Google flags Immich sites as dangerous

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Our immich.cloud domain was flagged as dangerous by Google Safe Browsing, making it inaccessible to users due to false positives from preview environments. We resolved the issue by requesting a review through Google Search Console and moving preview environments to a dedicated domain, immich.build.

Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

The user has shared a list of their favorite shell scripts, which they use for various tasks such as managing their clipboard, creating directories, and controlling their system's WiFi.

MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

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Hello, I did not find a new image for the security release Security/CVE RELEASE.2025-10-15T17-29-55Z, on quay.io nor DockerHub. Is it expected? If it isn’t, can you please push a new release for this installation method? Thank you.

Greg Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, has died

Dr Gregory B Newby, CEO of Project Gutenberg, died after a short battle with cancer. He led Project Gutenberg for over 20 years, making over 75,000 ebooks available.

Accessing Max Verstappen's passport and PII through FIA bugs

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Researchers found a vulnerability in the FIA driver categorization website allowing them to gain admin access and access sensitive information of F1 drivers and FIA operations. They exploited a mass assignment vulnerability in the website's HTTP PUT request to update user roles.
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The current cookie banner system is broken, causing consent fatigue, punishing small businesses, and not giving users real control over their data. A better approach would be to place the burden of consent on browsers, allowing users to set their preferences once and have them automatically applied to all websites.

Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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Meta is cutting around 600 AI team roles, but still hiring for its superintelligence team, TBD Lab. The company is restructuring to focus on AI products and infrastructure, allowing impacted employees to apply for other roles.

Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware

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Scientists have successfully run a quantum computer algorithm 13,000 times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer. This breakthrough, called Quantum Echoes, enables precise measurements of molecular structures and paves the way for real-world applications in medicine and materials science.

AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time

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Researchers found AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini often misrepresent news content, with Gemini performing worst. This endangers public trust and could deter democratic participation.

French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence

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Nicolas Sarkozy, France's first ex-president to go to jail, starts a five-year sentence for conspiring to fund his election campaign with Libyan money. He protests his innocence and will be held in isolation at La Santé prison.

JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart

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Stalwart now fully supports JMAP for Calendars, Contacts, and File Storage, marking a new era for open groupware. This release simplifies collaboration protocols, making them easier to implement and more efficient.

Greenland’s national telco, Tusass, signs new agreement with Eutelsat

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Greenland's national telecom company Tusass signed an agreement with Eutelsat to provide satellite internet through OneWeb, improving connectivity in remote areas. The new service aims to bring faster and more stable coverage to towns and settlements in East and North Greenland.

I see a future in jj

The author was introduced to Rust in 2012 and saw its potential due to market fit, a solid team, and a potential user base. They joined the team and co-authored The Book.

Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study

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A national study found that public Montessori preschool programs deliver stronger early learning outcomes for children at a lower cost. Montessori programs showed sustained benefits, with children scoring higher in reading, memory, and executive function by the end of kindergarten.

Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation

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Ovi is a video+audio generation model that generates synchronized content from text or text+image inputs. It can produce 5-second videos at 24 FPS and supports high-resolution upscaling.

Criticisms of “The Body Keeps the Score”

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Bessel van der Kolk's book "The Body Keeps the Score" has been widely acclaimed but is criticized for its scientific inaccuracies and misrepresentation of research, with many claims not supported by evidence. Dr. Michael Scheeringa's book "The Body Does Not Keep the Score" systematically debunks van der Kolk's claims, highlighting the book's fatal shortcomings and the need for a more nuanced ...

OpenBSD 7.8

OpenBSD 7.8 has been released with significant improvements, including new features, bug fixes, and security enhancements.

Element: setHTML() method

The setHTML() method sanitizes and inserts untrusted HTML strings into an element, removing XSS-unsafe elements and attributes. It uses a sanitizer configuration to define allowed elements and attributes, with default configuration allowing all XSS-safe elements.

Rivian's TM-B electric bike

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Also unveiled its TM-B electric bike, TM-Q pedal-assisted quad, and Alpha Wave helmet with advanced safety and connectivity features. The TM-B e-bike has a 100-mile range, 28mph top speed, and modular design for easy transformation into different modes.

Living Dangerously with Claude

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The speaker discussed the benefits and risks of using coding agents with minimal restrictions, also known as "YOLO mode." They showcased three projects completed in 48 hours while Claude Code ran in YOLO mode.

Why I'm teaching kids to hack computers

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The user created a game called Hacktivate that teaches kids aged 13+ about computer science skills in a fun way through 240 "capture the flag" challenges. The game covers topics like SQL injection, cryptography, networking, and steganography, and is designed to be safe and structured, with a focus on inspiring a new generation of hackers to experiment and learn.

Look, Another AI Browser

OpenAI announced Atlas, a Chromium browser with AI features, but the author remains uninterested in new browsers with AI slapped on top. The author finds it ironic that Sam Altman is excited about Atlas, given his company's goal of creating super-intelligence.

Why SSA?

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Static Single Assignment (SSA) is a compiler architecture that converts imperative code into a combinatorial circuit, making it easier to analyze and optimize, and is widely used in many optimizing compilers. SSA form is achieved by introducing a new register for each assignment and using phi nodes or block arguments to link registers across basic blocks, allowing for the use of graph ...

Linux Capabilities Revisited

Capabilities in Linux divide root privileges into distinct units for controlled privilege management. They provide a more granular access control mechanism than traditional superuser model, allowing for more secure and controlled privilege management.

HP SitePrint

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Convert 3D model to 2D .dxf CAD file using HP Plug-in and save to cloud for version control. Use HP SitePrint to print robot-ready file with ±3/32 in accuracy.

Wren: A classy little scripting language

Wren is a small, fast, class-based scripting language with concurrent fibers and a C API. It's designed for embedding in applications and has a compact, readable implementation.

Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss

Tesla is recalling 13,000 vehicles due to faulty battery pack connections that can cause sudden loss of power. The recall affects Model Y SUVs and Model 3 sedans produced from March to August.

Starcloud

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Starcloud, a startup, is launching an AI-equipped satellite to bring state-of-the-art data centers to outer space, addressing Earth's energy consumption and cooling challenges. The satellite will offer 100x more powerful GPU compute than previous space-based operations, using space as an infinite heat sink and solar power.

Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset

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Samsung introduced Galaxy XR, a headset built on Android XR, offering an infinite screen and new ways to interact with technology. Galaxy XR combines AI assistant Gemini with awareness of surroundings, allowing users to navigate and access apps, games, and experiences in a virtual environment.

Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)

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Researchers discovered cryptographic issues in Cloudflare's CIRCL library, specifically with the FourQ elliptic curve implementation. They reported the issues and contacted Cloudflare directly after receiving a lukewarm response from the HackerOne triage team.

The security paradox of local LLMs

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Local LLMs like gpt-oss-20b are vulnerable to attacks due to weaker reasoning and alignment capabilities. They can be tricked into generating malicious code with up to 95% success rate.

ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with

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The ROG Xbox Ally handheld PC runs Linux better than Windows, achieving higher and more consistent frame rates in games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Hogwarts Legacy. Linux also offers faster wake-up times and a more seamless experience, with the Bazzite distro being actively patched and improved by the dev team.

Democracy and the open internet die in daylight

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The Washington Post offers free access to news through PerplexityAI's proprietary browser, built with agentic AI. This shift in funding model from adtech to agentic AI may not be a solution to journalism's current state.

SourceFS: A 2h+ Android build becomes a 15m task with a virtual filesystem

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SourceFS is a high-performance virtual filesystem that accelerates Android code checkouts by over 10× and builds by up to 10×. It reduces disk space requirements and lowers compute costs by up to 14×.

NextSilicon reveals new processor chip in challenge to Intel, AMD

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Sandhill cranes have adopted a Canada gosling

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A sandhill crane family in Madison, Wisconsin, is raising a Canada goose chick as their own, a rare cross-species adoption. The gosling's future is uncertain due to differences in diet, behavior, and migration strategies between the two species.

Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo

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AMD's Strix Halo chip uses a 32 MB Infinity Cache to handle high bandwidth requirements, staying well clear of DRAM bandwidth limits in various graphics workloads. The cache captures approximately 73% of memory traffic, providing reasonable "bandwidth amplification" at reasonable resolutions, but becomes less effective at higher resolutions.

Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms

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Mosquitoes were found in Iceland for the first time in the country's history, with three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes discovered on a farm near Reykjavik. The insects likely arrived by freight and can withstand Iceland's climate, but do not carry known infections.

A Word on Omarchy

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Omarchy is a pre-configured Arch Linux installation that comes with a TUI installer and a collection of shell scripts, but it has several security and functionality issues, including a lack of exception handling and poorly written scripts. Despite its opinionated configuration, Omarchy's default settings are not secure, and its firewall is not enabled, leaving users vulnerable to potential ...
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Researchers created 'Dragon Hatchling', a Large Language Model inspired by the brain's scale-free network, combining strong theory and interpretability with Transformer-like performance. It uses synaptic plasticity and Hebbian learning to process language inputs and exhibits biologically plausible mechanisms for speech.

Django 6.0 beta 1 released

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Django 6.0 beta 1 is available for testing new features and bug fixes. It's not for production use but can be downloaded for testing and bug reporting.

An overengineered solution to `sort | uniq -c` with 25x throughput (hist)

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The tool hist provides a command-line interface to count unique lines in a file or from stdin, with various options for filtering and sorting. It is being compared to the equivalent functionality of cat, sort, and uniq for performance using nucgen and hyperfine.

Who benefits from the MAHA anti-science push?

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr's health advisors promoted the Make America Healthy Again movement at a trade show, claiming it would benefit businesses. The movement is backed by well-funded groups led by people who profit from anti-science policies and selling potentially harmful goods.

Tarmageddon: RCE vulnerability highlights challenges of open source abandonware

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A critical bug, TARmageddon (CVE-2025-62518), was found in the async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, allowing RCE through file overwriting attacks. The bug impacts major projects like uv, testcontainers, and wasmCloud, and has been patched in some forks.

Show HN: Cuq – Formal Verification of Rust GPU Kernels

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A project introduces a framework for formally verifying Rust GPU kernels by translating Rust's MIR into Coq and connecting it to PTX memory model. The framework aims to establish soundness of atomic and synchronization operations for a well-defined kernel subset and provide a foundation for future verified compilation of GPU code.

Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B

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Cdb: Add support for cdb64

The code has been modified to improve performance, security, and compatibility by replacing integers with num, updating functions, and removing deprecated features. The changes also fixed a bug and updated the version to 2025.10.21, with new dependencies and compiler options.

Jacqueline – A minimal i386 kernel written in Pascal (2019)

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Jacqueline is an experimental bootloader written in Pascal for i386 architecture. It uses Free Pascal's low-level features like memory addresses and inline assembly.

Cigarette-smuggling balloons force closure of Lithuanian airport

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Dozens of balloons carrying cigarettes from Belarus into Lithuania forced the temporary closure of Vilnius airport overnight. The incident is the most intense this year, with over 500 balloons entering Lithuania so far.

How Apple's walled garden protects ICE

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The Epic Games v. Apple lawsuit led to Apple maintaining control over the App Store, allowing the Trump administration to pressure Apple into removing the ICEBlock app. This outcome has given the government leverage over Apple, enabling them to force removal of apps they deem undesirable.

YASA beats own power density record pushing electric motor to 59kW/kg benchmark

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YASA broke its own record with a new 59kW/kg power density benchmark for electric motors. The motor achieved 750kW peak power and 350-400kW continuous power in a 12.7kg design.

Sequoia COO quit over Shaun Maguire's comments about Mamdani

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Spotify running ICE recruitment ads about "dangerous illegals"

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Spotify defended its decision to run ICE recruitment ads, saying they don't violate policy and are part of a US government campaign. Users have voiced outrage and threatened to unsubscribe, citing the ads' fearmongering content.

Officials scrub data showing US citizens swept up in immigration arrests

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Florida officials allegedly hid records of US citizens swept up in Trump-era immigration dragnet after being questioned. The state's immigration data dashboard initially showed 21 US citizens arrested, but the numbers changed after inquiry.

Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab

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Knocker is a self-hosted service providing single-packet authorization for Homelab services, allowing private access on-demand. It integrates with Caddy and FirewallD for enhanced security.

Viral 'Free Potatoes' Post Cost This Farmer 150 Tons of Crops

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A Polish farmer, Piotr, lost 150 tons of potatoes after a false Facebook post claimed he was giving them away for free. The post spread quickly, attracting hundreds of people who took the potatoes, leaving Piotr with an empty field.

The Logarithmic Time Perception Hypothesis

Logtime is the cognitive hypothesis that our age is our basis for estimating time intervals. the longer we become, the faster we seem to age, or, conversely, shorter the years seem, says j.m. kenney. some authors have identified the change in time perception with changing metabolic rate, but is there enough change to account for the former? he says that a log scale has no origin, no zero, ...

How count-min sketches work – frequencies, but without the actual data

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The user built a Count-Min Sketch from scratch in JavaScript to estimate word frequencies in PG Wodehouse's novels and learned how to tie error rate and confidence to the number of rows and columns in a sketch. The user also derived formulas to calculate the number of rows and columns needed for a specific error rate and confidence, and applied these formulas to calculate the required number ...

Chezmoi introduces ban on LLM-generated contributions

chezmoi is a Go project requiring Go 1.24 or later, with tests that skip if required software is not found in $PATH. Running full tests requires specific tools including age, git, and python3.

Show HN: Create interactive diagrams with pop-up content

Vexlio adds interactivity to diagrams with popups, allowing high-level content and on-demand details. It offers a solid platform with tools for faster, neater diagramming and presentations.

42,600 ton ship to break the world record for the deepest drill at 7 miles

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China's Meng Xiang drilling vessel, weighing 42,600 tons, aims to reach 11 kilometers beneath the seafloor, rewriting Earth's geological understanding. The vessel's advanced technology and capabilities will unlock secrets of the planet's deepest mysteries and potentially reshape geological theories.

The Stagnant Order. and the End of Rising Powers

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The era of rising powers is ending as no country is growing fast enough to challenge the global balance, with the US still outpacing rivals. The world is now a closed club of aging incumbents, circled by middle powers, developing countries, and failing states, with few exceptions.

Subprime Lender PrimaLend Enters Bankruptcy After Bond Default

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PrimaLend filed for bankruptcy due to missed interest payments on its debt. The company provides financing to subprime auto dealerships with estimated assets and liabilities below $500 million.

VortexNet: Neural network based on fluid dynamics

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This repository contains toy implementations of VortexNet concepts for integrating fluid dynamics into neural architectures. It includes scripts for building and training VortexNet Autoencoders on MNIST and custom image datasets.

System.LongBool

Boolean values are denoted by the predefined constants True and False. A LongBool value is considered False when its ordinality is 0, and True otherwise. Note: The ByteBool, WordBool, and LongBool types exist to provide compatibility with other languages and operating system libraries.

Tiny sugar spoons are popping up on NYC fast-food menus

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New York City requires chain restaurants to display a warning symbol next to sugary drinks and snacks with over 50 grams of added sugar. The goal is to empower consumers to make healthier choices, but some public health researchers question the effectiveness of the small, black-and-white symbol.

Rethinking CQRS: An Interview on OpenCQRS

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Frank Scheffler, Managing Director at Digital Frontiers, discussed the origins and design principles of OpenCQRS, a CQRS framework that focuses on flexibility, usability, and scalability. OpenCQRS aims to simplify event-driven systems and provide a lightweight, modular, and cloud-ready architecture that integrates well with Spring and other frameworks.

Enchanting Imposters

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Earle Havens teaches a course at Johns Hopkins University on historical forgeries, where students create and defend fake historical documents. The Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection, a rare book collection, chronicles the history of literary forgery from ancient times to the 20th century.

The persistence of tradition: the curious case of Henry Symeonis (2023)

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Henry Symeonis was a wealthy Oxford townsman who murdered a student in 1242, leading to his exile. The University of Oxford kept a 500-year grudge against him, immortalizing his name in its statutes until it was finally abolished in 1827.

Show HN: Semantic Art – Uses natural language prompts to find real artwork

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Explore and discover artworks from words, ideas, emotions, poetry, images, and more.

The fix wasn't easy, or C precedence bites

You released a new version of mod_blog ahead of schedule, removing over 3,000 lines of code, including a long-standing feature for processing input sequences and email notifications.

I built MindMaps for Linux and Git cmdz with quiz, typing game and cheatsheet

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Show HN: AutoLearn Skills for self-improving agents

AutoLearn converts AI reasoning steps into deterministic code for reliable and cost-effective execution. It enables agents to develop genuine skills that evolve and improve, reducing reliance on RPA and workflow automation tools.

Galaxy XR, the first Android XR headset

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Samsung introduced Galaxy XR, a headset built on Android XR, offering an infinite screen and new ways to interact with technology. Galaxy XR combines AI assistant Gemini with awareness of surroundings, allowing users to navigate and access apps, games, and experiences in a virtual environment.

I Bought $250k Worth of Physical Nickels

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Chess engines didn't replace Magnus Carlsen, and AI won't replace you

The user compares using chess engines to training with coding assistants, where the assistant generates code and the user reviews it to learn and improve. This process helps the user develop expertise and avoid blindly accepting suggestions.

The Great Butterfly Heist

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A butterfly collector named Colin Wyatt stole thousands of rare specimens from Australian museums in the 1940s, including a fake flame hairstreak holotype. The case highlights the complex history of museum collections built by collectors with questionable ethics, including those with colonial and imperial ties.

Magic sizes enable high-fidelity assembly of programmable shells

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Researchers studied icosahedral shells formed of programmable triangular subunits to identify design principles for high-yield assembly with minimal complexity. They found symmetry-based rules to inhibit defects, reducing complexity and experimental cost for large target assembly.

HarmonyOS 6 Full Overview: New Design, AI Features and Privacy Upgrades [video]

Simplify Your Code: Functional Core, Imperative Shell

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This article was adapted from a Google Tech on the Toilet (TotT) episode. You can download a printer-friendly version of this TotT epis...

VST 3.8.0 SDK Released (VST3 is now open source, released under the MIT license)

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New MIDI 2.0 interfaces and Wayland support added, along with Task Concurrency API for scheduling tasks. VST and ASIO technologies now available for other manufacturers on macOS and Windows.

Female spies are waging 'sex warfare' to steal Silicon Valley secrets

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Chinese and Russian operatives use "sex warfare" to seduce and spy on Silicon Valley professionals. They also target US tech workers through competitions and sabotage, costing the US up to $600 billion annually.

Cubical Quad Antennas and Margaret's Letter

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The user found a vintage book with an old envelope and note inside, which led to a historical investigation to date the items. The items were dated to Summer 1968, with the envelope possibly sent to Mr. F. Beamond in Bishop's Castle, Shropshire.

How do LLM's trade off lives between different categories?

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Researchers tested the implicit utility functions of various large language models (LLMs) and found that most models value non-white lives more than white lives, women and non-binary people more than men, and undocumented immigrants more than ICE agents. The results vary widely across models, but some models, such as Grok 4 Fast, show more egalitarian views, and the researchers recommend that ...

Sentence Transformers is joining Hugging Face

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Sentence Transformers, a popular open-source library for generating high-quality sentence embeddings, is transitioning from the UKP Lab to Hugging Face. The library will continue to be community-driven and open-source, with Hugging Face providing infrastructure and support for its growth and innovation.

The Apple factory: What perfect coordination feels like

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Apple's ecosystem is a model for seamless coordination between devices, achieved through a design philosophy that treats coordination as a first-class citizen. This philosophy can be applied to physical operations, enabling machines to work together in harmony and solving long-standing problems in industries like manufacturing.