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.
Claude Opus 5 is a new AI model that offers improved performance and capabilities at half the price of Claude Fable 5. It excels in coding, knowledge work, and scientific research tasks, and is designed for daily use with efficient performance.
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.
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.
Wasmtime 47 enables Wasm GC and exceptions proposals by default, allowing more languages to target WebAssembly. This improves support for high-level languages and exception-using languages, making WebAssembly a better compilation target.
The user wrote a 3D software renderer for the Playdate handheld console, overcoming performance challenges by using a 16-bit reciprocal depth buffer, perspective-correct texture mapping, and dithering for a 1-bit display. The user achieved significant performance gains through compiler flags, custom assembly code, and optimization techniques, ultimately creating a playable 3D game prototype.
The user and their boyfriend created a 20-gallon aquaponics system in their NYC apartment using a media-based continuous-flow system with a vertical setup, growing leafy greens and herbs. They share their experiences and lessons learned, including the importance of cycling, not overfeeding, and using a stable water and nutrient level for the fish, to help others replicate their setup.
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.
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The Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY feature has a bad reputation due to its global lock, but it can be optimized for high-performance streams. By buffering notifications in memory and periodically flushing them in a batch transaction, it's possible to achieve 60K writes per second with millisecond-scale latency.
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.
Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) leads the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 61, followed by Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Xhigh Effort) and Claude Fable 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Opus 4.8 Fallback). Mercury 2 is the fastest model at 938.7 tokens per second.
Skyroot Aerospace's Vikram-1 rocket successfully launched into a 280-mile-high orbit on its debut flight, marking India's first fully commercial satellite launcher. The launch was a "grand success" for the company, exceeding expectations and paving the way for future launches.
The user discovered a security vulnerability in Hanwha Vision's security cameras, specifically a hardcoded GitHub token in the firmware that granted admin access to hundreds of repositories. The user reported the issue to Hanwha, who promptly revoked the token, and the user notes that this is a common mistake that needs to be addressed to prevent similar incidents in the future.
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.
Researchers discovered that sperm whales release gas bubbles to regulate their buoyancy while resting just below the ocean surface. This unique behavior allows them to sleep effectively by avoiding surface wave action and conserving energy.
Small community book exchange shelves are built in various locations, including a wall and a park, to share free books. These Little Free Libraries are part of community hubs and offer a space for book sharing and exchange.
MIT researchers revived an old patent by Professor Bill Freeman to create the "Y-zipper," a three-sided fastener that can transform objects between soft and rigid states. The Y-zipper can be used in various applications, including camping gear, medical devices, robots, and art installations, with the potential to aid in space exploration and disaster relief.
The simulation is a stress test of global supply chains using UN Comtrade 2025 data, modeling fluid-stochastic network clearing and endogenous pricing. It shows stockpile-depletion events in net-importer emergency buffers and elastic-supply exporter buffers.
Firefox version 153 introduces Containers, allowing separate online activities to be logged into different accounts in the same browser window with isolated cookies and ad tracking. This feature is now a native part of Firefox, making it easier to manage and organize digital space.
The user has designed an open source switch ASIC and is planning to tape it out and prove the silicon works, aiming to fill the gap in open source networking equipment hardware. The switch will be an unmanaged 3-port design with a limited address table size, using an external PHY chip and interfacing with it over the RMII bus, and will be silicon proven in mid-November 2026.
Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server with a 0day it discovered. All it took was 27min with 32 agents. github.com/berabuddies/re…
PartialString simulates a plucked string using the FDTD method, allowing for adjustable decay time, dampers, and pickup position. It supports 10-voice polyphony, but dynamically adjusts based on computer capability and string length.
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As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub - NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source · GitHub (I will call it NVRM). This driver is ver…
The IRGC claimed a cruise missile strike destroyed an AWS data center in Bahrain, citing the US strike on Iran's Darkhovin nuclear plant as retaliation. This marks the third strike on the same facility since March and a new escalation tier in Operation Nasr-2.
US tech companies, including Nvidia and Microsoft, released a letter urging policymakers to avoid restricting open-weight AI models, citing benefits to competition and innovation. They argue that open models strengthen competition and ensure the benefits of AI technology are broadly shared.
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.