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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The World Health Organization declared a global health emergency due to the spread of the Ebola virus in Congo and Uganda. The outbreak has reported 246 suspected cases and 80 deaths with significant uncertainties about the number of infected people.
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.
Dr. Aaron Breidenbach discovered natural Herbertsmithite crystals in the Atacama Desert, which are more pure than lab-grown crystals and have immense potential for quantum computing.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Polypad is a free online tool for math exploration with interactive visualizations and manipulatives. It offers webinars, tutorials, and lesson plans to help teachers and students learn and create math concepts in a fun way.
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 Prolog programmer should rebel against outdated features, not against the language itself. Using declarative constructs can make Prolog programs more general and efficient.
PhotoGIMP transforms GIMP into a Photoshop-like layout for free. It's a community-driven patch for GIMP version 3.0 and newer.
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 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.
TLA+ is a language for specifying systems, with a syntax that can be generated by frontier LLMs, but requires understanding of temporal logic and system behavior. Model-checking with TLC can verify properties and answer questions about the system, but requires careful specification and configuration.
Biologists and computer scientists are working together to understand how living organisms develop and regenerate their bodies, and how this process can be replicated in artificial systems. Researchers are using cellular automata models and neural networks to simulate the growth and development of patterns, and are exploring how these models can be used to create self-repairing systems and ...
A security researcher discovered vulnerabilities in a smart doorbell sold on Temu, a Chinese marketplace, allowing an attacker to impersonate the device, compromise the entire network, and access sensitive information such as home network credentials and device tokens. The researcher was able to dump the firmware from the device using a UART connection and found that the protocol used for ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Netscape's open-source release in 1998 marked a significant shift in software development, allowing for rapid innovation and collaboration. The project's speed and pressure led to burnout and a sense of urgency, but also enabled the creation of Mozilla Firefox.
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.
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 ...
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.
The author bought a 25.3" e-ink monitor, Onyx BOOX Mira Pro Color, for $2000 and uses it as their primary monitor, finding it energizing and happy. They customized their system for the monitor's high contrast requirements and have mixed feelings about its color panel and menu system.
The user ported 3D graphics to a ZX Spectrum using a microcontroller and optimized the code for speed. They rewrote the code in Z80 assembly for a 4x speedup.
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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.
Modern compilers devirtualize calls to final methods reliably, but corner cases vary across compilers. Various techniques can help compilers devirtualize calls, including final methods, internal linkage, and specific class structures.
An autoregressive language model generates text by processing input through a stack of decoder blocks, using a KV cache to store information about the prompt. The KV cache allows the model to generate long sequences efficiently by reusing previously computed information, reducing the cost of generating each new token.
ZIP Shrinker is a browser tool that re-compresses and optimizes ZIP files by removing metadata and directory entries. This tool can save bandwidth and server costs, but may not always produce the smallest possible file size.
REST API framework for Nim language. Contribute to status-im/nim-presto development by creating an account on GitHub.
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.
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.
ksharp is a K programming language interpreter written in C# with a focus on simplicity and compatibility with K version 3. It supports various features including parsing, evaluation, and .NET integration, with ongoing development and contributions from multiple individuals.
Each tap traces the supply path. Hover/tap a chip layer to see who makes it. Hover/tap a company to see what it makes and what it depends on. I publish weekly analysis of AI semiconductor supply chains, Japanese tech equities, and compute infrastructure. Free, no spam. Check my other work →
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.
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.
Github's fragmentation is inevitable as users move to alternatives like Codeberg, self-hosted Forgejo, and Gitlab. A vouching system like Hashimoto's Ghostty could set the tone for how Github's decline happens, requiring a consistent username and barrier of entry to ensure high-quality contributors.
A 50-turn OpenClaw or Hermes agent should not keep paying for turn 1. A briefing on prompt layout, host-side shared KV, distributed lookup, RDMA transfer, encoder reuse, and what InferGuard is trying to prove without overclaiming. Covers vLLM × Mooncake, LMCache MP, LMCache CacheBlend, SGLang, NVIDIA Dynamo, Modal cold starts, and InferGuard evidence packets.
Energy return in running shoes refers to how efficiently midsole foam rebounds after compression, improving running economy and reducing wasted effort. The relationship between energy return and shock absorption is not strictly linear, and other shoe characteristics like weight, stiffness, and geometry also play a role.
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The era of electronic kits started after WWII with companies like Heathkit, Allied Radio, EICO, and others offering test equipment, amateur radio, and audio kits. These companies played a significant role in encouraging people to pursue careers in electronics and creating a lasting hobby, with Heathkit being the most successful and well-known kit provider.
Amy Wallace is David Foster Wallace's sister, who is now the only living member of the nuclear Foster Wallace family. She is fighting to preserve her brother's humanity beyond his public image as a tortured artist.
Codiff v0.2.0 adds features like improved walkthroughs, history view, and CLI review. It allows local review of staged and unstaged Git changes with inline comments and Markdown export.
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Electrical signalling across distinct populations of brain cells underpins cognitive and emotional function. we demonstrate that it can strengthen communication across neural circuits composed of pairs of distinct cell types and modify behaviour accordingly. in vivo docking selectivity and functionality of our hemichannels were determined by testing whether distinct pairs can regulate the ...
This Next.js demo compares GitHub activity of various companies to @steipete's solo developer output, pricing it in "Peters". It's a benchmark and roast to observe what GitHub metrics can and can't say about an engineering org.
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.