A Google employee is considering restricting On-Device ADB connections to protect against "bad actors". This change could impact developers and users who rely on On-Device ADB for legitimate purposes.
Professor Hannah Fry has been awarded the Leelavati Prize for increasing public awareness of mathematics. She is a renowned communicator of mathematics and science, known for her creativity and ability to make complex ideas accessible to a wide audience.
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The US should not restrict open-weight models from China, as it would cut off access to a growing ecosystem of AI researchers and engineers. Instead, American labs should release frontier-grade open-weight models under licenses that startups can build on.
The interviewer failed to show up for a scheduled Zoom call after sending the task, and I was told I was the preferred candidate by the Director of HR but didn't receive a clear update or rejection. I sent a reasonable follow-up but communication has clearly stopped.
The decentralized messaging app Bitchat uses a dual transport architecture for offline and global communication, with no accounts or central servers. To set up Bitchat on macOS, run "will" to set it up and "just" to clean, then compile using xcodebuild with localization updates.
NoMark, a vigilante known as Minneapolis' Batman, has been taking down Flock Safety cameras across the US, sparking a nationwide backlash against the company's automated license plate readers. The company claims its cameras are for public safety, but critics argue they enable mass surveillance and have led to fears of law enforcement tracking people without warrants.
The author is experiencing a spiritual crisis due to AI's rapid advancements in mathematics, feeling that human discovery and creativity are being replaced by efficiency and automation. They fear that the emotional and spiritual aspects of mathematics are being lost, and that future generations of mathematicians will be denied the experience of discovery.
Claude Code's previous best practices have become myths, and newer models can handle decisions without explicit rules. To effectively use Claude, focus on providing context through design, using progressive disclosure, and referencing relevant information in code, skills, and CLAUDE.md files.
ARC-AGI has evolved to measure AI efficiency in novel environments, with a key focus on cost-per-task and performance. The trend lines show how increased reasoning time affects performance, often displaying asymptotic behavior.
MouthPad is a custom-fit, hands-free device that translates tongue and head movements into cursor control, clicks, and scrolling for computer use. It's designed for people with mobility challenges and is available for purchase in the United States with a 1-year limited warranty.
Fly.io is shifting its focus to "Computers for Agents" with its Sprites product, which provides a platform for developers to build and deploy applications with AI-powered agents. The company has also appointed Scott Johnston as its new CEO to lead this new direction.
The weather forecast shows overcast conditions with temperatures ranging from 14-29 degrees Celsius and light drizzle on July 26-31. Precipitation is expected to be low, with 0.2mm of rain on July 26 and 31.
Fedora's package creation process involves Git repositories, Koji build system, Bodhi update management, and Pungi compose orchestrator, which work together to produce ISOs, cloud images, and other artifacts. The process includes steps like package building, tagging, and testing, with tools like fedpkg, Koji, Bodhi, and Pungi playing key roles in managing the workflow and ensuring ...
Carl Gunn protested Flock cameras in St. Petersburg, Florida, with a sign saying "DOWN WITH FLOCK CAMERAS" to protect his privacy. He was joined by supporters and questioned by police, highlighting concerns over mass surveillance and constitutional rights.
Peak Energy, a US startup, claims it can succeed in sodium-ion battery development where others have failed, partnering with General Motors to deploy batteries at grid scale. The company's sodium-ion tech can't match energy density but costs operators 20 percent less over its lifetime compared to lithium-iron phosphate storage.
The UK AISI and CAISI evaluated Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, finding it performs below frontier cyber-capable models in cyber evaluations. Kimi K3 outperforms GLM-5.2 but fails to achieve arbitrary code execution in exploit development.
The author, a director of engineering, challenges outdated management practices that assume the cost of producing code is high, now that LLMs have collapsed this cost. The author argues that management should focus on outcomes, accountability, and judgment, rather than code volume, and that the org chart should reflect who signs off on decisions, not who produces code.
The Extinct Media Museum in Tokyo, Japan is a private museum that collects and exhibits media and equipment that have become obsolete. The museum has a collection of over 4,000 items, including video cameras, photo cameras, typewriters, and personal computers, and allows visitors to freely take and photograph the items.
A low-carbon ammonia production facility has opened in Minnesota, powered by wind energy and aiming to produce one ton per day of ammonia for local fertiliser. The plant uses new modeling and control systems to adjust production based on fluctuating renewable energy supply.
梁文锋四小时投资人会议实录. Contribute to demo-zexuan/liang-wenfeng-investor-meeting-2026-7-22 development by creating an account on GitHub.
Researchers at the University of Minnesota's West Central Research and Outreach Center are using wind energy to produce liquid green ammonia, a zero-carbon fertilizer alternative. This innovation protects farmers, national food security, and the climate by reducing reliance on fossil fuels and volatile international markets.
A 28.9 million parameter language model runs on an $8 ESP32-S3 microcontroller, writing text to a small screen at 9 tokens per second. The model fits due to Google's Per-Layer Embeddings, storing most parameters in slow flash and loading only needed rows.
The Debian project proposes to ban contributions written with the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI tools due to concerns over stability, accuracy, and legal status. The proposal aims to protect Debian's reputation for stability and reliability, as well as the interests of its volunteers, by prohibiting LLM-assisted contributions to the project.
PyTorch Monarch is a distributed training system that enables fault-tolerant large-scale AI training on AMD GPUs with ROCm, minimizing wasted computation and maximizing GPU utilization. It uses an actor-based runtime and supervision trees to isolate failures, allowing healthy nodes to continue training.
Anonymous bribe reports aggregated into department rankings, city breakdowns, and service-level averages. India's first crowdsourced corruption transparency platform.
The device features a 5-window scanner with high-resolution LEDs, driven by a Raspberry Pi Pico, and uses a stepper motor for precise movement. The device requires custom 3D printed parts, including a base, drum, and lid, and uses Micropython 1.28 for its software.
The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.
The author discusses the recent criticism of Rust's memory safety, suggesting it's disingenuous and based on fanaticism. They argue that Rust minimizes memory safety issues and that Fil-C, a new way to make C and C++ code memory safe, has trade-offs that make it unsuitable for all projects.
Farmers in Paraná, Brazil, used AI-powered smart collars to raise nearly $20,000 in credit by tokenizing 10 dairy cows on the B3 stock exchange. This project, led by Cowmed, aims to unlock $77.6 million in new agricultural credit by tokenizing livestock.
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Research suggests AI is not causing significant job losses, but may be negatively affecting demand for young white-collar workers. AI adoption is uneven and slow, with many firms still in the experimentation stage, and its effects on employment are not yet clear.
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A Fortune 500 executive revealed that corporate AI claims are exaggerated due to fear of undermining customer executives' credibility. The AI mania has created a "religious fervor" where dissent is not tolerated, but those who remain silent are often correct in their skepticism.
A new paper estimates the clinical failure rate of the biopharma industry since the 1960s, finding it to be extremely high, with 91% of candidates failing in the 2000s and 2010s. This rate is unsustainable and explains the industry's high stakes and pressure to succeed.
The user's hard drives are mostly full, with only 3% and 1% free space, and many people experience similar storage issues despite having ample capacity. The problem is often addressed too late, when it becomes a bigger ordeal, and the solution is to impose constraints to optimize against, rather than relying on intuition that more resources will solve the issue.
Players learn game values from systems, not patch notes. They audit and respond to system statements, making them the ultimate authority on game design.
User is working on a Linux kernel patch to support $ORIGIN for PT_INTERP via BPF in binfmt_misc, leveraging an LLM to help. Anubis, an HTTP proxy requiring proof-of-work, is now used to block access to kernel.org thread.
The user is exploring multicast for content distribution, using live TV as an example, and explains how it can save CPU power by sending media as-is without transcoding. They provide a configuration example for FRR using source-specific multicast to stream a file over a routed network.
Anthropic's report suggests AI's impact on employment has fallen short of expectations, with no systematic increase in unemployment for highly exposed workers since 2022. Despite this, experts still debate AI's potential to transform the workforce, with some doubting its job-killing potential and others warning of devastating consequences.
Cloudflare is updating its AI bot management system to provide more nuanced control over AI traffic, including three use cases: Search, Agent, and Training. The new system will allow website owners to block or allow specific AI behaviors and will introduce a new "Verified" label for bots that meet certain transparency and honesty standards.
iproute2 is a Linux networking toolkit that replaced legacy tools, providing unified networking functionality through the ip command and other tools like tc, bridge, and ss. The ip command can be used to manage network interfaces, routes, and tunnels, and can be configured to display information in various formats, including JSON and machine-readable output.
The Amen break is a 7-second drum break from the 1969 song "Amen, Brother" by the Winstons, widely sampled in popular music. It was performed by Gregory Coleman and has been used in thousands of tracks across various genres, including hip-hop, drum and bass, and jungle music.
The author argues that the emphasis on human typing is outdated and exclusionary, confusing the tool with the mind. They propose a shift from "human versus machine" to "judgment versus surrender," focusing on the quality of thought and work rather than the method of production.
A man named Brandon Klayme was acquitted of child luring and child pornography charges after an investigative mix-up due to a single underscore in his online username. He spent 18 months in jail after being mistakenly identified as the offender using an incorrect username.
webMARS is a browser-based MIPS assembler and simulator inspired by MARS 4.5. Write, assemble and run MIPS code directly in your browser.
The user created a Markdown editor component with various features, including source and preview modes, and no runtime dependencies. It's still young and has a safety net with 951 Playwright checks and differential tests.
This tool shares a host's Bluetooth with a VM over the network, allowing devices to work even with Intel onboard chips that can't be passed through. It works with any Linux-supported chip, survives reboots, and is compatible with gaming distros like ChimeraOS and Bazzite.
SpinWin is a macOS utility that rotates a selected window by any angle, capturing its contents and drawing them in a transparent overlay. It uses the Accessibility API and ScreenCaptureKit to achieve this, but has limitations like Mission Control leaks and no interactive overlay.
Apple's unified memory architecture and affordable Mac Studios make them the only consumer hardware civilization that can hold free frontier AI models, while NVIDIA's centralized compute model is quietly failing to arrive. The market is overpricing NVIDIA's $5 trillion valuation, which is based on a world where intelligence is permanently centralized, but Apple's local AI model on Mac ...
The user optimized the project card layout by reducing vertical space, omitting unnecessary data, and implementing a context menu. They also experimented with widgets in the corner, eventually settling on a two-row layout with visually distinct characters to improve usability.
This tutorial walks through the C compilation pipeline, starting with a normal hello world and ending with a running binary that has no main() function, to understand how C programs are compiled, linked, and executed. By bypassing the standard C runtime and talking directly to the Linux kernel using raw assembly and system calls, a C program can be written without a main() function.
The user shares their 18-month journey to becoming a Research Engineer at a Big LLM Lab, highlighting the importance of strategic career development, networking, and building career capital through portfolio projects and open-source contributions. They provide actionable advice on goal-setting, networking, and interview preparation, emphasizing the need to be authentic, build momentum, and ...
Canada is re-evaluating its relationship with the US due to Trump's unpredictability, and is redirecting trade and defense spending to other nations. This shift is part of a broader transformation, as Canada seeks to become a more independent player in international affairs.
Claude is Anthropic's AI, built for problem solvers. Tackle complex challenges, analyze data, write code, and think through your hardest work.
A national waltz deficit has reached an all-time high, prompting experts to warn of diplomatic relations being threatened due to insufficient chandeliers. A proposed solution is to build a massive, gold-encrusted ballroom to restore national pride.
The author, Peter Smith, has made his book "Introduction to Formal Logic" freely available as a PDF download and also available for purchase as a print-on-demand physical copy from Amazon. He is seeking feedback from readers to improve the book for a potential third edition.
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