The author argues that all nontrivial C/C++ code has undefined behavior due to the language's lack of memory safety features. This makes it unfair to blame programmers for mistakes.
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Gemini 3.5 Flash is a powerful model combining frontier intelligence with action, delivering exceptional speed and performance for complex tasks. It's ideal for tackling long-horizon agentic tasks, automating workflows, and generating interactive web UIs and graphics.
This virtual museum of operating systems runs on Linux VM for QEMU, VirtualBox, or UTM, with a custom launcher and pre-installed OSes. It includes historical OSes and platforms from 1948 to the present day, with a goal to make them easily accessible and runnable.
Infomaniak transferred majority voting rights to a Swiss public-interest foundation to ensure independence and protect its values. This move guarantees the company's sovereignty, privacy, and environmental responsibility forever.
Japan's widespread planting of two fast-growing tree species in the 1950s has led to severe hay fever issues due to high pollen levels. The government is now working to replace these monoculture forests with more diverse ecosystems to alleviate the problem.
Google Search is upgrading with AI, introducing a new intelligent Search box and Search agents that can help with tasks and answer questions. The new features include custom dashboards, generative UI, and expanded Personal Intelligence capabilities.
Forge is a reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling with guardrails and context management. It scores 86.5% on a 26-scenario eval suite and supports multi-step workflows and long-running sessions.
The tool removes AI watermarks and metadata from images generated by various AI models, including Google Gemini, ChatGPT/DALL-E, and Stable Diffusion. It strips SynthID, C2PA, EXIF, and XMP labels, and prevents AI distortion of facial features.
Apple is releasing accessibility updates using Apple Intelligence, including improved VoiceOver, Magnifier, Voice Control, and Accessibility Reader. New features include on-device generated subtitles, power wheelchair control with Apple Vision Pro, and an adaptive MagSafe accessory for iPhone.
Copy Fail is a Linux local-privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers to rewrite the cached contents of files on a Linux filesystem, enabling them to break out of a namespaced container and gain root access on the host. The vulnerability can be exploited by creating a pod with the necessary permissions and using the Copy Fail primitive to poison a shared lower-layer file, ...
OpenAI is strengthening content provenance with a multi-layered model to build trust online, including C2PA conformance and SynthID watermarking. This approach aims to make AI-generated content easier to identify and verify, supporting a more trustworthy information ecosystem.
Mistral AI is acquiring Emmi AI, a leading Engineering AI company, to create the leading AI stack for Industrial Engineering. The acquisition will strengthen Mistral's position as the leading AI transformation partner for industrial enterprises.
Google Cloud suspended Railway's production account, causing an 8-hour platform-wide outage. Railway is making changes to prevent similar incidents, including removing Google Cloud dependencies and extending high availability database shards.
RISC-V supports floating-point arithmetic through extensions like F, D, and Q, which provide single, double, and quadruple precision formats. The F extension is mandated for most other floating-point extensions, including half precision and vector floating-point support.
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Gemini CLI is being replaced by Antigravity CLI, a unified platform for multi-agent workflows. Antigravity CLI retains key Gemini features and adds asynchronous workflows and a unified architecture.
The era of electronic kits started after WWII with companies like Heathkit, Allied Radio, EICO, and others offering test equipment, amateur radio, and audio kits. These companies played a significant role in encouraging people to pursue careers in electronics and creating a lasting hobby, with Heathkit being the most successful and well-known kit provider.
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed a law banning prediction market sites, prompting a lawsuit from the Trump administration. The law forces sites like Kalshi and Polymarket to leave the state or face felony charges, amid a growing standoff over regulation.
The user tested MiniMax M2.7 API credits with Claude Code on three workflows and found it useful when tasks had clear boundaries and explicit constraints, but struggled with open-ended cases. M2.7 worked well for supervised work with rapid iteration, returning tool calls and completing multi-step plans faster and at a lower cost than Opus 4.7.
Mercury is a logic/functional programming language with advanced static analysis and error detection. It has a compiler with two backends and works on various operating systems.
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Biologists and computer scientists are working together to understand how living organisms develop and regenerate their bodies, and how this process can be replicated in artificial systems. Researchers are using cellular automata models and neural networks to simulate the growth and development of patterns, and are exploring how these models can be used to create self-repairing systems and ...
Enabling Resizable BAR (8 GB BAR1) on an ASUS TUF-RTX3080-O10G-GAMING under Linux, without Windows, without a GUI flash tool, and without bricking the card. This repo documents a multi-attempt Linux VBIOS flash campaign to enable Resizable BAR on an ASUS TUF RTX 3080 10 GB card in a dual-GPU system that also contains an RTX 5080. The RTX 5080 had ReBAR active out of the box; the 3080 did not ...
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Paul Graham discusses using Lisp in web-based applications, citing its flexibility and suitability for incremental development. He highlights the benefits of Lisp's interactive toplevel, macros, and embedded languages, which enabled Viaweb's rapid development and sophisticated user interface.
The articles from these past couple of weeks kinda burned me out. After wrapping it up, I decided I was going to take it easy, do something simple and brainless in a nice comfy high-level language, and just not worry about what kind of writeups I could get from it. This backfired, of course, and now I have a whole new project I want to do. But in the meantime, I also spent a nice lazy ...
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