FAA Issues National Ground Stop

Air Traffic Control System Command Center

Big tech is here to let us down

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Microsoft's recent outage has caused widespread disruptions, affecting businesses, educational institutions, courts, and potentially healthcare services. The company is unlikely to offer compensation for lost business or accrued costs due to its own incompetence.

$11.4M in Nvidia hardware vanishes during shipment from CA to TX

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NVIDIA computer hardware worth $11.4 million disappeared during a shipment from California to Texas, with investigators tracking the truck before losing its trail in Southern California. The Oakland Police Department is investigating a grand theft and asking for information on the incident.

FM-1 Workbench

The FM1 device has various features such as MIDI routing, clock sources, and sample banks that can be configured using the web editor or device panel. The device also supports exporting files to backup on a computer and importing projects from other devices, with specific instructions provided for transferring data between devices.

After 600 experiments, here's what I discovered about JEPA world models

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A world model, like LeWM, uses a JEPA architecture to predict the future by generating it. It has been shown that its planning horizon is limited to 25 steps and can be improved through hierarchical planning and using memory graphs of past demonstrations.

Reverse engineering my Coway air purifier to ditch the cloud

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A user reverse-engineered a Coway air purifier to control it without the cloud service, using techniques like man-in-the-middle (MitM) and artificial intelligence. The device can now be controlled through Home Assistant, eliminating the need for the cloud service.

Autonomous (YC F25) is hiring MTS to build AI agents that manage your wealth

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Create systems that think, reason, and act. We're looking for curious minds from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds.

Perplexity Decider v1.3: Training, eval, and use cases

Doomsday: Friday, 13 November, A.D. 2026 (1960)

J Neyman discussed a mathematical theory of populations as clusters in 1957. eLetters is a forum for scholarly commentary on the article, with specific submission guidelines.

Found: A protein that drives ageing without unleashing inflammation

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Researchers have found an enzyme that drives ageing in the body’s tissues1. Drugs that reduce the levels of this protein might one day combat the effects of ageing without impairing the body’s immune defences.

Show HN: Isometric SF – A pixel-art map of the SF Bay Area

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Ctrl+C, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+cve: Bypassing Android's Clipboard Read Security Measures

A Slack notification can steal sensitive data by copying a superuser password, and Android's clipboard security measures are insufficient. The author proposes obfuscating the clipboard read toast notification to prevent malicious app developers from accessing this information.

A technical vision for the Haskell ecosystem

The Haskell Foundation's technical leadership committee has been successfully bootstrapped and is now fully operational. The foundation seeks companies, contractors, and volunteers to support its initiatives and proposals.

Live-migration support in FreeBSD and bhyve coming

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This project presents a working state for live migration of bhyve guests on FreeBSD 15.1, enabling host maintenance and hardware replacement with minimal disruption to workloads. The goal is to test and improve the real implementation of live migration, which is crucial for enterprise virtualization and platforms like Sylve and BoxyBSD.

Models can now transmit viruses in weight-space

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Researchers explore the security risks of weight space editing in neural networks, where direct modification of weights can lead to unauthorized behavior. They develop a threat model and propose defensive approaches to control editing, acceptance, and recovery.

AI unlocks Gödel's notebooks, said to contain hundreds of proved theorems

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Kurt Gödel left behind 1,009 pages of densely written text containing hundreds of proved theorems that were unknown until AI model Claude deciphered them. The workbooks reveal Gödel's groundbreaking ideas in logic and mathematics, including his incompleteness theorems and a proof for the independence of the axiom of choice.

No AI Slop: A Manifesto

A group of 17 software engineers created the Agile Manifesto in 2001 to address heavyweight development processes, and now they're focusing on harnessing AI safely and responsibly. They value human oversight and responsibility over relying solely on AI output.

Minnesota guitarist's "palmfrets" invention strikes a new chord

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Ben Ranson, a musician from Minnesota, invented "palmfrets" which allows guitarists to play bass lines or melodies using their palm. The invention uses a special set of frets and technique called palmfretting, adding a new way for guitarists to play the instrument.

It Takes 16 Clicks for a Student to Open a PowerPoint on an iPad

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Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust

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Lonewolf v0.3.0 adds certificate-authenticated federation and more desktop client features, but remains a pre-1.0 server with full XMPP compliance on the roadmap. It supports bidirectional connections and various extensions like Stream Limits Advertisement and Private XML Storage.

FAA issues nationwide ground stop due to "extraordinary circumstances"

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The FAA issued an extremely rare nationwide ground stop at all airports due to "extraordinary circumstances" and "reasons of safety." The big picture: An air traffic control advisory posted Friday afternoon reads: "All departing traffic should remain ground stopped until further notice."

All US airports are currently ground stopped

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Issued by the FAA just moments ago, ALL US airports are currently ground stopped. This means NO flights may depart for US airports. Flights already in the air will be allowed to land. This is related to an FAA equipment outage.

OpenAI disbands its robotics team as its general models start running robots

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OpenAI has disbanded its robotics team and reassigned researchers to work on general AI models, citing progress in applying these models to robotics tasks. The move reflects a shift towards using general-purpose AI for "embodied AI" applications, such as controlling robots without specialized training.

Apify Security Incident

Apify's internal systems were accessed by an unauthorized third party on November 9-10, but access was cut off and the incident is still under investigation. Affected users will be notified individually if their account or data was compromised.

Someone's Impersonating This Blog

A user's blog was impersonated on a third-party site, mataroa.site, without their permission. The impersonator is re-hosting the original content with watermarks and attempting to make it seem legitimate.

Technology as a Search Problem

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Researchers model technological progress as a search process in a high-dimensional "design space" where inventors navigate through various combinations of elements to find working technologies. The models capture the role of information and modularity in making the search process tractable.

CERN Built the Large Hadron Collider's Next-Gen Magnets

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CERN's Large Hadron Collider is upgrading to the High-Luminosity LHC, which will collide more particles at nearly the speed of light. The new collider requires compact and high-quality magnets made from niobium and tin, requiring new materials and manufacturing techniques.

LibreOffice actually works 365 days a year

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Happy user since 2020. Downloaded and donated a few times. 👍

Microsoft outage gives customers a crash course in dependence on Redmond

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Microsoft 365 services experienced a prolonged outage, affecting email, messaging, and collaboration tools. The incident has raised concerns about single-vendor dependence and the risks of concentrated critical infrastructure failures.

Concurrent Shell Command Queues

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The user created a Bash command queue to manage concurrent execution, using `mkfifo` and `xargs -P`, for improved performance and concurrency control. The code allows submitting commands over time, with optional cleanup after draining the queue, demonstrating its use in making web requests with Postman Echo.