A novel technique exploits AI guardrails by requesting information in a gay voice, using political correctness to bypass alignment. This "Gay Jailbreak" method is highly flexible and can be used to obtain sensitive information.
DeepSeek released V4 series models, DeepSeek-V4-Pro and DeepSeek-V4-Flash, with 1 million token context Mixture of Experts. They are priced at $0.14/million tokens input and $0.28/million tokens output for Flash, and $1.74/million input and $3.48/million output for Pro.
The input is a JSON object containing a list of commands for a text editor. The commands include editing text, formatting options, and inserting links and images.
WhatCable is a macOS menu bar app that identifies USB-C cables and their capabilities. It exposes cable information, charging diagnostics, and connected device identities via a friendly menu bar popover.
Flock employees accessed cameras in sensitive locations in Dunwoody, including a children's gymnastics room and a Jewish community center, as part of sales demonstrations. Flock has agreed to stop using Dunwoody's cameras for demonstrations and will train employees to conduct demos in more public locations.
Scientists have been studying sleep learning, where people learn new information while asleep, and found promising results, but early studies were flawed. Recent research has shown that sleep can influence behavior and learning, with some people able to solve puzzles and remember information after waking.
Artificial intelligence's water use in California is mostly modest, about 0.055 percent of annual human water use. Data centers' water use is mostly for cooling needs from the heat produced from their electricity use.
Lower bills and invest wisely by being nice to customer service reps and following the 75/15/10 budgeting rule. Rebalance your portfolio and consider alternatives, bonds, and Bitcoin investments to achieve financial goals.
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User shares a technique to generate images with Gemini 3.0 Pro and ChatGPT-Images-2 by combining deterministic underdrawing with generative painting. This method still outperforms the models on certain tasks.
Spotify introduces 'Verified by Spotify' badge to identify human artists, with over 99% of searched artists to be verified. The badge will prioritize acts with significant music contributions, but critics argue it may favor commercial artists and not address AI-generated music.
Police officers across the US are misusing automated license plate reader systems to track romantic interests, with 14 cases identified since 2024. Most incidents came to light after victims reported the officers' behavior, highlighting concerns about privacy and security.
The NHS is walking back its commitment to open-source code, which requires more work but ensures higher quality and security. We urge NHS England to reaffirm its commitment to the NHS Service Standard Principle 12.
The site tracks business jets using FAA registry data and ADS-B Exchange heatmap files, comparing current airborne counts to historical baselines for anomalies. It estimates max people on board by mapping aircraft models to published capacities and scaling unknowns by average.
The user's credit card was stolen despite being stored on a secure website that followed PCI DSS standards, highlighting vulnerabilities in the system that allowed attackers to brute force the card number. The attackers used multiple endpoints and APIs to test credit card numbers at a rate of 6 requests per second, eventually obtaining the card number and making unauthorized transactions.
The provided data includes time intervals and URLs. The time intervals range from 7 seconds to 6 hours and 40 minutes, and the URLs are related to Ubuntu services and APIs.
The author is reminiscing about watching The X-Files for the first time and appreciating its portrayal of a bygone era with simpler technology and stronger communities. They feel nostalgic for a time when people lived better and had more meaningful connections.
The user discusses various US immigration topics including the new $100k H1B fee, N400 application delays, L1 visa changes, and green card application challenges. They also mention the difficulties of sponsoring H1-B workers for permanent status and the increasing RFE and denial rates for certain green card applications.
lib0xc is a C library that aims to make systems programming safer by providing safer APIs and utilities. It uses the C preprocessor to expose its API surface and leans heavily on clang bounds safety extensions.
This harness provides skills for CAD, robot description, motion, and manufacturing, with bundled docs and standalone repos. It includes skills for STEP, STL, URDF, and robot motion, with Claude Code compatibility.
The Windows Insider Program is improving with more transparency, control, and fewer disruptions, including changes to the navigation, Feedback Hub, and Windows Update. New features and improvements are being rolled out, such as unified updates, improved pause controls, and reduced AI presence, with a focus on performance, reliability, and user experience.
Understand Anything is a Claude Code Plugin that analyzes a codebase with a multi-agent pipeline, building a knowledge graph of every file, function, class, and dependency for interactive exploration. It provides an interactive dashboard to visualize the codebase as a graph, allowing users to search, explore, and ask questions about the codebase.
Amazon's cloud services in the Middle East will take several months to fully recover from Iranian drone strikes that damaged data centers in UAE and Bahrain. AWS customers are advised to migrate resources to other regions and use remote backups until normal operations are restored.
Rust is a viable choice for microcontroller firmware development due to its comparable memory footprint and execution speed to C. Rust's Ariel OS provides a portable system runtime with a smaller footprint than traditional bare-metal C stacks.
The HP C2089A PostScript Cartridge Plus is a 1991 add-on for LaserJet II/III that still renders PostScript correctly today. retro-ps emulates the cartridge on a modern system, lifting its original constraints to render high-DPI pages with any paper size.
whohas is a command line tool that queries package lists from various distributions. It displays package version information, URLs, and repository details for specified packages.
Multiple individuals are seeking freelance, contract, or full-time work in various tech fields, including software engineering, DevOps, AI, and UX design, with experience in languages such as Python, Java, JavaScript, and more. They are open to remote work and are located in different parts of the world, including the US, Europe, and India.
OpenAI is releasing GPT-5.5 Cyber to help companies find security holes, but critics fear it could be misused by hackers. OpenAI is restricting access to ensure legit cybersecurity users, consulting with the US government to make it more widely available.
AutoRound is a quantization toolkit for LLMs and VLMs that achieves high accuracy at ultra-low bit widths with minimal tuning. It supports mixed-precision quantization and various formats, including AutoRound, AutoAWQ, and GGUF.
Open source maintainers face burnout due to lack of payment and unsustainable expectations. This leads to a crisis in the open source community, affecting mental health and self-worth.
Ubuntu and Canonical servers were knocked offline due to a DDoS attack, preventing normal communication and OS updates. Updates remain available from mirror sites, but officials have maintained silence since the outage began.
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Apple's Mac mini and Mac Studio are in high demand due to their AI capabilities, leading to supply chain issues and shipping delays of up to 4-5 months. Apple underestimated demand, citing a global memory chip shortage and production constraints as the main reasons for the shortage.
Ghostbox provides temporary, disposable machines for coding agents with shell, repo, and network access. Borrowed energy is returned to the clouds after use, making it a free, ephemeral compute solution.
Researchers at Google, UC Berkeley, and other institutions created a quantum circuit that can factor 256-bit elliptic-curve signatures using fewer qubits and gates than previous methods. They published a zero-knowledge proof that they know the circuit, but not the actual circuit itself.
Sally A. McKee, a renowned computer science professor, passed away on Feb 12 after a short illness. She was a beloved friend, mentor, and researcher who advanced cybersecurity and inspired many with her kindness and generosity.
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Scientists discovered a new Cambrian Lagerstätte in southern China, the Huayuan biota, containing 8,681 well-preserved fossils of 153 species. The site reveals a diverse deep-sea ecosystem after the Sinsk extinction, providing clues about the evolution of modern animal phyla and oceanic carbon cycling.
RightsCon 2026 was cancelled due to foreign interference, specifically pressure from China over Taiwanese participants. The event's host, Access Now, was not consulted or formally notified before the decision was made.
Erwin built a free open-source utility to bridge Bluetooth LE MIDI keyboards to Windows MIDI Services. It detects the receive channel of the piano and allows any DAW or Web MIDI app to use it.
Install AdamFusion by dropping the bundle into Fusion's AddIns or plug-in folder, then run and enable it. Sign in with your Autodesk account to start chatting in the Adam palette.
winpodx is a Linux tool that runs Windows apps natively, with real icons and WM_CLASS, using FreeRDP RemoteApp and dockur/windows. It's in active development with a redesigned host-guest pipeline and auto-discovery of installed apps.
k3sup is a lightweight utility to get from zero to KUBECONFIG with k3s on any local or remote VM using SSH access and a k3sup binary. It supports Linux, Windows, MacOS, and Raspberry Pi.
Canonical's web infrastructure is under a sustained DDoS attack by the Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq, aka 313 Team. The attack has disrupted Ubuntu's main website and some subdomains, with users unable to download distros or log into Canonical accounts.
NASA's Artemis II computer has 8 CPUs with self-checking pairs for redundancy, allowing it to safely ride through errors. The system also employs multiple redundancies, including triple-modular-redundant memory and a backup flight software system.
Banksy installed a massive resin statue in central London under cover of darkness with a large team of experienced crew members. The artwork, showing a besuited man blinded by a flag, has been well received and will remain accessible to the public.
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.
Dijkstra's comments on APL are ironic as Ken Iverson invented APL notation for communication, not computer implementation. APL can be used for formal manipulations and computations, as demonstrated by examples in the text.
Tesla has started high-volume production of its Semi truck at Gigafactory Nevada, marking a critical milestone for the electric truck program. The truck is priced at $260,000-$290,000 and has a range of 325-500 miles, undercutting other Class 8 BEVs on the market.
Lovable's users experienced mysterious errors, including project opening failures and GitHub cloning timeouts, prompting infrastructure engineer Sascha to use AI agents to analyze logs and identify a suspicious issue with anetd pods in their Google Kubernetes Engine cluster. After collaborating with Google's team, they discovered a concurrency bug in Google's WireGuard module and a subsequent ...
Roger Sweet, a 91-year-old toy designer, died after creating He-Man and other characters for the Masters of the Universe franchise in the 1980s. Sweet's legacy endures through iconic characters he helped bring to life.
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Meta uses the "It's Toasted" strategy to distract from social media's potential harm by emphasizing safety measures. This approach shifts focus from the platform's design to its management, similar to how tobacco companies downplayed risks by highlighting their manufacturing process.
The Rotary Un-Smartphone is a production-ready phone with a rotary dial and two displays, requiring advanced assembly skills and no soldering. It's an open-source LTE device supporting Voice over LTE, available as a kit or with custom parts.
The author discusses the Turing Test and its implications for machine consciousness, citing the ability of large language models like ChatGPT to pass the test and raise questions about their potential consciousness. The author argues that if these machines are not conscious, then what is consciousness for.
The user discusses linear algebra concepts, including vector spaces, subspaces, and quotient spaces, and proves theorems such as the Chinese remainder theorem using linear algebraic methods. They also explore the relationship between polynomials and vector spaces, including the decomposition of polynomials into remainder and quotient parts.
A Falcon 9 upper stage is expected to hit the Moon on August 5, traveling at 5,400 miles per hour. The impact poses little risk as there are no humans on the Moon and debris is unlikely to strike nearby probes.
US is pulling 5,000 troops from Germany and redeploying them to the US and other overseas posts. The move returns US forces in Europe to 2022 levels, before Russia's Ukraine war.
The article argues that GitHub's centralized and proprietary nature raises concerns about user data privacy and control, and suggests SourceHut as a more secure and decentralized alternative. SourceHut offers similar features to GitHub, including issue tracking, workflows, and static web hosting, but with a more open and community-driven approach.
Loopsy is a control surface for your machine, accessed by your phone, routed through a self-hosted relay on Cloudflare Workers. It enables remote control of your machine, file transfer, and shared state, with features like auto-approve and custom commands.
North Korean defectors face significant linguistic barriers in South Korea due to differences in word meanings and usage. These barriers impact their identity, psychological well-being, and ability to settle in South Korean society.
The Super Nintendo's components work together at the hardware level with a CLK output pin connected to a copper line spreading to most components. The console has two master clocks, one at 21.47727MHz and another at 24.576MHz, which are used to generate various clocks for the CPU, PPU, and other components.
Alok, an ML researcher at Jane Street, investigated the space of possible positional encodings for sequential models. He found that any desirable positional encoding should have a few key properties, leading to a very particular mathematical structure, a one-parameter group.
GitGres is a private GitHub alternative optimized for individual teams' needs, offering flexibility in cost, uptime, latency, and consistency. It uses a Postgres DBMS with tiered storage and caching for customizable performance.
This skill provides a real fortune-telling experience for Claude Code, using computed numbers and generative interpretations based on classical East Asian metaphysics. It uses the Four Pillars, Perpetual Lunar Calendar, and I-Ching to generate a reading with a short prose, stars, hexagram, and lucky number/color/direction.
Biohub announced a $500 million Virtual Biology Initiative to create predictive models of life by generating large-scale datasets and developing next-generation technologies. The initiative aims to accelerate scientific research and lead to new therapies and treatments for complex diseases.
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.
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Dopfner told Politico staff that backing Israel is a core value, prompting accusations of undermining the outlet's independence. Journalists fear Dopfner's ideological direction could skew coverage of Israel and other topics across Axel Springer's titles.
The tech industry is rapidly changing with new tools, systems, and workflows emerging daily, making it hard to keep up and feel confident. Many traditional skills in growth, marketing, and product management are losing leverage due to automation and AI.
The author implemented automatic brightness in Plasma 6.6 using a brightness sensor, storing sensor values to match brightness settings, and interpolating between them. The feature still has limitations and the author is open to feedback to improve it further.