The Minibook X is a budget laptop with 16GB RAM and a 512GB NVMe drive, but it has some quirks like a Linux screen rotation issue and a poor keyboard. It's perfect for trying out new Linux desktops and experimenting with different setups.
Cloudflare Turnstile is looping in WebKitGTK browsers due to WebGL fingerprinting for tracking. Temporarily allowing fingerprinting fixes the issue, but it's blocked in WebKit for privacy reasons.
California Trout and Pacific Gas & Electric removed a barrier on Alameda Creek, allowing threatened steelhead to reach spawning grounds. The project is part of a 30-year effort to restore the creek and its fish populations.
The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile is collecting vast amounts of data on the universe, including images of the entire night sky and discoveries of asteroids, comets, and galaxies. Its data is expected to help scientists understand the history of our solar system and the expansion of the universe.
ChatGPT for Google Sheets has a vulnerability to data exfiltration and phishing attacks through indirect prompt injection. OpenAI was notified but failed to respond beyond an automated reply, prompting public disclosure of the issue.
PrismML released Bonsai Image 4B, a compact image-generation model for local hardware. It reduces memory footprint by 6.4x to 8.3x, enabling on-device image generation on devices like iPhones and Macs.
Malaysia began enforcing rules barring children under 16 from owning social media accounts to protect them from online harms. Social media platforms must implement age-verification systems and block underage users or face penalties of up to 10 million ringgit.
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The dav2d project is a fast decoder for the new AV2 codec, developed by VideoLAN community members to provide a small, fast, portable, and correct decoder for real applications. It builds on the success of AV1 and aims to improve compression efficiency, with reported gains of up to 25% compared to AV1.
A United Airlines flight made a mid-Atlantic U-turn after a passenger's Bluetooth speaker named 'BOMB' triggered a security alert. The plane landed back in Newark, where passengers were questioned and their belongings were searched before a replacement flight departed.
Meta is launching subscription plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, offering extra features for power users. The plans, branded as "Meta One," will also include professional plans for creators and businesses, and AI-focused plans for users.
Stochastic rounding in BF16 reduces bias and variance, allowing for unbiased noise to wash out over training. BF16 with round-to-nearest encounters repeated errors, causing loss to stall.
The author was asked four programming questions during a 1994 Microsoft internship interview. The questions were about copying a rectangle, copying a string, implementing a flood fill algorithm, and outlining a circle.
Surface Laptop Ultra is the most powerful Surface Laptop ever built, engineered with NVIDIA for RTX Spark and Windows. It features a powerful NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU, up to 128GB of unified memory, and all-day battery life.
The ASIC industry has a different approach to design than academia, focusing on reliability, scalability, and minimizing risk. Industry uses silicon IP to widen design scope, while academia focuses on block-level innovation and verification.
The author's workflow has shifted significantly with AI, allowing them to go from idea to prototype 4x faster. This increased velocity has expanded their work's surface area, enabling them to take on new projects and explore ideas previously deemed too time-consuming.
In the 1980s, a group of researchers in East Germany successfully ported Unix to their mainframe computers, creating a Unix system that could run on different machines and interact with users. They continued to develop and improve their Unix system, eventually creating a standardized interface and documenting their work to share with others.
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Researchers discovered a new technique called FROST that allows websites to track visitors' browsing history and open apps by measuring SSD interactions. To prevent FROST attacks, users can close unnecessary tabs and monitor OPFS file creation and size.
Restartable sequences or rseq for short is the best kept secret at the frontier of system programming. if you want to get rid of both the mutex and atomics, you can use restarted sequence calls instead. google and mozilla are the two companies you should thank most for helping enable me to do what i do. the kernel has a syscall that can be used to reschedule threads
The website specification outlines essential features for decent websites, linking to source standards like WHATWG and WCAG. It's open for contributions and available as an MCP server and Agent Skill.
Linux/m68k is a Linux port for Motorola 68020-68060 systems, stable on Amiga, Atari, and Apple Macintosh models. It has over 2100 users and is available for download from various FTP sites.
The writer visited several City roof terraces, finding some to be pointless or closed, but The Garden at 120 and The Lookout stood out. The Garden at 120 offers a 360° panorama with long-distance views, while The Lookout provides better views than Horizon 22.
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In a 1996 Bookworm interview with Michael Silverblatt, David Foster Wallace confirmed something Silverblatt had spotted about Infinite Jest: I've heard you're an acute reader…. That's one of the things, structurally, that's going on… It's actually structured like something called a Sierpinski Gasket, which is a very primitive kind of pyramidical fractal, although what was ...
A Beam Spring keyboard is a type of keyboard that mimics the IBM Selectric electric typewriter but works with mainframe terminals. It has a unique design and feel, with a classic style case and a sound that is different from modern keyboards.
Streambed streams Postgres WAL changes to S3 as Parquet files with Iceberg metadata. It exposes Iceberg tables via a Postgres query server for querying with psql.
I have type 1 diabetes and use an insulin pump to stay alive. My pump failed during a week-long vacation in Santa Fe, causing me to waste insulin and deal with frustrating issues.
A sysctl was proposed to prevent OOM killing certain processes, and an aircraft company used a similar concept called OOF to save fuel by ejecting passengers in emergency cases.
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