YouTube removed CyberCPU Tech's videos on installing Windows 11, citing risk of death, but later restored them. This incident highlights automated moderation systems' struggle to distinguish legitimate content from harmful material.
Meta made $16 billion from scam ads and banned goods in 2024, according to internal documents. The company prioritized enforcement in regions with steepest penalties, but moderation team cuts left most user-reported violations ignored.
Soumith Chintala is leaving Meta after 11 years and PyTorch after 8 years as its leader. He's confident that PyTorch is in good hands with a strong team and will continue to evolve.
The Farmers' Almanac will publish its final edition in 2026 after over 200 years of sharing weather, wit, and wisdom. Copies of the 2026 edition are available online and in local stores, with website access until December 2025.
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Denmark's government plans to ban social media access for those under 15, with some exceptions for parental consent. The move aims to protect children from harmful content and commercial interests in the digital world.
Vodafone is abandoning public internet exchanges in Germany, outsourcing peering to Inter.link, a company that charges content providers for traffic. This move is expected to cause significant service degradation for Vodafone customers.
Tim Cook is criticized for diluting Apple's focus on customer experience by introducing ads in Apple products, a move Steve Jobs would have rejected. This shift is seen as a compromise of Apple's values for profit, with some speculating that Tim Cook is not as protective of the user experience as his predecessor.
Nilo Stolte discusses the features of the Zig programming language, highlighting its unique compilation capabilities, simplicity, and robustness. He provides examples of using Zig to implement a Sudoku game, demonstrating its low-level capabilities and the use of test blocks for prototyping and debugging.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf received the European SFS Award 2025 for his dedication to VLC, a widely used media player. He transformed the project from a student initiative into a powerful universal media player with billions of users worldwide.
The author appreciates OCaml's simplicity, fast compile times, and good documentation, which make it a pleasant language to use. They value its balance between simplicity and expressiveness, and consider it a "damn good" language despite its old age.
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Myna is a monospace font designed to treat symbols as first-class glyphs, aiming to bring harmony to editors and terminals. It features language-aware design and a simple, expandable layout.
OpenMW version 0.50.0 is released with improved gamepad support, quick item transfer, and various bug fixes. The update also expands the Lua scripting API and introduces Polish translations for user interface lines.
The author of HeheStreams built trust with users through word-of-mouth and personalized communication, focusing on customer experience and retention. They used a unique growth hack involving Reddit's API to attract new subscribers and encourage referrals.
The user is a compiler engineer who shares their experience and advice on breaking into the niche field, including job hunting, interview preparation, and standing out in a competitive job market. They also mention their personal story, including their education and career path, and promote their debut novel, "You Had Me at Hello World".
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people overestimate their abilities due to lack of knowledge. This mindset is encouraged in the tech world where "fake it till you make it" and deception are seen as smart moves.
The author created a custom traceroute program called ktr to visualize the path of packets across the Internet, using ICMP packets with increasing TTL fields. The program reveals the networks and autonomous systems that packets traverse, governed by the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) and peering relationships between networks.
The author hosts monthly Zoom sessions for developers to ask questions and shares knowledge, recently discovering the built-in Ruby class Gem::Version for parsing version numbers. They organize local Coffee and Code coworking sessions in Portland, OR, fostering connections and potential future collaborations.
Gmail doesn't just offer to write your emails for you, they actually do it, and it's up to you to delete the text it wrote. Hard to make a screen shot to demo without revealing personal info. That's how awful this thing is. It reeks of desperation.
Fil-C is a memory-safety tool that adds instrumentation to clang for spatial and temporal safety. It has a modest performance overhead and is highly compatible with existing code.
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Researchers at Virginia Tech found that memory loss in older subjects is linked to specific molecular changes in the brain. By adjusting these processes, they improved memory in older rats, offering a potential path forward to treatments for Alzheimer's disease.
The author worked with angel investors to grow their company Akita, receiving valuable advice and introductions from mentors like Jason Hong and Elad Gil. They share tips on choosing strategic angels and keeping in touch with investors through regular updates.
Stategraph uses OCaml to manage Terraform state, ensuring state corruption is impossible by catching bugs at compile time. OCaml's type system prevents entire categories of bugs, making maintenance easier and reducing production crashes.
Government shutdown causes FAA to limit commercial rocket launches to 10pm-6am EST to minimize airspace restrictions. This affects SpaceX and NASA missions, including the ESCAPADE Mars mission, due to staffing shortages and air traffic delays.
React has become the platform due to LLMs preferring to output React code, creating a self-reinforcing cycle of adoption. New frameworks and platform features face significant hurdles in getting adopted by LLMs and developers, making it difficult to displace React in the short to medium term.
Scientists at UC Riverside found that breathing Salton Sea dust can alter lung microbes and immune responses in mice, even after one week. The study suggests that long-term exposure to the dust may contribute to asthma and other respiratory diseases.
The user argues that software development lacks scientific rigor due to anecdotal evidence and untestable claims, making it similar to UFOlogy. They propose that software engineering needs to adopt a more scientific approach, focusing on hard data and refutable hypotheses to improve its understanding and credibility.
The user is experiencing performance issues with their game made with JavaScript and the KAPLAY library, particularly when running as a desktop app. They're seeking feedback and have shared a build for Windows, Mac, and Linux to test and record gameplay.
The user created a JavaScript code to switch between slides and notes in a presentation by using the BroadcastChannel API to communicate between windows and the nextElementSibling property to check for notes. The code uses keypress events to navigate and toggle between slide and note views, and can be minified to a small size while still being practical to use.
The user is designing a custom dev board using the RP2040 SoC and KiCad, explaining the process of creating a schematic and adding components such as power decoupling capacitors, an LDO, a crystal oscillator, and flash storage. The user also adds header pins to the schematic and assigns footprints to the components, preparing for PCB manufacturing.
Ribir is a Rust GUI framework for building native multi-platform apps from a single codebase. It uses a declarative language with Rust macros for easier interaction and supports various features like state conversion and GPU rendering.
The US stock market fell on Friday with the S&P 500 set to end a three-week gain streak due to concerns over valuations in AI stocks and a decline in US consumer sentiment. The market remains vulnerable to volatility amid a government shutdown and a cooling labor market.
You spoke at JSConf Mexico about Web Monetization, a system allowing publishers to earn revenue and audiences to support content they love. It uses a balance-controlled, real-time payment model, and you encourage users to try it with the Interledger Foundation's extension and a wallet like GateHub.
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Claude's Status Page - Elevated errors for requests to Claude 4, 4.5 Sonnet and 4.5 Haiku.
Sizable Energy is developing a floating pumped hydro power plant that can store energy for hours at a lower cost than traditional batteries. The plant uses two sealed reservoirs connected by a tube and turbines to generate electricity when needed.
The Statute of Westminster introduced the concept of Time Immemorial in 1275, referring to events before 3rd September 1189. This date marks the coronation of King Richard the Lionheart, chosen as the barrier between known and unknown events.
Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil did not invent frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) communication. Their actual invention was a player-piano-like synchronization mechanism, as described in US patent 2,292,387.
Research psychologist Dr Angelica B Ortiz de Gortari studied game transfer phenomena (GTP), a common occurrence where gamers experience distortions outside of the game. Up to 96.6% of hardcore gamers report some variety of GTP, which is not a disorder but can have negative consequences.
The author argues that young men are struggling due to a combination of factors including an unfair education system, lack of male role models, and rising costs of living. This has led to social isolation, unemployment, and a decline in traditional masculinity.
Researchers disentangled memorization in transformer models using loss landscape curvature, leading to a weight editing procedure that suppresses memorized data more effectively. This procedure negatively affects fact retrieval and arithmetic tasks, but conserves general logical reasoning.
JermCAD is a browser-based 3D CAD model renderer that uses YAML syntax to design and visualize 3D models with real-time export capabilities. It supports geometric shapes, boolean operations, and reusable parametric shape templates called stamps, allowing users to define complex assemblies and maintain consistency across their models.
The user is trying to reverse engineer the file format of the original Xbox game Splinter Cell, specifically the common.lin file which contains 54 Unreal Engine Package files, and is attempting to dump individual files from this filesystem to look for cut content. After a week of static recompilation and analysis, the user decided to inject code into the game using XboxImageExploder and ...
A new report from News Literacy Project found that 84% of US teens describe news media with negative words, often characterizing it as deceptive or biased. The teens also believe journalists frequently make up details and pay for sources, with many saying they are not concerned about the decline in news organizations.
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp called his company "anti-woke" and praised employees for supporting free speech and meritocracy. Palantir reported a 63% revenue increase to $1.2 billion, with US commercial revenue more than doubling.
A jury found Sean Charles Dunn not guilty of assaulting a federal officer with a Subway sandwich in Washington D.C. Dunn was charged with a misdemeanor after throwing the sandwich in August, sparking debate about criticizing the Trump administration.
A prvalue isn't necessarily a temporary, it's an expression representing the idea of an object that materializes into a temporary when needed. Prvalues can be used to initialize objects directly without creating a temporary.
Microsoft created a review system for employees to raise concerns about technology use, following reports of mass surveillance data on Palestinians stored on its cloud servers. The company will strengthen its human rights due diligence process and allow employees to raise concerns anonymously without retaliation.
The list of countries appears to be a collection of nations from around the world. The graph in Figure 4.2 shows world trade from 1969 to 2007.
The user discusses the challenges of writing event-driven code in C++ and how C++20 coroutines can improve the process, but finds the explanation of coroutines in C++20 documentation to be incomprehensible. The user provides a detailed explanation of how to use coroutines in C++20, including the co_await operator, coroutine handles, and the return object type, and discusses the design of ...
Play Three Emojis, a free daily word puzzle game. Can you find all the words?
A $40 million factory, GAMMA, in Guam can 3D print industrial-grade parts for Navy ships and submarines. The factory aims to create jobs and strengthen the island economy, with plans to diversify into commercial applications.
The user thrives under high-pressure work, but this stress bleeds into their home life, causing irritability and affecting their family. They're trying to find a balance and design a system to separate work and home life without sacrificing their high-sensation seeking personality.
This repository contains a deep research agent named TTD-RAG, a faithful implementation of the framework proposed in the paper "Deep Researcher with Test-Time Diffusion". It generates research reports through an iterative denoising process.
Researchers developed a method called "mind captioning" to generate descriptive text from brain activity, accurately capturing viewed and recalled content. The method uses linear feature decoding analysis and a novel optimization method to produce coherent and structured descriptions that reflect the brain's semantic information.
A new paper suggests facial expressions can reveal personality traits to recruiters, raising concerns about potential bias in hiring. This raises questions about job applicants' rights and potential discrimination.
Itiner-e aims to host the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. The data creation is a collaborative ongoing project edited by a scholarly community. Itiner-e allows you to view, query and download roads.
ES2025 introduces new features like the Decimal type and improved syntax for cleaner, safer code. This upgrade shifts the JavaScript mindset, enabling more expressive and powerful coding.
North Sea oil workers must weigh 124.7kg or less to fly offshore due to safety concerns. Over 2,200 workers are above the limit and may lose their jobs if they cannot meet the new requirement by November next year.