LocalSend is a free, open-source app for secure local file sharing and messaging over a network without an internet connection. It uses HTTPS encryption and a REST API for secure communication between devices.
VibeVoice is an open-source AI framework for speech synthesis and recognition, supporting multiple languages and long-form audio processing. It includes models for text-to-speech and automatic speech recognition, with features like speaker tracking and customized hotwords.
ASML, a Dutch company, dominates the market for lithography machines used in semiconductor manufacturing. Its machines are crucial for producing the world's smallest chips.
Researchers have created a 13B vintage language model called talkie-1930-13b-base trained on 260B tokens of historical pre-1931 English text to simulate conversations with people from the past. The model's performance is compared to its modern counterpart, with talkie underperforming in some standard LM evaluations but showing similar performance on core language understanding and numeracy tasks.
A woman's period tracking app, Flo, shared her sensitive health data with Meta without consent, violating her trust and potentially selling her data for commercial gain. This highlights a bigger issue in non-medical health tracking software, where there's too much gray area around consent when it comes to selling user health information to advertisers.
Microsoft and OpenAI dropped exclusive deal allowing OpenAI to pursue deals with other cloud-computing companies. Microsoft will no longer pay revenue share on OpenAI products resold on its cloud.
A comet is visible in the night sky, but it's hard to see due to its proximity to the Sun. It will be best viewed from southern hemisphere skies in coming weeks before fading into interstellar space.
The QDay Prize competition failed due to a "Falling With Style-style trick" submission that used random calls instead of quantum calls. This highlights the need for a blameless post-mortem to improve future competitions.
Test your color perception with this interactive test.
GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems.
Wasm is not a pure stack machine due to its lack of stack manipulation operations. It can be viewed as a register machine with operations generalized to compound expressions.
The author argues that the intelligence of AI systems is not solely dependent on their architecture or training data, but rather on the social complexity of the civilization whose language they digested, and that over-reliance on AI may lead to a degradation of human social reasoning and collective intent. The author proposes the Social Edge Framework, which suggests that organizations should ...
The author built a Quake PC with 384 MiB of RAM, but performance suffered due to the 430FX chipset's 64M cache limit. Removing excess RAM restored performance, revealing a common issue with Windows 95 and NT loading from the top down.
User wanted to make games since childhood, but struggled to create a successful game as an adult. However, their game Tiled Words surpassed expectations with thousands of daily players and an award, allowing them to release new puzzles daily and engage with a supportive community.
A data breach at Mercor exposed 40,000 contractors' voice biometrics and ID documents. Attackers can use this data to clone voices and commit crimes like bank verification bypass and vishing.
PGRX is a Rust framework for developing PostgreSQL extensions, supporting various platforms and PostgreSQL versions. It provides a safe and idiomatic way to interact with PostgreSQL internals.
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User tried Simple Lucas' focus routine, staring at a wall to recover focus, and found it effective but hard. They attribute their lack of focus to information overload and use wall staring with parasympathetic activation and mind blanking to improve productivity.
The book explains Git's performance costs through its layers, including objects, refs, index, and history traversal. It's written for engineers to keep Git fast as repositories grow, covering diagnosis, configuration, and recovery.
Organizations can use standing meetings to maintain progress on complex projects with multiple stakeholders. By reviewing previous to-dos, it creates pressure to make progress and accountability among team members.
Toronto Police launched Project Lighthouse in November 2025 to combat an SMS blaster operating in downtown Toronto. The device mimicked a cellular tower, sending fraudulent texts to thousands of devices, posing a threat to public safety and financial security.
RF engineering is experiencing a resurgence due to growing demand from industries such as space, 5G, and automotive, driven by a shortage of engineers who can work at the hardware level. The supply side is broken, with 73% of EE employers unable to fill positions within six months, and companies are investing in university partnerships to build their own talent pipeline.
GitHub experienced two recent incidents due to rapid growth in software development and has started increasing capacity by 10X with a goal of substantially improving reliability and failover. The company is prioritizing availability, reducing unnecessary work, improving caching, and isolating critical services to prevent similar incidents in the future.
The Easyduino project is an open-source effort to create PCB designs for popular microcontrollers using KiCad. It aims to unify software and conventions across devboards like Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi.
Apple is warning of two significant changes in macOS 27: removal of AFP support and a requirement for TLS 1.2 connections to certain servers. These changes may impact enterprise users and those with Time Capsules or NAS systems that don't support SMB3.
Major tech companies are building behind-the-meter gas projects to power data centers, potentially emitting more greenhouse gases than Morocco in 2024. These projects could create a lasting trend, with emissions potentially 10 times bigger, despite companies' carbon reduction pledges.
Scratch's approach to SVG sanitization has been ineffective due to numerous vulnerabilities discovered over the years. Despite multiple fixes, new security issues continue to arise.
The author's magnetometer stopped working when powered by a battery, but worked fine when powered by USB. The issue was likely due to a noisy 3.3V power line caused by a switching regulator.
pgBackRest is a reliable PostgreSQL backup and restore solution that scales up to large databases and workloads. It supports parallel processing, compression, and block-level backups for efficient data storage and retrieval.
The DSPi transforms a Raspberry Pi Pico into a digital audio processor with features like room correction, active crossovers, and parametric EQ. It acts as a USB sound card with onboard DSP engine.