ChatGPT may introduce ads in its Android app, initially limited to search experience, with highly personalized content. This could impact user experience, especially if ads are not disabled.
Applicant faced uncertainty and self-doubt during graduate school applications due to low GPA and GMAT score. A supportive person's words helped applicant persevere and eventually secure admission.
Bazzite is a Linux gaming distro that offers a seamless handheld gaming experience, solving hardware and software headaches for users. It's a great alternative to Windows for handheld gaming PCs like the Asus ROG Ally X and Lenovo Legion Go.
Iceland's government has designated the potential collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation as a national security threat due to its catastrophic impacts on climate and economy. The collapse could lead to huge global weather shifts, rising sea levels, and disrupted monsoon systems, posing an existential threat to Iceland's infrastructure and industries.
A user has successfully booted and run various Mac OS versions on a Mac mini G4, including System 7.5, 7.5.3, 7.6, 8.1, and 9.2.2, thanks to patches and ROM files created by Rairii and ELN.
A space-based datacenter is a terrible idea due to power, cooling, and radiation tolerance issues, making it disproportionately costly and offering mediocre performance compared to Earth-based datacenters. The user, a former NASA engineer and Google scientist, highlights the significant challenges of powering, cooling, and protecting electronics in space, making a space-based datacenter ...
The Be Like Clippy movement aims to make companies more transparent and user-friendly by embracing open data practices. It encourages developers and users to opt-in for data collection instead of being forced to use exploitative services.
Most Americans now think a four-year college degree is not worth the cost due to rising tuition prices and debt. A new NBC News poll shows 63% of voters agree a degree is not worth the cost, a 20-point decline over the last 12 years.
Implementing AI without optimizing business processes is like speeding up garbage generation. AI can handle unstructured data, but it requires structured workflows, which means improving process design before applying AI.
Mathematicians often rely on a few key tricks or techniques that they have mastered and can apply in various situations, such as interchanging the order of summation, applying the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, or using generating functions. These tricks can be used to solve a wide range of problems and can be combined in various ways to tackle more complex challenges.
Landlock is a Linux API that allows applications to declare allowed resources and restrict access to everything else. It provides a simple, developer-friendly way to add defense-in-depth to applications with transient restrictions.
A few tricks and techniques can be useful when evaluating integrals. one such trick is to parameterise the integral so that it simplifies some parts of it, says stefan krueger jr. another useful integral is: you can differentiate either (a)) or '(b) if you want to rewrite the logarithm as an integral, he adds. for further
Researchers suspected AI-generated peer reviews at ICLR 2026, citing hallucinated citations and vague feedback. Pangram Labs analyzed submissions and found 21% of peer reviews were fully AI-generated and 9% of manuscripts contained over 50% AI-generated text.
The user is looking for a refresher on Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs) and wants to know which CRDT to use in different scenarios, including counting, sets, sequences, and garbage collection. The user is also looking for a guide to help cut through the overwhelming literature on CRDTs and provide intuition on how merges work, as well as a list of key papers and tradeoffs to ...
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A new study suggests exercise may not provide the same benefits in polluted areas, with protective effects dropping to 12-15% in areas with high PM2.5 levels. Cleaner air and regular exercise are both crucial for healthy ageing, and tackling pollution can significantly enhance health gains.
James A Garfield, the 20th US president, discovered an original proof of the Pythagorean theorem in 1876. His nontrivial proof involves congruent triangles and the area of a trapezoid.
The author is concerned about vitamin D deficiency due to the wintry weather in London and its potential effects on bone health, immune systems, and heart health. They plan to take a 10-microgram vitamin D supplement as advised by the UK government.
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The EU's Chat Control plan, aimed at detecting child abuse, has been reworked to avoid public resistance, but critics argue it still poses significant risks to privacy and fundamental rights. The revised plan allows for voluntary mass scanning and mandatory age-verification systems, which could lead to widespread surveillance and undermine online anonymity.
Phoronix.com celebrates 21+ years of Linux reviews and news with 5,500 reviews and 48,400 articles. Framework Computer becomes the first sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) with an annual dues of around $10k USD.
The user is developing a self-hosted search engine that can handle personal data across various devices and platforms, with a focus on end-to-end encryption and user authentication. The project aims to provide a flexible and hackable interface for searching and querying personal data, using a combination of traditional and machine learning-based attributes.
CloudFlare's RRDNS serves DNS requests quickly and handles attacks. It recently fixed a LOC record parsing issue, allowing 743 records to be served correctly.
Spherical and hyperbolic triangles have unique properties, with area determined by angle excess or defect. In both geometries, small triangles have interior angles near π.
Nano PDF is a CLI tool that edits PDF slides using natural language prompts powered by Google's Gemini 3 Pro Image model. It requires a paid Google API key and can process multiple pages in parallel with configurable resolution.
The car escape tool market is growing due to heightened safety concerns, but most tools are ineffective against modern laminated car glass. Seatbelt cutters may be useful for first responders, but glassbreakers are mostly a myth for regular drivers.
A zero knowledge proof (ZKP) proves a statement without revealing the underlying information. ZKP can be used to prove a number is composite without revealing its factors.
Students found AI coding assistants helpful for grasping code concepts and boosting confidence initially but struggled when working unaided. This highlights a need for pedagogical approaches that integrate AI effectively while enhancing core programming skills.
The author, an ML infrastructure engineer, wrote the Jetpac framework to run AI models at scale on low-cost hardware, and now leads Moonshine, a company focused on AI efficiency. He believes the current AI bubble is unsustainable due to inefficient spending on hardware.
Martin Odersky, Scala's creator, started programming at age 20 with a Sinclair ZX 80 and later worked on a Modula-2 compiler. He became a professor and researched functional programming, leading to the development of Pizza and GJ, which influenced Java generics.
DMT shifts brain oscillations away from criticality, increasing entropy and reducing complexity. This shift correlates with intensity of self-dissolution in psychedelic experience.
Neato Robotics is phasing out cloud services due to outdated infrastructure and new cybersecurity standards. Users can still operate their robots manually and find support at neatorobotics.com.
Scala is a software tool for experimenting with musical tunings, supporting scale creation, editing, and analysis. It's a free application available on multiple platforms, ideal for exploring tunings and familiarizing with musical concepts.
The Great Downzoning, a widespread reduction in allowed building heights and densities, occurred in Western countries from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries. This led to housing shortages and had baleful consequences for health, family formation, the environment, and economic growth.
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Chainalysis is running a deanonymization attack on Monero users who use remote nodes, making their transactions transparent. To counter this, run your own Monero node and use Tor from a non-linked IP address.
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earlier this week i shared the how-to for this website, which is running on an old smartphone folks on lobste.rs and hacker news pointed out the fire risk of keeping a lithium battery plugged in all the time the fairphone 2 being as modular as it is, it was trivial to open the phone, pop the battery out, and duct-tape the micro-usb charging cable to the phone to avoid accidental dos
Researchers acknowledge helpful discussions and support from various institutions and individuals for their paper on capital gains taxes and entrepreneurship. The views expressed are those of the authors and do not reflect the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Magiclip uses AI to transform YouTube videos into viral TikTok content in minutes with its three-step process. It offers various plans for video creation, including Creator, Expert, and Professional, with features like AI voice and image generation.
Quebec introduces Bill 9 to ban public displays of religion, including prayer in institutions and public spaces, with critics saying it disproportionately affects Muslims. The law invokes the "notwithstanding clause" to shield it from challenges under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
The FBI’s FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI’s capability to re-review and/or re-process this material. Please note, that the information found in these files may no longer ...
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OCaml maintainers rejected an AI-generated pull request with 13,000 lines of code due to copyright concerns and lack of review resources. The rejection raises key issues about AI and open source, including the need for clear policies on AI-assisted code contributions.
MINT is a markup language that allows users to define custom commands for specific content, similar to LaTeX but with a parser. It's designed for users to implement processing logic in their preferred language, rather than relying on a declarative system.
The author discusses the pigeon-hole principle, a fundamental tool in combinatorics, and its usual misleading and overspecific formulations.
Baboon is a minimal Data Modeling Language that generates implementations and enforces schema evolution. It provides ergonomic schemas, efficient encoding, and automatic codec derivation.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes AI will make software development more accessible to non-engineers through "vibe coding" where users describe what they want in natural language. However, critics argue AI oversimplifies real engineering work and still struggles with complex systems and edge cases.
Entropica is a generative language model that uses a passive linear-optical interferometer for inference, reducing power consumption. It generates coherent text in under 1.8 hours on a laptop GPU, with a potential for full optical implementation.