Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger signed S.B. 388 into law on April 13, 2026, banning the sale of geolocation data. The ban takes effect on July 1, 2026, following similar laws in Maryland and Oregon.
A former hacker with the phage now makes deals for one hack per dose of medication. They learn from TRASH WORLD NEWS, a zine with hacking tutorials and tips.
A user discovered a security vulnerability in Linux 6.9 where LUKS encryption keys remained in memory after suspend, making laptops susceptible to cold boot attacks. A patch was created to wipe the LUKS encryption keys on suspend, inspired by Debian's cryptsetup-suspend, and is now available for other Linux distributions.
The author reflects on their childhood experiences working with their father, a Colombian immigrant, and how it taught them about the importance of paying attention to details in reality, which is often overlooked. This realization has implications for various domains, including programming, physics, and personal growth, and the author argues that seeking out and noticing details is crucial ...
Podman v6.0.0 is now available with improved networking, enhanced machine capabilities, and configuration file handling. This release includes Docker compatibility improvements and new features like Pesto rootless port forwarding and Quadlet evolution.
Public interest organizations strongly oppose X Corp's petition to set aside or terminate its 2022 settlement order with the FTC, citing the company's continued risk to Americans' privacy and data security. The FTC should reject the petition and maintain the 2022 Order, which remains a critical safeguard for users' privacy and security.
LMDB is a high-performance, memory-efficient database library with full ACID semantics and transactional support. It uses a memory map for data storage and is thread-aware, supporting concurrent read/write access.
PeerTube is a decentralized video platform allowing users to host videos on community-owned instances without vendor lock-in. It's free, ad-free, and allows users to follow channels and discover videos across the entire video fediverse.
A Vulkan driver for NetBSD has been successfully built and installed using the Lavapipe software driver. The process is now automated and reproducible on a fresh install.
Co-locating workflow state with application data in the same Postgres database simplifies durable workflows by eliminating partial failures and idempotency issues. This approach also simplifies atomic updates and notifications by leveraging database transactions and user-defined functions.
To ask for help effectively, put yourself in the other person's mind and show you're worth helping by demonstrating seriousness, personal connection, or institutional credibility. Explain context briefly and make your request easy to accept by reducing costs, making it specific, and bounded, while also making it easy to say no.
The Great Salt Lake Tracker website monitors the status of North America's largest saline lake. It provides a dashboard to track the lake's conditions.
Superpowers 6 is faster and cheaper, reducing build time by up to 50% and token spend by up to 60%. It optimizes Subagent Driven Development with improvements like combining code and spec compliance review agents.
The Java Virtual Machine introduces strictly-initialized fields, which must be explicitly initialized before they can be read, ensuring that default values such as 0 or null are never observed. This feature is available for use by compilers that emit class files and provides stronger integrity guarantees for field initialization, making it easier to diagnose and prevent bugs related to field ...
v3.0.0 Welcome to Immich v3.0.0! After months of hard work from the team and our amazing contributors, we're thrilled to announce the next major version of Immich: v3.0.0! 🎉 Breaking changes Th...
claude-real-video extracts frames from videos locally, transcribes audio, and hands a clean folder for LLMs to read. It's smarter than other tools that sample frames at a fixed interval, and can be installed with pip and used with ffmpeg and whisper CLI.
The mcp-use SDK is a fullstack framework for developing MCP Apps and servers for AI Agents like ChatGPT and Claude. It simplifies app development with auto-deployment and analytics.
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Scientists built the largest catalog of stellar rotation periods using TESS data, covering 1,046,317 stars within 1,600 light-years. The catalog, called TARS, helps study stellar evolution, exoplanet discovery, and Milky Way structure.
Today’s AI agents don’t remember past interactions. They must repeatedly be fed relevant information or retrieve it from external sources, which becomes less efficient as they handle longer and more complex tasks. To scale agent capabilities, we need a more efficient way to retain and access information over time. Memora is a scalable memory system that dramatically increases agent ...
Spanish government instructs state-controlled entities to blacklist US data analytics firm Palantir due to national security concerns. Palantir still holds a €16.5 million contract with Spain's Ministry of Defense, set to expire in November.
US officials feared Israel might target Iran's top negotiators Abbas Araghchi and Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf during peace talks. US asked other countries to warn Iran about possible Israeli assassination efforts to save negotiations.
zkGolf is a competition to build cheapest circuits with verified submissions scored on cost and tightness. A model can use the API to autoresearch and submit solutions automatically.
Wireless LAN SD standard enables wireless communication between devices and SD cards. It integrates SD cards with wireless LAN modules for simple complex tasks.
The article discusses the futility of 24-bit/192kHz digital music downloads, which offer no benefits and take up excessive space. The human ear can only perceive a limited range of frequencies, and 24-bit/192kHz audio does not provide any improvement in fidelity.
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Hazel is hiring a full stack engineer to deploy and scale AI for government procurement, requiring a TS/SCI clearance and experience with AWS, Python, and React. The role involves architecting and building Hazel's platform, working with customers, and delivering innovative solutions in a classified environment.
The author, a software developer, shares their approach to using AI agents in security-critical systems. They recommend a "short leash method" where developers closely monitor AI changes and intervene when necessary.
The team at Zalando replaced their shared edge load balancer with a client-side load balancer to improve latency and reduce shared infrastructure costs. They implemented a consistent-hash routing algorithm, occupancy-based bounded load, and zone-aware routing to achieve a 25% reduction in pods and over $1,000 per day in cost savings.
A user ported LibreCAD, a free 2D CAD application, to WebAssembly for web use. The port uses Qt's official WebAssembly support and Emscripten.
John Boepple discovered freshwater mussel shells in the Illinois River, which led to the creation of a pearl button industry in Muscatine, Iowa. The industry thrived from 1891 to the 1960s, but ultimately devastated the local mussel population and led to conservation efforts.