Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.
A small open-source project owner lost their EU trademark due to inability to prove "genuine use" despite having a few thousand users and hundreds of thousands of downloads. The owner is now considering abandoning trademarks for OSS projects due to the high costs and brittleness of proving EU usage.
NGINX introduces native ACME support with a new module for requesting, installing, and renewing SSL/TLS certificates directly from configuration. This simplifies certificate management, reduces manual errors, and enhances security.
User wants to reduce Claude's sycophantic responses by removing phrases like "You're absolutely right!" or updating the system prompt. This issue has become a known problem and is often joked about online.
Astral is building a next-generation Python infrastructure called the Astral platform, starting with pyx, a Python-native package registry that solves problems beyond traditional package registries. It's designed to work with uv, making the Python experience faster, more secure, and GPU-aware.
The writer is concerned that AI search results lack credibility and personality, replacing human authors' hard work with generic information. They value human connection and want readers to visit their website for in-depth content, not just AI summaries.
Search engine that reveals text hidden in NYC's Street View images (2007-2024). Created by Yufeng Zhao, this tool lets you explore the city through shop signs, graffiti, and street text across all five boroughs.
AI systems have made significant progress in replicating human skills, but their future is uncertain due to poor understanding of deep models and potential economic disruption. The future of AI may lead to economic instability, reduced prosperity, and a shift to a new economic system.
Android apps on F-Droid are experiencing build issues due to Google's new aapt2 binary requiring unsupported CPU instructions. Developers are downgrading AGP and disabling baseline profiles as a workaround to publish updates.
The UK government plans to expand facial recognition technology to catch more offenders, despite human rights groups warning it's "dangerous and discriminatory". The tech will be used in 10 vans across England, subject to strict rules and a new legal framework.
The author promotes OCaml as a relevant choice in many contexts due to its advantages in static typing, functional programming, and a rich module system. The language's versatility, expressiveness, and safety features make it an ideal tool for building both personal and professional projects, and its ecosystem is supported by a community of users who are generally very satisfied.
Palantir is a software company that sells tools to help organizations sort through data, but its products are often misunderstood. The company's software is designed to integrate and analyze data without changing how it's collected or stored.
Anubis is a server protection system using Proof-of-Work to prevent aggressive website scraping. It requires modern JavaScript features and may be disabled by plugins like JShelter.
A new drug-releasing system, TAR-200, eliminated tumors in 82% of patients with high-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer in a phase 2 clinical trial. The treatment, which releases chemotherapy into the bladder over weeks, is the most effective one reported to date for this type of cancer.
California law requires data brokers to provide ways for consumers to delete their data, but many companies hide these instructions from search engines. A review by The Markup and CalMatters found 35 data brokers using code to exclude their deletion instructions from search results.
The Online Safety Act has caused several websites to shut down or restrict access to UK users, including Ela Maxima's itch.io Author page, Reddit, and various forums and communities. Many websites are using workarounds such as VPNs or direct links to bypass the restrictions, but some users are still affected by overblocking.
The author discusses the benefits of using pen plotters for art, including unpredictable color mixing and the ability to use various drawing instruments.
DEF CON attendees socialized at a party sponsored by the Military Cyber Professionals Association, despite the association's ties to defense contractors involved in human rights abuses. The conference also featured talks criticizing U.S. military activities, including lethal bombings in Yemen and the Israeli military's genocide in Gaza.
Social media platforms have become dysfunctional, creating filter bubbles and echo chambers that amplify outrage and conflict. Researchers used AI models to simulate online behavior and found that the dynamics driving these problems are structurally embedded in the platforms' architecture.
The author is creating a mod for the game Stunts, aiming to improve its graphics by extending the field of view and detail level. They successfully created a proof-of-concept mod that shifts tiles to extend the depth, but still encounter issues with tile sorting and clipping.
Astronomers are concerned about the impact of Starlink satellites on radio astronomy due to unintentional electromagnetic radiation (UEMR) causing interference. The satellites' radio emission could severely affect the science goals of the Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO).
Org-social is a decentralized social network using Org Mode files over HTTP. It allows users to create, share, and interact with posts without registration or databases.
Pebble has recovered its trademark and is releasing Pebble Time 2 with 4 colorways. Pre-orders for Pebble Time 2 can be changed from Pebble 2 Duo, but not cancelled.
The user predicts a spontaneous recession in the US and globally due to AI replacing human workers, leading to widespread unemployment and economic instability. They believe this could trigger a nationwide panic, evictions, and unrest, and are worried about the potential consequences of AI-driven job losses.
NIST released a lightweight cryptography standard to protect small networked devices from cyberattacks. The standard uses Ascon family algorithms to provide secure encryption and hashing for devices like RFID tags and medical implants.
Raft is a consensus algorithm for distributed systems, described in the "In Search of an Understandable Consensus Algorithm" paper by Diego Ongaro and John Ousterhout. It has various implementations and visualizations, including RaftScope and The Secret Lives of Data.
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Banks are trying to charge fintech companies for access to Open Banking data, which is actually a fight about payments and whether banks have a right to monopolize economic activity. The controversy centers on Section 1033 of the Dodd-Frank Act, which aims to increase competitiveness in financial services by allowing users to access their own data through competing providers.
UK police forces will gain access to live facial recognition technology through ten new vans, expanding its use to seven new forces. Privacy campaigners oppose the expansion, citing concerns over misidentifications and erosion of civil liberties.
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) occurs when an attacker tricks a user's browser into sending a request to a target site using the user's cookies. To protect against CSRF, applications should reject cross-origin non-safe browser requests.
A new website called Jobs.Now lists US jobs that companies are required to fill with American workers before offering Green Cards to H-1B holders. The site aims to help Americans get jobs they are legally entitled to, amid concerns over companies favoring foreign workers.
Large language models struggle to tell funny jokes because they're designed to minimize surprise, which is a key element of humor. To be funny, a joke must be surprising yet inevitable in hindsight, a balance that LLMs often fail to achieve.
Igor Babuschkin is leaving xAI to start his own venture capital firm, Babuschkin Ventures, which will support AI safety research and back startups. He is leaving after a tumultuous few months for xAI, which faced several scandals related to its AI chatbot Grok.
× Prime Grid creates a simple, adjustable grid that plots prime numbers in a left-to-right, top-to-bottom layout. Use it to find interesting visual patterns, do some smart-person math stuff, or maybe find the secret code to the cosmos or whatever. Click into the column input, press and hold the up arrow on your keyboard, and watch the cascades.
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Canonical's job posting for Head of Security Operations is flawed due to excessive job postings, spelling mistakes, and irrelevant requirements. The company's hiring process is also discriminatory and ineffective, using aptitude and personality tests that disqualify neuro-divergent individuals.
You created Coalton Playground, a web-based REPL for the statically-typed Lisp dialect Coalton, which combines Haskell's type system with Common Lisp. It allows users to experiment with Coalton in the browser, with features like generated Common Lisp code and pre-built SBCL cores for faster startup.
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A recent Gallup poll found that only 54% of U.S. adults reported drinking alcohol in 2025, a nearly 90-year low, with many Americans believing drinking is bad for their health. The shift in perception is attributed to new studies calling the French Paradox hypothesis into question and health authorities declaring no level of alcohol consumption is safe for health.
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A large data breach was reported with 16 billion exposed passwords, but analysis showed it was likely exaggerated. The actual number of unique email addresses affected was around 109 million.
Companies are turning to subsea desalination to alleviate global water shortages by harnessing deep-sea pressure to remove salt from seawater. This technology could greatly reduce energy costs and alleviate water access problems, but it still faces several hurdles before scaling to commercial levels.
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Google's 2011 paper increased TCP's initial congestion window from 1 to 10, improving web page loads. Now, with modern internet bloat, a higher initial congestion window is needed, but must be implemented carefully to avoid congestion.
Google Play Store now requires software wallet developers to obtain a license before publishing cryptocurrency wallet apps in 15 jurisdictions. This policy places unmeetable burdens on non-custodial wallet developers, forcing them to comply with custodial regulations.
This file is in the public domain and provides a default timezone setting for noncommittal factory settings. It uses the abbreviation "-00" to indicate an unknown time zone.
When The Settlers II came out in 1996, only MS-DOS and Mac OS enjoyed it. Aside from Nintendo Wii in 2007, it didn't land on any other platforms. Until now.
Large Language Models (LLMs) can be easily manipulated to embed malicious backdoors, posing a significant security risk. To ensure LLM integrity, robust auditing methodologies, greater transparency, and stronger security paradigms for tool integration are needed.
The user is looking for a hosting solution that balances cost and maintenance. They want a VPS with a low-maintenance OS like CoreOS and a tool like Dokploy for easy container management.
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Perplexity offered to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion, a bid much higher than its own valuation of $18 billion. Google hasn't indicated it will sell Chrome at any price.
Researchers are exploring self-evolving AI agents that adapt to dynamic environments through interaction data and feedback. A survey reviews existing techniques and frameworks for self-evolving agentic systems, including domain-specific strategies and evaluation considerations.
Researchers initially believed that larger language models would improve significantly, but recent releases have shown diminishing returns. A.I. companies are now focusing on post-training improvements to refine existing models.
Blender, a free 3D software, is coming to iPad with a full-fat, professional-grade experience. It will offer a native version with all power and functionality, reimagined for iPad Pro and touch-tablets.
Oxford University's unique history and traditions are reflected in its unusual academic assessment methods, such as the All Souls Exams. These exams test students' ability to write original essays and think creatively, skills that AI models struggle to replicate.
You're researching your book The Lost Art of Logarithms, focusing on John Napier's invention of logarithms within historical, cultural, and social contexts. Your research led you to create a 3D simulation of a 1580 anamorphosis painting of Mary Queen of Scots using WebGL and C#.
ECA is a free, open-source tool linking LLMs to editors via a well-defined protocol for AI pair programming. It supports multiple editors and can be installed via a plugin, with a server written in Clojure.
StackBench simulates how coding agents actually use your library documentation. We extract real use cases, then test if agents can implement them successfully. Coding agents attempt to implement each use case using only your documentation as a guide.
DOGE's savings claims are exaggerated due to faulty math and accounting tricks. Actual savings from canceled contracts amount to less than 40 percent of DOGE's claimed savings.
ICE flights carrying detainees have increased under the Trump administration, with over 1,000 deportation flights since inauguration. The flights are becoming harder to track due to private companies removing tail numbers from public flight-tracking websites.
The Catholic Church published its 32nd and final Index Librorum Prohibitorum in 1948, containing 4,000 censored titles. Notable writers included Erasmus, Voltaire, and Jean-Paul Sartre, among others.
The user discusses the Lua module system and how Fennel, a Lisp-like language, utilizes it to provide a seamless experience for shipping macros and functions in the same file. They propose several changes to Fennel's macro system to improve its functionality and usability, including ditching macro modules, allowing macros to use other macros and functions, and making generated code use ...
Bloomberg delivers business and financial information worldwide. AI helps doctors detect pre-cancerous growths but skills decline when assistance is removed.
Escort Radar has released a firmware update for its Redline 360c radar detector to improve performance and address customer complaints. The update enhances filtering and alerts, improves POP detection, and adds customizable K-band filtering.
A 60-year-old man developed psychosis after consuming sodium bromide, which he was advised to use by ChatGPT as a chloride substitute. His case highlights a rare but reversible form of psychosis that may be influenced by generative artificial intelligence.
California restricts autonomous farming equipment, requiring human operators due to safety concerns. Farmers argue this limits their business and may increase food prices nationwide.
The user wrote progressively faster word counting programs in Python, C, and C with SIMD instructions to count words in an ASCII text file, achieving a 5x speedup with SIMD and a 1.38x speedup with multi-threading. The user's programs were limited by memory bandwidth, not CPU speed, and the SIMD instructions replaced expensive sequences with cheap transforms, allowing for near-optimal ...
The user is overwhelmed by the rapid changes in AI and its impact on society, seeking to understand its implications for their job, family, and humanity. They explore the concept of AI as a General Purpose Technology, its diffusion, and its potential to revolutionize thinking, education, and the software industry.
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Employees receive options to buy company shares at a fixed price for a certain period, usually 10 years, with options vesting after one year and fully after four years. If vested, employees can exercise options, buying shares at the fixed price and selling them on the market for a gain, increasing the company's market capitalization but potentially diluting earnings per share.
Iris Murdoch argues that love is central to morality, enabling us to see others truthfully and respond to them rightly. Attentive love, which involves patient and generous attention to others, can overcome our tendency to fantasise and distort reality.
OpenAI's GPT-5 model launch was a failure, with critics pointing out its inability to perform basic tasks. The company's focus on workplace automation and its decision to release the model despite its flaws are seen as a shift away from its earlier promises of artificial general intelligence.
Efficient model weight storage is critical for AI deployments, with NFS and FUSE-backed storage solutions offering scalability and cost benefits. FUSE cuts storage costs by 95% and achieves 10x better throughput than NFS during scale-out events.
This project compares C libraries providing STL-like capabilities for classic C, implementing simple programs with different containers and types, and comparing API ergonomics. The comparison includes characteristics such as generic mechanism, copy semantics, spatial separation, and single linkage definition.
The article discusses how the tech industry is trying to shift towards a pro-family culture but still has a long way to go in terms of internalizing what it means to support families. The industry needs to move from rhetoric to action by providing practical solutions like parental leave, affordable child care, and quality education.
The Independent reports on US news, including job losses due to AI and global trade uncertainty. AI is replacing thousands of jobs each month, with the tech industry seeing the fiercest cuts.
Juneau residents are urged to evacuate due to potential record floodwaters from the Mendenhall Glacier, driven by climate change. The city is bracing for the flood, which is expected to crest around 4pm Alaska time on Wednesday.
Philz Coffee is giving current baristas a $525 pre-tax bonus, totaling $518,175 for 987 employees. The bonus is part of a deal after the company was sold to a private equity firm for $145 million.
A US medical journal warned against using ChatGPT for health information after a man developed bromism from taking sodium bromide based on the chatbot's advice. The case highlights the risk of AI-generated misinformation and the need for doctors to consider AI use when checking patient information.
Vaultrice is a real-time app development platform that syncs data across devices and domains with a simple API. It offers live data sync, Presence API, and encryption options for building real-time applications.
GraalVM's dead code elimination removed required classes from the binary, causing issues. Adding a reflect-config.json file with required types resolved the issue, but new errors arose due to missing hashing algorithms.
Meta allegedly scrapes independent sites for AI training, disregarding robots.txt. Admins can protect their instances by establishing community terms, requesting data removal, and setting up blocking measures.
Security researchers created a new FIDO downgrade attack that tricks users into authenticating with weaker login methods, making them susceptible to phishing and session hijacking. The attack exploits a gap in Microsoft Entra ID functionality, forcing users to choose alternate verification methods that can be intercepted by attackers.
Cisco was the world's most valuable company in March 2000, valued at over $1 trillion. Its market value is now $280 billion, with solid growth but a disappointment compared to initial expectations.
Sheet0 makes data collection, analysis, and decision-making as easy as chatting with a friend.
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The Adams administration is using the Big Apple Connect program to give NYPD real-time access to NYCHA camera feeds without public disclosure. This expansion of surveillance in public housing has raised concerns about unchecked monitoring and harm to communities.
Keeping your server processes and tasks running should be a simple part of your deployment process. God aims to be the simplest, most powerful monitoring application available.
The Tesla Diner has scaled down its menu due to high demand and now limits service to Tesla and EV owners charging between midnight and 6 a.m. The diner's initial hype has turned into criticism, with some questioning Elon Musk's concept of combining an EV charger with a restaurant.
We embedded millions of text documents using Qwen3-Embedding-0.6B, achieving near-100% GPU utilization. A new recipe made the same workload 3× faster without maxing out GPU utilization.
Arch Linux's wiki, ArchWiki, is well-known for its comprehensive content and high-quality documentation. The wiki's quality is maintained by a team of contributors who follow strict guidelines and use tools to make their work easier.
The exploding cucumber is a herbaceous vine in the Cucurbitaceae family with edible fruit that explodes when ripe to disperse seeds. It's a scrambling annual plant that prefers warm climates and can grow up to 3-5 meters long.
Gerrymandering in Hexapolis involves distorting districts to favor one party, often leaving voters disenfranchised. The goal is to shift the partisan tilt by dividing voters into districts that favor the Yellow Party despite Purple Party majority support.
You're using PyTorch to experiment with activation maximization and prompt engineering on a pre-trained LLM. You're trying to find a prompt that provokes a desired behavior in the model by iteratively changing the input.
Astral is building a next-generation Python infrastructure called the Astral platform, starting with pyx, a Python-native package registry that solves problems beyond traditional package registries. It's designed to work with uv, making the Python experience faster, more secure, and GPU-aware.
Teddy and I built Zenobia Pay, an alternative to high-fee card networks using bank transfers, but failed to gain adoption due to various issues. We are open-sourcing the code, hoping someone else can pick up the mission, and have identified key challenges and potential solutions for future iterations.