Honey Chrome extension lost 4 million users after being exposed for hijacking affiliate codes and lying about finding best coupon codes. It has since updated its extension listing with disclosure and no longer engages in this behavior.
Graft is an open-source transactional storage engine designed for lazy, partial replication with strong consistency, horizontal scalability, and object storage durability, ideal for offline-first and mobile apps. It combines the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication, allowing clients to selectively retrieve only the pages they'll actually use, reducing ...
The demoscene has become a national UNESCO heritage in Sweden and is part of an international initiative to make it a global heritage due to its unique consistency and creative digital subculture. The scene's diversity and openness allow for various experiences and values among its members.
Oracle is denying a serious cybersecurity incident involving customer data, but evidence suggests otherwise, including leaked internal meeting recordings and configuration files. Oracle needs to clearly communicate the incident's impact and their response to maintain customer trust.
Chrome 135 introduces a standardized, accessible, and CSS styleable
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KOReader is a portable e-reader that supports various formats and offers customizable reading options. It's optimized for e-ink devices and has features like fast page-turning and online content integration.
A friend and mentor visited a cheese shop and the author explained that white spots on aged cheese are not mold but calcium lactate or crystals formed by protein breakdown. These crystals, such as tyrosine and leucine, are desirable and signify age in cheese, affecting texture and sound but not taste.
The James Webb Space Telescope found that most galaxies rotate in the same direction, with two-thirds rotating clockwise and one-third counterclockwise. This discovery challenges the idea of an "isotropic" universe and suggests two possible explanations: black hole cosmology or incorrect distance measurements.
The Yankees used a new bat called the "torpedo" designed by an MIT physicist, which increases the mass of the barrel where hitters make contact, resulting in more home runs. The bat's design, which moves the "sweet spot" lower, helped the Yankees break their franchise record for most home runs in a game with 9.
Chemists have prepared dioxygen difluoride (FOOF) by reacting oxygen and fluorine at 700 degrees Celsius. FOOF is a highly reactive and explosive compound that is only stable at low temperatures.
France fined Apple €150 million for allegedly making its App Tracking Transparency framework too complex for small companies. Apple must make changes to comply with the French order, which could be achieved with minor modifications to the framework.
Compiler and linker options that contribute to delivering reliable and secure code. these options often can't be added by those who independently build the software. some versions of gcc73 may not detect or defend against overflows of dynamically-sized local variables such as variable-length arrays or buffers allocated using alloca() 77. -fstack-protector-strong is recommended for all ...
A man died in a car accident and found himself in a void with a mysterious figure who explained the afterlife and reincarnation. The figure revealed that the man's soul is part of a larger, magnificent consciousness that will grow and mature through multiple lives.
Turso's Offline Sync allows local databases to accept writes offline and sync with the cloud later. This feature enables local-first applications with fast and responsive performance.
OpenAI's image generation feature was unleashed, causing a viral trend of Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend sparked a conversation about the value of art, labor, and aesthetics in the age of AI.
Java will restrict final field mutation by default in a future release, but developers can enable it for specific modules or classes to maintain compatibility. This change aims to improve safety and performance by ensuring final fields are immutable.
Kagi is a search engine that prioritizes family and kids' well-being by offering an ad-free and safe browsing experience. It provides a family plan with features like content filters, parental controls, and AI tools to help kids learn and stay safe online.
The user praises GNU/Linux as a nice OS for desktop environments, but criticizes SystemD and the complexity of modern Linux systems. They prefer using FreeBSD, which they find easier to manage and upgrade, despite some challenges with deploying certain applications.
The Cubify Transformer (CuTR) model is released with a dataset CA-1M, which includes annotated 3D boxes and GT poses for each frame. The dataset is available for download and can be loaded using CubifyAnythingDataset.
The Pentium processor has a microcode ROM that stores 4608 micro-instructions. The ROM is implemented with a grid of transistors and transistor vacancies, with each bank containing 288 rows and 720 columns.
Framework for deep learning uses a similar approach to studying qk circuits. it re-writes the underlying model's computation on the prompt in terms of different basic units, with two modifications to the original model, says sanjay gupta, lead author of this paper. he says that fewer than three logits are required to capture 95% of the probability in the cases we study. this work focuses ...
In 2000, a pipe organ in Halberstadt, Germany, began playing John Cage's ORGAN2/ASLSP at a slow pace. The organ, which can sound indefinitely, is played by a system of sandbags and strings, with the latest chord change witnessed by hundreds of people.
This SDK integrates LLMs with Apache Airflow, allowing users to call LLMs and orchestrate agent calls within Airflow pipelines. It uses decorator-based tasks and leverages Airflow's @task syntax.
Japanese researchers used AI to analyze space telescope data and discovered bubble-like structures in the Milky Way galaxy. The discovery holds clues to understanding star formation and galaxy evolution.
The user is looking for ways to optimize their JS13K game code, specifically a pubsub system, to reduce its size. They've found alternatives like nano-pubsub and tiny-pubsub, but are open to further suggestions.
Augento is a fine-tuning platform for language models that uses reinforcement learning to optimize models for specific tasks. It allows users to connect their agents, provide a reward function, and receive a fine-tuned model that improves performance.
Automated transaction tracking logic was created for an Emacs-based interactive fiction book using an LLM. The LLM was used to add context to transactions in 34 passages, enhancing the book's educational value.
In 1990, I debugged a Lotus 1-2-3 setup via fax by asking the user to print printer options and margins. This experience taught me the Zeroth Law of Debugging: iterate quickly with a small test case.
guMCP is an open-source MCP server collection with a unified backend, fostering AI integrations and AGI community. It's licensed under GPL-3.0 and compliant with SOC 2, GDPR, and HIPAA.
The author tried to revive an old 1998 Toshiba laptop with 32 MB memory by installing various Linux distributions and OSes, but only OpenBSD worked due to its simplicity and minimalism. The author eventually set up a website on OpenBSD using OpenBSD.Amsterdam's VMs and shares the resources and configuration files used.
The user acquired an AlphaStation 500, a 1996 Digital workstation, but it's dead with a faulty PSU and dead PCI cards. The user suspects a catastrophic event occurred in its lifetime.
Confetti is a minimalistic, untyped configuration language with a simple syntax and composable design. It allows for customization and localization, with extensions encouraged to create unique flavors.
WebKit introduced Declarative Web Push to maintain power efficiency and privacy, allowing web developers to request subscriptions and display notifications without service workers. This new approach is more energy efficient, private, and easier to use, with backwards compatibility and standardized JSON format for notifications.
VetsWhoCode is a non-profit that empowers veterans and spouses through a free AI-powered software engineering training program. The program has helped over 300 individuals transition into the tech sector, unlocking over $20 million in earnings.
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AbletonMCP connects Ableton Live to Claude AI through the Model Context Protocol, enabling prompt-assisted music production. It requires setting up a remote script in Ableton and configuring Claude's settings.
Flame is a bulletin board system that just happens to be implemented as a MUD. It is many things to many people: Flame started in 1990 as a Remote Access BBS. It appeared in the Australian BBS listings in the March 1991 edition of Your Computer magazine (page 90). In 1992 it became a MUD, still also connected to the telephone line the BBS had previously used.
A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar near Mandalay, causing extensive damage and killing over 100 people, with a predicted death toll of up to 10,000. The quake occurred along the Sagaing Fault, a strike-slip fault in Myanmar, and was preceded by a magnitude 6.7 aftershock.
Aptera completed its first solar-supported road trip, driving over 300 miles on a single charge through the American Southwest. The trip validated Aptera's systems in real-world conditions and showed what's possible with solar-powered transportation.
A colleague posted on LinkedIn about various types of debt beyond tech debt, including financial, product, ops, process, and org debt. These debts can be categorized as technological, procedural, mental, cultural, talent, and support debts.
The user ported their Ferris Sweep keyboard from QMK to RMK, a newer Rust-based firmware, due to RMK's more flexible configuration options. The process was challenging, especially defining pin mappings and configuring half-duplex UART communication.
FSKit enables access to new file systems on macOS by developing an app extension that connects to system frameworks. The extension conforms to either FileSystemExtension or UnaryFileSystemExtension, depending on its design flow, and defines a file system delegate object.
The poster's math puzzle involves a reward website, but the prize is likely gone. The solution involves understanding softmax, log functions, and prefix notation.
Researchers have developed a digital tool, TLHdig, offering online access to thousands of ancient Hittite texts. The tool has become a daily resource for Hittitologists, with over 100,000 accesses per month and expected to cover all published texts by 2025.
Capsul started as cvm, a covert virtual machine service created by hand with shell scripts, and evolved into a self-service web interface. The project has undergone changes, including a name change, new server installations, and a renewed focus on making Capsul a reliable and accessible cloud service.
Ladislas Starevich created stop-motion films using real insect corpses, including The Cameraman's Revenge, which explores themes of erotic voyeurism and scopic violence. His films, such as Beautiful Leukanida, are considered significant and innovative works of puppet animation.
Researchers are using nanoparticles to deliver RNA to endothelial cells, which malfunction in respiratory failure and atherosclerosis, to restore healthy function. Early results show promise in treating these conditions, with nanoparticles increasing desired proteins and easing disease symptoms in mouse models.
Generative models struggle with accurately rendering reflections in mirrors, often producing distorted or incorrect images. Addressing this challenge requires improved 3D scene understanding, geometric reasoning, and physics-based rendering integration in AI models.