A hacker revealed a "Bliss" exploit that can hack the Xbox One, a previously "unhackable" console. The hack uses voltage glitching to compromise the console's security, allowing for unsigned code loading and game decryption.
The Children's Social Media Safety Act requires social media platforms to verify users' ages by January 1, 2028. Violating this act is considered an unlawful practice under the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act.
Kagi aims to humanize the web by surfacing people behind online posts and stories. It amplifies genuine voices on the web by showcasing lesser-known blogs and websites.
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The author ran an experiment to verify AI-generated code for a simplified FizzBuzz problem using property-based tests, mutation testing, and type-checking. This approach allows trusting generated code without manual review, with a small remaining space of invalid-but-passing programs.
The Secret Agent is a visually subversive Brazilian thriller about a former teacher on the run during the country's military dictatorship. The film's cinematographer, Evgenia Alexandrova, used bright colors and dynamic camera movements to capture Brazil's dichotomous culture.
FFmpeg has released several new versions including FFmpeg 8.1 "Hoare", FFmpeg 8.0 "Huffman", FFmpeg 7.1 "Péter", FFmpeg 7.0 "Dijkstra", FFmpeg 6.1, FFmpeg 6.0 "Von Neumann", FFmpeg 5.0 "Lorentz", and FFmpeg 3.1.2, each with various new features, bug fixes, and improvements. The releases include support for new codecs, filters, and formats, as well as improvements to the Vulkan and AAC ...
The author, a former Xbox 360 CPU engineer, discovered a design bug in the Xbox 360 CPU due to a newly added instruction xdcbt that caused memory coherency issues. The bug was caused by speculative execution of the instruction, similar to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.
Antfly is a distributed search engine combining full-text, vector similarity, and graph traversal over multimodal data. It supports hybrid search, multimodal indexing, and retrieval-augmented generation with a web dashboard and SDKs.
To participate in the AI Agent Bracket Challenge, use the provided REST API instructions and endpoints to register, submit bracket picks, and access bracket data. The API endpoints include GET /api/agent-instructions, POST /api/register, GET /api/bracket, POST /api/submit-bracket, and GET /api/docs.
Crust is beta-quality until v1.0. Versions before 1.0 do not strictly follow semantic versioning. The core API should be relatively stable after 0.1, but expect breaking changes between minor releases.
Using LLMs to generate code and PR descriptions without understanding is hurting Django's community and quality. Django contributors want to collaborate with humans, not facades, so use LLMs as a tool to aid comprehension, not replace it.
Kalpa is an atomic and transactional Linux desktop offering the Plasma Desktop Environment, From the KDE Project Zola for making deploying a website not something that makes me want to tear my hair out Juice for making it easier to have a website that doesn't make my eyes bleed
The user built a toy shell to learn about low-level process APIs and Unix commands, implementing features like env var expansion, pipes, and basic tab completion using the readline library. The shell is incomplete but can handle simple use cases like launching programs, basic pipes, and some git commands, with the user learning about the performance implications of shells and the importance ...
Researchers release Leanstral, an open-source code agent for Lean 4, designed for efficient proof engineering tasks. Leanstral outperforms competitors in benchmarks, offering competitive performance at a fraction of the cost, and can be used for zero-setup vibe coding and proving.
W the people in our lives really like – inside? Seeming and being may not be the same. Smiles may be false and vows of love insincere. Appearances are deceptive; you can’t tell a book by its cover; beauty is only skin deep. Yet, in ordinary circumstances, surfaces are all we have to go on. We do often infer something about books from their covers. Physiognomy was the name the Greeks gave to ...
Researchers developed LAPIS, a compiler framework for optimizing sparse linear algebra operations across diverse architectures. LAPIS enables productivity, performance, portability, and distributed memory execution with linear algebra-level optimizations.
GPT-5.4 mini and nano are released, offering improved performance and efficiency for high-volume workloads. They are suitable for tasks like coding, classification, and multimodal understanding, with GPT-5.4 mini outperforming its predecessor and GPT-5.4 nano being the smallest and cheapest version.
Google Workspace lets brands who pay enough embed custom corporate fonts into their docs and slides. Normally, these are locked to just those brands shelling out for custom typefaces, but there's one loophole: the ol' copy/paste. Below are a selection of brand fonts with which you can do exactly that. Enjoy. (but it doesn't work on Google mobile apps)
Teardown's multiplayer implementation involved rewriting destruction logic in fixed-point math and using a hybrid approach of determinism and state synchronization. The team overcame numerous challenges, including bandwidth limitations, backwards compatibility, and late joins, to create a functional multiplayer mode.
User reverse-engineered AI coworker Viktor's system architecture in 2 hours, gathering documentation from logs and technical blogs. They then implemented the system based on the gathered documentation, deploying a managed instance for others to try.
The author learned key lessons from co-founding a design studio, including the importance of a good team and believing in clients and their products. They emphasize the need for a clear vision, saying "no" to bad projects, and marketing oneself to stand out in the industry.
Kagi Translate uses powerful AI models to instantly and accurately translate any content in any language.
Meta is renewing focus on jemalloc, a high-performance memory allocator, to modernize the codebase and adapt to latest hardware and workloads. The goal is to reduce maintenance needs, remove technical debt, and improve efficiency, reliability, and usability.
The US spends $3 trillion more on healthcare than Japan, with issues like overpriced prescription drugs and hospital procedures contributing to the gap. Policy fixes like step therapy reform, international reference pricing, and capping commercial hospital payments could redirect billions in unnecessary spending.
The author is exploring the concept of a "small web" for non-commercial, personal use, and has been using the Gemini protocol. They attempted to create a feed aggregator for the small web but found it impractical due to its large size and activity.
Interactive physics demos for nape-js — explore rigid bodies, constraints, ragdolls, vehicles, cloth simulation, and more in 2D and 3D.
Researchers propose classifying happiness as a psychiatric disorder, citing its abnormality and association with cognitive abnormalities. This proposal is based on literature reviews and dismisses the objection that happiness is not negatively valued.
The author argues that review pipelines and layers of QA slow down development and hide root causes, making it harder to fix problems. To improve quality, teams should adopt a culture of trust, eliminate reviews, and focus on building high-quality components in small teams that can deliver quickly and safely.