SpaceX's Starship is set to launch on November 13, with a live webcast and potential hours of live views from orbit. The mission aims to deploy 26 Starlink V3 satellites and test the first full recovery of an orbital launch system.
Apollo missions carried a grenade launcher and 4 grenades to study shockwave propagation underground. The grenades were used in surface explosions to gather information about the lunar structure.
Lovable, a Swedish AI startup, allows users to build web applications without coding but found many cases of sensitive data being accessible without logging in. The platform's terms and conditions place responsibility for security on the customers themselves, leaving a gap between its promise and user responsibilities.
A federal judge denied Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron's joint motion to dismiss a class action alleging they conspired to restrict conventional DRAM supply. The court found the complaint plausibly alleged an agreement in violation of the Sherman Act.
This article explains how Large Language Models (LLMs) encode and process token position information using classic and contemporary methods like RoPE. Modern architectures adapt or omit explicit positional encodings, with some models using relative position methods like RoPE to build relationships between tokens.
The author solved a problem with the audio stage of their SA-01 prototype, where a "click" or "thunk" sound occurred when power was lost. They added bulk capacitance to the 3.3V rail to prevent this issue, discovering that electrolytic capacitors were more effective than surface mount ceramic ones due to their ability to hold charge longer.
A timestamp oracle is a service that provides strictly increasing integer IDs for ordering events across a distributed system, addressing issues with monotonicity and scalability. It offers both monotonic timestamps and gapless sequences, which are essential for surrogate keys, audit logs, and other applications requiring contiguous IDs.
The author mapped thousands of conversations in a language model's internal representations, finding overlapping sheets of similar conversation patterns across languages. The geometry revealed commonalities and differences between languages, including code and non-code examples.
A 200-year-old roof tile with a handwritten letter of dismissal has been found at a salvage yard in Staffordshire, England. The tile is believed to be from Thomas Austin Brick & Tile Makers, which operated in Stoke-on-Trent in the early 19th century.
Steve Wozniak wrote the BASIC for the Apple 1 computer on paper, assembling it by hand while designing the stack machine evaluating expressions. He used a HP calculator to get familiar with stack-thinking before writing the code.
The author is creating a tamper-proof system on NetBSD, focusing on encrypting the root file system and reserving a separate partition for encrypted data. They use cgd (CipherGuard Device) to create an encrypted partition that can be verified with a password.
The NES has seen a resurgence in modern game development, with many new titles being released that pay homage to the classic console's unique charm and limitations. These games range from platformers like Sam's Journey and The Storied Sword to shmups like Project Blue and Arkanoidvania, showcasing the versatility and creativity of modern NES game developers.
A data center in Malaysia will use Nvidia's AI servers to supply computing power to a Chinese tech giant, sidestepping US rules on chip sales. The setup is legal and profitable, despite criticism from lawmakers over the relaxed regulations.
KDE: The Documentary tells the story of the pioneering open source community that gave computer users a free and open alternative to proprietary desktops like Windows. The story starts in 1996, whe...
The author created a family tree of software job titles from the 1940s to present, tracking changes in job names and roles over time. The tree spans seven colored columns, illustrating how titles evolved into new ones through influence or common career moves.
Rhizomatica developed the High-frequency Emergency and Rural Multimedia Exchange System (HERMES) to provide long-distance communications in remote communities. The system, made open-source with the release of Mercury, allows users to exchange messages and data over HF radio without relying on conventional telecommunications infrastructure.
The author entered the GPU World short story competition and was intrigued by the high cash prizes, but also noticed that the prize money came from a venture capital firm called Paradigm. They then explored Paradigm's puzzles page, which included a semicircle packing puzzle that they solved using both manual methods and a custom-built visualisation tool with AI assistance.
The author built a functioning clock using only drink cartons, hot glue, and other trash materials. The clock runs for over an hour and features multiple gears to display seconds, minutes, and hours.
The user is considering using a used smartphone as an alternative to assembling their project with Raspberry Pi and other components, due to cost concerns. They have tested the camera and functionality of two phones, a Redmi 13C 5G and a Huawei Mate 30 5G, for potential use in future projects.
Scientists are re-examining the origins of life on Earth, shifting from identifying a single starting molecule to understanding how prebiotic chemistry formed complex molecular systems. Researchers are exploring multiple types of molecules and environments, including hydrothermal vents and warm ponds, to recreate early life forms.
PyPI has updated its user interface to improve security signals and display package details, following user research. The new design provides clearer information on release provenance and attestations, helping users assess package security.
Kiri is a new, fast Docker client that runs one daemon and provides features like Kubernetes, Linux machines, and public links. It offers improved performance with cold boot times down to 112ms on Apple Silicon Macs.
This project is a 3D modeller that allows users to create and manipulate 3D designs using OpenGL. The modeller uses a tree-based data structure, the Composite design pattern, to represent objects in the scene graph.
This book is a list of recommended programming books for learning to "cut motherfuckers with knives" in the field, focusing on computer science and C/C++ topics. The author suggests reading various titles for their depth and relevance to practical programming skills.
Automated license plate readers are simply not comparable to observing an individual license plate on a passing car. As we’ve explained in many amicus briefs and in our lawsuits directly challenging their use, ALPRs give law enforcement “a virtual time machine to view suspects’, or anyone else’s, past movements (and much more) with just the click of a button.”
Project Zero is changing its vulnerability disclosure policy to "Full 90", then "Full 60" and finally "Full 30" days after reporting, due to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery increasing the risk. The new policy aims to encourage faster patching by vendors while considering their ability to remediate vulnerabilities.
AI models use significantly more energy to process and generate non-English text, often with lower accuracy. This disparity affects billions of people worldwide who may be priced out of AI services due to higher costs.
The DeepSeek-V3 model is a 190-line JAX architecture pretrained on public-domain detective fiction, with caching and balancing features to improve performance. The model can be trained and evaluated using the provided code and data, which includes checkpoints, tokenizers, and training scripts.
Researchers at Google and academic institutions collaborated on open problems in math, science, and complex systems engineering using Gemini 4 models and multi-agent workflows.
The bacterial flagellar motor is a rotary engine powered by ion flow, driving a helical filament for propulsion. The rotor consists of protein rings in the cytoplasmic membrane with torque generators anchored to the cell wall.