The Supreme Court ruled against President Trump's ability to impose tariffs, citing Congress's power to do so. This decision represents a rare check on Trump's executive authority.
F-Droid users were misled into thinking Google canceled plans to lock down Android, but the plans are still scheduled. F-Droid is raising awareness about the issue with a banner in their app and website.
User logged into Facebook after 8 years and found their feed filled with AI-generated thirst traps and spam, but also some genuine content and memes. They were shocked by the extent of the algorithmic feed's focus on engagement bait and decided to leave the platform.
The author built their startup on European infrastructure, choosing providers like Hetzner, Scaleway, and Bunny.net for compute, storage, and CDN services. They self-hosted services to maintain data sovereignty and avoid American dependencies.
Announcement We are happy to announce that ggml.ai (the founding team of llama.cpp) are joining Hugging Face in order to keep future AI truly open. Georgi and team are joining HF with the goal of s...
Taalas developed a platform to transform AI models into custom silicon, resulting in faster, cheaper, and lower power hardware. Their first product, a hard-wired Llama 3.1 8B, achieves 10X faster performance, 20X lower cost, and 10X lower power consumption than current state-of-the-art solutions.
WikiLeaks' Vault7 revealed a CIA developer tip to clean stale git branches using git branch --merged, grep, and xargs. This command helps keep local branches organized by deleting merged branches except the current one.
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A diving instructor discovered a critical vulnerability in a major diving insurer's member portal, exposing personal data of students, including minors, due to incrementing numeric user IDs and static default passwords. The organization responded with legal threats and an NDA, rather than gratitude and a plan to notify affected users, highlighting a common issue in the security research ...
The author visits San Francisco and notices a city where people are obsessed with AI and startups, with ads everywhere promoting B2B services for entrepreneurs. The author meets Roy Lee, the founder of Cluely, a startup that uses AI to assist people in their work, but whose true intentions and personality are more complex and disturbing.
Wikipedia editors have decided to deprecate Archive.today due to its involvement in a DDoS attack and altering archived webpages. Over 695,000 links to Archive.today will be removed and replaced with other archive sites.
The Financial Times offers a limited time deal with savings based on annual price, then $75 per month after February 25th. Cancel anytime during the trial period for complete digital access to quality journalism on any device.
The author criticizes Dependabot for generating unnecessary security alerts and recommends using govulncheck and scheduled GitHub Actions to filter out irrelevant alerts.
PayPal notified customers of a data breach after a software error exposed sensitive info for nearly 6 months. The breach affected small business loan app users, with exposed info including Social Security numbers.
Natalia sold clips to 48 of her friends in April, and then she sold half as many clips in May. To find the total number of clips Natalia sold in April and May, we need to calculate the number of clips she sold in May first. Since she sold half as many clips in May as in April, we can find the number of clips she sold in May by dividing the number of clips she sold in April by 2.
The author learns an unfamiliar codebase by starting with a bug report, reducing it to a minimal case, and understanding the code involved in the bug. They use visualization to see how the code flows through the system.
Modern browsers support web components, custom elements, and native event systems, allowing developers to build sophisticated interfaces without frameworks like React or Angular. Web components offer stability, reduced complexity, and smaller bundle sizes, making them a viable alternative for new projects, especially for smaller teams or solo developers.
Download the latest DMG from the Releases page, open it, and drag the app to Applications. That's it β no Xcode or developer tools needed.
The author argues that the illusion of a lower barrier to entry in tech, fueled by LLMs, has led to a surge in poorly crafted and derivative applications. This noise is a perversion of years of skill and taste accumulated by professionals.
Civilians are pushing back against surveillance and data collection by destroying Flock cameras and protesting data center projects, while gig workers demand stolen wages be returned. Resistance to Flock and data centers is widespread, with many cities rejecting contracts and residents taking action against surveillance.
The RP2350 chip in the Pico 2 can be overclocked to 873.5MHz with a 3.05V core voltage. Diminishing returns are seen above 700MHz, and the chip remains hardy despite extreme temperatures and high voltages.
This project reads raw 3-axis acceleration data from Apple Silicon's M1/M2/M3/M4 chips via IOKit HID callbacks. It uses ballistocardiography to estimate heart rate via mechanical vibrations transmitted through the laptop chassis.
Osaka received a 560 million yen gold donation to fix its ageing water system, worth 46lb of gold. The donation will help tackle water pipe leaks and deterioration, a growing safety concern in the city.
Three Iranian nationals were indicted for stealing trade secrets from Google and other tech companies and transferring data to Iran. They face up to 10 years in prison and fines for conspiracy, theft, and obstruction of justice.
Using blue light filters at night may not be effective in improving sleep due to their limited ability to reduce light intake, and other methods such as using dark mode, dimming screen brightness, and increasing daytime light exposure can be more beneficial. Controlling light intake and exposure can help regulate the body's circadian rhythm, and taking the right dose of melatonin supplements ...
Minions are Stripeβs homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.
The user purchased a Minisforum MS-R1 ARM server for their homelab, replacing power-hungry HPE towers. They installed Fedora and used it as a hypervisor, but encountered some issues with NIC drivers and UEFI configuration.
A federal judge has rejected Tesla's bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida. Tesla will appeal the verdict to a higher court, facing a growing wave of lawsuits tied to its driver-assistance technology.
Pi for Excel is an AI agent that lives inside Excel, making changes and doing research using various models. It has 16 built-in tools and supports extensions, auto-save, and workbook recovery.
Companies building AI assistants are now funded by advertising, creating a collision course with always-on devices that see and hear everything. Local on-device inference is the only way to prevent data exploitation, requiring a business model based on hardware and software sales, not data collection.
People hide their true selves to fit in, but this editing process can lead to inauthenticity and a lack of personality. To be memorable and authentic, one should stop hiding their true interests and opinions, even if they're considered embarrassing.
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Claude Code Security scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests patches for human review. It uses AI to detect novel vulnerabilities and reduce the risk of attacks by allowing teams to find and fix issues before they are exploited.
OpenScan offers affordable, open-source 3D scanners for everyone. Our community-driven project combines photogrammetry with modular hardware to create high-quality 3D models. From hobbyists to professionals, OpenScan empowers users worldwide to explore 3D scanning in various fields. Join us in making 3D scanning accessible and push the boundaries of digital preservation and creation.
The user discusses various small programming languages, including Iota, tinylisp, milliForth, and Fractran, and highlights notable examples of ML-style languages such as Haskell, Elm, and OCaml. They also mention several implementations of functional languages, including Write You a Haskell, Implementing Functional Languages, and The ZINC experiment, showcasing their capability-to-size ratio ...
Bluesky's open protocol may concentrate value and control, making it harder for users to leave. The company's investors and potential acquirers may prioritize consolidation over decentralization for financial gain.
WorldWideWeb was developed at CERN in 1990 as the precursor to the modern web. In 2019, developers rebuilt the original browser for its 30th anniversary.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr urged broadcasters to air patriotic programming in support of America's 250th birthday. The "Pledge America Campaign" is voluntary but may be seen as a way for Carr to enforce public interest standards.
Phil Spencer is retiring as Xbox CEO after 38 years at Microsoft, while Asha Sharma takes over as Microsoft Gaming CEO. Sharma outlined three commitments for Xbox's future: great games, return of Xbox, and future of play.
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Researchers developed Attention Matching to compact long contexts in latent space, preserving attention mass and achieving up to 50x faster compaction with little quality loss. This approach decomposes into simple subproblems, allowing for efficient solutions and significant improvements in compaction time versus quality.
The author is concerned about the oversaturation of AI-generated content, making it hard to stand out and share side projects. They're optimistic about AI's impact but struggle to engage with a world dominated by AI-created content.
Gay men are overrepresented in Silicon Valley's tech industry, with many achieving success and forming influential networks, but some rumors suggest a "gay tech mafia" where power and intimacy are intertwined. While some of these rumors are exaggerated or unfounded, others hint at a complex web of relationships and social dynamics that can provide advantages to those who are part of the network.
Free search across 91,000+ US mines from the MSHA open dataset. Filter by state, commodity, mine type, and operator. Mine locations, production history, and employee data β updated weekly.
Eight major UK restaurant groups, including KFC and Burger King, have left the Better Chicken Commitment to join an industry-led plan. They argue the new plan will help reduce emissions and meet demand while ensuring secure supply chains.
Microsoft's Project Silica uses glass to store data, achieving a density of over 1 Gigabit per cubic millimeter. The system uses lasers to write and read data, with the potential to store up to 4.84TB in a single glass slab.
To track a directory in Git, use an empty file named .gitkeep or a .gitignore file with a pattern to ignore all files except .gitkeep. This ensures the directory exists in fresh clones and is tracked by Git.
Anish Acharya says AI-assisted coding is not worth it for all business functions, citing low cost savings and risks. He believes software stocks are oversold and companies should focus AI on core businesses or optimizing remaining costs.
A new open-source SwiftUI Agent Skill helps improve code quality by refactoring existing views and building better ones. This skill is available on GitHub and can be used to reduce tech debt and improve AI development knowledge.
Photopea is a free online photo editor that runs on any device using the browser, offering advanced features like layering and masking. It supports various file formats and allows users to edit photos and vector graphics for professional-quality work.
Autonomous testing can systematically explore vast state spaces in complex systems like Super Mario Bros. by generating random input sequences and replaying them to discover new paths and validate correctness in real-time using a behavior model.
The author, with a severe mobility impairment, uses a Mac and has developed a unique way of interacting with it due to their inability to scroll using a mouse or trackpad. They have created an app called Scroll My Mac using AI to assist with scrolling.
Guillaume Raineri, a French man, participated in a study at the NIH to understand why the American diet causes weight gain and chronic diseases. He ate minimally processed foods for a week, then ultra-processed foods, and experienced significant changes in his metabolism and appetite.
There is no widely recognized "Kardashev scale for data" but a similar concept could be called the "Data Processing Scale" or "Data Insight Scale".
Anthropic, a defense contractor with a $200 million contract, is at odds with the Pentagon over AI system use. The company wants to maintain guardrails, while the Pentagon seeks "any lawful use" of AI for national security.
The author of a blog series discovered three vulnerabilities in VSCode extensions and one in VSCode itself, including a security mitigation bypass assigned CVE-2022-41042, and demonstrated how an attacker could compromise a machine using these vulnerabilities. The author recommends ways to prevent similar issues, including restricting CSP, localResourceRoots, and postMessage handlers, and ...