Google is deprecating XSLT support in Chrome without providing a solid justification, instead offering a JavaScript polyfill that is not sufficient to cover all use cases.
Samsung's AppCloud app, preloaded on some Galaxy devices, raises privacy concerns due to ties with ironSource, a company with a controversial track record. Users are urging Samsung to provide a clear opt-out and make AppCloud's privacy policy public.
Aisuru botnet launched a 15.72 Tbps DDoS attack on Azure's network using 500,000 IP addresses. The attack targeted a specific public IP address in Australia with nearly 3.64 billion packets per second.
Replicate will continue as a distinct brand, integrating with Cloudflare's Developer Platform for better performance and resources. Replicate's abstractions will be built upon Cloudflare's existing tools for a distributed operating system in the cloud.
FreeMDU is a free open-source alternative to Miele's proprietary diagnostic software, allowing users to communicate with Miele appliances via an optical diagnostic interface. It's highly experimental and requires caution to avoid damaging devices.
The user wrote a C23 grep clone called cgrep using a custom header file called safe_c.h that provides modern safety features from C++ and Rust, making C code safer and more convenient to write. The custom header file includes features such as RAII semantics, smart pointers, automated reference counting, type-safe vectors, and explicit error handling, which help prevent common C pitfalls like ...
A custom search engine was built to use existing databases, respecting current architecture and giving full control over its workings. It tokenizes text into searchable pieces, scores matches based on relevance, and uses SQL queries for performance and control.
Gemini is a timeless internet technology for an electronic library of interconnected documents. It aims to provide a lightweight online space prioritizing readers' privacy, attention, and bandwidth.
Google DeepMind and Google Research introduced WeatherNext 2, a more efficient forecasting model that generates forecasts 8x faster with up to 1-hour resolution. It's now available in Earth Engine and BigQuery, and will power weather information in Google Maps.
You're working on a new edition of Ruby Under a Microscope covering Ruby 3.x, focusing on YJIT and ZJIT. YJIT counts function calls to convert code into machine language when a threshold is reached.
A North Korean encyclopaedia's 672 maps show Korea as one country, with the US and Japan depicted in dark grey as enemies. The maps also omit Israel and include the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic of Western Sahara.
The author argues that people often avoid discussing problems directly, leading to unnecessary drama and conflict. They suggest breaking out of "movie logic" by naming issues and communicating openly to resolve problems.
Flock Safety cameras are designed to watch cars for safety but can recognize vehicle features and track people. A Washington state judge ruled that Flock data is public, leading cities to deactivate their systems due to privacy concerns.
Microsoft is adding an experimental feature called Agent Workspace to Windows 11, allowing AI agents to access user folders and run in the background. This feature is optional and may affect performance and security, but gives users access to new AI experiences.
A new iTunesstored & bookassetd sbx escape exploit allows modifying the MobileGestalt.Plist file to change device details. This exploit supports all iOS devices up to iOS 26.1 and 26.2 Beta 1.
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ESPectre is a Wi-Fi sensing project that detects movement using Channel State Information (CSI) without cameras, microphones, or wearables. It uses a mathematical approach with 10 features and multi-criteria detection for movement patterns, with potential for future ML-based enhancements.
The author discusses how their company, Authress, maintains a 5-nines SLA (99.999% uptime) despite relying on AWS services, which are prone to failures. They explain how they use a combination of retry mechanisms, failover strategies, and automation to ensure their service remains available even when AWS services are down.
PrinceJS is the fastest Bun web framework in 2025. 19,200 requests per second in just 2.8 kB gzipped. Built by a 13-year-old Nigerian developer.
Iceland relies heavily on geothermal energy, which provides over a quarter of the country's electricity and heats most homes. The country's unique geology and innovative drilling techniques have made geothermal energy a cost-competitive and sustainable option.
Cloudflare engineers attempted to implement soft-unicast IP packet forwarding but encountered Linux networking stack limitations. They created a service called SLATFATF or "fish" to proxy IP packets.
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The user obtained a Sun Ultra 45 workstation, a pre-production model from 2006, and upgraded it with a second processor, 8GB of RAM, and two specialty expansion cards, including a Sun Flash Accelerator card to speed up ZFS operations. The user installed Solaris 10 on the machine and set it up with OpenCSW, a package manager for Solaris 10-native SVR4 packages, and configured it for basic ...
Ned is a retro-style text editor with GL shader effects, offering Tree Sitter syntax highlighting, LSP integration, and a terminal emulator. It can be embedded in other ImGui applications and supports multiple features like emoji support, themes, and AI integration.
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Huxley's lecture series discusses non-pharmacological means to self-actualisation through techniques like Alexander technique and Gestalt therapy. He advocates for adapting education to individual personalities and developing new methods to realise human potentialities.
Representative Greg Steube introduced legislation to make the American Community Survey voluntary, which demographers warn would undermine the accuracy of demographic data. The move is part of a broader Republican effort to limit the Census Bureau's ability to collect data, which is crucial for businesses and government officials to make informed decisions.
A psychologist studied shopping cart abandonment by analyzing 564 encounters between Cart Narcs and cart abandoners, finding various excuses and reactions, including entitlement, physical limitations, and social norms. The study suggests that people respond to incentives, signals of hierarchy, and social norms, and that reframing the act of returning a cart as a small act of kindness can be ...
Scientists at Crater Lake in Oregon measured its water clarity using a Secchi disc, finding it to be 78 feet, an unusually cloudy reading. The lake's clarity is getting clearer due to warmer surface water temperatures.
wBlock is a Safari content blocker for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS with 750,000 rules and Protocol Buffer storage. It compares favorably to other blockers like uBlock Origin Lite, AdGuard, and Wipr with low memory overhead and fast page loads.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr supported Donald Trump's call to fire Late Night host Seth Meyers after Trump criticized Meyers for his jokes about him. Meyers has responded to Trump's criticism with jokes, including a clip of Trump talking about aircraft carriers' catapult systems.
Effective altruism, inspired by Peter Singer's thought experiment, aims to maximize global good through rational decision-making. However, the movement has strayed from its original aim, attracting controversy and scandal due to its association with techno-fascists and wealthy individuals.
This repository allows running ancient UNIX versions on modern Unix-like systems. It includes UNIX versions released under the Caldera license and other components under different licenses.
Europe is planning a "drone wall" to protect against Russian drones, but experts question its effectiveness and cost. The wall would use a combination of radars, sensors, and jamming systems to detect and destroy incoming drones.
The user criticizes various markup languages and configuration languages, citing too many features, complexity, and lack of specification. They created their own language, MAML, based on JSON with a strict specification to address these issues.
parqeye lets you peek inside your Parquet files. Instantly inspect their contents, schema, and metadata β right from your terminal. Interactive Data Visualization - Browse through your Parquet data in a table view with keyboard navigation. File Metadata - View Parquet file-level metadata including version, created by, encoding stats and more.
More liberals, people of color, and LGBTQ individuals are buying guns due to fear of civil unrest and violence from President Trump's supporters. This trend is part of a years-long shift in gun ownership demographics, with many new gun owners saying they would use the weapons only for self-protection.
Ion is a modern Rust-based shell with a simple syntax and high performance. It's still a work in progress but has a stable RFC process and IDE support through a LSP-server.
Private equity firms are buying mobile home parks, causing rent increases and evictions, trapping residents in their homes. Residents are fighting back with laws and solutions to protect their homes and communities.
The Jevons Paradox states that increased productivity leads to increased consumption, while the Baumol Effect states that stagnant productivity leads to increased prices. As AI adoption increases, we can expect to see both effects, with some services becoming cheaper and others more expensive.
Ford is listing its certified pre-owned vehicles on Amazon's new car buying site, available in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Dallas. Amazon aims to appeal to dealers by offering a new sales channel with millions of customers.
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Hundreds of tonnes of illegal waste have been dumped in a field near Kidlington, Oxfordshire, posing environmental risks and a potential fire hazard. The Environment Agency is investigating and has obtained a court order to close the site, but critics say they lack the resources to deal with the issue.
The UK government plans to outlaw reselling tickets for profit, allowing sellers to charge only the original face value. Resale platforms like Viagogo and StubHub may be forced to stop operating in the UK if they cannot benefit from mark-ups.
Aristotle believed humans are rational due to forming views based on evidence and reconsidering it. However, a study found chimpanzees can also form and revise beliefs based on evidence, showing they may be almost as rational as humans.
The DESI collaboration found slim but significant evidence that dark energy might be getting weaker with time, based on a survey of 13 million galaxies. This result suggests a possible evolution of dark energy, which could change our understanding of the universe's history and properties.
Honda engineers made a simple arithmetic mistake in designing a musical road, resulting in a badly tuned melody. They tried to fix it by editing the sound, but not the actual road, and congratulated themselves for being awesome.
We implemented compio-ws, a WebSocket library for the compio async runtime, to enable WebSocket support in Apache Iggy. The library uses a bridge layer to provide synchronous I/O traits to tungstenite while internally using compio's async owned-buffer I/O.
The author argues that Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is flawed and introduces more problems than it solves, while Functional Programming (FP) is a more efficient and effective approach. The author recommends using languages that don't have classes or avoiding classes if possible, and writing functional code to achieve simpler and more maintainable code.
Substrate claims to have developed a chipmaking tool rivaling ASML's equipment, aiming to reduce costs and compete with TSMC. The US startup secured $100 million in funding and government interest for its US-based contract chip-manufacturing business.
The user created bsub to simplify running heavy command-line tools from web apps by sending files to the cloud, executing jobs, and retrieving output. bsub allows users to run tools like Whisper and FFmpeg as remote batch jobs with no environment setup.
Thiel Macro LLC sold all 537,742 Nvidia shares, dropping its equity holdings to US$74.4 million. The move comes amid concerns of an AI-driven bubble in technology stocks and Nvidia's 36% stock increase over the past year.
The user created a custom AppError newtype in Rust to simplify error handling in Axum handlers, allowing them to use the ? operator and ditch verbose match statements. They implemented the IntoResponse and From traits for AppError using the anyhow crate, enabling automatic conversion of any error type into a proper HTTP response.
Kalendis is an enterprise scheduling backend with automatic timezone handling and conflict resolution. It generates clients for various languages and frameworks, allowing developers to build scheduling apps quickly.