Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

174 javxfps 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC javoriuski.com Llama Share 73

A security vulnerability was found in YouTube's AI assistant Ask Studio, where an attacker can inject malicious comments that are then read by the AI and presented as its own response to creators. This allows attackers to extract sensitive information from creators' private videos by manipulating the AI to generate links with channel data, putting millions of creators at risk.

Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

93 Cider9986 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC software.annas-archive.gl Llama Share 20

Google is offering a $200,000 bounty for a method to access and scale up its scanned book snippets. The goal is to make these rare books accessible, and the bounty also applies to similar collections from AI companies.

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

211 chatmasta 2026-07-04 14:31:23 UTC github.com/anthropics Full Share 99

Bug Description Apparent session leakage, despite authenticated to Enterprise ZDR workspace. Agent suddenly started asking me what kind of bricks I wanted for my Minecraft temple and confidently asserted in its recap that it's building a...

No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth

35 Breadmaker 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC eso.org Llama Share 15

A new ESO study warns that launching 1.7 million satellites would devastate astronomy, recommending no more than 100,000 faint satellites to safeguard night sky observations.

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)

267 theanonymousone 2026-07-04 12:31:23 UTC peteris.rocks Llama Share 30

The load average of 1.0 on a two-core machine does not mean 50% CPU usage, but rather 100% CPU utilization, as the load average is the average number of running processes, not CPU usage. The load average is calculated by counting the number of running and uninterruptible processes, and is an exponentially damped moving average of the system load since startup.

BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments

11 liffik 2026-07-04 17:38:23 UTC github.com/piat0n Llama Share 1

This tool boots from a disk/USB and dumps system RAM to the booting medium using BIOS interrupts and unreal mode. It was originally developed for Cold Boot Attacks, allowing extraction of sensitive information from frozen RAM.

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

42 msephton 2026-07-04 15:31:23 UTC github.com/maximqaxd Llama Share 8

The Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition is a multitasking windowed desktop for the Dreamcast, built from a stripped-down Windows CE 2.12 runtime. It's a self-contained project with a CMake build system, allowing users to create a bootable disc image with various configurations.

Curveball

25 toilet 2026-07-04 16:31:23 UTC mightyburger.net Llama Share 3

The user created Curveball, a tool for generating curves in the Neverball game, which can create complex shapes using convex hull algorithms and 2D profiles. Curveball can generate various curves, including extrusions, Curve Classic, Curve Slope, and Rayto, and can be used to create new levels for the Neverball game.

Verizon is About to Break our Watches

11 jefftk 2026-07-04 17:53:23 UTC jefftk.com Llama Share 1

User's Verizon Gizmo watches are losing app functionality due to a new app rollout. Verizon support has acknowledged the issue but has not resolved it, and the old app will be shut down on July 6th.

Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

58 sensanaty 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC tomshardware.com Llama Share 12

Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centers due to a rare bacterium found in reclaimed water. The bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, was traced to Meta's contractor Goat Systems LLC, which has suspended fill-and-flush discharge privileges.

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe

155 jnord 2026-07-04 09:31:23 UTC quantamagazine.org Llama Share 91

Astrophysicist Charlotte Mason and colleagues are studying "little red dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, which may be black holes or a new type of object. Researchers are exploring various theories to explain the dots' existence and the universe's early mysteries.

Plein Air

15 bookofjoe 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC art.joonas.wtf Llama Share 2

Plein air painters created works outdoors to capture light and atmosphere. The resulting paintings share a moment in time, often with the same sky and weather conditions.

Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years

38 ohjeez 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC euronews.com Llama Share 6

Finland has ended analogue landline phone calls after 150 years, marking a global shift to digital infrastructure. The country's last major telecom operator, Elisa, made the final call to mark the end of its service.

Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting

14 tobr 2026-07-04 16:31:23 UTC studios.disneyresearch.com Llama Share 1

Researchers introduced a neural render proxy (NRP) for fast relighting of static scenes with fixed camera and materials. NRP enables interactive frame rates and gradient-based inverse workflows for efficient lighting parameter solving.

Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit

28 rtolkachev 2026-07-04 14:31:23 UTC explainanalyze.com Llama Share 1

Partitioning by primary key (id) allows for automatic pruning and eliminates the need for date filters in queries. A background service can manage partition boundaries based on observed growth, eliminating the need for manual partitioning and rebalancing.

Maybe you should learn something

351 tylerdane 2026-07-04 04:31:23 UTC marginalia.nu Llama Share 168

Learning new things is fun and makes life richer, but it requires a daily time investment of up to an hour. It's a long journey with initial struggles, but consistent practice leads to improvements over time.

The Vespa at 80

115 cf100clunk 2026-07-04 10:31:23 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 98

A Vespa museum in Rome showcases the scooter's 80-year history, from its birth in 1946 to its current status as a symbol of freedom and style. The Vespa's unlikely story began as a solution to post-war Italy's transportation needs, designed by Corradino D'Ascanio and launched by Enrico Piaggio.

Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language

54 yyyk 2026-07-04 12:31:23 UTC freepressjournal.in Llama Share 14

Dr Julie Elie won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize for decoding zebra finches' core vocabulary and advancing human-animal communication research. Her research showed zebra finches use distinct calls to announce identity and activities, and understand the meanings of their vocalisations.

The .join() that should be a bug

3 mastabadtomm 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC kronotop.com Prefix Share 0

Section titled “Serving thousands of connections on a backend where every call blocks” There are two well-known ways to implement connection management in database systems. Each way has a cost. Kronotop takes a third approach. Let’s start with the problem we have. Kronotop stores its metadata in FoundationDB. It also stores document bodies on the local file system. So almost every operation a ...

Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

132 andrenotgiant 2026-07-04 06:31:23 UTC databricks.com Llama Share 42

The author, a co-founder of Databricks, discusses how traditional OLTP databases are clunky, difficult to scale, and fragile, and proposes a new architecture called Lakebase that externalizes storage and compute, making databases more durable, elastic, and cheaper to run. Lakebase's design also enables a new feature called LTAP, which unifies transactional and analytical workloads by storing ...

Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2

68 gverrilla 2026-07-04 11:31:23 UTC en.wikipedia.org Llama Share 25

The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the "Night Witches," was an all-female Soviet military unit that flew over 23,000 sorties during World War II. The regiment was formed in 1941 and flew harassment and precision bombing missions against the German military until the end of the war in 1945.

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

672 gslin 2026-07-04 07:31:23 UTC blog.mikebowler.ca Llama Share 370

High-stakes meetings in poorly ventilated rooms can impair decision-making due to high CO2 levels. A CO2 monitor can help identify and fix this issue, which is often overlooked and can be as simple as opening a window.

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

325 latchkey 2026-07-03 22:31:23 UTC wafer.ai Llama Share 128

AMD's Instinct MI350 series offers cheaper GPUs with comparable specs to NVIDIA's Blackwells, but lacks day-0 support for frontier models. With optimization and tweaks, AMD can achieve competitive performance per dollar, closing the gap with NVIDIA, but still requires more support and development.

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

327 programLyrique 2026-07-03 23:31:23 UTC mistral.ai Llama Share 92

Leanstral 1.5 is a free, open-source model that delivers a performance upgrade for formal verification, achieving a new state-of-the-art on FATE-H/X and PutnamBench. It verifies complex code properties and uncovers previously unknown bugs in open-source repositories.

The Reports of Jim Carrey's Death Are a Failure Mode

29 taubek 2026-07-04 12:31:23 UTC tane.dev Llama Share 26

A false report of Jim Carrey's death on Google's Knowledge Panel exposed a failure mode in knowledge systems, highlighting the need for transparency and scrutiny in how information is verified and presented. The author argues that knowledge systems must move beyond a simple true-or-false model and instead represent the complexity of claims, including their provenance, contradictions, and ...

Rob Pike – 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism' [video] (2012)

28 jruohonen 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC vimeo.com Embed Share 13

Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era

145 clmul 2026-07-04 04:31:23 UTC mirtitles.org Llama Share 72

The book is a narrative by geologist Ekaterina Radkevich about her expeditions and research on Earth and its resources. It completes the Science for Everyone Series, a collection of scientific knowledge for the general public.

What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)

110 ciconia 2026-07-04 13:31:23 UTC wozniak.ca Llama Share 139

The user has had negative experiences with Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) and believes they should not replace SQL, but rather augment it. They recommend learning SQL to write efficient queries and manage database interactions, and suggest using templated SQL or stored procedures for complex queries.

Sick leave: Germany rising but not the worst in Europe

12 bushwart 2026-07-04 17:31:23 UTC dw.com Llama Share 4

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced a crackdown on sick days, requiring workers to visit a doctor in person for a sick note. The move aims to reduce absences and boost Germany's economy, which is struggling due to rising competition and high energy costs.

Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research

250 hhs 2026-07-03 23:31:23 UTC news.exeter.ac.uk Llama Share 110

New research reveals that the world's tallest tropical trees can pump water to their topmost branches without difficulty. The study found that these trees' water systems are perfectly adapted to their height, making them no more vulnerable to drought than shorter trees.