WatchTowr Labs discovered a vulnerability in WHOIS clients, allowing them to control a WHOIS server and exploit TLS/SSL certificate authorities, potentially undermining secure communication on the web. The researchers found that many organizations, including government agencies and cyber security companies, were querying their rogue WHOIS server, making it possible to issue rogue TLS/SSL certificates.

Pave is a startup that helps companies with compensation by combining their HR and payroll data with others to provide collective compensation ranges. You question whether this is anti-competitive wage fixing, similar to RealPage, which could be illegal.

The article discusses the task of converting DC voltages, explaining the operation of resistor-based voltage dividers, linear regulators, and switched-mode regulators, including buck and boost converters. The article highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each type of regulator, including efficiency, voltage regulation, and current handling capabilities.

The user helped automate the evaluation of the One Billion Row Challenge with a shell script, implementing techniques for robustness, safety, and user-friendliness. The script features error handling, color-coded output, step-by-step command printing, and OS detection to provide a consistent experience across different environments.

FreeCAD 1.0 release candidate is available for download, aiming to test stability and gather feedback from users who prefer nearly complete software. The community is encouraged to try the RC1, report bugs, and contribute to the effort by resolving issues and submitting pull requests.

An Apple Watch or other watch with a magnetometer can be used as an ammeter to measure DC currents by creating a magnetic field with a coil of wire and detecting changes in the magnetometer's reading. The device can detect changes in current of around 10 mA, but is limited to detecting DC currents and not AC currents.

The user created a Palm OS MiniGolf game with level creation and sharing capabilities, and released the game and its source code under the GPL3 license. The game was developed using the Palm OS SDK and reference guides, and the user hopes it will inspire others to create more games for the Palm OS platform.

Humans are easily influenced by the mood of those around them, and this can create a cycle of mirroring and influencing behavior. By being aware of this phenomenon and intentionally using tone, body language, and word choice, individuals can "be the thermostat" and reset the temperature in the room, creating a more positive and healthy environment.

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The report highlights several vulnerabilities in the Feeld mobile app, including unauthenticated access to user profiles, messages, and attachments, as well as the ability to edit and delete other users' messages, update profile information, and send messages to other users' chats. The vulnerabilities were discovered through a penetration test and were reported to Feeld, which has since ...

The speaker discusses the challenges of running a Rails application with SQLite in production, including the need to handle concurrent writes and the impact of SQLite's write lock on performance. They provide a step-by-step guide to improving performance, including configuring immediate transactions, using a busy timeout, and releasing the GVL, and demonstrate the effectiveness of these ...

David Chang emphasizes the importance of personal integrity in the kitchen, as staff may take shortcuts to save time, but this can compromise quality. He shares an example from his restaurant, Majordomo, where they initially used a "presentation chicken" to speed up service, but ultimately decided against it due to concerns about setting a bad precedent.

The Compute and Performance Engineering teams at Netflix used eBPF to achieve continuous, low-overhead instrumentation of the Linux scheduler, enabling effective self-serve monitoring of noisy neighbor issues and improving infrastructure observability. They leveraged eBPF hooks to monitor run queue latency, cgroup IDs, and other metrics, and developed an open-source eBPF process monitoring ...

You're 18 and appreciate being born in 2006, allowing you to take advantage of technological advancements, but you dislike social media's commodification of personal data and attention. You miss the early internet era's personal and creative blogs, forums, and websites, and wish for a return to a more authentic and simple online experience.

The author describes their journey to develop an algorithm to detect loops in a graph, trying various approaches and learning from their mistakes. They finally found a correct algorithm, Tarjan's bridge-finding algorithm, which is a "pure" graph algorithm that doesn't depend on any specific embedding of the graph.

The Oxide Rack will provide a robust infrastructure for virtual machines, a control plane, and API service, requiring various facilities from the operating system and hypervisor, including fault management, debugging metadata, and instrumentation. The text discusses the importance of safety, performance, and observability in instrumentation, comparing the approaches of DTrace and eBPF, ...

Uruguay's president-elect José Mujica's 2010 electric vehicle ride to his inauguration ceremony sparked interest in retrofitting gas-guzzling vehicles into economical EVs, leading to the growth of Organización Autolibre, a company that has converted thousands of vehicles across 14 Latin American countries. The company's services include training individuals and mechanics, and supervising ...

The concept of the Silk Road, a supposed ancient trade route between China and the West, is largely a myth, and India was actually the hub of trade and cultural exchange in the ancient world. The book "The Golden Road" by William Dalrymple explores the history of Indian trade and cultural influence in Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean, highlighting the significant contributions of Indian ...

Jina AI has released Reader-LM, a small language model (SLM) that converts raw, noisy HTML into clean markdown, achieving state-of-the-art performance on the task while being only 1/50th the size of larger LLMs. The model is designed for data extraction and cleaning on the open web, and its decoder-only architecture and long-context support make it well-suited for this task, with potential ...

OpenSSH 9.5 introduced keystroke timing obfuscation to prevent traffic analysis attacks, but a researcher discovered a way to bypass this measure. The researcher developed a tool, SSHniff, to extract keystroke metadata and demonstrated how to use it to infer underlying commands, despite the obfuscation.

Radicle 1.0 is now available after five months of feedback and 17 release candidates, marking the culmination of years of experimentation and hard work. The new version represents a sovereign code forge, allowing for collaborative, local-first, peer-to-peer development with a focus on stability and community involvement.

Max Headroom, a popular 80s character, was not actually computer-animated but rather a combination of latex makeup, costume, and technological tricks. The use of pseudo-CGI, where digital animation was emulated using hand-drawn techniques or physical models, was common in the 80s and has since been rediscovered as a unique aesthetic in modern productions.

Felafax is a framework for fine-tuning open-source LLMs on Google Cloud TPUs, offering 30% lower costs and seamless scaling. It provides a Jupyter notebook and guides users through a 3-step process to launch a TPU VM and start training on non-NVIDIA hardware.

Mistral, a European AI company, has released Pixtral 12B, a 12-billion-parameter model that can process images and text, and is available for download under an Apache 2.0 license. The model can perform tasks like captioning images and counting objects in a photo, and is expected to be available for testing on Mistral's chatbot and API-serving platforms soon.

Researchers have developed a technique called nanowarming to rapidly and safely thaw frozen tissues for organ transplantation, using magnetic nanoparticles to control the thawing process. This method has been successfully tested on animal tissues and cultured human skin cells, showing high cell viability and potential for long-term organ cryopreservation.

The user compared and learned about FastHTML, Next.js, and SvelteKit by building the same web app using each framework, focusing on CRUD operations and developer experience. They also discussed the potential impact of coding assistants powered by LLMs on the choice of frameworks, highlighting the need for optimized documentation for newer or niche frameworks.

Google's Play Integrity API now prompts users to get apps from the Play Store when sideloading, blocking access to modified phones and experimental apps. This move aims to improve app security, but developers can choose to issue warnings instead of blocking installation, and sideloading remains a concern for piracy and compatibility issues.

The article discusses the concept of "algorithmic wage discrimination" in the context of on-demand work, where firms use data and algorithms to determine individual workers' wages, often leading to unpredictable and variable pay. The article argues that this practice undermines traditional notions of fair pay and challenges the moral economy of work, as workers are unable to predict or ...

The author initially decided not to open-source their app Yaak, but after receiving criticism from the open-source community, they reconsidered and made the code public under the MIT license. However, they only allow contribution for bug fixes, citing examples of other open-source projects that have similar models, such as SQLite and Litestream.

Servo, a web engine, is being developed to build a browser with features like multiple webviews and multiple windows, with the goal of creating a robust web browser. The Verso project is exploring the features Servo needs to power a browser, including improving inter-process communication and supporting multiple windows, with a focus on improving the user interface and ergonomics.

NASA's Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) has successfully deployed its solar sail in low Earth orbit and can be seen in the night sky from many locations. The spacecraft is currently tumbling and will stabilize once its attitude control system is re-engaged, and NASA will continue to analyze data to better understand this low-cost innovation for future space missions.

Fifty years ago, the New York Times exposed CIA covert operations in Chile, leading to a major scandal and the first congressional investigation into CIA actions. The investigation revealed CIA efforts to undermine the elected government of Salvador Allende and led to legislation to enhance checks and balances on CIA operations and curtail the ability of future presidents to "plausibly deny" ...

The Irish news is discussing a large sum of €13-14 billion, with formulas and assumptions available under the "💬" tab. This amount is equivalent to the capacity of Croke Park, Ireland's national debt, or a significant portion of the country's 2023 expenditure.

Kenyan Uber drivers have formed a union to demand higher fares, using a suggested rate chart that is at least 50% higher than Uber's official fare, to make up for high gas prices and low earnings. The union's rate card has become a common sight in Nairobi, with drivers prioritizing customers who pay with alternative methods and turning down those who use the Uber app.

You quit a contract job due to excessive work hours and lack of clear goals, and now you're concerned about another YC company's 7-day workweek requirement. You wonder if it's about better output or the company expecting complete dedication from employees.

It provides powerful tools for both static and dynamic analysis, offering features similar to readelf and strace. It allows you to easily inspect strings, examine linked libraries, and perform a hexdump, all within a user-friendly terminal user interface.

Civo research suggests that over half of VMware customers are considering leaving the platform due to price hikes and changes under Broadcom's ownership. Many are looking to alternative cloud providers, including open source solutions, citing concerns over security, service level agreements, and profitability over customer needs.

Google Search now allows users to access archived versions of webpages directly through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. Users can find the link by clicking on the "More About This Page" option in the "About this Result" panel next to each search result.

Facebook admits to scraping public photos and posts of Australian adult users to train AI models without an opt-out option, despite offering opt-out options to EU users. The company claims it needs a large amount of data to provide a "flexible and powerful" AI tool, and that Australian users can set data to private, but critics argue this is an exploitation of users' privacy.

AI-driven tools like GitHub's Copilot can revolutionize programming by generating code and suggesting solutions, but they may also erode fundamental programming skills and create code dependency, leading to a lack of understanding and ownership of the code. Additionally, these tools may shortcut the learning process, limit creativity, and create a false sense of expertise among developers, ...

Scientists have discovered that deep-sea animals, such as comb jellies, have adapted to extreme pressure by having cell membranes made of lipid molecules with a unique curved shape, which helps them maintain a sturdy yet dynamic structure. This adaptation, known as "homeocurvature adaptation," is not limited to deep-sea animals and may have implications for understanding the role of lipids in ...

The user has developed Cradle, a framework for complex computer tasks using screen and keyboard/mouse input, and also created an open-source data analysis tool. They have also built a financial chatbot and a murder investigation tool, and have used their tools for various projects, including a chatbot for catchingkillers.com.

You experimented with different CSS frameworks, starting with Bootstrap and Foundation, and then discovered Tailwind CSS, a "utility-first" framework that provides a unique approach to styling. You found that Tailwind's flexibility and productivity benefits make it suitable for projects with specific design requirements, while minimal frameworks like PicoCSS are better suited for small ...

Clace is a web app development and deployment platform that allows easy and secure hosting of multiple web apps on a single machine, with features like GitOps workflow, reverse proxy, and container orchestrator. It can be used to develop and deploy containerized web apps, including Streamlit apps, and provides a virtual filesystem with aggressive static content caching and support for ...

The author built a home network using Ubiquiti devices, including a Dream Machine, Pro Max 24 PoE switch, and U7 APs, to provide a reliable and high-speed network for their home. The author shares their experience, including the challenges they faced, such as deploying APs in a concrete house, and provides details on their setup, including VLANs, firewall rules, and cable management.

A new documentary, "The Rubber Keyed Wonder - Story of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum", premieres at the BFI IMAX on October 3rd, 2024, charting the history of the iconic British microcomputer. The documentary features new interviews, rare archive footage, and a Q&A session with the directors and industry experts.

The website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks and has blocked the user's action. The user can email the site owner to report the block and include details of what they were doing when the page came up.

Google Search now links directly to The Internet Archive's Wayback Machine to provide historical context for search results. Users can access the Wayback Machine by clicking the three-dots menu button and selecting "More about this page" in Google Search.

Platinum is a UI framework that replicates Mac OS 8.1 interface components using native CSS/JS. The project is licensed under MIT, allowing free use, modification, and distribution, with no warranty or liability.

I keep forgetting, so here we go. Please let me know if you have any others! JSON treats the value 1e2 a number, of course, because it’s not in quote marks. YAML fails to parse it as a number so silently falls back to treating it as a string.

The Australian government will introduce a new law to outlaw doxxing, imposing a maximum penalty of seven years' jail, and also introduce a hate speech bill, although it is expected to be weaker than initially proposed. The new law aims to bring the Privacy Act into the digital age, allowing individuals to sue for damages and introducing a children's online privacy code to protect young ...

Device Tree patches have been posted for review to enable booting Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods with A7 to A11 SoCs on the mainline Linux kernel. The patches support various features, including SMP, UART, and simple-framebuffer, and are currently under review on the Linux kernel mailing list.

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The author discusses how pleasant surprises can be rare, but finding quality content like Peppa Pig and Bluey has been a pleasant surprise as a parent. The concept of a hierarchy of distraction is explored, where instead of fighting distractions, one can focus on seeking higher-quality distractions that genuinely capture their attention.

With the release of iOS 18 Developer Beta 5 and Public Beta 3, my team received reports from customers that all negative values in our app were showing as positives, which led to major confusion. We narrowed down the issue to a change to...

Casio Wrist Camera photos! These are the sneaky spy snaps taken with my new birthday-pressie - a snazzy Casio watch camera. It's an amazing thing that looks just like a normal watch, but has a nifty little built-in digital camera that lets you take lots of photos on the quiet - and then beam them to your computer! Expect occasional updates documenting my travels and drunken nights...

A friend asked about startup mortality rates, and the author notes that while it's natural to see some startups close, it's not uncommon and can be planned for. The author references Nate Silver's book, which quotes Marc Andreessen's fund performance numbers, showing that a small percentage of investments produce most returns over a long period.

Gottfried Mind, a Swiss artist known as the "Raphael of Cats", was a talented but isolated individual with a "weak constitution" and limited education, who spent his life drawing and painting cats with remarkable fidelity and precision. His art and life have been the subject of fascination and speculation, with some interpreting his work as evidence of savant syndrome or "cretin imbecility", ...

The AWS AI Stack is a full-stack boilerplate project for building serverless AI applications on AWS, featuring a domain-oriented architecture and using AWS Bedrock models for AI functionality. The project includes services such as API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge, and Lambda functions, and can be deployed to production using a custom domain name and AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store.

The US government is removing degree requirements for federal IT contracts and focusing on skills-based hiring to fill 500,000 open cybersecurity jobs. The "Serve for America" initiative aims to make it easier for government agencies to compete with the private sector for cybersecurity talent.

The International System of Units (SI) has specific rules to ensure uniformity and precision, including proper use of abbreviations, capitalization, and notation. Ignoring these rules can lead to confusion and ambiguity, and it is essential to follow the guidelines to maintain the integrity of the metric system.

A Swiss lawyer was fined $116,000 for tailgating on the highway, with the fine based on his income of $2 million per year. The lawyer appealed the fine, but the court dismissed his claims and upheld the guilty verdict, resulting in a total fine of $131,500.

The authors introduce a new class of shapes called "soft cells" that tile 2D and 3D Euclidean space with a minimal number of sharp corners, and demonstrate their ubiquity in nature, including in the geometry of seashells and biological structures. They also develop a combinatorial condition under which a polyhedral tiling can be continuously transformed into a soft tiling, and provide ...

The evolution of computing interfaces has shifted from imperative to declarative to intent-driven, allowing humans to directly express themselves and pipe their thoughts into machines. This shift, enabled by LLMs and brain-computing interfaces, marks a new paradigm in human-machine interaction, where software adapts to human needs and breaks away from traditional barriers to entry.

The article explores the concept of curation in the digital age, highlighting how algorithms and social networks shape our understanding of meaning and culture. It argues that the network is the territory, and that cultural producers must navigate and create networks of associations and relations to shape ambient meaning and create cultural artifacts.

You built an HTTP server in Go from scratch, completing a Codecrafters challenge, and refactored the code to improve DX. You added features like routing, file serving, and compression, and created structs and methods to simplify the usage of the HTTP server.

Scientists discovered a new Neanderthal lineage, nicknamed "Thorin", in the Rhône Valley, France, which lived in isolation for 50,000 years and diverged from other Neanderthals 100,000 years ago. The findings suggest that Neanderthals may have had smaller, insular communities, which could have contributed to their extinction, and highlight the importance of genetic variation and social ...

The European Space Agency's ROSIE mission successfully gathered data on the re-entry of a 24-year-old satellite called Salsa, which burned up in the atmosphere, providing insights into how satellites disintegrate during re-entry. The mission aims to improve prediction models and learn more about the re-entry process, which is crucial for ensuring the safety of people on Earth's surface as the ...

The user found that reading aloud helped them stay focused and immersed in the text, making it a more enjoyable and efficient experience, and they believe that reading aloud can be a superior way to read, especially for those with attention issues.

New installations will use doas instead of sudo, with doas-sudo-shim allowing compatibility. Existing installations will continue using sudo, with an option to switch to doas if needed.

The European Union is planning to introduce a digital identity (eID) system by 2026, which will allow citizens to store, display, and verify their credentials in a single electronic wallet, giving them control over their data. The eID system has both supporters and critics, with some seeing it as a way to regain control over personal data and others worrying about mass surveillance and data theft.

The Motion Picture Association (MPA) and the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) collaborated with Vietnamese authorities to take down Fmovies, the world's largest pirate streaming operation, which had over 6.7 billion visits between January 2023 and June 2024. The takedown is expected to have a major impact on the availability of pirated content and ACE will continue to work with ...

KubeBlocks supports creating Redis clusters, including Standalone and Replication Clusters, with options for high availability and automatic failover. A Cluster CRD defines a cluster, and the KubeBlocks operator creates a Secret to store connection credentials, allowing connection to the Redis cluster using kubectl exec or port forwarding.

Logmink.hub is a centralized logging hub that captures HTTP logs from containers without code modifications, providing a seamless experience. It consists of a Node.js server, optional Mongo Express UI, and agents that capture logs from containers without storing data locally.

Refusing cash as payment is not an offence in the UK, as shops can choose to decline certain forms of payment. Cash being legal tender only means it can be used to repay debts, not that shops must accept it as payment.