CSSQuake

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Play Quake in your browser with no install. cssQuake renders the game as inspectable HTML and CSS powered by PolyCSS.

The European Social Stack

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Europe is building a diverse and resilient information infrastructure to protect citizens from social media interference and promote European jobs and revenue. We are creating a decentralized social network ecosystem based on open European platforms and protocols like Fediverse and Atmosphere.

DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots

The F-15 Strike Eagle 2 reconstruction project has made significant progress, with all C code rewritten and data moved from assembly to C. The project is now open for testing and bug reporting, with the latest release v0.9.1 available for download.

VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

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Web Browsers on PDAS

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Personal digital assistants (PDAs) gained internet access in the 90s, with early browsers like PocketWeb and Palmscape supporting limited web standards. As technology improved, full-fledged browsers like Opera, NetFront, and Firefox were developed for PDAs, but the rise of smartphones eventually led to the decline of the PDA market.

Cargo-Geiger

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cargo-geiger is a tool that lists unsafe Rust code usage statistics in crates and dependencies. It does not advise on code security, only providing usage data.

From PGP to Mythos: a brief history of export controls that didn't stop anyone

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The US government has banned Anthropic's AI model Mythos due to concerns it could be accessed by a South Korean telecom with suspected ties to China and a potential "jailbreak" by Amazon researchers. The ban is part of a long-standing effort to control the export of dual-use cyber technologies, but past experiences suggest this approach may not be effective in preventing malicious use.

Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server

Bootimus is a self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server in one binary with zero config. It automatically detects 50+ distros and supports token auth, LDAP/AD backend, and local accounts.

Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You

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The colors that exist in the real world but can't be shown on digital screens are mostly cyans, which are poorly reproduced by screens and LED lighting, but can be seen in nature, particularly in forests, water, and bird feathers. These colors are often created by natural processes that filter light, such as repeated reflections and transmissions through leaves and water, or by the physical ...

I Stored a Website in a Favicon

A favicon can be used for steganography by hiding data in its pixels, which the browser interprets as colors. This allows storing small amounts of data, like HTML, in a tiny image.

Mencius

This translation is an expansion of teaching materials developed for college courses over a period of several decades. When I was teaching, I found it convenient to provide students with translations that fit the terminology and interpretations I would use in class, and, of course, the expense of these materials to students was much less than the cost of books. In later years, I posted course ...

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents

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Cloudflare updated Wrangler to allow agents to deploy code without signing up for an account. Agents can now use the --temporary flag to deploy code instantly, with a 60-minute claim window to make the account permanent.

Big Tech is borrowing like never before

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Big Tech companies are increasingly relying on debt to fund their AI buildouts, with Nvidia's $25 billion bond sale being a notable example. This shift from cash-flow to bond-market financing raises concerns about the companies' risk profiles and sensitivity to interest rates.

Vacation With An Artist – Mini-Apprenticeships with Artists in Their Studios

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VAWAA is a mini-apprenticeship with a curated master artist or craftsman, tailored to your skill level. How it Works Whether it’s honing a passion or getting fresh inspiration, we see travel as an opportunity to grow. Read guest stories

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash

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Computed goto for efficient dispatch tables (2012)

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The author implemented a simple VM in C to compare the performance of a switch statement and a computed goto. The computed goto version is 25% faster due to reduced branch prediction overhead.

The Cold War's Accidental Whale Observatory

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Can you see three trees?

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The 3-30-300 test measures a city's tree cover by ensuring every home has a view of at least three trees, 30% tree cover in the neighbourhood, and a park within 300 meters. The test is simple but hard to achieve, with only 14% of Europeans living in areas meeting all three criteria and most cities failing to meet the 30% tree cover requirement.
Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 uses more memory and has slower startup times compared to the classic player. It also hides some popular codecs behind paywalls, prompting users to consider alternative players like VLC.

GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2

Major AI labs are skeptical of endless parameter count and training data scaling due to limitations and hallucination issues in large models. Smaller models like GLM-5.2 are showing comparable performance to much larger models like GPT-5.5 and Fable 5, indicating actual intelligence has plateaued.

US Scientist John Jumper to Leave Google DeepMind for Anthropic

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There are no instances in ATProto

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The concept of instances in social media is a category error, as it's a Mastodon-brained concept that doesn't apply to atproto, which separates hosting and apps. Decentralization in atproto is achieved by swapping hosting or making new apps, unlike Mastodon where decentralization is measured by the number of instances.

Data Compression Explained (2012)

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Data compression is the art of reducing the number of bits needed to store or transmit data, and it can be either lossless or lossy, with lossless compression being reversible and lossy compression discarding unimportant data. The best compression ratio is achieved by understanding the data to be compressed and using a model to estimate its probability distribution, with the goal of assigning ...

Pong in S Favicon

A full game of Pong is playing in this tab's icon. Scroll up and down to move your paddle. The score is in the tab title. Self-tests (run live, in your browser)

Human Judgment as a Specification

Programmers need formal methods to confirm AI-generated solutions are correct. A tool called PICK helps by translating informal prose into formal specifications and allowing users to validate the results.

Lithuanian startup launches open-source network to detect Shahed-type drones

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A startup and activists launched an open-source drone detection system using volunteers' phones to identify low-frequency drone signatures. The system aims to recruit 10,000 users and expand across the Baltic states and Poland.

The discovery that changed how scientists think about memory

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Neuroscientist Oswald Steward won the 2026 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience for discovering that neurons manufacture proteins near synapses, reshaping neuroscience and potentially leading to new treatments for neurological disorders. This discovery, made over four decades ago, has established the importance of local protein synthesis within neurons and is fundamental to learning, memory, and brain ...

Sogen Kato

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Sogen Kato (加藤 宗現, Katō Sōgen; 22 July 1899 – c. November 1978) was a Japanese man thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010, when his mummified corpse was found in his bedroom. It was concluded he had likely died in November 1978, aged 79, and his family had never reported his death. Relatives had rebuffed attempts by ward officials to see Kato in preparations for Respect ...

LLMs Are Complicated Now

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Meta1's machine learning work evolved from simple Transformer modules to complex models with various attention variants. Designing for composability is key to exploring new architectures without significant performance impact.

A 1969 camera operators' strike created Upstairs Downstairs multiverse

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In 1969, British camera operators went on strike over pay, turning color cameras to black-and-white, causing TV chaos. The strike led to a unique situation with the TV show Upstairs/Downstairs, with three versions of the first episode.