The user found 10,000 GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware by analyzing commit patterns and using a script to filter repositories. The script found 10,000 repositories that matched the pattern of being updated every few hours with a link to a zip archive in the readme file, but the user believes there should be many more due to GitHub's large repository count.
American Express uses a cell-based architecture to ensure high availability and low latency in its payments ecosystem. This architecture isolates failures, maintains low-latency processing, and scales capacity without expanding the failure domain.
The Enterprise-Managed Authorization extension is now stable, allowing organizations to centrally manage authorization for MCP servers and end-users to access all connected servers through a single login. This extension addresses a major pain point in enterprise environments by providing a zero-touch setup and centralized policy control.
BOMwiki is a free encyclopedia of bill-of-materials, detailing products down to individual components. It lists various products, including excavators, commercial airliners, and smartphones, with massive numbers of parts involved.
The Trump administration imposed export controls on Anthropic's AI technology due to concerns over SK Telecom's ties to China. Anthropic revoked access to its models for foreign nationals after the White House ordered it to do so.
ENAS offers a private, local storage platform with performance, scalability, and simplicity, eliminating costly licensing and proprietary hardware. It integrates with UniFi for centralized management, secure access, and multi-site backup orchestration without recurring software costs.
The Federal Palace in Bern is bustling with activity as the National Council and Council of States debate various important issues during their summer session. The agenda includes the 13th AHV pension, the armed forces, federal finances, and the construction of new nuclear power plants.
User investigated the origin of the word "zork" in the game Zork, initially believing it was a jargon word for unfinished programs. After researching and contacting experts, they found no evidence to support this claim.
The author is skeptical of RTK's long-term viability due to its misleading savings statistic and critical structural flaws. RTK's optimization may lead to silent failures and decreased task accuracy, making it an operational risk.
A customer club's marketing arrangement was found to be unlawful due to forced consent. The company was fined NOK 20 million for violating GDPR rules on consent, transparency, and data processing.
CS 6120 is a PhD-level Cornell CS course on programming language implementation covering universal compilers and research topics. The course involves reading papers and open-source hacking tasks using LLVM and an educational IR.
Universities and hospitals are conducting late-stage clinical trials with lower costs, repurposing existing drugs for new uses. This "hidden" research system offers affordable treatments with huge potential, operating outside of the patent system.
I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there. It was a difficult decision to move on. I’m incredibly proud of the amazing team at Google and everything we’ve built together. It has been an honor and a pleasure to work with all of you.
The user previously used GNU stow to manage their dotfiles but switched to chezmoi due to symlinking issues. Chezmoi keeps a source directory with copies of live files and applies changes to the home directory.
The weights are the billions of numbers forming an AI's brain. Type a name and see how strongly the leading AI models recognize it. Are you in the weights?
The user is fascinated by W Social, a microblogging platform that claims to be Europe's alternative to X, but has discrepancies between its public image and reality. The European Commission's migration of its ATproto accounts to W Social is concerning due to W Social's lack of transparency and potential reliance on Bluesky's infrastructure.
TesterArmy is a service that uses AI to test websites and mobile apps by navigating pages and interacting with UI like a human. It integrates with GitHub and other pipelines for automatic testing and reporting.
Git has three levels of file ignoring: .gitignore, .git/info/exclude, and ~/.config/git/ignore. These files allow ignoring files at repository, per-repo, and machine levels respectively.
The Agentic Resource Discovery Specification (ARD) solves the problem of discovering available capabilities for AI clients. ARD lets clients ask what agentic resources can help with a task, returning matching capabilities with details on who provides them.
Modos Flow is a 13.3-inch color e-paper monitor with higher resolution and touch input, improving on the Paper Monitor Dev Kit. The Flow's crowdfunding campaign is live on Crowd Supply, with cofounders discussing engineering and lessons learned from their crowdfunding journey.
Craig Newmark, Craigslist founder, donates half a billion dollars to charity, giving away his wealth to those in need. He believes in kindness over riches, inspired by his childhood lessons from Holocaust survivors.
You're revisiting A2A protocol, an agent-to-agent protocol from Google, and wondering if anyone is using it yet. It seems like A2A could enable relevant context and query answering between agents with tools, services, and data.
The author argues that successful products focus on a few key features, ignoring others, to create a simple and compelling experience. This approach is seen in products like the original iPod and Gmail.
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I will draw district lines to favor the yellow party. I will use gerrymandering techniques like packing and cracking to concentrate yellow voters in a few districts and split opponents across multiple districts.
Alberta, a Canadian province, has been rat-free for over 70 years despite being surrounded by infested areas. Its success is due to a proactive rat control program that began in the 1950s, focusing on a narrow border zone and using a combination of surveillance, education, and targeted poisoning.
The author shares new features in Emacs 31, a pre-release version, that make the editor more efficient and user-friendly. These features include improved tree-sitter support, a markdown mode, and various usability enhancements.
Submit your website to various platforms for backlinks and visibility. Choose from launch directories, review marketplaces, and founder networks to reach target audiences and improve search engine rankings.
Microsoft's new Outlook for Windows has a notification problem where clicking a notification takes 10 seconds to open the email, compared to 5 seconds when opening Outlook directly. The issue is due to the app's WebView2 architecture, which is a Chromium-based rendering engine that slows down the notification process.
The author chose Emacs as their primary editor due to its wide range of language support and ease of use on Windows. They eventually switched to Linux and continued using Emacs, learning to customize it effectively over time.