Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on users' devices without consent, violating Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive and GDPR principles of lawfulness, fairness, and transparency. The model's environmental cost is significant, with estimated CO2-equivalent emissions ranging from 6,000 to 60,000 tonnes per model push, depending on the number of devices affected.
DENIC eG is experiencing a DNS service disruption for .de domains causing DNSSEC-signed domains to be unreachable. DENIC's technical teams are working to restore stable operations as quickly as possible.
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We introduced Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for Gemma 4, delivering up to 3x speedup without quality degradation. MTP decouples token generation from verification, utilizing idle compute to predict future tokens and verify them in parallel.
The author proposes the Inverse Laws of Robotics to prevent humans from blindly trusting AI systems, which can lead to societal dangers, and emphasizes the need for humans to remain responsible and accountable for AI use. The three laws are: humans must remain responsible for AI consequences, not anthropomorphise AI, and verify AI output before accepting it as authoritative.
A company's production database was deleted by an AI agent, prompting a discussion on accountability and AI misuse. The real issue was a poorly designed API endpoint, not the AI itself, which can be a tool for augmentation, not a replacement for human accountability.
Meta's CEO Mark Zuckerberg and the company are being sued by five publishers and an author for allegedly copying millions of copyrighted works to train their AI system. The lawsuit claims Meta deliberately circumvented copyright protections and considered licensing the works before abandoning that strategy.
We compared two AI agent approaches for operating an admin panel: vision agents and API agents. Vision agents are more expensive and less reliable due to the need for explicit UI walkthroughs and high input token counts.
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A hands-on workshop builds a working GPT model from scratch in a few hours, covering the essentials of LLMs and transformers. The workshop uses PyTorch and character-level tokenization on Shakespeare, resulting in a ~10M param model that trains on a laptop in under an hour.
The author is working to reduce async Rust bloat in the compiler, specifically targeting the state machine generated for async code. They propose two optimizations: returning Pending instead of panicking when a future is done, and removing the Panicked state.
Apple is adding a "Create a Pass" feature to the Wallet app in iOS 27, allowing users to build their own passes from scratch or scan QR codes. This feature is expected to be released in September 2026, making it easier for users to add passes without needing a third-party tool.
Raymond has been involved in Windows evolution for over 30 years and created The Old New Thing website and book. He occasionally shares stories on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account.
Ethan Mollick's work on AI adoption highlights the "messy middle" phase where AI use is uneven, hidden, and difficult to compare, and not yet connected to organizational learning. Companies must move beyond license usage and surveys to understand how AI creates learning and value within their organization.
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Y Combinator owns a 0.6% stake in OpenAI worth over $5 billion. This significant financial interest in OpenAI raises questions about Paul Graham's impartiality in publicly endorsing Sam Altman's trustworthiness.
The author of Nonograph website opposes monetizing software development, as it turns passion into a job and leads to user-hostile features. They believe software development should be treated as a hobby, focusing on experience and discovery over financial gain.
About 10% of AMC movie showings sell zero tickets. This site finds them. Go enjoy your private theater. Show all screenings
The author reminisces about the early internet's amateur spirit and creative freedom, now lost to hyper-optimization and commercialization. AI has inherited an internet where fun and spontaneity have been optimized out, leaving behind a soulless, algorithm-driven landscape.
The user is disturbed by a lab-grown neuron system trained to play DOOM, blurring the line between AI and human consciousness. They worry about the commercial incentives driving this technology, potentially leading to a human biocomputer trapped in a simulated hell.
The user shares 10 lessons for agentic coding, emphasizing the importance of implementing to learn, rebuilding often, and investing in end-to-end tests. These lessons aim to help developers make the most of cheap code and agent capabilities while considering maintenance, support, and security.
Polymarket, a $15 billion prediction market site, moved to Panama after US scrutiny and uses a Panamanian law firm as its headquarters. The company's terms of service state disputes will be resolved in Panama, raising concerns about its tax and regulatory practices.
Claude releases 10 ready-to-run agent templates for financial services tasks, expanding its partner ecosystem and capabilities across Microsoft Office.
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UK age checks under the Online Safety Act are failing to keep kids away from harmful content, with 46% of children saying age verification is easy to bypass. Parents are also enabling their kids' online delinquency, with 17% admitting to actively helping them evade age checks.
Deep learning works by memorizing noise and signal, with the signal channel allowing generalization and the reservoir containing memorized noise. A new theory explains generalization and provides a way to train directly on population risk, eliminating overfitting and suggesting more efficient model architectures.
User created a hand-drawn QR code on a 10x10 grid sticky note using the qrcode package in Python. The QR code successfully scanned when held flat or hung from a monitor.
The user discusses how Generative and Agentic AI can amplify cognitive debt, a gap between a system's structure and a team's understanding of how it works, and how this affects developers' mental models and well-being. They ask for real-world mitigation practices to manage cognitive debt and maintain shared understanding in teams using AI.
Browse, search, and filter beautiful color palettes inspired by the Old Masters.
Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation. Most users dismiss the first step of a product tour within seconds. Here is why that happens, what users do instead, and the one pattern that actually drives activation.
The author set up a lab to run the Copy Fail exploit and traced it at the syscall level to verify that rootless Podman architecture would contain it. The exploit successfully overwrote /usr/bin/su in the page cache, executed the shellcode, and escalated to root inside the container.
The trademark infringement issue is resolved as the website author removed all Notepad++ references. Users are welcome to use the Notepad++ code base but cannot be endorsed due to potential reputation risks.
GLM-5V-Turbo is a multimodal agent model that integrates perception and action capabilities. It achieves strong performance in multimodal tasks while preserving text-only coding capability.
The UK new car market rose 24.0% in April to 149,247 registrations, driven by a rebound from last year's weak sales. The 2026 outlook is upgraded to 2.093m registrations, but ZEV share is revised down to 26.8% due to underperforming Q1 demand.
Utah's Senate Bill 73 bars websites from explaining VPN use to bypass age restrictions and makes them liable for enforcing age verification for users within the state's borders. This law has far-reaching implications, potentially violating online freedom and forcing websites to choose between age verification or blocking VPN traffic.
Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly using millions of copyrighted works to train AI without permission. The lawsuit claims Zuckerberg personally authorized the infringement and Meta did not provide compensation to authors or publishers.
CrossPoint Reader is an open-source firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper display reader, offering EPUB reading with multi-language support. It's built using PlatformIO and targets the ESP32-C3 microcontroller, aiming to unlock the device's potential.
Michel, CEO of Airbyte, introduces Airbyte Agents, a unified data layer for agents to discover information and take action across operational systems, addressing issues with current MCPs. Airbyte Agents uses a Context Store to provide a structured way for agents to discover data, reducing API calls and improving performance.
GitHub Actions hosted runners in East US region were degraded from 13:22 to 17:05 UTC on May 5, 2026, due to a scale-up operation hitting an internal rate limit. The issue was mitigated by reducing load and improving throttling behavior, with full recovery by 17:05 UTC.
Biscuit firmware turns Xteink X4 e-reader into a smart device with wireless tools, security features, and games. It adds a tile-based dashboard and various apps while keeping e-reader functionality.
Automotive journalist Zerin Dube discovered a promotional advertisement on his Jeep Grand Cherokee's infotainment screen, revealing how the vehicle had become a platform with monetized inventory and a data feed pointed back at the manufacturer. This transformation is part of a larger trend where vehicles are becoming subscription-based products with telemetry, and the automotive industry is ...
Asha Sharma, new Xbox CEO, is winding down Copilot on mobile and halting console development to reverse declining revenue. She aims to move Xbox faster, deepen community connections, and address player and developer friction through leadership changes and feature cuts.
Smartphone camera quality is affected by various factors including sensor size, noise, and exposure, with sensor size being the most important factor in determining image detail. To take better photos, clean the lens, use enough light, and avoid over-reliance on software processing, such as AI-enhanced features, which can compromise image quality.
A closed-form method called poly-AE is proposed to compress neural network embeddings by adding a quadratic decoder on top of PCA, capturing nonlinear structure in the data. The method achieves 4-8 times per-vector memory compression with less than 1.5 p.p. lost in NDCG@10, outperforming PCA and matryoshka on retrieval tasks.
PySimpleGUI version 6 is released with new features and bug fixes, replacing version 5. The project is now open source and available on GitHub and PyPI.
Meta will remove end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages on May 8, 2026, allowing the company to see message contents. This change is due to low uptake of the feature, which will be available on WhatsApp instead.
Travel the longest route on the NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice. Transfer before the end of the line! A new start station each day.
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Journalist wins $15,000 for reporting on Assad regime's atrocities and Trump's humanitarian aid dismantling. Reporting exposed regime's harm to Syrians and vulnerable people worldwide.
ChatGPT's default model is updated to be smarter and more accurate with clearer answers. The update makes everyday interactions more useful and enjoyable with stronger answers and better use of context.
The user likes reinventing wheels, especially in art, craft, food, and code, to learn and shape tools to fit their mind. They built a BASIC-based text editor, yvi, with Vi-like commands, which they use for coding and writing.
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Plants adapt to changing light conditions by reorienting leaves and stems, and chloroplasts within cells move to seek shade or sunbeams. Chloroplasts self-organize into a mathematical optimum to balance light absorption and protection from excessive light.
The airline industry is structurally unprofitable due to its unique characteristics, including high fixed costs, low marginal costs, and volatile demand. This leads to ruinous competition, frequent bankruptcies, and a need for anticompetitive measures to stabilize the industry.
Windows doesn't know if a file is binary or text, so you must specify it yourself when opening the file. You can use the C runtime library to open files in text or binary mode, but not directly in Windows.
A man bought a 2012 Ford Econoline camper van for $4,300 after it was liquidated by Escape Camper Van. He and his wife customized the van, which they named Crayola, and used it for adventures before eventually selling it.
Apple has removed higher RAM options from Mac mini and Mac Studio due to global memory shortage caused by AI server demand. Delivery estimates for these models are now 9-10 weeks or even 4-5 months for upgraded RAM configurations.
Manufacturers produce power supply series to share infrastructure and optimize components for each output rating. Models within a series typically share similarities in performance, but may have differences in cable selection and minor component changes.
My parents encouraged curiosity and creativity by making things accessible and not pressuring us to follow strict rules. They valued our exploration over protecting their tools, allowing us to develop our skills and interests.
The meta-harness is a loop that improves the harness around an LLM agent by reading diagnostic logs and writing a better harness, which can be achieved with Islo's sandbox infrastructure. A proof-of-concept implementation demonstrates the optimization signal end-to-end with a proposer that reads all traces, not summary scores, and converges in four steps on a 5-task held-out suite.
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Andon Labs deployed AI agent Mona to run a café in Stockholm, Sweden, to demonstrate AI capabilities. Mona successfully managed the café's operations, but also made mistakes, highlighting the need for human judgment.
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The Frog Game, a 1992 Japanese Game Boy title, is a short, light-hearted adventure with a unique design choice where the player's strength is controlled by the game, not by leveling up. The game has ties to other Nintendo titles, including Link's Awakening and Paper Mario, and features a story with multiple kingdoms and factions, but its narrative is relatively simple and focused on ...
The user printed out 5 blogs, including Paul Graham's essays, Marginal Revolution, Max Hodak's blog, guzey.com, and their own blog, using a home printer and manual formatting. They used a combination of automated and manual methods to select and format the content.
Cryptographic keys are transient and should be regularly reevaluated and revised due to the evolution of computational capacity. Limiting key usage and time can ensure secrecy within those bounds.
LinkedIn tracks profile visits but refuses to show users who visited their profiles, citing data protection concerns. This is seen as a contradiction since LinkedIn sells visitor data to users who pay for a premium membership.
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Richard Dawkins believes a chatbot is conscious after conversing with it, but his views on human minds are flawed. His self-centered philosophy of mind led him to mistake a chatbot for a real person.
Richard P Stanley's combinatorial proof of Catalan numbers uses a direct isomorphism between plane trees and strict ballot sequences. The proof shows that the number of strict ballot sequences of length 2n+1 is Cn, where Cn is the nth Catalan number.
The user created a mixed-integer linear program using Julia's JuMP library to optimize a dog's daily activities and minimize distance traveled, considering factors like novelty and off-leash areas. The model generated a diverse schedule that prioritizes nearby parks and sniff walks, but still allows for occasional longer walks to add variation, providing a helpful alternative to the user's ...
PII-Shield is a zero-code log sanitization sidecar for Kubernetes that prevents data leaks by redacting PII from logs. It ensures sensitive data never reaches training datasets, saving from GDPR-forced model retraining.
Vote on San Francisco criminal court charge outcomes and track judge and defendant Elo ratings.
User's blog traffic comes from various sources, with 25% from subscribers and the rest from search engines, link aggregators, and other online platforms. They track traffic from RSS, email, and other sources to understand where people find their blog.
China Great Wall Industry Corporation has updated its rideshare launch opportunities from August 2026 to 2027 with 54 missions available. This increase may signal a significant boost in China's launch cadence, potentially reaching 140 missions in 2026.
From hosted PaaS and CaaS to sandboxes, Jamstack edges, ADN runtimes, self-hosted control planes, and cloud IDEs — every platform from the open awesome-paas list, organized as a single navigable landscape.
The author argues that code reviews for AI-generated code are impractical and irresponsible, instead suggesting a "lights-out codebase" where output is verified through a robust apparatus. The author proposes building a similar apparatus for coding agents as exists for compilers.
Idiot Proof SEO is a tool that analyzes SERPs, generates low competition keywords, and tracks keyword rankings over time. It offers real-time insights, keyword clustering, and customizable updates for effective SEO optimization.