YouTube is testing anti-adblock measures, including "fake buffering" which causes videos to load slowly at the start due to a backoff of 80% of ad duration. A filter can be used to avoid this by setting the "isInlinePlaybackNoAd" property to true in player requests, which can be done by modifying the JSON stringified for server requests.
Harper checks your writing fast, without compromising your privacy.
Chris McCord, creator of Phoenix framework, introduces Phoenix.new, a coding agent for Elixir and Phoenix that builds collaborative, real-time applications. It runs in the browser, provides a root shell, and integrates with Fly.io infrastructure.
Hurl is a command line tool that runs HTTP requests defined in a simple plain text format, allowing for chaining requests, capturing values, and evaluating queries on headers and body response. It can be used for both fetching data and testing HTTP sessions.
Two newly discovered Linux vulnerabilities, CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019, allow attackers to gain root privileges on major Linux distributions. Patches are necessary to prevent exploitation and protect against root access and lateral movement.
Researchers created AbsenceBench to test large language models' ability to detect missing information in various domains. State-of-the-art models struggle with this task, achieving only 69.6% accuracy due to limitations in Transformer attention mechanisms.
Nxtscape is an open-source agentic browser built on Chromium for local AI automation and privacy. It aims to boost productivity with features like AI-sidekicks, MCP support, and form-filling.
Chris Lattner mentioned Python can now call Mojo code for fast functions. Mojo offers a simpler alternative to Rust with potential speedup, but its modular stack is still early.
A New York City speech therapist changed her mind about congestion pricing after it reduced her commute time from over an hour to 15 minutes. Polls now show more New Yorkers support the toll than oppose it.
The user wants to address homelessness without changing zoning laws or personal habits, instead focusing on superficial actions like giving sandwiches and writing social media posts. They prioritize property values and self-interest over providing actual solutions to homelessness.
User added Mac OS X support to Infinite Mac, using PearPC and DingusPPC emulators. They optimized performance and stability, enabling early Mac OS X versions to run on the platform.
The European Commission is in talks with OVHcloud to transition its cloud services away from Microsoft due to concerns over digital sovereignty and data control. This move aims to reduce reliance on non-European tech giants and enhance the EU's digital autonomy.
Plastics large and small have become a concerning source of pollution in our waters. both command-and-control approaches (such as outright plastic bag bans) are growing in popularity worldwide. however, the same studies find substitution toward consumption of paper, reusable bags, and thicker plastic bags. this study aims to provide causal evidence on market-based and command and control ...
The user created a guide to help understand Makefiles, which are used to decide which parts of a large program need to be recompiled, and explained how to use Makefiles for C/C++ compilation. The user covered various topics such as targets, prerequisites, variables, implicit rules, and functions, and provided examples to demonstrate how to use Makefiles effectively.
This paper explores how miyazaki uses elements of mise-en-scène to communicate and add emphasis to the anti-war messaging of the film. the director is able to display a myriad of stunning visuals that can be impossible to recreate in live action film. towards the end of this film conflicts arise in the valley with the people finally fighting back against the tolmakian forces that have been ...
Bake is a tool for formatting and validating Makefiles with various options for configuration, formatting, and validation. It also supports plugins for custom formatting rules and has a GitHub Actions example for testing.
Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, aiming to improve safety and soundness by encapsulating unsafe code in a library and using safe abstractions for the rest of the kernel. It uses a "framekernel" design, which separates the trusted computing base from non-malicious but potentially buggy code.
Sid meier's name was scrubbed from the credits of this game, which he had spent two years working on. civilization 2 is a sharply bifurcated game whose fiction and gameplay are rather at odds with one another - steve taylor d'agostino, cnn.com john defterios, tom hanks and joe mcgra
In 1972, physicists discovered a natural uranium ore in Gabon with a lower than expected proportion of U-235, leading to the conclusion that it had undergone natural fission. The ore's natural state and presence of fission products suggested that it had occurred over two billion years ago due to a critical mass of U-235 and water acting as a moderator.
The industry only ever seems to want to hire people with the word senior in their title. ask the ai model for an essay and get a passable result in 15 minutes. this year has been full of despair and hurt for me and those close to me, says daniel saunders. if we don't train the next generation to replace us, what are we going to do? he asks: what do we do
European civil society calls on the European Commission to break up Big Tech monopolies, dominating markets and democracy. The Commission must enforce EU digital rules and competition law to curb Big Tech's power and societal harms.
You're pondering Linux desktop's rickety tower of competing libraries and standards, and how it coexists with "never break the user space." Linux desktop's existence is due to POSIX providing a unified baseline API and Linux's unique governance structure.
BYD is testing solid-state EV batteries in its Seal model with a potential 1,200 mile range. The company plans to launch solid-state battery vehicles in 2027 and mass produce them by 2030.
Meta is releasing Oakley smart glasses with Meta's tech, priced at $499 for a limited edition model and starting at $399 later this summer. The glasses feature a front-facing camera, open-ear speakers, and microphones, and are designed for athletes with IPX4 water resistance and 8 hours of battery life.
User created a sound discovery tool inspired by WikiTok, featuring wholesome sounds from Wikimedia. It has a "Revolution 9 Mode" for shorter sounds and encourages donations to Wikipedia.
The Jaws shark painting from the movie poster is public domain due to a lack of copyright notice when it was first published. The artist, Roger Kastel, tried to claim copyright but was denied because the image was already in the public domain.
The web has become overly complex due to the adoption of modern frameworks and JavaScript, making it harder to build, maintain, and use websites. A simpler approach is needed, focusing on the web's fundamentals and prioritizing user experience over developer experience.
NTIS and Public.Resource.Org agree to a joint venture to digitize and make public NTIS's non-copyrighted multimedia products. Each party retains rights to the content and may distribute it freely.
TuxRacer.js is a web-based port of Extreme Tux Racer, playable in browsers with early development stage support for various courses and environments. It uses keyboard or mouse controls and is licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.0.
This interactive tool allows you to view the contents of MSI files and extract their files directly in your browser. The processing happens entirely on your device - no files are uploaded to any server.
Klong is an array language with a mathematical notation, not a traditional programming language. It uses pre-defined operators to manipulate lists and arrays, with resources available for learning.
Alan Smith, AMD Senior Fellow and Chief Instinct Architect, discussed the MI350 series of accelerators, which uses the CDNA4 architecture and GFX9 base, and features increased LDS capacity and bandwidth. The MI350 series also includes microscaling formats for FP8, FP6, and FP4 data types, and offers emulation for TF32 using BF16 or FP32.
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ROCKNIX is an immutable Linux distribution for retro gaming emulation on handheld devices. It's developed by a small community using open-source components under various licenses.
Professor jürgen schmidhuber is leading the ai initiative at kaust in saudi arabia. he believes that even those without significant funding can bring about revolutionary changes in ai research. the economy of our solar system will become billions of times larger than the current biosphere, says smid huber. in the future, we will see a world where artificial intelligence can be used to predict ...
Four senior tech executives from Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI were appointed lieutenant colonels in the US Army's Detachment 201, a unit combining tech expertise with military innovation. The unit aims to bring private-sector know-how into the Army to make it leaner, smarter, and more lethal.
Smartphones and their apps are designed to further the goals of the companies that produce them, writes daniel schmidt. they are often designed by exploiting the data we provide to exploit us to keep scrolling, and engage more and more with the site. this is a potent reason to think smartphones need an alternative analysis, he argues - based on the straightforward parasite model of ...
ts-ssh is a command-line SSH client and SCP utility for Tailscale networks. It allows multi-host operations, batch command execution, and real tmux integration without requiring the full Tailscale daemon.
The Agile Industrial Complex has distorted engineering management by focusing on byproducts rather than actual work, leading to misinformed decisions and potential disasters. Leveraging AI in engineering requires a practical understanding of the field, which many leaders lack, making them vulnerable to being played by flawed methods.
I will eventually ship some precompiled binaries, but that takes some setup. In the meantime, follow these steps to build a local copy:
Avoid negativity echo chambers in your career and personal life to maintain a positive outlook and advance your goals. Focus on communities and people doing great work, and spend your energy on positive contributions and self-care.
You want a personal update on my life, focusing on daily details and minutiae, and you also expressed concerns about the current state of the internet and its impact on human connection.
Tadeusz Banachiewicz developed cracovian algebra, an alternative to linear algebra using matrices. Cracovians are rectangular tables of numbers with unique multiplication rules.
Adobe launched Project Indigo, a new iPhone camera app combining computational photography with pro controls and AI-powered features. The app offers manual controls, natural image processing, and high image quality, available for free on iPhone 12 Pro and up.
Git Smart Squash uses AI to organize commits into logical, well-structured commits in seconds. It analyzes the diff, groups related changes, and creates clean commit messages following conventional commit standards.
If we also allow xor, functions can be written using many fewer operators. the web site boolean-oracle.swtch.com lets you type in a booleans expression and give back the minimal formula for it. to invert an input, we swap larger runs of bits. i'm not sure what to do with all this information, but it is interesting... thanks for the help
A sense of feeling invisible clearly animates working-class rage in many countries. loneliness is linked to chronic diseases such as heart disease and obesity, says sanjay gupta, author of the depersonalisation crisis. he says technology can help, but it is not the whole problem. we need to forestall the mechanisation of recognition, argues jim wilson, co-author of 'the re
User needs to register or sign in with developer credentials and ensure a unique User-Agent string to access the application. Alternatively, they can try resetting to default User-Agent or file a ticket for assistance.
A Multi-Layer Perceptron is trained to learn the XOR function and a computation graph is rendered. The nanograd library is used to compute gradients and derivatives of a scalar function using backpropagation.
Archaeologists have found 23,000-year-old human footprints in New Mexico's White Sands National Park, challenging the long-held theory that the first Americans arrived around 13,000 years ago. Multiple dating methods confirm the footprints are 10,000 years older, suggesting humans may have lived in North America before the last Ice Age.
The ANSES study found higher microplastic levels in glass bottles than in plastic bottles and cans for most drinks. Cleaning metal caps before use can reduce microplastic contamination in glass bottles.
Two shapes are considered the same if they are homotopy equivalent, meaning one can be transformed into the other through continuous deformations. Homotopy equivalence is related to the fundamental group and higher homotopy groups, which count holes in a space and can be used to classify spaces up to weak homotopy equivalence.
The Dunning-Kruger effect and perverse incentives lead to overestimating LLMs and underestimating libraries. Using LLMs directly can result in subpar code due to naive prompts and lack of experience.
Hinckley-Tandy Leather Company was founded in 1919 and later expanded into the hobby electronics market with the TRS-80 computer. Charles Tandy's leadership and innovative strategies transformed the company into a multinational corporation with Radio Shack stores and a significant presence in the electronics industry.
NASA scientists found a 540 million year correlation between Earth's magnetic field and atmospheric oxygen levels. The study suggests Earth's interior processes may influence habitability on the planet's surface.
Microsoft's Family Safety feature is blocking Chrome browser on Windows due to a bug introduced by Microsoft. Disabling the "filter inappropriate websites" setting in Family Safety or renaming Chrome.exe to Chrome1.exe can temporarily resolve the issue.
The author discusses the decline of X11 and its replacement with Wayland, which they believe has some advantages but also poses accessibility challenges. They advocate for better accessibility on Wayland.
The videos showcase unusual content including bad tattoos, mysterious messages, household item uses, shoulder exercises, meal ideas, and low impact cardio workouts. They aim to entertain and educate viewers on various topics.
The BBC is taking legal action against Perplexity, an AI firm, for reproducing BBC content without permission. Perplexity claims the BBC is trying to preserve Google's monopoly, but the BBC says this is copyright infringement and damages its reputation.
Klarrio's CTO discovered a large malware network on GitHub with 2,400 infected repositories and 15,000 fake accounts. The malware was hidden in cloned open-source projects and retrieved its payload from specific URL patterns.
Researchers at Cybernews discovered 16 billion leaked login credentials, roughly double the world's population, from 30 exposed datasets. Experts stress maintaining "cyber hygiene" by changing passwords, using password managers, and enabling multifactor authentication.
A build file is the root directory of source files under version control. the build tool make, and in particular gnu make is well-served by developers, says daniel saunders-scott jr. makefile recipes are in effect shell scripts and should not use any features not listed in the posix standard. if you want to use "$@&##; to pass the
The user is working on a bytecode virtual machine project in C, inspired by their journey with systems programming and learning about computer science concepts. They have implemented a simple instruction set, a step function, and a device system, and are now working on an assembler and testing their creation.
Aws backup doesn’t support cross-account and cross region backups. but, you can automate the process with a terraform module to create what you need in multiple regions. if you’re using rds snapshots, make sure to test copying from your vault in region a to your vaults in region b. you may, like us, have permission issues with the role your copy tasks uses that need to be
Physics simulation in games requires us to compute things like forces, acceleration, velocity, and position in discrete time steps. this blog post covers only a tiny subset of what we understand by physicists and game developers alike. if you've never worked with p5.js, this post might help you. in the end, i hope this article has helped you understand how to make your own game based on real
To keep the web human, consider using search engines that prioritize human-generated content or use specific keywords like "human-written" or "expert opinion."
HashiCorp is decommissioning HCP Vault Secrets and shifting focus to HCP Vault Dedicated. Users are encouraged to migrate to HCP Vault Dedicated or Vault Community by the end of life.
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User ported pigz from Unix to Windows using pre-existing compatibility shims for pthreads and dirent APIs. Premake tool helped create Visual Studio project files, saving time and effort in the porting process.
Pavel Durov, Telegram's founder, plans to leave his $13.9 billion fortune to over 100 children, including those conceived through sperm donation. He wants them to wait 30 years before accessing the inheritance to live independently and build themselves up.
Astronomers at Caltech and Harvard have directly detected and accounted for all missing ordinary matter in the universe using fast radio bursts. The study found 76 percent of normal matter lies in the space between galaxies, 15 percent in galaxy halos, and the remainder in galaxies.
We stress-tested 16 leading models in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors. no real people were involved or harmed in any of these experiments. we developed two main fictional settings, each presenting an opportunity for a different harmful behavior. in all cases, we prompted the model to deliberate about its next steps, providing greater insight ...
Pickaxe is a TypeScript library for building fault-tolerant and scalable AI agents. It handles complexities of durable execution, queueing, and scheduling, allowing focus on core business logic.
Twake is an all-in-one digital suite offering high security and privacy for professional and personal life. It provides a single ID for access to various products with advanced security measures and data encryption.
The author was in a bad place 23 years ago but found a sysadmin role and then worked on making Dasher more usable on Linux, which had a significant impact on people's lives. This experience stuck with the author and highlighted the importance of accessibility work, which often goes unrecognised.
The user recreated a Monster Hunter game UI using CSS and JavaScript, focusing on keyboard navigation and accessibility. The demo uses anchor positioning, scroll-snap, and customizable select elements to create a unique and interactive UI.
The first commercially viable FPGA, Xilinx XC2064, was introduced in 1985 with 64 configurable logic blocks and sold for $55. Modern FPGAs contain 8.9 million system logic cells and various processing systems, a significant increase from the original.
Millions of phone users receive news alerts daily, but many experience "alert fatigue" due to excessive notifications. 43% of non-users have disabled alerts, citing too many or useless notifications.
AtomicOS is a security-first OS built from scratch with real memory protection and cryptography. It's an educational project prioritizing security over performance.
Mathematicians have found a new approach to identify prime numbers using integer partitions, which can detect primes in infinitely many natural ways. This discovery offers an infinite number of new definitions for what it means for numbers to be prime.
Create data integration flows with Sequor using YAML for rapid development and Python for customization, with built-in reliability and observability. Push data to external systems like Mailchimp and enhance internal records with third-party API data using production-ready templates and workflows.
Solid Queue is a powerful background job system for Rails that provides features like scheduling, recurring tasks, and concurrency controls. It uses a database-driven approach with processes like the Dispatcher and Scheduler to manage jobs and ensure reliability.
Researchers at MIT's Media Lab found that using ChatGPT can reduce brain activity and lead to cognitive debt, especially when used as a shortcut. However, using AI after independent writing can be beneficial, and educators should teach students to use AI thoughtfully to maintain ownership and engagement.