The FSF's Librephone initiative aims to bring full freedom to mobile computing by replacing nonfree software in Android devices. Experienced developer Rob Savoye leads the project, which is funded by a donation from FSF board member John Gilmore.
People rely on news to stay informed about the world, but the media focuses on rare, dramatic events rather than common causes of death. This mismatch can lead to a distorted perception of the world's problems.
We conducted a comprehensive study of 39 geosynchronous satellites across 25 longitudes with 411 transponders using consumer-grade equipment. We found 50% of links contained cleartext IP traffic, revealing sensitive internal network security practices of organizations.
The general public misunderstands AI systems due to applying knowledge about regular software to AI, which is architecturally different. This leads to unrealistic expectations about fixing bugs and ensuring AI safety.
A surveillance company called First Wap sold phone-tracking software to clients worldwide, including authoritarian governments and corporate actors, for various purposes. The company's executives were aware of the potential for misuse and even helped clients evade sanctions.
GrapheneOS is partnering with a major Android OEM to bring its privacy-focused OS to Snapdragon-powered smartphones. The new devices will be priced similarly to Pixels and available globally, but the partner's name remains unknown.
The US Department of Justice seized $15 billion in cryptocurrency from a man overseeing a massive 'pig butchering' fraud operation in Cambodia. The alleged mastermind, Chen Zhi, faces up to 40 years in prison if convicted of wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy.
News organizations including The New York Times and The Associated Press refuse to sign a Pentagon document about new press rules, fearing punishment for protected news gathering. The Trump administration may evict their reporters from the Pentagon due to this refusal.
A startup's data model is its core concept or object that shapes everything from UI/UX to pricing and GTM strategy, and it's often the key to success in competitive markets. A differentiated data model can create compounding advantages that competitors can't replicate, making it a critical edge for companies that want to innovate and dominate their markets.
SQLite is implemented in C due to its speed and portability. C is a well-known language that allows for fast and reliable code.
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You're skeptical about agentic coding and its hype, citing issues with GPT-5 and Gemini Pro in updating Go code. You're questioning the reliability of these models in making background changes.
Cloudflare Workers initially performed worse than Node.js on Vercel in CPU-intensive tasks, but after investigation and improvements, they now perform on par with Vercel in most cases.
KDE is celebrating its 29th anniversary with a fundraiser to raise at least €50,000. Your donation keeps KDE's free software sustainable and independent, serving marginalized users and public institutions.
The author tested cheap ADS1115 modules and found they mostly work as expected, but with some variations in timing and accuracy. A linear correction can improve accuracy to within 10 µV.
American students have regressed to a level not seen in 25 years, with 33% of eighth graders and 40% of fourth graders unable to read at a basic level. The decline began before the pandemic and is attributed to a combination of factors, including smartphones and low expectations in schools.
smolBSD is a meta-operating system built on NetBSD, allowing users to create custom OS images in minutes. It uses the netbsd-MICROVM kernel and supports various services like sshd, httpd, and more.
BoldVoice's accent training app used a finetuned HuBERT model to identify accents in non-native English speech and found that geographic proximity and immigration affect accent groupings more than language taxonomy. The model's latent space visualization shows clusters of accents from similar regions, such as Australia and Vietnam, and India's southern and northern languages.
An international team discovered a dark object with one million times the mass of the Sun using gravitational lensing effects on distant galaxy light. The discovery was made with a network of radio telescopes forming a virtual supertelescope, enabling detection of small gravitational signals.
Apple's Liquid Glass interface design can be controlled through Accessibility settings in various operating systems, including macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS, to reduce distractions and improve readability. Users can adjust settings such as Reduce Transparency, Increase Contrast, and Bold Text to customize their interface and make it more usable for their needs.
Ben Werdmuller, Senior Director of Technology at ProPublica, delivered a keynote at FediForum discussing the importance of decentralized social networking and the open social web. He emphasized the need to support communities with real-world use cases and solve their problems better than existing solutions.
Intel announced Crescent Island, a next-gen enterprise GPU for AI, built on Xe3P Celestial micro-architecture with 160GB LPDDR5x memory. It's optimized for performance-per-Watt, air cooled, and cost-optimized, with customer sampling starting in H2 2026.
Type check over 1.85 million lines of code per second.ⓘTested using Meta infrastructure (166 cores, 228 GB RAM) Type checking the PyTorch codebase from scratch.ⓘTested using Macbook(10 cores: 8 performance + 2 efficiency cores, 32 GB RAM)
Scott Leiendecker, a Republican operative, controls voting machines and digital pollbooks used in over half of America, enforcing Trump's unconstitutional election rules. He's linked to voter roll purges and "election integrity" teams that can manipulate votes and control who gets to vote.
Cortex Core Clerkship Transcript Normalization feature has inaccuracies in some automation-extracted grades. Reviewers should verify grades against official transcripts and MSPE, which remain fully accessible within Cortex.
Sony unveiled the PlayStation 3's Cell Broadband Engine, a joint project with IBM and Toshiba, which combines a multi-core design with a focus on vector processing to tackle scalability issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The Cell processor consists of a PowerPC Processing Element (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs), with a unique Element Interconnect Bus (EIB) that ...
The user is excited about Ruby's readability due to its block-based syntax, which allows for method chaining and creates a natural language-like feel. They believe this feature is essential for understanding Ruby and wish they had seen it earlier in their learning process.
AppLovin installs apps on users' Android devices without their consent, violating Android security rules and user expectations. User complaints and source code analysis confirm this, contradicting AppLovin's claims of "explicit user choice."
The user provided a list of functions and operators from the K programming language. The list includes various mathematical, logical, and string operations.
We design programming languages to experience new ideas and explore the unexpressed, not just to express existing concepts. A programming language is defined by its syntax, semantics, and ecosystem in support of exploration.
Researchers are trying to edit mitochondrial DNA, which is inaccessible to CRISPR, to treat genetic disorders. They have made progress with tools like zinc finger nucleases and base editing, but challenges remain in safely and accurately editing mtDNA.
The new http.CrossOriginProtection middleware in Go's standard library can prevent CSRF attacks by checking the Sec-Fetch-Site and Origin headers, but it has limitations and is not sufficient as the only protection against CSRF. To build secure web applications without token-based checks, use HTTPS, enforce TLS 1.3, SameSite cookies, and http.CrossOriginProtection middleware, and accept the ...
Wireshark 4.6.0 supports parsing process info from network captures on macOS. It also allows capturing on multiple interfaces at once using "pktap" with a list of interface names.
Copy-and-patch compilation is a method for fast runtime code generation that produces native code quality comparable to traditional JITs. It works by writing stencils, minimal C functions that implement operations, and then copying and patching them at JIT compile time.
The NVIDIA DGX Spark is a compact, all-in-one machine that brings supercomputing-class performance to a desktop workstation form factor. It features 128 GB of coherent unified memory, allowing both CPU and GPU to access the same address space, and is ideal for prototyping, model experimentation, and edge-AI research.
SpaceX's Starship megarocket successfully completed an hour-long test flight, marking the second clean test run for Version 2. The mission aimed to test Starship's reusability and prepare it for future missions, including a moon landing for NASA in 2027.
The author criticizes Let's Encrypt certificates for introducing real risks to solve imaginary problems and argues that they are not free to run.
The Trump administration canceled the Esmeralda 7 solar project, one of the world's largest, due to regulatory barriers and delays. This move has industry observers worried about the future of renewable energy on public lands.
Rye treats control structures like if and for as regular functions, allowing for composition, passing, and customization. This approach provides consistency, flexibility, and extensibility, making it easier to create and use custom control structures.
Researchers found Telegram's E2EE protocol vulnerable to efficient algorithm substitution attacks, potentially allowing state-sponsored surveillance. A minor change to the protocol's padding methodology can make it subversion-resistant.
Tesla faces battery issues in 4,500 South Korean vehicles, potentially affecting government subsidies. The problem, linked to a "BMS_a079 error," limits battery charge to 50%, crippling vehicle range and prompting a recall demand from a civic group.
Jeffrey S Flier criticizes Robert F Kennedy Jr's performance as HHS Secretary due to his lack of medical background and promotion of unproven health claims. Flier argues that Kennedy's actions threaten to dismantle the US health system and calls for his replacement.
Litestream 0.5.0 has been released after a two-year pause, but users are advised to wait for further testing due to significant changes and bugs. The new version includes an official Docker image and improved functionality, but users have reported issues with backup format changes and configuration file updates.
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Scientists at the University of Cambridge created 3D embryo-like structures called 'hematoids' that produce blood stem cells and mimic early human development. Hematoids hold potential for understanding blood disorders and producing compatible blood for transplants through personalized medicine.
We replaced our 30-year-old refrigerator with a new one, saving 57 kWh of electricity per month. The new fridge will pay off in 38 months based on current electricity prices.
The author argues that dynamically-typed languages like JavaScript can be beneficial for web development due to their ability to encourage writing to the DSL and reduce complexity. However, the author suggests that statically-typed languages like Rust can be improved with better tooling to make them easier to use and more maintainable.
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Policymakers are exploring various economic policy ideas to respond to AI's impacts, including workforce development, permitting reform, and fiscal policy. These ideas aim to mitigate potential negative effects on the labor market and ensure workers and communities benefit from AI advancements.
Adding breadcrumbs to a Rails app improves user experience and SEO by letting users know where they are and how to reach their desired target. This can lower bounce rates, increase visit duration, and improve search engine rankings.
Metorial is a platform that enables AI developers to connect their models to thousands of APIs, data sources, and tools with a single function call. It uses the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and offers a simple, unified interface for developers.
Nexperia's former CEO Zhang Xuezheng was suspended and CFO Stefan Tilger is acting as interim CEO after a Dutch Enterprise Chamber hearing. The Dutch government intervened with an emergency order to protect European economic security due to Nexperia's managerial shortcomings and export control restrictions.
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Scientists in Oxfordshire have uncovered a 220m long dinosaur trackway, one of the longest found, with footprints of a 18m long sauropod dinosaur. The discovery provides valuable insights into dinosaur behavior and movement, and is a significant find in the UK.
The White House fired 1,100-1,200 HHS employees, including 700 CDC staff, in a mass reduction-in-force. The firings targeted programs related to injury prevention, respiratory disease, and chronic disease.
Andrej Karpathy's nanochat project provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM that can be trained for $100. It uses PyTorch and can run on inexpensive devices like Raspberry Pi.
Ally Petitt, a 17-year-old, shares her journey from wanting to be a doctor to becoming a cybersecurity professional, earning the OSCP certification at 16 and discovering multiple CVEs. She balances school life with her professional aspirations and plans to continue learning and contributing to the industry.
NPR will lose Pentagon access due to refusing to sign a document restricting journalists from soliciting unapproved information. This policy would limit our ability to hold government officials accountable and provide accurate reporting.
The user modified a Casio F series watch with a clear screen, negative display, and repainted crystal to achieve a minimalist aesthetic. The user documented the process and provided step-by-step guides for others to follow, including styling suggestions for the modified watch.
Set up Tempesta FW with ClickHouse database to block users by JA5T, JA5H, or IP. Configure separate directories for JA5 hashes in Tempesta FW configuration file for default blocking.
Researchers developed StreamingVLM to process infinite video streams in real-time without high latency or memory usage. StreamingVLM achieves a 66.18% win rate and stable performance at 8 FPS on a single NVIDIA H100.
Implementing guardrails and maintainable code helps teams ship fast and reduces repetition. A designated accountable person ensures rules are followed and patterns are tuned for $10,000+ a year.
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold failed a durability test, catching fire after a bend test, due to weak antennas near the hinge. This is similar to its predecessors and contrasts with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7's success in the same test.
The average US new vehicle price exceeded $50,000 for the first time in September at $50,080. Luxury vehicles and expensive EV models contributed to the record price, with EVs making up 11.6% of the US market.
User tracked daily installs of a Visual Studio extension and used Discourse API to paginate posts in a support forum. User created a dashboard with AI assistance from Claude and invites suggestions for additional tracking metrics.
Scientists at NC State propose adding a fourth color, white, to traffic lights to improve road safety and efficiency for human and autonomous drivers. The white light would indicate when autonomous cars are coordinating traffic, reducing delays and increasing safety.
A user discussed the correct method to convert gamma-corrected sRGB colors to greyscale, which involves linearizing the RGB components first. They also found an alternative formula using coefficients optimized for nonlinear values, which seems to work slightly better on a test image.
Australian authorities are investigating a US-based website that lists mobile numbers and emails of well-known Australians, including the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader. The government has taken steps to address the issue and the Australian Federal Police will take action against individuals who misuse the information.
The user built AI agents for a website copying tool, but they ran autonomously until they hit a budget limit or error. They added circuit breakers with multiple stop conditions to prevent excessive spending and errors.
Scientists used 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency's Swarm satellite to discover the South Atlantic Anomaly has expanded by nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014. The anomaly's expansion is linked to reverse flux patches in Earth's liquid outer core and rocky mantle.
A unified theory of matter and gravity leads to a wavefunction collapse in a local, parameter-free model. This model makes testable predictions.
InventWood has launched Superwood, a new type of wood engineered to be up to 20 times stronger than regular wood and 10 times more resistant to dents. Superwood's production process involves chemically treating wood to enhance its natural cellulose, making it a more durable and sustainable construction material.
The GitHub Spec Kit is an experiment in Spec-Driven Development (SDD) that uses Large Language Models (LLMs) to help create deterministic software by focusing on clear specifications and requirements. The Spec Kit provides a set of commands and tools to help developers create and refine specifications, plans, and tasks, and then use an LLM to implement the project, with the goal of improving ...
A new garbage collector called immix is introduced, which combines mark-region collection and opportunistic defragmentation to achieve space efficiency, fast collection, and contiguous allocation for mutator performance. Immix outperforms existing canonical algorithms, improving total application performance by 7 to 25% on average across 20 benchmarks and matches or beats a highly tuned ...
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