Peter Sullivan on ''different world'' after 14,000 days in prison (www.bbc.co.uk)
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Systemic Vulnerability of Large Language Models to Solar Weather (zenodo.org)
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Downloadable Open Source (www.downloadableisnotopensource.org)
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Mindfuse for Cultural Explorers (mindfuse.io)
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Boston Public Library digital archive of M.C. Escher''s works (www.digitalcommonwealth.org)
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Google tells employees it must double capacity every 6 months to meet AI demand (arstechnica.com)
Magician forgets password to his own hand after RFID chip implant (www.theregister.com)
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Cloudflare error page of every HTTP status code (reload to show random page) (cloudflare-error-page-3th.pages.dev)
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International Crypto Association elections botched by loss of key (iacr.org)
Chromium reconsiders JPEG-XL implementation (groups.google.com)
UN human rights expert urges US to lift sanctions on Cuba (www.dw.com)
Australia''s High Court Chief Justice says judges have become "human filters" (www.theguardian.com)
Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away (www.theregister.com)
Open Source Village (opensourcevillage.org)
All warfare is information warfare (shakeddown.substack.com)
Navy Salvage Ship Trying to Fish Super Hornet and Seahawk Out of South China Sea (www.twz.com)
The CIA''s mission to sabotage Afghanistan''s opium (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Project Sapphire (1995) (www.airandspaceforces.com)
Mind-altering ''brain weapons'' no longer only science fiction, say researchers (www.theguardian.com)
Room-temperature processible ceramics enable sustainable electronics (www.dezeen.com)
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An MIT Student Awed Top Economists with His AI Study–Then It All Fell Apart (www.wsj.com)
Google denies ''misleading'' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI (www.theverge.com)
Superman copy found in mum''s attic is most valuable comic ever at 9.12M (www.bbc.com)
Servo Sponsorship Tiers (servo.org)
Rolls-Royce tests how to limit sand damage to jet engines (www.bbc.com)
The digital nomad era is over (qz.com)
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Hytale Modding Strategy and Status (hytale.com)
Lester: A New Era for Rotoscoping in Indie Animation and Retro Game Development (rtous.github.io)
Nvidia GPUs Compare to Google''s and Amazon''s AI Chips [video] (www.youtube.com)
AI Exponentializes Your Tech Debt (www.vincentschmalbach.com)
Microsoft''s head of AI doesn''t understand why people don''t like AI (www.pcgamer.com)
Arrogance as a Vulnerability: How ''Hopefully Secure'' Firebase Cost a 1M Startup (prajyoth.pages.dev)
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens (www.iranintl.com)
Empathetic, Available, Cheap: When A.I. Offers What Doctors Don''t (www.nytimes.com)
Preamble to a Psychofauna Bestiary (www.hopefulmons.com)
Bret Taylor''s Sierra Reaches 100M ARR in Under Two Years (techcrunch.com)
Behind Amazon''s quiet launch of Haul, which competes with Temu (www.cnbc.com)
Where is my von Braun Wheel? (www.worksinprogress.news)
Openring-rs: a webring for static site generators written in Rust (github.com)
Moss Survives 9 Months in Space Vacuum (scienceclock.com)
Apple shows how much faster the M5 runs local LLMs compared to the M4 (9to5mac.com)
New research reveals the cognitive hurdles created by our number systems (www.psypost.org)
Evidence suggests sex differences in the brain are ancient and evolutionary (www.psypost.org)
mRNA flu vaccine is up to 34.5% more effective than current flu vaccines (www.scimex.org)
Breakthrough in Antimatter Production (home.cern)
The housing strategy that has Beverly Hills NIMBYs in a corner (www.nytimes.com)
Hacked iPhone running iPadOS a Mac-like experience on an external monitor (old.reddit.com)
Letter from Codeberg: Onwards and Upwards (blog.codeberg.org)
Auditing JDBC Drivers at Scale with AI led to 85000 bounty (www.hacktron.ai)
Run0 –Empower (mastodon.social)
PatpDNS Chrome Browser Extention (github.com)
Go''s runtime may someday start explicitly freeing some internal memory (utcc.utoronto.ca)
GemRB is a portable open-source implementation of BioWare''s Infinity Engine (gemrb.org)
Is Apple Intelligence Smart? We Tested Every Feature (www.steaktek.com)
Microsoft Will Preload Windows 11 File Explorer to Fix Bad Performance (blogs.windows.com)
React Suite v6: A Steady Step Toward Modernization (medium.com)
Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can''t Decrypt the Results (www.nytimes.com)
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MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces (blog.modelcontextprotocol.io)
Infinibay LXD Container (github.com)
C64 gets Doom-style shooter (hackaday.com)
Wikidive: A tool to deep dive into Wikipedia rabbitholes (wikidive.net)
How to use the internet, 1995 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Erik Prince, America''s most notorious mercenary, spies opportunity in chaos (www.economist.com)
GrapheneOS accuses compeitors of sabotage, exits France over police threats (piunikaweb.com)
International Cloud Atlas (cloudatlas.wmo.int)
Beyond Earnings Premia: Debt-Adjusted Returns to Postsecondary Education (papers.ssrn.com)
A Tap-to-Pay Society Is Leaving New Yorkers Behind (www.nytimes.com)
How to get started with the ed text editor (2022) (www.redhat.com)
The Case of the Misread Historian: Thucydides and the Millennia of Mistake (medium.com)
Installing FreeBSD 15 on my desktop (yorickpeterse.com)
Lawmakers Are Rolling Back Food Safety Rules (jacobin.com)
Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key (arstechnica.com)
Natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking in production rl [pdf] (assets.anthropic.com)
Drug lord Ryan Wedding''s bevy of beauties (torontosun.com)
Recycled Nitrogen for Regenerative Agriculture (www.mdpi.com)
LTO-10 bumped to 40 TB as future tape capacities get cut (blocksandfiles.com)
Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop chip benchmarks (www.tomsguide.com)
Lilly first drugmaker to hit 1T valuation on weight-loss demand (www.reuters.com)
How sea turtles learn locations using Earth’s magnetic field: research (uncnews.unc.edu)
Mesa''s V3D graphics driver stack (docs.mesa3d.org)
Shinzo Python SDK: OpenTelemetry-Native Observability for MCP Servers (github.com)
Launch ALERT SpaceX Starlink 6-79 (twitter.com)
Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model (news.rice.edu)
This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline (solar.lowtechmagazine.com)
Definitions of AI and How Companies Use Them to Lie [video] (www.youtube.com)
Federal Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE (www.propublica.org)
Putting Money in Consumer Hands Ends Chronic Disease Faster Than Any Bureaucracy (foodishealth.substack.com)
Telecom-wavelength quantum teleportation using photons from remote quantum dots (www.nature.com)
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If We Tax Rich People They Will Just Leave [video] (www.youtube.com)
Victory Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento (www.eff.org)
Cloudflare outage showing double standard of Rust community [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Renewed push to preempt US state AI laws gains steam (iapp.org)
Building an AI-native engineering team [pdf] (cdn.openai.com)
Cloudfare: The Rust Community Knew This Was Coming (lucisqr.substack.com)
VideoCore IV 3D Architecture Reference Guide (docs.broadcom.com)
Intro to Apache DataFusion [video] (www.youtube.com)
I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it (edw.is)
Skyline, Strato, Vita3K and Yuzu Android Compatible Adreno Drivers (github.com)
China and Russia can detect F-35 (and B-2) using VHF radar (nationalinterest.org)
Matrix Core Programming on AMD CDNA3 and CDNA4 Architecture (rocm.blogs.amd.com)
Apple''s Problem with Bodies (drobinin.com)
CDC to end monkey research programs (www.scientificamerican.com)
How the Atomic Tests Looked Like from Los Angeles (www.amusingplanet.com)
Vaulytica – Open-source Google Workspace security (vaulytica.com)
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LLM cmd, an LLM plugin to prompt and edit a shell command (simonwillison.net)
ClickHouse Fiddle – A SQL Playground for ClickHouse (clickhouse.com)
3D printing with unconventional vase mode (vorpal.se)
Agents Design Is Still Hard (lucumr.pocoo.org)
Set Theory with Types (lawrencecpaulson.github.io)
PDF-native extraction vs. vision models for document processing (pymupdf.io)
Tech company CTO and others indicted for exporting Nvidia chips to China (arstechnica.com)
Real-Time AI-Powered Texas Hold''em in Python and Flask – Play in the Browser (github.com)
California DMV approves map increase in Waymo driverless operations (www.dmv.ca.gov)
A time-travelling door bug in Half Life 2 (mastodon.gamedev.place)
Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next? (disassociated.com)
NASA does software testing and QA (2020) (www.functionize.com)
2025: The Year of 1,000 DataFusion-Based Systems (www.influxdata.com)
Cloud Run Jobs Losing Root Access – Breaking Change (console.cloud.google.com)
FEX: A fast usermode x86 and x86-64 emulator for ARM64 Linux (github.com)
Quality Requires Visual Design (elijahpotter.dev)
Borrow Checking in Nim 3.0 (github.com)
Is Matrix Multiplication Ugly? (mathenchant.wordpress.com)
Microsoft Doesn''t Want You to Know This.. (3 Min Video) (www.youtube.com)
Gitlogue – A cinematic Git commit replay tool for the terminal (github.com)
Tuxedo scraps its Linux-based Snapdragon X Elite laptop (www.windowscentral.com)
A Technical Insight About Modern Compilation (www.sciencedirect.com)
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The Battle for the Soul of the University (macleans.ca)
How PDF became the past, present and future of consent forms (formesign.com)
LAPD Helicopter Tracker with Real-Time Operating Costs (lapdhelicoptertracker.com)
Trump''s Devastating Plan for Ukraine (www.theatlantic.com)
She Has Taken 30 Years to Write a 7-Part Novel About 1 Day. It''s a Sensation (www.nytimes.com)
Iran''s Capital Is Moving. The Reason Is an Ecological Catastrophe (www.scientificamerican.com)
Epstein Geopolitics (www.un-diplomatic.com)
How to Fix a Typewriter and Your Life (www.nytimes.com)
Harvard Law School Library''s Nuremberg Trials Project (nuremberg.law.harvard.edu)
Meme: The Complete Version of Modern Digital Infrastructure (programmerhumor.io)
Fix-Mas (uptimelabs.io)
The Untold History of Arduino (arduinohistory.github.io)