Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

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A security vulnerability was found in YouTube's AI assistant Ask Studio, where an attacker can inject malicious comments that are then read by the AI and presented as its own response to creators. This allows attackers to extract sensitive information from creators' private videos by manipulating the AI to generate links with channel data, putting millions of creators at risk.

Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)

Google is offering a $200,000 bounty for a method to access and scale up its scanned book snippets. The goal is to make these rare books accessible, and the bounty also applies to similar collections from AI companies.

Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

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Bug Description Apparent session leakage, despite authenticated to Enterprise ZDR workspace. Agent suddenly started asking me what kind of bricks I wanted for my Minecraft temple and confidently asserted in its recap that it's building a...

Verizon is About to Break our Watches

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User's Verizon Gizmo watches are losing app functionality due to a new app rollout. Verizon support has acknowledged the issue but has not resolved it, and the old app will be shut down on July 6th.

Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)

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The load average of 1.0 on a two-core machine does not mean 50% CPU usage, but rather 100% CPU utilization, as the load average is the average number of running processes, not CPU usage. The load average is calculated by counting the number of running and uninterruptible processes, and is an exponentially damped moving average of the system load since startup.

BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments

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This tool boots from a disk/USB and dumps system RAM to the booting medium using BIOS interrupts and unreal mode. It was originally developed for Cold Boot Attacks, allowing extraction of sensitive information from frozen RAM.

Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition (wince-dc)

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The Windows CE Dreamcast Community Edition is a multitasking windowed desktop for the Dreamcast, built from a stripped-down Windows CE 2.12 runtime. It's a self-contained project with a CMake build system, allowing users to create a bootable disc image with various configurations.

Drone Physics

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This article describes drone physics. Audience should have familiarity with introductory linear algebra, introductory calculus, and introductory classical mechanics. This work was adapted from my research in adaptive control and publication at AIAA DASC 2023 about multirotor, a python simulation framework for drones. The notation here borrows heavily from the excellent work by Charles Tytler. ...

Curveball

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The user created Curveball, a tool for generating curves in the Neverball game, which can create complex shapes using convex hull algorithms and 2D profiles. Curveball can generate various curves, including extrusions, Curve Classic, Curve Slope, and Rayto, and can be used to create new levels for the Neverball game.

Plein Air

Plein air painters created works outdoors to capture light and atmosphere. The resulting paintings share a moment in time, often with the same sky and weather conditions.

Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply

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Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centers due to a rare bacterium found in reclaimed water. The bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, was traced to Meta's contractor Goat Systems LLC, which has suspended fill-and-flush discharge privileges.

As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers

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Downtown Seattle's office space is severely underutilized with nearly 37% vacancy, a 46% loss in value since 2020, and a potential 8-year wait to refill current vacancies. Experts predict a quarter of Seattle's office supply is excess, with the tech sector being the main culprit behind the supply-demand gap.

Astrophysicists Puzzle over Webb’s New Universe

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Astrophysicist Charlotte Mason and colleagues are studying "little red dots" discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope, which may be black holes or a new type of object. Researchers are exploring various theories to explain the dots' existence and the universe's early mysteries.

The .join() that should be a bug

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Kronotop is a distributed database that uses a third approach to connection management, combining the benefits of Redis and Postgres. It separates the connection and work sides, using a small number of event loop threads for connections and virtual threads for I/O operations.

Neural Render Proxies for Interactive and Differentiable Lighting

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Researchers introduced a neural render proxy (NRP) for fast relighting of static scenes with fixed camera and materials. NRP enables interactive frame rates and gradient-based inverse workflows for efficient lighting parameter solving.

Maybe you should learn something

Learning new things is fun and makes life richer, but it requires a daily time investment of up to an hour. It's a long journey with initial struggles, but consistent practice leads to improvements over time.

No more than 100 000 faint satellites should orbit Earth

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A new ESO study warns that launching 1.7 million satellites would devastate astronomy, recommending no more than 100,000 faint satellites to safeguard night sky observations.

Finland's last analogue landline phones go silent after 150 years

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Finland has ended analogue landline phone calls after 150 years, marking a global shift to digital infrastructure. The country's last major telecom operator, Elisa, made the final call to mark the end of its service.

Designing DB partitions you don't have to babysit

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Partitioning by primary key (id) allows for automatic pruning and eliminates the need for date filters in queries. A background service can manage partition boundaries based on observed growth, eliminating the need for manual partitioning and rebalancing.

EndBASIC 0.14: Are we multimedia yet?

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EndBASIC 0.14 has been released with new features including graphics primitives, a retro font, and sound support, marking a major milestone towards a possible 1.0. The release also includes fixes for macOS and Unix-like systems, direct execution of EndBASIC binaries, and a secondary mechanism for console settings.

Breaking the Bird Barrier: Scientist Decodes Zebra Finch Language

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Dr Julie Elie won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize for decoding zebra finches' core vocabulary and advancing human-animal communication research. Her research showed zebra finches use distinct calls to announce identity and activities, and understand the meanings of their vocalisations.

Postgres data stored in Parquet on S3: LTAP architecture explained

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The author, a co-founder of Databricks, discusses how traditional OLTP databases are clunky, difficult to scale, and fragile, and proposes a new architecture called Lakebase that externalizes storage and compute, making databases more durable, elastic, and cheaper to run. Lakebase's design also enables a new feature called LTAP, which unifies transactional and analytical workloads by storing ...

The Vespa at 80

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A Vespa museum in Rome showcases the scooter's 80-year history, from its birth in 1946 to its current status as a symbol of freedom and style. The Vespa's unlikely story began as a solution to post-war Italy's transportation needs, designed by Corradino D'Ascanio and launched by Enrico Piaggio.

The bottleneck might be the air in the room

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High-stakes meetings in poorly ventilated rooms can impair decision-making due to high CO2 levels. A CO2 monitor can help identify and fix this issue, which is often overlooked and can be as simple as opening a window.

Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

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AMD's Instinct MI350 series offers cheaper GPUs with comparable specs to NVIDIA's Blackwells, but lacks day-0 support for frontier models. With optimization and tweaks, AMD can achieve competitive performance per dollar, closing the gap with NVIDIA, but still requires more support and development.

Night Witches – all-female Soviet aviator regiment WW2

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The 588th Night Bomber Regiment, known as the "Night Witches," was an all-female Soviet military unit that flew over 23,000 sorties during World War II. The regiment was formed in 1941 and flew harassment and precision bombing missions against the German military until the end of the war in 1945.

Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all

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Leanstral 1.5 is a free, open-source model that delivers a performance upgrade for formal verification, achieving a new state-of-the-art on FATE-H/X and PutnamBench. It verifies complex code properties and uncovers previously unknown bugs in open-source repositories.

Game Boy Advance Dev: Logging to the Console

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Printing to the console with things like printf() in C or console.log() in JavaScript is a useful tool while developing. When making a GBA game, you might think you have to forego this, or log to the GBA's tiny little screen. If you use mGBA, you can get printf() functionality in your game. It's simple to do. You often write to registers like REG_DISPCNT when doing GBA dev. This is a ...

Fable created novel 4D splat format

The splat4d format is a dynamic capture format that stores background splats once and keyframes every N frames, allowing for efficient seeking and decoding. It uses error-bounded quantization and integer math to ensure pointwise and deterministic accuracy within a user-chosen bound, making it suitable for HTTP Range requests against object stores.

Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era

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The book is a narrative by geologist Ekaterina Radkevich about her expeditions and research on Earth and its resources. It completes the Science for Everyone Series, a collection of scientific knowledge for the general public.