Spain's parliament will act against massive IP blockages by LaLiga

Congress is preparing to take measures against LaLiga's fight against piracy causing web page blockages. A non-legislative initiative was approved to reform the Digital Services Act and prevent indiscriminate blocking of IPs by judicial rulings.

Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants

Belgium will nationalize its nuclear power plants, reversing a 2003 decision to phase out nuclear energy by 2025. The government aims to build new nuclear plants and reduce dependence on fossil imports.

The Whistleblower Who Uncovered the NSA's 'Big Brother Machine'

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How an Oil Refinery Works

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Oil refineries process crude oil into various products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel using distillation, cracking, and other processes. The refining process is complex and requires large industrial facilities to handle the massive volume of crude oil consumed worldwide.

Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library

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A supply chain attack compromised the PyPI package 'lightning' versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, stealing credentials and attempting to poison GitHub repositories. The attack is linked to the 'mini Shai-Hulud' campaign and affects teams using lightning in their dependency tree.

Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

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Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file

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honker adds durable pub/sub and task queue to SQLite without client polling or daemon. It uses SQLite's PRAGMA data_version for wake signals, with ~0.7 ms latency and ~3 µs read time.
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We monitor 27 government auction sources with 75,070 listings, scoring auctions for price, bid velocity, and time left. Daily emails highlight top-scored auctions with direct links to original listings.
The SIMD Quad algorithm is a new search algorithm that combines quaternary interpolation search with SIMD instructions to efficiently locate a target value in a sorted array of 16-bit unsigned integers. It outperforms binary search on both Intel and Apple platforms, with significant speedup on large arrays in cold cache scenarios.

SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

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A web game called Satoshi Guesser generates random 256-bit numbers to find Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin private keys. The odds are extremely low, but the game uses real cryptography to verify the results.

Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API

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A 1960s art school experiment that redefined creativity

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Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE

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IBM released Granite 4.1, a family of open source language models for enterprise use, trained on 15 trillion tokens. The 8B model, with a dense architecture, matches or beats the 32B Granite 4.0-H-Small across various benchmarks.

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy

Zig has a strict anti-LLM policy to prioritize contributor growth over code quality. Maintainers review contributors, not just their code, to foster trust and future contributions.

Noctua releases official 3D CAD models for its cooling fans

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Where the goblins came from

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OpenAI's models started mentioning creatures like goblins and gremlins in their metaphors due to a subtle incentive from training for the personality customization feature, specifically the Nerdy personality. The behavior was amplified through transfer from Nerdy personality training and later spread to other contexts, requiring OpenAI to retire the Nerdy personality and implement new tools ...

10Gb/s Ethernet: what I did to get it working in my home

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The user upgraded their home network to 10Gb/s Ethernet, starting with their study and then expanding to the rest of the house, using a combination of 10Gb/s switches, SFP+ modules, and DAC cables. They encountered some thermal issues with the switches and SFP+ modules, but were able to mitigate them and achieve speeds of up to 9Gb/s, with plans to potentially upgrade to 40Gb/s or higher in ...

The Science Behind Honey's Eternal Shelf Life (2013)

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Honey's unique combination of low moisture, acidity, and hydrogen peroxide makes it resistant to spoilage. Its shelf life is also extended by bees' natural drying process and the enzyme glucose oxidase in their stomachs.

Because It Doesn't Have To

The internet stack's lower layers don't guarantee delivery, allowing simpler protocols like TCP to restart communication when it fails. Machine learning models can also make probabilistic guesses to solve complex problems, allowing for flexibility and better performance.

A Primer on Bézier Curves – So What Makes a Bézier Curve?

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Bézier curves are used in computer aided design and computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) applications, graphic design, and scalable vector graphics (SVG). They are defined by linear interpolations between control points, forming a curve that never extends beyond the points used to construct it.

My Stratum-0 Atomic Clock

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The author built a desk clock, O-1, that disciplined its system clock against GPS, but it had a flaw: it relied on GPS signals. To improve it, the author built O-2, which uses a chip-scale atomic clock for better stability.

What can we gain by losing infinity?

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Doron Zeilberger, a mathematician, believes that infinity is not a necessary concept in mathematics and that numbers have boundaries. He advocates for ultrafinitism, a philosophy that rejects infinity and extremely large numbers.

Craig Venter has died

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J. Craig Venter, founder of the J. Craig Venter Institute, died in San Diego after a brief hospitalization for cancer treatment complications. He was a visionary leader in genomics and synthetic biology who drove scientific change and advocated for robust federal funding.

Largest Digital Human Rights Conference Suddenly Canceled

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RightsCon conference in Zambia has been canceled due to government postponement. The decision was made after Zambia's government cited need for more time to ensure the conference aligns with national procedures and diplomatic protocols.

GCC 16 has been released

GCC 16 has several improvements including conformance with C99 standard, removal of json diagnostics format, and support for OpenMP 5.0 and 6.0.

Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

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Meta ended its contract with Sama, a company that trained AI, after workers alleged they viewed graphic content from Meta smart glasses. Meta claims Sama didn't meet its standards, but workers and a Kenyan organisation suspect the decision was due to staff speaking out.

I scraped 1.94M Airbnb photos for opium dens, pet cameos, and messy kitchens

Burla library runs parallel processing across a cluster with shared filesystem for data teams. It scales up to 1.7K CPU workers and 20 A100 GPUs for tasks like photo download and CLIP scoring.

DataCenter.FM – background noise app featuring the sound of the AI bubble

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Experience the real-world sounds of AI with this interactive audio generator.

"Parse, don't validate" through the years with C++

The user discusses the concept of "parse, don't validate" and applies it to a date-parsing problem in C++98, C++11, C++17, and C++23, using type systems to ensure data validity. By using type systems to enforce constraints, the user aims to eliminate the need for validation control flow and improve code readability and maintainability.

Biology is a Burrito: A text- and visual-based journey through a living cell

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A typical E. coli cell is incredibly dense with molecules, with its entire volume being 100 million times smaller than a grain of sand. The cell's insides are 70% water, with proteins, RNA, and lipids making up the rest, and DNA accounting for just 1% of its mass.