making it difficult to imagine a network without MAC addresses and IP addresses, ...