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This virtual museum of operating systems runs on Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM, with a custom launcher and pre-installed OSes. It includes historical OSes and platforms from 1948 to the present day, with a goal to make them easily accessible and runnable.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is a powerful model combining frontier intelligence with action, delivering exceptional speed and performance for complex tasks. It's ideal for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, automating workflows, and generating interactive web UIs and graphics.
The speaker presented a lightning talk at PyCon US 2026, summarizing six months of LLM developments, including the November 2025 inflection point where coding agents improved significantly. The past six months also saw the rise of laptop-available models, such as Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, and personal AI assistants, known as Claws.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a law banning prediction market sites, prompting a lawsuit from the Trump administration. The law forces sites like Kalshi and Polymarket to leave the state or face felony charges, amid a growing standoff over regulation.
Apple is releasing accessibility updates using Apple Intelligence, including improved VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader. New features include on-device generated subtitles, power wheelchair control with Apple Vision Pro, and an adaptive MagSafe accessory for iPhone.
Google Search is upgrading with AI, introducing a new intelligent Search box and Search agents that can help with tasks and answer questions. The new features include custom dashboards, generative UI, and expanded Personal Intelligence capabilities.
Forge is a reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling with guardrails and context management. It scores 86.5% on a 26-scenario eval suite and supports multi-step workflows and long-running sessions.
Photographer Dany Bittel used a Nikon Z8 with Laowa 180mm macro lens to capture 88 focus stacked images from 90 perspectives. The images were taken with LED light and bluescreen, using slang-splat training.
Tesla's lithium refinery in Texas is discharging black wastewater into a ditch, containing heavy metals and a known carcinogen, despite its "acid-free clean process" claim. The drainage district found the issue by walking the ditch, not through state regulators or Tesla.
A CISA contractor exposed highly sensitive AWS GovCloud credentials and internal CISA system passwords in a public GitHub repository. The leak, which occurred for at least 48 hours, represents one of the most egregious government data breaches in recent history.
The author's website FiveThirtyEight was deleted by ABC News, a Disney subsidiary, after a decade of hard work and significant investment. The author believes Disney neglected the site, failing to make it a profitable unit, and now regrets choosing to partner with them.
OpenBSD 7.9 includes various improvements and bug fixes, including platform-specific enhancements for arm64, amd64, and riscv64 architectures, as well as new features in the network stack, pf firewall, and userland applications. Security improvements include fixes for vulnerabilities in OpenSSH, LibreSSL, and other components, as well as new features such as delayed hibernation, improved ...
Gemini CLI is being replaced by Antigravity CLI, a unified platform for multi-agent workflows. Antigravity CLI retains key Gemini features and adds asynchronous workflows and a unified architecture.
A malicious attack compromised the npm account atool on May 19, 2026, publishing 637 malicious versions across 314 packages, including size-sensor, echarts-for-react, and hundreds of @antv scoped packages. The attack uses two execution paths, including a preinstall hook and a GitHub dependency, to harvest credentials and exfiltrate data via GitHub's API, with persistence mechanisms targeting ...
The tool removes AI watermarks and metadata from images generated by various AI models, including Google Gemini, ChatGPT/DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion. It strips SynthID, C2PA, EXIF, and XMP labels, and prevents AI distortion of facial features.
Mistral AI is acquiring Emmi AI, a leading Engineering AI company, to create the leading AI stack for Industrial Engineering. The acquisition will strengthen Mistral's position as the leading AI transformation partner for industrial enterprises.
OpenAI is strengthening content provenance with a multi-layered model to build trust online, including C2PA conformance and SynthID watermarking. This approach aims to make AI-generated content easier to identify and verify, supporting a more trustworthy information ecosystem.
Create anything from anything, starting with video. Gemini Omni is where Geminiβs ability to reason meets the ability to create. It delivers a leap in world understanding, multimodality, and editing.
Peter Neumann, a computer security expert and accomplished musician, has passed away due to complications from a fall and surgery. A memorial service will be held at SRI in Menlo Park in a month.
Many open-source projects die due to various reasons such as lack of maintenance, funding issues, or changes in the project's purpose. These projects can remain in the registry, still resolving and being installed, but no longer being actively maintained or updated.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash is a powerful model combining frontier intelligence with action, delivering exceptional speed and performance for complex tasks. It's ideal for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, automating workflows, and generating interactive web UIs and graphics.
Dan Cross via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org Tue May 19 10:20:01 AEST 2026 I just found out that Peter Salus passed away on May 15. His "Quarter Century of Unix" is required reading for any serious student of Unix history. - Dan C. More information about the TUHS mailing list
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The author argues that AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic are burning through billions of dollars and have no clear path to sustainability, with their costs increasing linearly with revenues. To recover their investments, these companies would need to make or raise over $1.25 trillion in the next four years, which is highly unlikely given their current financial situation.
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Gentoo Linux teams are working to keep kernels secure by packaging latest upstream releases and backporting fixes. Users should upgrade to latest kernel version and automate upgrades for better security.
Fender sent cease and desist letters to US firms, including LsL Instruments, to stop producing S-style electric guitars. The move follows a landmark ruling in Germany that established the Stratocaster body design as a copyrighted work of art.
The author reflects on their experience with PHP, a language they initially didn't expect to use, but has grown to appreciate despite its quirks. PHP's array data structure is flexible but complex, and its type system has unintuitive features like uninitialized properties.
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College students are increasingly anxious about AI's impact on their job prospects, with 70% seeing it as a threat. They booed speakers who highlighted AI's benefits, feeling it's tone deaf given their dismal job market and AI restrictions in classes.
Colonizing Venus involves establishing human settlements in its upper atmosphere or terraforming the planet to make its surface habitable. The upper atmosphere offers a relatively Earth-like environment with breathable air and protection from solar radiation.
Google unveiled a major overhaul of its Search, introducing AI-powered interactive experiences and tools that dispatch "information agents" to gather information. The revamped Search experience will focus on acting on information provided by AI agents rather than humans manually clicking links.
CISA left digital keys to its cloud storage in plain text for six months, exposing passwords and sensitive data. The issue was fixed over the weekend, but the incident has raised concerns about the agency's cybersecurity.
The user created a project called git-commit-folders that allows users to explore their Git repository as a filesystem where every commit is a folder, aiming to give users intuition on how Git works under the hood. The project uses FUSE, NFS, and WebDav to mount the filesystem, but the user encountered several issues, including duplicated code, NFS stale file handle errors, and performance ...
The user has shifted from using coding agents for coding work to applying them to knowledge work, leveraging Codex's upgrades to create a durable thread with shared memory and tools that can act on their computer. This allows the user to review artifacts, steer tasks, and preserve momentum, making their work more efficient and less dependent on individual prompts.
A 2002 war game showed the US military vulnerable to low-tech warfare, with a simulated US Navy battle group defeated in 10 minutes by unconventional means. The findings foreshadowed US challenges in the 2003 Iraq invasion and other conflicts.
The TTY subsystem in Linux is a complex system that originated from the early days of teletypes and has evolved over time to handle various features such as line editing, session management, and job control. The TTY subsystem communicates with userland processes using signals, ioctl calls, and other mechanisms, allowing for asynchronous communication and enabling features like blocking I/O ...
Railway services have recovered but some workloads may still need redeployment. A detailed postmortem will follow once stability is confirmed.
SetPose is a free online pose maker and digital mannequin that helps artists practice drawing human poses with ease. It offers customizable models, environments, and props to create realistic figure drawings.
Anthropic is tightening access to its AI services, splitting CLI and agent usage into new billing pools, and restricting third-party workflows. This shift suggests the company is becoming more closed and aggressive about monetization.
The user wrote a small WASM runtime in Go called Epsilon, which was extensively tested but found to have several security vulnerabilities, including sandbox escapes and type-related issues. The user used a combination of scripts and AI models, including Gemini 3.1 Pro, to discover the bugs, which included a stack height misalignment bug and a host function signature mismatch bug.
The article discusses the decline of non-fiction book sales and the rise of AI-generated content, podcasts, and explainer videos, which may be replacing the traditional format of physical books. The author argues that physical books offer a unique experience of layered, spaced attention and communion with characters, which is lost in digital formats.
A study on a deployed LLM named Qwen3.5-9B found that its political censorship is a small, identifiable circuit that can be found, read, and turned off by subtracting specific directions at the writer layer. The circuit has two halves, with the writer band computing three internal directions that encode the decision to censor or not, and the reader band redundantly committing the verdict ...
Stanford economist Mordecai Kurz argues that US democracy is declining due to technological moguls accumulating monopoly power and eroding democracy. He suggests reforms such as taxing excess wealth and subsidizing education to help workers adapt to AI.
Iran threatens to charge US tech companies fees for using undersea Internet cables in the Strait of Hormuz. The move may accelerate efforts to find alternative routes for bypassing the digital chokepoint.
Install Superlog using npx skills add superloglabs/skills --all. Superlog provides error summaries and assessments with a severity score.
This is a list of HTML-in-Canvas demos contributed by third-party developers. Note that Google does not endorse or maintain these demos and assumes no liability for their accuracy or performance.
MOTOORI Norinaga drew the Hashihara Castle Town Map at 19, depicting a culturally vibrant town with named shrines, temples, and rivers. The map is a blueprint of a castle town ruled by the HASHIHARA family, envisioned by Norinaga as a young scholar.
Mary Tsingou's 1955 experiment on MANIAC revealed a paradox in nonlinear systems, showing they can behave in stable and structured ways despite initial expectations. This discovery reshaped how scientists think about systems and led to the development of new technologies, including the internet.
The author investigated the origin of the word "zork" in the game Zork, initially believing it was a jargon term for unfinished programs.
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Researchers Adrian Barnett and Alexander Gibson found a dataset on Kaggle with duplicated images of celebrities and patients, used in a paper on stroke detection. The paper was retracted, but the issue highlights a wider problem of questionable data on online repositories.
The user's domain immersivepoints.com was hijacked by someone who set up a GitHub page on kafka.immersivepoints.com, which the user was unaware of due to a lack of DNS knowledge. The user suggests GitHub implement better domain verification and warning systems to prevent such hijackings and protect users' domains.
We fixed microsandbox's slow performance by replacing the user-space filesystem with a Linux disk image that the VM mounts directly, resulting in a 47Γ speedup across mixed guest-visible filesystem workloads. The new approach uses EROFS, a read-only in-tree Linux filesystem, and eliminates the need for FUSE, allowing file operations to stay inside the VM's kernel.
Plex is increasing the Lifetime Plex Pass price to $749.99 USD on July 1, 2026. Current holders remain unchanged, and monthly/annual subscriptions stay the same.
Microsoft announced a general-purpose Linux distribution, Azure Linux 4.0, based on Fedora Linux, available on Azure. It's designed for server-side use in the cloud, with a focus on security and minimal packages.
The Apple II's success was fueled by its expandability, open hardware specs, and strong software ecosystem, which attracted educators and developers. Apple's partnership with Minnesota's MECC and Jobs' lobbying efforts helped the Apple II become ubiquitous in US schools, making it the most familiar computer model of its time.
The author, a seasoned coder, has shifted focus from writing code to making decisions and evaluating code generated by AI agents. This change has given them more time to focus on the real problems and think harder about the results.
Copy Fail is a Linux local-privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers to rewrite the cached contents of files on a Linux filesystem, enabling them to break out of a namespaced container and gain root access on the host. The vulnerability can be exploited by creating a pod with the necessary permissions and using the Copy Fail primitive to poison a shared lower-layer file, ...
The user is using the hsrs library to generate idiomatic Haskell code from Rust code, handling memory management, serialization, and type conversions. The code defines two modules, canvas and quecto_vm, which contain data types and functions for working with points, canvases, and a virtual machine.
OpenAI's president Greg Brockman made a $25 million donation to MAGA Inc, citing a "civilizational mission" to benefit humanity. This reflects a common attitude among tech leaders who prioritize abstract concepts over individual people's concerns.
id-agent produces word-based IDs at ~14 tokens with equivalent collision resistance to UUIDs. It uses a curated 4096-word list for IDs with 3-6 character words.
Manu Moreale's plea for support resonated deeply, highlighting a disconnect between digital consumption and active engagement. As consumers of independent content, we have a collective responsibility to reciprocate with human connection, not just financial support.
A small archive of punch cards and ephemera from the 1930s through 1980s.
Google Cloud Run has a known issue with client disconnects using HTTP/1.1, so we're switching to HTTP/2 cleartext (h2c) for better support. With Go 1.24, setting up h2c is simpler and can be configured directly on the http.Server.
Music executive Scott Borchetta told graduates AI is changing production. He reacted to boos by saying "deal with it" and that AI is a tool to be paid for.
Recent LLM architectures focus on long-context efficiency, with developers adding tricks to reduce KV-cache size, memory traffic, and attention cost. Examples include Gemma 4's KV sharing and per-layer embeddings, Laguna XS.2's layer-wise attention budgeting, ZAYA1-8B's compressed convolutional attention, and DeepSeek V4's manifold-constrained hyper-connections and hybrid compressed attention.
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Beatriz Villarroel and her team discovered 100,000 short-lived transients in old Palomar plates, which they believe are reflective objects orbiting Earth. The transients are linked to nuclear tests and UFO sightings, with some researchers suggesting they could be evidence of extraterrestrial technology.
Google developed ERA, a tool that uses AI to write and optimize scientific code, increasing the speed and scope of scientific discovery. ERA achieves expert-level performance across various disciplines, potentially democratizing access to expert-level computational modeling.
The author revisits the concept of hardware tessellation, specifically the Dx11-style algorithm, and proposes a new algorithm called clamped parallelogram tessellation that offers more desirable properties such as flexibility and stability. This new algorithm is designed to tessellate triangles without popping, and it can be used for various applications including film-quality real-time ...
The Xiaoxitian temple was built during a time of great suffering in Shanxi, China, as a desperate dream of a better world. It features over a thousand suspended sculptures, creating an immersive Pure Land in stark contrast to its grim creation.
LLMCap is a proxy that prevents surprise bills by returning 429 before token consumption. It works with every SDK and has a one-line code change.
NumExpr is a fast numerical expression evaluator for NumPy that accelerates array operations and uses less memory than Python. It achieves better performance by avoiding intermediate result memory allocation and utilizing CPU cache.
Cloud agents are failing to spin up on MacOS, causing long wait times. They were working yesterday but not today, preventing conversations from starting.
US lawmakers propose a $130 annual fee on electric car drivers to fund highways, but critics argue it's unfair and won't close the Highway Trust Fund shortfall. The fee would increase by $5 every two years until it hits $150, with plug-in hybrids paying $35 initially.
Sieve scans local AI chat history for leaked API keys, tokens, and passwords. It securely stores new values in Sieve Vault using macOS Keychain and Touch ID.
User recently upgraded to full fibre internet and replaced their router with a UniFi Cloud Gateway Max. They encountered difficulties in configuring the device without an internet connection and had to revert to their old setup before successfully configuring the Cloud Gateway.
The <noscript> element fails to provide the right behavior when JavaScript is partially supported or fails to load. A better approach is to use DOM APIs to update content dynamically, avoiding the need for a failure message.
A man named Martin Fobes was arrested for DWI in 1948, but his mug shot led to a larger investigation into the death of an 18-year-old girl named Anna Grace Robertson. The author researched the case and discovered a hidden history of New Castle, Pennsylvania, through old mug shots and newspaper archives.
CISA left digital keys to its cloud storage in plain text for six months, exposing passwords and sensitive data. The issue was fixed over the weekend, but the incident has raised concerns about the agency's cybersecurity.
The user argues that the traditional Rails-way approach to building applications is not suitable for complex projects and can lead to technical debt, decreased team efficiency, and reduced confidence in making changes. They propose exploring alternative approaches, such as domain-driven design, to handle complexity and improve team productivity, while still utilizing the Rails framework.