Scientists reverse brain aging, with a nasal spray

146 cybermango 2026-07-05 00:30:17 UTC stories.tamu.edu Llama Share 55

Scientists at Texas A&M University developed a nasal spray that reverses brain aging and brain fog by reducing inflammation. The spray, which involves microscopic biological parcels called extracellular vesicles, has shown promising results in improving memory and cognitive function.

Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable

365 asronline 2026-07-04 20:30:17 UTC github.com/ammaarreshi Llama Share 145

Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour runs natively on Apple devices with real 2003 engine, using DXVK/MoltenVK and touch controls. Requires own game assets and Apple Developer team for iOS build.

GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance

153 maille 2026-07-04 22:30:17 UTC github.com/openai Llama Share 49

GPT-5.5 responses disproportionately cluster at 516 reasoning tokens with related spikes at 1034 and 1552. This pattern suggests a possible reasoning-budget or truncation behavior in GPT-5.5.

Jellyfish can heal wounds in minutes. Scientists want their secrets

43 hhs 2026-07-04 23:30:17 UTC mbl.edu Llama Share 8

Clytia hemisphaerica jellyfish have transparent bodies allowing researchers to study wound healing in real time. Scientists can observe epithelial cells stitching damaged tissue back together, revealing conserved mechanisms of wound healing across different species.

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

346 Cider9986 2026-07-04 17:30:17 UTC software.annas-archive.gl Llama Share 183

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.

Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

492 javxfps 2026-07-04 17:30:17 UTC javoriuski.com Llama Share 277

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.

Better Models: Worse Tools

98 leemoore 2026-07-04 20:30:17 UTC lucumr.pocoo.org Llama Share 33

Newer Anthropic models like Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 produce malformed tool calls with extra invented fields due to post-training on Claude Code's forgiving harness. This behavior is not seen in older models and may be a result of reinforcement learning optimizing for one particular tool ecology.

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

403 theanonymousone 2026-07-04 12:30:17 UTC peteris.rocks Llama Share 52

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.

Meta's Un-Stable Signature

19 ementally 2026-07-05 00:30:17 UTC hackerfactor.com Llama Share 1

The user investigated three AI-based invisible watermark algorithms, SynthID, TrustMark, and Stable Signature, and found that they all make the same fundamental mistake of assuming independent and uniformly distributed bits, leading to inflated accuracy rates and high error rates. The user's empirical testing and statistical analysis revealed that these algorithms have error rates of around ...

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

275 chatmasta 2026-07-04 14:30:17 UTC github.com/anthropics Full Share 128

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...

Zig: All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System

141 tosh 2026-07-04 17:30:17 UTC ziglang.org Llama Share 28

The Zig compiler has undergone several changes and improvements in 2026, including a new ELF linker, incremental compilation, and improved type resolution logic, which aim to make the compiler faster and more efficient. These changes also include updates to the LLVM backend, SPIR-V backend, and package management, as well as the introduction of new features such as evented I/O and experimental fibers.

Reflections on the Guillotine

23 halperter 2026-07-05 00:30:17 UTC theanarchistlibrary.org Llama Share 4

The author argues that capital punishment is not an effective deterrent and is actually repulsive, causing more harm than good to society. It is a lazy and outdated penalty that should be abolished, and its defenders cannot reasonably justify it.

Verizon is About to Break our Watches

141 jefftk 2026-07-04 18:30:17 UTC jefftk.com Llama Share 83

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.

Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams

12 Anon84 2026-07-05 00:30:17 UTC writerbeware.blog Llama Share 4

A Nigerian scammer is using AI-generated emails to target authors with personalized marketing offers, then demanding access to their KDP accounts. The scammer is now using various iterations, including book club impersonations and fake private review groups, to charge authors for features or spotlights.

Drone Autonomy Crash Course

10 cgg1 2026-07-04 23:30:17 UTC cggonzalez.com Llama Share 0

Carlos is creating a guide to making quadcopters autonomous, covering modeling, state estimation, motion planning, and control. His goal is to provide a simple overview for newcomers to the topic.

Can you build a recognizable World Map in under 500 bytes?

24 iweczek 2026-07-04 21:30:17 UTC experimentlog.com Llama Share 31

User attempted to create a World Map in under 1k bytes using Codex, but it performed poorly. They achieved a 445-byte compressed map by using ASCII land-only characters and exploiting compression.

Drone Physics

86 wrxd 2026-07-04 19:30:17 UTC iahmed.me GoogleT5 Share 25

Evtols are multirotor aircraft that can fly at high altitudes. the angular velocity of the vehicle is the instantaneous rotational rate of a frame x, y, and z, as determined by the inertial reference frame. this can be used to integrate accelerations in the body frame to find body-frame velocity. propellers spin by motors, which produce gross torques which are dissip

Mapping with In-Memory Layers to Reduce LLM Overload

10 Buckwheat469 2026-07-04 23:30:17 UTC ridgetext.com Llama Share 0

RidgeText uses an LLM to generate maps by queuing data layers independently and compositing them at render time, avoiding the LLM's context window and reducing data transfer costs. This approach mirrors Mapbox's layer stack and allows for easy addition of new data sources and renderers, making the system more scalable and maintainable.

CloudsLinker: Move and sync files across 50 cloud services

8 janandonly 2026-07-04 23:30:17 UTC app.cloudslinker.com Full Share 1

Link all your cloud storage

It's not me, it's the compiler

63 SVI 2026-07-04 19:30:17 UTC parsa.wtf Llama Share 11

The user encountered a miscompilation issue in Rust where the compiler incorrectly optimized their code, causing a parser to incorrectly consume tokens. They reported the issue, which was quickly fixed by Hanna Kruppe, and is now one of only 7 p-critical and i-miscompile issues in Rust.

Egg consumption inversely correlated with Alzheimer's

34 natbennett 2026-07-05 01:30:17 UTC pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Llama Share 9

Egg consumption was inversely associated with Alzheimer's disease risk in a large cohort study. Moderate egg consumption was linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease in a health-conscious population.

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

94 msephton 2026-07-04 15:30:17 UTC github.com/maximqaxd Llama Share 18

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.

Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share

14 logickkk1 2026-07-04 21:30:17 UTC arxiv.org Llama Share 1

Researchers studied AirDrop and Quick Share protocols, discovering six vulnerabilities in their stacks, including pre-authentication issues and encryption bypasses. The findings were responsibly disclosed, with Apple, Samsung, and Google acknowledging the reports.

The Vespa at 80

148 cf100clunk 2026-07-04 10:30:17 UTC cbc.ca Llama Share 136

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.

My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress

28 ekinertac 2026-07-04 22:30:17 UTC ekinertac.com Llama Share 38

The author built a PHP engine called Phargo from scratch in Rust without knowing Rust, relying on an AI to write the code. The engine's pass rate on PHP's 22,000 test suite is 17.4%.

Fable created novel 4D splat format

118 adamraudonis 2026-07-04 16:30:17 UTC adamraudonis.github.io Llama Share 43

The splat4d format is a dynamic capture format that stores background splats once and keyframes every N frames, allowing for efficient seeking and decoding. It uses error-bounded quantization and integer math to ensure pointwise and deterministic accuracy within a user-chosen bound, making it suitable for HTTP Range requests against object stores.

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

57 liffik 2026-07-04 18:30:17 UTC github.com/piat0n Llama Share 39

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.

Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting

52 tobr 2026-07-04 16:30:17 UTC studios.disneyresearch.com Llama Share 8

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.

Curveball

51 toilet 2026-07-04 16:30:17 UTC mightyburger.net Llama Share 11

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.

Recovering garbled Bitcoin addresses (2024)

5 zX41ZdbW 2026-07-04 23:30:17 UTC purplesyringa.moe Prefix Share 0

Telegram There are many code snippets in this blog post. You can download them from a repo. The finished project is available here. Once upon a time, there was a decentralized network called ZeroNet. Unlike popular content-addressed storage networks that came later (such as IPFS), ZeroNet enabled dynamic sites that could be updated by their owners in real-time, such as blogs and forums. As a ...