Rivian vehicles have a core feature of vehicle connectivity that can be disabled to limit functionality. Disabling connectivity will not affect subscriptions like Connect+, but will require separate cancellation.
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The author is concerned that AI models like Claude Opus 4.7 can identify individuals from their writing style, even if they write anonymously. This could lead to a loss of anonymity for writers and potentially harm those who rely on it for protection.
CVE-2026-31431 is a Linux kernel vulnerability introduced in 2017, affecting multiple kernel versions. A workaround patch has been attached to disable the affected module.
A supply chain attack compromised the PyPI package 'lightning' versions 2.6.2 and 2.6.3, stealing credentials and attempting to poison GitHub repositories. The attack is linked to the 'mini Shai-Hulud' campaign and affects teams using lightning in their dependency tree.
A software engineer built a working Game Boy emulator, Fame Boy, in F# after learning about computer hardware by emulating a Game Boy and using AI to write unit tests. The emulator's development involved optimizing performance, fixing issues with the PPU and APU, and learning about functional programming and domain-driven development.
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A new study suggests that Earth's Sturtian glacial period was not a single long period of glaciation, but rather cycles of glaciation and warm periods. The cycles were triggered by the weathering of the Franklin Large Igneous Province, which drew down CO2 and caused repeated glaciations.
Oil refineries process crude oil into various products like gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel using distillation, cracking, and other processes. The refining process is complex and requires large industrial facilities to handle the massive volume of crude oil consumed worldwide.
The user attempted to reverse engineer a childhood video game, SimTower, using a large language model (LLM) to create a clean-room spec. However, the LLM struggled with complexity and verbosity of the binary, requiring a different approach.
Vercel's pricing page hides per-seat tax, bandwidth overages, and DDoS costs. The Hobby plan has a hard cap that takes sites offline without warning after 30 days.
Belgium will nationalize its nuclear power plants, reversing a 2003 decision to phase out nuclear energy by 2025. The government aims to build new nuclear plants and reduce dependence on fossil imports.
The WideluxX is a modern swing-lens camera that captures panoramic images on 35mm film through a single continuous exposure. It preserves the character of the original system while offering a unique way to create images that reflect duration rather than a single instant.
The SIMD Quad algorithm is a new search algorithm that combines quaternary interpolation search with SIMD instructions to efficiently locate a target value in a sorted array of 16-bit unsigned integers. It outperforms binary search on both Intel and Apple platforms, with significant speedup on large arrays in cold cache scenarios.
honker adds durable pub/sub and task queue to SQLite without client polling or daemon. It uses SQLite's PRAGMA data_version for wake signals, with ~0.7 ms latency and ~3 Β΅s read time.
The user explores DuckDB's full-text search (FTS) capabilities, comparing them to other FTS solutions like Elasticsearch and Postgres, and finds them powerful but limited. They provide a tutorial on using DuckDB's FTS extension with Python, including pre-processing email data and querying with Okapi BM25 algorithm.
The Church Rock uranium mill spill occurred on July 16, 1979, in New Mexico, releasing 1,100 tons of radioactive waste into the Puerco River. The spill contaminated groundwater and affected local residents, mostly Navajo people, who were not warned of the dangers for days.
1954, Hans Peter Luhn filed for a US patent on a Computer for Verifying Numbers. This is one of the earliest examples of using mathematical transformations to verify data integrity, a concept that became a foundation for modern hashes. Today you can find it under names Luhn Algorithm, Luhn Formula or Modulus 10 Algorithm. To do that multiply the original digit by two. If result is 10 or ...
REDWOOD CITY, CA, April 29, 2026 β Today, Biohub announced the Virtual Biology Initiative, a landmark five-year initiative to galvanize a global effort to create the technologies and multi-modal datasets needed to build predictive models of life. Biohub is committing $500 million to anchor the effort: $100 million to help nucleate a coordinated, worldwide data-generation effort beyond what ...
We monitor 27 government auction sources with 75,070 listings, scoring auctions for price, bid velocity, and time left. Daily emails highlight top-scored auctions with direct links to original listings.
SimpleX Network's v6.5 release introduces SimpleX Channels, a model for online publishing that protects participation privacy. This is a win-win for users and chat relay operators, ensuring users' privacy and operators' ability to decide content in public spaces.
A Postgres server can handle up to 144K writes per second or process 43K workflows per second, making it suitable for most use cases. The bottleneck in performance is often the write-ahead log (WAL) and can be mitigated by sharding across multiple Postgres servers or using multiple queues.
Compositing is the process of combining an element with its backdrop, and it involves choosing from 12 Porter-Duff compositing operators to determine how to combine two pixels during compositing. Blend modes are essentially named functions that combine two colors, and they can be categorized into separable and non-separable modes, with the former blending each color channel independently and ...
Viazovska solved the sphere packing problem in dimension 8 using modular forms in 2016. The result was formally verified in February 2026 using Lean Theorem Prover and autoformalization model 'Gauss'.
The user recovered deleted files using TestDisk and PhotoRec, a digital forensics tool. They successfully recovered various file types, including images, from old hardware and an SD card, but caution is advised due to potential data corruption and privacy risks.
Congress is preparing to take measures against LaLiga's fight against piracy causing web page blockages. A non-legislative initiative was approved to reform the Digital Services Act and prevent indiscriminate blocking of IPs by judicial rulings.
The user upgraded their home network to 10Gb/s Ethernet, starting with their study and then expanding to the rest of the house, using a combination of 10Gb/s switches, SFP+ modules, and DAC cables. They encountered some thermal issues with the switches and SFP+ modules, but were able to mitigate them and achieve speeds of up to 9Gb/s, with plans to potentially upgrade to 40Gb/s or higher in ...
A full coding-agent harness in 400 lines of shell. No npm. No pip. No Docker. Just curl, awk, and an API key.
User faced backlash for vulnerability disclosure on Mastodon and Forgejo, receiving unwanted attention and vile names. User apologized and sent constructive email to Forgejo security team with recommendations and proof-of-concepts.
IBM released Granite 4.1, a family of open source language models for enterprise use, trained on 15 trillion tokens. The 8B model, with a dense architecture, matches or beats the 32B Granite 4.0-H-Small across various benchmarks.