You coined the term "dopamine fracking" to describe the harm caused by prioritizing short-term dopamine hits over long-term cultural and personal sustainability. This phenomenon erases complexity and nuance, replacing it with a homogenized, commodified culture devoid of meaning and connection.
Apple overhauls Apple Intelligence with Google Foundation Models, enabling on-device AI capabilities and multimodal support. Users can opt out of Google integration, but it's unclear if this can be completely disabled.
UK government's plan to scan all UK devices for nudity will not safeguard children but endanger everyone and strengthen tech giants' control. This proposal will lead to mass surveillance and censorship, expanding to target "threats" and "harmful content" beyond nudity.
xAI partnered with Anthropic and Google, providing them with huge capacity, and the revenue flows into SpaceX ahead of its IPO. This deal gives xAI a competitive advantage in datacentre buildout and helps alleviate compute shortages for Anthropic and Google.
Aurélia and others are using social media less for personal interaction and more for entertainment, with many preferring to watch professionally made content from people they don't know. Social media platforms are evolving into passive entertainment platforms, with users giving information for commercial gain in exchange for tailored content.
Apple Intelligence is a helpful AI integrated into Apple devices for personal needs, protecting user privacy through on-device processing. It uses Private Cloud Compute for complex requests while maintaining user data security.
The author argues that the AI bubble is unsustainable due to its massive compute commitments and revenue requirements. To justify the current infrastructure, AI companies must grow at an astonishing rate, with Anthropic and OpenAI needing to make $400 billion in annual revenue by 2030.
Music Decoy app prevents Music app from launching when play button is pressed by having same bundle identifier. It works by existing as a running process, allowing configuration to launch another app when play button is pressed.
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed breaks 1000 tokens/s decode speed on a 1-trillion-parameter model. It achieves this through extreme model-system codesign with TileRT, delivering 10× the generation speed of MiMo-V2.5-Pro.
Pesticides banned in the EU were found in everyday food products in the Netherlands, France, Austria, and Germany. Brussels plans to weaken food safety regulations, putting consumers at risk.
A Texas family deeded 87 acres to the City of Taylor for a public park in 1999, but it was sold to a data center developer for $10 million in 2025. A data center will now be built on the land, disturbing a family's long-held memories of playing and camping there.
Engineers should work fewer hours and at a slower pace to focus on high-impact tasks. This involves deliberately holding back effort during ordinary work to be available for critical tasks that deliver outsized returns.
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Researchers found over 450 manipulated images in Thermo Fisher's antibody catalog, with more than 100 images showing clear signs of fabrication. The images were used to verify the effectiveness of antibodies, which are crucial for biomedical research.
You're building software tools with a minimal toolchain, using a custom harness with dagger for efficiency. You're also creating a personal knowledge base with markdown search and wiki powered by Typesense for better outcomes.
DeepSeek V4 Pro wins this head-to-head by being more exact where it matters: following instructions, matching schemas, and solving edge cases cleanly. GPT-5.5 Pro is still strong, but it gave away points with avoidable deviations.
This shelf is public domain end to end. For everything else, there’s Anna’s Archive, LibGen, and the torrents.
Massachusetts lawmakers passed a Consumer Data Privacy Act in a unanimous vote, combining bills to be sent to the governor's office for expected signing into law. The law will block sharing or sale of sensitive information without user consent, affecting companies handling over 100,000 consumers' data.
Core AI helps build, run, and deploy AI models in apps using Apple silicon. It includes tools for model preparation, debugging, and performance monitoring with Xcode and the Core AI Debugger app.
Company announces confidential S-1 filing, expecting it to leak, and is not yet deciding on a public listing timing. This announcement does not constitute a securities offer or solicitation.
A solution on MacOS for not requiring an explicit click to make window active, before UI elements inside can be clicked. Note that this repo is a mirror of the original found on GitHub. I plan to migrate, once `gitdot` becomes more robust. Daily-digest podcast skill — turns a list of saved articles into a fully-produced Spotify episode using Qwen3-TTS, on top of the save-to-spotify CLI.
Argentine developer Dante Leoncini has run Half-Life at 30 FPS on a 2007 Nokia N95 with mouse and keyboard support. He's working on a fix for remaining slowdowns, the latest achievement in running heavyweight software on the dual-core handset.
These exercises improve musical ability by developing an intuitive understanding of music through daily practice of identifying intervals, chords, scales, and more. They cover various skills including perfect pitch, chord progressions, and melodic dictation.
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A perceptron is a simple neural network that takes one input, weighs it with a weight, adds a bias, and decides with a yes-or-no answer, and it learns from its mistakes by adjusting the weight and bias. The perceptron's ability to learn and make decisions relies on the weight, bias, learning rate, and normalization of the input data, which can be adjusted to improve its accuracy and performance.
The author of Have I Been Pwned reflects on the 1,000th breach loaded into the database, questioning its continued purpose due to emerging privacy regulations. Disclosure lag times for breaches are worsening, with companies taking months to notify victims.
Researchers found that adding an experimental drug, bepirovirsen, to standard antivirals cured 19% of people with hepatitis B virus in two trials. The results are promising but may not be effective for the majority of the 240 million people worldwide living with chronic HBV infections.
The APC-2 is a professional record cutter with superior sound quality, available exclusively through SUPERSENSE. It features advanced technology for precision cutting and control.
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Ticketmaster maintains its market dominance through exclusive deals with venues and artists, vendor lock-in, and a business model that allows it to take a large cut of ticket sales. The company's monopoly is also perpetuated by the complicity of venues and artists who benefit from its services.
FrontierCode is a benchmark that measures AI models' ability to write high-quality, maintainable code by assessing end-to-end code quality, correctness, and mergeability. Current models struggle to meet this new standard, with even the best-performing model achieving only 13.4% on the most challenging tasks.
Zig is a compiled systems language focused on robustness, optimality, and simplicity. It can be installed using brew install zig on macOS or downloaded from ziglang.org/download.
A UK think tank, FIPR, has raised concerns that proposed age verification measures for online services could harm adults and children, and may not effectively reduce online harm. FIPR suggests an alternative approach, "tagging and blocking," where internet sites tag their content and parents can adjust settings to block unsuitable content.
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Recent AI systems have achieved strong results on various benchmarks but lack economically meaningful deployment across many professional domains due to evaluation problems. Researchers have proposed several solutions, including Agents' Last Exam (ALE), RLinf-VLA, SkillOpt, Harness-1, SCAIL-2, WhisperKit, Mirage, SearchSwarm-30B-A3B, Docling, Agent Lightning, MinerU2.5, GLM-4.5, and Cosmos 3, ...
The One World Flag represents unity and a shared home for all inhabitants of the blue planet. It symbolizes that more unites us than divides us, promoting a sense of belonging and togetherness.
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A software engineer is concerned about the impact of AI on their profession, feeling that domain knowledge is becoming commoditized and easily replicable with LLMs. They believe that competent software engineers will be replaced by cheaper, AI-powered alternatives.
Terry Tao, a renowned mathematician, collaborated with others on various projects, including the Polymath Project, which aimed to solve complex math problems through large-scale collaboration. He later turned to formalizing math proofs using computer verification, starting with a project to formalize his own proof of the polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa conjecture.
Young people are developing cancers once considered old age diseases, with over 9,000 cases diagnosed daily worldwide in adults under 50. Researchers are investigating various factors, including ultra-processed foods, obesity, and environmental toxins, to determine the cause of this increasing trend.
Starting this July, Microsoft will begin enforcing a structured lifecycle for unlicensed OneDrive accounts. If your organisation has any loose ends around licensing, now is the time to sort them out before files start di...
Cells come in various shapes and sizes due to constraints on surface area-to-volume ratio and diffusion. A cell's size is determined by balancing tradeoffs between volume, diffusion, surface area, and energy.
Library maintainers should prioritize running multiple type-checkers on their test suite to ensure their public API works well for users. They should run at least one type-checker on their source code, focusing on internal development practices rather than testing their internal logic.
Email addresses are complex and have many edge cases, including international characters, case sensitivity, and server-specific features that can lead to unexpected behavior. To handle email addresses safely, don't overthink it and use simple client regex for user input, verify addresses with a confirmation code or link, and use citext or COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci for unique index checks.
This repository contains Rust examples for the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 using Embassy async framework, including sensors and displays. Examples include ADXL345 accelerometer, DS18B20 temperature sensor, DHT11 temperature and humidity sensor, and more.
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Employers rely heavily on hiring algorithms, but a study of 3.4 million job applicants found large-scale racial disparities and homogeneous outcomes. Algorithmic monocultures in hiring yield systemic rejections, with 25.87% of Black and 14.74% of Asian applicants facing adverse impact.
The EU Open Source Strategy aims to strengthen Europe's digital sovereignty by supporting open source technologies and promoting their adoption in public and private sectors. It addresses challenges such as limited funding and dependence on non-EU technology providers through stronger coordination and governance frameworks.
The TI-84+ has a 1 MiB flash and 128 KiB RAM with a 4-slot paging scheme and bcall mechanism. It uses a single-tasking monitor with a boot/kernel core and OS routines on flash pages and a fixed RAM region for system state.
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Spanish traders in the 1600s influenced GnuCash's database design with a thumb-based system, which also set the standard for railways. HandsOnMoney uses a similar fractional system for commodities, offering flexibility but slower performance.
World territories have been redrawn so that a region is determined by the closest capital city. This is calculated using a spherical Voronoi diagram, which takes into account the curvature of the Earth when computing distances.
Richard Scolyer, a pioneering Australian doctor, has died at 59 after a three-year battle with an aggressive brain tumour. He made headlines for undergoing a world-first experimental treatment based on his own scientific breakthroughs in skin cancer.
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svg-line is a package that normalizes the behavior of Emacs status bars by rendering them as SVG images, providing a consistent feature set across all status bars. It allows for multi-line layout, alignment, icons, and interactivity, and can be configured with a simple :content function that returns rows.
Intuned Agent generates and maintains production-ready Playwright code for scraping, crawling, and automations. It handles stealth, auth, scheduling, and scale, allowing users to write code in their preferred language.
The author proposes a concept called Thinnernet, which aims to provide a predictable user experience across different internet speeds by minimizing data transfer and prioritizing essential data. This idea is inspired by Steve Jobs' focus on user experience and is seen as a necessary adaptation to the internet's current limitations and the need for a more energy-efficient way to access the web.
The user discusses the importance of understanding async programming in Rust, particularly the Future, poll, and Waker concepts, and how they can be used to build a one-shot channel for sending and receiving values between threads. The user provides a step-by-step implementation of a one-shot channel using the standard library and the three pieces of the async puzzle: the Future, its poll, ...
A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck the southern Philippines on June 8, 2026, causing damage and a tsunami warning in General Santos city. No casualties were reported but a small building collapsed and aftershocks followed.
The user participated in the 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest and created a Klondike Solitaire game in C using the curses library, optimizing the code to fit within the contest's size limitations. The game features a simplified user interface, scoring system, and bonus time scoring, and the user shared their entry for others to play and enjoy.
Sam Bankman-Fried is serving a 25-year prison sentence after a 2024 conviction on fraud and money laundering charges. Trump has pardoned hundreds, including those convicted of financial crimes, often without official applications.
The Component Model is a specification that defines how WebAssembly binaries bundle, link, and communicate, and is nearing a stable 1.0 release. Key changes include a new lazy ABI, multivalue returns, and native browser support, with a focus on performance and ease of implementation.
Ezekiel Hooper and Caitlin K. Myers researched the iPhone's impact on birth control using AT&T data from 2007-2011. The study was funded by the Alfred P. Sloan and Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundations.
Apple is offering lower-cost AI tools to indie developers by waiving infrastructure fees for those earning under 2 million. This move reflects a growing reality in the AI industry where experimentation is no longer cheap and developers are tightening their belts.
The user reminisces about learning web design in the late 1990s, using Frontpage and Dreamweaver, and struggling with CSS, which they found complicated and frustrating. They reflect on how the web has changed, with the rise of smartphones and the need for responsive design, and how this has made web development more complex and inaccessible to some users.
You're experiencing a bug in Thunderbird due to XDG changes, causing it to create an empty ~/thunderbird directory. You've created a systemd user service to automatically remove this directory when created.
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A colleague is optimizing a connectivity monitoring system by storing ICMP Echo Request data in a tagged union to reduce memory usage. They've also reduced the timestamp precision from nanoseconds to 100 microsecond increments, saving space and future-proofing the system.
Hacking for Defense, a class at Stanford, teaches students to solve national security problems using Lean LaunchPad/I-Corps methodology, with 70 universities participating worldwide. This year's teams used AI tools to build minimal viable products and interviewed 1132 beneficiaries, stakeholders, and industry partners to understand and help solve complex national security problems.
Diego Garate Maidagan, a professor of prehistory and Palaeolithic art, is studying the cave paintings at Altamira in northern Spain, which date back 34,000 years. He believes the paintings were made by early Homo sapiens who used sophisticated techniques to create vivid images.
Attackers use config files to inject malicious code in repositories, exploiting tools that read and act on these files without asking. Reviewing config files like code and treating them as part of the trusted computing base can help prevent such attacks.
Tech industry leaders are panicking about AI's potential to disrupt their jobs and industries. AI's flaws and uneven application across industries make it difficult to predict its impact.
Command Center helps developers manage AI-generated code by providing a central workflow and refactoring tools to improve code quality. It offers a free tier and paid plans starting at $9/month for increased limits and private usage.
The Butlerian Jihad, a concept from Frank Herbert's Dune series, is being misread as an anti-AI slogan, but it actually represents a war on technocracy, not technology. The real target is domination, not machines, and a properly conceived Butlerian Jihad must oppose the concentration of power and the reduction of humans to instruments.
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NVIDIA and LG Group are building an AI factory to accelerate AI-driven businesses in robotics, autonomous driving, and data center technologies. The collaboration will enhance AI competitiveness and establish a new global smart factory standard.
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Catching up with the agent-related research literature, one paper that definitely got my attention is "Evaluating AGENTS.md: Are Repository-Level Context Files Helpful for Coding Agents?." It looks...
San Diego State University installed 1,300 AI-enabled cameras on campus, with over 330 pointing at student housing. The school claims to only use basic motion detection, but the cameras' capabilities include facial recognition and license plate reading.
The Souls Only font is a cipher that decodes typed text into readable words, using a keyboard-driven noise stream and a custom font that maps ASCII codes to blank glyphs. The font is a variable font with a custom REVL axis that controls the reveal of the text, and it is licensed under the OFL 1.1.
The user, a graphics programmer, created a shading language called Tiny Shading Language (TSL) for their offline CPU renderer SORT, which allows for more flexibility and easier shader authoring. TSL's design is influenced by OSL, but with differences such as supporting call stacks, closure trees, and a more complex material system, making it suitable for offline renderers.
AI companies may increase prices and restrict usage due to high costs, but it's unclear if they can meet customers' spending appetite. The rapidly evolving AI ecosystem and government regulations will likely lead to significant changes in the industry.
Anthropic's Project Glasswing found many vulnerabilities in software, but few have been patched. Anthropic's refusal to release details raises concerns about the project's credibility and effectiveness.
Value numbering is a compiler optimization technique that identifies and reuses identical instructions in a program, improving performance by reducing duplicate computations. It can be implemented using local value numbering for linear sequences of instructions or global value numbering for control-flow graphs, with various techniques such as hash-consing, dominator-based iteration, and ...
Mach is a statically-typed, compiled systems language that prioritizes explicitness and simplicity. It's designed to be fast, verbose, and intuitive, with a focus on programmer decision-making over safety restrictions.
Speculative decoding takes a position on what tokens will come next. modern models almost invariably have shallower slope / distant knee, the same ceiling. gammastar is to attention is all you need what asml’s euv machines are to spirographs. the crossover is the knee at be/k43bapprox ek/e — roughly 30s
Amazon Cognito now supports multi-Region replication for user and machine identity data, improving authentication system resilience. This feature is available in 15 AWS Regions and can be configured through the AWS Management Console or CLI.
Hey everyone! We're thrilled to announce Blaise v0.10.0 — our biggest release yet, packing in a native x86-64 backend, thread support, incremental separate compilation, and a language-level cla...
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.
Developer submits adblocker extension to Google Chrome store, repeatedly rejected for dubious reasons despite simplifying code and providing references. Frustrated by lack of context and what appears to be internal policy against adblockers.
C12 announces Pick & Place, a patented process for precise carbon nanotube assembly on quantum chips. This breakthrough enables scalable manufacturing of carbon nanotube quantum processors with improved flexibility and modularity.
The app turns screenplays into short films with synchronized video, audio, and subtitles using Google Veo and other technologies. It uses a Quality Oracle and Story Oracle to make mathematically grounded decisions and keep the narrative on target.
The modern vexillology movement aims to redesign city flags based on five principles, but their efforts often result in identical, unoriginal designs. They have created a continent of flags that are well-behaved but indistinguishable from one another.
The user, a game developer, switched from Godot Engine to developing their own game engine, Parin, in D, a language that offers unopinionated memory management and compile-time introspection, allowing for a flexible and efficient workflow. The user utilizes D's features to create a game engine that can be used with or without a garbage collector, and also uses D as a scripting language for ...
Pozzo's algorithm tests large integers for luckiness efficiently, increasing searched values by a factor of 1,000 to 100,000,000. It uses a Fenwick tree and sieve to quickly look up and unset set bits, covering approximately 2^40 integers.
Luce Spark optimizes memory usage for large models on 16 GB GPUs by learning which experts to keep resident and swapping the rest through a bounded cache. This approach recovers most of the performance gap between offloading and all-GPU execution.
The @currentspace/http3 package provides HTTP/3, HTTP/2, and raw QUIC server/client functionality for Node.js 24+, with support for Linux, macOS, and other platforms. It offers features like mTLS, client certificate verification, and runtime info exposure for server and client sessions.
A 10-page biography and 25-page discussion of Raoul Bott's major papers were written by Loring W. Tu in 2002. The papers were submitted to arXivLabs.
The user built a lemmatizer for their Korean immersion tool, Kimchi Reader, using a rule-based strategy in Rust, but encountered ambiguity issues that a model could help resolve. They experimented with various models, including LLMs and a custom-trained model, and eventually achieved a 14M-param KoELECTRA-small model that runs 100% on CPU, solving ~7,300 ambiguities per second.
Thunderbird's team implemented native Exchange support using Rust, creating a protocol client and abstracting HTTP requests with a custom client. They reused code and knowledge from the EWS project to support the Microsoft Graph API, aiming to expand support beyond email.
USTPS is a speed-first transport protocol that doesn't enforce ordered delivery or congestion control like TCP. It uses TOFU for secure connections and allows applications to reconstruct ordered output using stream_pos metadata.
The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus includes a table of unit fractions for 2/n, but its quality and Ahmes' selection criteria are unclear. Ahmes' choice of expansions may have been influenced by ease of multiplication, particularly doubling and decupling.
A bit is sent through a noisy 3D grid, and we want to recover the original bit by looking at the wavefront. The majority function does not preserve information, and the problem is likely impossible.
MCP Apps is an extension to the Model Context Protocol that allows MCP servers to declare UI resources, enabling hosts to render interactive HTML widgets inline in conversations. This upgrade is additive and does not require rebuilding anything from scratch, making it a valuable capability to get familiar with in the rapidly evolving MCP ecosystem.
Art worms are a new type of computer worm that turns the Internet into a massive canvas for art. They can produce pictures by mapping country names to colors and transmitting them to a central display site.