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.
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.
Picture this: your brain is a high-performance engine. Over decades, it doesn’t just wear down, it also starts to run hot. Tiny “fires” of inflammation smolder deep within the brain’s memory center, creating a persistent brain fog that makes it harder to think, form new memories or even adapt to new environments, all the while increasing the risk to disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. ...
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
A Clytia hemisphaerica medusa (left). Two small wounds can be seen in the sheet of epithelial cells in this confocal image (right). Membranes (red), nuclei (blue) and actin (green). Image credit: Jocelyn Malamy These traits make Clytia a unique window into wound healing. The medusae are transparent, allowing researchers to watch cells move in live animals in real time. Their wounds heal ...
User attempted to create a World Map in under 1k bytes using Codex, but it performed poorly. They achieved a 445-byte compressed map by using ASCII land-only characters and exploiting compression.
← essays A few nights ago I watched my terminal print out a 26 KB WordPress front page — <title>Phargo Test Site</title>, the block-library CSS, “Hello world!” pulled from a SQLite database, and a clean </html> at the bottom. Completely unremarkable output, except for one detail: the PHP engine that served it contains zero lines of PHP’s actual source code. It’s a ...
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.
Apple AirDrop and Google/Samsung Quick Share are proximity file-transfer protocols used by over five billion devices, yet their application-layer security properties remain largely unstudied because both stacks are proprietary and undocumented. Both protocols are reachable from wireless proximity without any prior pairing and process complex serialized content (binary plists, CPIO archives, ...
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 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.
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.
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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.
Note: this article required conversations with a lot of people. A (hopefully) exhaustive, randomized list of everyone whose thoughts contributed to the article: Lachlan Munroe (Head of Automation at DTU Biosustain), Max Hodak (CEO of Science, former founder of Transcriptic), D.J. Kleinbaum (CEO of Emerald Cloud Labs), Keoni Gandall (former founder of Trilobio), Cristian Ponce (CEO of Tetsuwan ...
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.
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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.