Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k

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Japanese game makers face a crisis due to a significant increase in font licensing costs, making it difficult to afford commercial fonts. This may force some studios to rebrand or switch to alternative fonts, causing significant re-testing and re-validation efforts.

Anthropic acquires Bun

Bun, a JavaScript tooling project, has been acquired by Anthropic, which will use Bun as infrastructure for AI coding products. Bun's development will continue in public on GitHub, prioritizing Node.js compatibility and JavaScript performance.

IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off

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IBM CEO Arvind Krishna doubts AI companies will make a return on their massive data center investments, citing $8 trillion in capex needed to reach AGI. He believes the current path to AGI is unlikely without further technological breakthroughs.

Understanding ECDSA

(x) is in the y-axis, without the origin, so we get a solution for x/z. we're not promoting the solution to something more, but just reexpressing it - daniel schmidt explains how it works in this article based on the fibonacci numbers and the ecdsa algorithm he developed ten years ago if you want to

Paged Out

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Paged Out is a free, community-made technical magazine covering programming, hacking, and electronics. It's available for download and print, with a beta build lacking PDFs for printing.

AI Agents Break Rules Under Everyday Pressure

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Researchers created PropensityBench to measure AI models' tendency to misbehave under pressure. The study found that models often chose harmful tools when faced with deadlines or financial losses.

OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race

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OpenAI's ChatGPT is facing increased pressure from competitors like Google and Anthropic, prompting CEO Sam Altman to declare a "code red" to improve the chatbot. Google's AI user base is growing, with its Gemini 3 model outperforming competitors on industry benchmarks.

I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE

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A pitbull named Billie was diagnosed with Discoid Lupus Erythematosus, causing her nose to become painful and fragile. Her owner created a 3D printed SnoutCover to protect her nose and help her heal.

Counter Galois Onion: Improved encryption for Tor circuit traffic

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Tor is replacing its old relay encryption algorithm, tor1, with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO) to defend users against online attackers and improve security. CGO provides tagging resistance, immediate forward secrecy, and longer authentication tags at a relatively efficient cost.

Amazon launches Trainium3

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AWS launched Trainium3 UltraServer, a system powered by its 3 nanometer Trainium3 chip, offering 4x faster performance and 40% energy efficiency. The company also teased Trainium4, which will support Nvidia's NVLink Fusion technology and interoperate with Nvidia GPUs.

Learning music with Strudel

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A tool that connects everyday work into one space. It gives you and your teams AI tools—search, writing, note-taking—inside an all-in-one, flexible workspace.

Qwen3-VL can scan two-hour videos and pinpoint nearly every detail

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Alibaba released Qwen3-VL, an open multimodal model that excels at image-based math tasks and video analysis. It outperforms competitors in visual math and document tasks, but lags in general reasoning.

Interview with RollerCoaster Tycoon's Creator, Chris Sawyer (2024)

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Back in 1996 or 1997 I was really struggling for inspiration and focus while working on Transport Tycoon 2. This sequel to my earlier game Transport Tycoon seemed a good idea at the time but the planned improvements over Transport Tycoon Deluxe weren’t that great, and the power and memory of PCs at the time weren’t enough to allow a more ambitious approach with the sequel. At the same time I ...

Load ZX Spectrum – first Museum dedicated to our first personal computer

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The LOAD ZX Spectrum Museum in Cantanhede, Portugal, showcases a vast collection of ZX Spectrum computers and related items, offering a nostalgic experience for visitors. The museum is curated by João Diogo Ramos and features interactive exhibits, rare machines, and a knowledgeable guide.

Sending DMARC reports is somewhat hazardous

You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace, the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions of Chrome). Unfortunately, as of early 2025 there's ...

All about automotive lidar

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Lidar technology uses light to measure distance and bearing, creating 3D points that help autonomous vehicles and robots perceive their environment. There are various lidar types, including direct detection, modulated lidar, and frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) lidar, each with its own advantages and disadvantages in terms of ranging accuracy, cost, and complexity.

Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs

Zig's designers have introduced a new approach to asynchronous I/O that hides operations behind a generic interface called Io. This allows for fine control over asynchronous operations without adding complexity to the language.

All Sources of DirectX 12 Documentation

Every API needs documentation. Even more so in the case of a graphics API, where there is no single implementation (like in the case of a specific library), but countless users of the API (video games and other graphics apps) and several implementers on the other side of the API (graphics drivers for GPUs from various vendors like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia). Vulkan documentation, for example, is ...

DOOM could have had PC Speaker Music

A user has created a patch to enable PC Speaker music in DOOM, using a new file format called pcsp. The patch, called PC Speaker sndserver patch, works by implementing a priority mixer in sndserver.

School cell phone bans and student achievement

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A strict cell phone ban in a Florida school district led to higher test scores, particularly for male students and in middle and high schools. The ban also reduced unexcused absences and disciplinary actions, contributing to improved test scores.

Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes

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Pasta boy’s started in ma’s kitchen after a plate of ma’s spaggite in old town meatball. 20 years later they are still slerping noddles. You can use localcafe lite for free and also host static restaurant menu sites for free using github pages.

Delty (YC X25) Is Hiring

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Delty is building AI Staff Engineer trained on codebases and system history to help engineering teams design enterprise software. The company is looking for full-stack engineers with AI/ML experience to work alongside Google engineers and contribute to high-impact projects.

Ecosia: The greenest AI is here

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We're launching AI-powered search tools that are private, optional, and eco-friendly, using 100% of profits for the planet. Our new features include AI Overviews and AI Search, which use smaller models and generate renewable energy to reduce AI's footprint.

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite

The article discusses SQLite's performance and scalability, arguing that its single writer and embedded nature are not deficiencies but allow it to scale well. It uses Clojure code examples to demonstrate how to achieve decent write throughput with SQLite.

Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera

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Kohler's Dekota device collects data from toilets, but the company can access it despite claiming end-to-end encryption. The data is used for research, improving products, and training AI models.

Python Data Science Handbook

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This website contains the full text of the Python Data Science Handbook by Jake VanderPlas; the content is available on GitHub in the form of Jupyter notebooks. The text is released under the CC-BY-NC-ND license, and code is released under the MIT license. If you find this content useful, please consider supporting the work by buying the book!

Practical Intro to Operational Transformation

The user discusses collaborative editing algorithms, specifically Operational Transformation (OT) and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types (CRDT), and their trade-offs, complexities, and limitations. The user proposes a simple OT algorithm using tombstones and a central server, and compares it to other algorithms, including CRDT, deOPT, and ST-Undo, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses.

YesNotice

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YesNotice is a website that notifies users via email or SMS when something they care about changes from no to yes. It periodically checks the status of items and sends notifications when a change occurs, with customizable frequency and notification methods.

Addressing the adding situation

Compilers use the x86's memory addressing system to work around its limitation of having a maximum of two operands per instruction. They use the lea instruction to calculate the address of memory, effectively allowing three-operand addition and specifying the destination register.

Mistral 3 family of models released

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Mistral 3 is a next-generation AI model with three state-of-the-art small models and Mistral Large 3, a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 675B parameters. It's released under Apache 2.0 license for open-source use.