An interactive map of FLock Cams

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DeFlock is an open-source project that maps license plate readers across the US.

MacBook Neo

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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.

Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config

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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.

Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral

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A Florida man's father is suing Google over its AI tool Gemini, alleging it fueled a delusional spiral that led to his son's death. Google says it's reviewing the claims and notes its models are not perfect, but designed to prevent real-world violence and self-harm.

Something is afoot in the land of Qwen

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.

Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity

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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.

NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute

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 canvas where every brush is a tiny program

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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.

Data Has Weight but Only on SSDs

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Data stored on SSDs has weight due to electrons added during programming, making drives slightly heavier. The increase is negligible, equivalent to a few femtograms, and not measurable with current technology.

“It turns out” (2010)

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.

Roboflow (YC S20) Is Hiring a Security Engineer for AI Infra

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Company builds magnetic environment for exceptional talent, using skills beyond core expertise to drive product direction and revenue. They offer remote work with in-person collaboration, autonomy, and a united team culture.

Who Writes the Bugs? A Deeper Look at 125,000 Kernel Vulnerabilities

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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.

Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection

Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

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.

Glaze by Raycast

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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.

Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide – Unsloth Documentation

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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.

My Favorite 39C3 Talks

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The 39th Chaos Communication Congress featured talks on hacking satellites, payment processor vulnerabilities, and CPU bugs. Talks also covered drone use in warfare and cloud security.

Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy

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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

MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone

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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.

Agentic Engineering Patterns

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 Space Race's Forgotten Theme Park

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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 ...

Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

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Google is lowering its 30 percent cut of Play Store transactions to 20 percent, with some cases at 15 percent, and 10 percent for subscriptions. The company is also making it easier for developers to use alternative billing systems and third-party app stores on Android.

RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello

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.

TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe

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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.

Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals

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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 ...

Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules

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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 GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable

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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.

The 1,700-year-old megastructure history almost forgot

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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 ...

RE#: how we built the fastest regex engine in F#

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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.

A CPU that runs entirely on GPU

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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.