GrapheneOS provides early Android security patches, backported to Android 13-16, while large companies like Samsung and Google take months to integrate them. This requires significant work and resources, slowing down GrapheneOS feature development.
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Tiny Core Linux is a minimal, ultra small graphical desktop OS that boots fast and supports additional apps and hardware. It's based on a core kernel and modules, with users able to add extensions from online repos or compile their own.
NanoKVM is a hardware KVM switch developed by Sipeed, but it has serious security issues including default passwords and a hardcoded encryption key, and it also contains a built-in microphone that can record audio. The device's security flaws are likely due to rushed development, but there are ways to install custom software and remove the microphone, and similar devices with hidden ...
Unix enthusiasts share their unchanged desktop habits over 13 years, still using terminals and command-line interfaces. They've switched to various Linux distributions and window managers, but remain loyal to their Unix roots and text-based work style.
The author enjoys retro aesthetics but acknowledges the past was not as charming as often portrayed, with many people facing hardships and difficulties. They appreciate the past's lessons, such as the value of music and community, but choose to live in the present with modern conveniences.
YouTube is quietly using AI to enhance videos by top creators without their knowledge or consent. Critics warn this sets a precedent for altering digital media, eroding trust and authenticity in online content.
Perl's growth was hindered by its culture, which was rooted in conservative UNIX sysadmin values and a tribal meritocracy, making it difficult for the language to evolve and adapt to changing needs. The language's culture and values, such as its emphasis on flexibility and its reluctance to change, ultimately led to its decline in popularity, but it remains widely used and influential in the ...
A clinician discusses the challenges of diagnosing autism, noting that many people self-diagnose with autism due to its high public awareness and perceived recognition of their social difficulties. The clinician emphasizes that autism diagnosis requires a nuanced understanding of various diagnostic possibilities, including anxiety disorders, schizoid personality, and social communication disorder.
A massive deal between OpenAI and Samsung and SK Hynix for 40% of the world's DRAM supply has caused a 156% price increase in RAM, leaving the market unprepared and scrambling to secure inventory. The shortage is expected to last for at least six to nine months, affecting various products including RAM, RADEON GPUs, XBOX, Nvidia GPUs, and laptops and phones.
Search if your license plate has been queried in the Flock mass surveillance database
arXiv has launched HTML papers alongside PDFs to improve accessibility, with a goal to backfill over 2 million papers over time. The beta rollout is a work in progress, and feedback from the community is needed to improve conversions from LaTeX.
Georgia Tech's OMSCS program offers public course content through Ed Lessons, excluding graded assignments. Students enrolled in OMSCS should access course content through Canvas for full versions.
Wolfram Compute Services allows users to scale up computations by sending them to a cloud-based system, providing access to supercomputer power. The service is easy to use, programmable, and offers various options for machine selection, notification, and job management.
Researchers at King's College London found that moderate coffee consumption is linked to longer telomeres in people with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, equivalent to a 5-year younger biological age. The study suggests that up to four cups of coffee per day may slow biological ageing in this population.
Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) is a specialized hardware accelerator that has enabled the company to excel in artificial intelligence, thanks to its focus on neural network inference and training. The TPU's design, which involves a systolic array and a scalar unit, has been optimized for performance and power efficiency, allowing it to outperform general-purpose processors in certain tasks.
The author is working on a project to port PalmOS to the Pixter Color, a toy device from the early 2000s, and has made significant progress, including creating a Pixter Color emulator and designing a board with a 1MB NOR flash for the OS. The author has also overcome several challenges, including the lack of a cache, MMU, and MPU in the Pixter Color's SoC, and has implemented a scheme to ...
VCMI is an open-source engine for Heroes III, offering new and extended possibilities. To use VCMI, you need to own the original data files. Download News Forum Go to VCMI-Discord
Linux Install Fest will be held on December 9, 2025, at the Faculty of Mathematics in Belgrade, to help install Linux on laptops. Several people with Linux experience will be present, and short trainings may be held on various topics.
CATL aims to provide zero-carbon marine transportation with electric ships navigating open seas within three years. The company has supplied batteries for over 900 vessels and is collaborating with shipping partners to advance electric shipping.
Amazon EC2 M9g instances powered by AWS Graviton5 processors offer up to 25% better compute performance and higher networking and EBS bandwidth than M8g instances. They are ideal for workloads such as application servers, microservices, and gaming servers.
The memory of web browsing being quick and easy lives with us all. Fewer pop-ups, less clutter, and finding what you need ASAP. When enabled, they provide helpful tools such as chat assistance, summaries, up-to-date web insights, and more.
Japan's unique "juhyo" or "snow monsters" are shrinking due to climate change and forest damage. A team is working to revive the fir forests and preserve the natural wonder, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors annually.
Protests in Beijing and China's cities in May 1989 led leaders to consider martial law, but a major-general objected to the order. He was punished with five years in prison for his defiance, a rare glimpse into dissent within China's Communist Party.
Moving fast is crucial in professional life as it allows for better work and faster learning from mistakes. Slow work can lead to outdated results and less relevant work.
The USAP Field Manual provides an overview of USAP field logistics, operations, and safety, intended to enhance success in the field. It emphasizes the importance of risk management, emergency preparedness, and environmental stewardship in Antarctica.
Germany's parliament voted to introduce voluntary military service for 18-year-olds, with a questionnaire to be sent from January 2026. The move aims to boost national defences and increase the military's strength to 260,000 personnel by the early 2030s.
Catala annotates legislative texts with code translations through programmer-lawyer pair-programming. It defines a Qualified Employee Discount as the lesser of an employee discount or the gross profit percentage of the customer price.
Researchers propose Zebra-Llama, a method to create efficient hybrid language models from pre-trained models, achieving Transformer-level accuracy with reduced training tokens and memory. Zebra-Llama outperforms existing models in accuracy and efficiency, using significantly fewer tokens and smaller memory.
User installed VPN after UK Online Safety Act blocked an article on The Free Press, citing security concerns with ID verification. They now use VPN to bypass censorship and protect their online identity.
A drone strike damaged the New Safe Confinement at Chernobyl, losing its primary safety functions. The IAEA recommends timely and comprehensive restoration to prevent further degradation and ensure long-term nuclear safety.
Vandals defaced OpenStreetMap in South Korea, but most changes were rolled back and over 50 malicious accounts banned. The issue is likely caused by a single employee trying to delete power plant data, not a coordinated attack by Korean right-wing groups.
The author analyzed Enigma Protector, a commercial software protection system, and found it to be ineffective due to a lack of runtime protection. The actual product, a VST synthesizer plugin, runs unprotected despite being protected by Enigma Protector during installation.
The European Union fined Elon Musk's X €120 million for breaching transparency rules. The fine consists of €45 million for verification checkmarks, €35 million for advertising transparency, and €40 million for researcher access.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and Leibniz Institute found a link between a 1345 volcanic eruption and the Black Death. The eruption led to crop failures, famine, and the introduction of the deadly bacterium Yersinia pestis to Europe via trade routes.
The 65XX series CPU has 105 extra opcodes that are not part of the standard 6502 instruction set, which can be used to perform various operations such as combining multiple instructions or accessing registers in unique ways. However, some of these opcodes have complex and variable behavior, and their operation may depend on the specific machine or circumstances, making them difficult to use reliably.
The user compared the speeds of various file copying methods on Windows, including File Explorer, rsync, robocopy, SFTP, and PowerShell's Copy-Item. File Explorer's copy and paste was the fastest at 111-112 MBps.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's visit to Ireland was disrupted by four military drones that breached a no-fly zone and flew near his plane. Ireland's lack of defense capabilities makes it a vulnerable target for hostile actors.
Hundreds of GPs in England believe mental health problems are being over-diagnosed due to societal pressures to medicalise normal life stresses. The GPs also worry about a lack of help for patients with mental health conditions, citing a need for better support and coping strategies.
PatchworkOS is a modular, non-POSIX operating system that rigorously follows the "everything is a file" philosophy, built from scratch in C and assembly for the x86_64 architecture. It aims to be educational and experimental, with a goal of creating a "real" operating system that runs on real hardware and has modern performance.
Yadea is the world's largest EV manufacturer by volume, selling over 6 million electric two-wheelers annually. They are launching four electric motorcycles in the UK, including the GFX, Owin, Velax, and Keeness, with prices ranging from £2,200 to £5,900.
Continuous Claude is a CLI tool that runs Claude Code in a loop to maintain context and improve AI coding efficiency. It enables self-improvement and tackles larger projects by persisting context and results across iterations.
tascli is a CLI task manager, allowing users to create, list, and record tasks and activities with various options and recurring formats. It can be configured to store the database in a custom location via a config file.
Gamma is a minimal C template engine that allows for generic code without parsing C. It can be bootstrapped by normal C compilers and supports object files, static archives, and linking against normal C object files.
Paul McCartney's song "Yesterday" was written in the hypnagogic state where he experienced a semi-conscious state between sleep and wakefulness. Research shows that this state can be a creative "sweet spot" where ideas emerge, and with practice, people can capture and develop these ideas.
This tutorial demonstrates how to add inference-time controls to pretrained flow-based generative models to make them perform tasks they weren’t trained to do, such as generating specific digits or filling in missing pixels. The tutorial explores guidance methods that work directly in latent space or decode to pixel space, including classifier guidance and inpainting, and provides code ...
Choosing an ID format for a system is crucial as it can become a long-term architectural constraint, and the format should fit the system's needs now and in the future. Different formats like auto-increment, UUIDv4, ULID, Snowflake, and OrderlyID have their trade-offs, and the best choice depends on the system's constraints, such as ordering guarantees, structure, and extensibility.
FuseCells is a logic puzzle game blending Sudoku, Minesweeper, and Nonogram styles with handcrafted puzzles and no ads. It offers 2500 puzzles, daily challenges, and a crystal rating system with beautiful cosmic visuals and offline play.
Mike Nagel on not being famous.
Wine 11.0 release candidate has begun, requiring testing to identify issues. Report any problems found to improve the final Wine 11.0 release.
Albert Michelson invented a harmonic analyzer to perform Fourier synthesis and analysis. The machine uses gears, springs, and levers to combine weighted sines or cosines and analyze functions.
OpenRouter's Broadcast feature sends trace data to external platforms automatically, enabling monitoring and analysis of LLM usage without code changes. It can be configured at individual user or organization levels with features like API key filtering and sampling rates.
Robotics engineers are developing humanoid robots that can perform tasks like humans, with some seeing them as a way to transform work and others as a potential threat. Companies like Apptronik and 1X Technologies are working on robots that can assist with household chores and other tasks, but experts warn of potential security and safety risks.
clbre is a fork of calibre without AI integration for personal use, keeping it up to date. calibre is an e-book manager with cross-platform support, available on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
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Apex is a Markdown processor that combines features from various syntaxes, aiming for universal compatibility. It's open sourced for contributions and testing, with a GitHub repo and wiki available.
A recent survey found most people view sharks as neutral, coinciding with a global treaty to protect declining species. The study suggests public perceptions of sharks are more nuanced than the stereotypical "menacing predator" narrative.
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The TapeHead tool allows stateful seeking, reading, and writing to file streams. It supports commands like read, write, seek, and more in a REPL session.
GitHub Actions lacks a fundamental security feature, the lockfile, which could prevent silent changes to workflow dependencies and provide reproducibility. The lack of lockfiles, integrity checks, and transitive dependency visibility makes GitHub Actions vulnerable to supply chain security attacks and is a major concern for software security.
The user discusses the WWII electromechanical fire control computer Mark 6, designed by Ford Instrument Company and manufactured by IBM, used for naval fire control. The device is manually powered and has a mechanical multiplier and spring motor, with mysteries surrounding its use and operation.
A custom OpenTelemetry Collector distribution can be built using the OpenTelemetry Distribution Builder, which automates packaging for multiple platforms and manages version releases via GitHub. The distribution can be built locally with Docker, Google Cloud Build, or a GitHub Action, and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.
Health Canada says a retracted study on glyphosate won't affect its approval, despite concerns over ghostwriting and potential carcinogenic effects. Glyphosate use is increasing in Canada, with 50 million kilograms sold annually, and Health Canada is being called to review the latest science.
You've created an all-in-one productivity model that people love once they try it, but struggle to understand before using it. This makes onboarding a challenge due to a lack of clear mental model.
Law firms are adopting technology to improve efficiency and client services, with large firms focusing on future-proofing and smaller firms on cutting administrative workload. Smaller firms can benefit more from legal tech due to shorter workflows and greater autonomy.
The author of the Heat Pumped Podcast recently appeared as a guest on Less Talk, More Action, discussing heat pumps and their adoption in California. They emphasized that while heat pumps may not offer significant cost savings, they provide better comfort and future-proof homes at similar lifetime costs.
SFX is a beginner-friendly programming language with JIT compilation and reactive observers. It can be built and run using Rust with commands like cargo build and cargo run.
This working paper extends the Resolution Cosmology framework to the microscopic sector, proposing α as a derived efficiency ratio. It yields a specific prediction for the redshift evolution of α and explains the Webb dipole.