The doge.gov website is insecure and can be edited by anyone due to a vulnerable database. It was hastily deployed by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency and is built on a Cloudflare Pages site.
The company invested in GPU-enabling customers, but the product, Fly GPU Machines, doesn't fit the market moment and isn't paying off as expected. The company is scaling back its GPU ambitions without compromising its isolation story and developer experience, and is focusing on other areas of its business.
In 2007, on my first trip to New York City, I grabbed a brand-new DSLR camera and photographed all the fonts I was supposed to love. I admired American Typewriter in all of the I <3 NYC logos, watched Akzidenz Grotesk and Helvetica fighting over the subway signs, and even caught an occasional appearance of the flawlessly-named Gotham, still a year before it skyrocketed in popularity via ...
The author reflects on their daughter Rebecca's life and death, remembering what she would be like at 16 and the things she never experienced. The author struggles with the weight of their loss, feeling it hasn't lessened over a decade.
Working on a legacy project helped me gain a deeper understanding of current processes and practices, and I learned to appreciate the value of legacy projects in teaching us about the history behind best practices. By embracing legacy projects and asking questions, I gained first-hand experience and deep-rooted knowledge that earned me the trust and recognition of my peers.
Zed introduces edit prediction powered by Zeta, an open source model, to anticipate and apply user edits with a single tab press. The feature balances existing uses of tab, such as indenting lines, and language server suggestions.
AI models have training data cutoffs and biases towards specific technologies, stifling adoption of new technologies. This creates an AI knowledge gap, where models cannot effectively support user needs regarding new technologies, disincentivising their use.
OCR4all is a free, open-source OCR tool with no subscriptions or paywalls. It's built for the OCR-D ecosystem and can be easily installed and run on any OS with Docker.
Researchers use computational simulations to study vision evolution, recreating natural processes to understand principles behind biological vision. This approach aims to design more intelligent artificial vision by applying natural evolution principles.
Register allocation is the process of mapping variables onto a fixed set of registers. It involves assigning registers to variables based on their lifetimes and minimizing conflicts between variables.
The boxes came from Tokyo: first by tanker, then overland via container truck from a Pacific port, across the Continental Divide, and finally backed into a driveway at the end of a cul-de-sac in a south Denver suburban enclave. This was a neighborhood with Razor scooters dumped in trimmed front lawns. Where family walks with leashed dogs happened down the middle of intentionally curved ...
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CodeWeaver is a command-line tool that generates a single Markdown document of a project's file hierarchy and content. It simplifies codebase sharing and documentation with flexible path filtering and optional logging.
A district attorney in Oregon reviewed a woman's cellphone data without a warrant or consent, sharing nude photos with the sheriff, but a federal appeals court ruled he has qualified immunity. The court found the district attorney's actions were an unreasonable search, but still granted him immunity, allowing no remedy for the woman.
The user experienced multiple issues with LinkedIn, including shadow-banning, poor search rankings, and account restrictions, despite being a premium user and following the platform's rules. The user believes LinkedIn is riddled with dark patterns and is treated poorly, with a lack of transparency and accountability.
In 1992, four college students, Roland Dyroff, Thomas Fehr, Hubert Mantel, and Burchard Steinbild in Fürth, Germany were dreaming of independence. They wanted to chart their own paths, make money for themselves, and have fun doing so. They’d had significant exposure to UNIX at university, and there was a new, free, and open source kernel called Linux from Helsinki. At the same time, there was ...
ICE plans to monitor and locate negative social media discussion about the agency and its officials, citing threats to agents and leadership. The agency will use contractors to scan the internet for threats and criticism, potentially flagging protected speech.
The author discusses the limitations of research on whether X causes Y, citing hundreds of observational studies with small sample sizes and unhelpful outcome measures.
Go 1.24 enhances WebAssembly capabilities with go:wasmexport and WASI reactor features. These features enable Go developers to export functions to Wasm and build long-running applications.
The world is transitioning from a predictable regime of effective dynamics to a more uncertain regime without such effective dynamics, making it harder to rely on empirical laws and models. To deal with complex systems, we need to adopt more nuanced approaches that acknowledge the limitations of simplified models and combine human expertise and perspectives to find constructive solutions.
Cookies are categorized into four types: necessary, functional, statistical, and marketing. Each type serves a different purpose, from enabling website navigation to delivering targeted advertising.
The FBI's FOIA Library contains historical records with varying image quality due to original document condition and scanning efforts. Some files may contain graphic content not suitable for all ages.
A mathematician named Jineon Baek solved the moving sofa problem, which involves finding the largest shape that can fit through an L-shaped hallway. Baek's proof, which doesn't rely on computers, shows that a curved shape proposed by Joseph Gerver in 1992 is the optimal solution.
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You want to convert scanned philosophy texts into readable text for personal use and potential audiobook creation. You're looking for options that can accurately extract text from images, possibly with a paid solution.
The user's team experienced elevated listen overflow errors on Ubuntu hosts after upgrading from CentOS, which led to a performance issue investigation. The issue was caused by inode cgroup switching in the Linux kernel, which was introduced in cgroups v2 and fixed by disabling certain cgroup accounting features.
Researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill used "turtle dancing behavior" to discover that loggerhead sea turtles learn magnetic signatures of geographic areas. The study found two mechanisms for turtles' magnetic senses: a map sense and a compass sense.
Apple's iOS tracking consent policy exempts itself from rules it enforces on third-party developers, according to a German regulator's review. The regulator claims Apple's consent dialogues for its apps are more likely to get user consent than those of third-party apps.
Ted Ts'o suggests that development teams should participate in the community to get features into the Linux kernel, rather than just pushing their own code. He believes that this will help build trust and make it easier for maintainers to accept their code.
AI agents can navigate the web, mimic users, and take actions at scale, but their traffic can be difficult to detect using traditional methods like CAPTCHAs and IP blocking. To effectively observe and manage AI agent traffic, applications need to use machine learning-based solutions that can adapt to new agent behaviors and detect anomalies with high accuracy.
Intel's AI tools for Audacity include noise suppression, transcription, music generation, and music separation features. These features run locally on PC and support spoken word and music content.
Researchers are exploring alternatives to transformers, such as xLSTM and state-space models, for tasks like DNA modeling. A user has a design inspired by JARVIS, but it's still in the early stages of development.
Delphi is 30 years old today. User has been a fan since its launch at Moscone Center in San Francisco 30 years ago.
Researchers created an open-source benchmark for evaluating Vision-Language Models on OCR tasks in dynamic videos, comparing them to traditional OCR systems. The benchmark highlights VLM strengths and limitations, with potential to outperform conventional models in many scenarios.
The NBA Apple Vision Pro app now offers Tabletop, a diorama-scale 3D virtual representation of live games. It requires a League Pass subscription, starting at $15/month, and is currently available for a few games per night.
Apple has resumed advertising on X after a year-long hiatus due to Elon Musk's controversial remarks. Musk has since toned down his public presence and avoided controversy, allowing Apple to feel comfortable advertising on the platform.
TikTok has been restored to Apple and Google app stores after nearly a month of being banned in the US. The return follows a letter from US Attorney General Pam Bondi assuring Apple won't be fined for hosting the app.
Create React App is being deprecated for new apps, and users are encouraged to migrate to a framework. Frameworks provide solutions to problems users need to solve in real production apps, such as routing, data fetching, and code splitting.
Three US dairy veterinarians had undetected bird flu infections, according to a CDC study of 150 veterinarians. The study suggests the virus may be infecting cows and people in more states than reported.
Germany's warships were sabotaged, with Vice Adm Jan Christian Kaack warning of a growing threat from Russia. Russia is suspected of waging a hybrid war against the West, with multiple incidents reported in Germany and Ukraine.
Ricochet is a peer-to-peer instant messaging system built on Tor Network, offering secure and anonymous communication. It's open-source and available for Windows, OS X, and Linux, with a focus on protecting user privacy.
George Eliot's 1879 book Impressions of Theophrastus Such explores AI and society through a satirical conversation between Theophrastus and his friend Trost. Eliot's work predates modern AI discussions, touching on the intelligence explosion, technological singularity, and the relationship between biological and synthetic beings.
Ted Cruz released a database of 3,400 NSF grants, totaling $2.05 billion, that he claims promote DEI or neo-Marxist propaganda. Emily Riehl's category theory project was flagged for mentioning social justice.
The Trump administration plans to fire many members of the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a prestigious training program at the CDC, affecting global public health. The cuts will likely decimate the program, making the nation and world less safe from emerging health threats.
US government infrastructure has been exposed on Shodan.io, allowing hackers to access sensitive data. This breach, linked to DOGE, poses a significant threat to national security and Americans' privacy.
Marsha P Johnson's activism and murder highlight the ongoing fight for trans rights. A browser extension aims to highlight trans erasure on government websites, specifically targeting the removal of trans identities from official documents.
A Windows 11 sandbox environment flagged neovim's bundled tee.exe as Trojan.Malware.300983.susgen due to suspicious DNS lookups and network connections. The user suggests a root cause analysis and rebuilding the binary from source due to unexplained behavior.
Vim plugin integrates AI assistance for code understanding and summarization. It uses Ctrl-l to add code to context for suggestions.
Alfred Hugenberg, a German industrialist and media mogul, allied with Adolf Hitler in January 1933, providing the electoral capital for Hitler's appointment as chancellor. Hugenberg's pact with Hitler ultimately led to catastrophic consequences for Germany and its corporate leaders.
Astronomers discovered extremely powerful winds on the exoplanet WASP-127b, reaching speeds of 33,000 km/h. The winds are the fastest jet stream ever measured on a planet, providing unique insights into the weather patterns of a distant world.
Loneliness is fueling romance scams, with scammers targeting vulnerable people and netting hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Researchers warn that automation, including AI, could make these scams even more widespread and devastating.
Windows 10 end of life means Microsoft will stop providing free software updates, technical assistance, and security fixes after October 14, 2025. This makes users more vulnerable to malware attacks and viruses, prompting some to consider upgrading to Windows 11 or seeking alternatives.
The Trump administration plans to fire 5,200 federal health care workers, mostly recent hires, across agencies including the CDC and NIH. The move is part of a broader effort to cut jobs and disrupt work at federal health agencies.
The National Park Service removed references to transgender people from the Stonewall National Monument website following an executive order by President Donald Trump. The changes were met with anger and outrage from LGBTQ+ advocates who say they erase the contributions of transgender individuals in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
This is DOGE's effort to create a comprehensive, government-wide org chart. This is an enormous effort, and there are likely some errors or omissions. We will continue to strive for maximum accuracy over time.
A 30-year-old woman from New England experienced severe burning pain and headaches after traveling to Thailand, Japan, and Hawaii. She was diagnosed with central nervous system angiostrongyliasis caused by a parasitic worm, likely contracted from eating contaminated food in Hawaii.
Google Maps blocked reviews for the Gulf of Mexico after labeling it "Gulf of America" for US users. Critics accuse Google of censorship, with some users posting negative reviews of the Google Maps app itself.
Mozilla partnered with Onerep for Firefox users but stopped bundling it after an investigation revealed Onerep's CEO also founded people-search companies. Mozilla still promotes Onerep despite its CEO's conflicting business interests and Onerep's partnership with another problematic people-search service, Radaris.
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State capture is a type of corruption where private interests influence a state's decision-making processes to their advantage. It involves manipulating formal procedures and government institutions to promote influential actors and their interests.
Mark Zuckerberg is shifting Meta's policy to align with President Donald Trump's views, relaxing content moderation and ending diversity programs. This move is seen as a strategic effort to gain an advantage over rival companies, particularly Apple, and to shift antitrust scrutiny away from Meta.
A kayaker was briefly swallowed by a humpback whale in Chilean Patagonia before being released unharmed. The incident was caught on camera and has gone viral, with the kayaker describing the terrifying experience.
We recorded a “History of Diffusion” interview series with Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Yang Song, and Sander Dieleman. (The Jascha interview is out now; Yang Song and Sander are coming soon.) Those interviews are full of surprises about the hunches, near-misses, and other ups-and-downs that led to landmark diffusion research. The stories are even more interesting once you have some background info ...
S2 optimized performance and reduced costs with Polar Signals Cloud's continuous profiling, identifying CPU bottlenecks and implementing optimizations. Key improvements included CPU acceleration, checksum processing efficiency, and memory allocation enhancements.
People with motor neuron disease are using AI to recreate their lost voices, but some are being restricted by companies for using "inappropriate language." ElevenLabs has apologized for banning a user for using a normal phrase, sparking debate over language restrictions for people with MND.
You created a complex OpenSCAD calendar model with configurable algorithms like Zeller's Congruence for accurate date calculation. The model includes features like custom holiday markings and is available on Makerworld with full source code available.
Codeberg is experiencing a network-level DDoS attack impacting IPv4 connectivity, but IPv6 connectivity is available. The situation is mostly stable with occasional hiccups from abusive AI crawling.
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
Elon Musk's team created the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) website with a claimed goal of transparency but appears to have skipped security steps, allowing pranksters to alter the site. Critics worry that DOGE's lack of security and access to sensitive government information could be used for personal gain, as Musk's businesses have received billions in government contracts.
Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin resigned, but the project will continue with seven new co-leaders and a new governance model. The community is seeking donations through Open Collective to fund hardware and developer time.
Mathics has a modular design, allowing reuse and minimal footprint. It can be installed locally using the Mathics-omnibus Python package.
Apple has resumed advertising on X after a two-year boycott due to Elon Musk's lax moderation rules and pro-Nazi content. Other big tech companies like Amazon have also returned to the platform despite its history of featuring Holocaust denial and racist content.
Yash is a POSIX-compliant shell written in C99, supporting features for daily use and scripting. It is stable, with regular updates and supports configuration through profile and rc files.
We developed a robust evaluation framework for our RAG-based system to ensure accurate and comprehensive outputs, focusing on answer correctness as a key success metric and using a curated dataset of diverse questions and answers. Our evaluation process includes a lightweight CLI tool, regression tests, and a labeling system to automate the verification of code changes and increase confidence ...
A person has a black box that can factor a 1024-bit key in a year and will live in isolation to prove it. The box factored the number 15, a simple product of 3 and 5, not a significant cryptographic achievement.
User has successfully integrated AI tools into their work, increasing productivity and code quality. They value hiring developers with active imaginations, tidiness, and adaptability, rather than just technical skills.
Tech bosses predict AI will bring significant change, but it may widen social divides instead of being a great equaliser. Executives like Sundar Pichai and Sam Altman foresee AI leading to major shifts in the global labour market.
Hill Dickinson, a law firm, blocked general access to AI tools due to significant misuse by staff. The firm now requires staff to request access to AI tools, ensuring safe and proper use.
A custom scheduler called concurrency-fuzz-scheduler was presented at FOSDEM to help find concurrency bugs in applications by deliberately scheduling threads in a random order. The scheduler is still in its early days and has some limitations, but it has shown promise in catching bugs that are hard to reproduce.
Ted Cruz's database of NSF grants showed 40% were woke, but most were due to meaningless sentences about diversity or using woke terms in unrelated projects. Only 2-3% of Biden-era science was actually woke, with the rest being mislabeled or using woke language in a non-woke context.
A German researcher captured a list of vague government-funded tasks and their costs on the DEI.gov site before it was password protected. The list includes funding for various projects such as LGBTQIA+ initiatives, climate justice, and anti-police efforts.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have developed a method to create memory cells using individual atom-scale crystal defects, allowing for terabytes of data to be stored in a minuscule one-millimeter cube of material. This innovative approach harnesses the properties of crystal defects to enhance classical computer memory efficiency.
might be chillin' in your bank account right now(instead of being spent on overpriced set menus and guilt-trip gifts) * At least we're all in this together. Misery loves company, right? 🤷♂️ * at least we're all equally miserable, just in different ways 🤷♂️ maybe treat yourself to something nice? 🎁(because, let’s be real, no one else is gonna do it 😌)
The user discusses their experiences with shared hosting, particularly with Dreamhost, and how they migrated to Mythic Beasts, which offers Unix hosting and supports Python. They argue that cloud services lack stability and open protocols, and that Unix hosting is no longer a commodity, making it hard to find skilled Unix administrators.
Hidden cameras have been spotted on utility poles outside Atlanta homes of people connected to the "Cop City" movement, raising constitutional concerns about privacy. The cameras are attached to utility poles about 30ft off the ground and appear to be pointed at homes and a cultural center.
A unique block-dropping puzzle game where clearing lines transforms the board. Clear vertical lines to rotate, horizontal lines to flip. Can you adapt to the changing board?
The UK government announced a partnership with Anthropic to explore using AI in public services and scientific research. The government's focus has shifted from AI safety to development and progress, with a new AI Security Institute to evaluate security risks.
Ted Cruz released a database of NSF DEI grants, claiming they promote radical left ideology and erode scientific integrity. The database shows grants with terms like "homo" and "hetero" unrelated to their actual research topics.
A printf function was implemented in Idris from scratch, providing a printf-like formatting interface while maintaining memory and type safety without the need for macros. The function was implemented using a macro-like approach with type-level functions and a custom data structure to describe the format string, allowing for variadic functions and compile-time error checking.
Contributors made various improvements to Haiku, including enhancements to the user interface, bug fixes, and performance optimizations. Changes were made to the kernel, userland, and applications, with a focus on improving stability, security, and functionality.
The History 2701 Wiki is a collaborative website about world history objects from 380 museum artifacts. It's a community project where anyone can edit, including students in Prof. Ari Daniel Levine's course at the University of Georgia.
aw I figured one day I would regret using bitly links and I guess that time has come. oh well! (I moved to self-hosting my link shortener a few years ago but I've definitely printed out some bitly links in my time) As a free Bitly user,you can pay us,so that we don’t inject spam into your links. @b0rk what are you using for your link shortening? I’ve thought about hosting a static site on ...
Anthropic's upcoming model is a hybrid that can switch between deep reasoning and fast responses, with a sliding scale to control costs. It outperforms OpenAI's o3-mini-high model on some tasks and excels at analyzing large codebases.
The Department of Veterans Affairs dismissed over 1,000 employees to save $98 million, redirecting resources to health care and benefits. The move aims to make the VA more efficient and responsive to veterans, with no negative impact on services.
There appears to be mass chaos at the agency responsible for keeping a “safe, secure, and reliable” watch over the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. ABC News is reporting that hundreds of employees at the 1,800-person National Nuclear Security Administration were fired on Thursday. Many of them described the situation as a “national security crisis.” The Department of Energy then suddenly ...
I have made several homebuilt radars and done some synthetic aperture imaging testing with them on the ground. I have wanted for a long time to put a radar on a drone and capture synthetic aperture images from air. When I last looked at this few years ago, medium sized drones with payload capability were around 1,000 EUR and up. For example in Low-Cost, High-Resolution, Drone-Borne SAR ...
One hundred years ago, the Edgware Underground station was opened, marking the completion of the Northern Line extension from Golders Green. The expansion of the underground in the early 20th century spurred a suburban boom in Edgware, with numerous speculative estates and buildings constructed around the new station.
Mathics3 Live shell allows you to use Mathics3 in the browser without the need to install anything on your computer. Mathics3 Live shell is powered by JupyterLite. It can take up to 30 seconds before the shell code and libraries load completely and become available for using interactively.
You and Brian Casel have a podcast discussing business realities, and in a recent episode, you debated AI's impact on launching software products, concluding that AI can't replace human expertise and a good user experience.
A mathematician used an algorithm to restore parts of a 15th-century fresco in Italy's Eremitani Church, destroyed in a 1944 bombing. The team, led by Massimo Fornasier, used computer software to match and place 88,000 fragments of the fresco, now visible in the reconstructed church.