Claude now has web search capabilities to provide more up-to-date information and accurate responses. This feature is available in preview for paid US users, with support for free users and more countries coming soon.
AI scrapers are aggressively crawling public Open Source projects, causing outages and disruptions, and Open Source communities are struggling to find effective mitigations. The issue is exacerbated by AI-generated bug reports and the lack of respect for robots.txt files by some AI companies, disproportionately impacting the FOSS world.
The tech industry is a machine that grinds down developers and professionals, demanding long hours and expecting burnout, anxiety, and disposability. It's time to organize and unionize to take back control, say no to endless churn, and push for better pay, benefits, and ethics.
The frontend community's focus on constantly changing frameworks is a waste of time and energy, and teams should instead focus on learning core web technologies. This approach provides more value, is less costly, and allows engineers to retain higher market value over time.
The user has been rewriting their CI scripts in GitHub Actions, finding the process frustrating due to hidden gotchas, inconsistent behavior, and a complex security model. They wish for better documentation, easier debugging, and more innovation in GitHub Actions to make the process less time-consuming and more user-friendly.
The detective is cool and detached, with a mix of world-weariness and determination. They deliver slow, deliberate lines with dramatic pauses, hinting at dry humor and inner monologue.
Dutch parliamentarians passed eight motions urging the government to replace US-made tech with homegrown alternatives to safeguard digital sovereignty. The motions aim to stop data migration to US cloud services and promote Dutch expertise in IT.
Retro Boy is a cycle-accurate Game Boy emulator in Rust, playable on the web with WebAssembly and HTML Canvas. It uses wasm-pack, Web Audio API, and React/TypeScript for development.
This article discusses a vulnerability, CVE-2024-54471, that was patched as part of the Apple security releases: macOS Sequoia 15.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.1, and macOS Ventura 13.7.1 (all released on October 28th, 2024). If you use a macOS device and are not on one of these updated versions: update now! This article is going to start with a lot of setup. I need to lay out some definitions and ...
The article discusses various techniques for drawing separator lines between sections of a webpage using CSS, including borders, pseudo-elements, and grid gaps, but they come with limitations. A new proposal, CSS gap decorations, is introduced to expand the syntax of properties like column-rule to allow for different gap decorations in different parts of a container.
User found a vulnerability in the GenAI Genesis 2025 hackathon site, allowing them to accept their own application early. They discovered the site grabbed entire application objects, enabling them to read sensitive information before the vulnerability was fixed.
The sequence of 2^n's last two digits has a period of 20, and 2^n > 4 must have n == 3, 6, 10, 11, or 19 (mod 20) for it to be a member. Otherwise, 2^n's digits must be even or have an odd digit within the first 18 digits.
Solar PV has grown rapidly, but its intermittency and high upfront costs limit its potential to supply a large fraction of energy demand. However, falling costs and advancements in storage technology make it economically viable to "overbuild" solar infrastructure and supply increasingly large fractions of energy demand.
SoftBank Group Corp acquired Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition will enhance SoftBank's capabilities in AI infrastructure and accelerate its growth initiatives.
Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most distant known galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0, using the ALMA telescope, suggesting it formed rapidly and is more chemically mature than expected. The discovery challenges previous theories on galaxy formation and raises questions about when and how galaxies evolved in the early universe.
ACARS Drama is a social media bot that decodes and shares aircraft radio signals, providing a glimpse into pilots' conversations and daily experiences. The bot uses open-source software and a $30 SDR to capture and process ACARS and VDLM2 messages from planes flying overhead.
Mexico City faces a severe water crisis due to overpopulation, drought, and climate change, affecting millions of residents. The city's water scarcity has led to social tensions, health issues, and economic losses, with some experts suggesting sustainable solutions to address the crisis.
Becky Burke, a 28-year-old tourist, was detained in the US for 19 days and removed in chains due to a suspected visa violation. She was repatriated to Wales and is now recovering from her ordeal.
The Hunyuan3D-DiT models require 6-24.5 GB VRAM for shape and texture generation. Users must comply with third-party licenses for model usage.
The British Columbia government filed legislation to allow tolls on vehicles between the Lower 48 and Alaska in response to US threats. The bill does not automatically impose fees but gives BC the tool to do so if US threats escalate.
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Non-US citizen expresses concern about traveling to the US due to increased violence and gun-related risks. Fear of mass shootings and surveillance at borders deters plans to attend US tech conferences.
Austral is a new systems programming language. You can think of it as Rust: The Good Parts or a modernized, stripped-down Ada. It features a strong static type system, linear types, capability-based security, and strong modularity. This article is an introduction to the language. The first few sections are high-level: they are about the design and the mindset of the language. The next two ...
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick urged Americans to buy Tesla stock on Fox News, but shares fell 1.7% in premarket trading. Lutnick's comments are part of a Trump administration campaign to defend Tesla amid a wave of protests and a crisis at the company.
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View of the engineering officer's screen, which can allocate power and repairs to the ship's subsystems. View of the science officer's screen, which has long-range scanners and a large database of information. View of the relay officer's screen, which can see and hail allies, share their short-range radar, and launch remote probes. View of the game master's screen, which ...
Tesla is recalling 46,096 Cybertruck vehicles in the US to fix a detachable exterior panel. The recall involves replacing the cant rail assembly free of charge to prevent road hazards and crashes.
Google updated Gemma 3 AI model for developers with improved performance and safety features. It supports 35 languages, analyzes text, images, and videos, and has a low risk of misuse according to Google.
Ancient people in Tunisia and Algeria had European hunter-gatherer ancestry around 8,500 years ago. This is the first direct evidence of trans-Mediterranean sea voyaging during the Stone Age.
LLM and AI companies are scraping websites, including small project forges, to train chatbots. This may lead to authentication or JavaScript challenges on every web page to prevent abuse.
A Model Context Protocol server for Minesweeper is configured to run alongside the game server. To add the tool, update claude_desktop_config.json with the server's path and restart Claude Desktop.
GREASE is an open-source tool for binary analysis using under-constrained symbolic execution to find bugs in binaries. It supports analysis of various binary formats and can be used as a plug-in or standalone tool.
Tom Cooper discusses the F-35 fighter jet as a subscription service with geopolitical strings attached, where countries gain advanced capabilities but cede control to the US. This raises questions about the benefits of dependency versus sovereignty.
The EU is requiring Apple to allow third-party devices to access iOS features, including peer-to-peer Wi-Fi and NFC, to create a level playing field. Apple claims this will limit innovation and expose user data, but smaller companies like Pebble creator Eric Migicovsky disagree, saying it will increase competition and reduce prices.
Google developed custom STPA training to analyze software systems and prevent outages. The training focuses on control structures and feedback paths, helping engineers identify complex system interactions and design flaws.
The Trump administration has been criticized for disregarding basic cybersecurity protections, including a recent message instructing fired CISA employees to send sensitive personal data via password-protected email. The administration has also been accused of undermining US cybersecurity operations by mass-firing probationary federal employees.
Noyb, a privacy rights advocacy group, is supporting an individual in Norway who found ChatGPT generated false information claiming he was convicted of murdering his children. Noyb is filing a complaint with the Norwegian data protection authority, citing GDPR violations and seeking to stop AI hallucinations.
The user is reading a book on building a large language model and covered dropout, a technique to prevent overfitting by randomly ignoring certain model parameters during training. They used PyTorch's Dropout class to implement it with a dropout rate of 0.5, but found it surprising that the remaining numbers in the attention weight matrix were doubled after dropout.
Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.
Physix.go is a simple physics engine for GoLang that provides functions for particle-based simulations and rigid body dynamics. It includes features like collision detection, bouncing, and spring simulations.
Natives Americans are believed to have descended from Asian people who arrived in North America via the Bering Strait. The DNA of ancient American bog people is closer to the Japanese than Americans. Glenn Hodges wrote in National Geographic: “In recent years geneticists have compared the DNA of modern Native Americans with that of other populations around the world and concluded that the ...
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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick recommended buying Tesla stocks, a move seen as unusual and potentially unethical given his firm's large investment in Tesla. Lutnick's firm Cantor Fitzgerald has significantly increased its Tesla holdings in 2024, coinciding with a bull run in the automaker's stock.
Minimalytics is a lightweight analytics tool built on SQLite for resource-constrained environments. It provides a minimalist solution for tracking and visualizing event data with high performance and minimal storage.
Silicon Labs unveiled a new wireless SoC, BG29, for small, low-powered devices at Embedded World 2025. The BG29 features improved processing, security, and a small size, making it suitable for smart healthcare devices and other applications.
The Unreal Tournament Sniper Rifle is one of the least sci-fi but most unrealistic weapons in the game, with implausible effects and a simple gameplay model. Its simplicity is due to the limitations of 1990s computer games, which prioritized gameplay over realistic physics.
The European Space Agency's Euclid mission released its first batch of survey data on 19 March 2025, including a preview of its deep fields with hundreds of thousands of galaxies. The data release sets the scene for Euclid to address the mysteries of the dark Universe with its rich dataset.
FutureHouse is a nonprofit that aims to automate scientific discovery using AI agents. They have developed various tools, including ChemCrow, WikiCrow, and PaperQA, to help researchers access and analyze biological data.
Ory Hydra scaled to web-scale with reliable technology, initially as a Go-based alternative to Keycloak. It now powers OpenAI's OAuth2 infrastructure with sustained performance of thousands of auth flows per second.
Plex is raising prices for its Plex Pass subscription service, increasing monthly by 40%, annual by 75%, and lifetime by 108%. Existing users may lose remote playback for personal media without a Plex Pass or Remote Watch Pass.
AgentKit offers deterministic routing and supports multiple model providers, allowing for flexible routing and collaboration between agents. It provides a unique approach to routing with state-based routing, enabling code-based to fully autonomous routing.
The waitUntil parameter specifies when navigation is complete, with options load, domcontentloaded, networkidle, and commit. Default is load, allowing for customizable timing.
The Hyperbrowser MCP Server provides tools for scraping, extracting data, and crawling webpages with access to browser agents like OpenAI's CUA and Anthropic's Claude. It supports API access and provides documentation through resources methods for clients that can do discovery.
Cloudflare introduces AI Labyrinth, a new approach to thwart AI crawlers by generating convincing AI content to waste their resources. This approach acts as a next-generation honeypot, identifying and fingerprinting bad bots.
The contest featured 7 pocket-sized keyboard designs, each showcasing unique approaches to minimizing size and space while maintaining usability. Winners will be announced after gathering information and sending it to PCBWay for prizes.
Orders ship within 1-2 business days and arrive in 3-10 business days, with flexible shipping options available. The company also promotes environmental sustainability through resource-conscious practices.
To deploy a custom website to GitHub Pages, enable GitHub Pages in repository settings and use a GitHub Actions workflow to build and upload the site. This allows for custom domain URLs and can be combined with scheduled workflows and Git scraping for various applications.
The source code was tokenized to fit available memory, with tokens like error messages and reserved words represented by single bytes. Tokens were used for easy comparisons in the compiler, with pseudo machine codes referencing stack values like (sp) and (sp - 1).
User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.
A US district court ruled that private possession of AI-generated child sex abuse material is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment. However, the court allowed prosecution to continue on other charges, showing the government has tools to bring offenders to justice for AI-enabled child exploitation.
NASA's Crew Dragon spacecraft safely returned four astronauts, including Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, to Earth after a nine-month mission. The successful landing ended a long and strange saga that was politicized by President Trump and Elon Musk.
Stelvio is a Python library for cloud infrastructure management and deployment with smart defaults. It's in early alpha state, not production ready, and licensed under Apache License 2.0.
C++26 removes several deprecated features including std::allocator typedef, std::basic_string::reserve() overload, Unicode conversion facets, std::strtok, strstreams, std::shared_ptr atomic access APIs, std::wstring_convert, and std::is_trivial. The removals aim to improve language safety, fix underspecification issues, and provide superior replacements for deprecated features.
NVIDIA's DGX Spark platform is a hit at GTC 2025, with ASUS offering a mini PC version, the Ascent GX10, at a lower price of $2999. The Ascent GX10 packs an Arm CPU, Blackwell GPU, and 128GB LPDDR5x memory, with a ConnectX-7 NIC for 200GbE clustering.
A Norwegian man's name was falsely linked to a murder charge by ChatGPT, violating GDPR data accuracy requirements. Noyb is seeking a fine and changes to ChatGPT's model to prevent similar violations in the future.
To use the Brainfuck preprocessor, use a specific compiler flag for each compiler: gcc -P -E -ftrack-macro-expansion=0, mcpp -P -W0, and msvc with /P /C /Zc:preprocessor.
Researchers at MIT demonstrated an LED emitting more optical power than electrical power consumed, but only at very low input power. This "unity efficiency" is achieved by decreasing the applied voltage, allowing for a potential new way to test energy-efficient electromagnetic communication.
The US President orders the closure of the Department of Education to return authority to states and local communities. This move aims to improve education and reduce bureaucracy, citing the department's failure to improve student outcomes despite billions in funding.
Researchers found rural population estimates are likely undercounting by 53% on average, which could impact global population levels and public service planning. However, demographers dispute these findings, citing data quality issues and limitations in the study's global applicability.
Project has 7,000 observations and 2,000 members after 2.5 years of inactivity. New observations must be first photos of species anywhere and depict living individuals.
This tool helps inspect dependencies without using disk space or waiting for npm install. It measures source code size and total installed package size.
Researchers at Red Balloon found cheap drone accessories on Chinese platforms that can turn mainstream quadcopters into war machines. These accessories include AI guidance modules and fiber optic tethers, widely available for under $300, posing a threat to public safety.
On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in central London. Crossing the threshold, the courier handed a wax-sealed envelope to a clerk. The missive was addressed to Edwin Norris, the secretary of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, one of Europe’s leading research institutions. The postman had ...
This plugin exports a region in Krita's canvas, optionally resizing it, and can be used to export selected or visible layers. It requires manual setup in Krita's resource folder and does not support exporting groups.
The user wants to create a movement called "We Should Own The Economy" to shift wealth and power from the few to everyone, creating a more democratic economy. They are crowdfunding a book project to study and propose solutions for a more equitable economy, offering investors a share of profits.
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TruffleRuby is a high-performance Ruby implementation compatible with MRI. It supports various features including OpenSSL 1.1-3.4 and improved performance for C extensions.
New speech-to-text and text-to-speech audio models are available to developers worldwide, offering improved accuracy and customization for voice agents. These models enable more intuitive interactions with agents, unlocking applications like empathetic customer service voices and expressive narration.
A myth about Apple's liquiddetectiond service on Macs was born from a chance observation of a new background process in macOS Sonoma 14.1. The service actually detects liquid in USB-C ports to prevent corrosion and alert users, not to void warranties or capture data.
We thank everyone who contributed to the 2.10.x series, making 2.10.26 the most stable and reliable release to date. The new 2.11 release includes features like Delete Markers, Consumer Priority Groups, and NATS Distributed Message Tracing.
Most programming languages use 8-bit or 4-byte boolean types due to historical performance pitfalls and alignment requirements, rather than using a single bit for efficiency. Modern CPUs have optimized instructions for loading and storing data in larger word sizes, making bit-packing structures unnecessary for most applications.
GizmoSQL is an Apache Arrow Flight SQL server implementation using DuckDB or SQLite as a backend database, requiring a valid license key for production use. It can be run using a Docker image, with options for authentication, encryption, and initialization commands.
A Norwegian man's name was falsely linked to a murder charge by ChatGPT, violating GDPR data accuracy requirements. Noyb is seeking a fine and changes to ChatGPT's model to prevent similar violations in the future.
Style is said to be singular, which makes it difficult to define. It is personal, though its appreciation can be broad, and it is not the same as fashion—many people hold the terms to be opposed. Generally speaking, it rises from confidence in being one thing and not another, and in knowing when to join and when to pull back from the pack. The great promulgator of style, through much of the ...
Hino Motors, Ltd. pleaded guilty to a multi-year conspiracy to defraud the US government and consumers. It was sentenced to pay $521.76 million in fines and implement a compliance program.
UCLA researchers developed a drug called DDL-920 that can help stroke patients recover movement control without long-term physical therapy. The drug restores brain communication and reconnects neurons, potentially revolutionizing stroke treatment for millions.
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