Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour runs natively on Apple devices with real 2003 engine, using DXVK/MoltenVK and touch controls. Requires own game assets and Apple Developer team for iOS build.
GPT-5.5 responses disproportionately cluster at 516 reasoning tokens with related spikes at 1034 and 1552. This pattern suggests a possible reasoning-budget or truncation behavior in GPT-5.5.
Clytia hemisphaerica jellyfish have transparent bodies allowing researchers to study wound healing in real time. Scientists can observe epithelial cells stitching damaged tissue back together, revealing conserved mechanisms of wound healing across different species.
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.
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.
Newer Anthropic models like Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5 produce malformed tool calls with extra invented fields due to post-training on Claude Code's forgiving harness. This behavior is not seen in older models and may be a result of reinforcement learning optimizing for one particular tool ecology.
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.
A Nigerian scammer is using AI-generated emails to target authors with personalized marketing offers, then demanding access to their KDP accounts. The scammer is now using various iterations, including book club impersonations and fake private review groups, to charge authors for features or spotlights.
Session leakage occurs despite authentication, with unrelated Minecraft prompt appearing in Enterprise ZDR workspace. Possible causes include colleague activity or cache leakage from consumer plan, raising security concerns.
The Zig compiler has undergone several changes and improvements in 2026, including a new ELF linker, incremental compilation, and improved type resolution logic, which aim to make the compiler faster and more efficient. These changes also include updates to the LLVM backend, SPIR-V backend, and package management, as well as the introduction of new features such as evented I/O and experimental fibers.
The user investigated three AI-based invisible watermark algorithms, SynthID, TrustMark, and Stable Signature, and found that they all make the same fundamental mistake of assuming independent and uniformly distributed bits, leading to inflated accuracy rates and high error rates. The user's empirical testing and statistical analysis revealed that these algorithms have error rates of around ...
The University of Oxford was established in 1096, but the University of al-Qarawiyyin in Morocco is the oldest continuously operating institution of higher education. The Aztec civilization began in 1325, nearly 230 years after teaching started at Oxford, highlighting the skewed nature of human understanding of history.
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.
The author argues that capital punishment is not an effective deterrent and is actually repulsive, causing more harm than good to society. It is a lazy and outdated penalty that should be abolished, and its defenders cannot reasonably justify it.
One thing I was (and still am) worried about when it comes to my recent big interactive essay is that by showing all these classic desktop examples, the whole thing might appear old-fashioned, relevant only to a bygone era. Yet, the challenges it shows are universal. Here’s something I just spotted. This is how you rotate an image on an iPhone and on a Nothing Phone: It’s a pretty standard ...
Carlos is creating a guide to making quadcopters autonomous, covering modeling, state estimation, motion planning, and control. His goal is to provide a simple overview for newcomers to the topic.
Occasional essays on literature, poetry, movies, and culture by the author of THE LAST WORDS OF JACK RUBY, a historical noir novel about the lifelong friendship between the notorious assassin and my cousin, the boxer and war hero Barney Ross. By subscribing, you agree Substack's Terms of Use, and acknowledge its Information Collection Notice and Privacy Policy. My forthcoming novel, The ...
The user has had negative experiences with Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) and believes they should not replace SQL, but rather augment it. They recommend learning SQL to write efficient queries and manage database interactions, and suggest using templated SQL or stored procedures for complex queries.
Evtols are multirotor aircraft that can fly at high altitudes. the angular velocity of the vehicle is the instantaneous rotational rate of a frame x, y, and z, as determined by the inertial reference frame. this can be used to integrate accelerations in the body frame to find body-frame velocity. propellers spin by motors, which produce gross torques which are dissip
Researchers studied AirDrop and Quick Share protocols, discovering six vulnerabilities in their stacks, including pre-authentication issues and encryption bypasses. The findings were responsibly disclosed, with Apple, Samsung, and Google acknowledging the reports.
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.
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.
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.
Egg consumption was inversely associated with Alzheimer's disease risk in a large cohort study. Moderate egg consumption was linked to a lower risk of Alzheimer's disease in a health-conscious population.
RidgeText uses an LLM to generate maps by queuing data layers independently and compositing them at render time, avoiding the LLM's context window and reducing data transfer costs. This approach mirrors Mapbox's layer stack and allows for easy addition of new data sources and renderers, making the system more scalable and maintainable.
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The user encountered a miscompilation issue in Rust where the compiler incorrectly optimized their code, causing a parser to incorrectly consume tokens. They reported the issue, which was quickly fixed by Hanna Kruppe, and is now one of only 7 p-critical and i-miscompile issues in Rust.
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.