Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

557 anonymousiam 2026-05-08 19:03:21 UTC reclaimthenet.org Llama Share 189

Google's new reCAPTCHA system requires Android users to run Google Play Services to prove they're human, excluding de-Googled phones. This move establishes a precedent for accessing basic web content, favoring Google's ecosystem control over user data consent.

OpenAI's WebRTC problem

46 atgctg 2026-05-09 00:03:21 UTC moq.dev Llama Share 3

The user strongly advises against using WebRTC for voice AI due to its limitations and trade-offs, such as introducing artificial latency and aggressively dropping packets. The user suggests using QUIC instead, which offers better performance and scalability, and provides a detailed explanation of how QUIC can be used for load balancing and connection management.

AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures

220 speckx 2026-05-08 18:03:21 UTC jefftk.com Llama Share 96

A security vulnerability was discovered and shared publicly after an initial attempt at a closed disclosure, highlighting a tension between coordinated and immediate disclosure. AI-assisted vulnerability detection is making long embargoes obsolete and shortening the time to detection.

You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)

124 MrBruh 2026-05-08 20:03:21 UTC ze3tar.github.io Llama Share 79

A Linux kernel vulnerability in io_uring's ZCRX subsystem allows an attacker to write to adjacent slab memory, corrupting a refcount, leading to a heap read, KASLR break, and modprobe_path overwrite. This can be exploited to gain uid=0.

Wi is Fi: Understanding Wi-Fi 4/5/6/6E/7/8 (802.11 n/AC/ax/be/bn)

60 homebrewer 2026-05-08 22:03:21 UTC wiisfi.com GoogleT5 Share 28

A mid-range wi-fi 6 router supporting (1) 44 mimo [7], (2) all dfs channels, (3) 160 mhz (he160) wide channels is. if you are not right next to the router, your actual speed will be around 900 mbps 100 for 22 mimo and 650 for wi-fi 5 - edward s. lewis. says unless you

Cartoon Network Flash Games

273 willmeyers 2026-05-08 17:03:21 UTC webdesignmuseum.org Llama Share 95

The website is blocked due to security reasons after a suspicious action was detected. Please email the site owner with the Cloudflare Ray ID and details of the action that triggered the block.

AWS North Virginia data center outage – recovery to take hours

115 christhecaribou 2026-05-08 20:03:21 UTC cnbc.com Llama Share 69

Amazon Web Services experienced a thermal issue at a Virginia facility causing operational issues. The outage affected trading platforms like FanDuel and Coinbase, with full recovery expected to take several hours.

Can LLMs model real-world systems in TLA+?

17 mad 2026-05-09 00:03:21 UTC sigops.org Llama Share 0

Large Language Models (LLMs) struggle to model complex systems, producing specs that recite textbook protocols rather than actual implementations. They excel in syntax but fail in conformance and invariant phases.

David Attenborough's 100th Birthday

428 defrost 2026-05-08 13:03:21 UTC bbc.com Llama Share 83

Sir David Attenborough turns 100, receiving birthday messages from the royal couple and many celebrities. A special concert at the Royal Albert Hall celebrates his life and legacy.

When is your birthday? The math behind hash collisions

11 denismenace 2026-05-09 00:03:21 UTC 0xkrt26.github.io Llama Share 0

The math bureau employees initially calculated a low probability of three people sharing the same birthday, but Austrian mathematician Richard von Mises changed the perspective to find a much higher expected value of such events.

The React2Shell Story

12 mufeedvh 2026-05-09 00:03:21 UTC lachlan.nz Llama Share 1

A professional hacker discovered a critical remote code execution vulnerability, "React2Shell," in the React framework, which affected millions of websites, and reported it to Meta on November 30th 2025. The hacker, fueled by curiosity and frustration, spent days learning about the Flight protocol and eventually found a way to exploit it, leading to the development of the React2Shell exploit chain.

Looking at the data behind prediction markets

52 kqr 2026-05-08 21:03:21 UTC asteriskmag.com Llama Share 26

Prediction markets have grown in volume but mostly serve entertainment purposes, with few providing useful information for decision-making. AI forecasting may surpass human traders and improve access to forecasts, potentially making prediction markets obsolete.

Serving a website on a Raspberry Pi Zero running in RAM

188 xngbuilds 2026-05-08 16:03:21 UTC btxx.org Llama Share 77

The user set up a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 running Alpine Linux to serve a micro site to the public internet, using a separate VPS for TLS termination. They used darkhttpd as the web server and configured a backup system using lbu and rsync to ensure persistent changes on reboots.

Mux (YC W16) Is Hiring

0 2026-05-08 22:03:21 UTC mux.com Llama Share

Mux is a video platform for developers solving video encoding and streaming issues. It's a tight-knit team welcoming diverse backgrounds to make video better.

An Introduction to Meshtastic

368 ColinWright 2026-05-08 12:03:21 UTC meshtastic.org Llama Share 144

Meshtastic is a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range off-grid communication. It forms a mesh network allowing multiple users to receive messages, with each device supporting one user at a time.

Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible

9 geox 2026-05-09 00:03:21 UTC colorado.edu Prefix Share 0

Imagine a sea of glowing blue lights pulsing to the beat of the music. But instead of glow sticks filled with toxic chemicals, the luminescence comes from living algae, shimmering on demand. In a new study published May 6 in Science Advances, CU Boulder researchers and collaborators unveil a new technology that could make it possible. They’ve successfully turned on the “light switch” in algae ...

Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

120 tcp_handshaker 2026-05-08 22:03:21 UTC pcmag.com Llama Share 86

Meta is removing end-to-end encryption from Instagram DMs after May 8, 2026, citing low adoption. Users can download impacted data before the change.

Teaching Claude Why

78 pretext 2026-05-08 18:03:21 UTC anthropic.com Llama Share 17

We improved Claude's safety training to reduce agentic misalignment by teaching principles of aligned behavior and using diverse data. Our methods, including the "difficult advice" dataset and document training, achieved significant improvements in alignment generalization.

Compound drivers of Antarctic sea ice loss and Southern Ocean destratification

20 littlexsparkee 2026-05-08 22:03:21 UTC science.org Llama Share 0

Antarctic sea ice extent declined after 2015 due to intensified westerlies and upwelling of warm, saline circumpolar deep water. The decline was driven by a combination of factors, including heat transfer from the atmosphere and ocean, and changes in surface freshwater fluxes.

Tesla Model Y Passes NHTSA's New 'Advanced Driver Assistance System' Tests

29 amanaplanacanal 2026-05-09 00:03:21 UTC nhtsa.gov Full Share 24

You don't have permission to access "http://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/tesla-model-y-first-vehicle-pass-nhtsa-new-advanced-driver-assistance-system-tests" on this server.

Rumors of my death are slightly exaggerated

1506 CliffStoll 2026-05-08 07:03:21 UTC news.ycombinator.com Llama Share 234

AI-generated content is spreading false information about a person's death. This incident highlights AI's advanced ability to create convincing synthetic content, including fabricated details about real individuals.

Mojo 1.0 Beta

278 sbt567 2026-05-08 08:03:21 UTC mojolang.org Llama Share 180

Mojo is a compiled, statically-typed language that combines Python's syntax, Rust's memory safety, and Zig's metaprogramming for diverse hardware. It natively interoperates with Python and allows for high-performance GPU programming without vendor lock-in.

Non-determinism is an issue with patching CVEs

35 mathewpregasen 2026-05-08 22:03:21 UTC flox.dev Llama Share 11

The rapid acceleration of AI-driven CVE discovery and the explosion of package CVEs make traditional package management unmanageable, but a system like Flox, built on Nix, can centrally manage environments and detect vulnerabilities with a queryable dependency graph. This approach reduces CVE triage to database lookups and graph comparisons, making it more efficient and scalable than ...

All means are fair except solving the problem

29 akkartik 2026-05-08 21:03:21 UTC yosefk.com Llama Share 37

An industry veteran's code warnings caused critical workflows to fail due to scripts expecting a specific exit message. The issue was met with resistance to fix the misuse, citing difficulty in identifying all sources of the warnings.

US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

226 david-gpu 2026-05-08 13:03:21 UTC war.gov Full Share 336

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How do I deal with memory leaks? (2022)

75 theanonymousone 2026-05-08 18:03:21 UTC stroustrup.com Llama Share 64

The text discusses various C++ programming techniques, including using the standard library, avoiding memory management, and designing classes for inheritance and polymorphism. It also covers topics such as virtual functions, pure virtual functions, and preventing derivation of classes for logical reasons, and provides examples and advice for good programming practices.

Poland is now among the 20 largest economies

888 surprisetalk 2026-05-08 13:03:21 UTC apnews.com Llama Share 732

Poland's economy has grown significantly since 1990, becoming the world's 20th largest with over $1 trillion in annual output. The country's transformation is attributed to a strong institutional framework, EU aid, and a broad consensus on joining the EU.

PC Engine CPU

117 ibobev 2026-05-08 15:03:21 UTC jsgroth.dev Llama Share 52

The PC Engine's CPU is a custom-designed HuC6280 based on the 65C02, with 8-bit registers and a 7.16 MHz clock speed, making it fast for its time but with limited instruction set capabilities. The CPU has a built-in MMU that expands the physical address space to 21-bit and supports block transfer instructions for bulk copying data, but has limitations such as not being able to respond to ...

Hosting a Site on a Raspberry Pi

9 swiftdust 2026-05-08 23:03:21 UTC m4rt.nl Prefix Share 0

i just so happened to have bought a domain and had a spare pi laying around. so i started making a website. having played around with astro and svelte before, i find myself hesitating between the two. i finally settled with astro, and i have no regrets. i could write another blog post about just how nice astro is for simple websites, but that’s something for (maybe?) later. but mart, you may ...

My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem

35 r1chk1t 2026-05-08 20:03:21 UTC blog.pavementlink.ch Llama Share 27

An ICT engineer at a Swiss biopharma company encountered a server issue due to a bad hard drive sector caused by a SQL patch, which led to data loss and required a data recovery tool to repair the corrupted sectors. The engineer learned valuable lessons about the importance of verifying backups, monitoring database changes, and staying curious when troubleshooting complex technical issues.