The user discovered a vulnerability in EA's authentication API, allowing them to move linked accounts to any EA account and steal usernames, game data, and bypass game bans. They exploited this vulnerability to gain full access to another user's account, including game stats and inventory, by moving their Xbox persona to the victim's account and logging in through the Xbox account.

Intel's datacenter revenue has declined due to AMD's EPYC processors offering competitive advantages and Intel selling Xeon chips at discounts. Meanwhile, Nvidia earns significantly more from datacenter GPUs and networking chips, surpassing Intel and AMD's combined sales.

This project aims to simplify semiconductor device prototyping by documenting and sharing low-cost, open-source nanofabrication methods. The goal is to enable others to recreate and contribute to the work using a simplified approach.

French and Dutch authorities raided Netflix offices in Paris and Amsterdam over tax fraud investigation. Netflix insists it complies with tax laws, but French authorities suspect covering up serious tax fraud and off-the-books work.

Nvidia built a system to bypass US export restrictions by routing AI chips through Singapore and India for China, Russia, and the Middle East. The system allowed Nvidia to exceed Wall Street expectations but may not be fully compliant with restrictions.

A new documentary reveals over 21,000 worker deaths and 100,000 disappearances in Saudi Arabia's NEOM construction. Executives, including Australian Wayne Borg, are accused of corruption, racism, and human rights abuses.

Mozilla Foundation laid off 30% of its workforce, eliminating advocacy and global programs divisions. The move may lessen its impact on the internet, but the organization says it will continue to fight for a free and open internet.

Major enterprises like GEICO and 37signals are repatriating workloads from public clouds to on-premises environments due to rising costs and vendor lock-ins. This shift highlights the importance of informed infrastructure management decisions based on business needs and economic factors.

The Arecibo Observatory 305-meter telescope collapsed due to a combination of factors including zinc creep failure at the cable sockets. The collapse was exacerbated by bureaucratic delays in funding repairs after Hurricane Maria.

The author's self-published book on Web Typography sold out in print but did well as an ebook, which they hand-coded with advanced features. They're frustrated with ebook rendering issues, particularly in Apple Books, and are advocating for better support for CSS properties like break-after and break-inside.

CPython 3.13's free-threaded mode allows running without the Global Interpreter Lock (GIL), simplifying memory management but also introducing experimental performance benefits. The new mode can significantly impact parallel applications' performance, offering a relevant alternative to multiprocessing, but it's still experimental and not yet ready for production use.

UNIX manual describes publicly available features, system calls, and commands. It provides information on logging in, file system, and programming languages, including assembly, Fortran, and C.

A girl named Shaunda was photographed skateboarding in the rain in 1979 by Fayetteville Observer photographer Steve Aldridge. 45 years later, the image resurfaced and Shaunda was identified and re-created the photo with an umbrella.

Traceroute is a flawed diagnostic tool that doesn't work as intended in modern networks due to their complexity and abstraction, and its results are often misleading or useless. The tool's limitations and the lack of understanding among network technicians make it a hindrance to effective troubleshooting, leading to misdiagnoses and prolonged issues.

The National Semiconductor Technology Center (NSTC) released a strategic plan and selected two of three planned facilities, including a design center in Sunnyvale, Calif. and a lab in Albany, N.Y., to advance chipmaking technology.

The code uses LangChain to create a browser-like agent that can perform tasks such as finding cheapest flights and opening websites. It uses OpenAI's GPT-4 and Anthropic's Claude-3-sonnet models for language processing.

Increasing matrix multiplication size can lead to faster execution despite doing more work due to parallelism and arithmetic intensity. However, performance can be affected by memory layout, tiling, and wave quantization, which can cause significant performance drops.

Researchers found that improved blood sugar control through diet can slow brain aging, with the Green-Mediterranean diet showing significant positive effects. A study of 300 participants found that those with better blood sugar control and a healthy diet had a younger brain age, reducing the risk of cognitive decline.

The Hunyuan-Large model is a large open-source Transformer-based MoE model with 389 billion parameters and 52 billion active parameters, achieving state-of-the-art performance in various language understanding tasks. The model is compatible with the Hugging Face format and can be fine-tuned using the hf-deepspeed framework, with a Quick Start Guide available for easy deployment and training.

Rallyup is a lightweight Wake-On-LAN scheduler for small businesses and homelabs that ensures infrastructure services are brought online in the correct order. It uses YAML configuration files to define dependencies and health checks for servers.

This crate is in development and uses whirlwind's ShardMap for distributed data storage. It provides examples of inserting, retrieving, and removing data, as well as benchmarking its performance.

North Korea targeted US automakers including Fisker Inc through a money laundering scheme funneling over $6 million to its missile program. Fisker hired a North Korean spy who stole money before being caught and terminated in September 2023.

Google DeepMind has developed a watermarking system called SynthID-Text to identify AI-generated text. The system adds a statistical signature to generated text without compromising its quality or accuracy, allowing for detection of AI-generated content.

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The author, an American programmer, shares their experiences moving to Berlin, Germany, highlighting cultural differences, such as a left-leaning society, universal healthcare, and strict rules, which can be both beneficial and frustrating. They provide practical advice on adapting to life in Germany, including navigating the public transportation system, dealing with customer service, and ...

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Researchers are testing a wooden satellite called LignoSat to use renewable materials in space exploration. The satellite, made from a Japanese magnolia tree, aims to prove wood can be durable in space and minimize environmental impact.

PiML is a Python toolbox for interpretable machine learning model development and validation. It supports various inherently interpretable models and arbitrary supervised ML models under regression and binary classification settings.

US Navy-trained dolphins were given free rein to hunt in San Diego Bay, capturing exciting footage of their hunting strategies and communications. The six-month study revealed dolphins use echolocation and suction to catch prey, and may also eat venomous sea snakes.

The author discusses the challenges of managing distributed systems and state in software engineering. They highlight the importance of considering the impact of changes on existing data and users.

Scientists are sending three plants to the moon as part of the LEAF project to study how they grow under lunar conditions. The plants will be exposed to lunar gravity and radiation, and their growth will be monitored to help develop bioregenerative life support systems for future space missions.

Polymarket paid US influencers to promote election betting despite being barred from US users. The platform's growth director sought sponsorship deals with US influencers in September.

Gladiatorial games in ancient Anatolia were a mix of ritual and spectacle, showcasing skill, discipline, and endurance. Wealthy aristocrats sponsored these events to curry public favor and amass power, with gladiators often revered as popular figures.

The mainframe has been reincarnated as server farms, with users surrendering their data to large corporations. This outcome was foreseen, with computing becoming a service, and users losing control over their personal data.

A new online tool in Minnesota allows residents to check if their home's drinking water comes through a lead pipe, part of a push to remove lead plumbing by 2035. The state has identified 88,368 lead lines, but 19% of the total status is still unknown and residents will be contacted about replacement.

The author argues that in mathematics, disproving conjectures is just as valuable as proving them and should be treated equally, but current practices and biases often favor proof over disproof. The author suggests that mathematicians should be more open to results of computational and experimental nature, and journals should recognize and publish contributions that provide evidence or ...

J.H. Brown's 1864 book Spectropia used optical illusions to demonstrate how the brain can trick people into seeing ghosts, aiming to counter the rising tide of Spiritualism. Despite its scientific explanations, the book's success as an anti-Spiritualist tool was limited, as many readers were already convinced of supernatural spirits and the movement continued to gain followers.

The average age of US homebuyers has risen to 56, a historic high, due to escalating ownership costs. Younger Americans are being priced out of the market, with first-time buyers dropping to 24% of all buyers.

User attended SREcon and is now interested in ternary operators in programming languages. They found examples in Graphviz, Raku, J, and other languages, including custom mixfix operators in Agda and Racket.

To anonymize employee data, we removed identifying fields and aggregated rows into groups. However, quasi-identifiers like country, tenure, and department still posed a risk, so we applied k-anonymity to ensure each combination of quasi-identifiers appears at least k times.

The US National Labor Relations Board has issued an unfair labor practice complaint against Apple, alleging the constructive termination of developer Cher Scarlett in 2021. The NLRB seeks to force Apple to hold labor rights training and reinstate Scarlett to her former job.

Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. Apple faces a fine under EU digital antitrust rules for App Store dominance.

Researchers studied the properties of Rubbing Mud, a mysterious mud used in Major League Baseball to improve grip. The mud's unique combination of cohesive and frictional particles creates a soft material with unusual properties, making it suitable for various applications, including sustainable geomaterials and natural hazard modeling.

Netnews, also known as Usenet, was a decentralized network that emerged in the late 1970s and was one of the first social networks, allowing users to share information and discuss various topics across long distances. Despite its success, Netnews faced challenges such as overwhelming traffic, lack of management mechanisms, and abusive behavior, which ultimately led to its decline with the ...

Joseph Haydn's Symphony No. 47, 'The Palindrome,' features a symmetrical third movement. The smooth disk around star Vega, observed by Hubble and JWST, lacks planets, challenging astronomers' understanding of planet formation.

OpenAI's Predicted Outputs feature accelerates results by using user-provided content as a prediction, improving latency but not reducing cost. Extra tokens are charged if the prediction differs from the actual output, with no cost difference if it's 100% accurate.

A new automated market maker (AMM) called pm-AMM is introduced for prediction markets, which is optimized for outcome tokens with Gaussian score dynamics. The pm-AMM has a uniform loss-vs-rebalancing (LVR) rate, meaning it loses money at a constant rate proportional to its value, and its pool value decays according to the square root of the remaining time horizon.

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world

Oxford University played a significant role in World War II, with its colleges and departments contributing to the war effort through intelligence, propaganda, and scientific research. The university's scholars and scientists made crucial contributions to the Allied victory, including the development of radar, penicillin, and the atom bomb.

BPF instruction set architecture has been standardized as RFC 9669, providing a standard outside of its in-kernel implementation. This standardization will enable vendors to implement BPF offloading capabilities with reduced risk and increased investment.

The writer grapples with the moral obligation to help homeless people despite feeling that their money won't make a long-term difference. They initially took action but eventually relied on complex explanations to justify inaction.

British Airways suffered a 2018 cyberattack exposing 300,000-500,000 customers' data, with attackers using a compromised third-party script to steal payment info. The airline faced a £183 million fine and class-action lawsuits, highlighting the importance of monitoring third-party scripts for security risks.

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The Slop library uses a strict abstraction budget to provide fast on-disk data representation for search engines. It embeds schema information in code and uses deterministic file names to ensure portability and ease of use.

Varse is a tool for updating application variables at runtime with a dashboard and SDKs for React and Node.js. It allows teams to share configs and authenticate requests with API keys.

Firecrawl Simple is a stripped-down version of Firecrawl for self-hosting and ease of contribution. It supports /scrape, /crawl/{id}, and /crawl routes with a simplified API surface.

Google has processed over 10 billion DMCA takedown requests since its transparency report began, with a record 2.5 billion requests in the past year. The majority of these requests come from a small group of rightsholders and reporting outfits, with publishers now responsible for over half of the reported URLs.

dstack is a streamlined alternative to Kubernetes and Slurm for AI workloads, simplifying container orchestration in the cloud and on-prem. It automates provisioning, job queuing, and more across clouds and on-prem clusters.

RD-TableBench is an open benchmark for complex table extraction performance evaluation. It includes challenging scenarios and manually annotated 1000 complex table images from diverse documents.

Iceland's economy outperforms most European peers after introducing a shorter working week with no pay loss. The country's unemployment rate is one of the lowest in Europe, with 51% of workers adopting the four-day week.

Researchers developed WebRL, a framework to train high-performance web agents using open large language models. WebRL improves open LLMs' performance, surpassing proprietary models and previous state-of-the-art web agents.

The FDA warns consumers not to use drugs from Fullerton Wellness in California due to non-sterile ingredients and potential health risks. The pharmacy has ceased operation, and medical offices should quarantine and not administer any drugs from Fullerton Wellness.

Git configurations can be set per directory using a .gitconfig file. This allows for context-aware settings and separate identities depending on the directory.

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ActBlue doesn't sell donor data, but campaigns using ActBlue may sell it to other campaigns. The real issue lies in the inconsistent and uneven distribution of Democratic infrastructure, leading to spam and voter disengagement.