A friend found AirPods and tapped them to their phone, revealing a serial number and part of the owner's phone number. The user helped their friend find the owner by narrowing down the search to the Portland area code, central office code, and assuming iMessage was enabled, eventually sending bulk iMessages to find the correct owner.

The US Justice Department and eight state attorneys general filed a lawsuit against RealPage Inc. for allegedly using its commercial revenue management software to decrease competition among landlords and monopolize the market, harming millions of Americans. The complaint alleges that RealPage's scheme allows landlords to share competitively sensitive information and align their rents, ...

Germany has an institutionalized pirate site blocking scheme, with the "Clearing Body for Copyright on the Internet" (CUII) responsible for handing down blocking orders, but the domain names are not publicly disclosed. A group of German students, including Damian, created a transparency portal, CUIIliste.de, to expose the blocked domains, which currently lists 104 unique domain names.

Theo de Raadt modified the OpenBSD src module, replacing the Greek quiz in the games/quiz directory with a new quiz about ship parts. This commit completes the replacement of the original OpenBSD files, marking the completion of an amusing mission.

The SurrealEngine project aims to reimplement Unreal Engine to make Unreal Tournament maps playable, with some features and native functions still not implemented. The engine can load and render maps, but some events may not fire as expected, and some games may crash or have limited functionality.

The British government attempted to recreate the Postcode Address File (PAF) without using Royal Mail data, but the result was a 90.8% accurate dataset with 2.9 million errors. The study concludes that recreating the PAF without Royal Mail data is hard, expensive, and results in a worse product, making it necessary for the government to take back control of the PAF.

Anthropic has enabled CORS support for their JSON APIs, allowing direct calls from a user's browser, but with security concerns. The new feature can be used for internal tools or with a "bring your own API key" pattern, and a JavaScript snippet is provided to illustrate how to make API calls from the browser.

Meta canceled its high-end mixed reality headset, aiming to compete with Apple Vision Pro, due to high display costs. Apple is focusing on a lower-cost Vision Pro model, while Meta continues Quest 4 development and focuses on software.

Microsoft is planning to remove the Control Panel in favor of the Settings app, which offers a more modern and streamlined experience. The Control Panel, which has been part of Windows for 39 years, will likely disappear in a future Windows update, but for now, it remains unchanged.

Android 15 introduces support for 16 KB page sizes, which can improve performance by 5-10% while using 9% more memory, and allows developers to test and fix applications for compatibility. The change requires refactoring the operating system, rebuilding native code, and updating file systems, but provides a developer option to switch between 4 KB and 16 KB page sizes on select devices.

The replication crisis in social, behavioral, and medical sciences led to policy reforms, including Open Access (OA) policies, aiming to make publications free to read and promote transparency. However, OA publishing has created new problems, such as corruption, and author-paid OA publishing should be abandoned in favor of less harmful alternatives.

The author, a small business owner and AI consultant, shares a cautionary tale about the importance of diversifying banking and choosing financial partners that support small businesses after Chase Bank froze $180,000 of their money without warning. The author learned valuable lessons, including the need for backup accounts, considering alternatives, and having support, and now recommends ...

Vega is a declarative language for creating interactive visualization designs in JSON format, providing building blocks for various designs and interaction techniques. It can generate web-based views and serve as a foundation for new APIs and visual analysis tools, with tutorials, examples, and a community forum available for help and sharing.

In 2002, an OpenSSH backdoor was discovered, and in 2024, another attempt was made to insert a backdoor into OpenSSH, highlighting the ongoing threat of supply chain attacks. The attacks demonstrate the importance of reducing the attack surface and compartmentalizing code to prevent unauthorized access, and the need for a radical shift in how we think about operating system design and ...

European car demand increased by 2% in July, driven by growth in Poland, Portugal, and Slovakia, while registrations decreased in Germany, France, and Belgium. SUVs remained popular, accounting for 54% of all registrations, with Volkswagen Group leading the market, and electric vehicle demand fell due to lack of clarity on incentives and future of EVs.

Register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique and descriptive User-Agent to access the script or application. If blocked, try changing back to default or file a ticket for assistance.

The author, a theoretical physicist, questions the existence of reality and the limits of human understanding, citing philosophical and scientific concepts. Despite doubts, the author believes that seeking truth is essential and that the journey itself is valuable, even if the destination is uncertain.

Bill Ackman, Elon Musk, and Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud are among the nearly 100 owners of X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter. The list of owners was unsealed as part of a lawsuit brought by former employees seeking payment of arbitration fees incurred following Musk's purchase of the site.

Surfer is a digital footprint exporter that centralizes personal data from various online platforms into a single folder, solving the problem of scattered data. The app can be downloaded from https://surfsup.ai and uses Supabase to collect anonymized analytics on installs, updates, and run success/failure.

You're discussing 2D perfect mazes with uniform spanning trees, generated using algorithms like Aldous Broder, Random DFS, and Wilson's Algorithm, which create unbiased mazes with varying levels of efficiency.

EPUBCheck is a command-line tool or Java library for validating EPUB files, with the latest production-ready release being v5.1.0, which checks EPUB 2 and 3 files against the EPUB 3.3 specification. The tool can be run in a Docker container, and financial support is needed to maintain and update EPUBCheck over the next two years.

Kelsey Piper explores the case of cardiologist Don Poldermans, who falsified data on beta blockers for heart surgery, potentially leading to thousands of deaths. Experts debate whether scientific fraud should be prosecuted, with some arguing it would have a chilling effect on research, while others propose a new statute to address the issue.

The user moved their IRC client into a VM on top of their Kubernetes cluster to ensure easy access to their large IRC logs and configuration data, and to make it redundant in case one physical computer dies. They used Kubevirt and Longhorn to schedule the VM and replicate its data, and created a Kubevirt DataVolume to pre-seed the VM with a Linux distribution.

Zettlr is a free and open-source Markdown editor that offers a wide range of features, including a WYSIWYM editor, customizable interface, and support for LaTeX, PDF, and other formats. Despite some limitations, Zettlr is a powerful tool for writing and note-taking, with a comprehensive set of features and a well-written documentation, making it a great option for developers, administrators, ...

Ruroco is a tool that uses UDP protocol to hide server existence, allowing remote command execution with public-key cryptography and limited server rights. It opens SSH port briefly for authorized access, then closes it, reducing attack surface and making server more secure.

The website provides resources for developers, designers, and content creators to understand how people with disabilities use the web, including those with age-related impairments, and how to create accessible digital products. The website shares stories, tools, and techniques to help create accessible websites, apps, and browsers, and encourages feedback and suggestions via email or GitHub.

NanoLog is a high-performance logging system for C++ that achieves over 80 million logs/second with a median latency of 7 nanoseconds, using compile-time and offline processing to optimize runtime performance. It provides a simple printf-like API and supports various logging levels, with a decompressor application to convert binary logs to human-readable format.

Wardriving is the search for WIFI, Bluetooth, and GSM networks using a computer or device, and can be done from any vehicle or on foot. The user recommends starting with an Android phone and the WiGLE WiFi Wardriving App, and advises to "Always Be Collecting" as you progress in wardriving.

Meet Omi, the world’s leading open-source AI wearables that revolutionize how you capture and manage conversations. Simply connect Omi to your mobile device and enjoy automatic, high-quality transcriptions of meetings, chats, and voice memos wherever you are.

The Boeing 737 Max was grounded worldwide after two crashes, killing 346 people, due to a faulty MCAS system that sent the plane into a steep nose dive. The crashes highlight the importance of prioritizing software quality, investing in mentorship and training, and avoiding cost-cutting measures that can compromise safety and reliability.

Meta has developed an AI-assisted root cause analysis system that uses heuristic-based retrieval and large language model-based ranking to identify root causes in system reliability investigations, achieving 42% accuracy. The system has been fine-tuned using historical investigations and internal context to improve its performance, and is being integrated into internal tools to streamline the ...

Moonglow is a tool that allows data scientists and ML researchers to run local Jupyter notebooks on remote cloud GPUs, making it easy to scale up experiments without wasting compute resources. The tool is currently available for free on Hacker News, with a free API key that can be used to run Moonglow with an A40 for an hour.

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Personal 0x196 Are you able to recite phone numbers for half-a-dozen computer systems but unable to recite your own? 0x1A4 Do you have a disk platter or a naked floppy hanging in your home?

Valve's unique culture emphasizes autonomy, self-directed projects, and peer feedback, with a focus on hiring talented individuals who can make decisions and take ownership of their work. The company uses peer reviews and stack ranking to evaluate employee performance and adjust compensation, with a goal of paying employees what they're worth based on their peers' opinions.

GLP-1 analogues, a class of pharmaceuticals, have been shown to increase visceral adipose tissue (VAT) metabolic activity, which is associated with weight loss in humans. The study found that treatment with GLP-1 analogues increased VAT metabolic activity, and the degree of increase correlated with the degree of weight loss, suggesting a potential mechanism for the weight loss effects of GLP-1.

A California woman used an Apple AirTag to track down a package thief who stole from her post office box, leading to the arrest of two suspects. The suspects were booked on various charges, including identity and credit card theft, after law enforcement tracked the AirTag to a location in Santa Maria.

The PI-CI Docker image is a raspberry Pi emulator that allows developers to easily prepare and flash RPi configurations, with commands for initialization, starting, resizing, flashing, and exporting. The image can be resized and exported to a raw image, and can be automated using Ansible, with examples provided in the repository.

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The asterism symbol ⁂ is proposed as a fitting representation of the decentralized fediverse, a galaxy of interconnected social networks and online communities. It is suggested to use the ⁂ symbol instead of the existing pentagram icon, which is complex and only available in image form.

The text discusses various algorithms for performing common operations on integers, including finding the sign, absolute value, minimum, and maximum of an integer, as well as counting the number of bits set in an integer. The algorithms are presented in a variety of forms, including bit-level operations, lookup tables, and branchless selects, and are intended to be efficient and portable ...

Large enterprises are hesitant to implement Microsoft Copilot due to security and governance concerns, with many opting to disable or restrict its use. The main issue is ensuring clean data and security to prevent unauthorized access to sensitive information, a problem that is similar to the enterprise search security challenge 15 years ago.

A former Kansas bank CEO, Shan Hanes, was sentenced to over 24 years in prison for embezzling $47 million from his bank to fund a cryptocurrency scam. Hanes, who was driven by greed, stole funds from his bank, a local church, and his daughter's college fund, causing catastrophic losses to bank customers and investors.

Microsoft is reviving the Recall feature, which captures screenshots and uses AI to analyze them, in test builds of Windows 11 in October 2024, with a planned opt-in approach and improved security. The feature was initially met with concerns over data security and privacy, but Microsoft is reiterating its commitment to prioritizing security in the upcoming launch.

The user is disappointed that Canon's new R5 Mark ii camera dropped support for sensor Pixel Shifting High Resolution (IBIS High Res), which captures more real information and can reduce moiré effects, and instead added an in-camera "AI upscaling" feature. The user hopes that Canon will reconsider and add RAW output for IBIS High Res in a future firmware update, allowing for better processing ...

Researchers at UCLA Health have identified a molecule that restores cognitive functions in mice with Alzheimer's disease symptoms by jump-starting the brain's memory circuitry. If proven effective in humans, the compound, DDL-920, would be a novel treatment that revitalizes memory and cognition, unlike existing Alzheimer's treatments that only slow cognitive decline.

GitHub processed a takedown notice against 3879 repositories for allegedly infringing copyrighted content, circumventing paywalls of news and media publishers. The notice claims the "Bypass Paywalls" technology violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by circumventing technological measures controlling access to copyrighted content.

Alejandro G. Iñàrritu’s Next Film Adds John Goodman, Jesse Plemons, Sandra Hüller, Riz Ahmed and Michael Stuhlbarg

Users often prefer wget over curl due to the difficulty of remembering curl options for simple downloads. wcurl, a curl wrapper, aims to solve this issue by providing a simple way to download URL contents without extra arguments, now included in the curl package.

Amazon is discontinuing PhotosPlus, a $2/month subscription that allowed Echo Show 8 Photos Edition users to display photos on their home screen, and will instead show ads. This change affects users who paid $10 extra for the Photos Edition, who will now have the same experience as the standard Echo Show 8, showing ads and promotions after three hours.

The author quit their job to focus on open-source development, valuing respect and recognition over financial gain, and believes that AI should acknowledge and respect human contributors. They criticize OpenAI's approach to AI development, which they see as dehumanizing and eroding public trust, and advocate for a more collaborative and transparent approach that values human flourishing.

Kardinal creates isolated environments within a cluster for dev, test, and staging workflows, allowing for efficient testing and deployment. It integrates with existing tracing and handles service mesh configuration for traffic routing, providing a personalized demo upon sign-up.

Heroes of Might and Magic: Olden Era is a new turn-based strategy game set in the world of Enroth and Jadame, featuring new factions, biomes, and creatures, and introducing new features such as faction-specific abilities, secondary unit abilities, and a new magic system. The game will release on PC in Steam Early Access in the first half of 2025, with a full launch to follow at a later date, ...

Apple has adopted 6 out of 11 recommendations to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, including allowing users to choose default browsers and removing deceptive patterns. The implementation is a positive step forward, but some issues remain, such as the need for browser vendors to distribute their browsers directly and the removal of the Core Technology Fee.

Facebook security personnel and engineers helped the FBI track down a child predator by developing a zero-day exploit in Tails, a security-focused Linux operating system, without notifying the developers. The exploit allowed the FBI to retrieve the real IP address of the predator, potentially violating security industry norms and raising ethical concerns about developing exploits in another ...

Lionsgate pulled a trailer for "Megalopolis" after it was discovered to contain fake quotes from famous film critics, including Pauline Kael, who loved "The Godfather". The quotes were generated using AI and were not properly vetted, leading to an apology from Lionsgate and the departure of marketing consultant Eddie Egan.

TextBundle is a file format that bundles Markdown text and referenced images into a single file, providing a seamless user experience when exchanging files between sandboxed applications. The format includes a standard for transferring additional information, allowing for future integration and can be easily incorporated into apps using the TextBundle library.

Cursor is a tool that uses AI to make coding faster and more efficient, replacing tedious tasks with instant answers and automated refactors. The company has made significant progress, growing to 30,000 customers, raising $60m in funding, and building a team of top engineers and researchers.

Welcome to the Dungeons & Dragons voice experience! You'll use your voice to interact with the world. Click the button below to start your adventure.

A non-trivial Vue and Supabase project allowing you to have friends and family support you with meals, child care, and transportation. create child-care, meal, and transportation events and the backend system will invite your helpers automatically

Lactate is a waste product of sugar metabolism without oxygen, used by cancer cells to generate energy. Lactate promotes chemotherapy resistance and DNA repair in tumour cells, revealing its unexpected role in cancer.

DreamForge Intertainment's Sanitarium is a cult classic adventure game that was released in 1998, featuring a dark and grim atmosphere, a well-crafted story, and engaging puzzles. Despite being made on a modest budget and not being a commercial success, Sanitarium is considered one of the best adventure games of its time and a precursor to the revival of the genre in the years to come.

The new Google Pixel 9 phone's Magic Editor feature allows users to easily create realistic and believable fake photos, which could lead to a loss of trust in photography as a medium for conveying truth. This shift could have significant repercussions, including making it harder to verify the authenticity of images and potentially leading to a decline in the use of photography as a tool for ...

Apple's iOS 17.4 and later include a choice screen for users in the EU to select a default web browser from a list of options. The screen is displayed the first time a user opens Safari, and the list of browsers is updated annually based on downloads in each country.

The Chancellor of the Delaware Court of Chancery heard arguments from both sides in the Tornetta v. Musk case, which concerns the ratification of a stock option grant to Elon Musk, and ultimately ruled that the grant was not valid due to the lack of proper procedures and protections. The case is significant because it highlights the importance of corporate governance and the need for proper ...

Pierre Cartier, a 92-year-old mathematician, has passed away, leaving behind a legacy as a pillar of the Bourbaki group, a semi-secret assembly of mathematicians that aimed to unify and redefine the field. Cartier was known for his curiosity, ability to make connections between different subjects, and his prolific output, with concepts and operations bearing his name still widely used today.

Microsoft is deprecating the Windows Control Panel in favor of the Settings app, which has improved functionality over time. The Control Panel will still exist for compatibility reasons, but users are encouraged to use the Settings app whenever possible.

The user argues that internet speeds in the US have not stagnated, citing their own experience with increased speeds over the years, and that 1Tb/s speeds would not significantly impact users or applications. Instead, the user suggests that lower latency, net neutrality, and more peered routes would have a greater impact, and that 1Tb/s speeds would mainly benefit datacenters and companies ...

California Governor Newsom and Attorney General Bonta are falsely claiming victory in a court case, despite the Ninth Circuit's rejection of the Age Appropriate Design Code Act as an obvious First Amendment violation. The law's DPIA requirements were deemed unconstitutional, and the rest of the law was sent back to the lower court for further review, but Newsom and Bonta are misrepresenting ...

The user implemented a Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) simulation in C++ to simulate a liquid, using a grid-based optimization to improve performance, and then switched to SDL for rendering due to Emscripten's support for web assembly. The user encountered challenges with optimizing the simulation for 3D and parallel computation, and considered using CUDA or OpenGL compute shaders, but ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has found that larger and heavier vehicles are more dangerous for pedestrians, with a 45% higher fatality rate in crashes compared to smaller cars and trucks. A new bill in Congress aims to introduce federal standards for hood height and visibility to protect pedestrians and other vulnerable road users, as annual pedestrian deaths in the US have ...

Go workspace monorepo tool. Contribute to nicolasgere/monogo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Bluesky, a decentralized social media platform, opened to the public in February 2024 and experienced rapid growth, with a surge in new users and activity, particularly in English and Japanese content. The platform observed a high volume of original content and low toxicity, with some suspicious accounts being identified and suspended, indicating effective moderation.

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The NGI TALER project aims to develop a new, privacy-preserving electronic payment system that benefits everyone, building on the strong foundations of GNU Taler. The project invites contributions to help reshape digital payment systems and create an open, trustworthy, and reliable internet for all, with a budget of at least 676,000 euros for small to medium-size R&D grants.

The framing of AI development as a zero-sum competition between nations, particularly the US and China, has led to a dangerous feedback loop of securitization and competition, threatening global stability. A more balanced approach is needed, acknowledging legitimate security concerns can be addressed through international cooperation rather than competition.

Researchers at Stanford have discovered that blocking the kynurenine pathway can restore cognitive function in Alzheimer's mice by improving brain metabolism. This breakthrough could lead to the repurposing of existing cancer drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease, with potential human clinical trials planned in the near future.

Liger Kernel is a collection of Triton kernels designed for LLM training, increasing multi-GPU training throughput by 20% and reducing memory usage by 60%. It works seamlessly with Hugging Face models and can be easily integrated with one line of code, offering improved performance and efficiency for large-scale language models.

A 2,492-carat diamond, the largest found in over a century, was unearthed in Botswana and presented to the world by President Mokgweetsi Masisi. The diamond, found at the Karowe Mine, is the second-biggest ever discovered in a mine and is expected to be sold, but its value has not yet been determined.

Peloton will charge a $95 "used equipment activation fee" for used bikes purchased outside of its official distribution partners in the US and Canada. The fee aims to generate incremental revenue and support Peloton's investments in improving the fitness experience, but critics argue it's a deterrent to the used market and unnecessary for the user experience.