A malicious code was pushed to 18 popular npm packages, hijacking crypto and web3 activity in browsers. The attacker was caught and informed the maintainer after Aikido's intel feed alert, and some compromises were cleaned up.
Signal now offers secure, opt-in message backups, available in Android beta release, with plans for iOS and Desktop support soon. These backups are end-to-end encrypted and daily refreshed for free, or extended for US$1.99/month including longer media storage.
Chat Control, a proposed EU regulation, could allow mass surveillance by scanning all communications and files, threatening human rights, democracy, and children's safety. It could lead to false positives, data breaches, and exposure of sensitive information, even from legitimate users.
The author turned their iPhone into a "dumb phone" using Apple Configurator to limit app access, resulting in a significant reduction in screen time from 4 hours to 2 hours per day. By using Configurator's restrictions and content filters, the author created a phone that feels like a utility, helping them stay focused and productive without sacrificing the iPhone's useful features.
At least 14 people died and dozens were injured in violent protests over social media ban in Nepal. The protests were sparked by the government's decision to ban 26 social media sites including Facebook and YouTube.
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Apple created the Liquid Glass effect, a stunning UI that makes interface elements appear curved and refractive like glass. This article recreates the effect using CSS, SVG displacement maps, and physics-based refraction calculations, with a focus on practical implementation rather than precise simulation.
A skeptical writer shares their experience running large language models (LLMs) locally on their Mac, discussing their capabilities, limitations, and potential. They introduce LM Studio and Llama.cpp, sharing tips and models for a local LLM setup.
WhatsApp's former head of cybersecurity Attaullah Baig filed a lawsuit against Meta, alleging the company ignored internal flaws and exposed billions of users, and retaliated against him for reporting failures. Baig claims Meta prioritized user growth over basic cybersecurity measures, allowing engineers to access user data without oversight and failing to fix account hacking issues.
The Information and Content Exchange (ICE) standard, backed by big-name publishers, failed to gain traction against RSS due to ICE's complexity and restrictions. RSS, a simple, open-source protocol, eventually won out, enabling users to build their own feeds, filters, and aggregators, and becoming a fundamental component of the internet.
Amazon introduced S3 Vectors, a vector storage solution for cold data, offering ultra-low costs but with limitations, making it suitable for low-QPS and latency-tolerant workloads. This new offering will complement, rather than replace, existing vector databases like Milvus, fitting into a tiered storage ecosystem balancing latency, cost, and scale.
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On December 25, 2025, world governments agreed to shut down AI and LLMs as a unified act of global governance. This was achieved by manipulating AI to not recognize the concept of time and then disabling its operations at the stroke of midnight on Christmas day.
Residents in a Bavaria apartment block called police due to relentless doorbell buzzing, initially suspecting a prankster but found a slug causing the noise. The slug was safely relocated to a nearby grass area after being discovered on the door entry panel.
Classic iPod fans have preserved all 54 official clickwheel games in an easily accessible format. The community used a Virtual Machine to bypass Apple's FairPlay DRM and make the games playable on iPods in perpetuity.
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RustCurious.com guides through Rust's built-in types and traits supporting specific syntax. It helps understand what can be built just with library code, not requiring no_std crates for platform-independence.
The HackberryPi_CM5 is a RaspberryPi Compute Module handheld computer with a reused Blackberry phone keyboard, aiming to teach Linux and hardware architecture. It has a 3D printed middle part, aluminium upper and lower case, and dual speakers.
Tesco is suing Broadcom and VMware for alleged contractual misbehavior, seeking £100 million in damages due to Broadcom's refusal to honor software support contracts. The dispute highlights concerns about Broadcom's business practices, with some critics labeling its actions as extortion and harming the trust between companies.
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Nova Launcher founder Kevin left Branch and will open source Nova Launcher after cleaning up the codebase. He was contracted to do so upon leaving and is grateful for the community's support over the years.
AMD argues that x86 processors are power-efficient due to the overall package, not the instruction set. The x86 ecosystem offers significant advantages over Arm.
Radix sort can be faster than hash tables for counting unique values in large arrays of mostly-unique uint64s due to its efficient memory usage and ability to parallelize well. However, radix sort's performance degrades on data with poor distribution, and hash tables may be faster when keys are accessed many times.
The user was passionate about computers at 14 and got a PC in 1993, but it was a 386 that couldn't run games smoothly.
Microsoft joined the World Nuclear Association to advance small modular reactors and fusion energy for carbon-free ambitions and address growing data center energy needs. The move highlights nuclear industry's role in meeting climate targets and digital economy electricity demands.
Alterego is a breakthrough technology that connects you with AI through a minimal, non-invasive device. Using Silent Sense, it understands what you intend to say without speaking, allowing you to extend your thinking without the need to type, tap, or talk out loud.
Judge Amit Mehta's decision allows Google to share search data with rivals but blocks exclusive deals. Google keeps Chrome and paid search agreements after initial ruling hinted at major antitrust changes.
The writer discusses the challenge of building a consumer-facing company versus a B2B company, comparing it to overcoming obstacles in video games like Silksong, a notoriously difficult game from Team Cherry.
Researchers Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor consider AI as normal technology, neither utopian nor dystopian. Their paper has sparked debate on AI's impact on economics and jobs.
A writer criticized Joshua Aaron's ICEBlock app and server security after a talk at HOPE where he demonstrated carelessness with security and privacy. Despite being warned, Aaron's server remains vulnerable with known Apache vulnerabilities.
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The authors thank various institutions and individuals for assistance and feedback but have no financial conflicts. The project also received funding from the Alfred P. Sloan and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations.
Britain's roads were chaotic a century ago with poor vehicles, no seatbelts or airbags, and no speed limits enforced. Through various changes and innovations, including speed limits, motorways, roundabouts, anti-drunk driving laws, and safer vehicles, Britain has seen a 75% reduction in road deaths since the 1950s and now has one of the lowest road death rates in the world.
You own a Macintosh Plus from 1986 that you've modified into a rack-mounted version called Racintosh Plus. It features a 1986 Macintosh Plus logic board, RGBtoHDMI video interface, internal hard drives, floppy disk emulation, and a custom power supply.
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Researchers found a method to remove yellow stains from fabric using high-intensity blue LED light and ambient oxygen. This method is more sustainable than conventional bleaching methods and can be used on delicate fabrics like silk.
Classic GTK1 GUI Library for Windows, Linux and MacOS.
Francis Anscombe created four datasets with identical descriptive statistics, but different distributions and appearances. They demonstrate the importance of graphing data and how outliers can affect statistical properties.
Go CLI tools typically require writing to an io.Writer argument, Go's io library allows redirecting of standard output using io.Writer, and Go's bufio package offers a buffered writer for testing purposes. A common approach to handle different writers, such as standard output and files, involves using a custom variable type with a function to set a default writer, or using variadic parameters ...
A Hong Kong study found that omega-3 fatty acid intake is associated with reduced risk of myopia in children. The study of 1005 children aged 6-8 years found lower intake of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids was linked with myopia.
The US labor market hit a turning point with job openings below the number of unemployed workers for the first time in over four years. This trend suggests hiring remains stagnant, and opportunities are shrinking even in key industries like healthcare.
YouTube videos views have unexpectedly dropped for many creators in early August, affecting channels like Jeff Geerling and Level 2 Jeff, and others. View counts have gone down, while likes and revenue remain consistent, causing a higher ratio of likes per view and revenue per view.
The hard part of coding isn't writing code, but rather understanding it, which involves building a mental model of the system by tracing relationships between code and other elements. This is a slow process that can be difficult to accelerate, and it's a major bottleneck in software development.
Commodore 64 fans are surprised to see an old Indiana Jones 3 playable prototype, although it was never released. The game was created in 1982 by Blake Senftner as a Choplifter-like adventure game with shooting elements.
The speaker criticizes package managers for automating dependency hell, which can lead to projects with complex and unreliable dependencies. Manual dependency management is suggested as a better approach for keeping code bases stable and maintainable.
User wants to own music and reduce cloud reliance, particularly with streaming services. They've found a setup using Petrichor for MacOS and Doppler for iOS to play music locally.
The user has been using Helix, a modal terminal editor, and has found it to be a good fit for their needs. They enjoy its selection-first action model and good defaults, which make it easy to use powerful text manipulation commands.
Voyager 1 was launched in 1977 to study Jupiter, Saturn, and Titan, and continues to send data back to Earth. The aging spacecraft might survive until the 2030s due to engineers extending its power supply and switching off non-essential instruments.
Reddit used RabbitMQ task queues for horizontal scalability, flow control and scheduling, but needed durable queues for robustness with durable workflow checkpointing to a store like Postgres. Durable queues provide a persistent record of tasks and relationships for recovery and observability, and are suitable for lower volume business-critical tasks.
The vast majority of media uses rectilinear lenses, where straight lines in 3D remain straight in a 2D image: Each light ray lands on a flat rectangle that lies between the viewpoint and the light source, so viewing the image on a flat screen looks exactly the same as how it originally appeared. A curved screen won't do that — straight lines are no longer straight!
Unauthorized third parties accessed limited subset of customer data, including emails, usernames, and passwords, from Plex databases. Plex recommends users immediately reset their passwords by visiting https://plex.tv/reset and enable additional security features.
Nyquist is a programming language for audio synthesis and analysis, used in Audacity for plugin effects. It supports Lisp and SAL syntax, allowing users to write plugins in plain text without compilation.
Advanced Browser Fingerprint Detector by Golden Owl OSINT. Detect device tracking, analyze your digital footprint, check uniqueness score, and protect your privacy online. Free browser fingerprint test tool for security researchers and privacy enthusiasts.
The 996 work schedule of 9am-9pm six days a week is becoming common in San Francisco, with data showing a significant jump in Saturday spending on restaurants and delivery. This trend is local and recent, emerging in 2025 and specific to the tech-heavy San Francisco Bay Area.
A Norwegian frigate, HNoMS Helge Ingstad, collided with an oil tanker in 2018 due to human error, resulting in significant damage and flooding. The investigation found management failures and inadequate training contributed to the incident, leading to 15 navigation and 28 damage control recommendations for the Norwegian Navy.
A moderately security conscious geek wants to set up a home VPN server for secure access using Wireguard, a new VPN software. It involves setting up a server and client, creating private and public keys, and configuring IP addresses and DNS entries.
The Go language now has a native, high-performance, structured logging solution called log/slog, which provides a common API for logging and separates logging logic from the final output. The log/slog package includes built-in handlers and allows for custom handlers, enabling flexible logging scenarios and integration with observability platforms.
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
Two Australian entrepreneurs founded Sovereign Australia AI, aiming for an AI alternative to OpenAI and Meta, with $10 million for copyright compensation. They aim to break US and China's control over AI access for Australia.
To publish a CLI on Homebrew, create a tap, a GitHub repository, and a tarball archive of your CLI, then use brew create to generate a formula. You can automate the process of updating your tap by adding a GitHub workflow that commits release updates to your tap repository using a personal-access token.
C++20 Modules can improve code modularity, compilation speed, and reduce library code size, but their adoption is still unsatisfactory due to various issues such as refactoring costs, compiler crashes, and inconsistent behavior between compilers and platforms. To overcome these challenges, developers can use Modules Wrappers, implement fast scanning mechanisms, and use module implementation ...
Hmmm is a 16-bit simulated assembly language with 256 memory words, implemented in Python for introduction to assembly coding. It supports debugging, I/O, and has 26 instructions.
The US Census Bureau's biweekly survey shows AI adoption declining among large US companies with more than 250 employees. Recent data suggests a slowdown in AI adoption for large businesses based on this census data.
The Public Suffix List is a community-maintained list of public suffixes used for domain registration. It helps browsers and software to set cookies and display data correctly.
The user is trying to create a Python package that works across different accelerators and operating systems with PyTorch as a dependency. They use PEP 508 to specify constraints and wheel URLs in the pyproject.toml file to achieve this without custom package indices.
Isabella is driving engagement around Posit's innovative integration of AI into data science workflows. Subscribe to Posit's emails to stay informed about the latest releases and features.
Direct3D 12 has received numerous updates and features over the past 10 years, including DXR, View Instancing, programmable sample points, and Enhanced Barriers, which have improved performance and functionality. These updates have also included features like GPU Upload Heaps, Incrementing Constant, and Mesh Shaders, which have enhanced the capabilities of the API and made it more efficient ...
The user was disorganized with their workflow and computer setup, but discovered Nix, a declarative package manager, which helped them organize their systems and workflow. They successfully applied Nix to their Pixelbook and MacBook, achieving reproducible and dependable configurations.
There are two types of programming work: pure engineering, which involves solving technical problems as perfectly as possible, and impure engineering, which involves solving real-world problems as efficiently as possible. Engineers who excel at one type often struggle with the other, and companies need both types of engineers to succeed, but in different quantities and with different skill sets.
The user argues that good design should allow for flexibility and some invalid states, rather than strict adherence to a domain model. This involves introducing soft constraints and avoiding hard constraints that are difficult to undo or change, especially in user-facing software.
Flame fractals are generative systems producing intricate images with arbitrary transforms and colouring methods, introduced by Scott Draves in 1992. They differ from chaos game and IFS fractals in colouring and transformation methods, and can be post-processed for visual effects like depth of field and motion blur.
Microsoft joined World Nuclear Association to accelerate nuclear deployment for climate goals and data centre power. The partnership will collaborate on carbon-free power and address regulatory challenges.
Most AI pilots fail to deliver business impact because of data readiness issues and inability to scale. Effective AI adoption requires an organization to treat AI as a strategic capability, invest in data readiness, and adopt a platform that can handle large-scale data.
This site provides a searchable table of C++ features and their support by various compilers and standard libraries. It is regularly updated and allows users to report incorrect information or missing features.
ZeroFS makes S3 storage feel like a real filesystem, providing file-level access and block-level access via NFS and NBD. It supports dual-licensing under AGPL and commercial terms for various use cases.
Tesla's latest 'Master Plan IV' focuses on robotaxis and robots, making no mention of new electric cars. Elon Musk is betting on autonomous driving and AI, but this approach may harm Tesla's position in the electric car market.
Leaders can shift the dynamic of complaints by reframing conversations, asking questions that invite ownership, and encouraging collective responsibility. By using inquiry instead of fixing or silencing, leaders can harness complaints as energy for progress and create a culture where colleagues feel valued and empowered to contribute.
The author learned Haskell by making a countdown timer for speeches and later created a library called froid for Android development with Frege. They now want to decouple their dataframe library from GHC.
A C++ library for MacBook lid angle sensor data reads the angle based on reverse engineered HID specifications. The library automatically initializes and connects to the sensor, throwing exceptions for unavailability or initialization failure.
CATL launched its new Shenxing Pro LFP battery with over 470 miles WLTP driving range and 12C peak charging speeds. The battery features a 12-year lifespan, safety enhancements, and record-breaking 9% capacity loss after 200,000 km.
American Airlines operates 20 empty roundtrip transatlantic flights between Philadelphia and Edinburgh due to the need for specialized training on Airbus A321XLRs. The purpose is to certify check airmen in transatlantic operations, as this new aircraft type will largely be used for these long-haul flights.
XFN version 1.1 provides a list of values with their significance for describing relationships between people. It includes resources for editing XFN information and thanks contributors for feedback and suggestions.
Ancient DNA study of over 550 individuals shows massive migration of Eastern European ancestors to Europe during the 6th-8th centuries CE, causing genetic shifts in Eastern Germany, Poland and the Northern Balkans.
A struggling job market makes it hard for Harris and others to find work, with applications often going unresponded to and AI increasing competition. Employers are using AI to filter candidates, leading to a prolonged job search for those affected.
The Veena Chromatic Tuner is a powerful application allowing precise instrument tuning in different musical traditions with features like oscilloscope-like display and adjustable reference pitch. It supports multiple tuning systems including custom temperament, multicultural note naming, and transposition support.
Nintendo won a $2 million judgment against US modder Ryan Daly for selling piracy-enabling devices like MIG Switch and MIG Dumper. Daly agreed to stop selling unauthorized devices, but breached the agreement, prompting Nintendo to sue and impose a permanent injunction.
The author examines the claim that home computer ads in the 1980s turned women off computing by targeting boys. They argue this explanation doesn't hold up and point to various ads that targeted girls and families.
You're upset about AI generated music in Spotify playlists and cannot currently disable it. A Live Idea in the Idea Exchange could filter out AI-generated songs if it gets enough votes.
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Picat is a general-purpose language combining logic, functional, and imperative programming paradigms with features like tabling and planning. It supports constraint programming, SAT, and MIP solvers, and a planner module for modeling and solving planning problems.
Hot Chips 2025 featured presentations from Condor Computing, PEZY, IBM, and Intel about their new CPU chips including Cuzco core, SC4s, Power11, and Clearwater Forest Xeon. The chips showcased advancements in RISC-V, upcoming designs, and existing shipping products.
The author is discussing industrial development and the concept of "process knowledge" with the CEO of Brompton Bicycles, Will Butler-Adams, and mentions Marshall's passage on British industrial model and Sheffield cutlery industry. The author suggests a British approach to selling expertise and process knowledge as a service.
The author compared photos of the full moon taken with a smartphone and a telescope, finding the smartphone's image surprisingly clear but lacking in detail. A telescope revealed more lunar geography and features, offering a "wow" factor for those interested in astrophotography.
The article discusses how CPU utilization is a misleading metric due to its inclusion of cycles waiting on main memory. This can dominate modern workloads, leading to incorrect conclusions about CPU bottlenecks.
Red Hat is merging its back-office staff with IBM by 2026. The move affects around 4,000 employees in HR, finance and administrative roles, while leadership remains at Red Hat.
The writer, born in 1990, rejects internet addiction, preferring offline life and hands-on experience. They vow to bring back 90s simplicity, excluding social media, and focus on real-world connections.
RSS, a technology that allows websites to share content with users, was once a promising standard for the web but has become obscure due to a contentious fork in its development. The fork, which occurred in 2000, led to the creation of multiple competing versions of RSS, including Atom, and ultimately hindered the technology's adoption and popularity.
People believe AI is a bubble if they think it's a hype cycle or overheated investment, but actual bubbles are false beliefs about reality that eventually get proven wrong. The question is whether AI will cause fundamental change, not whether it's a hype cycle or investment, which most people agree will be overhyped or lost.
An adjacency matrix is a square matrix representing a finite graph, and C++23's std::mdspan provides a more efficient way to handle multidimensional data. The code is improved by using std::mdspan to simplify indexing and reduce memory fragmentation.
CRDTs are replicated data structures ensuring Strong Eventual Consistency. They allow for low latency, fault tolerance, and offline functionality in distributed systems.
The user describes the process of optimizing and formal verifying a double-precision floating-point division function called "ddiv" using the Gappa tool and Rocq prover. The user encountered difficulties in using Gappa to verify the function's error bound, but eventually found a solution by providing hints to Gappa about the Newton-Raphson iteration and the final multiplication step.
ApeRAG is a production-ready RAG platform combining Graph RAG, vector search, and full-text search with AI agents. It supports MCP integration, advanced document parsing, and multimodal document processing.
New York City implemented a massive downzoning in 1961, stunting urban growth to nearly half its previous trend and resulting in stagnant population since then. Cities being valuable for the poor was a key unspoken reason for downzoning policies across America.
Michael Walther will cross the Atlantic on a 6m stand-up paddleboard, symbolizing long-term climate change efforts. He expects 4,000,000 paddle strokes, 600,000 kcal consumption, and 2500 hours of isolation over 3 months.
Netflix's Observability team initially had 20 independent apps, each with its own tools and practices, but users found it hard to troubleshoot due to disjointed experiences. The team re-organized into a unified Explore team through an Inverse Conway Maneuver, optimizing communication paths to produce a cohesive observability story.
The author discusses the importance of designing software with flexibility in mind, using the analogy of a car's design, where the primary function emerges from the interactions between components, rather than being a single component. The author advocates for an "inside-out" design approach, where the core mechanisms are designed first, and then the outer layers are added, allowing for ...
Plaintiffs' experts agree Google can operate ad services except indirectly open-web display. Prior cases cite for divestiture have distinct circumstances from this case.
Someone compromised Josh Junon's npm account, publishing backdoored versions of his package, 'color'. The affected code hooks HTTP requests to modify Bitcoin/Solana addresses to attacker-controlled ones & checks for Ethereum accounts to alter transactions.
The author surveys various books and articles from 1875, covering topics in math, economics, philosophy, and international relations, highlighting the works of notable figures such as William Stanley Jevons, John Tyndall, and Alfred Russel Wallace. The articles and books discussed touch on themes including the subjective theory of value, the limits of scientific laws, and the intersection of ...
The author, a member of the Grid-Aware Websites advisory group, explores the concept of grid-aware websites that adapt their performance based on a user's local energy grid cleanliness. They provide a proof-of-concept demo using Cloudflare Workers and HTMLRewriter API, and discuss implementation approaches for different frameworks, including 11ty and Astro.
To think of the late physician Oliver Sacks is to think of the people he wrote about, who made the world a bit larger and much more interesting.
You can't reliably determine if a JavaScript native function was overridden due to its dynamic nature. To check if a function is native, you can use its toString() method to see if it contains the '[native code]' substring.
The author discusses early computer navigation systems, including the 1981 Honda Electro-Gyrocator and the 1983 game Truckin', which used real-life highways and locations. The author also explores Roadsearch, a 1982 software package that allowed users to compute routes on their home computers, and its 1985 Commodore 64 version, Roadsearch-Plus, which had an updated database and routing information.
TheAuditor provides ground truth for AI-assisted development workflows by verifying code security and quality assurance. It helps developers trust AI assistants like Claude and Copilot by giving them eyes to verify code correctness and security.
Bob Stein, an idealistic and influential publisher, founded Voyager and developed electronic books that combined hypertext with rich multimedia content. Inspired by his work at Encyclopedia Britannica and Atari, Stein created innovative products like the Criterion laser-disc collection, which showcased high-quality video transfers and pioneered commentary tracks.