SMPTE has made its entire Standards catalog freely available to the global media technology community. This move aims to accelerate adoption and implementation, strengthen interoperability, and drive innovation in the industry.
visionOS receives X11 calls from clients and vintage machines, opening each top-level window separately. X authority cookies are generated on device and copied to clients for secure connections.
A marketing agency, Qontour, created an unauthorized website for The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, using AI-generated content and monetizing it with affiliate links. The site outranks the official site in search results, causing confusion over its authorship and potentially damaging the book's reputation.
The F-15 Strike Eagle 2 reconstruction project has made significant progress, with all C code rewritten and data moved from assembly to C. The project is now open for testing and bug reporting, with the latest release v0.9.1 available for download.
A benchmark was created to compare Postgres performance across various services, including AWS RDS, Aurora, and others, using a TPC-B-like workload. The results show that Postgres managed by ClickHouse outperforms others due to its NVMe-backed storage and architecture.
Play Quake in your browser with no install. cssQuake renders the game as inspectable HTML and CSS powered by PolyCSS.
What this is Shared-memory threads for JavaScriptCore. new Thread(fn) runs fn on another thread, in the same heap, with the same objects. No structured clone, no message passing, no SharedArrayBuff...
make-look-scanned is a CLI and browser tool that degrades PDFs to look like physical scans. It uses Go and a C toolchain for the CLI and PDF.js for the browser build, both with AGPL-3.0 licenses.
Argusred is a free security scanner that runs locally on your machine, scanning your code for vulnerabilities and attempting safe reproductions of findings with exploit verification. It offers a free trial with 2M tokens, and scans can be run in two modes: Security Scan and Pen Test, with the latter requiring booking and authorisation.
South Korea's defense industry has grown rapidly, becoming the 9th-largest arms exporter in the world, with a projected combined revenue of $37 billion in 2026. The country's emphasis on speed, affordability, and technology transfer has made it a reliable alternative supplier to European NATO members.
Ember is a native iOS app for Hacker News with threaded comments, dark mode, and accessibility features. It uses a custom parser for comment HTML and fetches full comment trees from Algolia in one request.
Cloudflare updated Wrangler to allow agents to deploy code without signing up for an account. Agents can now use the --temporary flag to deploy code instantly, with a 60-minute claim window to make the account permanent.
Pointe shoes have evolved over the past few decades with small adjustments and some manufacturers incorporating 21st-century technologies. Despite innovation, traditional aesthetics and limited financial resources hinder widespread adoption of new designs.
Tiny is a concurrent language with a runtime system that compiles to bytecode and runs on a virtual machine. It features a multi-tiered execution model, direct OS-level parallel threading, and a built-in Language Server.
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Magicians and spies have a long history of deception and illusion, with some magicians like Robert-Houdin and Jasper Maskelyne working with governments to create deceptions. Modern espionage often uses propaganda techniques and social media manipulation, rather than traditional magic tricks, to shape public opinion and influence behavior.
microcrad is a C re-implementation of Andrej Karpathy's micrograd, providing a tiny scalar-valued automatic differentiation engine with a small neural network implementation. It uses reference counting for memory management and supports a feed-forward network with a ReLU activation function.
Scientists have found a way to redirect the body's healing response to regrow lost body parts in mammals. A two-step treatment using growth factors FGF2 and BMP2 successfully restored bone, joints, and ligaments in animal studies.
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The colors that exist in the real world but can't be shown on digital screens are mostly cyans, which are poorly reproduced by screens and LED lighting, but can be seen in nature, particularly in forests, water, and bird feathers. These colors are often created by natural processes that filter light, such as repeated reflections and transmissions through leaves and water, or by the physical ...
Personal digital assistants (PDAs) gained internet access in the 90s, with early browsers like PocketWeb and Palmscape supporting limited web standards. As technology improved, full-fledged browsers like Opera, NetFront, and Firefox were developed for PDAs, but the rise of smartphones eventually led to the decline of the PDA market.
Bootimus is a self-contained PXE and HTTP boot server in one binary with zero config. It automatically detects 50+ distros and supports token auth, LDAP/AD backend, and local accounts.
Microsoft's new Media Player for Windows 11 uses more memory and has slower startup times compared to the classic player. It also hides some popular codecs behind paywalls, prompting users to consider alternative players like VLC.
A favicon can be used for steganography by hiding data in its pixels, which the browser interprets as colors. This allows storing small amounts of data, like HTML, in a tiny image.
AMD is reinstating Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) on desktop Ryzen 9000 processors in July due to community feedback. TSME is a firmware-level encryption feature protecting against cold boot attacks with physical access.
The Mencius is a Classical Chinese philosophical text that profoundly influenced traditional Chinese culture, written by Mencius, a renowned Confucian teacher, around 300 BCE. The text reflects Mencius's restorationist goal to revive the ideal past of the Zhou Dynasty, which was seen as a time of peace and unity.
The 3-30-300 test measures a city's tree cover by ensuring every home has a view of at least three trees, 30% tree cover in the neighbourhood, and a park within 300 meters. The test is simple but hard to achieve, with only 14% of Europeans living in areas meeting all three criteria and most cities failing to meet the 30% tree cover requirement.
Major AI labs are skeptical of endless parameter count and training data scaling due to limitations and hallucination issues in large models. Smaller models like GLM-5.2 are showing comparable performance to much larger models like GPT-5.5 and Fable 5, indicating actual intelligence has plateaued.
The US government has banned Anthropic's AI model Mythos due to concerns it could be accessed by a South Korean telecom with suspected ties to China and a potential "jailbreak" by Amazon researchers. The ban is part of a long-standing effort to control the export of dual-use cyber technologies, but past experiences suggest this approach may not be effective in preventing malicious use.