Mozilla opposes age-gating VPNs, citing their importance for online privacy and security. Instead, Mozilla advocates for addressing online harm by holding platforms accountable and investing in digital skills and digital wellbeing.
A researcher found a security vulnerability called YellowKey that allegedly bypasses BitLocker's encryption on Windows 11 and Server 2022/2025. The flaw may be a backdoor intentionally introduced by Microsoft, but mitigation is possible by using alternative encryption systems.
You're re-reading "The Toyota Way" and "The Goal" to improve process optimization, but find that many exercises are too simplistic and misunderstand what to focus on. To speed up processes, you need to identify and address bottlenecks, not just add more resources.
People across the US are destroying Flock Safety surveillance cameras in protest over the company's ties to ICE and lack of transparency. The destruction is seen as a response to cities ignoring public opposition and hiding camera locations.
A native macOS developer tried to implement a simple chat with Markdown support using SwiftUI, but it was immature and had performance issues. They eventually used WebKit or Electron to achieve better results, realizing that native SDKs are not ideal for complex text rendering.
AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are losing money on subsidized AI subscriptions, with a gap between costs and revenue that will eventually force price increases. When prices adjust, companies that treated AI as a cheap utility will face bills they didn't budget for, making it essential to audit actual token consumption and model future costs.
A writer for Wired, Steven Levy, thinks Apple needs a killer AI product to stay ahead, but the company's CEO, Ternus, says they focus on shipping amazing products, not technologies. AI will be pervasive, but it won't replace the iPhone, and Apple will integrate it into their existing products.
The M5 MacBook Pro's electricity cost for local inference is $0.009-$0.02 per hour, making it 3x the cost of OpenRouter for comparable models. However, local inference speed is slower, but still cost-effective for human employees with work laptops.
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Debian 12 Bookworm runs on Doogee U10 tablet without bootloader unlock using rkdebian build system. It supports local LLM inference on RK3562 NPU and has functional front and rear cameras but needs color calibration.
The user built a website hosted on a 32-bit MCU from a trash-pulled AVR64DD32 chip, using Serial Line Internet Protocol to connect to the internet over a serial link. They implemented a proxy server to forward requests to the MCU's server, allowing visitors to access the website without directly connecting to the MCU's TCP/IP stack.
Semble is a code search library that indexes and searches codebases instantly, using 98% fewer tokens than grep+read. It runs on CPU with no API keys or external services, providing fast and accurate results for agents.
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Tesla's Solar Roof failed to meet its 1,000-per-week target, with only 3,000 systems installed in nearly a decade. The company has pivoted to conventional solar panels, abandoning Solar Roof customers with unresolved product issues and poor customer service.
Historian Rutger Bregman starts a YouTube channel and plans to publish essays on Substack every 1-2 months. He discusses the rise of fascism in America, citing historian Robert Paxton's definition of fascism as a movement that "bubbles up from below" and shares 10 key traits, including a mythic past, victimhood, hierarchy, and violence.
GenCAD is an image-conditional CAD model that generates 3D CAD and its command history. It uses a strong representation learning framework for multiple modalities of computational engineering designs.
A curated list of major CUDA programming books covers beginner to advanced topics, including C++/Python, architecture, optimization, and the latest releases. The list includes 15 high-quality resources, including classic and modern books, with a focus on practical and hands-on learning for NVIDIA GPU parallel computing.
The European Union considers restricting US cloud providers from handling sensitive government data due to trust issues. EU officials aim to reduce dependency on US cloud services to protect sensitive information.
Two US Navy jets collided and crashed at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, but all four crew members ejected safely. The incident occurred during an aerial demonstration, with no one on the ground hurt, but a nearby road is closed for a multi-day investigation.
Patrick Schlott, an engineer in Vermont, restored old pay phones to provide free-to-use public phones with VoIP technology. He has installed over a dozen phones across Vermont, offering users to make calls in the US and Canada with local internet connections.
The author created a sin-dots record on the Amiga 500 that played Atari music using the PAULA chip to emulate the YM2149 sound chip. By using the COPPER coprocessor to pregenerate COPPER lists, the author was able to offload the 68000 CPU and achieve a 0% CPU load, setting a new sin-dots record of 7210 dots.
The issue is caused by the server closing the socket before the client has finished reading the data, resulting in a TCP RST. This is due to the server's close() call being executed before the client has read all the data, causing the client to receive an ECONNRESET error.
Researchers introduced Self-Distillation Fine-Tuning (SDFT) for on-policy learning from expert demonstrations. SDFT outperforms traditional methods, preserving prior skills while acquiring new ones with reduced forgetting.
Europe has a narrow two-year window to build its own AI infrastructure before becoming dependent on US tech giants, according to Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch. If Europe fails, it may become a "vassal state" with no control over AI and digital services.
Bill C-22 would allow the government to access user information, weakening end-to-end encryption and compromising confidentiality. Opponents argue this would create a surveillance state, threatening Canadians' right to privacy and potentially leading to data breaches.
Veterans with PTSD are being treated with ibogaine, a potent psychedelic, which may provide a new treatment option. Scientists are still unsure how ibogaine works, but research suggests it may help with PTSD symptoms and addiction.
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Data centers, including those used for AI, use a small fraction of the US's freshwater, approximately 0.008% of America's total freshwater, which is equivalent to the water used by 25,000 Americans. The author argues that AI's water usage is not a significant problem and that data centers are actually a beneficial industry due to their high tax revenue per gallon of water used.
AI backlash is growing as people worry it will steal jobs, hurt the environment, and further enrich the wealthy. Negative AI sentiment could become a financial liability for AI labs due to public resistance and data center setbacks.
A Prolog programmer should rebel against outdated features, not against the language itself. Using declarative constructs can make Prolog programs more general and efficient.
MapYourGrid is a community initiative that coordinates mapping transmission infrastructure directly in OpenStreetMap and provides tutorials and mapping tools for tracing power lines, generators, and substations from imagery. The project uses GeoPandas, OSMnx, and Matplotlib to generate print-ready posters of electrical grid infrastructure from OpenStreetMap data with various themes and ...
ThinkPad has been a continuously shipped laptop family since October 1992 under two corporate owners, IBM and Lenovo, with a visually continuous design language across product lines. The brand's durability is attributed to its design language, including the matte-black wedge, red TrackPoint, and enterprise security stack, which has been maintained across multiple product lines and corporate ownership.
A statically-linked binary contains various tools and runs unchanged on multiple platforms. It verifies GitHub releases with SHA-256 sums and ships a virtual filesystem for runtime evaluation.
Using AI without learning quietly degrades skills, trading future capability for present-day speed. To avoid cognitive debt, form hypotheses, ask for explanations, and critique AI output like a junior engineer's PR.
Scientists at UC Santa Barbara created a "rechargeable solar battery" that stores sunlight in tiny molecules and releases it as heat later. This material can hold energy for years and packs more energy per kilogram than lithium-ion batteries.
Shuriken is an infrastructure for agentic trading with various asset classes. It provides a repository with skills for integrating with Shuriken via LLM-backed agents.
Fabricked is a novel software-based attack that manipulates memory routing to compromise AMD SEV-SNP, enabling arbitrary read and write accesses within Confidential Virtual Machines (CVMs). The attack exploits two critical flaws in the Infinity Fabric configuration, allowing a malicious hypervisor to bypass SEV-SNP initialization and disable integrity protection.
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Codiff is a local desktop diff viewer for reviewing staged and unstaged Git changes before committing. Add inline comments on changed lines and copy the full review as Markdown with diff context for follow-up review. After installing the app, use Codiff > Install Terminal Helper to enable the codiff command.
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OpenClaw aims to be a trusted AI personal assistant while addressing security concerns through fs-safe, Proxyline, and ClawHub. These features improve filesystem safety, network security, and plugin trust.
The code uses 16 bytes of x86 assembly to draw an infinite Sierpinski fractal and generate audio in real-mode DOS. It utilizes video memory as a calculation space and speaker port for audio output.
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A live earthquake map built on USGS data. No ads, no tracking, no account. Tectonic plate overlay, PAGER/MMI flags, JMA links for Japan. English, Japanese, Korean.