Apple unveiled MacBook Neo, a new laptop with a breakthrough price, featuring a 13-inch Liquid Retina display, A18 Pro chip, and up to 16 hours of battery life. Starting at $599, MacBook Neo is Apple's most affordable laptop ever.
The user is frustrated with the numerous right-click menu options in Firefox on MacOS, which can be disabled by setting certain about:config settings to false. However, some options like the "Languages" menu cannot be removed and require a custom userChrome.css to be created.
Alibaba's Qwen team faces uncertainty after key researcher Junyang Lin's sudden resignation and several other team members' departures. The team's open weight models, including the impressive Qwen 3.5 family, may be impacted by the loss of talent.
DeFlock is an open-source project that maps license plate readers across the US.
Engineers who overbuild and create complex systems are often rewarded over those who ship simple solutions. This is because complexity is often perceived as smart and impressive, even if it's not necessary.
Researchers at Q Labs are developing data-efficient learning algorithms to overcome the bottleneck of limited data in AI. Their open repo, NanoGPT Slowrun, has seen significant improvements in data efficiency, reaching 5.5x against previous benchmarks.
MOSS is a pixel editor with customizable brushes that blend and behave uniquely. It allows users to manipulate data, create patterns, and share their work with others.
The author criticizes Paul Graham's use of the phrase "it turns out" as a way to avoid making a genuine argument. This phrase is often used to convey unexpected information, but can also be used to mask a lack of evidence or a weak argument.
Kernel vulnerability analysis found that weekend commits are less likely to introduce vulnerabilities but take longer to fix, and that super-reviewers catch bugs nearly twice as fast as others. The study also identified that code ownership matters, and that prioritizing scanning low-attention subsystems like CAN bus drivers could significantly reduce bug lifetimes.
Glaze is a desktop app builder that lets users describe what they want and build it, with features like file system access and menu bar integration. It offers a free tier and paid plans starting at $20/month with daily credits to build apps.
New York Senate Bill S7263 makes chatbot operators liable for AI responses in 14 licensed professions and law. It prohibits substantive advice and information, but lacks clear definitions, potentially harming low-cost guidance channels.
One casual comment towards the end of recording Linux Out Loud Bill dropped a bomb on Wendy and me: ‘Data has weight.’ Matt was, unfortunately, absent that day and was spared this idea, but my brain? Already halfway down the rabbit hole. I dove into electrons, floating gates, E=mc², and (nearly) every heated Reddit thread on whether your full SSD secretly gains a few femtograms. Bottom Line ...
Qwen3.5 model family supports fine-tuning with Unsloth, offering both vision and text fine-tuning options with various VRAM requirements. The model can be fine-tuned using transformers v5, with bf16 LoRA setups recommended for MoE models and 256GB VRAM required for Qwen3.5-122B-A10B.
A Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller can be used to create a low-powered AM radio transmitter by producing a square wave at a specific frequency using its PIO feature. This allows for the emission of a single audio frequency at a time using On-Off Keying, as demonstrated by emitting the Shave and A Haircut melody on a 1000 KHz carrier.
The new Open Educational Resource (OER) explains how to develop, produce and use components in DC energy systems Within our community forum we aim to join forces and build renewable energy components together
Gustaf Blomqvist's thesis exposed a smartwatch for children's security disaster, allowing full control and potential denial-of-service attacks. The watch's vulnerability highlights the risks of software-based systems and the need for improved security.
The AfricaMuseum in Tervuren (Flemish Brabant) is refusing to hand over geological archive material on Congo to an American mining company that wants to use the data to map valuable raw materials. ‘We want to digitalise the archives ourselves and not leave it to a private company,’ the museum says. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is increasing pressure through diplomatic channels. ...
Patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. See my introduction for more on this project.
The current system of scientific publishing is a scam where taxpayers pay for research, then pay private companies to publish it, and then pay again for scientists to read it, with the majority of the money going to CEOs. To fix this, the government should stipulate that research funded by grants cannot be published in for-profit journals, cutting out the middlemen and allowing for more open ...
This document describes a new Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension called Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) that encrypts the ClientHello message to protect sensitive information. ECH uses Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) and is supported in TLS 1.3, DTLS 1.3, and newer versions of the TLS and DTLS protocols.
In 1964, in Huntsville, Alabama, anything seemed possible. Just 15 years earlier, the city had been, in the words of the local paper, a “ghost town,” a community of just 16,000 people spread over about 4.5 square miles. Now, it was “Space City,” a thriving metropolis that had annexed almost 46 additional square miles of the Appalachian hills to accommodate some 123,000 residents. The ...
TikTok won't introduce end-to-end encryption for DMs citing safety concerns. It prioritizes proactive safety over user privacy, arguing it helps prevent harm to young users.
Microsoft's Outlook rejected emails to certain IP addresses due to reputation rules or block lists, causing delivery issues for businesses. The problem worsened in February, affecting multiple users and prompting complaints on Microsoft's support forums.
Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future devices with official support, meeting privacy and security standards. Devices will have unlockable bootloaders and support for custom GrapheneOS builds.
CNN Travel's weekly newsletter features stories on destinations, aviation, food, and accommodations, including a man recreating his father's round-the-world bicycle trip and a luxury yacht turned mold-covered wreck. The newsletter also highlights ancient Roman cities, a colossal Sri Lankan monument, and a European masterpiece still under construction, as well as unusual travel experiences and ...
A new regex engine called RE# was developed in F# that outperforms other industrial regex engines and supports intersection, complement, and context-aware lookarounds with linear-time guarantees. The engine uses a derivative-based approach and minterm compression to achieve high performance and supports leftmost-longest matching with bidirectional scanning.
Coastal hazard assessments often inadequately handle sea-level and land elevation data, leading to underestimation of exposed areas and populations. Proper integration of sea-level height and coastal elevation is crucial for accurate assessments, especially in data-sparse regions.
The NeuralCPU is a GPU-based CPU that uses trained neural networks for all arithmetic operations, achieving speeds of 4,975 IPS and inverting the conventional CPU's MUL vs ADD performance. It supports two modes: Neural Mode, where every operation is a forward pass through a trained model, and Fast Mode, where the ALU uses native torch arithmetic for maximum throughput.
A Canadian journal has corrected 138 case reports to add a disclaimer stating the cases are fictional. The corrections follow a New Yorker article that exposed a fabricated case report on opioid exposure through breast milk.