Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

285 javxfps 2026-07-04 16:55:03 UTC javoriuski.com Llama Share 136

A security vulnerability was found in YouTube's AI assistant Ask Studio, where an attacker can inject malicious comments that are then read by the AI and presented as its own response to creators. This allows attackers to extract sensitive information from creators' private videos by manipulating the AI to generate links with channel data, putting millions of creators at risk.

Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

168 Cider9986 2026-07-04 16:55:03 UTC software.annas-archive.gl Llama Share 67

Google is offering a $200,000 bounty for a method to access and scale up its scanned book snippets. The goal is to make these rare books accessible, and the bounty also applies to similar collections from AI companies.

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

233 chatmasta 2026-07-04 14:55:03 UTC github.com/anthropics Full Share 114

Bug Description Apparent session leakage, despite authenticated to Enterprise ZDR workspace. Agent suddenly started asking me what kind of bricks I wanted for my Minecraft temple and confidently asserted in its recap that it's building a...

Verizon is About to Break our Watches

56 jefftk 2026-07-04 17:55:03 UTC jefftk.com Llama Share 14

User's Verizon Gizmo watches are losing app functionality due to a new app rollout. Verizon support has acknowledged the issue but has not resolved it, and the old app will be shut down on July 6th.

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)

302 theanonymousone 2026-07-04 12:55:03 UTC peteris.rocks Llama Share 40

The load average of 1.0 on a two-core machine does not mean 50% CPU usage, but rather 100% CPU utilization, as the load average is the average number of running processes, not CPU usage. The load average is calculated by counting the number of running and uninterruptible processes, and is an exponentially damped moving average of the system load since startup.

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

7 asronline 2026-07-04 19:43:03 UTC github.com/ammaarreshi Prefix Share 7

Zero Hour running natively on Apple Silicon Macs, iPhone, and iPad — campaign, skirmish, and Generals Challenge, with touch controls built for RTS (tap-select, drag-box, long-press deselect, two-finger scroll, pinch zoom). No emulation: this is the real 2003 engine compiled for ARM64, rendering DirectX 8 → DXVK → Vulkan → MoltenVK → Metal. Built on EA's GPL v3 source release via ...

Drone Physics

14 wrxd 2026-07-04 18:55:03 UTC iahmed.me GoogleT5 Share 1

Evtols are multirotor aircraft that can fly at high altitudes. the angular velocity of the vehicle is the instantaneous rotational rate of a frame x, y, and z, as determined by the inertial reference frame. this can be used to integrate accelerations in the body frame to find body-frame velocity. propellers spin by motors, which produce gross torques which are dissip

BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments

30 liffik 2026-07-04 17:55:03 UTC github.com/piat0n Llama Share 6

This tool boots from a disk/USB and dumps system RAM to the booting medium using BIOS interrupts and unreal mode. It was originally developed for Cold Boot Attacks, allowing extraction of sensitive information from frozen RAM.

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

58 msephton 2026-07-04 14:55:03 UTC github.com/maximqaxd Llama Share 10

The Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition is a multitasking windowed desktop for the Dreamcast, built from a stripped-down Windows CE 2.12 runtime. It's a self-contained project with a CMake build system, allowing users to create a bootable disc image with various configurations.

As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers

37 petethomas 2026-07-04 18:55:03 UTC seattletimes.com Llama Share 38

Downtown Seattle's office space is severely underutilized with nearly 37% vacancy, a 46% loss in value since 2020, and a potential 8-year wait to refill current vacancies. Experts predict a quarter of Seattle's office supply is excess, with the tech sector being the main culprit behind the supply-demand gap.

Plein Air

36 bookofjoe 2026-07-04 17:55:03 UTC art.joonas.wtf Llama Share 4

Plein air painters created works outdoors to capture light and atmosphere. The resulting paintings share a moment in time, often with the same sky and weather conditions.

Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

117 sensanaty 2026-07-04 16:55:03 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 42

Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centers due to a rare bacterium found in reclaimed water. The bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, was traced to Meta's contractor Goat Systems LLC, which has suspended fill-and-flush discharge privileges.

Curveball

30 toilet 2026-07-04 16:55:03 UTC mightyburger.net Llama Share 7

The user created Curveball, a tool for generating curves in the Neverball game, which can create complex shapes using convex hull algorithms and 2D profiles. Curveball can generate various curves, including extrusions, Curve Classic, Curve Slope, and Rayto, and can be used to create new levels for the Neverball game.

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe

162 jnord 2026-07-04 09:55:03 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 99

Astrophysicist Charlotte Mason and colleagues are studying "little red dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, which may be black holes or a new type of object. Researchers are exploring various theories to explain the dots' existence and the universe's early mysteries.

The .join() that should be a bug

10 mastabadtomm 2026-07-04 17:55:03 UTC kronotop.com Llama Share 0

Kronotop is a distributed database that uses a third approach to connection management, combining the benefits of Redis and Postgres. It separates the connection and work sides, using a small number of event loop threads for connections and virtual threads for I/O operations.

Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting

24 tobr 2026-07-04 16:55:03 UTC studios.disneyresearch.com Llama Share 3

Researchers introduced a neural render proxy (NRP) for fast relighting of static scenes with fixed camera and materials. NRP enables interactive frame rates and gradient-based inverse workflows for efficient lighting parameter solving.

Maybe you should learn something

374 tylerdane 2026-07-04 03:55:03 UTC marginalia.nu Llama Share 175

Learning new things is fun and makes life richer, but it requires a daily time investment of up to an hour. It's a long journey with initial struggles, but consistent practice leads to improvements over time.

Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years

55 ohjeez 2026-07-04 17:55:03 UTC euronews.com Llama Share 13

Finland has ended analogue landline phone calls after 150 years, marking a global shift to digital infrastructure. The country's last major telecom operator, Elisa, made the final call to mark the end of its service.

Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit

35 rtolkachev 2026-07-04 14:55:03 UTC explainanalyze.com Llama Share 2

Partitioning by primary key (id) allows for automatic pruning and eliminates the need for date filters in queries. A background service can manage partition boundaries based on observed growth, eliminating the need for manual partitioning and rebalancing.

No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth

86 Breadmaker 2026-07-04 17:55:03 UTC eso.org Llama Share 119

A new ESO study warns that launching 1.7 million satellites would devastate astronomy, recommending no more than 100,000 faint satellites to safeguard night sky observations.

Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System

11 tosh 2026-07-04 16:55:03 UTC ziglang.org Llama Share 0

The Zig compiler has undergone several changes and improvements in 2026, including a new ELF linker, incremental compilation, and improved type resolution logic, which aim to make the compiler faster and more efficient. These changes also include updates to the LLVM backend, SPIR-V backend, and package management, as well as the introduction of new features such as evented I/O and experimental fibers.

EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?

10 jmmv 2026-07-04 17:55:03 UTC endbasic.dev Llama Share 0

EndBASIC 0.14 has been released with new features including graphics primitives, a retro font, and sound support, marking a major milestone towards a possible 1.0. The release also includes fixes for macOS and Unix-like systems, direct execution of EndBASIC binaries, and a secondary mechanism for console settings.

Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language

62 yyyk 2026-07-04 12:55:03 UTC freepressjournal.in Llama Share 18

Dr Julie Elie won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize for decoding zebra finches' core vocabulary and advancing human-animal communication research. Her research showed zebra finches use distinct calls to announce identity and activities, and understand the meanings of their vocalisations.

Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

141 andrenotgiant 2026-07-04 06:55:03 UTC databricks.com Llama Share 44

The author, a co-founder of Databricks, discusses how traditional OLTP databases are clunky, difficult to scale, and fragile, and proposes a new architecture called Lakebase that externalizes storage and compute, making databases more durable, elastic, and cheaper to run. Lakebase's design also enables a new feature called LTAP, which unifies transactional and analytical workloads by storing ...

The Vespa at 80

122 cf100clunk 2026-07-04 09:55:03 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 105

A Vespa museum in Rome showcases the scooter's 80-year history, from its birth in 1946 to its current status as a symbol of freedom and style. The Vespa's unlikely story began as a solution to post-war Italy's transportation needs, designed by Corradino D'Ascanio and launched by Enrico Piaggio.

Wicklow hotel cancels 'secretive' Peter Thiel group conference

9 01-_- 2026-07-04 19:10:03 UTC irishtimes.com Prefix Share 0

A five-star hotel in Co Wicklow has cancelled bookings for a “secretive” conference which was to be hosted in August by a group cofounded by US tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The planned event at the Powerscourt Hotel Resort and Spa, scheduled to be attended by a senior Nato commander and Trump administration officials, will not now go ahead at the venue. Thiel was a cofounder of payments ...

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

692 gslin 2026-07-04 06:55:03 UTC blog.mikebowler.ca Llama Share 388

High-stakes meetings in poorly ventilated rooms can impair decision-making due to high CO2 levels. A CO2 monitor can help identify and fix this issue, which is often overlooked and can be as simple as opening a window.

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

334 latchkey 2026-07-03 21:55:03 UTC wafer.ai Llama Share 132

AMD's Instinct MI350 series offers cheaper GPUs with comparable specs to NVIDIA's Blackwells, but lacks day-0 support for frontier models. With optimization and tweaks, AMD can achieve competitive performance per dollar, closing the gap with NVIDIA, but still requires more support and development.

Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2

71 gverrilla 2026-07-04 10:55:03 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 26

The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the "Night Witches," was an all-female Soviet military unit that flew over 23,000 sorties during World War II. The regiment was formed in 1941 and flew harassment and precision bombing missions against the German military until the end of the war in 1945.

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

337 programLyrique 2026-07-03 22:55:03 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 93

Leanstral 1.5 is a free, open-source model that delivers a performance upgrade for formal verification, achieving a new state-of-the-art on FATE-H/X and PutnamBench. It verifies complex code properties and uncovers previously unknown bugs in open-source repositories.