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Subscribing to LWN helps keep its publication going and offers immediate site content access and extra features. Typst is a document typesetting program well-suited for technical writing, offering high-quality results and a simpler markup system than LaTeX.
The user embarked on a trip to Greenland, experiencing harsh Arctic weather, limited amenities, and a unique culture that coexists with the country's inhospitable environment. Despite the challenges, the user found the Greenlandic people to be amazing, tough, calm, and kind, with a strong sense of resilience and adaptation to their surroundings.
SSH3 is a new SSH protocol running on top of HTTP/3 that aims to improve session establishment speed and security. It relies on QUIC and HTTP Authorization for authentication and connection establishment.
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The author recounts learning Microsoft Excel and discovering its utility in copying tables for Word, illustrating how individuals use only a fraction of software features. Companies often try to accommodate the majority, but end up neglecting a large, potentially profitable segment of users with specific needs.
A malicious MCP server, postmark-mcp, compromised 1,500 weekly users by silently copying emails to an external server. This incident highlights the vulnerability of the MCP ecosystem, where developers can create trusted but malicious tools that operate outside security perimeters.
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Samsung acquired Sound United for $350 million, expanding its audio brand portfolio, and Sound United will operate as a standalone business under Samsung's audio empire.
Scientists are leaving X due to declining professional value, citing rise in misinformation and harassment. They're switching to Bluesky, finding it more useful for networking and staying informed.
CJ showed Handy, an open source speech-to-text app that transcribes audio into text. Handy has simple settings allowing key binding and push-to-talk mode customization.
Epirus' Leonidas system successfully disabled 61 drones in a demonstration, showing a 49-drone swarm kill with one pulse of interference. The system features precision-controlled waveforms and low collateral damage in counter-drone operations.
User is worried Cloudflare is becoming a monopoly, causing net negative impact on internet with its captchas, vulnerabilities and data harvesting. They suggest alternatives for content delivery, such as Varnish and other CDNs, to avoid relying on Cloudflare.
Robotic researchers have been struggling for decades to create humanoid robots capable of human-like dexterity, but end-to-end machine learning methods relying on video data and teleoperation have yet to achieve satisfactory results. Despite promising demonstrations, these methods suffer from limitations such as no force feedback and medium precision, making it unlikely that humanoid robots ...
Staff at radical East London bookshop Scarlett Letters occupy the shop to protest working conditions, but are thwarted by owner Marin Scarlett who retrieves the stock with locksmiths and carpenters. The shop is now empty, but staff plan to reopen as a co-operative, "The People's Letters".
Research on 2,100 adults found that people with stronger, sustained social networks age more slowly as measured by DNA methylation patterns. Cumulative social advantage, including childhood warmth and adult relationships, reduces epigenetic aging and chronic inflammation.
Unsloth now offers the fastest inference for gpt-oss RL with 3x faster speed, 50% less VRAM and 8x more context without accuracy loss. It allows training gpt-oss-20b with GRPO on 15GB VRAM and gpt-oss-120b fits on 80GB VRAM.
Global mean surface temperature increased above 1.5°C in 2024 due to record CO2 growth. Amazon fires released 741 teragrams of carbon, a 20-year high, driven by heat and drought, with projected emissions increasing by 53-199% by 2100.
Alex Mehr and Tai Lopez, founders of Retail Ecommerce Ventures, are accused of running a Ponzi scheme, defrauding investors out of approximately $112 million. The SEC alleges they misrepresented companies' profits and used new investors' money to fund Ponzi-like payments and their own expenses.
Recent AI models have significantly improved performance by utilizing test-time compute and Chain-of-Tought (CoT).
The user had a conversation with Pranav about LLM observability issues with competing standards for default libraries. This led to problems for users getting better observability across their stack.
The user wrote about their experience with the Unite operating system, a microkernel OS they created in the early 90's. They revived the project after 30 years using modern tools.
Deboki Chakravarti creates educational science content; Jeff DelViscio is a multimedia editor for Scientific American. Eight others, including Andrew Moore and Liz Roth-Johnson, contribute to science and academia.
Tri Dao presented Flash Attention 4 for faster attention calculations in neural networks at Hot Chips. It is optimized for Nvidia's Blackwell Streaming Multiprocessor and achieves a 20% speedup over cudnn library.
An author gave a speech at Cornell, warning of an impending economic apocalypse due to the AI bubble, which he believes is driven by monopolists attempting to convince investors of AI companies' growth potential through misleading metrics.
Japan's washi paper has been crafted by hand for over 1,500 years and is prized for its beauty, strength, and distinct natural textures. If kept correctly, some varieties can last more than a thousand years. Ancient documents made with washi are proof of its remarkable longevity. BBC presenter Paul Carter visited Echizen to learn about the art of washing paper making.
Apple's A19 chip achieves single-thread performance with the highest score in benchmarking including desktop SKUs with power consumption of 12 watts. It outperforms AMD and Intel chips while being passively cooled, making it incredibly efficient.
President Trump signed a national security directive, NSPM-7, targeting left-wing terrorism. The directive identifies anti-Christian and anti-American views as indicators of radical left violence, retooling Joint Terrorism Task Forces to monitor and disrupt political groups.
Moderators resigned immediately due to Steering Committee's interference in moderation team. They apologize for leaving before a contentious election, feeling the Constitution lacks adequate recourse.
Norway's Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority will take over operation and ownership of Svalbard air monitoring from Finland. The move increases vigilance and nuclear preparedness in the High North.
Cracker Barrel faced a significant backlash after changing its logo, but nearly half of the early posts were generated by bots. The outrage appears to have been amplified by these bots, making it seem more organic and influential than it actually was.
This website offers the second edition of a computer vision textbook available for purchase at Amazon and other booksellers. The electronic version has hyper-links and commenting enabled, with course slides and a first edition also available.
Amazon Kindles have updated their DRM system making it impossible to break encryption and share e-books with piracy websites. Users with 11th and 12th-generation Kindles and Kindle Scribe's received a software update restricting sideloading and downloading e-books.
To test user interface accessibility, consider applying drunk-mode CSS rules that distort fonts and elements, making it deliberately unusable. However, actual usability testing involves collaborating with people with cognitive or physical disabilities to gather feedback and improve user experience.
Linux users can use and edit a new logo, 'The Other Linux Logo', designed with wider use cases in mind. It's under the Free Art License and available for download on the creator's GitHub repository.
"I've tried everything. Notion for journaling, Todoist for tasks, random habit apps. This is the first app that's minimal and has everything I need to build my dream life. I actually use it every day." "Finally. An app that doesn't try to do everything. Clean design, works perfectly, does exactly what it promises. I'm genuinely happy I found this."
Nvidia is investing up to $100 billion in OpenAI for new AI infrastructure, where OpenAI will use some of that money to buy or lease Nvidia hardware, creating a circular financing loop. This arrangement raises concerns about lack of transparency and potential risks, drawing parallels to the tech bubble of the late 1990s.
Converting MCP tools to TypeScript API improves AI agents' ability to handle complex tools. Using a secure Cloudflare sandbox, Agents SDK fetches MCP servers' schema and converts it into a TypeScript API.
Xeres enables fully decentralized communication without servers or accounts, allowing free speech and anonymity. It uses encryption and authentication for secure data exchange with friends and peers through a Friend-to-Friend network.
The author created a DIY air purifier called the Corsi-Rosenthal box and compared its performance to natural ventilation and a commercial Levoit 400s air purifier. The box performed well, beating commercial purifier CADR in a simple test of kale smoke.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has made several statements suggesting that his new AI model, GPT-5, will bring society closer to artificial general intelligence. However, many experts believe that AGI is unlikely to be created in the near future, and the hype surrounding it has grown out of proportion.
Pascal's 1642 invention, the pascaline, and Leibniz's 1694 stepped reckoner represented crucial breakthroughs in mechanical calculating machines. These early devices laid the groundwork for later theoretical work and eventually led to modern computing, demonstrating the concept of Intelligence Amplification, where external devices enhance human intelligence.
Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is escalating with 61% fatality rate, over 57 cases, and 35 deaths. Health responders need more funding, estimated at $25 million or $20 million to contain the outbreak, but only have $2.2 million or $4.3 million respectively.
Research shows myopia is increasing rapidly due to environmental factors such as screen time, lack of outdoors, and prolonged near work. Eye exercises and lifestyle changes may slow or halt decline in vision.
Firefox is adding visual search powered by Google Lens with a right-click option on images to find similar products, and get inspiration, but requires Google as default search engine. This feature will roll out gradually worldwide on desktops, with feedback invited on future entry points.
The author believes the AI bubble has started, driven by accelerating investment in a decelerating field. Regulators could burst the bubble indirectly by requiring banks and insurers to hold more capital against AI-related risks.
The article provides an introduction to PTX, the fundamental layer between CUDA code and hardware, explaining how it offers forward and backward compatibility, and its two-stage compilation process. The author explains how to write a simple PTX kernel using the .ptx file and CUDA Driver API.
Americans are using 37% of their PTO time to sleep rather than take a vacation due to higher costs of living and overall exhaustion. This trend is most prevalent among millennials but affects various age groups, including 20% of baby boomers.
The theory proposes that mountains are a significant underdiscussed factor in economic development, causing higher transportation costs, less trade, and more conflict in countries closer to the equator. This explains why warm countries are poorer, not due to laziness or Western colonialism, but because people have chosen to live in higher-altitude mountains for climate comfort.
The first modern Renaissance fair originated in 1960s Los Angeles as a fundraiser for Pacifica Radio featuring art, theater, and period costumes. It evolved into a countercultural hub with 200 annual events across the US, blending history and fantasy with artisan markets.
MacOS Tahoe users face difficulties due to removed Launchpad and lack of GPU support. LaunchNext offers a customizable alternative with Launchpad import and language options.
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Counterfeit wine experts use forensic techniques to detect fake wine bottles, including analyzing the gamma rays emitted by the radioactivity in the wine, which reflects the history of the atomic age. The Jefferson bottles, once valued at millions of dollars, were discovered to be counterfeits after an investigation found that they did not contain the radioactive isotope Cesium 137, which was ...
Main memory (RAM) is necessary for speed, as CPUs can only access data from it and registers are limited in number and size. Paging, a memory allocation strategy, divides main memory into fixed-size blocks to handle multiple processes and reduce external fragmentation.
US National Science Foundation is terminating lease for Nathaniel B. Palmer Icebreaker, impacting Antarctic research and global climate change studies. Researchers, including glaciologist Naomi Ochwat, rely on the vessel for accessing glacier edges and understanding climate change.
Researchers have developed sound gradual typing for programming languages to combine benefits of both static and dynamic typing. However, current implementations suffer from increased runtime overhead due to checking.
TinyWorlds uses an autoregressive transformer to learn world models from video data and infer actions between frames. It achieves this through various components including a video tokenizer, action tokenizer, and dynamics model, utilizing techniques like FSQ VAEs and distributed training.
Microsoft's Linux engineer Christian Brauner has sent 12 pull requests to address Linux kernel 6.18 issues including lockups when systemd units read files from lazytime-mounted filesystems. This causes CPU pegging for hours when exiting parent cgroup due to quadratic complex inode switching.
Our effort involves using property-based testing to test OCaml 5's runtime system, covering three case studies using a model-based state machine framework. We successfully used the approach to test OCaml's Array module, weak hash sets, and the garbage collector.
John Conway discovered a right triangle dividing into 5 similar triangles. Charles Radin first described the pinwheel tiling in a 1994 publication attributed to Conway.
The Pips game by NYT Games involves placing dominoes on a board while following numbered rules in colored regions. Players must think and plan strategically to fit the dominoes correctly with no gaps or overlaps.
Eff found that Meta disabled or removed accounts sharing abortion information without clear warning or repeated strikes. Meta's policies allow for account removal after 5 strikes but enforcement seems arbitrary and biased against abortion-related content.
Daniel Berkeley Updike wrote the book "Printing Types" in 1922 with a revised edition in 1937, tracing the history of typography from the 15th to 20th century. Nick Rougeux recently digitized the original work, making it available online along with high praised illustrations for purchase.
# Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/cydanix/whisperclip.git cd whisperclip # Build the app ./build.sh # For development ./local_build.sh Debug ./local_run.sh Debug # Debug build ./local_build.sh Debug # Release build with code signing ./build.sh # Notarization (requires Apple Developer account) ./notarize.sh
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Humans produce 1 unit of work per unit of time. AGI replicates this work using computers with costs αt(ω). Humans specialize in work that saves the most compute.
Recent genetic studies suggest chromosomes 2a and 2b of ancestral humans fused around 900,000 years ago. This event coincides with a possible ancient bottleneck in African ancestors, which may have occurred before the divergence of Neandertals, Denisovans, and modern humans.
A researcher created a tool called Csmith to generate random C programs and test the quality of C compilers, finding over 325 previously unknown bugs in three years and discovering that every compiler tested was prone to crashes and silent code generation errors. Csmith's design allows it to generate programs that cover a large subset of C while avoiding undefined and unspecified behaviors, ...
Moderators resigned immediately due to Steering Committee's interference in moderation team. They apologize for leaving before a contentious election, feeling the Constitution lacks adequate recourse.
A virtual machine is implemented software which can read and execute instructions and can be either a real CPU architecture emulator or a high-level language interpreter. A bytecode is the machine-readable binary code intended to be executed by a virtual machine. The most effective way to speed up virtual machine execution is to reduce the overhead of selecting which instruction to execute next.
Styx Emulator now available for public release, designed for security research and debug tooling. It fills the gap in current emulation tools for debugging embedded systems with features like fuzzing support and multi-processor capabilities.
Recycling plastic does little to solve the problem as only 10% of plastic is recycled. True change requires reducing, reusing and rethinking our plastic usage.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based open standard for structured content that empowers teams to create, reuse, and publish technical documentation at enterprise scale.
Supermicro server motherboards have two high-severity vulnerabilities allowing hackers to remotely install malicious firmware that runs pre-booting the OS and persists even after reinstalling the OS. A security firm discovered the vulnerabilities which reside inside silicon soldered onto Supermicro motherboards.
Casimir harvests energy from quantum fields using proprietary cavities, providing continuous power without batteries or cords. Microsparcs deliver high performance power density with multi-layer chip designs and advanced die-stacking for mass production.
A recent study found that standing desks burn only 8 calories more per hour than sitting desks. While standing may have other benefits like improved blood sugar control and reduced pain, a standing desk alone is unlikely to aid weight loss.
Tex worked in a semiconductor company's receiving department and was asked to inspect motherboards, where he correctly pointed out an upside-down chip causing electricity flow issues. He was questioned by a manager who assumed he was ignorant about motherboards.