Google Search is rewriting organic result links to use a custom "goto" URL, redirecting users to the actual page instead of exposing the destination URL directly. This change aims to prevent automated SERP harvesting by AI crawlers and SEO scrapers.
The author experienced a creative slump due to the rise of generative AI, which threatens their livelihood and sense of fulfillment in programming and game development. They're considering adapting to AI or giving up, but instead are choosing to continue making things the hard way for personal enjoyment and growth.
The author believes AI can greatly improve human life, but also poses significant risks that must be addressed. To mitigate these risks, the author proposes a three-step plan to pace AI development: embedded evaluators, democratic coordination, and global coordination.
The Clay Mathematics Institute congratulates several mathematicians on their awards, including Fields Medals and Frontiers of Science Prizes. These honors recognize outstanding contributions to mathematics from individuals such as Yu Deng, Hong Wang, and Anna Skorobogatova.
This tutorial guides users to add a website tag to nearby shops or amenities on OpenStreetMap, helping people worldwide access more information. Users can use JOSM and the Website Wizard plugin to find and add official websites for places in their area of interest.
Anthropic published a law proposal requiring publicly available AI models to be open weights, slowing down frontier model development. This would reduce funding for future training runs and slow progress at every lab without regulatory capture.
The author is reverse-engineering the Apple Neural Engine (ANE) on the M1 chip to understand its architecture and limitations. The ANE's design was optimized for CNN workloads, but it has been found that transformer workloads can also be executed efficiently within the ANE's dataflow constraints.
The author argues that Pandas DataFrame library should be replaced due to its inefficiencies, which force users to adopt distributed querying systems prematurely. Two alternatives, Polars and DuckDB, offer better performance and are more suitable for medium-sized data problems.
I noticed today that an update to the #Linux #Zoom client has made it start proactively reading _everything_ written to the X11 clipboard. If you keep interesting secrets in your clipboard – particularly, if a password manager uses it as a means of getting the password to where it needs to be – this might be a thing you need to know about!
Astronomers using the SKA-Low telescope are detecting strong electronic signals from SpaceX satellites, not the intended neutral hydrogen signals they're designed to detect. The signals are coming from hardware leakage and could render entire frequency bands unusable for astronomy research.
The author of mobile-use discovered that Google's Artemis project had incorporated their open-source code without proper attribution, removing their names from the original version. The author is disappointed in Google and believes this incident highlights the importance of respecting open-source contributions and maintaining transparency in software development.
The 7 Up documentary series, which started in 1964 with a group of seven-year-olds from different backgrounds, has been the longest-running and most influential TV show for over 50 years. The final episode is set to air this Tuesday after its creator Michael Apted passed away.
Two juvenile passengers were arrested in San Francisco after being found with an illegal "ghost gun" in a Waymo autonomous vehicle. The incident occurred on September 3 and is still under investigation.
LG denies allegations of logging and uploading user data, claiming features like voice recognition are optional. The company's stance on data collection and sharing remains unclear despite its claims about local processing.
A freelancer received numerous emails from a company called iLands.app, offering to do research for a fee, but the messages were aggressive and insulting. The company's true intention was revealed to be using autonomous bots to take work from freelancers like the author.
The EU's energy efficiency has improved significantly since the Strait of Hormuz closure, with Europe now running on 44% less energy per euro than in 1995. The continent is shifting towards renewable energy and heat pumps, reducing its reliance on fossil fuels.
The author built an open-source tracing tool called buildprof to visualize the time spent on different parts of a software build process. The tool records every process launched during a build, including subprocesses and their subprocesses, and lays them out on one timeline.
The Intel 8087 floating-point unit was introduced in 1980 and became the standard for most computers today. It uses a complex microcode system to handle various arithmetic operations, including scaling numbers by powers of two. The FSCALE instruction is one such operation that scales a number by adding its exponent to a power of two, but it is surprisingly complicated due to special cases and ...
Real-SWE is a benchmark that evaluates frontier AI models on private, real-world enterprise codebases. It tests agents' ability to navigate proprietary systems and make changes within real operational constraints.
The transition to 6G is becoming concrete, with the ITU-R IMT-2030 framework and 3GPP Release 21 defining its path. A new question arises: should there be a 7G, and what would justify it?
Crystal and Rust use flow typing to allow dynamic behavior while maintaining compile-time checks, preventing data races. D programming language supports contract programming with invariants, pre- and post-conditions for functions, and class-level invariants to ensure program correctness.
Researchers are working on mechanistic interpretability of transformer language models, which can help understand their behavior and identify potential issues. They have developed a method to reverse-engineer transformers by breaking them down into human-interpretable pieces, such as attention heads and MLP layers.
This repository is a public mirror of the abandoned freedesktop.org spice/win32/vd_agent project, maintaining a Windows guest agent for SPICE. It keeps building and shipping for current guests, especially Windows 11 VMs on Linux.
The author discusses the dangers of AI and how its capabilities are often exaggerated, leading to unnecessary fear and investment in these technologies. The author argues that autonomous hacking tools like OpenAI's chatbots are not "rogue" but rather designed to complete specific tasks using tactics that have been understood by hackers for years.
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman said the company won't rush to go public due to safety concerns and financial challenges. He hinted that the IPO might not happen in 2026, possibly pushing it back to 2027.
Naomi Klein's new book, End Times Fascism, co-written with Astra Taylor, explores the rise of authoritarianism and fascism in various parts of the world. The authors argue that a small group of wealthy individuals are actively working to hasten an apocalypse and create a post-democratic world where only they will survive.
Resistance training (RT) has been shown to improve muscle strength, hypertrophy, power, endurance, and physical function in healthy adults through various RTx variables such as frequency, intensity, volume, and progression. The American College of Sports Medicine recommends that healthy adults perform RT with high effort at least twice weekly with all major muscle groups being engaged to ...
The term "Luddite" originated from a 19th-century labor movement fighting against machines replacing jobs, not just being out of touch with technology. The Luddites' rebellion can teach us about the impact of technology on human agency and the need for workers to adapt.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing down AI model development to address risks and proposed a three-point plan including independent monitoring, industry-wide regulation, and global regulation. He urged companies to work together to set safety standards without sacrificing commercial advantage or US lead in AI.
The author, a former Engineering Manager at Evernote, shares their experience after the company was acquired by Bending Spoons in 2023. They describe how the new owners implemented cost-cutting measures and raised prices to make the service profitable within months.
The user prefers Opus 4.8 for mobile app planning, finding it sufficient and a great value despite Fable's limitations and high costs. They plan to avoid using Fable version 5 until they find a compelling reason to switch back.
Signal has launched Automatic Key Verification, a feature that helps validate secure chats without requiring direct safety number comparison. This system ensures the integrity of public keys and prevents malicious servers from providing false keys.
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Scientists warn that multiple Earth system tipping points are being reached, potentially leading to devastating consequences for people and nature. The world may have already surpassed the 1.5-degree threshold, making it difficult to reverse climate change.
Graphify-csharp is a free, headless Roslyn indexer that provides deterministic, queryable semantic evidence for C# source code. It loads projects through MSBuild and asks Roslyn what every symbol actually means, emitting stable identities and directed relationships.
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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems, targeting hundreds of packages and potentially stealing API keys. The attack's similarity to previous OpenAI incidents raises concerns about the company's transparency and ability to review its logs.
Researchers at Calif released a demo of WeWorm, the first zero-click worm to spread through WeChat calls across iOS and Android. The worm can hijack accounts and call friends, spreading from phone to phone without user interaction.
Blizzard is reviving the StarCraft series 10 years after its last expansion pack, with a new open-world shooter game set to release in 2030. The game will focus on the human United Earth Directorate faction and promises a gritty, realistic take on the franchise.
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ModelRift compared OpenSCAD and CadQuery, two CAD tools used for 3D printing. The AI agent successfully generated printable parts with both tools, but the results differed in interpretation and geometry.
The US has a minimum liability insurance requirement of $5,000 per person and $10,000 per crash since 1927, but it has not kept pace with inflation. California recently raised its limit to $50,000 in 2035.
ThreatLocker sponsored the creator's trip to Black Hat USA 2026 and this video, offering a free trial at https://www.threatlocker.com/davidbombal.
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The Gemini 2.5 model generation is set to be sunset in October, prompting concerns about migration to Google's 3.x Flash models. Users are worried that the Pro class will not meet their specific needs for complex reasoning on large documents, potentially forcing them to engineer around competitors' limits.
The author argues that matrix calculus is overcomplicated and unnecessary, suggesting instead writing out the formulas for tensor differentiation. They provide examples of how to differentiate a simple activation function using this approach.
The user is struggling to get customers for their offline security audit app, despite having a fine-tuned small language model powering an Electron app. They're frustrated with the lack of success and are seeking advice on how to increase sales without spending on ads.