Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388 into law on April 13, 2026, banning the sale of geolocation data. The ban takes effect on July 1, 2026, following similar laws in Maryland and Oregon.
A former hacker with the phage now makes deals for one hack per dose of medication. They learn from TRASH WORLD NEWS, a zine with hacking tutorials and tips.
A user discovered a security vulnerability in Linux 6.9 where LUKS encryption keys remained in memory after suspend, making laptops susceptible to cold boot attacks. A patch was created to wipe the LUKS encryption keys on suspend, inspired by Debian's cryptsetup-suspend, and is now available for other Linux distributions.
Public interest organizations strongly oppose X Corp's petition to set aside or terminate its 2022 settlement order with the FTC, citing the company's continued risk to Americans' privacy and data security. The FTC should reject the petition and maintain the 2022 Order, which remains a critical safeguard for users' privacy and security.
LMDB is a high-performance, memory-efficient database library with full ACID semantics and transactional support. It uses a memory map for data storage and is thread-aware, supporting concurrent read/write access.
Podman v6.0.0 is now available with improved networking, enhanced machine capabilities, and configuration file handling. This release includes Docker compatibility improvements and new features like Pesto rootless port forwarding and Quadlet evolution.
PeerTube is a decentralized video platform allowing users to host videos on community-owned instances without vendor lock-in. It's free, ad-free, and allows users to follow channels and discover videos across the entire video fediverse.
A Vulkan driver for NetBSD has been successfully built and installed using the Lavapipe software driver. The process is now automated and reproducible on a fresh install.
Co-locating workflow state with application data in the same Postgres database simplifies durable workflows by eliminating partial failures and idempotency issues. This approach also simplifies atomic updates and notifications by leveraging database transactions and user-defined functions.
To ask for help effectively, put yourself in the other person's mind and show you're worth helping by demonstrating seriousness, personal connection, or institutional credibility. Explain context briefly and make your request easy to accept by reducing costs, making it specific, and bounded, while also making it easy to say no.
The Java Virtual Machine introduces strictly-initialized fields, which must be explicitly initialized before they can be read, ensuring that default values such as 0 or null are never observed. This feature is available for use by compilers that emit class files and provides stronger integrity guarantees for field initialization, making it easier to diagnose and prevent bugs related to field ...
The author, a software developer, shares their approach to using AI agents in security-critical systems. They recommend a "short leash method" where developers closely monitor AI changes and intervene when necessary.
The mcp-use SDK is a fullstack framework for developing MCP Apps and servers for AI Agents like ChatGPT and Claude. It simplifies app development with auto-deployment and analytics.
The Great Salt Lake Tracker website monitors the status of North America's largest saline lake. It provides a dashboard to track the lake's conditions.
Spanish government instructs state-controlled entities to blacklist US data analytics firm Palantir due to national security concerns. Palantir still holds a €16.5 million contract with Spain's Ministry of Defense, set to expire in November.
claude-real-video extracts frames from videos locally, transcribes audio, and hands a clean folder for LLMs to read. It's smarter than other tools that sample frames at a fixed interval, and can be installed with pip and used with ffmpeg and whisper CLI.
The article discusses the futility of 24-bit/192kHz digital music downloads, which offer no benefits and take up excessive space. The human ear can only perceive a limited range of frequencies, and 24-bit/192kHz audio does not provide any improvement in fidelity.
Scientists built the largest catalog of stellar rotation periods using TESS data, covering 1,046,317 stars within 1,600 light-years. The catalog, called TARS, helps study stellar evolution, exoplanet discovery, and Milky Way structure.
Wireless LAN SD standard enables wireless communication between devices and SD cards. It integrates SD cards with wireless LAN modules for simple complex tasks.
A user ported LibreCAD, a free 2D CAD application, to WebAssembly for web use. The port uses Qt's official WebAssembly support and Emscripten.
v3.0.0 Welcome to Immich v3.0.0! After months of hard work from the team and our amazing contributors, we're thrilled to announce the next major version of Immich: v3.0.0! 🎉 Breaking changes Th...
My dad emigrated from Colombia to North America when he was 18 looking looking for a better life. For my brother and I that meant a lot of standing outside in the cold. My dad’s preferred method of improving his lot was improving lots, and my brother and I were “voluntarily” recruited to help working on the buildings we owned. That’s how I came to spend a substantial part of my teenage years ...
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Hazel is hiring a full stack engineer to deploy and scale AI for government procurement, requiring a TS/SCI clearance and experience with AWS, Python, and React. The role involves architecting and building Hazel's platform, working with customers, and delivering innovative solutions in a classified environment.
Craigslist has added emojis to its listings, a departure from its minimalist style, possibly to compete for attention in a modern algorithmic context. This change coincides with the proliferation of emojis, but may also be a small concession to participate in the zeitgeist while maintaining its legacy look.
The US Supreme Court rejected an engineer's appeal to name an artificial intelligence as inventor on a patent application. The court upheld lower court rulings that patent inventors must be natural persons, not AI.
John Boepple discovered freshwater mussel shells in the Illinois River, which led to the creation of a pearl button industry in Muscatine, Iowa. The industry thrived from 1891 to the 1960s, but ultimately devastated the local mussel population and led to conservation efforts.
Researchers studied how reinforcement learning adapts to transformer layers in large language models. They found that a small subset of layers, often in the middle, contribute most to RL gains, surpassing full-parameter training in some cases.
NSA is pushing for a weakened cryptographic standard, ietf-tls-mlkem, over a stronger one, ietf-tls-ecdhe-mlkem. Opponents can voice their opposition by joining the IETF TLS mailing list and sending a message by July 7, 2026.
Google's Android Developer Verification program silently installs a virus on devices running Android 8 or higher, disguising itself as a system service with full root privileges. This virus, which affects an estimated 4 billion devices, blocks users from running software not approved by Google, posing a significant threat to user freedom and privacy.
Slopo detects non-exact code duplication by calculating embeddings and clustering similar code units. It uses incremental re-indexing and customizable thresholds to identify and report duplicate code for refactoring.