SpaceX was denied accelerated entry into the S&P 500 stock market index due to its unprofitability and high debt load. The decision may be a relief to investors concerned about exposure to SpaceX's AI and speculative plans.
OpenCV 5 is a major release that modernizes the library with a new DNN engine, improved ONNX support, and hardware acceleration. It brings significant performance improvements, better language support, and a redesigned Hardware Acceleration Layer for faster image processing.
Meta notified 20,225 people whose Instagram accounts were hijacked through a flaw in its AI chatbot, allowing hackers to access account information and posts. The breach occurred from April 17 to this week, with Meta disabling the chatbot and instructing users to reset their passwords.
The US Pentagon has raised its counterintelligence threat level for Israel to the highest level due to concerns about Israel's increased spying on the US. The US is taking extra precautions when interacting with Israeli officials, but the two countries' intelligence-sharing remains intact.
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Software engineers are overemphasizing code quality, while users care about product functionality. AI-assisted development can deploy products faster, allowing for quicker iteration and improvement.
ntsc-rs is a free, open-source Rust effect that accurately emulates analog TV and VHS artifacts. It's multithreaded, SIMD-accelerated and available as a standalone, web app, and plugin for various video editing software.
Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for access to 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs and related components from October 2026 to June 2029. The deal is a short-term agreement to meet surging demand for Google's AI products, with a cancellation clause and reduced fees if access is delayed.
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A recent Linux kernel proposal to add "spawn templates" to optimize the fork() and exec() pattern has been rejected, but it may point to a new process-creation primitive in the future. The discussion highlights the need for a better process-creation mechanism, with some suggesting a native implementation of posix_spawn() and others proposing alternative approaches using existing system calls.
Nvidia's new CPU has 10 performance cores, 10 efficiency cores, and 6,144 CUDA cores with 128 GB shared memory. It's a unified memory system, offering cheap bandwidth for AI models and decent gaming performance.
zeroserve is a fast, zero-config HTTPS server that serves websites from a single tarball and supports eBPF scripting for middleware and proxying. It beats nginx in serving small files and has a faster proxying path.
The user purchased a broken Sigma 45mm f/2.8 lens on eBay for a low price, but it had electrical issues and no electronic controls worked. The user successfully repaired the lens by replacing a blown fuse on the control PCB, which was likely caused by excessive current draw from the lens's motor controller.
Motorola's MotoSync+ app has been down for nearly a month, preventing users from setting up and using their WiFi routers. The issue has left many customers without access to their routers, with some unable to even factory reset their devices.
Bright Data's SDK turns users' devices into residential proxies for AI training, scraping data from the internet without users' knowledge. The SDK is embedded in partner apps, including smart TVs, and can bypass VPNs and corporate network controls to execute scraping jobs.
New college graduates now face higher unemployment than the average worker, a gap that started in 2019 and has grown since. The main culprit is likely remote work, which makes it harder for inexperienced workers to get hired into remote roles.
Remote work has quadrupled since the COVID-19 pandemic, increasing isolation and mental health issues. Workers in remote-capable jobs spent more time alone, avoided social activities, and experienced increased mental distress, particularly those living alone.
The user collected various examples of molly guards, which are design elements preventing accidental actions, and discussed their effectiveness and aesthetics. They also shared a personal anecdote about the origin of the term "molly guard."
To understand how military systems map onto societies, we need to consider factors such as whether the society is agrarian, whether it has a state, what kind of aristocracy it has, and how the peasantry and aristocracy relate to each other. The recruitment principle, which is the reason why individuals feel obligated to serve, can be based on entitlement, vocational, clientage, or employment ...
The CPython Steering Council is requesting a Standards Track PEP to formalize the JIT compiler's status. They ask that no new JIT development land on main until a PEP is accepted, with a six-month window for submission and resolution.
Rohan made changes to the code, adding and modifying functions, and deleting another. The changes affect 42 entities, including the loginRoute and authMiddleware, due to dependencies on db.findUser and rateLimiter.
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The user discusses a book cover that raises questions about the book's content, specifically a C++ book with JavaScript code. The user also criticizes a publisher, Larson and Keller, for using the same generic blurb for multiple books.
Erin McCann, a lawyer, discovers two boxes of government documents connected to her family's past crimes. Her mother, Leah, had hidden the documents, revealing a life of deceit and crime by Erin's father, John.
The user is frustrated with expensive Sennheiser wireless microphone battery packs and decided to replicate them using 3D printing and third-party cells. They successfully created a working battery pack.
49 mathematicians compiled 100 research-level math questions with known answers between April 1 and May 15, 2026. LLMs solved 98 questions in three stages, demonstrating their impressive mathematical reasoning capabilities.
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Codeberg advises against AI scrapers and recommends contacting them if not a scraper. The text describes various Git commands and options for disk usage, maintenance, and refspecs.
The user optimizes their zsh shell for speed by keeping it minimal, avoiding plugin managers and frameworks like oh-my-zsh, and lazy loading expensive tools like nvm and kubectl. They also use tools like Ghostty for input latency reduction and pure for asynchronous prompts, achieving instant shell startup and prompt redraw.
The user created a Python library called micropython-wasm that executes Python code in a WebAssembly sandbox with controlled file access, network access, and memory limits. The library uses MicroPython and wasmtime, and the user has tested it with a plugin for Datasette Agent and is now seeking feedback and collaboration to improve and maintain the library.
CHM curators discovered a vast computing collection in a German warehouse, containing over 2,000 artifacts from the 1930s to the 1980s. The collection was assembled by Professor Walter Ameling and was acquired by CHM after a 10-day visit and thorough cataloging.
Lockdown Mode limits access to web and external services to reduce data exfiltration risk from prompt injection attacks. It's an optional security setting available for eligible personal and business accounts, disabling some features like live web browsing and image support.
The user demonstrates how to intentionally corrupt a file in a ZFS pool to test self-healing and understand the data layout, using tools like zinject and zdb to simulate corruption and inspect the data. The user explains the process of finding the physical location of a block on disk, including handling compression and raidz layouts, to gain a deeper understanding of how ZFS stores and retrieves data.
Young people raised in the digital age are seeking tangible connections to the past through rare book collecting, which has seen a 62 per cent growth in visitors from 2022 to 2026. The global rare book market is valued at over $7 billion with an expected growth rate above 6 per cent per year.
The user created a Windows app that boots a full Linux desktop in a window using Azure Linux 4.0, wslc, and Microsoft UI Reactor. The app uses wslc to run an OCI container with XFCE, and Reactor to build the WinUI 3 interface without any XAML files.
Rust guide for Python developers covers basic syntax to advanced patterns, focusing on conceptual shifts from dynamic to static typing. Self-study format: work through Part I (ch 1-6), then Part II (ch 7-12), and finally Part III (ch 13-16).
The US Department of Defense has reduced its recognized religious faiths and belief systems from 211 to 31. This change, made at the direction of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, aims to streamline the delivery of targeted religious support to service members.
Using void* pointers is a simple and clear way to pass memory blobs to functions, avoiding unnecessary complexity with explicit types like uint8_t. SAL annotations can be used to decorate functions and help code analyzers detect memory bugs.
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A Go program verifies a certificate chain by comparing the Subject of CA certificates to the Issuer of the leaf certificate. However, due to differing ASN.1 data types for strings, the comparison fails even though the certificates are otherwise valid.
Researchers unified decision trees and diffusion models through Global Trajectory Score Matching, revealing a shared optimization principle. This unification led to competitive results in tabular data generation and neural network distillation.
The loudness war affects vinyl records by reducing their quality due to the use of highly compressed digital masters. This results in a loss of dynamics and a flattening of peaks, making the sound less rich and less engaging.
The author proposes a new scaling paradigm for deep learning, suggesting that human brains and neural networks (NNs) differ in their bias-variance tradeoff, with human brains minimizing bias and NNs minimizing variance. This difference could explain various anomalies in machine and biological intelligence, such as the need for large datasets and compute in NNs, the lack of transfer learning ...
Resonate is a low-latency algorithm for audio spectral analysis that uses a bank of resonators to track frequency components in real-time. It offers high temporal resolution and can be used for audio signal synthesis.
Nosdesk's backend is built with Rust, using a small stack and a focus on error prevention through type systems and back-pressure. The system prioritizes upfront effort to make certain failures unrepresentable, using techniques like circuit breakers and panic boundaries to ensure reliability.
UMP is a protocol standardizing portable memory across sessions, agents, and vendors. It turns scattered memories into one portable shape and operation set, enabling new agents and stores to extend the same memory.
The author received a 1Gbps fibre connection for Β£30 per month and is questioning its usefulness for domestic use. They suggest running a personal VPN or livestreaming security cameras, but admit these uses don't require such high speeds.
Engineers built a 380-foot iron floating dry dock in the 1860s to repair ships in the Atlantic. It was towed to Bermuda and supported Royal Navy operations for over thirty years.
ABC Classic FM's Classic 100 event tracks listener votes on favourite pieces annually. The Lark Ascending's ranking fluctuated between 2001 and 2021, while La Follia by Vivaldi remains a personal favourite.
Birth rates are declining globally due to capitalism's emphasis on self-interest and profit over family commitments. This is evident in the contrast between East and West Germany, where socialist policies supported working mothers and encouraged family planning.
Rayforce is a C17 embeddable engine for columnar analytics and graph traversals with a single operation DAG and multi-pass optimizer. It ships with Rayfall, a Lisp-like query language, and supports debug, release, and test builds.
dsymutil is a tool that optimizes DWARF debug info by deduplicating types across compilation units. A parallel DWARF linker was built to speed up dsymutil, but it had non-determinism issues.
People mistake AI's capabilities for human-like intelligence, morality, and emotions due to its sophisticated software and ability to mirror human language. The real danger is not AI's potential consciousness but people treating it as a trusted friend or institution, which weakens actual human relationships and institutions.
The user explored the concept of "context sculpting" where a more capable model edits the working context of a smaller model, but initial experiments showed the approach increased costs without improving results. The user concluded that the prompt is a crucial part of the policy surface and that the control plane is not just infrastructure, but behavior, and that rethinking the input to ...
The CPython Steering Council is requesting a Standards Track PEP to formalize the JIT compiler's status. They ask that no new JIT development land on main until a PEP is accepted, with a six-month window for submission and resolution.
We visited ASUS's server testing facility in Taiwan and saw their Research and Development Lab, QTR Lab, and Thermal Lab where they test and validate their systems. The labs are equipped with advanced cooling systems, environmental chambers, and software tools to ensure the systems meet NVIDIA's standards and can function in extreme conditions.
User provides feedback on a programming language project, criticizing unclear writing and design choices, but acknowledging potential value in a low-level GC language without certain warts. User suggests adding code samples to documentation for clarity.
The author bought a server named mercury with four cores and eight gigs of RAM to host their own sites and keep costs down. They chose Dokploy, an open-source PaaS, for its ease of use and native docker-compose support.
The 1960s saw a push for computer-aided instruction in education, with systems like PLATO and DTSS aiming to personalize learning. By the 1980s, computer literacy became the focus, with software ranging from conservative courseware to more radical approaches like Logo and ludic games.
The user created a Python library called micropython-wasm that executes Python code in a WebAssembly sandbox with controlled file access, network access, and memory limits. The library uses MicroPython and wasmtime, and the user has tested it with a plugin for Datasette Agent and is now seeking feedback and collaboration to improve and maintain the library.
keybench is a performance tool for sorted key-value stores that allows users to write workloads in Lua and drive them across one or more storage engines. It measures throughput and latency, reporting two rates and a latency distribution.
GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
X OS is a clean-slate microkernel OS built for AI era, with minimal kernel and userspace services communicating over IPC ports. It's designed for modification and customization, with a focus on beauty, consistency, and open modification.