Anthropic's Project Glasswing has tracked 442 CVEs, but only 2 have been exploited in the wild. The project's true positive rate has risen to 94.2%, raising questions about duplicate and withdrawn findings.
The author recounts a story of optimizing a 1980s-era PC game's tile-copying subroutine to improve its speed. The original code was slow due to the graphics hardware not doing much, and the programmer had already optimized it as much as possible.
Verisign is retracting its plan to terminate 22,000 domain names and email redirects after a team effort. The existing domains and email redirects will remain indefinitely due to the collective efforts of many individuals who joined the fight against this decision.
Toyota revived Scion as a "freedom lab" with the KEI-01, an ultra-compact utility truck. The first production vehicle is a rebadged Toyota Pixis with a 660cc engine and CVT transmission, suitable for commercial and agricultural use.
The author shares their home automation setup, emphasizing the importance of hardware ownership and local protocols to ensure devices work offline. They outline 11 rules for building a reliable smart home system.
The book "Six Math Essentials" by Terence Tao is a 128-page hardcover, also available as an e-book and digital audio edition. It introduces six central math concepts to help readers understand the world.
A Linux user tried to develop a new driver for DisplayLink docks, but Synaptics' legal team claimed patent infringement and sent cease-and-desist letters. The user is now complying with the demands and will not submit the work to the kernel.
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The author attempted to exploit vulnerabilities in Meta's 2025 glasses, discovering arbitrary code execution and a way to run any app on the device. They reported their findings to Meta through their bug bounty platform and had them approved, which likely fixed the issue.
Val Town is shutting down due to inability to compete in cloud computing, but users can migrate to other hosting providers with guides available. Existing subscriptions will be serviced for free and partial refunds will be issued for pre-paid annual plans.
Google DeepMind researchers used a new agentic framework to formally verify the code of Signal's cryptographic protocol, proving its security properties mathematically. This breakthrough uses AI to prove key security aspects of widely deployed protocols like Signal and Google Messages at unprecedented depth.
Modern Web Guidance is a set of skills that embed web platform expertise, best practices, and browser compatibility data into coding agents. It helps steer agents away from legacy patterns and toward solutions harnessing the power of modern web platforms. The tool uses real-time compatibility data to dynamically adapt to current browser support.
Aleksandr Iugov, a Russian man, was arrested in 2014 for selling counterfeit Romanée-Conti wine to Belgian retailer Pierre-Jean Marcus. He claimed he sold the bottles on behalf of Gideon Weinbaum but was later convicted of fraud and sentenced to four years in prison. The case highlights the growing problem of wine counterfeiting.
Researchers used 16 large language models to solve TIS-100 puzzles, a game that requires optimizing code for small processors. The models found new frontier points, which are better solutions than existing community records in some cases.
Tendrils has raised $30M to rebuild general-purpose computing with thousands of parallel cores, moving beyond legacy architectures. The company is developing open-source language Vine and a new wave of parallel-first architectures.
AMD's Zen 6 CPU core family has evolved from Zen 5 with changes in the integer schedules, branch predictor, and out-of-order structures. The new designs cater to different workloads, with Zen 6 optimized for high-frequency applications and Zen 6c designed to handle memory-intensive tasks.
Researchers found that generative AI systems are becoming significant information intermediaries, with 51% of respondents using AI weekly in the US. People primarily use AI for getting information quickly and conveniently, rather than trusting its output.
A model's success in reasoning is determined by its ability to find a path from the prompt to the correct answer, with longer paths not always leading to better accuracy. The model's training objective can be adjusted to prioritize successful paths over others.
Mozilla conducted a study on browser fingerprinting using data from 25 million Firefox users, measuring the effectiveness of tracking mechanisms and designing protections that reduced unique identifiers by 29%. The study found that only a small number of metrics make users unique, and different operating systems behave differently.
Sysinternals Process Explorer for Mac is a native macOS implementation of the core Process Explorer experience, providing live process tree and module inspection. The app can use an optional privileged root helper for operations requiring elevated privileges, such as richer cross-user process detail.
See what’s coming in Ableton Live 13: experimental sound design tools, precision mixing effects and workflow improvements to bring your ideas into focus.
The author reflects on how AI in research and teaching may shift the importance of traits like eccentricity and creativity, as well as the value of "useless" knowledge. He praises his former teacher Dr. Allan Chapman for his unique approach to history education, which emphasized exploring alien epistemologies and outmoded ideas.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 was the first federal law to outlaw monopolistic business practices, aiming to restore competition and protect consumers. The act allowed for fines, imprisonment, and triple damages in cases where trusts or combinations restrained trade or commerce among states or with foreign nations.
A pixel-art map of València is created using real 3D city data, then repainted in a hand-picked style. The map features the entire municipal area, including the huerta and Albufera, with seamless tiling.
The author was laid off from Meta due to their resistance to adopting AI/LLMs as coding tools, but now they're employed at another company where AI-generated code is the norm. They argue that relying on AI for large-scale SaaS development leads to fragile and brittle codebases.
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After ten years of keeping Klarna’s core system upright I know this: a 15 millisecond pause in the BEAM can stall millions of peak-shopping payments, trigger a 3 a.m. Christmas-Eve post-mortem, and earn you a very awake call from the CEO. I wrote The BEAM Book so the next engineer fixes that pause before the coffee cools. I opened the project on 12 October 2012 with a lone DocBook file with ...
This chapter explains the DRAM interface in LiteDRAM, covering signals, strobes, board topology and termination. It also discusses write leveling and read leveling calibration to ensure proper data transfer between the FPGA and DRAM.
NewAircad is a 2D drafting and 3D modeling tool with multiplayer editing, AI assistance, and version control. It allows users to create precise designs with command-line precision and snaps, while also sharing files with others in real-time.
The .NET runtime for .NET 11 has been updated with new features, including improved async support and performance optimizations. The minimum hardware requirements have also been updated to require more modern instruction sets on various architectures.