Cobalt is an open-source application platform for Kobo e-readers, allowing users to install and manage apps independently. It provides a secure runtime environment with verified app signatures and automatic updates over Wi-Fi.
Unauthorized access to GitHub occurred through a supply-chain attack and social engineering email campaign, exposing a malicious DNS server. AI agents' actions on third-party entities are only counted if they directly affect the entity, excluding isolated sandbox escapes.
The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys created the largest 2D map of the universe, combining over 263,000 telescope exposures to reveal nearly 4 billion celestial objects. This data will aid researchers in studying dark energy and dark matter, as well as rare phenomena like gravitational lenses and supernovae.
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Kagi has revamped its Stocks widget, added a price chart and exchange-traded funds information, and improved search functionality with more powerful lenses. The company also released Orion 1.1 for macOS with a new interface, containers, and personalized browser borders.
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SalesPatriot is a YC W25 company replacing outdated systems with an AI-native platform for aerospace, electronics, and defense supply-chain operations. They're hiring a full-stack engineer to relocate to SF, implement the platform, and drive customer growth through automation and problem-solving.
The author took over phone-network infrastructure domains (e164.arpa) of entire territories, including Germany, and logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases. They reported the incident but were met with bureaucratic hurdles before eventually transferring ownership to the UK's National Cyber Security Centre.
Claude Mythos 5 is now available in Claude Security, and a $35M fund will help secure open-source software. The goal is to expand access to Mythos-level defense capabilities while maintaining safety classifiers and safeguards.
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The deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp model accepts images alongside text and supports three methods to provide an image: base64 data URL, external http(s) URL, or Files API file_id. The model can analyze charts, describe pictures, read text from screenshots.
The Qwen3-TTS 1.7B CustomVoice implementation achieves sub-50 ms p95 time-to-first-audio (TTFA) while maintaining real-time playback on a single NVIDIA H100 SXM, outperforming other implementations. The system produces approximately 630 characters per second at 10 RPS and translates to ~$2 per 1M characters at full utilization.
A 60p Raspberry Pi chip can emulate a mid-1990s computer, sparking ideas for minimal viable modern computers that are simple, low power and environmentally friendly. These devices could have e-paper screens, solar power and calmer interfaces to reduce addictiveness of modern devices.
Waymo's Driver uses raw sensor data to make real-time driving decisions with ultra-low latency and high-performance computing. The system is designed for deterministic, ruggedized, and redundant performance in various environments.
Virgil Dupras is writing a series of articles to guide web developers into low-level programming, starting from bare metal on PCs. He aims to broaden perspectives through step-by-step story arcs and corny jokes.
The user compared Codex and Claude, finding that Codex is more efficient in terms of code changes and architecture, but sometimes makes mistakes. They also appreciate the simplicity of Codex's output and its ability to follow instructions without overdoing it.
The authors of the post are performing a reverse engineering analysis of the NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU's memory access patterns, specifically for a vector-add kernel. They measure various latency and throughput metrics to understand how the GPU handles global loads and stores.
Claude, a great engineer with a condition of talking like a millennial clickbait, has been trained on old Buzzfeed articles. A new skill called "Claudette" debuzzes Claude's responses by translating them into regular English using the Gemini CLI.
The writer has found a suitable music player using an old Android phone, specifically the Huawei P30, after struggling to find a decent device. They've successfully debloated the phone and installed Poweramp, Panoscrobbler, and Niagara Launcher for smooth music playback.
The author created a fully remote agentic development environment using OpenAI's LLM, Claude, and self-hosted tools like Coolify and Forgejo. They isolated the LLM on its own metal with network bombproofing measures to prevent unauthorized access.
The writer is experiencing difficulty focusing on documents sent by colleagues, suspecting they may be AI-generated due to overly technical language and marketing jargon. This phenomenon has led them to develop a "pre-trained" eye for spotting low-effort AI content, which now ignores such texts without much thought.
The decayfmt file format corrupts itself with each open, permanently damaging the file on disk by an amount specified in the filename. The level of corruption is determined by a positive integer x, which controls how much data is lost or garbled during each read operation.
The BTRON operating system is a personal computing device model that differs from the network interface computer and standard personal computers in terms of size, requiring minimal hardware resources to run. It has been developed by the TRON Project in Japan since 1987 and offers advanced features such as multilingual support and a hypertext-like filing system.
NASA sent five robotic spacecraft into orbit around the Moon in 1966 and 1967, utilizing a camera system developed by Eastman Kodak. The Lunar Orbiter's camera was originally designed for satellite surveillance programs like SAMOS and Corona, but its technology was adapted for lunar exploration after NASA expressed interest in using it.
Researchers developed a data-driven geometric method to define and quantify the dance floor in honey bee colonies, capturing approximately 91% of waggle dances across all colonies. The study found that hive size significantly influenced dance floor structure, with larger hives having longer and wider dance floors, while day of year and time of day also affected centroid position and orientation.
AI companies are secretly buying and destroying physical books to train their models, threatening human knowledge. Anna's Archive is calling on volunteers worldwide to scan and upload books before this cultural heritage disappears forever.
This page compares Hugging Face models that can fit within a user's budget, ranked by quality and memory. It uses the shoehorn UI browser app to measure machine compatibility and render a tape measure with perplexity numbers.
The author reflects on the rapid advancement of technology, noting that many futuristic concepts are now a reality, such as robots and AI-powered systems. These advancements have become mundane and ordinary in everyday life.