The libexpat project has ended its security vacation and the maintainer will be paid to work on it for 6 months. They will prioritize fixing vulnerabilities and appreciate help from the community in finding and reporting further issues.
Pi is a coding harness that chooses minimalism, coming with only 4 tools and a system prompt under 1,000 tokens, making it cheaper and more performant. Its design allows for extensibility and self-editability, producing industry-leading results even before adding extensions, as seen in case studies with Databricks and Shopify.
The author is excited about the new stateless MCP 2.0 specification, which simplifies the protocol and reduces complexity. They've built several MCP tools, including mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp, and plan to integrate MCP into their LLM tool.
The website is using Cloudflare security and blocked my action, possibly due to a trigger like a certain word or SQL command. I was trying to perform an action when this page came up, and the Cloudflare Ray ID is needed to report the issue to the site owner.
The US automotive industry is planning to add 7 new assembly plants despite existing plants running at less than 70% capacity. This expansion may be a mistake as demographic changes and alternative mobility trends are expected to reduce new-car sales volumes.
Shieldstral is a 3B multimodal safety classifier that adapts to context with a policy-adaptive approach, answering questions like content safety and harm. It matches larger models on text safety and sets a new state of the art on multimodal moderation with a single interface for text and images.
Good morning and welcome to Vittles. Today’s essay by Ruby Tandoh is about the most influential decade-and-a-half in British ice cream culture — a fertile period from 1976 to 1991 during which most of the ice creams you’ll find in a British freezer today were invented. This essay is adapted from Ruby’s book All Consuming, which was released in paperback last month. To buy it, please click ...
WebKit-based browsers on iOS and macOS can bypass proxy settings through three features: DNS prefetching, WebAuthn Related Origin Requests, and WebTransport. These leaks expose users' real network and IP addresses, affecting Apple's iCloud Private Relay and all iOS Tor browsers, including Psylo.
Italy is putting nearly all of its major cities on the highest "red" alert for high temperatures, as a new heatwave grips the country. Health officials say 19 cities from north to south - including the capital Rome, Milan, Venice and Naples - are already at red alert, and by Monday all but two cities will be. Temperatures hit mid-30s C in many places on Saturday, and authorities are ...
Rio 0.5 splits its terminal engine into two layers: rio-vt, a safe Rust crate for terminal functionality, and librio, a C ABI for embedding a terminal in other languages. Both layers are lean and can be used to create a real terminal in various applications.
This paper compares Zigbee and Matter over Thread, two IoT protocols, and finds that Zigbee is more responsive in small-scale deployments, while Matter over Thread is more scalable and robust in multi-hop scenarios. The results highlight distinct trade-offs between the two protocols.
A custom color picker based on a color space was created to represent human skin tones digitally, aiming to identify a broad and inclusive range of colors that correspond to plausible skin tones. The color space was developed using principal component analysis and manual fitting of spherical equations to a dataset of labeled skin tones, resulting in a color picker with three independent ...
Korean investors shifted $1 billion into US leveraged ETFs like SOXL, KORU, and TSLL after government raised investment barriers for domestic single-stock leverage products. Domestic single-stock leveraged product trading plummeted after the government implemented stricter regulations.
TMD, a column-major data processing platform, can leverage DuckDB's vectorized SQL execution engine for efficient large dataset processing. The integration enables functional data science solutions on laptops, reducing the need for expensive distributed solutions.
Elise Cawley, a brilliant mathematician, was a loving wife and mother who lit up her husband's life with her intellect, love, and energy for 36 years. She was a forceful intellect, kind and sweet, with a deep love for truth, beauty, and her family, and her legacy will be remembered through her remarkable life and work.
DeepGrove is an independent AI research lab building efficient language models that run anywhere.
This text was written with the assistance of an AI. Careful: assistance doesn't mean the AI wrote it. It means it corrected, reviewed and filled in some parts, but the author is human (or so I believe). And why did we need it? Because we take for granted that training a model requires a GPU or a datacenter. Not always: sometimes something as small and as cheap as an eight-buck micro is ...
LLM agents need memory to act consistently over long interactions, yet many systems use additional LLM calls to operate that memory. Generating intermediate records and mediating their retrieval adds recurring token and time costs, while omitted or merged details can obscure the original evidence. We ask whether structured memory access requires generation at all. Zero-Mem introduces ...
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund has finalized the $55bn purchase of Electronic Arts, taking the company private. The deal raises concerns about censorship and human rights, given Saudi Arabia's laws and past human rights violations.
Bugtraq, a full disclosure mailing list, has been revived with the same mission of researcher-first, no corporate filter. The list aims to preserve cybersecurity history and knowledge by archiving valuable work and research.
Artificial intelligence is powering 55% of reported cybercrime in Africa, allowing criminals to launch faster and more convincing attacks. Cybercrime-related financial losses have risen sharply to $484 million, with online scams and AI-powered fraud being the most common forms.
The user needed to center a div on a webpage with a sidebar, but the div was offset due to the sidebar's width. They used JavaScript and pointer events to calculate the correct position, creating a tool called center to automatically center elements on any webpage.
We will use the VP8 video codec to simulate combinatorial logic by abusing its prediction mechanisms. We will build up a set of composable "gadgets" to construct arbitrary logic circuits using key-frames and prediction modes.
Flowise is winding down operations due to developers increasingly relying on new coding agents for complex tasks. The Flowise GitHub repository will be moved to Public Archive status, allowing users to fork the code and maintain their own updates.
Waymo is now offering fully autonomous rides to everyone in Dallas through its app. The service aims to provide safe and reliable transportation options for locals and tourists alike.
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The Godox C100 camera features a transparent viewfinder and built-in light meter for effortless shooting, stripping away complexity and pressure. It doubles as a sleek external light meter and connects to phones via Type-C for instant preview and sharing.
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truemetrics is a tech-driven company solving last mile delivery issues with smartphone-based mapping technology. They're seeking a commercial leader to drive growth from €1M to €10M+.
To make case folding fast, GitHub engineers removed an optimization and implemented a branchless, vectorizable loop that folds ASCII characters in place, achieving speeds of over 45 GiB/s. They also created a compact, 1776-byte table that uses byte-space arithmetic to fold non-ASCII characters without decoding, outperforming other case folding solutions and a naive hash map.