Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab

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Roku has moved its developer resources from GitHub to GitLab, consolidating documentation, samples, and tools into a single location. Users need to update bookmarked or stored repository URLs and adjust pipelines that reference raw file URLs.

The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise

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FreeDNS

This service offers domain registration, DNS management, and easy updates for $5/month. It also provides features like subdomains, stealth flags, and wildcard DNS with a 50-subdomain limit.

Neural chip decodes interactions between brain regions

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Researchers at EPFL have developed an implantable neural chip called LogSync that tracks brain activity and identifies cognitive and emotional states in real-time. The system uses machine-learning algorithms to analyze network-level biomarkers and generate stimulation triggers for severe psychiatric illnesses.

Around a dozen banking apps began specifically permitting GrapheneOS

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User received Jolla phone with disappointing experience due to required account for app store and lack of file browser. They are considering returning the device as they prefer a Linux-like experience without app stores.

OBS Studio 33

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OBS Studio has been updated with new features and bug fixes, including a massive overhaul of the browser source framework and improved plugin loading. The update also includes support for newer NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs and fixes several issues with video output and stream disconnections.

Node2Shell evolves to HTTP2Shell, blast radius affects many HTTP libs and apps

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A widely used compression library Brotli has a known security vulnerability, dubbed "node2shell," which can cause memory leaks or execute arbitrary code. Users are advised to upgrade their libraries and applications that use Brotli until patches become available.

TornadoVM 7 Enables GPU-Native Workloads from Java Applications

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TornadoVM version 7.3 is a major milestone for the open-source heterogeneous GPU framework, accelerating Java programs on CPUs and GPUs without replacing existing JVMs. It provides a rich GPU programming ecosystem in Java, offering four ways to program Nvidia GPUs as a programmer.

Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed

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Kimi K3.1 Pro is a new model that offers substantial improvements in coding, 3D creation, financial research, and agentic capabilities with a 1-million-token context window. It delivers consistent gains across various benchmarks and outperforms proprietary models like GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5.

Physicists trap a single antimatter particle for a month

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Scientists have successfully trapped a single subatomic particle of antimatter, called a positron, for months using a special trap. This achievement could help explain why the universe is made mostly of matter and not antimatter.

Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone

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Below is a series of demos we revealed at Hexacon in Paris today. Everything will be released in due time.

I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018)

GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards

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This Linux kernel module unlocks NVIDIA GPUs for faster performance, doubling instruction issuing speed on GA102, GA103, GA104 and GA106 cards. It can be appended to the boot options line or installed through a package manager like make install.

Cecilia Berdichevsky, Clementina expert (1961)

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Cecilia Berdichevsky was an Argentine computer scientist who worked with the Ferranti Mercury computer, known as Clementina, in the 1960s. She contributed to early computing in Argentina and later became a respected figure in the field.

Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches

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A person had a life-threatening tumor removed in a surgery, but is now grateful to be alive. Their scars and bumps are reminders of their journey and part of what makes them unique.

Twelve years of distributed SQLite

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The author created rqlite in 2014, combining SQLite with Raft consensus protocol to create a fault-tolerant relational database. Since then, the concept of "distributed SQLite" has evolved into a category with various projects offering different approaches to replication and consistency.

Parsing EDIFACT in Python with syntax trees

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Edison is a Python library for parsing EDIFACT messages, modeling them as syntax trees and then validating or pretty-printing against those structures. It can handle multiple schemas across versions and supports escaping EDIFACT separators.

Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you

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If there are fewer than 25 things close to you, it takes the closest 25 things within about 6 miles. If there are more than 500 things only the closest 500 will be included.

Apple Music 404 Not Found

The page you’re looking for can’t be found. Explore new music, playlists, and artists on Apple Music.

A practical guide to AI image generation, from diffusion to agents

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This guide covers AI image generation, including how models work, different types, history, and best practices for building image generation into code and agents. It provides experiments with various models to achieve non-AI generated images.

How close can pure functional programming get to C?

A DEFLATE compression library written in Lean 4 outperformed a Rust package, but was still slower than a C implementation. The author achieved this result through optimization techniques that are widely beneficial across languages.

Bringing uv and ty together

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Astral's uv and ty tools are now integrated, enabling unified support for Python scripts in the CLI and editor. This integration aims to create an integrated toolchain that uses a shared understanding of projects to enable new capabilities.

Tiling Noise – Procedural GPU Patterns

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The tutorial creates a value noise torus scene with tiling, upgrading the shader to use vec2 for bumpiness and frequency, and adding support for seamless tiling across 3x3 regions.

How to run a city builder on 16 MHz

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The author discusses how older games like SimCity could run on less powerful hardware, and analyzes the optimization techniques used in the game's code to achieve this. The key optimizations include skipping unnecessary calculations and only updating certain parts of the simulation or rendering at specific intervals.

Show HN: Autonomous root for Tcl Android TV via CVE-2022-22706

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TCL 50C721 (RTD1319 / Mali-G31) root toolkit — autonomous CVE-2022-22706 exploit chain

Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

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Block, Inc. collects user information for various purposes including measuring usage and sending useful information, while also sharing data with affiliates and third parties. Users can access, delete or correct their personal information by contacting Block's privacy team.

Apple Security Research Device

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Apple offers the Security Research Device Program to help security researchers work with iOS securely. Researchers can apply for a 12-month loan of an SRD, which provides access to iOS components and tools for vulnerability discovery.

Root shell on Samsung TV

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i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv. i kept getting weirdly targeted ads. i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic. zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs! discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?

The Real Kevin Bacon

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The "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon" game reveals Samuel L. Jackson as the center of Hollywood, but a new generation may surpass him. A simulation predicts Chloë Grace Moretz as the next potential center, with 10% winning over simulations.

CVE Tracker

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Resolution Range View Dates Mode Data: CVEProject/cvelistV5 Counts follow the selected period and date; Cumulative shows the running total. Projection = pace vs median day-of-month fraction, last 12 months