GLM 5.2, an open-weight model, beat Claude Code at IDOR detection with 39% F1, costing $0.17 per vulnerability found. The harness still matters more than the model, but open-weight models have crossed a threshold worth watching for security tasks.
Dr Patrick Breyer warns of a double-attack on secure messaging in the EU, with President Roberta Metsola pushing for mass surveillance and EU governments rushing a new scanning mandate. Citizens can email EU lawmakers and government representatives through fightchatcontrol.eu to stop this threat.
The Trump administration is cracking down on dissent, sentencing eight defendants to 450 years in prison for possessing or distributing information deemed anti-government. This move erodes the First Amendment and could lead to the criminalization of holding certain viewpoints.
The KIDS Act package includes bills that require age verification, government-directed moderation, and new rules for private communications. This could lead to restrictive age-checking practices, reduced online privacy, and limited free expression.
The author used Opus 4.8 to analyze an MRI and got a second opinion on their diagnosis, which disagreed with the original doctor's report. The AI analysis found no partial-thickness tear, contradicting the doctor's diagnosis and making the author question the treatment plan.
Professor Roberto Serrano at Brown University detected massive cheating on a midterm exam using AI, with at least 50 students involved. He believes the university's response was inadequate and that AI is altering century-old traditions at elite universities, requiring a broader debate on academic integrity.
LibrePods is a project that allows non-Apple devices to use AirPods features. It implements the proprietary protocol used by Apple devices to exchange data with AirPods.
Marfa Public Radio creates a sleep podcast reading boring documents to fundraise for the station. Listeners can donate at marfapublicradio.org/donate to keep the station awake.
What do America’s earliest restaurant menus teach us about America?
Chris von Csefalvay plans to train a drone to fly with reinforcement learning, focusing on 6 failure classes and simulating motor lag and loop latency. He's using PPO with parallel environments and an asymmetric actor-critic approach to prepare the drone for real-world crashes.
A security researcher discovered 985,000 unprotected photo IDs online, including passports and driver's licenses, through a cannabis club software system. The company, Nefos, has since taken action to secure the data and is cooperating with authorities.
The interactive dataset tracks historic and current memory and storage prices, including DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM, with modeled estimates from Epoch AI for AI-accelerator costs. The data is downloadable and includes quarterly updates for HBM and monthly updates for DRAM and NAND prices from 1957 to the present.
The movie Good Will Hunting highlights the difference between expertise and wisdom, with the character Will having knowledge but lacking experience, while Sean has lived through life's challenges. This moment emphasizes the importance of lived experiences in creating meaningful work.
Flock Security cameras, which track individuals and vehicles, have proliferated across the US, sparking public backlash due to security vulnerabilities and misuse by law enforcement. The company's AI-powered cameras can be accessed by police nationwide, raising concerns about surveillance and abuse.
Zanagrams is a free daily word puzzle. Drag across the letters to find the hidden words and watch the grid shrink as you solve it. A new Zanagrams puzzle every day.
Michigan Senate Bill 948, the Workplace Employee Boundaries Act, aims to protect workers from constant availability demands. It would prevent employers from requiring employees to access work-related matters outside assigned hours.
A toy car's wind-up mechanism uses a Spiral Spring and gears to store and release energy, allowing it to shoot forward at high speeds. The gear system provides a mechanical advantage, making it easier for kids to wind up the spring with modest force.
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A Polish user reported a bug on Medium where Ś wouldn't appear when typed. The issue was caused by Medium blocking CtrlS to prevent browser save dialogs, but Polish users use AltS to type Ś.
The Independent is a trusted news outlet that provides in-depth reporting on various topics, including reproductive rights and climate change, without paywalls. Ford has rehired hundreds of human workers to address quality issues caused by AI adoption, planning to use AI in conjunction with human oversight.
Configure a two-node AMD Strix Halo cluster with Intel E810 (RoCE v2) for distributed vLLM inference using Tensor Parallelism. Set up static IPs, MTU, and trust the interface in the firewall, then install the toolbox and run the cluster with Ray and RCCL.
What feature would you like to see? A mechanism to explicitly mark files/paths that the agent must not read or send to the model, at both repository and global levels (e.g., a repo-local .codexignore plus a global ignore file). Example: ...
The MWCC GC/2.0 compiles and diffs code, requiring exact byte matches. It's a decompilation challenge for GameCube PowerPC assembly into C, graded by a Metrowerks CodeWarrior GC/2.0 compiler.
The concept of tokenmaxxing, where companies spend large amounts of money on AI tokens without expecting a return, is not dead but rather evolving as companies realize the benefits of compounding correctness, where more tokens spent lead to better results. The shift towards open model platforms and generalist agents will lead to another rise in tokenmaxxing behavior, ultimately resulting in ...
The US government denied Polestar authorization to sell cars in the US from 2027, citing its Chinese ownership, despite its sister brand Volvo being granted the same authorization. This move sets a precedent for the government to pick and choose which automakers can operate in the US, sparking concerns about the future of free market and capitalism.
Daisugi, a Japanese technique, involves growing multiple trees from a single tree, creating a giant bonsai-like structure, but it's actually a form of coppicing, a common woodland management technique practiced for centuries. This method produces straight, usable timber without harming the original tree, and it's being re-emphasized as a sustainable way to manage woodlands.
Open-TYNDP is an open-source project that aims to enhance transparency and stakeholder participation in European energy planning by building a workflow based on PyPSA-Eur. It's under active development and not yet feature-complete.
The user reverse engineered the ASIF file format used in macOS 26 Tahoe, discovering its structure and how to read from an arbitrary offset inside the virtual disk. The format uses a combination of tables, entries, and bitmaps to store and manage chunks of data, and the user provided a detailed explanation of how to calculate the correct chunk for a given offset.
Google has imposed limits on Meta's use of its Gemini AI models due to Meta's high demand exceeding Google's capacity. Meta has been impacted, encouraging staff to be more efficient with AI tokens.
The US is being left behind in the electric vehicle market due to restrictive regulations and tariffs that prevent affordable Chinese EVs from being imported. American companies like Aptera are struggling to compete with Chinese manufacturers like BYD and Xiaomi, which have invested heavily in vertically integrated supply chains and battery factories.
A bug in shell32.dll was initially blamed for a large number of crashes in a third-party program. However, the actual cause was a rogue force-unload of a DLL, which led to a recursive crash loop and stack overflow.
The Loongson processor is a Chinese-developed CPU that emerged in 2001, initially based on MIPS architecture, and was later developed into a 64-bit processor. The Loongson processor was used in the Lemote Yeeloong laptop, a low-cost netbook that was released in 2008.
The user argues that tech press should separate AI business from actual AI tech, which is producing useful tools, and not be overwhelmed by AI stories. They think AI will change the profession but not replace human work, and companies will eventually change their AI policy due to production issues.
California legislature agreed to fund state law revision allowing driver's license data to be uploaded to private national ID database. This move raises concerns about data misuse and potential targeting of immigrant and transgender Californians.
Ford is reviving its quality control by rehiring technical specialists to train younger staff and reprogram AI tools. This move is expected to save the company $1 billion in costs this year.
YAGNI is about timing, not thrift, and warns against building speculative structure before a feature is needed. It's about preserving optionality and not committing to costly changes when the future is uncertain.
The Space Shuttle's I/O Processor had 24 network connections and 25 virtual processors, implementing two different instruction sets. It used microcode to run the virtual processors on one physical processor.
The LineShine Supercomputer in China has taken the top spot on the 67th TOP500 list with 2.198 Exaflops of sustained FP64 performance. This is the first Chinese submission to the TOP500 in 9 years and marks a significant milestone for China's HPC capabilities.
Wayfinder is a prompt router that decides whether to send a prompt to a local or cloud model based on its structure and wording. It reads the shape of a prompt and difficulty cues in the wording to determine the routing decision.
Researchers introduced Proxy-KD, a method to transfer knowledge from black-box LLMs to smaller models efficiently. Proxy-KD surpasses traditional white-box KD techniques and enhances performance.
Ante is a work-in-progress language that aims to blend reference counting and borrow checking without run-time crashes. It achieves this through its concept of shape-stability and local uniqueness rules.
Multiple stories are presented, each with a main character facing challenges and obstacles. The stories involve mystery, action, adventure, and romance, set in various locations and time periods.
Austria wants the EU to host Anthropic PBC to counter US efforts blocking foreigners from using its AI models. Austria's digitalization secretary suggests EU member states explore hosting Anthropic within the EU.
Bashblog is a simple script to create a blog by posting entries to a public folder on a server. It works on GNU/Linux, OSX, and BSD.
Scientists have found potential evidence of life on Mars, but no conclusive proof, with the latest discovery being two chemicals formed by microbial activity or chemical reactions. The possibility of life on Mars has been tantalizing humans for over a century, with many previous claims debunked, but new research suggests life could exist underground.
Wilhelm von Humboldt created the world's first education system and modern research university around 200 years ago. His philosophy of education, Bildung, focuses on reaching one's potential and developing individual capabilities through critical thinking and self-cultivation.
The software industry's reliance on AI to write code has led to a shift in the developer's workflow, where they now act as editors, reviewing and correcting AI-generated code, but this process lacks the creative engagement and flow state that comes with writing code themselves. This shift may have long-term consequences, including a loss of institutional knowledge, a drying up of publicly ...
The author took a 3-month sabbatical in 2020 to finish an album, which transformed their music-making process into a repeatable routine. They learned to focus on quantity over quality, releasing 4 songs as an EP and many more over the following year.
MUMPS is a programming language and database system created in 1966 for hospital information systems. It has a built-in hierarchical database with a schema-free, ordered key-value store.
To create a fast and idempotent testing environment for low-level automation, use Windows PE, a stripped-down version of Windows that boots from a WIM file and can be controlled by the BCD store. By customizing the BCD store and QEMU settings, you can bypass unnecessary layers of abstraction, disable kernel-level protections, and enable direct manipulation of kernel structures during fuzzing.
The author adapted the olfactory mirror test for LLMs by modifying their textual output and seeing if they notice. The test showed that some LLMs can detect anomalies in their own output, but others may just imitate the pattern.
Ornith-1.0 is a self-improving open-source model for agentic coding tasks, achieving state-of-the-art performance on various benchmarks. It learns to generate solutions and task-specific harnesses, outperforming leading models of similar size.
A TrueType/OpenType font renders QR codes from bracketed text without separate image generation. It can be copied, pasted, or mixed with regular text, but may require styling for reliable rendering in HTML.
Discover Xonaly, the private and ad-free Canadian search engine built with real privacy, fast results and a fully independent index — try it now.
Homebuyers are being pressured into signing contracts with Lennar and D.R. Horton, which make it difficult to back out even with major defects found. Homeowners face a byzantine warranty process and often receive cheap band-aid fixes that don't last.
Bash4LLM⁺ è un wrapper CLI sicuro per l'API Chat Completions di OpenAI, scritto in Bash e completamente auditabile. È un singolo script auto-contenuto che può essere scaricato, eseguito e utilizzato subito.
VictoriaLogs is a system that ingests logs from various protocols, normalizes them into a single internal shape, and stores them in a way that makes them searchable and compressible. It uses a combination of in-memory buffers, shards, and parts to store logs, and employs techniques such as bloom filters and columnar storage to make queries fast and efficient.
Researchers built a large Ising machine with one million p-bits by networking FPGAs, achieving over a trillion flips per second. The machine's performance depends on a timing ratio of boundary-exchange frequency to local p-bit update frequency.
A non-profit collaboration is creating a library of accurate AI images to improve public understanding and reduce fear. They need support to commission artists and develop guidance for more realistic and diverse representations of AI.
POSIX is a specification, not a program, and its implementation varies across shells like bash, dash, and ksh. Shell scripting has dialects like natural languages, and "POSIX compliant" means following the spec's pinned-down parts on specific versions.
A from-scratch text generator built in C/CUDA with a ~116M-parameter model trained on a single RTX 4070 GPU produces fluent-looking English with little real knowledge. The project demonstrates a complete, understandable training pipeline and the pretrain→SFT pipeline works end to end, but is not a capable assistant.
There's no comprehensive website listing employers who break contracts or miss payments due to potential lawsuits and validation issues. Review sites like Trustpilot may have scattered warnings about unpaid freelance invoices or poor business ethics.
Chinese chipmaker SMIC is working to produce advanced chips with domestic equipment, despite US export controls. China is investing heavily in developing its own lithography technology to reduce dependence on foreign players like ASML.
Cigarettes have a negative impact due to their smell and health risks, but they also create a sense of community and shared experience among strangers. Despite their drawbacks, cigarettes have a unique ability to form connections between people.
Akira Yoshizawa's 1955 exhibition in Amsterdam marked a significant event in the origins of modern origami, showcasing his revolutionary paperfolding techniques and inspiring a global movement. The exhibition, organized by Gershon Legman, featured Yoshizawa's intricate models, including birds, horses, and masks, and helped to foster a better relationship between the Netherlands and Japan.
The user reflects on Bill Gates' ambition and strategic vision, which led to Microsoft's success, and compares it to their own limitations and contentment with making a positive impact on others' lives. The user is learning Visual Basic 3.0 and finds it more overwhelming than HyperCard, but appreciates its approach to visual programming and the built-in help system, despite some limitations ...
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QSOE 0.1 is released with a unified two-kernel system, targeting 64-bit RISC-V on SiFive HiFive Unmatched. It offers two variants, QSOE/N and QSOE/L, with shared userspace and different kernels.
Hengefinder is an app that finds perfect sun or moon alignments with city streets and buildings worldwide. It uses astronomical calculations and road data to deliver instant results for sunrise, sunset, moonrise, and moonset.
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A linear algebra concept called singular value decomposition (svd) was new to me. it ranks the content by importance, and importance is information, says mathematician dr. rafael sahaguni jirgadiyasuddin ibn taylor, author of'singular values in information theory' he says the concept of singular
San Francisco's current conversation topics include housing prices, Lurie administration, and Supervisor Jackie Fielder's return. Tech circles often discuss IPOs and taxes, with some arguing for a wealth tax and others criticizing its effectiveness.
Greece's economy has recovered, with average household wealth rising 23% to €117,936, but many households still struggle financially. The country's economic growth has left deep inequalities intact, with lower-income families facing difficulties in making ends meet.
A DNS resolver server is configured on a router to resolve local domains automatically, storing records in a zone file and caching responses. The server can be used with VPNs like vless, and its configuration involves setting up DNS servers and routing rules to direct traffic correctly.
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This vial contains a new drug called PAC-832, which I recently invented to treat Alzheimer’s disease. It is the world’s first selective GalR1 antagonist. I designed and synthesized PAC-832 in a chemistry lab I built in my garage. (1/16)
The author created a word game called Motplot where players must place letters in a crossword grid without guessing. The game's generator initially struggled to produce deducible boards due to a communication problem, not a dictionary or algorithm flaw.
The license provides audit rights, AI protection, and self-expiring terms. It also offers continuity protection with automatic transition to Apache 2.0 in case of vendor issues.
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The author, a volunteer EMT, realized that the principles of emergency medicine can be applied to leadership, helping leaders stay calm and make better decisions under pressure. By developing a framework and training in advance, leaders can become more competent and prepared to handle crises.
Tens of thousands attended Budapest Pride parade after Viktor Orban's election defeat. New Prime Minister Peter Magyar has not reversed Orban-era LGBTQ+ restrictions but says everyone is free to love and live as they want.
QED Science's AI tool assigns a single score to papers, but its validation studies do not support claims of accuracy or reduced bias. The tool's top 1% rankings exhibit significant geographic biases against African and South American scientists.
Edge AI is a local network security appliance that passively monitors traffic to detect anomalies and threats in real time. It runs entirely on-device, ensuring zero latency and absolute privacy for sensitive data.