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OpenAI's models started mentioning creatures like goblins and gremlins in their metaphors due to a subtle incentive from training for the personality customization feature, specifically the Nerdy personality. The behavior was amplified through transfer from Nerdy personality training and later spread to other contexts, requiring OpenAI to retire the Nerdy personality and implement new tools ...
Belgium will nationalize its nuclear power plants, reversing a 2003 decision to phase out nuclear energy by 2025. The government aims to build new nuclear plants and reduce dependence on fossil imports.
Rivian vehicles have a core feature of vehicle connectivity that can be disabled to limit functionality. Disabling connectivity will not affect subscriptions like Connect+, but will require separate cancellation.
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Zig has a strict anti-LLM policy to prioritize contributor growth over code quality. Maintainers review contributors, not just their code, to foster trust and future contributions.
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CVE-2026-31431 is a Linux kernel vulnerability introduced in 2017, affecting multiple kernel versions. A workaround patch has been attached to disable the affected module.
Oil refineries process crude oil into various products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel using distillation, cracking, and other processes. The refining process is complex and requires large industrial facilities to handle the massive volume of crude oil consumed worldwide.
Meta ended its contract with Sama, a company that trained AI, after workers alleged they viewed graphic content from Meta smart glasses. Meta claims Sama didn't meet its standards, but workers and a Kenyan organisation suspect the decision was due to staff speaking out.
Congress is preparing to take measures against LaLiga's fight against piracy causing web page blockages. A non-legislative initiative was approved to reform the Digital Services Act and prevent indiscriminate blocking of IPs by judicial rulings.
A supply chain attack compromised the PyPI package 'lightning' versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, stealing credentials and attempting to poison GitHub repositories. The attack is linked to the 'mini Shai-Hulud' campaign and affects teams using lightning in their dependency tree.
LinkedIn collects data on users' installed browser extensions without consent, linking it to their verified professional identity. This data is used to make inferences and take enforcement actions against users, potentially violating the EU's Digital Markets Act.
A software engineer built a working Game Boy emulator, Fame Boy, in F# after learning about computer hardware by emulating a Game Boy and using AI to write unit tests. The emulator's development involved optimizing performance, fixing issues with the PPU and APU, and learning about functional programming and domain-driven development.
J. Craig Venter, founder of the J. Craig Venter Institute, died in San Diego after a brief hospitalization for cancer treatment complications. He was a visionary leader in genomics and synthetic biology who drove scientific change and advocated for robust federal funding.
Philip, an engineer at Distr, shares common Docker Compose quirks and operational gaps that can lead to production incidents. He recommends handling these gaps with commands and practices, or using an agent like Distr's to automate the process.
IBM released Granite 4.1, a family of open source language models for enterprise use, trained on 15 trillion tokens. The 8B model, with a dense architecture, matches or beats the 32B Granite 4.0-H-Small across various benchmarks.
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GCC 16 has several improvements including conformance with C99 standard, removal of json diagnostics format, and support for OpenMP 5.0 and 6.0.
We monitor 27 government auction sources with 75,070 listings, scoring auctions for price, bid velocity, and time left. Daily emails highlight top-scored auctions with direct links to original listings.
Global battery demand is surging, with 14 million end-of-life batteries expected by 2040. Europe is positioning itself to lead the circular battery economy with innovation and policy support.
honker adds durable pub/sub and task queue to SQLite without client polling or daemon. It uses SQLite's PRAGMA data_version for wake signals, with ~0.7 ms latency and ~3 µs read time.
A typical E. coli cell is incredibly dense with molecules, with its entire volume being 100 million times smaller than a grain of sand. The cell's insides are 70% water, with proteins, RNA, and lipids making up the rest, and DNA accounting for just 1% of its mass.
The user explores DuckDB's full-text search (FTS) capabilities, comparing them to other FTS solutions like Elasticsearch and Postgres, and finds them powerful but limited. They provide a tutorial on using DuckDB's FTS extension with Python, including pre-processing email data and querying with Okapi BM25 algorithm.
The chat interface reads documents, cites verbatim, and drafts contracts with full control over models. It offers matter-scoped workspaces, reusable workflows, and open code for custom integrations.
This repository contains data preprocessing and finetuning scripts for analyzing memorization in large language models. It uses OpenAI, Vertex AI, and Tinker APIs to generate completions and evaluate model performance.
The user is evaluating Zig as a potential replacement for Haskell, praising its comptime feature for creating correct-by-construction systems and its "no spooky action at a distance" philosophy.
Vercel's pricing page hides per-seat tax, bandwidth overages, and DDoS costs. The Hobby plan has a hard cap that takes sites offline without warning after 30 days.
A Postgres server can handle up to 144K writes per second or process 43K workflows per second, making it suitable for most use cases. The bottleneck in performance is often the write-ahead log (WAL) and can be mitigated by sharding across multiple Postgres servers or using multiple queues.
dotcl is a Common Lisp implementation on .NET that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. It embeds Lisp in .NET applications and allows writing .NET code in Lisp.
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Hard drives have evolved significantly since the 1950s, with modern drives storing 106 times more data and having 101 times faster access times than their early counterparts. Researchers have developed microbenchmarks to extract the physical geometry of hard disk drives, including rotation period, sector location, track boundaries, skew, seek time, and defective sectors, to better understand ...
American fathers have significantly increased their childcare time over the past few generations, with Millennial dads spending over 80 minutes daily on childcare. This shift is attributed to various factors, including the rise of dual-earner households, increased education, and a desire for status and leisure.
A vulnerability in cPanel & WHM allows authentication bypass due to unstripped CRLF in session loading and saving. Exploiting this vulnerability can lead to unauthorized access to management planes of significant parts of the internet.
You create tar.gz files on Mac that may cause errors on Linux servers due to extra files added by the default BSD tar program. To create clean tar files, use bsdtar with --no-xattrs or install gnu-tar as the default tar program.
Experience the real-world sounds of AI with this interactive audio generator.
Pollen is a self-organizing mesh that turns heterogeneous machines into generic compute. It uses a gossiped CRDT runtime state for workload placement and routing.
The author wants to create a new forge that addresses issues with modern forges, such as enforcing pre-commit hooks, customizable PR approval, and smaller hosting units.
591 FCC-accredited test labs mapped across 28 countries. Location, accreditation status, TCB capability, and which labs face the Bad Labs ban.
Stanford Medicine research found individual brain patterns differ from group averages in children's brain scans. Analyzing individual brains provides insights into cognitive differences and may help develop better therapies for conditions like ADHD.
Gen Z's opinions of AI are hitting new lows due to fears of job loss and social stigma. Young people are wary of AI's impact on critical thinking and social skills.
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The WSJ Opinion's Free Expression on Substack highlights the resurgence of print culture, with many magazines and newspapers returning to print after initially going digital-only. A new quarterly magazine, Portico, joins this trend, featuring literary subjects and serious arts and letters.
A new study suggests that Earth's Sturtian glacial period was not a single long period of glaciation, but rather cycles of glaciation and warm periods. The cycles were triggered by the weathering of the Franklin Large Igneous Province, which drew down CO2 and caused repeated glaciations.
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Monads are a concept in programming that allows for the creation of computations that can handle side effects, such as input/output or exceptions, in a controlled and structured way. They can be thought of as a way to wrap a value or computation in a context that provides a way to sequence operations and handle effects in a predictable manner.
Japan's Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi showcased a cardboard drone, the AirKamuy 150, as a target for military training. The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force is already using it to practice drone defense.
Apple reported $111.2 billion in revenue for Q2 2026, a 17% year-over-year increase. The company also set new records for operating cash flow and EPS.
A full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell. No npm. No pip. No Docker. Just curl, awk, and an API key.
Joby Aviation conducted its first electric air taxi flight from JFK to Manhattan's West 30th Street heliport. The company plans further demonstrations over the next 10 days, aiming to integrate electric air taxis into New York City's airspace.
The author was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and is grateful for the honor. He warns that quantum computers may break cryptography soon, urging people to switch to quantum-resistant encryption.
IBM released Granite 4.1, a collection of AI models for enterprise applications, featuring improved language, vision, and speech capabilities. The models are designed for efficient and reliable performance in real-world enterprise workloads.
The Wave Function Collapse (WFC) algorithm is a texture synthesis method that generates patterns by iteratively collapsing superpositions of pixels into definite states, ensuring the output contains only patterns present in the input. WFC has been implemented in various programming languages and has been used in game development, level generation, and other applications, with many variations ...
RightsCon conference in Zambia has been canceled due to government postponement. The decision was made after Zambia's government cited need for more time to ensure the conference aligns with national procedures and diplomatic protocols.
The user recovered deleted files using TestDisk and PhotoRec, a digital forensics tool. They successfully recovered various file types, including images, from old hardware and an SD card, but caution is advised due to potential data corruption and privacy risks.
User faced backlash for vulnerability disclosure on Mastodon and Forgejo, receiving unwanted attention and vile names. User apologized and sent constructive email to Forgejo security team with recommendations and proof-of-concepts.
Zulip Server 12.0 has been released with hundreds of new features and bug fixes, including end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications and a major upgrade for Docker.
Burla library runs parallel processing across a cluster with shared filesystem for data teams. It scales up to 1.7K CPU workers and 20 A100 GPUs for tasks like photo download and CLIP scoring.
Honey's unique combination of low moisture, acidity, and hydrogen peroxide makes it resistant to spoilage. Its shelf life is also extended by bees' natural drying process and the enzyme glucose oxidase in their stomachs.
The Emmerthal energy cluster in Germany is growing with three large battery storage systems, ground-mounted solar panels, and a new substation. The cluster aims to store and sell wind power surpluses from northern Germany to southern Germany.
LFM2-24B-A2B is a large language model with 24 billion parameters, released in an early checkpoint, and is deployable across cloud and edge environments. It shows consistent quality gains on standard benchmarks and has favorable throughput scaling, making it suitable for on-device deployment.
The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.
Chinese EVs can project full-color movies from their headlights, offering advanced driver-assistance capabilities. US headlight tech lags behind, with adaptive headlights only recently allowed, and no full-color projection capabilities.
A web game called Satoshi Guesser generates random 256-bit numbers to find Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin private keys. The odds are extremely low, but the game uses real cryptography to verify the results.
Utilyze measures GPU efficiency by reading performance counters directly. It provides an estimate of how far you can push utilization given a workload, model, and hardware.
To use SFO Gate Explorer, apply online up to 30 days in advance with accurate ID info and wait for TSA approval. Bring your approved digital or printed pass and ID to scan at your selected checkpoint.
The author, a Go developer, tried Rust for the first time and built a chat server with the help of a Rust IDE. They found Rust's exhaustive enums and ? operator useful but struggled with implicit exits and dense syntax.
A critical bug in cPanel and WHM software allows hackers to take full control of servers, affecting tens of millions of website owners worldwide. Many web hosting companies have patched the bug, but immediate action is necessary to prevent malicious access.
Integer overflow checks with diagnostic printing cause a 28% penalty for compression and 9% penalty for decompression in bzip2, while without diagnostics, the penalty is almost nothing. This is due to mis-optimizations in the compiler, specifically with clang and gcc, which cause a 4x-6x performance hit.
Google is introducing a badge for tablet-ready apps in the Google Play Store, highlighting a long-standing issue with Android tablets. Apple dominates the tablet market with its iPad series, and an iPad Neo could further solidify its position.
TRiP is an open-source C engine for Transformer AI models, built from scratch for educational purposes. It supports Gemma 1, Llama 2, PaliGemma, and GPT-2 with full inference and training.
A critical soundness vulnerability was found in dusk-plonk, a PLONK implementation powering Dusk Network's ~$60M market cap. The vulnerability allowed a malicious prover to forge verifying proofs for arbitrary false statements, bypassing every constraint in the transaction circuit.
Mozilla added an emoji picker to Firefox 150 using Ctrl + . shortcut, conflicting with 1Password's default shortcut. To resolve, the emoji picker needs to be disabled.
SimpleX Network's v6.5 release introduces SimpleX Channels, a model for online publishing that protects participation privacy. This is a win-win for users and chat relay operators, ensuring users' privacy and operators' ability to decide content in public spaces.
API error 403 occurred due to a permission issue with an account no longer in the organization. The service, Claude, is experiencing downtime, causing work to halt.
To debug Haskell programs, use tools like GHC's -prof option, the trace function, or libraries like Hugs.Observe and Hat, which provide stack traces, tracing, and debugging capabilities, or use Hat's alternative Hoed for untransformed libraries.
Snapshot isolation (SI) avoids anomalies but does not guarantee serializability. Write-snapshot isolation (WSI) fixes this by checking for stale reads instead of stale writes.
San Francisco's street names are confusing due to its convoluted history and numerous sources of names. The city has many duplicate street names, such as Mason St. and Masonic Ave.
A Linux kernel bug, CVE-2026-31431, allows local users to gain root access by corrupting a setuid binary's page cache. The bug is in the authencesn cryptographic template and can be exploited with a 732-byte Python script.
rANS is a lossless compression method that uses arithmetic coding to encode a stream of symbols into a single integer, allowing for perfect compression. The method involves reversible arithmetic operations and renormalization to keep the state within a fixed range, enabling efficient encoding and decoding with near-constant work per symbol.
The UAE left OPEC on April 27th due to restrictions. The country had threatened to quit before making the move.
The SIMD Quad algorithm is a new search algorithm that combines quaternary interpolation search with SIMD instructions to efficiently locate a target value in a sorted array of 16-bit unsigned integers. It outperforms binary search on both Intel and Apple platforms, with significant speedup on large arrays in cold cache scenarios.
The author developed a system called SpecDD to help AI agents understand the context of a project by providing structured specifications that are local, persistent, and usable by the agent. This approach improves the reliability of AI-assisted development by reducing uncertainty and increasing the success rate of tasks, making it a more systematically reliable engineering process.
Kured is a Kubernetes daemonset that automatically reboots nodes when needed by the OS package management system. It ensures safe reboots by locking the API server and watching for reboot signals.
The Human Creativity Benchmark separates creative evaluation into two signals: convergence, where evaluators agree on best practices, and divergence, where they disagree on taste and aesthetic direction. The benchmark measures both signals through three methods and finds that no current model is reliably both correct and steerable, highlighting the need for a nuanced approach to evaluating ...
A Kubernetes DaemonSet agent detects and remediates CVE-2026-31431 by probing the AF_ALG module. It requires a privileged security context and can be deployed via Helm or raw manifest.
Detail is a bug scanner that uses subagents to analyze code and find important bugs, outperforming code review bots in a benchmark. Detail's findings are more complete and accurate, with a 91% chance of ranking higher than a code review bot finding.
Researchers are developing "Historical Language Models" that can simulate conversations with people from the past, using large collections of texts from various time periods, and these models have the potential to revolutionize historical research by allowing for new types of simulations and explorations of the past. By fine-tuning these models on specific texts and genres, researchers can ...
A team investigated a persistent 401 Unauthorized response on Terraform table entity operations. They found four separate bugs that were independently plausible and fixable but invisible until the previous one was resolved.
Meta has abandoned Llama in favor of its new proprietary AI model Muse Spark, leaving users with no migration path. Llama users can continue using existing models or migrate to proprietary APIs from major AI providers, or use Llama forks like llama.cpp or OpenLLaMA.
Large language models amplify user abilities but drawbacks mirror society, increasing inequality. Users' experiences with AI are individual and necessary for continued use, but not transferable.