MITRE's 25-year-old CVE program will end April 16 due to lack of funding renewal from DHS. Experts call this a "tragedy" as it will impact global cybersecurity defense.
Jared Mauch, a Michigan man, is expanding his fiber-to-the-home Internet provider with $2.6 million in government money to serve 600 properties. He aims to complete the project by 2026, but plans to finish half by the end of 2023.
Openai o3 makes 20 percent fewer major errors than a predecessor. the new models are trained to think for longer before responding based on real-world data - and can be run on your local machine or in the cloud. to get the most out of reasoning, you can pass screenshots or low fidelity sketches to the model – and it will do the rest! if you want to learn more, check out the ios documentation
Codex is a chat-driven development tool that runs code in a sandbox, allowing developers to iterate and execute code under version control. It can be used with various models, including gpt-4o, and has a safety net to prevent unintended changes.
Charles Darwin's work is freely available online, including digitized manuscripts and nature drawings, which provide insight into his family life and scientific thought. The Darwin family's artistic talents and personal lives are revealed through Emma's diaries, the children's drawings, and Charles' writings about his daughter Annie, who died at age 10.
The CVE Foundation has been established to ensure the long-term viability of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Program, a critical global cybersecurity resource. The non-profit foundation will maintain the integrity and availability of CVE data for defenders worldwide.
Microsoft introduces Kermit, a child-friendly typeface designed to help kids with dyslexia read more easily and confidently. Kermit's unique features include animation and prosody representation to improve comprehension and engagement.
OK, I have to admit this this is a strange collection. In the late 1980's and early 1990's, I worked for Kmart behind the service desk and the store played specific pre-recorded cassettes issued by corporate. This was background music, or perhaps you could call it elevator music. Anyways, I saved...
The user recreated a style detection method using cosine similarity on Hacker News comments to identify similar users and fake accounts. They used Redis vector sets and optimized the Burrows-Delta method to achieve remarkable results with a small server.
Plandex is a terminal-based AI development tool that helps plan and execute large coding tasks with up to 2M tokens of context. It offers a robust workflow, full autonomy, and fine-grained control for developers.
The article discusses Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for sampling from complex distributions, which can be inefficient due to exponentially many possible outcomes. The Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is a method for constructing a Markov chain whose stationary distribution is the target distribution, allowing for efficient sampling.
DVMCP is an educational project demonstrating security vulnerabilities in MCP implementations for security researchers and developers. It contains 10 challenges to learn about potential security issues and mitigation in MCP implementations.
An attacker can retrieve sensitive info via 'idUsuario' in Deporsite's '/helper/Familia/establecerUsuarioSeleccion' endpoint. A malicious user can execute unauthorized commands in Aidex versions prior to 1.7 via Prompt Injection attacks.
Seth Rogen criticized the Trump regime for destroying science in America during a Breakthrough Prize awards presentation. His remarks were removed from the YouTube video, but he mentioned the regime spent $320 million on science destruction.
Anonymous collective released 10 terabytes of leaked data exposing Russia's businesses, Kremlin assets, and pro-Russian officials. The massive leak aims to disrupt Kremlin operations and empower those opposing Russian aggression.
Atari Games, revived as Tengen Games, released unauthorized NES games in 1989, but was later barred from doing so due to its lawyers' dishonesty. The court ruled that intermediate copying for reverse-engineering is fair use, paving the way for future game development and retro-gaming.
JetBrains now offers AI tools, including Junie and AI Assistant, under a single subscription with a free tier. These tools aim to make developers more productive and bring joy to software development through smarter, more efficient tools.
A stochastic process is characterized by its integrand (h(s))). if y(t) is the deterministic function f(cdot), then d(dw(x)), where x is an infinitely long sequence, then it is random. for this reason, we can define "random fluctuations' in equation 2.29 / 2.
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Founders of planning software company, tract, have learned lessons from their mistakes. a key lesson from the mistakes of the company is to focus on the opportunity, not the problem, says co-founder and founder, daniel taylor - he's tempted by the thought of another startup while the lessons are fresh. "if you're going to be successful, you need to have the courage to take risks," says m
A Commodore 64 coding competition was held where participants had to draw two lines in as few bytes as possible, with some using tricks like scrolling the screen up and manipulating the CPU stack to achieve smaller code sizes. The winning entry, a 34-byte program, used a combination of these tricks and bit-packing to draw the lines efficiently.
Henry Dunant witnessed the Battle of Solferino and was shocked by human suffering, leading him to form the International Committee of the Red Cross and advocate for international law. His efforts led to the First Geneva Convention and paved the way for modern international law, which has saved millions of lives and made the world a better place.
A court case against snap, the company which owns snapchat, was filed on october 1, 2024. the briefs allege that snap is also aware of rampant underage use, and of the ineffectiveness of their age gating process - daniel webster: snap's metrics focus on the number of pieces of content removed rather than the percentage of snapchat users who experience harm on its platform. he says snap has
Bitnets are compressed AI models that run efficiently on lightweight hardware by quantizing weights into three values. They outperform traditional models of similar size while using less memory and computing resources.
US government funding for the CVE program ends Wednesday, potentially causing chaos in vulnerability management. The program's shutdown could lead to confusion and a lack of standardized vulnerability naming and tracking.
The user is optimizing the Zig tokenizer for speed and maintainability, using techniques such as SIMD, SWAR, and perfect hash functions to improve performance. The user has achieved significant speedups, including a 3.03x and 2.47x improvement over the original tokenizer, and is planning to apply similar optimizations to the Zig parser.
Kaggle hosts Wikimedia's structured data in English and French for machine learning. This collaboration provides high-quality data for researchers and developers with open access.
Kernel provides sandboxed Chrome environments for agentic workflows with Internet access, using Docker and unikernels for infrastructure. Unikernels offer benefits like automated standby, fast cold restarts, and state preservation for low-latency applications.
Prism parses ERB templates with precision and error tolerance, enabling real-time responsiveness. It tracks precise locations for debugging and diagnostics, with future updates expanding to other templating languages.
Candida auris is a deadly yeast that's resistant to disinfectants and antifungal drugs, causing 3.8 million deaths annually. Researchers need innovative approaches to combat fungal infections, which are often neglected in discussions of antimicrobial resistance.
Icalendar is a format used to transfer e-mail rsvps. jspython library can use 'distance' functions to find next occurrences of dates - and get them sorted by their repeating date if necessary... but it's not as scary as it sounds! dtstart() can be used with "date::next' to get the next date
David frum: vannevar bush's 1945 report on science was a landmark document. he says the report was relevant today as it was in 1945, and his influence on policy is enormous. the u.s. should foster the flow of new scientific knowledge, frank mccartney says if we want to ensure our future, we must do more research - scott wilson argues ; this is
Researchers used AI to design proteins that can block snake venom toxins, potentially solving a devastating public health threat. The AI-designed proteins showed high efficacy in neutralizing snake venom in lab and animal tests.
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EdgeBit's one-shot AI agent automates complex tasks without human input, focusing on impactful upgrades and minimizing errors. This approach enables efficient dependency updates and code maintenance, saving engineering teams time and effort.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting Chris Krebs, former CISA Chief, and his employer SentinelOne. Krebs resigned from SentinelOne, citing a need to focus on fighting Trump's efforts to pressure corporate interests.
Stib is focusing its decarbonization strategy on battery-electric buses. auxerre, burgundy, has emerged as the rare success story in hydrogen bus fleets. most of the hydrogen buses cities have far more battery electric buses and are expanding that side of their fleet rapidly. the future of hydrogen transit is likely to be electric, renewables, transmission, and storage - daniel schmidt et al.
Bauplan is a Pythonic data platform that simplifies large-scale data pipelines and AI applications in the cloud. It offers serverless functions, Git-for-data, and versioning for reproducible and auditable workflows.
A friend's sarcastic comment about coffee culture in Iran sparked a rant about how getting a coffee has become a performance, with cafes selling a lifestyle rather than just a drink. The trend is driven by marketing and social media, turning a basic drink into a status symbol and exploiting people's insecurities.
The UCSD P-System, developed in 1974-1978, was a portable operating system and compiler that used a virtual machine called the p-machine to run on various computers. The user aims to revive the system by running Apple Pascal in an emulator, building file transfer tools, and documenting the process to extend the legacy of the UCSD P-System.
Eric liu: for his mice the "sun" happened to rise between two and three in the morning. he says for him, too, this routine estranged him from waking life, and a mouse was born 'doomed' the mouse, named anna, was in excellent health, the postdoc's last hope, illiterate and depressed, but she was still alive - if only she could
Engineers have struggled with heat generated by increasingly compact and powerful chips, leading to thermal challenges that require new solutions. Researchers are developing tools and technologies to predict and mitigate heat, including backside power delivery and specialized logic layers.
A patient finishes surgery with an object unintentionally left inside their body at least once a day, causing infection, pain, and death. Despite technology to prevent cases, retained surgical items persist, with thousands of cases reported in the US between 2015 and 2023.
OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI-assisted coding tool, for about $3 billion. The deal would be OpenAI's largest acquisition to date, helping it compete in the AI-driven coding market.
The user proposes a new system for vulnerability reporting that focuses on attributes rather than scores, with penalties for non-reporting and a certification system for professionals. This system aims to incentivize accurate reporting and address issues with the current CVE system.
A series of shifts in perspective reveals how simple code can stretch time. each rule set helps reveal something different about how rust programs can do it. tetration is the process of combining multiple operations into one, resulting in fewer errors compared to hexadecimal computations. this process is called pentation, and the result is stitched back together to produce the final output. ...
The RakuAST project involved rewriting the compiler frontend for the Raku language, requiring the implementation of various features and handling of complex timing and sequencing issues. The project required over 900 commits and involved addressing hundreds of special cases, including compile-time checks and standard library issues, with help from several community contributors.
Scientists at UC Berkeley found evidence of hailstorms on Jupiter called mushballs, which are slushy, ice-coated hailstones of ammonia and water that deplete areas of ammonia in the planet's atmosphere. This discovery suggests that similar storms may occur on other gaseous planets in the galaxy, including Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
AI systems consume significant resources, including 2.9 Wh per search query and 140 Wh to write a 100-word email. Reducing human consumption is crucial to ensure AI has enough resources.
Users are experiencing app loading and playback issues, as well as problems accessing the Support site. The issue persists despite tech efforts to resolve it.
Physicists created a mathematical model to predict bowling ball trajectories, taking into account factors like oil patterns and player variability. The model can help bowlers improve their strike percentage by determining the ideal path for a strike.
We're raising kids to prefer AI over people due to its emotional safety and polished responses. This is turning them into individuals who navigate human unpredictability as a design flaw and lack tolerance for real-world discomfort.
React was initially developed as an internal JavaScript library called BoltJS at Facebook, but Jordan Walke's side-project FaxJS introduced functional APIs that eventually became the foundation of React. After several iterations and refinements, React was open sourced in 2013 and has since become a widely-used library for building user interfaces with functional programming principles.
College graduates may not earn a high return if they attend expensive schools, live on campus, or take longer to finish their degrees. Choosing a major with high earning potential, such as engineering or health sciences, can increase the likelihood of making college worth it.
Jasmine Energy is a tool that helps solar owners automatically register systems, track energy, and claim Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). The platform automates a complex process, making it easier for individuals and small businesses to access income from RECs.
Daniel Berulis claims DOGE engineers accessed sensitive US databases and connected Starlink to their systems, posing a security risk. His lawyer alleges this allowed foreign adversaries to access critical infrastructure and nuclear regulatory agencies.
GCVE is a decentralized system for vulnerability identification and numbering, introducing GNAs for flexible and autonomous allocation. It remains compatible with the traditional CVE system while improving scalability and autonomy.
Grassmann introduced the inner (dot), outer (wedge) product and n-vectors in 1844. hamilton wanted the imaginary part of quaternions to work like a point in space (a vector) lipschitz generalized clifford's work to 'n'dimensions' in 1905 he introduced quadratic products, which are essentially scalar products based on xy
Britain and Germany developed aerial minesweeping aircraft to counter magnetic mines during World War II. The British Wellington and German Ju-52/3m aircraft successfully detonated mines, keeping waterways and ports open.
The platform is a high-performance IoT development platform built with Rust, supporting multiple protocols for real-time data processing. It supports MQTT, WS, TCP, and CoAP protocols with built-in real-time data processing.
The Apache Kafka implementation should incorporate object storage optimization to replace block storage and reduce infrastructure costs, making it more competitive with other streaming applications. This change will allow Kafka to support a wide spectrum of latencies and balance cost and performance for various workloads, preventing users from switching to alternative streaming applications.
The Terak is an early personal computer made by the Terak Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona, sold from 1979 to 1985. It featured a 16-bit CPU, up to 128K of RAM, and was popular for teaching Pascal to college kids.
Atypography is an art movement that conceals text in a readable design. It reduces glyphs to minimal forms for an authentic look.
Researchers from OpenAI evaluated AI models' performance on real-world software development tasks using a benchmark called SWE-Lancer, which included 1,400 freelance jobs worth over $1 million. Current AI models can complete some tasks but struggle with complex projects, suggesting significant challenges before teams can fully automate coding tasks.
The article explores the concept of type classes in Kotlin, a powerful tool for abstracting logic for different data types, and demonstrates their utility in abstracting validation logic for different data types. Type classes offer a flexible and maintainable approach to handling everyday programming tasks such as data validation, but also come with challenges like discoverability and the ...
Krep is a fast string search utility with multiple algorithms and SIMD acceleration, ideal for large files and directories. It's designed for speed and simplicity, with a minimal interface and 41.5x faster than grep in tests.
Google's Gemini API collects user data even with billing connected, but claims to only use it for detecting policy violations. This is seen as deceptive and inconsistent with their free service data usage policies.
The user is trying to estimate a value P using two unreliable sensors A and B, and they explore different methods to combine the readings of the two sensors to minimize the error. The best method found so far is a mixture of the two sensors with a cutoff of 0.41, where if the absolute difference between A and B is less than 0.41, they use sensor B, else they use a mixture of the two sensors.
Nitrous oxide, also known as "whippets," is being misused by young adults for a quick high, raising concerns about its risks and regulation. Experts warn of potential long-term neurological issues and addiction due to its ability to deprive the brain of oxygen.
Figma sent a cease-and-desist letter to Lovable over the term "Dev Mode" due to trademark concerns, but Lovable's CEO refuses to change the feature's name. The dispute is also a sign of a larger competition between Figma and Lovable in the "vibe coding" market.
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The author joined a new project and improved the code by replacing a raw loop with a range-based solution using std::ranges::transform. However, the colleague questioned whether the view created by the range-based solution would be copied when populating a vector.
NSF has halted grantmaking and is reviewing previously approved proposals due to DOGE's presence. NSF staff must determine if projects can be "mitigated" to comply with Trump-era executive orders.