OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman predicts a future where AI fixes climate issues and establishes space colonies, but critics argue his approach is based on mythmaking and unrealistic expectations. Despite raising $6.6 billion, OpenAI's technology appears to have plateaued and its products feel like mundane chatbots.

Jazz is an open-source toolkit that simplifies data management with a single abstraction. Jazz Mesh provides free, global-scale sync and storage for Jazz-based apps with no setup or backend needed.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a project that guides building a custom Linux system from source code. It has several related projects including BLFS, ALFS, Hints, and Patches for customization and automation.

Cloudflare defeated patent troll Sable Networks, winning a $225,000 settlement and a royalty-free license to Sable's patent portfolio. Cloudflare will also award $70,000 to individuals who helped invalidate Sable's patents through a crowd-sourced initiative.

The just compiler uses rustc to evaluate the '\n' escape sequence, which in turn uses the OCaml compiler to insert a 0x0A byte. This process has repeated at least 81 times since rustc's release, with each compiler version smuggling the byte from its predecessor.

A Norwegian boy named Mats lived a double life, one as a terminally ill child and another as a charismatic online gamer named Ibelin. His online friends and guildmates discovered his true identity after his death and shared stories of how he had positively impacted their lives.

Here you can find a list of charts categorised by their data visualization functions or by what you want a chart to communicate to an audience. While the allocation of each chart into specific functions isn't a perfect system, it still works as a useful guide for selecting chart based on your analysis or communication needs.

Automakers like Tesla and Ford are stopping AM radio installation in their electric vehicles due to interference issues. The US Congress is debating the AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act to require carmakers to install AM radios as a public interest.

This course teaches fuzzing on Linux with AFL++ and requires a running Linux system and internet connection. It covers fuzz testing and evolutionary fuzzers like AFL++.

The user built a custom GPS tracker that sends data to the cloud over LTE and Iridium networks, tested on an expedition yacht in the Arctic, using RockBLOCK 9603N, SIMCOM7600G, and STM32 microcontroller. The tracker was designed for remote navigation and emergency communication, with a focus on Iridium satellite network for areas with no mobile coverage, and was successfully used during a ...

Author chose to stay at Automattic despite a generous offer to leave with half a year's salary. They value the company's mission and believe in the open web, outweighing personal financial struggles.

The Soviet space program used a navigation instrument called Globus, an electromechanical analog computer that displayed a spacecraft's predicted position above the Earth. It used a rotating globe with fixed crosshairs to indicate the spacecraft's position and provided numerical latitude and longitude readings.

Private equity firms have taken over a quarter of US emergency rooms, cutting doctor hours, raising prices, and prioritizing profits over patient care. This has led to burnout among doctors and potentially deadly shortcuts in emergency care.

StarbaseDB is a simple interface for storing and querying data built on SQLite, providing fast and reliable access. It allows colocating application code and SQL queries for synchronous data reads.

The words "foo" and "bar" are metasyntactic variables used in programming to represent placeholder names or arbitrary values. They originated from the MIT and DEC communities in the 1960s and were popularized through system manuals and documentation.

Rune Player is a music management app with audio analysis and recommendation features, inspired by Zune. It offers a clean and efficient playback experience with a modern tech stack and UI.

Researchers developed CoRncrete, a novel construction material made from corn starch, sand, and water, with compressive strength up to 26 MPa. The material's renewability, bio-degradability, and self-compacting properties make it a sustainable alternative for industrial applications.

Sailfish OS is a secure, open-source mobile operating system offering exclusive licensing and Android app support. It features advanced security, customization, and adaptability for corporate and governmental needs.

Researchers in China have successfully treated three people with severe autoimmune conditions using bioengineered and CRISPR-modified immune cells. The recipients, including a 57-year-old man with systemic sclerosis, have shown significant improvements in their symptoms and remain in remission over six months.

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital developed a nasal spray called Pathogen Capture and Neutralizing Spray (PCANS) to protect against viral and bacterial respiratory infections. The spray, which is long-lasting and safe, has shown to block and neutralize almost 100% of tested viruses and bacteria in preclinical studies.

Brisa unifies server and client worlds using the Web Platform, enabling developers to create high-performance applications with ease. It simplifies web development by minimizing client-side footprint and leveraging native web capabilities.

Generative AI makes legal actions easier and cheaper, increasing exposure to mass-produced, coordinated legal threats. Companies must prepare by understanding vulnerabilities, emerging threats, and communication strategies to mitigate risks.

A new study found that a popular probiotic, Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis, did not improve bowel health in people with constipation. The study's results contradict previous marketing claims made by companies like Dannon about the probiotic's benefits.

Adobe released Photoshop Elements 2025 and Premiere Elements 2025 with AI-powered features, Guided Edits, and improved performance. The software is now a three-year license term with a one-time fee, no monthly subscription, but users will lose access after three years.

This site focuses on router security, providing tips on configuration changes and router selection to make a router more secure. It also offers a page on extending Wi-Fi range and has a clear distinction from routing security.

User has mixed experience with Apple Vision Pro, comfortable working in it but gets headaches from weight after an hour. Device is rarely seen in public due to high cost and perceived ostentatiousness.

Apple's AI research team has developed Depth Pro, a model that generates detailed 3D depth maps from single 2D images in under a second. This technology has far-reaching applications across industries, including augmented reality, autonomous vehicles, and e-commerce.

gccrs is reusing components from the official Rust compiler to speed up development and ensure the same behavior as rustc in critical compiler passes. The components are integrated into gccrs through a bootstrapping process that involves compiling them with an intermediate C++ compiler and then linking them to the final gccrs compiler.

You modified a laptop's DRAM to be sensitive to electromagnetic interference. An exploit was created to turn induced bit-flips into a shell.

Starmoon is a compact AI-enabled device for emotional support and learning assistance. It's open-source, voice-enabled, and can be deployed locally for private data.

A Lego Turing Machine was submitted to Lego Ideas, consisting of 2,900 parts, representing Alan Turing's 1936 hypothetical system that can simulate any computer algorithm. The machine has nearly 4,000 supporters and needs 5,000 to progress to the next stage.

Listen Notes encountered spammers submitting fake podcasts and sought a tool from NotebookLM to detect them. After losing patience, they created a script to detect fake NotebookLM-generated audio.

The user criticizes Mozilla's rapid release model and Chrome's dominance, leading to a loss of stability and focus on essential web features. They prefer Pale Moon, a slower-moving browser that prioritizes HTML+JS functionality and avoids ad-tracking.

A diode matrix ROM is an old low-density memory used in computers from the 50s to 70s, represented by diodes. This specific board is a 32-word 16-bit floppy disk boot ROM for a PDP-11.

CERN is using AI innovations to improve healthcare, particularly in countries with limited resources, by developing tools for breast cancer prevention, stroke monitoring, and radiotherapy optimization. These projects aim to enhance data privacy and security while providing more accurate and accessible medical applications.

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The author defines weird nonfiction as a genre that blurs the lines between reality and fiction, often using humor, horror, or uncertainty to challenge the reader's perceptions. Weird nonfiction can take many forms, including essays, videos, games, and even AI-generated content, and is characterized by its ability to infect and subvert the reader's expectations.

The WordPress Plugin Mirror Downloader is a system designed to efficiently download, cache, and manage WordPress plugins using Cloudflare's edge computing capabilities and R2 S3 object storage. It supports parallel processing, caching, and checksum verification, and can be run in cache-only mode to check and update the cache without downloading files.

Buildroot is a simple tool for generating embedded Linux systems through cross-compilation. It supports various packages and has a simple structure for easy understanding and extension.

A YouTube channel revived the 1980s programming language MicroText, which was thought to be lost. The language's creator and users are now reconnected through the channel's community, with over 1,000 downloads and new programs being written.

Pat Haggerty, vice president of Texas Instruments, committed 10 percent of the company's revenue to develop a new mass-market consumer product, a transistor radio, to be released in six months. The Regency TR-1, the world's first commercial transistor radio, debuted in 1954, despite initial quality-control problems and sound-quality trade-offs.

The manifesto emphasizes simplicity, robustness, and humility in programming, encouraging developers to focus on solving real problems and avoiding unnecessary complexity, abstractions, and dependencies. It also warns against following trends, listening to others, and getting caught up in hype, instead advocating for a practical, hands-on approach to programming that prioritizes clarity, ...

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The user compiled and ran the sqlite3-rsync command to create a copy of a SQLite database in WAL mode. The command requires the SQLite amalgamation file and the -DSQLITE_ENABLE_DBPAGE_VTAB flag to work correctly.

Stephen King expressed reservations about several film adaptations of his works, including Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining. King criticized Kubrick's direction, casting, and approach to the horror genre, calling the film "a great big beautiful Cadillac with no motor inside."

Developers are using various auth methods including password-based, social media, and email authentication. There is limited public data on conversion rates, but password-based auth often has high bounce rates.

The user is working with Wikidata, a database of structured data, to create a crosswalk table for geographic entities using DuckDB and a Ruby script. They process a large JSON extract of Wikidata, filter out unnecessary metadata, and use the UNNEST function in DuckDB to create a crosswalk table with over 23 million ID pairs.

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An upcoming HBO documentary claims Len Sassaman is the real Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin, citing his background in cyberpunk culture. Len's tragic death in 2011 may have a neutral to positive impact on Bitcoin's price if the documentary's claim is true.

The user's feed aggregator haskell.pl-a.net occasionally displays broken titles due to misconfigured encoding. The user fixed the issue by manually mapping characters from Windows-1252 to Unicode.

Nikki Schultek suffered from a mysterious illness causing severe asthma, chronic pain, and memory loss, but antibiotics cured her symptoms. She now researches the link between infections and cognitive decline, a growing area of interest in the brain's microbial community.

Comcast customers' data was stolen in a cyberattack on a debt collector, Financial Business and Consumer Solutions, which was compromised in February. The stolen data includes names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of around 237,703 Comcast customers.

Engineers created a strong concrete alternative using Martian or lunar soil, potato starch, and salt, which is twice as strong as conventional concrete. The "space concrete" could facilitate construction on the moon and Mars, reducing the need for heavy materials and utilizing local resources.

Researchers developed a computational framework to detect and quantify othering, a dynamic that fuels intergroup conflict and exclusion, by analyzing online speech and propaganda. The framework uses large language models to identify othering patterns in diverse contexts, providing insights to mitigate its adverse impacts on social cohesion.

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Researchers found that forage conservation, particularly silage, is a significant source of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, making it the third-largest source in the agricultural sector. The study suggests that denitrifiers, rather than nitrifiers, are responsible for N2O production from silage.

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CodeAir allows seamless file transfer and voice control between mobile and VS Code. It features AI support, real-time collaboration, and file editing capabilities.

The IDF is now deployed widely across the border, as fears grow of regional war in the Middle East. “It has the best location in the Middle East, the best water, the best everything,” the Republican presidential contender said.

McDonald's is suing nine suppliers, including Tyson Foods and JBS, for allegedly conspiring to inflate beef prices. The lawsuit claims the suppliers reduced cattle supply and artificially raised prices to boost their profit margins from 2015 to 2021.

A fake audio clip of a school principal making derogatory comments went viral, sparking death threats and a probe, but was later revealed to be created by AI. The clip's authenticity was doubted even after the principal's union claimed it was fake, highlighting the challenges in verifying AI-generated content.

The original duck-rabbit figure was created by Joseph Jastrow in 1899, not by Ludwig Wittgenstein as previously attributed. Jastrow used the figure to demonstrate that perception is not just a product of the stimulus, but also of mental activity.

A fake audio clip of a school principal making derogatory comments went viral, sparking death threats and a probe, but was later revealed to be created by AI. The clip's authenticity was doubted even after the principal's union claimed it was fake, highlighting the challenges in verifying AI-generated content.

OpenPGP provides encryption, decryption, signing, and key management functions using public key and/or symmetric encryption and digital signatures. It uses a stream of arbitrary octets for encrypted messages, signatures, keys, and certificates.

User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, they can try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.

Truth Social has been flooded with scammers who are swindling users out of enormous sums of money, with many victims losing hundreds of thousands of dollars. The scammers often target elderly Trump supporters on the platform, using tactics such as pig butchering to gain their trust and convince them to invest in fake cryptocurrency schemes.

Clean Architecture is a modern software architecture that combines Domain-Driven Design and Command Query Responsibility Segregation to produce elegant, robust, and scalable software systems. The architecture consists of concentric layers, including the Domain layer, Application layer, Presentation layer, Infrastructure layer, and Persistence layer, which work together to ensure a flexible ...

Did anyone have a good experience and can vouch for their service provider? I need help with taking a single-board computer (an existing open-source hardware project), converting from Eagle, removing unneeded components, and exporting KiCad/BOM that are ready to send to Eurocircuits/PCBWay/JLCPCB. Of course, the modified design would also be published under an open-source hardware license.

We are implementing a no_std library to parse command line arguments with a derive macro, which will be used in a kernel project, and we are using autoref specialization to handle different behaviors for various types. The library will support parsing short and long arguments, positional arguments, and subcommands, and it will be able to handle different types that implement FromStr.