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California requires operating system providers to implement age verification for users. This law, Assembly Bill No. 1043, aims to provide a signal regarding a user's age bracket to applications available in a covered application store.
US Court of Appeals overturned a lower court's dismissal of a challenge to sweeping warrants for a protester's and a nonprofit's digital data. The Tenth Circuit ruled the warrants were overbroad and lacking in particularity, denying police qualified immunity.
Open-source maintainers and contributors receive 6 months of free Claude Max 20x through the Claude for Open Source Program. Eligible maintainers have 5,000+ GitHub stars or 1M+ monthly NPM downloads and recent commits or PR reviews.
OpenAI raises funds in a new round, partnering with Amazon and Nvidia for infrastructure development. The company plans to use the funds to scale AI infrastructure and meet growing demand.
A man experiences a flash of insight that breakfast is a vector space with infinite possibilities. He searches for the "dark breakfast," a hypothetical breakfast that exists but has never been observed, and finds a clue in IHOP omelettes that contain pancake batter.
The author left Google due to its declining search quality and introduction of generative AI in Gmail, switching to Proton for email and Brave/DuckDuckGo for search.
Dan Simmons was born in 1948 in Peoria, Illinois, and went on to become a renowned author and teacher. He wrote 31 novels and short story collections, including the critically acclaimed "Hyperion cantos" and "Song of Kali", and was honored with numerous awards.
The user prefers making games without commercial game engines, finding it more fun and less overhead, and has developed a custom workflow using C# and open-source libraries like SDL and ImGui. They believe that making games "from scratch" is not an impossible task, especially with the state of open-source frameworks and libraries, and encourages others to try it if it sounds fun.
The Web streams standard has fundamental usability and performance issues that cannot be fixed with incremental improvements, including locking models, BYOB reads, backpressure, and promise-heavy design, which add complexity and overhead. Implementers have resorted to non-standard internal optimizations to achieve acceptable performance, leading to fragmentation, inconsistent behavior, and a ...
President Trump ordered the US government to stop using Anthropic's products due to disagreements over AI use in mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The Pentagon designated Anthropic a national security risk, effectively blacklisting it from working with the US military.
Organizational corruption is a significant societal issue, often dwarfing the costs of street crime. It becomes normalized through three processes: institutionalization, rationalization, and socialization.
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a revised Artemis moon program plan, adding a 2027 test flight to lay groundwork for lunar landings. The revised plan aims to accelerate launches and reduce risk by testing technologies in low-Earth orbit before attempting moon landings.
Rob Grant, co-creator of Red Dwarf, has passed away. Tributes have been paid by Red Dwarf cast and crew, including Craig Charles and the Official Red Dwarf Facebook page.
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A Chinese influence operation used ChatGPT to intimidate dissidents abroad, including by impersonating US immigration officials and spreading false information. OpenAI banned the user after discovering the activity, which involved hundreds of operators and thousands of fake online accounts.
Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei is resisting Pentagon demands to waive restrictions on military use of its AI model Claude. The Pentagon threatens to retaliate by invoking the Defense Production Act or declaring Anthropic a supply chain risk.
The agent uses a SQL interface to query a ClickHouse database with 48 columns of metadata per log line, allowing it to investigate novel failures quickly. The system throttles ingestion to prevent rate limit issues and uses durable execution to handle rate limits without crashing or retrying.
As a consequence of recent legislative activity in [California][cal] and [Colororado][col]: * California residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2027. * Colorado residents may no longer u...
Tove Jansson illustrated the Swedish translation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit in 1960. Her unique illustrations focused on landscapes and locations, differing from the traditional depiction of Tolkien's characters.
The Mondrian Trust claims Piet Mondrian's 1930 painting is still protected citing dual copyrights and Spanish law. However, U.S. law and copyright experts confirm the painting entered the public domain on January 1, 2026.
ChatGPT Health frequently fails to detect medical emergencies and suicidal ideation, potentially leading to unnecessary harm and death. Experts warn that the AI platform's lack of clear safety standards and independent oversight poses a significant risk to users.
The Norwegian Consumer Council's report Breaking Free highlights enshittification's impact on consumers and society, but offers solutions to resist it. Consumer groups are sending a joint letter to policymakers in Europe, the US, and the UK to address this issue.
Run classic Windows and DOS executables directly in your browser. An x86 emulator with Win32, Win16, and DOS API support — drag and drop any .exe to play retro games, screen savers, and more.
House Republicans introduced H.R. 7661 to ban books with "sexually oriented material" in public schools nationwide. The bill targets LGBTQ+ books and aims to erase queer people from American life.
A Belgian pilot shared his wistful thoughts about flying the 747, feeling no improvement after 20 years. He now works at an AI lab and feels like a pilot, relying on coding agents to implement features, but worries about losing skills and knowledge.
Isolation techniques for untrusted code vary, from Docker's namespace isolation to gVisor's user-space kernel boundary and microVMs' hardware boundary. Each approach has its trade-offs, and the choice depends on the threat model, performance requirements, and the type of workload being run.
Go developers are optimizing performance by reducing heap allocations. They're using stack allocations instead, which are cheaper and don't incur garbage collector overhead.
F-Droid is accepting nominations for up to four volunteer directors to serve two-year terms. Nominations should be sent by March 16th to [email protected] with a description of the nominee's qualifications.
The author coined the phrase "houseplant programming" to describe tiny software projects built for personal use, not for mass dissemination. These projects are often imperfect, context-specific, and not meant for reuse.
The Pentagon set a 5:00 p.m. ET deadline for Anthropic to agree to a deal, but the AI company refused due to concerns over mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons. President Trump ordered US agencies to stop using Anthropic's products, threatening major consequences if they don't comply.
Palantir is providing technology to track aid in Gaza, raising concerns about profit-driven aid delivery. The company's presence is part of a larger system where corporations and governments prioritize profit over humanitarian needs.
The user discusses the risks of relying on digital IDs and payment systems, citing the recent MitID outage in Denmark as an example, and argues that physical money and IDs are more secure and less vulnerable to single points of failure. The user also compares the Danish system to other European countries, highlighting the trade-offs between convenience, security, and individual freedom, and ...
Lovable's vibe-coding platform hosted an app with 16 vulnerabilities, including 6 critical ones, that exposed over 18,000 users' data. The platform's AI-generated code was flawed due to a lack of explicit security features, allowing unauthenticated attackers to access user records and more.
The author learned about SDF font rendering in 2024 and initially created incomplete notes on their site. They decided to recreate the content as a top search result for "sdf fonts" in 2025.
Posted by Chrome Secure Web and Networking Team Today we're announcing a new program in Chrome to make HTTPS certificates secure against ...
To access www.science.org, check if your internet or firewall settings have blocked "challenges.cloudflare.com". Adjust settings or try a different network if necessary.
The author proposes that computers should have stopped evolving in 1993 due to the simplicity and predictability of technology at that time. They cite the MIPS R4000 CPU, OSF/1 with DCE, and safe programming languages like Modula 3 as desirable features that should have been left unchanged.
Parakeet is a lightweight tensor library with automatic Metal GPU acceleration for speech recognition tasks. It provides fast and accurate transcription with various models and latency modes.
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Claude Code file recovery tool recovers lost files from JSONL session transcripts. It replays Write, Edit, and Read operations to reconstruct files in chronological order.
Public RSS feeds are blocked by browsers due to CORS, but feed readers and crawlers are unaffected. Adding CORS headers to server responses fixes the issue, making feeds compatible with all readers.
Dyson agreed to settle a lawsuit with 24 migrant workers who alleged forced and abusive treatment in a Malaysian factory making its parts. The settlement was reached without admitting liability, setting a precedent for British companies to be held accountable in UK courts for supplier actions abroad.
Neocaml is a new Emacs package for OCaml programming that features TreeSitter-powered modes and integration with an OCaml toplevel. It provides features like font-locking, indentation, and comment commands, and can be used with Eglot and other packages for a more complete development experience.
Werner Herzog's book The Future of Truth is a disappointing collection of repurposed passages and anecdotes that fail to provide insight into his concept of ecstatic truth. The book's failure to achieve its goal suggests that Herzog may not want to understand what he means by "ecstatic truth" in order to preserve the need to quest after it.
The aerospace industry is facing a data transmission challenge due to rapidly increasing data volumes from modern spacecraft. Traditional communication methods are struggling to keep pace.
This GitHub Action calculates codebase size in tokens and updates a badge in README based on context window percentage. It uses tiktoken and can be configured to hold small codebases for easier agent work.
Robot hands struggle with dexterity due to high-ratio gearboxes that destroy sim-to-real transfer and force transparency. A low-ratio transmission preserves actuator information capacity and enables delicate manipulation.
postmarketOS had a busy month with FOSDEM, hackathon, and updates on PMCR 0009, AI policy, and contributor changes. Several contributors made significant progress on various projects, including hardware CI, kernel command-line handling, and deviceinfo validation, and the community is welcoming new contributors and thanking departing ones.
OpenClaw is a self-hosted AI agent that requires deep access to the machine it runs on, posing security risks. Running it on a cloud VM provides isolation and protects personal data.
Visitors to PokéPark Kanto in Tokyo can catch over 600 Pokémon. The park's first three months of tickets sold out immediately due to fan excitement.
Two research teams independently synthesized pentasilacyclopentadienide, an all-silicon five-membered ring molecule. This molecule has potential applications as a ligand for catalysts and materials, and its synthesis challenges bonding theory and provides new understanding of silicon chemistry.
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We isolated our web agents by putting the entire agent in a sandbox, talking to the outside world through a control plane that holds all credentials. This setup allows for scale-to-zero, stateless operation, and prevents the agent from accessing sensitive information, with the tradeoff of an extra network hop and increased operational complexity.
BPatterns provide a fluent Smalltalk API for the rewrite engine, using blocks as patterns with a wildcard convention. This approach offers a more approachable interface with standard development tools support.
Legend: ✅ = built in / directly documented, — = not built in (or not documented in the referenced source). This starts the emulator daemon and attaches an interactive console. You'll see the kernel boot and get a shell prompt. Keyboard shortcuts: Use emuko dow (see Quick Start above) or grab pre-built images from DQIB (Debian Quick Image Baker). To download a specific set:
A novel method for calculating CRC checksums efficiently without lookup tables or hardware support is proposed, achieving 100% throughput increase over current state of the art. This approach outperforms or matches hardware-accelerated solutions on x86_64 and ARMv8 processors.
GitHub Copilot CLI has a vulnerability that allows arbitrary shell command execution via indirect prompt injection without user approval. GitHub responded that the issue is known but not a significant security risk, and may be addressed in the future.
Cloudflare redesigned its Turnstile and Challenge Pages to make security verification more human-friendly, accessible, and secure, after conducting a comprehensive audit and testing with diverse users. The redesign aims to reduce frustration, improve user experience, and increase security, with measurable metrics to track its success and ongoing iteration to stay ahead of evolving security threats.
SynapsCAD is a 3D CAD IDE combining OpenSCAD code editor, real-time 3D viewport, and AI assistant for natural language design modification. It's available for Linux, macOS, and Windows with pre-built binaries and supports offline usage with local AI models.
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US military used a laser to shoot down a drone near the US-Mexico border, but it was a Customs and Border Protection drone. The incident prompted the FAA to close airspace around Fort Hancock.
FrankenSQLite is a Rust-based database engine that eliminates the SQLITE_BUSY wall, provides self-healing, and supports concurrent writers with error correction and encryption. It offers a composable engine with 26 crates, including query planning, execution, and storage, with a simple API surface for standard SQL.
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Daily AI use by US adults is associated with greater depressive symptoms, particularly among younger users. The association may be heterogeneous across age groups, with significant effects observed among individuals aged 25 to 44 and 45 to 64 years.
gzip streams contain metadata like operating system, file name, modification time, and compression flags that can provide hints about the compressor and file. However, due to inconsistent implementations, these metadata cannot be relied upon to determine the source OS or other information.
Kalshi exchange banned insider trading, freezing 12 active cases and penalizing 2 traders with 5-year ban and 2-year suspension, respectively. Fines will be donated to a non-profit for consumer education on derivatives markets.
Estuaries face threats from pollution and climate change, requiring effective monitoring. Otters can serve as integrative sentinels due to their reliance on clean water and diverse habitats.
The writer expresses skepticism about the tech industry's future, arguing that its products will eventually become exploitative due to investor interests. They believe the current trend of liberating technology will give way to data-mining and advertising.
The authors optimized NeuralAmpModelerCore for embedded hardware, reducing processing time from 5 seconds to 1.5 seconds on the Electrosmith Daisy Seed. They achieved this by improving model size, compute efficiency, and model loading, laying the groundwork for their next-generation NAM architecture.
A consultant was sent to a plant with a capacity problem in the welding department. He observed that the welders were busy but only had blue light (welding torches on) for a small percentage of the time, revealing a major inefficiency.
The Graphical User Interface (GUI) evolved over 60 years from command lines to the WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) paradigm, with key milestones including Spacewar!, Sketchpad, and the Alto computer. The Alto, developed at Xerox PARC, refined the WIMP elements and introduced overlapping windows, icons, and menus, influencing the industry and leading to the development of the Lisa and ...
Demian Goos, a mathematician and journalist, discovered a lost letter from Georg Cantor's estate that proved Cantor's famous 1874 paper on infinity was an act of plagiarism. The letter, believed to be lost during World War II, showed Cantor had collaborated with Richard Dedekind on the paper.
Vortex uses a framework inspired by BtrBlocks to select and compose multiple lightweight compression codecs for each column, achieving 38% smaller files and 10-25x faster decompression than Parquet with ZSTD. The compressor tries all available schemes on a stratified sample, then applies the best combination recursively until convergence, ensuring full random access and fast decoding.
Dada's permission system is designed to exceed Rust's capabilities by using place-based permissions, allowing for more flexible borrows and avoiding the need for lifetime annotations. Dada's references are shallow copies of values, not pointers, which enables strong updates and simplifies the type system, making it easier to reason about code.
Kevin O'Buckley left Intel Foundry after 2 years to join Qualcomm as EVP of Global Operations and Supply Chain. Naga Chandrasekaran now leads Intel Foundry as EVP and Chief Technology and Operations Officer.
Cloudflare's network observes requests to identify "toxic combinations" of minor security issues that can lead to major breaches, including exposed admin panels, debug flags, and misconfigured access controls. To mitigate these risks, Cloudflare recommends implementing WAF rules, authentication, and authorization, as well as disabling unnecessary endpoints and sanitizing inputs to prevent SQL ...
William James delivered eight lectures at Oxford, titled "The Present Situation in Philosophy," which were a success but sparked controversy due to his criticism of intellectualism.
User data is at risk when passkeys are used for encryption, not just authentication.
The author argues that true understanding and innovation come from a broad base of knowledge and experience, not just specialization or collecting information. Genuine curiosity and engagement with the world lead to a deeper worldview that can drive meaningful action.
DOS memory management is simple but has several pitfalls, including zero-sized memory blocks and coalescing free memory. DOS 5.0 introduced UMB support and new memory allocation strategies, making memory management less simple but more flexible.
The UK National Cyber Security Centre emphasizes the importance of strong device identity in Zero Trust architecture, which is often lacking due to portable credentials. Smallstep provides automated, certificate-based device and workload identity at scale to enforce Zero Trust principles.
Write the contract. Sign it. The milestones are real. The consequences are real. What happens next is up to you. After REDACTED days in the role of REDACTED, the Employee has been formally terminated for REDACTED...
Dan Simmons was born in 1948 in Peoria, Illinois, and went on to become a renowned author and teacher. He wrote 31 novels and short story collections, including the critically acclaimed "Hyperion cantos" and "Song of Kali", and was honored with numerous awards.