The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone (www.newyorker.com)
David Attenborough "Profoundly Disturbed" by AI Clone of His Voice (deadline.com)
SpaceX just got what it wanted from the FAA for Texas Starship launches (arstechnica.com)
Ukraine fires UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at Russia for first time (www.bbc.com)
Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Third Quarter Fiscal 2025 (nvidianews.nvidia.com)
Arthur Frommer, 95, Dies; His Guidebooks Opened Travel to the Masses (www.nytimes.com)
Reddit Is Down (twitter.com)
Like ''old Twitter'': The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky (www.science.org)
Nvidia third quarter earnings announced – beats estimates (archive.fast-edgar.com)
/usr/bin/env -S uv run (simonwillison.net)
Chinese lab DeepSeek releases a ''reasoning'' AI model that rivals OpenAI''s o1 (techcrunch.com)
Google stops letting sites like Forbes rule search for "Best CBD Gummies" (arstechnica.com)
Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body (www.bbc.co.uk)
Scientists taught rats to drive – now they love getting behind the wheel (www.independent.co.uk)
Have I Been Pwned: API v3 (haveibeenpwned.com)
Implement a USB-SCSI Bridge Mode for BlueSCSI (github.com)
Binary Ninja 4.2 Released (binary.ninja)
FTX co-founder Gary Wang avoids prison after assisting in Sam Bankman-Fried case (www.ft.com)
Comcast to spin off cable networks (apnews.com)
Someone Is About to Pay 1M or More for a Banana Duct-Taped to a Wall (www.wsj.com)
Are we right to strive to save the world''s tiniest babies? (www.theguardian.com)
Productivity Isn''t Always Fast (leaddev.com)
ChatGPT Couldn''t Give Me the Name of a Movie About a One-Armed Baseball Player (www.interactually.com)
Cut Your Losses in Large-Vocabulary Language Models (github.com)
From Cosine to Dot: Benchmarking Similarity Metrics (blog.colivara.com)
AI-Powered Robot Leads Uprising, Talks Showroom Bots into ''Quitting Their Jobs'' (www.latintimes.com)
With Core One, Prusa''s Open Source Hardware Dream Dies (hackaday.com)
Google turns Android into a desktop OS in 5 steps (www.zdnet.com)
DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling (arstechnica.com)
Results from Meta and Microsoft''s Generative AI Investments (www.tanayj.com)
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange (kulkarniamit.github.io)
Sens. Klobuchar & Lujan, Letting HHS Censor “Misinformation” Is A Terrible Idea (www.techdirt.com)
Spelunking in Comments and Documentation for Security Footguns (blog.includesecurity.com)
RTS Trick (www.nesdev.org)
Foursquare Open Source (opensource.foursquare.com)
MessagePack: It''s like JSON. but fast and small (msgpack.org)
From Files to Chunks: Improving HF Storage Efficiency (huggingface.co)
The Arecibo Message, Earth''s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50 (www.scientificamerican.com)
Short Squeezes Are Legal Now (www.bloomberg.com)
Amogy Sails First Carbon-Free Ammonia Powered Maritime Vessel (amogy.co)
Cory Doctorow: How Big Tech Made Trump 2.0 [video] (www.youtube.com)
Scientists map out the human body one cell at a time (apnews.com)
Happy 60th birthday to the Moog – the machine that changed music (www.thetimes.com)
O2 creates AI Granny to waste scammers'' time [video] (www.youtube.com)
Perspectives on Inhaled Nutrients and Bacteria to Improve Human Health (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
A History of Clojure (clojure.org)
As Bluesky soars, Threads rolls out custom feeds globally (techcrunch.com)
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Spouses to Bosses, Pedometers Quantified Suspicion in the 19th Century (www.smithsonianmag.com)
Racing''s Deadliest Day (www.essesmag.com)
Why Undersea Cables Are a Tempting Target for Saboteurs (www.bloomberg.com)
Is the town of Nederland serious about buying the Eldora ski area? (www.denverpost.com)
Medieval Computers: Why 80s and 90s tech magazines loved medieval/fantasy themes (70s-sci-fi-art.ghost.io)
Amelia Earhart''s Final Flight – and One Thing That Could Have Saved Her [video] (www.youtube.com)
Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution (www.theregister.com)
Oppose the Patent-Troll-Friendly Prevail Act (www.eff.org)
I shipped a client-side leaderboard and chaos ensued (www.basecase.sh)
OpenAI reclaims the #1 spot, surpassing Gemini-Exp-1114 (twitter.com)
Securing Ruby''s Future: How Ruby Central Is Strengthening Security (rubycentral.org)
14,000 Photos of Army Uniforms and Rations from the 70s and 80s (www.beautifulpublicdata.com)
Get in Zoomer, We''re Saving React (acko.net)
Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts (labs.ripe.net)
2024 CWE Top Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses (cwe.mitre.org)
The thriving business of looking good on Zoom (thehustle.co)
Roadblocks to Competition: Investigate Google''s Non-Compliance with the EU''s DMA (spreadprivacy.com)
AlphaQubit: AI to identify errors in Quantum Computers (blog.google)
They All Use It (registerspill.thorstenball.com)
Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Open-Source Sensorimotor Learning Framework to Power a Different Approach to AI (www.numenta.com)
All Life on Earth Today Descended from a Single Cell. Meet LUCA (www.quantamagazine.org)
Asp.net Core Blazor Content Management System (CMS) (github.com)
JSON Smuggling: A far-fetched intrusion detection evasion technique (grimminck.medium.com)
Can the noble metals (Au, Ag and Cu) be superconductors? (arxiv.org)
New DESI results weigh in on gravity (www.symmetrymagazine.org)
Square Enix accused of abusing copyright law to silence fan criticism (metro.co.uk)
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy: The Doge Plan to Reform Government (www.wsj.com)
Facebook sues an app for having "face" in title (old.reddit.com)
Modern cars are surveillance devices on wheels with major privacy risks (techxplore.com)
Build2 – C/C Build Toolchain (build2.org)
Kaggle''s FIDE and Google Efficient Chess AI Challenge (www.kaggle.com)
Langrocks: Open-Source Toolchain with Computer Access and Browser for LLM Agents (langrocks.com)
LLM Observability for next generation of models (langfuse.com)
Argilla: Build high quality datasets for your AI models (github.com)
Odoo raised 500M at 5B valuation from Sequoia and Alphabet (techcrunch.com)
Large Language Models explained briefly [video] (www.youtube.com)
The egg came before the chicken Billion-year-old clue answers epic question (studyfinds.org)
GPT-4o Got an Update (twitter.com)
Javier Milei: President of Argentina – Freedom, Economics, and Corruption (lexfridman.com)
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Xbox cloud streaming expands to games you own (www.theverge.com)
Crunchy Data Warehouse: Postgres with Iceberg (www.crunchydata.com)
Brothers in NY and Bangladesh Charged with Digital Streaming Piracy Scheme (www.justice.gov)
California Man Sentenced for Acting as an Illegal Agent of the PRC and Bribery (www.justice.gov)
The End of an Era for You Got This (lws.io)
Body thinks itself into its shape (www.theintrinsicperspective.com)
AnyChat – a tool which brings together ChatGPT, Google Gemini and more (venturebeat.com)
The next evolution of DigitalOcean Backups (www.digitalocean.com)
Why Venture Capital Firm Profits Are at an Historic Low (www.thelowdownblog.com)
100K Bitcoin next? No euphoria ''encouraging'' as BTC price breaks new highs (cointelegraph.com)
Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind (www.economist.com)
Russia sabotages six European satellites, Dutch TV also affected (Translated) (nos.nl)
Between the Booms: AI in Winter – Communications of the ACM (cacm.acm.org)
SQL, Homomorphisms and Constraint Satisfaction Problems (www.philipzucker.com)
Bluesky Tech Starter Pack (github.com)
Netsh for Troubleshooting Wi-Fi Issues in Windows (netbeez.net)
Use Postgres for your events table (docs.hatchet.run)
Ghost Tap: New cash-out tactic with NFC Relay (www.threatfabric.com)
Chemistry Breakthrough Might Change Everything from Medicine to Farming (scitechdaily.com)
Undergraduates with family income below 200k will be tuition-free at MIT (news.mit.edu)
Exploring the Cost and Feasibility of Battery-Electric Ships (newscenter.lbl.gov)
U.S. Military Selects Little-Known Utah Supplier for Drone Program (www.wsj.com)
Research doesn''t back social media harm claims [video] (www.youtube.com)
Cells have more mini ''organs'' than researchers thought (theconversation.com)
New Ghost Tap attack abuses NFC mobile payments to steal money (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Once again, the only way forward is the Mac (www.macworld.com)
AI''s Slowdown Is Everyone Else''s Opportunity (www.bloomberg.com)
Shanghai court says crypto ownership legal under China law (www.scmp.com)
Amazon introduces Echo Show 21, its largest smart display ever (www.aboutamazon.com)
A Change to ResultRelInfo – A Near Miss with Postgres 17.1 (www.crunchydata.com)
Grant Sanderson: Visualizing transformers and attention [video] (www.youtube.com)
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Google is further cracking down on sites publishing ''parasite SEO'' content (www.theverge.com)
The Northeast is becoming fire country (www.newyorker.com)
Gary Wang, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Time (www.nytimes.com)
Are ChatGPT or Claude Better Than Playwright Codegen? (www.checklyhq.com)
Find a H1B Sponsor and Green Card Sponsors (www.casewise.ai)
Developer Ownership and Taking Responsibility – The Basics (www.amazingcto.com)
Jaguar rebrand (and they got it v.wrong) (www.youtube.com)
CanLII sues AI legal assistant (www.canadianlawyermag.com)
Building and Shipping joinstems.com with GenAI (www.romantsegelskyi.com)
AMD crafts custom EPYC CPU with HBM3 for Azure: 88 Zen 4 cores and 450GB of HBM3 (www.tomshardware.com)
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Google workers to DOJ: we need protections to make your breakup effective (www.theverge.com)
As the Pandemic Deepened, Americans Kept Drinking More (www.nytimes.com)
The Ottoman Origins of Modernity (www.cremieux.xyz)
The Best Time to apply antiperspirant is right before bed (www.theatlantic.com)
Want to stop livestreaming? That''ll be 42,000 (restofworld.org)
New data shows the number of new mobile internet users is stalling (restofworld.org)
Write Playwright Tests in Seconds with ChatGPT? [video] (www.youtube.com)
Effort-Dumping: Why Nobody Likes You (www.pablomusumeci.com)
Birdie: Advancing State Space Models with Reward-Driven Objectives and Curricula (arxiv.org)
FQL: A KV Query Language (github.com)
Is Cultural Technical Debt Sabotaging Our Survival? (www.joanwestenberg.com)
Google renders the font if you search for its name (www.google.com)
Singularity Missed (blog.piekniewski.info)
3 years ago, VCs in Bay Area tech were thriving. Now, they''re ''bleeding cash.'' (www.sfgate.com)
D-Link says replace vulnerable routers or risk pwnage (www.theregister.com)
Adrian Schoolcraft (en.wikipedia.org)
The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained clearly (2018) (robertheaton.com)
Microsoft OAuth Authentication and Thunderbird in 2024 (support.mozilla.org)
Klarna''s US listing is a sad reflection of Europe''s failings (www.ft.com)
A year after ditching waitlist, Starlink says it is "sold out" in parts of US (arstechnica.com)
Abusing Talon to use my eye tracker in a project (ntietz.com)
Numenta releases the code for the Thousand Brains Project (github.com)
My Resignation from Emacs Development (lists.gnu.org)
Thing Deleted 3 Months of Work (github.com)
Organizing Recipes with ML for Creative Cooking (aggressivelyparaphrasing.me)
Vivek Ramaswamy on X: "Will entire agencies be deleted? Answer: yes (twitter.com)
The growth path no one can take away (medium.com)
How the Internet Archive''s "Free Digital Library" fell to the "fair use" test (www.freethink.com)
Palo Alto Patches Firewall Zero-Day Exploited in Operation Lunar Peek (www.securityweek.com)
Automatic braking systems save lives. Now they''ll need to work at 62 MPH (www.wired.com)
Musi fans refuse to update iPhones until Apple unblocks controversial app (arstechnica.com)
La Basilica Di San Pietro (unlocked.microsoft.com)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 Received Overwhelmingly Negative Review on Steam (store.steampowered.com)
Fargate vs. EC2 (www.pulumi.com)
Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About (catonmat.net)
Streamlining .NET Development with Practical Aspects (ratner.io)
Building React Forms with Ease Using React Hook Form, Zod and Shadcn (wasp-lang.dev)
Inside The Booming ''AI Pimping'' Industry (www.wired.com)
Emergent gravity may be a dead idea, but it''s not a bad one (arstechnica.com)
Messeiver (somasynths.com)
The Rise of Malört, an Unexpected Midwest Princess (www.nytimes.com)
Resentment is building as more workers feel stuck (www.axios.com)
Piccolo ORM – A powerful async ORM for Python (piccolo-orm.com)
Arrows Across America – concrete arrows (www.dreamsmithphotos.com)
How Good Are American Roads? (www.construction-physics.com)
GNU Artanis 1.0.0 Released (artanis.dev)
Something is rotten in the state of HR – Call for Action and Regulation (grindam.com)
Digital Homeownership (blog.muni.town)
Ripunzip: unzip several files at the same time using multiple cores (medium.com)
"A major blocker to free and open source multimedia is isostandards" (twitter.com)
GitHub Reduced Repo Storage size by over 90% (newsletter.betterstack.com)
Hillsboro residents reject adding fluoride to water (www.oregonlive.com)
Unsong - Scott Alexander (2015) (unsongbook.com)
I Stopped Using OpenBSD (dataswamp.org)
Cutest Power Supply in the World (twitter.com)
Miniflux: A minimalist and opinionated feed reader (miniflux.app)
Kyndryl insiders say there''s little new business (www.theregister.com)
Ensō: design constraints of a focussed writing tool (untested.sonnet.io)
The intricacies of implementing memoization in Ruby (denisdefreyne.com)
Can Robert F. Kennedy, Jr influence the Dietary Guidelines? Most definitely, yes (www.foodpolitics.com)
The Weirdest Domains Alex Jones Has to Give to The Onion (gizmodo.com)
Streaming TV Enshittification Will Continue Until Morale Improves (www.techdirt.com)
Spatial Pixel: a new kind of social computing (spatialpixel.com)
(2017) Why are new C versions created? (www.youtube.com)
Bypassing app lock in Ente Auth (alexbakker.me)
Updating our site reputation abuse policy (developers.google.com)
Britain is building one of the world’s most expensive railways (www.cnn.com)
How Big Tech made Trump 2.0 (therealnews.com)
Chinese ship investigated over ''sabotaged'' Baltic Sea internet cables (www.telegraph.co.uk)
Using gRPC for (local) inter-process communication – F. Werner''s Research Page (www.mpi-hd.mpg.de)
What is the origin of the lake tank image that has become a meme? (2021) (history.stackexchange.com)
U of T computational imaging researchers harness AI to fly with light in motion (web.cs.toronto.edu)
Yes, Your Favorite AI Tool Is Using Behavioral Science (kahnemanbot.substack.com)
Comcast to spin off cable networks as subscribers flee the bundle (www.cnbc.com)
New theory reveals the shape of a single photon (phys.org)
India fines WhatsApp 25M for forcing 2021 privacy policy update (www.cci.gov.in)
Sunlight is more effective than censorship (cointelegraph.com)
A genocide is unfolding before our eyes (www.ohchr.org)
''A little dirty'': inside the secret world of McKinsey (www.theguardian.com)
Complex for Whom? (notes.billmill.org)
How to mitigate a DDoS attack on a small server (developerjoy.co)
Over half of paid VPNs leak data (www.top10vpn.com)
How Did You Do on the AI Art Turing Test? (www.astralcodexten.com)
Translating code quality into business impact (leaddev.com)
An AI startup CEO has been charged with defrauding investors out of 10M (www.businessinsider.com)
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Nvidia''s new server design hits a roadblock, AI chips overheating beyond control (www.firstpost.com)
Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media (www.newscientist.com)
Ozempic Could Prevent Diabetes. Should It Be Used for That? (www.nytimes.com)
Judge Rules Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Not So Decentralized in Law (gizmodo.com)
US Justice Department Will Request Judge Order Google to Sell Chrome (www.forbes.com)
Living in Delhi smog is like watching a dystopian film again and again (www.bbc.com)
Social media ban for under-16s ''on the table'' in UK (www.bbc.com)
FreeCAD 1.0: new features and the larger picture (librearts.org)
Faceport Helmet and Faceport Robot (faceport.com)
The impact of divorce laws on the equilibrium in the marriage market [pdf] (sites.lsa.umich.edu)
C26: an overview – Rainer Grimm – Meeting C 2024 (isocpp.org)
DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview is live: o1-preview-level performance on AIME and MATH (twitter.com)
Why Living in Australia Is Impossible [video] (www.youtube.com)
NMRduino: A modular, open-source platform for sub-MHz NMR (www.opensourceimaging.org)
AutoMQ: Achieving Auto Partition Reassignment in Kafka Without Cruise Control (medium.com)
Async/Await Is Real and Can Hurt You (trouble.mataroa.blog)
China Could Re-Dollarize the World (indi.ca)
Google Spent 15 Years Concealing Its Internal Conversations (www.nytimes.com)
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 arrives with a "full digital twin" of Earth (arstechnica.com)
Cognitive performance in ISS astronauts on 6-month missions (www.frontiersin.org)
Kink AI (chat.kink.ai)
''Manifest'': Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year (www.bbc.com)
Kids Can''t Read Books (www.forbes.com)
Ghosts of Departed Proofs (iohk.io)
Russian Phobos Ransomware Operator Extradited to US (www.securityweek.com)
UK open to social media ban for kids as gov''t kicks off feasibility study (techcrunch.com)
Findings by dark energy researchers back Einstein''s conception of gravity (www.reuters.com)
Airport (airport.revolvertype.com)
Minimally intrusive instrumentation of embedded system C/C code (github.com)
Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom (www.theregister.com)
With ''crowd control'' over mouse cells, scientists engineer tissues (phys.org)
Hope to Beat Climate Change Is Vanishing (www.bloomberg.com)
Yaht: Yet Another Hyperparameter Tuning Tool (github.com)
Danish Navy Stopped a Chinese Ship Suspected of Damaging Undersea Cables (defence24.com)
Underrated Ways to Change the World (www.experimental-history.com)
Brazil arrests soldiers over ''plot to kill'' President Lula in 2022 (www.bbc.com)
ChatGPT-shell goes multi-model (lmno.lol)
Banned from Bluesky Within 30s (twitter.com)
Discarded delights: The joy of ex-library books (www.abebooks.com)
The Web We Have to Save (medium.com)
''Phantom'' Seat Onboard Croatia Airlines Airbus A220 (avioradar.net)
Microsoft will soon let you clone your voice for Teams meetings (techcrunch.com)
Danish Navy boarded Chinese cargo ship: who broke cables at bottom of Baltic Sea (eadaily.com)
Stream Documentaries WITHOUT CELLULAR DATA (no WiFi, no offline downloads) (optimalvid.com)
Go''s Best-Kept Secret (bitfieldconsulting.com)
100 Years – The Movie You Will Never See (en.wikipedia.org)
Hyperproperties (buttondown.com)
AWS Lambda turns 10: A rare look at the doc that started it (www.allthingsdistributed.com)
AAA – Analytical Anti-Aliasing (blog.frost.kiwi)
My Minimal MacBook Pro Setup Guide (eugeneyan.com)
Bluesky WebSocket Firehose (simonwillison.net)
Anthropic Built Artifacts (newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com)
Loading the World OpenStreetMap Import in Under 4 Hours (www.crunchydata.com)
AI-generated poetry is rated more favorably than human-written poetry (www.nature.com)
Foursquare Open Source Places: A new foundational dataset (simonwillison.net)
Latest graphics driver for your Surface devices powered by Snapdragon X Elite (www.qualcomm.com)
Shape of a Single Photon Revealed for First Time Thanks to New Computer Model (www.iflscience.com)
Mathematicians Discover a New Kind of Shape That''s All over Nature (www.scientificamerican.com)
Apache Iceberg: Built for Big Data, Not Ready for Small(?) (medium.com)
Metropolis Magazine (1927) [pdf] (monoskop.org)
OpenAI O1 API Access (platform.openai.com)
Lush: My favorite small programming language (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
Bunnings breached customer privacy by using facial recognition, watchdog finds (www.theguardian.com)
Towards Sound unsafe Rust – Rust Formal Methods Interest Group [video] (www.youtube.com)
Yemen''s ''uninhibited'' attacks push French warship to exit Red Sea (thecradle.co)
Researchers fight citrus greening with new strains of more-tolerant grapefruit (www.usatoday.com)
Exploring the Jolla C2 and SailfishOS in 2024 (geekyschmidt.com)
Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke (bsky.app)
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Trivial REST server in various languages to compare (github.com)
Foursquare Open Source Places: Foundational dataset for the geospatial community (location.foursquare.com)
The Future of Digital Marketing in 2024 and Beyond (www.hustlestrikers.com)
Let''s Encrypt is 10 years old now (letsencrypt.org)
Firefox nightly is running an experiment featuring a Fakespot feed on newtab (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Microsoft announces new Mac mini-sized desktop PC, but it only works online (9to5mac.com)
MPs to summon Elon Musk to testify about X''s role in UK summer riots (www.theguardian.com)
Kissinger and Schmidt on AI and world politics (www.foreignaffairs.com)
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Blauw Films – an open-source film studio (www.blauwfilms.com)
Meta forms product group to build AI tools for businesses (www.axios.com)
China-linked group abuses Fortinet VPN (www.theregister.com)
Why graph isomorphism algorithms seem to be so effective (www.msn.com)
Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars (www.jaguarusa.com)
Russian suspected Phobos ransomware admin extradited to US (www.theregister.com)
As Ozempic turns consumers off processed foods, junk food industry fights back (www.nytimes.com)
German WWII Soldier Grave Found with Mesolithic Tools, Roman and Byzantine Coins (www.labrujulaverde.com)