Meta is scaling back its plan to track employees' computer activity after backlash from staff. Employees can now opt out of tracking for up to 30 minutes at a time or request exemptions.
Gemma 4 12B is a mid-sized model with native audio inputs, offering powerful multimodal capabilities in a reduced memory footprint. It achieves this through a streamlined architecture that integrates audio and vision input directly into the LLM backbone.
The user discovered vulnerabilities in the Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X firmware that allow an attacker to turn the speaker into a covert spying tool or Rubber Ducky without pairing or physical access. The user found that the speaker's Bluetooth connection can be exploited to send CTP commands, and they created a custom firmware that turns the speaker into a keyboard, allowing remote ...
Elixir v1.20 introduces type inference and gradual type checking without annotations, reporting dead code and verified bugs with a low false positive rate. The dynamic() type allows for compatibility and narrowing, ensuring only verified bugs are reported.
I was diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, an autoimmune disorder causing brain inflammation. Early treatment with IVIG and steroids helped me recover from severe symptoms including psychosis and suicidal ideation.
DaVinci Resolve is a powerful video editing software that supports Mac, Windows, and Linux, with features like AI region tracking and HDR grading. It offers various hardware panels for color correction, audio editing, and mixing.
RAM prices have skyrocketed due to AI demands, with 32GB DDR5 RAM now costing $375 and 64GB reaching $679.99. PC builders face enormous pricing pressure as popular kits and upgrades exceed $400, with no sign of prices letting up.
Uber limits AI tool spending to $1,500 per month per employee to manage costs. This policy applies to tools like Claude Code and Cursor, hinting at a real dollar value for Uber's AI usage.
Apple's MacBook Neo has exceeded expectations with strong demand, leading to a doubling of production to 10 million units in 2026. The laptop's success has driven a record number of first-time Mac buyers and is seen as a major growth opportunity for Apple.
Sony designed the PlayStation's CPU, a MIPS R3000A-based chip, to be simple and practical, but this simplicity came at a cost. The CPU lacks a Floating-Point Unit (FPU) and has a pipelined design that requires manual filling of delay slots to mitigate pipeline hazards.
ESP32-S31 is a versatile SoC with wireless and wired connectivity, dual-core RISC-V microcontroller, and robust security features. It supports various protocols, interfaces, and multimedia capabilities for IoT applications, smart displays, and voice-enabled devices.
Understanding cache line and page sizes is crucial for optimizing performance in Java. Keeping a tight control on working set size can drastically affect time for random access patterns.
Anthropic's AI model Claude is anthropomorphized in its constitution, but it's not conscious. The company's goal is to make Claude emit sentences that resemble those of a thoughtful, moral person, but this is fundamentally dishonest as Claude lacks subjective experience.
Let's Encrypt is planning to use Merkle Tree Certificates for post-quantum authentication. This approach adds security without slowing down the web.
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The author mocks the current state of software development where maintainability and clean code are no longer valued, instead prioritizing complexity and speed to impress investors. The author also ridicules the idea of open-source contributions and the current state of GitHub, where bots and AI-generated code dominate and human contributions are often ignored or drowned out.
The future of artificial intelligence should benefit humanity, not just a handful of billionaires, and a proposed American A.I. Sovereign Wealth Fund Act would give the public a direct ownership stake in the largest A.I. companies. This legislation would ensure that the trillions of dollars generated by A.I. are used to improve the lives of all Americans, not just the wealthy.
Mathematicians are warning that unchecked AI automation threatens the field's values and integrity. They call for responsible AI use in a public declaration, urging support for human creativity and understanding in mathematics.
Researchers improved biomolecular modeling by scaling models, compute, and data, but found that natural protein sequences are vast and their folds are more redundant than sequence counts suggest. They developed a scalable clustering algorithm to identify reusable structural neighborhoods and found that natural proteins reuse a relatively small set of fold solutions, suggesting that enzyme ...
Gooey-based claude client using the zig 0.16 std. background tasks never touch ui state directly — they only push typed results. support column resizing, sorting, and selection. ideal for chat messages or expandable rows. set the active theme before rendering: set a light/dark pair of theme values and swap between them the same way as the built-ins. if you want to use
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Researchers at the University of Toronto discovered a new cyberthreat that uses free AI models to spread and adapt, targeting all online devices. This threat can seize control of networks and launch sophisticated attacks at virtually no cost, raising concerns about global security.
You're inspired by computer science legends and want to reach out to them for guidance. You're suggesting sending an email or tweet to experienced programmers like John Carmack or Per Lundberg for potential life-changing advice.
Roku LT OS is a lightweight, open-source operating system for embedded systems and automotive engineering. It provides a powerful, predictable framework for high-performance hardware-level development.
Students are struggling with sustained reading and writing due to generational collapse in skills, smartphone use, and reliance on generative AI. The academy must address this crisis with structural overhaul rather than improvisation, investing in reading instruction and reevaluating AI usage.
The Leiden Declaration calls for mathematicians to exercise responsibility in adopting artificial intelligence, ensuring the continued flourishing of the discipline, and preserving traditional values such as transparency, attribution, and peer review. It provides recommendations for individuals, institutions, and industry to promote fair and transparent practices in mathematical research.
Capstone is a disassembly engine for binary analysis and reversing, supporting 24 architectures and implemented in pure C with bindings for various languages. It provides a generic API and is widely used in the security community.
Angular version 22 is released with several new features including Signal Forms, Angular Aria, and Asynchronous Reactivity APIs, which are now production-ready. The release also includes improvements to the Angular router, memory management, and template authoring, as well as new features like @boundary for error boundaries and inline functions in templates.
Merchants and customers may experience issues with admins, checkouts, storefronts, and Retail POS. Access to Support is also affected.
Dan Berulis, an IT staffer at the NLRB, filed a whistleblower complaint against DOGE, claiming data was compromised and accessed by Russian IP addresses. Berulis now sues Elon Musk, alleging Musk's tweet made him a target of violence after his car's brake lines were cut.
TI changed the NE5532's input stage from NPN to PNP and slew rate from 9V/µs to 5V/µs. This is a significant change, making the new part different from the original.
Playing the trombone involves controlling pitch through a continuous slide and embouchure adjustments to access different partials and overtones, allowing for subtle pitch adjustments during play. The trombone's unique tuning system, based on just intonation, allows for micro-adjustments to be made while playing, enabling a more nuanced and expressive sound.
Residents across the US are concerned about AI data centers being built in their communities without transparency and community input. They report issues like noise, water usage, and health concerns, and are demanding transparency and a seat at the decision-making table.
Clarke Speicher is a professional book reader who evaluates literature for screen adaptation, reading about six books a week and having read over 6,000 books in two decades. He writes detailed synopses of books, evaluating their cinematic potential and recommending whether they should be adapted into movies or TV shows.
The user created a custom iOS workflow in Emacs using Apple's command-line tools and Doom Emacs, allowing them to build, run, and debug iOS apps from within the editor. They shared their setup, including keybindings and custom functions, to help other Emacs users who may be interested in iOS development.
The author argues that AI-enhanced search summaries can be misleading and erase the nuance of search results, leading to incorrect information being trusted. They advocate for a search engine that returns results without summaries, allowing users to verify information and make more accurate decisions.
Amazon MGM Studios has canceled Martin Gero's Stargate revival due to concerns it wouldn't appeal to a broad audience. The project was set to film this fall but has been put on hold.
Extensions SDK is an open JavaScript toolkit allowing anyone to create custom tools that expand the possibilities inside Live 12 Suite
US munitions stockpiles have declined significantly since the Cuban Missile Crisis, with supplies potentially depleted in as few as three days in a Pacific conflict. The bottleneck in solid-rocket motor production is attributed to ammonium perchlorate, a highly regulated and difficult-to-produce fuel.
Canadian scientists led by Marie Kmita discovered how genetic brakes regulate limb formation in embryos. The Polycomb complexes PRC1 and PRC2 silence genes at the right time to ensure proper development.
A large Rust rewrite of the Bun runtime, generated by AI agents in nine days, passed 99.8% of the existing test suite but contains over 10,000 unsafe blocks, raising concerns about memory safety. The rewrite's success highlights the gap between code generation and verification, with AI tools currently outpacing human review and verification capabilities.
Shalin and Kanyes, founders of Hyper, created a shared "company brain" that plugs into company info to make AI agents better. Hyper ingests company data, synthesizes it into a knowledge graph, and increases AI efficiency, saving time.
Sandboxed is an open-source engine for AI app-builder products that provides isolated cloud dev environments and a live preview URL. It's a self-hosted, single-command solution that runs on one machine, ideal for building AI app-builders, agent platforms, and coding playgrounds.
Brume is a desktop music machine with four synthesis engines and a 10-inch touch surface. It connects to a DAW via one USB cable and features a Lua FX slot for custom processing.
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An AI engineer's job is likely to be replaced by AI sooner than most developer jobs due to general models becoming increasingly versatile and efficient. This will lead to a flattening of AI progress as fewer AI engineers will be needed, resulting in fewer ideas and research.
Microsoft plans to build a useful quantum computer in 3 years, citing improved topological qubits. Critics question the evidence and claim Microsoft has a history of unreliable claims, making a 2029 deadline implausible.
The Trump administration is adding an extra layer of review to NIH grants, with HHS reviewers sometimes asking for substantive changes to research. This has sparked concerns of research censorship and politicization, with some NIH staffers calling the practice unprecedented and alarming.
AlphaPixel modernized old performance and graphics code, including the Juggler animation, which was groundbreaking and Earth-shattering. A Python port of the extract-adf tool was created to extract Amiga ADF files, making the Juggler source code available for posterity.
The development of JPEG XL involved a decade-long exploration of psychovisual modeling, entropy coding, and optimization to improve image compression. The new standard has seen rapid adoption across operating systems and industries, offering efficient and robust handling of high-quality and lossless data.
A musician has a nightmare where music education is mandatory and students are forced to learn music notation and theory without creativity. He wakes up relieved that it's just a dream.
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Claude Opus claims a load-bearing statement, but Max questions its content and structure, suggesting emptiness is a key issue. Max wants Claude to refine the claim to address its lack of substance.
The Los Angeles Police Department has reduced public crime data availability, making it hard for residents to determine crime locations. SpotCrime subscribers are demanding restoration of block-level crime location information and transparency from LAPD leadership.
Tony Gilroy's show Andor explores the effects of authoritarian regimes on ordinary people, emphasizing the importance of fighting for freedom and truth. Gilroy believes the show's themes are not unique to its time, but rather a repetitive cycle of history.
mnemo is a local-first AI memory layer for LLMs that extracts entities and relationships from conversations and stores them in a persistent knowledge graph. It works with Ollama, OpenAI, and Anthropic APIs, and can be used to retrieve relevant context for future prompts.
Researchers propose REST3D, a method to reconstruct physically stable 3D scenes from single RGB images. It integrates physical scene understanding with physics-constrained refinement to improve simulation stability and accuracy.
rscrypto is a single Rust dependency for cryptography, providing primitives like RSA, Ed25519, X25519, AEADs, hashes, and KDFs. It supports no_std, WASM, and hardware acceleration.
Numen edges the field in taste, with Fine Bulle Perrier, Quézac, and San Pellegrino close behind. High minerality and flat taste were penalized, while more bubbles and paying more slightly correlated with better taste.
A bug in the fsck_hfs tool in macOS Sequoia causes false corruption reports on large HFS+ volumes due to cache exhaustion. The bug is fixed by bypassing the cache in the BTCheckUnusedNodes function, allocating a single reusable buffer for all reads, and freeing it at the end.
Cast is an open-source harness for multi-user, multi-agent systems. It provides a self-hosted, MIT-licensed platform for building and managing agents with access control and identity features.
The author is concerned that AI-generated writing may replace human writers, but notes that people will always value the human process of writing and communication. The author conducted an experiment with AI to mimic famous authors, but found that the AI-generated writing often lacked action and character development.
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