Kiro is an AI IDE that helps developers deliver from concept to production through spec-driven development. It generates user stories, design documents, and tasks to ensure clarity and maintainability in AI agent development.
California police departments, including Oakland and San Francisco, broke state law by sharing data from automated license plate cameras with federal agencies. The data sharing appears to be a result of a strategy where federal agencies access the data through local police, violating a decade-old state law.
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Data brokers like ARC secretly sell personal data to law enforcement and intelligence agencies without consent. This incentivizes bad actors and erodes fundamental freedoms, fueling creeping authoritarianism.
Apple's rules and technical restrictions are blocking other browser vendors from successfully offering their own engines to users in the eu. this is another example of apple creating barriers to prevent true browser competition on ios - daniel saunders & kevin mccarthy – cnn ireport / john wilkinson jr. he says the proposals fail to give consumers viable choices by making port
Cognition acquired Windsurf, an agentic IDE, including its IP, product, and team. This deal will accelerate Cognition's mission to build the future of software engineering.
The app processes personal content locally on Macs, working with various apps and requiring macOS 14.0 or later. It offers a 7-day free trial and 50% discount for students and educators with a valid email.
The author shares lessons learned on building software quickly while maintaining quality. They aim for an 8 out of 10 score, delivered on time, and use a rough draft to explore ideas and make decisions.
Samuel Herman and Alexander Baciu founded Prime-One, a fiber Internet service provider in Saline, Michigan, to compete with Comcast. They offer symmetrical gigabit service for $80 a month with no contracts or data caps.
A study by Metr found that experienced open-source developers using AI tools took 19% longer to complete tasks, despite expecting a 24% speedup. The tools may hinder developers' ability to work effectively on their codebases due to the limitations of transferring mental models through text.
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration detected the merger of two massive black holes producing a 225-solar-mass black hole. This event, GW231123, is the most massive black hole merger observed through gravitational waves.
Campbell's Law states that metrics used for decision-making become corrupted and ineffective. Random selection can mitigate this by eliminating marginal advantages and promoting competency and merit.
A Japanese couple in their 70s built a giant Totoro statue in their village using traditional techniques and carpentry skills. The statue has become a popular tourist attraction, drawing in Totoro fans from around the world.
Blender Studio's Open Project is a free, open-source game where you guide a kid and a dog through a winter environment, helping each other and interacting with the environment. The game features real-life paper crafted models, scanned and recreated for a unique experience.
The author, lacking coordination and enthusiasm, took up kayaking and initially struggled but found satisfaction in gradual improvement. With persistence and a supportive team, they progressed from training to racing boats and eventually made varsity.
Php has a long history of confusion, concerns, and disagreements regarding its custom open source license. the zend engine license, which covers the sources in the /zend/ directory, adds to this confusion and complicates matters, since it is not an open source initiative approved license. changing to the modified bsd license does not change any of the rights granted by contributors who are ...
The curl security team is overwhelmed with low-quality AI-generated and human-made vulnerability reports, decreasing the program's effectiveness and increasing the emotional toll on team members. The team is considering changes, such as dropping monetary rewards, to reduce the temptation for users to submit low-quality reports and improve the program's efficiency.
Niah is fundamentally a retrieval task, in which the model is prompted to retrieve an unrelated sentence from an input haystack. we extend the standard task to investigate model behavior in previously underexplored settings - including the use of non-lexical matches in the needles themselves. in our experiments, we reveal that the impact of distractors amplifies as input length grows across ...
They have been busy with various projects including sailing, boat maintenance, and game development, and have also been reading books and participating in community events. They have released new games, updated their website, and shared their experiences and knowledge with others through blog posts and social media.
Global surface warming has accelerated since around 2010, relative to the preceding half century1,2,3,4. few studies have quantified the influence of recent emissions reductions in east asia on global and regional climate evolution, argues a new study based on ramip simulations - see "methods" for describing the experiment e.g., emissions from china and india have been larger than shipping ...
The US Department of Defense granted up to $200 million in contracts to AI companies Anthropic, OpenAI, and xAI for advanced AI capabilities. The contracts aim to accelerate AI adoption and address national security challenges.
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The user created Active Storage Dashboard, a Rails engine that provides a modern interface for monitoring and managing Active Storage data, and shares their experience and best practices for building reusable Rails components. The engine is designed to be configurable, secure, and easy to use, and demonstrates the power of Rails engines in building maintainable and modular solutions to common problems.
The author of purple-garden developed a fast lexer for their s-expr based language by implementing threaded lexing, using a string abstraction, and optimizing hashing and comparisons. The lexer can process 25,466,794 bytes in 44ms.
NASA's Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes face funding shortfalls due to flat budgets and inflation. Operations may be reduced by 25-35% due to budget cuts, affecting science productivity and telescope capabilities.
Archaeologists at the University of Houston discovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak, the first ruler of ancient Maya city Caracol, in Belize. The tomb, dated to 331 AD, contains artifacts suggesting early contact with central Mexico's Teotihuacan city.
The author discusses how tools and programming languages tend to grow and stagnate due to the pressure to be a "one big hammer" for every problem, and proposes two ways to escape this trap: imposing limits on growth or decreasing switching costs. The author also explores various approaches to composing tools and languages, including using structured data, RPC, and foreign function interfaces, ...
Apache Parquet files can embed user-defined indexes without breaking compatibility with other readers. This is achieved by storing the index in the file body and recording its location in the footer metadata.
Scam centers in eastern Myanmar are expanding rapidly despite a crackdown in February. Satellite imagery and eyewitness testimony reveal the scale and persistence of the crisis.
Cloudflare's DNS server appears to be down globally, causing internet outages. Users are switching to alternative DNS servers like 8.8.8.8 for connectivity.
Typage is a TypeScript implementation of the age file encryption format that supports symmetric encryption with passkeys and WebAuthn credentials, allowing for secure file encryption and decryption across devices. The Typage passkey support uses the WebAuthn PRF extension to derive a wrapping key for ChaCha20Poly1305 encryption, providing unlinkability and per-file hardware binding.
The Lenovo Legion Go S handheld PC comes in two versions: SteamOS and Windows 11, with the SteamOS model offering better performance and power efficiency. The SteamOS version is the obvious choice unless you need to play specific games like GTA 5 Online and APEX Legends that are not supported on SteamOS.
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As a new Engineering Manager, it's normal to feel overwhelmed and uncertain, but remember that you don't have to know everything and can create space for collaboration and decision-making. By focusing on facilitation, clear agreements, and self-leadership, you can build trust, foster autonomy, and grow into your new role with time and practice.
The lightning detector circuit uses a high input impedance RF amplifier and a tuned circuit to receive static pulses from lightning at a frequency near 200 kHz. It draws only 200 uA from two alkaline D cells and can be used outside or near a window with a 47 pF capacitor in series with the wire.
Zip-ada version 60 introduces bzip2 compression. compresses e-books of the arch-classical corpora calgary & canterbury better than 7-zip and info-zipped, but also does a better job than those tools' entropy coders, says zertovitch. "the main, surprising, outcome of bzip2 is that some data, like english texts or source code
The Gac-Fiat Chrysler joint venture in China has been declared bankrupt due to failure to adapt to the Chinese market's shift to electric vehicles. Stellantis faces a $1.1 billion liability after the venture's assets were valued at $1.1 billion less than its liabilities.
Invertible Bloom Filters (IBFs) can efficiently compare two large sets by storing their symmetric difference with space complexity based only on the size of the difference. IBFs use a Bloom filter-style hashing scheme and a graph algorithm called "peeling" to recover the symmetric difference with very high probability.
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The US Department of Defense awarded Anthropic a $200 million two-year agreement to develop frontier AI capabilities for national security. Anthropic will work with DOD to create reliable, interpretable AI systems for sensitive applications.
Even with DuckDuckGo, Google's trackers can follow users due to its embedded code on millions of sites. Google's reach is hard to escape, especially in the US where over 40% of visited pages still sent data back to Google.
Roman dodecahedrons are 12-sided bronze objects discovered across the Roman Empire, with over 120 examples found, but their purpose remains unknown. Archaeologist Michael Guggenberger believes they were symbolic objects representing the universe, possibly used as cosmic symbols or amulets.
The ESA's Moonlight programme aims to establish a dedicated satellite constellation for telecommunication and navigation services on the Moon. This will enable precise landings, high-speed communication, and data transfer, supporting sustainable lunar exploration and a lunar economy.
Ultium Cells is upgrading its Tennessee facility to make low-cost EV battery cells using lithium iron phosphate, which doesn't require cobalt and nickel. The upgrade will enable GM to scale production of lower-cost battery cells in the US by late 2027.
The DEWLine consisted of 33 radar stations across 3600 miles of Arctic land, with 6 main sites and 23 auxiliary sites. The project was established to detect Soviet bombers and was operational from the early 1960s.
PlutoFilter is a single-header C library for image filtering with zero-allocation. It supports various effects like blur, color transformation, and hue rotation.
The user has been experimenting with the Cidco MailStation, a 2000s e-mail terminal, and has written custom software to use it as a terminal for BBSes or a Unix machine. They have also developed a terminal program, msTERM, to dial into BBSes using the MailStation's internal modem.
Microsoft is ending free support for Windows 10 in October 2025, leaving hundreds of millions of computers at risk of early obsolescence. Community repair groups can help by providing support and advice to users, including options to upgrade to alternative operating systems like Linux or ChromeOS Flex.
Explore the HTML maze, leave drawings and messages, and find your way out. A playful, interactive web experiment.
All posters are the copyright of their respective artists and the Fédération Française de Tennis. This site is an independent fan gallery and is not affiliated with Roland-Garros or the Fédération Française de Tennis.
Arial is a font that imitates Helvetica, developed by Monotype as a cheaper alternative. It became ubiquitous due to Microsoft's bundling with Windows, displacing Helvetica as the standard font in non-professional print and digital media.
LIGO detected the most massive black hole merger known to date, with a final product over 225 times the mass of the Sun. The merger's extreme energy and rapid spinning black holes challenge current models of stellar evolution and black hole formation.
MIT researchers developed a new bionic knee that helps people with above-the-knee amputations walk faster and navigate obstacles more easily. The system is directly integrated with the user's muscle and bone tissue, giving greater stability and control over the movement of the prosthesis.
Telefónica Germany switched from VMware to Spinnaker due to a 5 times higher renewal price from Broadcom. The telco is saving money by moving support to Spinnaker and plans to fully exit VMware by the end of 2026.
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Row polymorphism is a type system feature that allows writing generic code over what fields a type contains, making it useful for dealing with messy real-world data. It enables operations like accessing columns by name, adding new fields, and selecting specific fields from a table, all while providing type safety and flexibility.
Sameer Samat discussed Android 16's design changes, including Material 3 Expressive, and its goal to make the platform "modern and delightful" while still being "approachable and familiar." He also talked about the importance of switching between platforms, the benefits of Android's Gemini integration, and the future of Android XR, Google's extended reality platform.
A study spanning four continents found that social inequality, weak democratic institutions, and environmental factors like air pollution accelerate ageing. Education and good health habits protect against faster ageing, with European countries showing the slowest ageing rates.
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Lisa Tate, a sixth-generation farmer, says 70% of her farm workers have left after ICE raids in Ventura County, California. This has put her crop at risk of going bad and threatens the livelihoods of many local farmers.
Matthew Carter and Rod McDonald have clarified the origins of Arial, a sans-serif font developed by Monotype in the 1980s. Arial was based on Monotype Grotesques, which were inspired by Berthold's Ideal Grotesk.
The official PuTTY website is https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ and not putty.org. putty.org is a fake site with advertising, not associated with the PuTTY developers.
Celtuce is a lettuce cultivar grown for its thick stem or leaves, used as a vegetable in China and Taiwan. It is mild, nutty, and high in vitamins, often eaten raw or cooked in various dishes.
GitHub Actions dominates CI/CD with 39.8% usage, followed by Travis CI and Circle CI. Make is the most used build tool with 19.0% usage, while npm is the top JavaScript package manager with 28.5% usage.
Clive Sinclair and Gary Kildall were two British and American pioneers who revolutionized the microcomputer industry with their innovative ideas and products, but struggled with business and personal issues. Both men were known for their generosity, fun-loving personalities, and technical expertise, but also faced commercial failures and personal struggles that affected their lives and careers.
A stream capture is imminent in the Appalachians near Canton, North Carolina, where Hominy Creek is advancing into the Pigeon River system. The capture is geologically close but may take a long time in human terms due to the slow rate of landscape evolution.
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The book provides a thorough guide to Delaunay refinement algorithms for mesh generation, including triangular and tetrahedral meshes. It covers mathematical underpinnings, algorithms, and implementation advice for researchers and engineers.
The user set up their own autonomous system on a shoestring budget, obtaining a public ASN from ARIN and peering with other networks, including Hurricane Electric, to create a multi-homed network. They used a Cisco Catalyst 6506 router, which they purchased on eBay, to handle the full Internet routing table and connected it to their servers in a data center, successfully advertising their ...
HoloMem is developing a holographic storage technology using a ribbon-based cartridge and drive that can store up to 200TB in a WORM format with a 50+ year lifespan. The technology uses off-the-shelf components and can be integrated with existing LTO libraries with minimal disruption.
Neural networks and classical ai can't really stand on their own, says samuel e. heinz. the flaws are artifacts of imperfect neural-network design and limited data, they say a day deep learning models should be able to shed these problems completely, if they're fed into even better networks - and they are! 'for decades the field of neural network tried to make do without
Ralph is a technique that uses a Bash loop to automate software development, replacing outsourcing for greenfield projects, and can build a new programming language without training data. It requires a mindset of hands-off coding, using subagents, and frequent testing to ensure eventual consistency and correct code generation.
Team Group developed the P250Q Self-Destruct SSD that can erase data with a button press, either through software or a hardware method that physically destroys the flash chip. The SSD has read speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s and write speeds of up to 5,500 MB/s.
Scientists created a custom microscope to map mouse nerves at micrometre-scale resolution in 40 hours, revealing detailed nerve paths. The method, faster than previous techniques, allows for a clear view of labelled nerves in transparent tissue.
NetBox Labs, spun out from NS1, has raised $35 million in Series B funding to deliver comprehensive network infrastructure management. The platform's open-source foundation and commercial offerings provide enterprise-grade capabilities for complex infrastructure management.
Solar panels wear out after 25-30 years and most end up in landfills due to high recycling costs. Recycling is complicated due to materials being glued together and potential toxic metals, but improvements and clearer labels could make it more feasible.
Carter from Handstand discusses Nike's clarity of purpose, which has driven innovation and success. Nike's return to its athlete-first focus under new CEO Elliott Hill is a model for brands seeking clarity.
The author argues that the debate over AI-generated code is not about AI itself but about whether low quality is acceptable. The discussion is fundamentally philosophical, ethical, and political.
A malicious Solidity extension for the Cursor AI IDE was downloaded 54,000 times before being removed. It downloaded malware from a web server, allowing attackers to steal $500,000 in crypto assets from a developer.
In Barbados, racehorses train at Pebbles Beach by wading into the sea with their grooms. The horses then return to the Garrison Savannah racetrack for training and big races.