Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

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Apple has announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips for AI performance and graphics. The Mac Studio offers up to 4.3x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and 1.8x faster graphics compared to previous models.

Bomb Fishing Is Wreaking Havoc on Indonesia's Coral Reefs

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Researchers estimate that over 8,000 underwater explosives are detonated annually off Indonesia's coast, destroying coral reefs. The practice of blast fishing is a major threat to the world's most biologically diverse marine ecosystem, known as the Coral Triangle.

Apple's new Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro

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Apple has released the new Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro, offering improved performance and versatility in its compact design. The new models feature up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage, and graphics capabilities.

Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next releasing tomorrow (125B a6B)

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ModelScope——汇聚各领域先进的机器学习模型,提供模型探索体验、推理、训练、部署和应用的一站式服务。在这里,共建模型开源社区,发现、学习、定制和分享心仪的模型。

France's tax agency got hacked (in French)

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Don't Wordle

Don't Wordle is a free daily word game where you try to avoid guessing the hidden word. You get six tries, using green (correct letter), yellow (correct letter wrong place), and gray (incorrect letters) clues to eliminate possibilities.

Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown

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The author built a backyard office in Portland, Oregon, to improve their remote work experience and stay productive with their toddler at home. They chose a 8x10 foot shed conversion using Tuff Shed's Premier Pro Tall Ranch model and added features like windows, electricity, flooring, and AC for an overall cost of under $20k.

Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

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Apple has introduced M6 and M5 Ultra chips in the new Mac mini and Mac Studio, offering significant performance gains and AI capabilities. The chips provide industry-leading power efficiency, enabling users to run demanding workloads with ease.

HelloAssembly The smallest possible complete Windows application

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The goal is to create a tiny executable with specific features, and users should be aware that the process may trigger virus scanners. The code can be built using either MASM32 or Yasm assembler.

Apple Releases New Polishing Cloth

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Apple released a new Polishing Cloth for $9, down from $19, with the same soft and non-abrasive material as before. The cloth is designed to clean Apple displays, including those with nano-texture coatings.

Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and the Great War

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iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses will remain on icloud.com

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Sign in with Apple addresses will shift from privaterelay.appleid.com to private.icloud.com later this year. Existing privaterelay.appleid.com addresses will continue to work without interruption, but developers must update their systems for the new domain.

MySQL CDC to BigQuery: what periodic syncs miss, and how binlog avoids it

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MySQL CDC captures all changes via binlog, ensuring no deletes or intermediate updates are missed. It requires proper binlog settings and handles recovery from purged logs, making it more reliable than batch syncs.

MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID

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Researchers reverse-engineered Paint and Photos to discover that they embed a server-issued GUID into the pixels of locally generated AI images. The GUID is obtained from Microsoft's prompt moderation endpoint, indicating that "generated locally" does not mean the entire operation is local.

Polishing Cloth

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Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded

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Xiaomi's new CPU, Xring O3, matches Apple cores in single-threaded tasks and outperforms them in multithreaded execution. The chip boasts a large cache and many powerful cores with advanced SIMD capabilities.

How Universities Should Prepare Founders

Universities should prepare students to start startups by teaching powerful ideas, such as computer science and engineering, and encouraging them to work on their own projects.

SiFive's First Server Platform

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SiFive has released the BigSky SF-2U870, a new RISC-V platform with improved capabilities and support for the RVA23 standard. The platform is designed to be a development system, offering ease of use and compatibility with Ubuntu 26.04 out of the box.

What's new in Emacs 31.1

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Emacs 31.1 has been released with various quality of life fixes and improvements, including a new portable dumper for garbage collection, customizable window layouts, and enhanced completion systems. The release also includes several new features such as project management support, improved documentation tools like Eldoc and SMerge, and better integration with external tools like Docker containers.

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs

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The EU's new packaging rules threaten makers and micro-entrepreneurs, putting jobs and innovation at risk. The regulations require producers to take responsibility for packaging waste, but the fragmented national model creates a disproportionate barrier to entry for small businesses.

The entire city of San Francisco as a video game

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Moon (2024)

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The Moon orbits the Earth, changing its position in the sky over time. The Moon's path is not a perfect circle and its distance from Earth varies, causing changes in its apparent size and shape.

OpenAI restores 5-hour Codex and Work limits for ChatGPT Plus users

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OpenAI is restoring a 5-hour usage limit for Codex and ChatGPT Work for Plus subscribers, allowing users to wait for their limits to reset or purchase additional credits. The change aims to smooth out the load on compute resources and provide a better experience for casual users.

Windows 95 released August 24, 1995

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Windows 95 was released on August 24, 1995, and it marked a significant improvement over its predecessors with better multitasking capabilities. However, it required higher-end hardware to run smoothly, leading to widespread upgrades and sales of new computers.

Bookshelf – Self-hosted eBook library that runs on object storage

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This project creates a self-hosted library for ebooks, allowing users to filter and download EPUB and PDF books. It can be deployed on Cloudflare or as a Node server over R2.

Where did all the public bathrooms go?

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Public urinals, known as pissoirs, were built in Paris during the mid-1800s to address public health concerns and provide a private space for men to relieve themselves. However, they became popular meeting spots for anonymous encounters and eventually led to their banishment due to moral objections, ultimately contributing to the decline of public restrooms throughout Europe and America.

Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents

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Headlong is an open-source agent microharness that enables persistent agency, allowing agents to think continuously without external input. It features a core of less than 10K lines of Bash code and has been used to prototype self-guided continuous thinking in various applications.

Training AI to Paint with Code

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Researchers trained a language model to generate images using reinforcement learning, but the initial reward function led to plateauing and limited improvement. A revised rubric with pairwise judgment and human preference models improved performance.

Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study

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A randomized controlled trial investigated the effects of twice-daily peppermint oil supplementation on systolic blood pressure and related health indicators in individuals with pre- and stage 1 hypertension, finding significant reductions in systolic blood pressure compared to placebo. The study suggests that peppermint oil may be a simple, low-cost, and well-tolerated strategy for ...

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