Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid

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The author removed the modem and GPS from their 2024 RAV4 Hybrid to prevent telemetry data from being sent to Toyota. This was done to improve car privacy and security, but may void parts of the warranty.

Amazonbot is finally respecting robots.txt

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First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

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Researchers shared a macOS kernel memory corruption exploit with Apple at their Cupertino office, the first to survive MIE on M5 silicon. The exploit was developed using AI and human expertise, highlighting the potential for AI to discover vulnerabilities that bypass advanced mitigations.

RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?

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A user successfully attached an NVIDIA RTX 5090 GPU to their MacBook Air using a Thunderbolt dock and a USB-C port, but encountered several challenges including macOS not shipping with drivers for NVIDIA or AMD GPUs on Apple Silicon and limited support for different AI models. The user was able to overcome these challenges by using a Linux VM on the MacBook Air, passing through the GPU to the ...
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Claude for Legal is a platform that provides reference agents, skills, and data connectors for various legal workflows. It offers a customizable solution for in-house, firm, and academic legal work, with a focus on automation and efficiency.

New Nginx Exploit

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A critical heap buffer overflow in NGINX's ngx_http_rewrite_module allows unauthenticated RCE. Exploitation involves cross-request heap manipulation to redirect a cleanup pointer to a fake function invoking system().

Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet

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Tesla's anti-downgrade mechanism in the Wall Connector Gen 3 was bypassed by exploiting the order of operations between partition table write and slot erase, allowing an old firmware to be written to the active slot without calling routine 0x201. This vulnerability was fixed in a firmware update, but it highlights the importance of enforcing the security ratchet in the bootloader to prevent ...

Work with Codex from Anywhere

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Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app, allowing users to work with Codex from anywhere. The app enables users to review, approve, and change direction on work in real-time, streamlining collaboration and productivity.

RISC-V Router

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Infracost (YC W21) Is Hiring Sr Dev Advocate to make agents cloud cost-aware

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Infracost is a tool that helps engineers see the cost of their code changes before spending money, aiming to shift FinOps left and proactively manage cloud spend. The company is hiring a Developer Advocate to increase signups by showing DevOps and Infrastructure engineers the value of Infracost in their workflows.

A Few Words on DS4

DwarfStar 4's popularity stems from its single-model integration and fast, large quasi-frontier model. The project will focus on quality benchmarks, coding agent, hardware setup, ports, and distributed inference.

Porting 3D Movie Maker to Linux

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A developer successfully ported Microsoft 3D Movie Maker to Linux using a fork called 3DMMEx, overcoming various challenges including assembly language and platform-specific code. The project now allows users to run 3DMM natively on Linux, with plans for future improvements and potential ports to other platforms.

Wrap Go binaries in Python wheels

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This tool takes a Go module directory, cross-compiles it for multiple platforms, and produces properly-tagged Python wheels that can be installed via pip or pipx to get the Go binary on your PATH. This will create wheels in a ./dist directory for Linux (glibc and musl), macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon), and Windows (amd64 and arm64). Embed the wheel version into the Go binary at compile time ...

HDD Firmware Hacking

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The user was working on an Xbox 360 exploit and needed to modify a hard drive's firmware to introduce a delay in read requests, but instead found a way to exploit the race condition without modifying the firmware. The user then decided to modify the firmware of various hard drives and solid state drives, including Western Digital and Samsung models, to gain a deeper understanding of how they ...

OVMS: Open source electric vehicle remote monitoring, diagnosis and control

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We provide live vehicle monitoring and control through a smartphone app with features like alerts, charge control, and climate control. Our module offers advanced CAN bus capabilities, scripting, and data logging for vehicle customization and automation.

The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work

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GLP-1 agonists like retatrutide help manage blood sugar and weight by mimicking hormones that tell the brain you've eaten. However, they can cause fatigue and other side effects, and long-term use may lead to thyroid tumors and other health concerns.

The Power of a Free Popsicle (2018)

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The Magic Castle Hotel maintains a high Tripadvisor ranking by creating "defining moments" such as the Popsicle Hotline, which brings meaning and fond memories to guests. By focusing on a few memorable moments, the hotel excels without needing to perfect every aspect of the customer experience.

New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references

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Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)

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The title riddle involves two Undefined Behavior (UB) cases in C/C++ that lead to three possible correct answers: 11, 12, and 13. The UB cases are related to the order of fetching values and the post-increment operation, resulting in different outcomes depending on the compiler and platform.

A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline

MIT is facing ongoing challenges with funding and talent pipeline due to federal budget cuts and policy changes affecting international students. The Institute is working to address these issues through new funding sources, educational offerings, and advocacy efforts to support its mission of research and education.

Computer Hobby Movement in Canada

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The Toronto Region Association of Computer Enthusiasts (TRACE) was a Canadian computer hobby club that formed in 1976 and played a significant role in the development of personal computing in Canada. TRACE members were hackers who built and experimented with microcomputers, contributing to the growth of the Canadian computer hobby movement and laying the groundwork for future entrepreneurs ...

You Don't Align an AI, You Align with It

People designing AI systems are excluding those who will be affected by them from the decision-making process. This exclusion is disguised by a debate between safety and acceleration camps, both of which treat humans as objects to be designed for rather than as equal participants in the design process.

Understanding the Linux Kernel: The Linux Kernel Startup

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The Linux kernel initialization process is compared to an advance team transforming a barren planet into a working colony, with the bootloader as the dropship and the kernel as the team that sets up the colony's infrastructure. The kernel's initialization involves decompressing itself, fixing its page tables, mapping physical RAM, and setting up the memory management system, before finally ...

What's in a GGUF, besides the weights – and what's still missing?

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GGUF is a single-file format for conversational language models, making it more ergonomic than typical safetensors repos. GGUF includes a chat template in the jinja2 templating language to handle complex conversation formats.

WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward

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Hello WinUI Community! Our mission is to make WinUI 3 the best native UI platform for Windows experiences and apps and performance is at the heart of that effort. Moving from WinUI 2 to WinUI 3 sho...

AI is making me dumb

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User struggles with relying on AI for writing and coding, fearing it diminishes their skills and creates self-doubt. They're trying to regain coding skills by hand and hope AI reverses the trend of low professionalism in software development.

DIY open-source ultrasound hardware on the rp2040/rp2350

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The pic0rick is a recommended board in the un0rick family, replacing FPGA-based designs with an RP2040/RP2350 microcontroller for ultrasound acquisition at lower cost and complexity. It uses PIO state machines for precise timing control without requiring HDL knowledge or FPGA synthesis tools.

Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged

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Fossils show millipede and centipede ancestors evolved legs underwater

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60fps Video on a CGA? – The GlyphBlaster

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The user created a project called GlyphBlaster, a Raspberry Pi Pico-powered add-on for the IBM CGA card that allows for custom graphics and video streaming. The GlyphBlaster uses the Pico's PIO mode to read the font ROM and display custom graphics, and can also stream 1bpp video wirelessly to the CGA card.