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.
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.
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.
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...
Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang pushed for deals to keep GPU prices high, despite accusations of circular financing. The company slowed down and paused some deals after realizing it had oversupplied GPUs amid an avalanche of semiconductors.
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.
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.
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.
Seagate launches FireCuda Forge hybrid storage drives combining high HDD capacity with SSD speed, powered by the Alkemi intelligent storage platform. The new drives offer 8TB or 20TB configurations, requiring users to bring their own compatible M.2 NVMe SSDs.
The author describes Cachet, a language that helps reason about performance by explicitly specifying cache blocking and parallelization decisions. The language allows users to write down what to compute and how to compute it, with transformations checked against the original program and hardware assumptions verified through a trusted compiler.
The bacterial flagellar motor is a rotary engine driven by ion flow, with a rotor of ~45 nm containing hundreds of proteins. It rotates at hundreds of revolutions per second, powered by torque generators like MotA and MotB.
The grey rock technique, coined by Skylar in 2012, involves being boring and unresponsive to manipulative or toxic individuals. By doing so, you can deter them from seeking attention and drama from you.
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.
CuriousMarc discovered a 1965 Signetics IC, the ST680A, which is a logic chip implementing four NAND gates using old-fashioned diode-transistor logic. The chip was packaged in a plastic DIP and required reverse engineering to understand its circuitry.
The author is concerned about the potential impact of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) from nuclear attacks or AI takeovers on electronic devices, and explores ways to protect against EMPs using a Faraday cage made from a galvanized trash can.
The CBC investigated 1,500 misleading job postings on LinkedIn and Monster that funneled applicants to a multi-level marketing (MLM) company called Evolution Travel. The ads promised high-paying jobs with no experience needed, but required payment for virtual information sessions and monthly subscriptions.
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.
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L3Harris is modernizing US airspace communications with the FAA, completing 70% of a fiber optic system conversion. The company is investigating the Nov 13 ground stop and its impact on air travel.
The Citrus Kingdom explores the relationships between 8 fruits in Sicily, tracing their wild ancestors and hybrids. The fruits are connected through various crosses and sports, resulting in diverse citrus varieties.
Tech companies are developing wearable devices that record and transcribe conversations, raising concerns about privacy. These devices can be used to monitor people without their consent, potentially infringing on social norms of private conversations.
This post discusses phone unlocking tools and their attack vectors, focusing on Android internals and the limitations of commercial forensic tools. It highlights the importance of understanding device hardware security architecture to prevent forensic unlocking.
The author is implementing a PostScript interpreter in JavaScript, focusing on its mechanics as a general-purpose programming language. The goal is to create a human-scale programming environment that can be used from scratch with readily available computational substrates.
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A digital being with a simple brain learns to steer towards light through trial and error, guided by reward and punishment. The spark's brain rewires itself after 2,000 tries to become an expert at seeking the light.
The author created a self-booting ZIP archive using the Multiboot specification, which allows it to run on bare metal x86. The archive contains a flat binary with a Multiboot header and is designed to be loaded by Qemu or other boot loaders.
The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies has suspended admissions to its math Ph.D. program for the 2027-2028 academic year due to a department review, causing concerns among faculty and graduate students about the impact on research culture and opportunities. The decision follows a national trend of decreasing Ph.D. program seats, with data showing a 15% drop in Ph.D. acceptances ...
A 64-bit RISC-V processor, Fursoy Slice-1, has been designed and synthesized with a Linux 6.6.50 boot environment using SystemVerilog and Nangate 45nm standard-cell synthesis. The processor achieved zero kernel panics during simulation across 89 million cycles.