Honda Civics and the Evil Valet

The author has updated their project on reverse engineering the 2021 Honda Civic headunit, revealing a vulnerability called "EvilValet" that allows arbitrary code execution via the update path. A new tool, ota-builder, has been published to easily prepare update files.

Tribblix: The retro Illumos distribution

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Tribblix is an open source OS blending retro style with modern components, based on illumos. It's available for download in SPARC and x86 versions, with the x86 version being more stable.

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost

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You created a game where players control ghosts chasing Pac-Man with AI, but he turns the tables if he eats a power pellet. The goal is to catch Pac-Man before he clears the maze or escapes after turning the tables.

Phoenix LiveView 1.2 Released

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To update from LiveView 1.1 to 1.2, update mix.exs and re-fetch dependencies. LiveView 1.2 introduces colocated CSS and a new @scope rule for scoping styles.

Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau

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The US Department of Commerce banned noise infusion from statistical products, targeting differential privacy, which adds noise to protect data privacy. This move may lead to less accurate or more vulnerable data, impacting researchers and demographic studies.

GLM 5.2 Is Out

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GLM-5.2, an open-source AI model, is now available to all users. It supports long-horizon tasks and is a step towards making frontier intelligence accessible to everyone.

Free SQL→ER diagram tool, runs in the browser, nothing uploaded

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SQL to ER Diagram is a free, open-source tool that converts SQL schema into interactive ER diagrams in the browser. It supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and SQL Server, with no account or sign-up required.

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

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The answer is almost certainly no, according to Eric Schwitzgebel, a distinguished professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside. In a new working paper, Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober, a former UCR graduate student who is now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon, assert that consciousness is likely possible in life forms made of much different stuff. ...

Every Frame Perfect

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UI should be polished and consistent, with every frame mattering to build trust with users. A well-designed UI should look good in all states, not just start and end.

Don't trust large context windows

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I recently watched a video that put a name on something I'd been feeling. The author splits an LLM's context window into two zones. There's the smart zone, where the model is sharp, and the dumb zone, where attention drops off and the model starts forgetting what you told it five minutes ago. The cutoff sits somewhere around 100k tokens. It doesn't matter how big the ...

Building a serial and VGA "everything console"

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A user built a portable console using a used IBM 1U console, a terminal emulator, and a keyboard. The device has two modes: one for connecting to a terminal box and another for free connectors.

FreeOberon – Open-Source, Cross-Platform, Free Pascal/Turbo Pascal-Like Language

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Free Oberon is a cross-platform IDE for the Oberon programming language, available for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It allows users to write, compile, and run programs in Oberon, with features like automatic linking and error detection.

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

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Thousands of oncologists gave a standing ovation at a Chicago conference for daraxonrasib, a drug that almost doubles pancreatic cancer survival times. This breakthrough could impact Amazon and NASA's plans.

Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole

Python 3.14.0 introduced an incremental garbage collector but reverted the change in 3.14.5 due to higher memory usage. The incremental GC reduced pause times but increased memory usage, leading to its removal in favor of the traditional GC.

(Re//Verse 2026) Taxonomy and Deobfuscation of a Real World Binary Obfuscator [pdf]

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Pyodide 314.0: Python packages can now publish WebAssembly wheels to PyPI

Pyodide now supports PEP 783, allowing Python packages to be published directly to PyPI and installed at runtime, reducing the burden on maintainers and enabling faster startup times. This release also includes several breaking changes, such as a new versioning scheme, removal of certain libraries, and updates to the ssl and hashlib modules.

Weave: Merging based on language structure and not lines

Weave is a Git merge driver that resolves conflicts by merging entities at the entity level, not line level. It successfully merges different functions in the same file without conflicts.

LaserWriter Seeds

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As the Homebrew Computer Club met and MITS frantically shipped Altairs, researchers at Xerox PARC were seemingly a decade or more ahead. They already knew what would make personal computers useful, and researchers were working on an ecosystem to support a typical office task. Writing and printing documents. Gary Starkweather had tested his SLOT laser printer using analog signals, flying-spot ...

Making Claude a Chemist

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Anthropic's Claude AI model assists chemists with daily tasks, including NMR spectrum analysis, and can propose a structure from a spectrum alone. Claude's performance is competitive with dedicated NMR software, but limitations remain, including limited evaluation scope and solvent coverage.

Codex for open source

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Codex supports open-source maintainers with tools for real workflows, reducing coding and review load. Selected maintainers receive API credits and ChatGPT Pro for six months.

Software Architecture Guide (2019)

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Software architecture is about making important design decisions that support a system's evolution, not just a one-time setup. Good architecture leads to faster delivery of new features, while poor architecture causes cruft, slowing down development.

Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models

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ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware

ReactOS has achieved a milestone by running the classic game Half-Life on its open-source platform. This marks a significant step towards Windows binary compatibility for ReactOS.

Running DOS on Behringers DDX3216 with a DIY x86-Bios from Scratch

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The ddx3216 uses a 64k x 8bit rom-chip. the reset-vector has to be placed at 0xffff0 to make it compatible with the new cpu-cpecifications. so i searched for better solutions and found the picorom and onerom projects - and how to use them!... and if you have any questions, feel free to contact me :

A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones

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Researchers at UC San Diego are building a 2,000-phone computing cluster to reduce carbon emissions from computing. The cluster will provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing for researchers and students, reducing the need for newly-manufactured hardware.

The Neat Little Vehicles That Run a Cemetery

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Our free daily newsletter sends the stories that really matter directly to you, every weekday. We’ve all seen hearses. But if you’re buried after death, the hearse might not actually be the last vehicle you ever ride in (or … on). No, the final few feet you move under the power of combustion would be on a funny little purpose-built groundskeeping machine that you won’t see anywhere outside of ...

Appreciating Exif

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Exif is a metadata format that stores image information like orientation, timestamp, and camera settings, and it's usually found in JPEG files near the beginning in an APP1 marker segment. Exif is optional and can be stripped, but it's often used by photo apps, websites, and asset-management systems to sort, search, and display images.

Apt Encounters of the Third Kind

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A few weeks ago an ordinary security assessment turned into an incident response whirlwind. the author discovered that libfsalvfs.so lets the malicous code inspect the decoded http packet - allowing it to bypass edr. q: who are these bad guys you keep referring to? a: i think it's the same guys that are behind the dreaded ssh keyloggers

RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8

User upgraded from RTX 5080 to a refurbished RTX 3090 for AI experiments. They successfully set up both cards on an Asus Prime X570-Pro motherboard, achieving 80+ tokens/sec with Qwen 3.6 model quantized at q8.