Users in West Asia and North Africa are concerned about Samsung's pre-installed bloatware AppCloud, which collects sensitive data without consent. We urge Samsung to provide transparency on AppCloud's privacy practices and offer opt-out options.
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To test a beta app, install TestFlight and accept an invitation to download the app. You can test the app for up to 90 days, and automatic updates can be turned on to install the latest beta builds.
Companies are increasingly using IP confidentiality to restrict employees' work in their industry, claiming any involvement would be a violation. This can limit employees' career options, even if they don't intentionally disclose confidential information.
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The company migrated from AWS to European providers like Hetzner and OVHcloud to ensure data sovereignty and reduce costs by 90%. This move forced innovation, allowing them to build a powerful infrastructure-as-code setup using Ansible for tighter security controls and auditability.
SEGA's sales numbers for various titles were mistakenly revealed in a management meeting presentation. The numbers include Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Persona 3 Reload, Sonic Frontiers, Persona 5 Royal, and Shin Megami Tensei V sales.
The SPECTRAL project aims to develop a state-of-the-art and modular 16mm film projector using open-source technologies and non-proprietary spare parts to cater to contemporary film artists, archivists, and projectionists. The project team has successfully developed a prototype with an 800W high-density LED, water cooling system, and digital shutter, but still needs to address issues with ...
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Clickhouse has been busy adding more data sinks to its high-performance analytics engine. the company's internal system grew from 19 pib to 100 pb of uncompressed logs - and 500 trillion rows a year – and has more than 100 million log files awaiting ingest... if you're not already logged in, you can sign up for free to get started! get the latest version of clickhost.com and
MCP is a simple, well-executed protocol that helps build agents and complex workflows on top of LLMs. It provides a shared, vendor-neutral standard for tool integration, making it easier to develop and reuse tools across environments.
Moving from WhatsApp to Signal is a straightforward action that protects users from Meta's data collection and potential misuse. Signal's similar user experience and strong focus on user privacy make it a suitable alternative to WhatsApp.
A French woman from Guadeloupe has a new blood type called "Gwada negative," the 48th blood group system. She inherited the rare blood type from her parents and is the only known carrier worldwide.
Cosmoe is a work-in-progress UI library based on BeOS, currently available as a source-only technology preview for Linux. It needs stability and compatibility improvements to become a reliable, full-featured library.
Scientists discovered three new species of sea spiders off the US West Coast that feed on methane-fueled bacteria. This symbiotic relationship helps the spiders thrive in the dark depths of the ocean and may play a crucial role in preventing methane from reaching Earth's atmosphere.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time randomizer changes item locations for a dynamic play experience, ensuring every seed is completable without glitches or softlocks. It offers various settings and features, including dev branches and community resources for help and racing.
The user is starting a series on Abstract Algebra, specifically Galois Fields, to fill a gap in accessible resources for computer scientists. The series will cover the basics of theory and build up to applications like Reed-Solomon and AES, with a focus on understandability and education through Literate Programming in Rust.
The user shares various small, handy, and cheap adapters that make their life easier, including RJ45 angle adapters, USB-C adapters, and power adapters, which can be found on Aliexpress for $1-$5. These adapters help with cable organization, power delivery, and connectivity, making tasks like cloning disks, adding WiFi, and using Bluetooth devices more convenient.
A man's solar energy project in Texas fails due to technical and regulatory issues, including mineral rights complications and distribution circuit limitations. He decides to shut down the project, citing the changing regulatory environment and the high costs of upgrades.
Senate Republicans unveiled a bill to sell 2-3 million acres of public lands to fund President Trump's agenda. The bill would allow the sale of over 250 million acres of public lands, threatening vital landscapes and wildlife habitats.
A fan of the game Balatro created a working prototype of the game on the Nintendo E-Reader, a Game Boy Advance peripheral. The prototype is almost entirely real, but lacks some features due to the E-Reader's limitations.
AllTracker estimates long-range point tracks by predicting flow fields between frames, delivering high-resolution and dense correspondence fields. It's a fast and parameter-efficient model that outperforms existing point trackers at high resolutions.
Beauty in design follows principles and obeys structure, emerging from coherence, proportion, and pattern. A well-designed interface is not just pleasing but persuasive, earning trust and making things feel better, which in turn makes them work better.
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 ...
Vertex Block Descent is extended with an augmented Lagrangian formulation to improve stability and convergence for complex contact scenarios. The AVBD method delivers real-time performance and stable simulations with low iteration counts for millions of interacting objects.
Google Cloud Platform experienced a global outage due to an automated quota update, but Redpanda Cloud customers remained unaffected thanks to its cell-based architecture and safety measures. Redpanda Cloud's design and incident response process helped mitigate the impact of the outage, highlighting the importance of systems thinking and control theory in change management.
ARIA is a UK research agency inspired by DARPA, aiming to drive economic growth, quality of life improvements, and innovation in the UK. It funds bold bets in "opportunity spaces" to create big-if-true technology waves.
The trend of using translucency in user interfaces, exemplified by Liquid Glass, prioritizes visual design over usability and functionality, making it harder to parse and use. This philosophy, which originated in Mac OS X's Aqua and has continued through various iterations, prioritizes appearance over practicality and may be a misguided approach to design.
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The user aimed to create a roguelike game playable on various vintage computers, but faced complexity due to hardware differences and limited support libraries. They shifted from Pascal to C, using conditional compilation and focusing on the Commodore 64 as the main target platform.
A massive 7.3 terabits per second DDoS attack was reported by Cloudflare, sending 37.4 terabytes of junk traffic in 45 seconds. The attack used UDP packets and various reflection vectors, including Network Time Protocol and Mirai-based botnets.
Mike Scott was the first CEO of Apple from 1977 to 1981, known for firing employees and trying to shut down the Macintosh project. He later became an expert on gemstones and had a mineral named after him, Scottyite.
BYOK, the company, is rooted in the philosophy of escaping the relentless distractions of the modern world. We believe in the power of simplicity—creating spaces where creativity can flourish without the constant pull of notifications, interface clutter, or the digital noise that surrounds us... More about BYOK
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Texas sheriffs used power tools in retrieving $32,000 from a Bitcoin ATM after a Jasper County family said they were scammed out of funds.
Paul Blain Levy receives the 2025 Alonzo Church Award for his work on Call-by-Push-Value calculus. Levy unified various research streams in the λ-calculus with CBPV, a unifying starting point for computational and logical phenomena.
Computer manufacturers have faced widespread failures due to cheap components, including capacitor plague and lead-free solder issues, which have cost hundreds of millions of dollars to rectify. Apple has had its share of problems, including capacitor plague, lead-free solder issues, and butterfly keyboard failures, but its record ranks among the best of all computer manufacturers.
to-userscript converts browser extensions to portable userscripts, allowing use on unsupported browsers or platforms. It supports conversion from various sources, including Chrome and Firefox stores, local directories, and archives.
The user hit a code-block in their game development project due to tedious data entry, but then had a flash of insight to store data as code instead of using Unity3d editor. They successfully used a Large Language Model (LLM) to generate a prompt that helped automate the effort of converting Excel data into C# code, saving them time and preventing burnout.
Researchers' analytical choices affect the reliability of scientific findings. of the 73 teams, 1 conducted preliminary measurement scaling tests, concluded that the hypothesis couldn't be reliably tested there was an average of 17.5 models per team among 71 teams submitting numerical results some teams ran an additional 6 models with both independent immigration variables included others ...
AI integration could eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment 10-20% in the next one to five years. The distribution of AI gains will depend on three levers: compute concentration, energy supply, and the emergence of new "meta-work" that keeps humans complementary to AIs.
Nikita Khrushchev delivered a report to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on February 25, 1956, criticizing Stalin's rule and personality cult. The report led to a period of liberalization known as the Khrushchev Thaw and the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union.
Linux developers continue to support retro hardware with fixes for the 1994 Creative Sound Blaster AWE32 sound card. The updates address DMA issues and system freezes, but may not improve performance on modern Linux desktops with ISA slots.
The user has lived a non-traditional life, experiencing addiction, mental health issues, and prison time, but has emerged with a unique perspective and passion for learning. They now focus on self-improvement, exploring various subjects including philosophy, computer science, and cryptography.
The author argues that disciplinary silos are beneficial for preserving knowledge and promoting innovation, rather than hindering collaboration. They compare silos to agricultural silos, which store and protect grain, and argue that academic silos do the same for knowledge.
Guben, a small German city, is trying to attract new residents through a "trial living" scheme to combat depopulation. The city offers free accommodation and various incentives to encourage people to settle and integrate.
Rust's Generalized Associated Types (GATs) allow for the implementation of a subset of higher-kinded types, but they have limitations that make it difficult to express everyday abstractions like the functor hierarchy. Despite these challenges, the author believes that Rust is not yet ready for the functor hierarchy due to the lack of constraint kinds, which are necessary for more complex abstractions.
The Honeywell H316 "Kitchen Computer" was a $70-90K machine with a built-in cutting board arm rest, marketed as a home computer for storing recipes. It was a PR stunt that sold 20 units, mostly as floor models, and remains a collector's item.
Presidents have submitted 130[13] reports to congress as a result of the war powers resolution. the separation of powers issue is whether the law changes the constitutional balance established in articles i and ii, says john roberts jr. he says the resolution is not merely "linked and sequenced'' if it does not, it will be interpreted as an infringement on the president's authority -
Astronomers discovered a 23 million light-year long filament of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters, accounting for much of the universe's missing ordinary matter. This discovery validates the standard model of cosmology and provides insight into the Cosmic Web, a vast structure of galaxy clusters and filaments.
Nicolas Vermont discovers his uncle Dr Lerne's disturbing experiments in a greenhouse, including grafting plants and animal parts. Dr Lerne is revealed to be an impostor who had stolen the true uncle's body through a brain swap.
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.
The user created a Docker image for Microsoft's Edit terminal text editor, which can be run on Apple Silicon Macs, and published it to GitHub's Container Registry. The image is based on Alpine Linux with gcompat and can be used by running the command "docker run -it --rm -v $(pwd):/workspace alpine-edit ./edit".
Commodore 128dcr has built-in 1571 disk drive, burst mode serial, detachable keyboard, cp/m option, separate 40 and 80 column video. jane for the apple ii does not allow you to have multiple documents open simultaneously, which would be frustrating to modern audiences used to, say, microsoft excel - but it does a good job reflowing paragraphs if you select more than one line to insert
You are implementing masked softmax for attention mechanism in natural language processing. You create a mask to ignore blank tokens by broadcasting a 1D array of sequence lengths to match the input shape.